Oh joy, an extra stinking day in Feb and bonus its a monday

What a pity we can't have an extra day in June on leap years.  I quite like June.

My real cause of 'having the blahs' is not really anything to do with leap year, Feb. or even being a monday.  I'm just feeling pitiful because I tried to be compassionate and have been rebuffed for the awkward attempt.  Oh well, sometimes such efforts are appreciated out of proportion and it is supposed to be about being at peace with oneself.

 But even though I hate it when I find that I was doing something mostly for the ego strokes and not really just to please myself I'm only human and do feel pitiful when I feel ignored or rebuffed.  But I'll get over it, cuz I has horses and a pretty good life overall and I refuse to go into some pity spiral over one failed attempt to be supportive as a concerned colleague.

Actually did some corral cleaning ahead of predicted snow/rain coming in tonight

It's like a minor miracle, especially since dad came out and was trying to direct me on how to use the loader to get the bucket raked up manure winnrows scooped up w/o digging up dirt under them and I asked him to just do it and he did.  That allowed me to use a hand shovel to get some stuff right next to the fence cleaned up.  I did this on Saturday which was nice weather. New neighbor's maybe 12 yr old DD came bye.  She is interested in riding.  She likes Razz but I will put her on Lady.  If she does real well and wants to ride more than she can talk to dad about coming after school and riding Razz in the pen when Dad is home.   Her mom came by and said she was good with it but she wanted DD to have to work for it.

Corrals did not get completely clean as I was running out of light and steam but all of them were better than before.   The big pen got pretty well done.   Grey and Tanza's got the manure and wet hay pulled back away from feeders and gate good but not picked up.   I pulled some of the slop back from the feeders and waterer for CJ and Lady's pen and put a couple scoops over that fence into garden but it should have had a follow up on Sunday. 

It did not get the follow-up on Sunday,  I puttered on computer, wrote up a lease for the girl that stipulates that she can work 1/2 hour per ride rather than pay per ride which I have done before for calling it a partial feed lease for folks to ride Lady.   It was chilly but I did ride Tanza for half an hour or so in the paddock.  He was quite good for me, probably the best he has been so far in 2016.   Sadie walked over and then followed us a bit at one point.  She is getting bored.  I am wanting to ride her again too and she no longer shows any bobble to my eye when she trots in the pen so I think I can start riding her slowly or doing some leading out in March.   I did a load of laundry late and made pressure cooker pot roast (round steak cuts of deer meat)  The roast did not taste quite as good to me, but I used beef broth rather than plain water and adding that to my leftover gravy did improve the gravy flavor, so I'll use broth rather than plain water for next roast I cook.  

Dragging a bit at work with the Monday's and all.   I could not figure out how to pass variables in a slick way with our framework to put the orbit guy's stuff into our framework so decided I'll have to just have multiple option directories to get the functionality which is what is done now but this is more instances so would have been nice to avoid having to brute force things that way.   I wanted to choke the lead SE today when he was talking like his framework should allow something that it does not.  He should know/remember that he took that option out of the original software in order to get faster responses.  I always feel like he is playing dumb when he knows his software has a limitation but really he has been juggling many things and its been over 10 years since he wrote that framework code so he probably has honestly forgotten how it works. 

I've been needing chiro work

So why I'm dragging this morning instead of getting moving to make sure I get to appt. on time is a mystery to me.  Whelp, need to contemplate as I finish horse chores and get dressed.

evening update:

Chiro fixed my arm,  it was out at elbow and 2 spots in shoulder.  And shoulder is getting sore now at end of day still.  I really should have made the effort to get my appt moved up.  Called and left message and knew I needed to call from work but forgot 2 weeks ago and then called got machine and went "I'm not doing this again, and now its not that many days till appt last Tuesday."  

Hopefully the joints will stay in place now and things will get healed.   He also fixed my stuck ankle spot and a couple spots in my back.   I think the stretching I was doing helped with back.  Last appt I was really stuck in my back and I had muscle spasms later that day.   I should have made an appt for just a few days later when I felt the spasms starting but oh well I don't have a time machine so can't fix that.  I set appt for 2 weeks instead of 4 this time in case things won't hold for 4 weeks.

I got my ISP service paid and  set up the auto-pay with the new CC.   I had not been looking at emails and totally missed the notices until they snail mailed the bill with late fee for missed payment in Jan.  Oh well I don't think my credit score will be ruined by one missed payment that was corrected the next month, but I am so bad at personal secretary stuff.

Stuck with work project, I will have to work with lead SE tomorrow to move more stuff to my dev machine or move my dev to the machine where the test mission is routinely processed (hopefully I can get a small set of the data(base) needed installed on the dev machine, I don't want to have to port my very raw, 20% done development to a production machine.

I must call vet tomorrow to get Shade more Previcoxx because I'm using it faster than before.   Must remind myself she felt pretty good when I wanted to catch her and worm her,  I hope the arthritis progression will stop and I can maintain her and not have think about euthanasia until the winter after she turns 20.  She'll only be 19 this April and if she is hurting I will give up my emotional feeling that a horse should be at least 20, but I'd sure rather give her that extra year of retirement if I can.

I rode Tanza Fri/Sat/Sun and then on my holiday monday it was windy so I didn't even saddle him but walked him out a little over 1/2 mile and back.  He was nervous to go away from home,  I hope he gets more relaxed about that this year.   He never got real relaxed last year and then when I fell off and he ran home last fall he set himself back.  I've been riding a lot in the paddock since then working on control and my confidence and will do the leading him out some too to try to increase his confidence away from home.  And if all else fails he is an arab so I can haul to some rides and do fun ride and LDs to condition early in season and then move up to 50s.  

Pretty fun weekend for no riding

Saturday was the regional endurance convention.  I missed most of the morning session, just couldn't motivate myself to short myself on sleep or even rush once awake.  But I enjoyed what I did catch and I got a nice zipper sweatshirt for Tanza completing 5 rides.   He really did make last summer so much funner than if I hadn't bought him fall 2014. 

I finally got the horses wormed on Sunday.   Note to self:  don't give Shade previcoxx that morning if you will worm horses in the afternoon.   She was full of Yeehaws and "can't catch me"s and her knee wasn't telling her she needed to quit.  She was feeling it by that evening.   I did get all the big horses wormed and found I do still have some liquid ivermectin so should be able to get the mini's done.  I have to look up how much to use.

Barely watched the SB.  It was a decent game as a (barely) Bronco's fan, I had such butterflies even though I didn't think I was emotionally invested that I couldn't bear to give the game full attention.   I was rooting for them to win so Manning could retire on a high note if he decides to take the opportunity.   I've also always thought that Pat Bowlen was pretty classy as an owner,  he made some effort to find money to keep player turnover down at least in earlier days.   And I've always liked Kubiak from when he was the backup QB here and I like Wade Phillips.