I rode Sadie both days. Rationalized that Tanza just had his feet trimmed on Wed plus a couple of the bald spots on his face from hives that broke open are still not completely healed. Poor itchy gelding. I just called Dr Mike after waffling and forgetting for days to get him allergy tested.
I still may not know all triggers, but if I can at least eliminate some possibles it'll be much easier to narrow things down if/when he gets hives again and I might get a definitive 'he needs lots of protection from skeeter bites but no citronella ..... in the spray' or no alfalfa in his diet or something.
With a bit of luck I'll ride Tanza tomorrow. I may just ride him in a paddock rather than trying to round up a buddy since it may get windy in the afternoon and dad can get moving in the morning but I think only with advance planning like going to shoot or something. Or maybe I'll try taking Tanza solo down the road if things feel good but if I get on him it doesn't really matter if its only flat work in the paddock.
I need to catch up on laundry, I didn't run any last weekend because it was cold and I didn't want to end up with ice in Grey and Shades pen where our grey water runs out and I've been too lazy in the mornings all week although I could have done so if I was out of clean clothes.
Sunday its supposed to be cold and windy so perhaps I'll try to get some more de-cluttering done or touch up paint in hallway to put pressure on dad to fix the one shelf in the hall closet and finally tack the baseboards up, I am tired of tripping over them. I'm may to have to nag a bit to get him off his damm comfy chair, I hate to nag and he hates to be nagged but I am also getting tired of living in the clutter, some of which is his tools that have been upstairs for a year for when he finishes up the damm project. I think I'll take the sliding doors for that closet and put them in the shed or throw them away, they were always coming off the tracks, I'm thinking I'd rather get the chinese screens that mom bought for the upstairs office would work better and I don't need them in the office, they are just in the way there.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Thank you MarxSpewMedia
I am now in tin foil hat territory.
I was so gobsmacked to learn in 2008 that you do not just spin the facts for your *socialist* democrat party but actively suppress any facts that might harm them and get away with it because only *faux* news of the national broadcast media sometimes strays and publishes these facts and you just pretend they are not accurate and they help you get away with that by being so sensational vs strictly accurate with any possible tsunami or other natural disaster stories.
Since then you have only doubled down with ignoring and even lying about everything from Fast and Furious scheme that U.S. AG Eric Holder cooked up to prop up the false claim of '90% of guns in Mexican crimes came from the U.S.' to the graft out of the "stimulus' that would have made the Teapot Dome folks envious at how much money Obama donors got for phony baloney *green* energy business schemes, Obamacare --the list is so long one would need a list to keep track.
Now shows like "Madame Secratary", having Elizabeth Warren --who should be known only for lying about 'native american heritage' to get hired by Haaahrvard on morning shows to push her as a charismatic political face and voice and on and on seem to be laying groundwork for either Hillary or Warren for 2016. Especially since Mr Cosby has called out the Dems with their welfare (but first you must kick out the dad) and the Rap culture etc for destroying black families.
So all these claims about Bill Cosby 'raping' women which seem to be popping up only now after the 2014 election really make me wonder if this is not mostly about throwing Barry under the bus to make way for "its time to have a women POTUS." Since the election clearly shows the public are tired of Obama, time to spin it as 'black men are not good leaders' rather than report the truth that this mess in the U.S is much more due failed socialist policies and severely bloated bureaucracies thanks to decades of setting up a new government agency to tackle every new problem.
I only know Cosby by his on-stage persona but thanks to your distortions, facts suppression, and so on I immediately want to discount these tales of 'I think Mr Cosby gave me a roofie and then had sex with me 35-45 years ago w/o my consent'. *I* think that the alien abduction folks prove that there are people who will spin wild fantasies and then tell them as truth rather than "I had the weirdest dream' when they have an audience that reinforces rather than fact checking the tales.
But Mr Cosby may well have been a monster who did such things rather than only taking advantage of groupies wanting to have sex with a mega-star -- it does not jibe with his stand-up comedy, and how he handled his TV shows but there are monsters who hide their dark sides and he might be one.
