So much for riding with the gang today

 Tanza would not be caught this morning.   Sighhhh.   I've been mildly concerned that something aint quite right with him because he has not been noshing after riding when trailering out.  Switched him back to eq. senior feed in case the strategy was too much starch and not enough fiber.   Made a point to put his salt, clay and minerals in his morning feed this am.    Do not get to find out if this would have resulted in better after ride eating at a trailhead today because he would not be caught.  I will ride him here on the flat dirt roads in a bit.   I will have to get the corral panels up to get back to having a feeding pen for him so he doesn't have so much room to run around working himself up.  Of course if he is too wound up he won't even go into feeding pen but hopefully if I restore the habit of 'you get fed in here' that will sufficient.  He may also start spending the night in a small pen and run when I want to trailer out in the mornings.   He doesn't get to dictate whether we ride or not.   That is not a path I want to go down.   I hate wondering if there is a tummy upset or saddle is uncomfortable for him etc when he gets hard to catch, but it seems more like he just gets into a high energy mode and can't relax and let me do my thing.  But that can also be  a symptom of ulcers.   Not sure if I should try to do the 50 this saturday now.   I'll know better if I get a good ride on him today. 

Got electric fence working yesterday. Let horses out on pasture today

 Dad was right,  the wire was grounded.  I thought I had tested with the gate handle off but I guess not.   My engineer brain,  oh, right, since I was testing by touching it, and skin has some impedance I suppose the electricity was just going to where it was grounded instead.   Anyway, I need to file in the memory bank that a grounded fence wire may not bite even when the ground is after the point where touching it.

I got the tractor out and moved some of the slop away from the fence line in Tanza's pen.   The tractor was spinning out quite a bit in the slick gunk so progress on clearing was slowed.  Tomorrow I will try to get some done in the other pen I think.  Dad did some mowing YAY!   I hate mowing.  Hopefully he gets the yard done while the weather is mild before it gets too hot for him.   

I have got to quit dinking with the work temperature jump issue.   The software that estimates temp from bending angle and NWM data is not right IMO.   The bending angle does have a teeny bias now vs before but its freaking tiny and the weather centers have been using this 'now biased' bending angle for 6 months and no complaints,  so I think the scientist that wrote our temp estimation will have to solve the issue w/o us reverting the bending angle software  back.  But I'm not in charge so who knows.   It does seem less sensitive when using the higher resolution WM, but another scientist is looking at that.  I am supposed to fix to software that does the WM profiles.   Doug Bug.  Those profiles should be on the WM pressure levels but they are not, they are interpolated to the closest height of the BA or something like that.  On the high resolution model that I would most like to get corrected since we'll probably just use that as input the process to find the points to interpolate through is complicated and I can't yet see how to fix to use pressure levels.   

Arghh, I hate electric fence

Totally stalled on my long do list yesterday because my thought of just tying into A's hot wire was shot down by him.   I figured he'd be all for it to keep my horses farther from his fence in that strip.  But nope,  he told me his charger wasn't powerful enough.  That is totally false; I suppose he had worries my quick temp fencing would be grounded somewhere and cause his fence to not work all the way around his pasture.   So I tried to set up to tie into the hot wire dad had put up in the corral a few years ago when I boarded the part draft horse for a couple months.  I could not get juice out of that system.  Arghhh.

Dad has volunteered to 'look at it.'   He's sure he'll find a grounded spot and that will fix everything.  Perhaps he will but I think the dang charger isn't working correctly.  I don't get along with electric fence, I've decided its better to just have tight enough fence to hold the critters w/o the "oh it will bite me if I touch the fence" aspect but its nice to be able to keep the twerps from shoving on the fence so I understand why people who don't struggle with getting and keeping a wire hot use that tool.

I must force myself to do my taxes today.   I don't know why I've been so reluctant this year.  I guess just general hatred of the commiecrats who are in control.  But I need to not paint a target on myself so must gitRdone.  

