Perhaps I need to break from the blog I follow

Or try to get the app that someone had developed to block certain posters.   But blocking would be of minimal use because the problem is not so much anyones direct posts,  I just have been getting into a mode of passing judgement on people.   I know I should not because I don't know the situations and I got past the one with the drug overdose, suicidal? dude whose wife was posting since I have no idea what sort of PTSD situations he may have seen in active duty.  

I'm having a much harder time with the sad sack who seems to think someone needs to seek him out and give him a nice job.   I should be more sympathetic with someone who worked long hours for a company thinking that would be their lifetime job and has been through an unwanted divorce but he is such a whiner and downer in almost all of his comments that I'm feeling sympathetic with the unknown wife for deciding to cut that anchor and sail away and for all I know she is/was a gold digger emotional life force sucking leech of the highest order.   But even if she was all of that.  DUDE stop with the constant woe is poor little me angling to get the sympathetic folks to give you a pep talk so many times every week.   Get out of your comfy blog posting chair and take a job outside of your JD degree field to develop some people skills or some perspective or something.

Then there is the paranoid dude who not only had to attack random posters after clicking on some link bait years ago and picking up a nasty hacking virus but he sucked other posters into his craziness after he was warned, given time-outs etc.    I'm beginning to wonder if he is some mental case, he posted a long story about going in person to some online funding site that had been holding up someones fund and then accused someone who was only mildly poo pooing the long self medaling series of posts of how great he had been of being his cyber stalker. (as though he had to have been stalked to pick up a virus with a habit of clicking links supposed to be youtube music or whatever from anonymous commenters.)

   It made me wonder if it was like the arsonists that start fires so they can call the fire department and tell people to get out to be the hero.  It would be oh so easy to "flag" a fund and then withdraw the flag after crafting the story of how you went to the actual offices of the online fund managing group and told them they needed to fly right.

I have got to start doing more of the 'chores' during the week

And I have got to kick off my inertia and reluctance to request riding dates and start getting Tanza out with other horses.   But on the good side I rode him both Saturday and Sunday and by finally wising up and not cantering when riding him down the road the skippy "is he lame" trot he does anticipating/wanting to start cantering is going away.   He needed the boundaries of a routine, and still does to learn to just relax and trot when I am riding him out alone at home.  

I got the federal tax forms filled out so now I can do the state ones and I am getting a modest refund.  That is mostly an affirmation that I was better about donating 10% since I'm not a church member doing tithing that way.   I have still not called HMO about labs and thumb.   There is some gradual improvement on the thumb but riding causes a bit of flare-up of the soreness when bending it so I need to solve that so I can do the longer rides on Tanza.   I rode Sadie on Saturday and she was pretty good until the last bit home and then she had to revert back to acting the fool.  If I would ride her 3 times a week she would probably get pretty decent again.

Well, need to get the horse pads in the laundry,  picking up pills for Shade today and wanted to catch a seminar at work and can do that if I will start moving with some purpose.

dragging along

I am dragging after the time change.   It is weird because I am tired and going to bed fairly early but then not sleeping very well.   Oh well, overall I am liking the shift in daylight vs schedule.  I also like falling back in the late fall.   I know most folks like to whinge loudly that changing the clocks is the worst thing ever but even with the adjustment period I feel like it works out well for me.

I feel terribly behind on getting started with conditioning Tanzaknight for the new ride season and should be doing some yard cleanup and stuff.   Plus I need to make appt with the HMO for routine labs and to get my thumb/wrist checked out.   It is really stupid how I just keep hoping things will just return to normal with just a bit of stretching and taking NSAIDS when it hasn't worked and I've given it weeks.  

I'm on hiring committee for a new software engineer.  I don't know why.  Well I think I am decent at detecting BS and whether someone would be a team player but I'm reading the first batch of resumes and all the SE jargon is making me feel like I have no idea whether the applicant can do the job or not.   Sad (as our new president might say)

However I am pecking away at things and eventually all critical stuff will get done.