But this feels like *they* probably know he is having some memory issues or otherwise is somewhat hobbled to fight back against false allegations. So they can push the 'war on wimmen, time for wimmen to have the power to push Hillary or Warren for 2016 POTUS and because Cosby called them out on some of their false socialist premises they are gleeful to savage him w/o regard for whether he is innocent or not.
So thanks to media behavior over the past decade or three I find myself thinking 'you just want to try to get some of Cosby's money and some media attention' rather than trying to have any empathy for his accusers. I don't like this, I always cringed when my grandparents were judgmental and have worked at tamping down my judgmental thoughts w/o knowing back stories rather than spewing them out; but the MarxSpewMedia are managing to make me have much more of an 'us and them' viewpoint with labeling 'them' as either useful idiots or active shills for the marxist totalitarian.
I was so gobsmacked to learn in 2008 that you do not just spin the facts for your *socialist* democrat party but actively suppress any facts that might harm them and get away with it because only *faux* news of the national broadcast media sometimes strays and publishes these facts and you just pretend they are not accurate and they help you get away with that by being so sensational vs strictly accurate with any possible tsunami or other natural disaster stories.
Since then you have only doubled down with ignoring and even lying about everything from Fast and Furious scheme that U.S. AG Eric Holder cooked up to prop up the false claim of '90% of guns in Mexican crimes came from the U.S.' to the graft out of the "stimulus' that would have made the Teapot Dome folks envious at how much money Obama donors got for phony baloney *green* energy business schemes, Obamacare --the list is so long one would need a list to keep track.
Now shows like "Madame Secratary", having Elizabeth Warren --who should be known only for lying about 'native american heritage' to get hired by Haaahrvard on morning shows to push her as a charismatic political face and voice and on and on seem to be laying groundwork for either Hillary or Warren for 2016. Especially since Mr Cosby has called out the Dems with their welfare (but first you must kick out the dad) and the Rap culture etc for destroying black families.
So all these claims about Bill Cosby 'raping' women which seem to be popping up only now after the 2014 election really make me wonder if this is not mostly about throwing Barry under the bus to make way for "its time to have a women POTUS." Since the election clearly shows the public are tired of Obama, time to spin it as 'black men are not good leaders' rather than report the truth that this mess in the U.S is much more due failed socialist policies and severely bloated bureaucracies thanks to decades of setting up a new government agency to tackle every new problem.
I only know Cosby by his on-stage persona but thanks to your distortions, facts suppression, and so on I immediately want to discount these tales of 'I think Mr Cosby gave me a roofie and then had sex with me 35-45 years ago w/o my consent'. *I* think that the alien abduction folks prove that there are people who will spin wild fantasies and then tell them as truth rather than "I had the weirdest dream' when they have an audience that reinforces rather than fact checking the tales.
But Mr Cosby may well have been a monster who did such things rather than only taking advantage of groupies wanting to have sex with a mega-star -- it does not jibe with his stand-up comedy, and how he handled his TV shows but there are monsters who hide their dark sides and he might be one.
But this feels like *they* probably know he is having some memory issues or otherwise is somewhat hobbled to fight back against false allegations. So they can push the 'war on wimmen, time for wimmen to have the power to push Hillary or Warren for 2016 POTUS and because Cosby called them out on some of their false socialist premises they are gleeful to savage him w/o regard for whether he is innocent or not.
So thanks to media behavior over the past decade or three I find myself thinking 'you just want to try to get some of Cosby's money and some media attention' rather than trying to have any empathy for his accusers. I don't like this, I always cringed when my grandparents were judgmental and have worked at tamping down my judgmental thoughts w/o knowing back stories rather than spewing them out; but the MarxSpewMedia are managing to make me have much more of an 'us and them' viewpoint with labeling 'them' as either useful idiots or active shills for the marxist totalitarian.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
you're freaking welcome
I know its a crummy attitude and I have tried to restructure my giving so that it is its own reward. With donations that is pretty much true now. With some other stuff setting up gift exchange for bb, and some other personal or semi-personal gifts not so much. I don't want to live in an Asian world where the miss manners rules are both complex and rigid and receiving a gift or even slight favor requires formal thank you gestures or reciprocation such that one must weigh 'would giving something be a burden to the recipient?' for any little random thing done just to be nice or any little thing I would get would make me feel like "oh great, now I have to go out and buy a thank-you gift in exchange"
But still, I am feeling a bit rejected and a bit annoyed right now. The problem with being so internet connected. I always feel like "its really easy to just dash off a quick thank you and hit send" My rational head knows that if someone is feeling raw about a loss or is knee deep in more elaborate thank you's to folks they know absolutely expect some kind of gesture then things do not work that way; but my cranky emotional side insists on feeling slighted.
