Time to go spray some weeds

 I need a break from coworker fake sympathy "OMG, you're overloaded, you need a vacation yada yada"  Try to offload any damn task and its "where is the detailed how-to, so I can just do this w/o having to think", or 'MY underling is TOO busy with other stuff to take that on any time soon'.   

So Imma mix up some 2-4-D ester and attack some goats heads burrs.   

Update:   My IT ticket for "blocked can't do squat on this HA system" has still not been responded to.  Lovely, Friday afternoon response levels are now Wed-Fri afternoon response levels.  I am so over it.  IT feels overworked and underpaid.  Maybe they are,  I am aware that management drags their feet to hire staff and really really drags their feet with promotions.  (possibly the newly elevated guy will be better, too soon to tell on that.) 

But I'm expected to set up 15 systems, + coordinate with the clocks guru who is now the group manager on syncing his 5 systems to those data collections systems and #@?!!! IT  insisted I couldn't use the system that was working because "no, we can't have these cross dependencies"  so I've been trying to make things work while being hamstrung, and meanwhile the SE head gives the sympathy, but then blocks me when I suggest her team should take over part of it.  

Maybe if THEY get some extra heat if the clocks go out and boss can't get them up quickly they'll gain some understanding that bringing in all that data for clock estimation is not just an afterthought, and when working4horses asks for ports to be opened to allow redundant data flow they shouldn't just say "You have to have a system w/o cross dependencies"  Plus just because I made it work in the past, doesn't mean its simple to make it work, so when I ask for help its not just because I'm a needy simpleton. 

Isn't it too early for the dog days of summer?

We are having an early hot spell.   Sunday I got up before 5 am with intent to be rolling before 6 am to ensure I was on time to meet the gang at Spruce Meadows.   I had forgotten I was on call when I set up the date and I piddled so much doing that check in the morning that it was 6:20 by the time I was rolling even though Tanza and Lady both let me catch them right away with no games.   Thankfully traffic was still light that early, so I was not late anyway.    I didn't feel too hot riding or hanging out for a bit afterwards but was wiped out by the time I got home and took a long nap.   It was ok,  I still fell asleep easily that night.  I had a hard time waking up/getting moving after the nap but chalked it up to dehydration,  and stressed from the week and riding.   They were discussing their fun the weekend before and today I've felt a bit rejected that I was not invited but they were west of CoSprings, I couldn't have handled the drive w/o camping and didn't have time to camp even if they'd asked me so I should NOT feel that way.  I hate it when I get teenage drama llama irrational feelings.  I should network with some folks north of me to go ride those places once in a while. 

Saturday I got the hog panels replacement for the failing horse wire section of fence by the hay pen finished.  I had to make Dad help me put the boards up over the hog panels and didn't have my ducks as lined up as I'd thought for that but we gotRdone with the only casualty a scratch and bruise on my right forearm.   

Today I sprayed goats heads and along the fenceline for an hour at 'lunch hour'  before the CDAAC meeting.   M had volunteered to take over cleaning data when disk is full alerts came in.  Well I had to do some Thursday night because my auto archive script was running and disk was quite full.  This morning she asked "should I clean to same date on the other missions"   I was fairly terse with "I don't know, check disk space and the archives,  its not typing the cleanup command line that was stress and time-consuming that I needed to offload it"    But I was only terse, when I wanted to have a long rant.  I am just SOOO over people at work going "sure I can take that" and then they expect to have a checklist like our brain-dead ops check versus having to figure out how to accomplish the task.    Like I wouldn't just keep easy,  by a checklist tasks to do when I have morning or Monday brain fog.   

Sunday learned that J did not take his wonder horse to nationals like he had planned.  Not because the horse had issues, but because a month ago at a ride he questioned the rookie vet about how they were awarding BC, because they gave it to an Icelandic that apparently wouldn't even trot out for a CRI after the ride.  J is not even on FB, but I guess his SiL or riding buddies let him know that the AERC FB page was full of people dumping on him for questioning a ride vet.   I find it a bit sad that he let the tongue waggers that don't do squat take something he'd wanted to do away from him.  At least made him feel like he wouldn't have fun at the big event.   

Makes me happy I walked away from FB pretty much entirely.   So many times if I saw some BS like that kind of thing, back when I was on FB, my feeling was "Ohhh crap,  I don't have time to spar with these keyboard warriors, even though they are full of shit" 

No rest for the weary

 I feel unloved because the gang has not invited me to ride since I had to cancel on the morning of May 16th.  I did not ask if they were riding this weekend because I have an infection in my right eye and didn't know if I should drive a trailer up to IC, p/u and trailer are not easy for pulling off to side of road to put in eye drops if eye starts burning and watering so much my driving vision is impaired.   But Friday and Saturday the eye did not get too sore so I would have gone for it if I had been invited.  Perhaps my guardian angel was looking out for me.   But I feel like they don't really enjoy my riding company and I don't know why that would be.  I try to be good riding company, no whining about speed or route, rotate leading and following no "MY horse HAS to be in front", Tanza never kicks, he is pretty good to keep a decent distance behind when not leading, yada yada.  He does do a bit of spooking but it's not so violent it sets this groups' steady horses off.   

Which would leave me.  I do struggle a bit to be on time for early rides but I have made a big effort with these folks and have not come straggling in 20-30  minutes after the agreed meeting time more than once or twice.  I'm not happy home-maker to bring stuff to 'Happy Hour' but I started bringing beer this year to make up for that.  Maybe they think I am just not interested/ am too busy.  I AM busy this year but I want some 2/3 day breaks to keep sane.  I hate feeling like I am always begging to join in and they only let me because they are too softy to say no, but I guess I'll have to ask them because they are not asking me.  I asked my boss for a 'promotion' and he said he was on board but the org would issue guidelines in July.  I think they need me enough to cough up the extra money I requested because our setup is complicated and it takes months for new hires to learn it and be able to really cover things; but I don't 100% trust management on this. 

Last weekend the weather was unsettled so I didn't even ride at home.  Dad ran the tractor so I didn't have to move and lift hay by hand to move the last of the hay from the west side hay shed to the east side so that hay wouldn't sit for 2 years before we got to it again to feed and I got that project done.   I have the shed 95% raked out and just need to put 1 more set of 2by4s down to keep the stacked hay off the dirt and old hay that wouldn't rake up so that is good.   I got two new hinges on my trailer tack door and did a bunch of weeding in the neglected flower beds.  I am going to cover the beds with plastic this fall as soon as the flowers are done and hopefully set the grass back if not kill it.   I have to drill holes and install one more new hinge on my tack door.  I also want to put hinged latch plate and loop on the other side to have backup to the regular door latch to make sure the door doesn't pop open.  Aways expanding projects.