Ah haha. "burrs aren't so thick I'm ready to go nuclear option"

TheyARE that thick in the one bottom corner,  plus where the electric company dug up along the pasture fence so I got dad to get the little 25 gallon boom sprayer working.   I don't know what I'll do when he isn't here.  I'll have to get a neighbor to help me with mechanical things, that won't be the end of the world but I'll have to adjust to planning ahead so I have time to ask them to fit it into their schedules and have time to to some return favor to them.   Thanking god I still have some time to make that adjustment.

I have mostly adopted "arrgghh I have to declutter" as my obsession the last few weeks.   I will soon run out of the easy "just burn or toss this in the garbage phase."  I'm hoping I can lean on B's communication and organizational skills for a bit while she is rooming here, and she will be able to find nursing homes or someplace to take some of the games and jigsaw puzzles and so on.  I want that from her much more than any yard work etc because it is so emotionally draining for me making calls trying to find places that will accept donations.   I may have to steel myself and just toss a lot of reasonably good used stuff because in these days of cheap chinese goods and Covid, bedbugs etc its just not that easy to get thrift centers to take things.

I lined up to test ride a horse on Thursday.   B's friend L needs to sell a 12 year old arab that is too reactive for her.   He sounds like a nice horse and if he is about like Tanza and not over the top like Sadie I'll probably find I like him just fine.   L is interested in riding Razz sometimes on trails and if she likes him, he'll at least get some occasional exercise which will be great for him.   I should try to find a job for Sadie where she wouldn't be ridden.  She is sweet and super smart so might be good as a non-riding therapy horse but in my mind I imagine folks doing that kind of therapy are bombarded with folks wanting to dump horses that they don't want to ride on them and won't be interested,  But if I don't ask I'll never know.

Trying to get stuff working again on the big processing cluster after its OS update has been like chasing a greased pig

And I'll be finding data that was not on the external raid system nor the long-term storage tapes for weeks I suppose.  Found one filetype yesterday that is going to be such a PITA to replace I may just not dink with it.  I really figured the cpu's internal raid would be fine after the OS update but nope, it got wiped out and the IT team couldn't find any way to restore it.

Then prima donna sr software engineer wanted the processing user's home area restored as well as all the normal user /home areas or at least his /home area.  Which wiped out the new .ssh area that allowed no password comms, kicking off jobs between the head node and the rest of the cluster so I had to ask for that to be restored by the IT team.   Then I was busy with other crap for about a week, went to tackle some processing last night and the slave nodes were missing a key system level rpm.  I did not catch that for a couple hours and was thinking I just didn't have a PATH env set correctly.   Hopefully now that IT has figured out that almost all the extra system level rpms needed for our stuff were installed only to the head node but not the slaves things will work tonight or tomorrow.   Turns out it was not just that one library file that I was getting the message for but 100s of rpms they have to get onto the slave nodes.  I sure hope the process goes much smoother when they go to start migrating our real-time cpu's to this new OS.

I finally got back to spraying some burrs this morning.  The burrs are not too horrible, definitely I need to spray but not so thick that I'm ready to go nuclear and spray everything with the mini boom sprayer.   The bad thing is there is such a lot of thistles.  I thought I had pulled up most of the thistles last year before they went to seed and would not have much issue this year but no such luck.

I rode 75 miles. Tanza is such a rockstar

Showing my age I'm sure.  But Tanza was a rock and rockstar on this 75 mile ride.  The RM figured it was equivalent of 90 miles under this WDRA mileage point system and may have bumped that because it took everyone a long time to ride it.  It was plenty challenging but that was probably fine overall.  Lots of sections that had to be walked meant Tanza got plenty of breaks from trotting/loping and he can grab a bit of grass as he walks.   I survived riding 18 hours and even got packed up and got home, did some laundry and made pork chops Sunday evening.  That was all the father's day hoopla dad got from me.  He got calls from bro and sis.

I am hitting the wall today.  Having a hard time focusing at all for work and no energy to do something else for a while and then come back to the computer.   Oh well,  I'm pretty sure I've been giving them lots of free hours per week with WFH so I don't sweat the days when I don't get much done, and I did clear clutter from some of the kitchen cupboards.  Much more should be removed from the drawers and cupboards but it was good progress.   B has tons of spices and cooking gadgets so room has to be made in the kitchen.   I am seizing it as an opportunity/incentive to purge old expired foods and cheap plasticware and stuff I never use.