But still, I am feeling a bit rejected and a bit annoyed right now. The problem with being so internet connected. I always feel like "its really easy to just dash off a quick thank you and hit send" My rational head knows that if someone is feeling raw about a loss or is knee deep in more elaborate thank you's to folks they know absolutely expect some kind of gesture then things do not work that way; but my cranky emotional side insists on feeling slighted.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Rode Tanza a couple miles with dad on RazzMo
Dad rode RazzMo so Tanza would have company. Helped quite a bit, so if I had almost anyone on Lady I think Tanza would be OK. Tanza led almost the whole time, just stopped a couple times on the way out to look and also look back to make sure his backup was still there.
Razz was hardly the ideal steady eddy. On the way back he was worked up himself and being that he is a pissy herd boss Tanza was a bit antsy if Razz was too close behind with the hard breathing, and then Razz acted like something was trying to grab him a couple times; at one point I told dad to make him go in front. That lasted only 100-200 yards and then Tanza wouldn't slow his super fast walk anymore and took the lead again.
Tanza was about like his first solo ride out or a bit better; he wanted to go faster but didn't really get all worked up about it like he did the second solo ride out a month ago. He was acting like he was itchy to the point of "it burns" when I unsaddled and unbridled so I grabbed a sponge and sponged his neck and a bit on his face. I don't know if getting sweaty irritates where he has a few hives or what with him. He rolled really good when I put him out too. I hope he is not going to have worse problems with skin allergies than Sadie, it will suck if he needs even more special managing than she does, but I may have to get him tested if these hives don't disappear and stay gone.
So pretty good ride before he gets a week off if the weather forecast is accurate and we get cold hitting tomorrow. --It may not be too bad tomorrow morning, I haven't gotten the latest forecast.
Razz was hardly the ideal steady eddy. On the way back he was worked up himself and being that he is a pissy herd boss Tanza was a bit antsy if Razz was too close behind with the hard breathing, and then Razz acted like something was trying to grab him a couple times; at one point I told dad to make him go in front. That lasted only 100-200 yards and then Tanza wouldn't slow his super fast walk anymore and took the lead again.
Tanza was about like his first solo ride out or a bit better; he wanted to go faster but didn't really get all worked up about it like he did the second solo ride out a month ago. He was acting like he was itchy to the point of "it burns" when I unsaddled and unbridled so I grabbed a sponge and sponged his neck and a bit on his face. I don't know if getting sweaty irritates where he has a few hives or what with him. He rolled really good when I put him out too. I hope he is not going to have worse problems with skin allergies than Sadie, it will suck if he needs even more special managing than she does, but I may have to get him tested if these hives don't disappear and stay gone.
So pretty good ride before he gets a week off if the weather forecast is accurate and we get cold hitting tomorrow. --It may not be too bad tomorrow morning, I haven't gotten the latest forecast.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Nice ride on Tanza this morning. Short but sweet
I feel like a bad horsewoman though. His back legs were all stocked up. DOH, I should have realized that all the crazy fast racing around on Tuesday might cause that and at least smeared some poultice on to reduce the swelling. Oh well, cannot go back in time.
He was very sane today. We walked and trotted some figure eights in Shade and Grey's pen while Grey finished his big helping of soaked up feed. I left Shade in the pen and she polished her halo by just visiting with Razz in the corner and then going back to polishing off the last scraps of leftover hay. Sooo nice that I didn't have to move her to work Tanza in her pen.