I still don't know how to respond to the co-workers invite to Carter Lake.  It might be fun to hang out with a few co-workers for a couple hours.  I'm not sure its worth the drive, but I should drive my dang car more.   Saturday I ran to TSC to get fence insulators, had to relearn how to work the wipers and oh yeah, where is the gas cover unlock button.   Plus my driving muscles are so atrophied.  I've been getting sore driving the pickup if its more than an hour to destination.  It was better Saturday driving to Greenland with B, so the chiro adjustment must have helped.   But I get so annoyed with many of the co-workers.  They all have a dozen excuses why it is not their fault or their problem if things quit running.    I've been feeling like Stewart's "Maggie May" lyric lately.   "but I feel I'm being used,  oh Maggie I couldn't have tried any more"  

Still pondering how to do feeding pen for Tanza

 I am now thinking just use 3 corral panels in a kind of pentagon shape with the 2 pen fence sides.   Because I don't really want a pen that is only 1 panel square but 2 panels square would be oversized.  I think I'll use the hog panels where the fence is falling down in Razz's pen.    I could keep myself busy only puttering with the fencing upgrades I want to do.  But unless I find some kind of hired help, help in exchange for boarding there is so much other crap that needs to be done and I did want to plant taters.  I haven't even got dirt in the tanks.   Sigh.  Too much to do and not enough ambition and then I hobble myself with resentment that dad will not even air up his p/u tire, let alone park his ass on the riding mower instead of the recliner for a few hours and do the mowing or clean corrals with tractor etc.  I understand he can't get on and off to move hoses and shit but if he'd volunteer that he would mow I would go out and move that shit around to be out of his way.  But I need to just accept that I get to cover mowing and tractor work now.   Either have to hire someone or do it myself.  

I figured out the work thing that had me stressed is not totally just using the NWM inputs.  But it is still fundamentally flawed with the interpolation method for T.  And the code creator seems to be imagining a bias in the input product that I do NOT see.   *I* think the issue is that the newer version of that product is including information 33% higher than it did before and the very high information is causing issues.  But I think  I probably get to rewrite the code to ignore that extra information and demonstrate that before the stubborn creator would modify his precious code. 

Gray Monday

 The rain is an answered prayer and much needed.  But I am stressed out over stupid work thing that is really not my circus.  BUT still I am on the team, and I don't want to be associated with a lying product. And it feels like this 'new' way of doing the one product is basically just taking the weather model analysis rather than a bit of tuning based on our raw measurements.    Will I resign over this?   Not a high likelihood but possibly.   Stupid wimpy boss what resigned.   S told everyone about this issue, but no one sat the scientist that wrote this bit down and told him "it has to be OUR data even if that has more noise and bias wrt to radiosondes or other reference measurements than the weather anaysis. 

And fundamentally, other than the 'are we even using our measurements for T and P?'  I think its dumber than a box of rocks to be doing a linear interpolating of weather model to the resolution of the our product before optimizing to minimize the error/difference between the model and us.   The weather model is accurate at its levels.  Anyone with a lick of sense can understand that interpolating between model levels can introduce errors where there was an inflection point for T between the levels.   Seems like the optimization should only use the actual model levels for minimizing differences and preserve the higher resolution features from our raw product between those levels.   I can't fathom the why of interpolating a model and then using all those interpolated points versus our raw values.  My guess would be that that was an easier algorithm to write, but I'm pretty sure it is a poor way to do things.  

Rode with B and M and J again Saturday afternoon.   That was great fun.  Sunday felt like I was just chasing my tail.  I need a jig so I can drill 'square' holes to mount my trailer door hinges.   I didn't want to go to store, but needed to get Tposts and diesel for tractor anyway so I also went to Lowes, but they didn't have that jig in the store so now I still need to order it.   Probably I should just call around and find someone to weld the hinges on or see if the local dealer for this trailer brand would install the hinges instead of doing it myself.   But I don't wanna do that.  I want to feel like I can do this.  

I did some hand weeding.  I need to get out the hoe,  there is simply way too much flower bed to hand weed.  I hate to hoe it because its just random flowers, not a nice row and I feel like I might cut off stuff I want but if I want to get rid of some of the grass and gross weeds I need the tool to have any hope of making a dent.   I did also cut down two small elm trees that had died and got them burned yesterday.  Also burned some old snow fence and a wheelbarrow handle.  I did P's trick of just letting the fire separate the metal from the wood.   

I haven't figured out just how to deal with having a feeding area for Tanza now that Bee found out he can just shove and the non hot fencing rope will pop open.   I think maybe I'll just use the hog panels from the deconstructed stallion pen and one corral panel that has a built in gate.