Guess what I found when we cleaned for Christmas

So I wanted the table cleared for Christmas dinner rather than eat around the piles of paper.  Waaayyy at the bottom was my p/u tag that I thought had been mis-delivered.   Oh well,  it was only a few bucks for the replacement and things that needed done at work did get done so that lost hour didn't cause any big crash.

It was a really nice Christmas present that Dad and I gave to each other to get the house cleaned up.  I need to get back to my de-cluttering.  I'm so tired of not being able to find what I want because there is so much junk.   I'm not organized enough to keep the stuff/junk cataloged when there is too much of it.

Its been too cold and snowy for me to miss riding yet.  I put Sadie and Lady in with Razz and Shade and CJ in by himself.   If Lady gets thin I'll toss her in with CJ I guess.  Sadie and Tanza are doing lots of visiting over the fence. 

yaay y-key card

Because I can work in the stupid meeting I have been able to wrestle through several iterations of stupid bug where I can't have more than 34 or 35 sites in a cluster.  I don't want to raise the max variable to allow that because I expect to be moving to single station processing in a few months so no sense making special executables just for 3 months.

Soooo, bro/family blew me off or USPS didn't deliver

I'm too tired and full up with stupid work crap to worry about it right now.

I am stuck sitting in a meeting and the funding agency that made us have this meeting doesn't have their shit together.  WTFF, do they need to have a meeting here before they can be fussed to think about details?   They should be letting us know what they need and be working things out amongst their various branches and not hashing things out at what they called a readiness review for us. 

If THEY need these meetings to figure out what they need to do, they should call them planning meetings so we know not to spend over much time making slides to show them where we are.  Thank you Lord for letting me have a job where meetings are not a large part of my normal work months. 

more whinging

Tanza and Grey have decided they don't care much for their hay and are going to hunger strike to get the hay the other horses are getting.  After getting their teeth done yesterday there is a bunch of hay scattered on the ground instead of eaten.   Maybe this bale was a bit off,  I'd feed them the other hay but some of those bales are grody and I'm leery of giving Tanza all his feed from that field even of the nice bales because of his allergies and me not knowing exactly what grasses are in it.  

He and Grey are both in pretty good weight right now so they can survive a few meals of just picking at their hay.  Ornery buggers,  I will have to out stubborn Tanza on this. 

I got Christmas cards ordered with a picture from our summer trip.  Yay Walgreens.  I used a mail order outfit before but this year they did not seem to have any option to put a personal picture on a card.   Walgreens will print them up this morning.  Hopefully they turn out fairly nice, I ordered quite a few, but maybe we will send to more of the cousins this year and not just older generation.  Decided I can postpone going to the DMV to get replace tags for p/u until tomorrow.   I wrote checks for my brother and family, just have to write them a quick note and pop that in the mail.  Guess I will have to request he let me know it arrived with the rash of non-delivered stuff I've been having. 

Arghhh

I'm getting overly invested in work because I really do want my one boss to successfully win a contract bid/proposal  we are working on.

So today when equine dentist was done quite a bit quicker than I had figured it would take I schlepped on to work instead of taking planned PTO.

It is good in some ways.  I'm found that something I thought I had fixed last night wasn't and am launching some processing which is easier than trying to do from home.  But our big data provider who has had really great uptime for 3-4 years or more that I've been grabbing their data is down, again, after a days long outage over the long weekend at end of November.    Now this is probably not directly going to clobber us on the bid but it doesn't make us look great so I'm just about to have a  head desk minute. 

And I am about ready to go rogue on my other project.  Must remember that I need the job so I can shell out over a grand to get the horses teeth worked on w/o having to sell a kidney.  

Time to do other stuff that I've been procrastinating on.  Time to kick my  inner grinch aside and get started on end of year giving + fandamily shopping and gifting.