The stocking up was reduced after the short ride so that was a relief. I don't really know how much harm it does when horses get that swelling, they are more prone to get it in the future once they have had major stocking up and swelling from injury can cause secondary problems so we never like to see swelling on lower legs but again I can't go back in time. I put just a bit of sore no more liniment on the legs and a bit of arnica gel. Tanza was doing his lifting leg, halfway threatening to kick thing. I told him I don't use stuff that stings so cut it out.
My boss has done the "I could write a subroutine (or full code)" and then welsh on me again. So stupid of me to have forgotten he does this. I could have been halfway to writing what I wanted myself just in the two hours I spent in his office on Tuesday walking him through the program because (again I had forgotten) that he is not capable of only adding what is asked but insists on trying to understand the whole thing and then I still didn't now he intended to welsh until late yesterday.
And after staying way late yesterday getting procrastinated slides put together we ended up spending the whole time allotted to the meeting hashing over just the strategy to get data from 100 or so ground sites with needed redundancy. I like the new guy they hired for orbit determination. He is wicked smart but better yet he was pretty much in charge of setting up something similar at his job in commifornia. So he is a great counterweight to my boss who wants to have fewer but much more elaborate smart computers 'to reduce complexity' instead of breaking them into simpler pieces and with more redundancy like our sys admin has wanted to do instead of having to get fancy with software OS solutions. Now the sys admin and less senior software engineer have this new orbit determination guru on their side and with guru's experience to back it up.
Its also going to push me to do more in my job and that is great, I've gotten into such a rut and doing too much coasting because of my angst over politics of the country and state and if I'm honest my irritation with my bosses style. Now having someone who will probably become a defacto supervisor in terms of 'write/modify code to do this' if not ever writing the CYA reviews for the government funding who is so smart and who has supervised smart people will force me to keep focused and get things done quickly.
He was very sane today. We walked and trotted some figure eights in Shade and Grey's pen while Grey finished his big helping of soaked up feed. I left Shade in the pen and she polished her halo by just visiting with Razz in the corner and then going back to polishing off the last scraps of leftover hay. Sooo nice that I didn't have to move her to work Tanza in her pen.
The stocking up was reduced after the short ride so that was a relief. I don't really know how much harm it does when horses get that swelling, they are more prone to get it in the future once they have had major stocking up and swelling from injury can cause secondary problems so we never like to see swelling on lower legs but again I can't go back in time. I put just a bit of sore no more liniment on the legs and a bit of arnica gel. Tanza was doing his lifting leg, halfway threatening to kick thing. I told him I don't use stuff that stings so cut it out.
My boss has done the "I could write a subroutine (or full code)" and then welsh on me again. So stupid of me to have forgotten he does this. I could have been halfway to writing what I wanted myself just in the two hours I spent in his office on Tuesday walking him through the program because (again I had forgotten) that he is not capable of only adding what is asked but insists on trying to understand the whole thing and then I still didn't now he intended to welsh until late yesterday.
And after staying way late yesterday getting procrastinated slides put together we ended up spending the whole time allotted to the meeting hashing over just the strategy to get data from 100 or so ground sites with needed redundancy. I like the new guy they hired for orbit determination. He is wicked smart but better yet he was pretty much in charge of setting up something similar at his job in commifornia. So he is a great counterweight to my boss who wants to have fewer but much more elaborate smart computers 'to reduce complexity' instead of breaking them into simpler pieces and with more redundancy like our sys admin has wanted to do instead of having to get fancy with software OS solutions. Now the sys admin and less senior software engineer have this new orbit determination guru on their side and with guru's experience to back it up.
Its also going to push me to do more in my job and that is great, I've gotten into such a rut and doing too much coasting because of my angst over politics of the country and state and if I'm honest my irritation with my bosses style. Now having someone who will probably become a defacto supervisor in terms of 'write/modify code to do this' if not ever writing the CYA reviews for the government funding who is so smart and who has supervised smart people will force me to keep focused and get things done quickly.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Rode Sadie today. Worked Tanza on Tuesday
I was up so late being excited on Tuesday night that I was too tired wed morning to do any horse stuff beyond feeding. Tuesday I worked with Tanza, I had thought I'd probably get on him but he was so wound up I decided it would be better not to. Spent a frustrating session lunging him, scrapping that because he was just racing around in circles and there is not much whoa one can apply with just a line to the halter, searching for lines, deciding I'd have a wreck if I tried to use the long rope lunge lines, searching more for my shorter flat lines, not being able to find one, deciding to tie two of the mini driving reins together and finally long lining him.
He was a sweaty mess by the time I got to the long lining and it didn't take too much to convince him to walk but he did start out trotting fast, still way better than the Skeery fast canter he'd started out with on the long line with me going - Wow, you are really athletic but I don't like you racing around so fast you are leaning into the circle.
I thought I'd work him again today but woke with a headache which did not yield quickly to ibuprofen and some allergy pill so decided I'd better just ride Sadie. I don't like to climb on the energized greenies when I'm feeling sub par.
Sadie was pretty good today. Last time I rode her she got goofy on me the last quarter mile home but today she was back to normal self.
Now I must stop procrastinating and get back to figuring out how to generate some plots to present to small group tomorrow. I could probably do it in Excel if I had taken time to learn Excel at some point but since I did not do that I'll have to wrestle it into the PDL code or something which I'm not particularly fast at doing, so need to grit my teeth and GitRdone.
He was a sweaty mess by the time I got to the long lining and it didn't take too much to convince him to walk but he did start out trotting fast, still way better than the Skeery fast canter he'd started out with on the long line with me going - Wow, you are really athletic but I don't like you racing around so fast you are leaning into the circle.
I thought I'd work him again today but woke with a headache which did not yield quickly to ibuprofen and some allergy pill so decided I'd better just ride Sadie. I don't like to climb on the energized greenies when I'm feeling sub par.
Sadie was pretty good today. Last time I rode her she got goofy on me the last quarter mile home but today she was back to normal self.
Now I must stop procrastinating and get back to figuring out how to generate some plots to present to small group tomorrow. I could probably do it in Excel if I had taken time to learn Excel at some point but since I did not do that I'll have to wrestle it into the PDL code or something which I'm not particularly fast at doing, so need to grit my teeth and GitRdone.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
I've got the blahs....
I'm thinking mostly this is some side effect from flu shot. Note to self, getting vaccinated on a Friday was a dumb idea. But some mental blah too. Been doing my lazy weekend posting on the HQ blog thing and feeling shunned. I guess I did get a few responses on food thread which is ironic since I'm not into the cooking for artistic effect thing at all. Need to shake it off or stop spending so much time there and read actual books on my kindle instead of lurking so much with the occasional comment dropping thing. I can't type fast enough and don't have quick enough wit to ever be one of the 'cool kids' there and I don't want to go Aspergey and force folks to comment to soothe/be nice to me like it seems they do for 1 or 2 posters that seem special needs. If I want to play troll I'd go over to some lefty place to be irritating.
One the plus side laundry is pretty well caught up. I got Razz in with Sadie and Tanza and it seems like that will work OK. I put Lady in with CJ but will not keep that mix for long before making it 4 horses in the big pen. The two of them are moving tanks around like crazy and I'm leading more torwards saving RB hay for Grey and CJ now. I have plenty of clean PHC hay and I think the RB hay is actually easier for Grey to chew and get calories from.
I did ride Sadie yesterday. Decided I was too off and it was too windy to climb on Tanza today though. I am hating the end of DST but for weekdays having light earlier in the morning will be a good thing. I'm just going to have to not drag around sleeping in and moving crazily slow on weekend mornings and early afternoons anymore since it will get dark so early.
One the plus side laundry is pretty well caught up. I got Razz in with Sadie and Tanza and it seems like that will work OK. I put Lady in with CJ but will not keep that mix for long before making it 4 horses in the big pen. The two of them are moving tanks around like crazy and I'm leading more torwards saving RB hay for Grey and CJ now. I have plenty of clean PHC hay and I think the RB hay is actually easier for Grey to chew and get calories from.
I did ride Sadie yesterday. Decided I was too off and it was too windy to climb on Tanza today though. I am hating the end of DST but for weekdays having light earlier in the morning will be a good thing. I'm just going to have to not drag around sleeping in and moving crazily slow on weekend mornings and early afternoons anymore since it will get dark so early.
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