Convention was pretty good

I had forgotten about my low tire light,  took me 3 gas stations to get the tire up to a decent level and none of them had safety caps to replace the one that was missing.  So I was very late getting there but that was ok.   And I didn't contact the prize person two months ago and say "I don't need anything for 3 lousy LD rides but if you do include us in the LD lists something please make it size medium not small"  So I have another small jacket that I can't wear.  I must look for how-tos to make a jacket into a rump warmer.  At a very minimal level I could just sew on some tie strings I suppose but I would like to see if there are any handy tips.  

I expected there might be someone there who would be all "aack stay away from me" if I let slip I was unvaccinated but I was bummed when that someone was the retired doctor's wife who has always seemed pretty grounded to me "I promised DH I would not sit next to anyone who wasn't vaccinated"  "it is selfish of you, because you put others' health in jeopardy."    Oh well, such is life.   Her retired doc. husband should KNOW better, he must be slipping in his old age to accept that BS from Fauci and the CDC. 

I need to be a bit more productive today,  been dinking with laundry and threw some boneless pork ribs in crock pot with mush. soup and a bit of vinegar and vodka.   I just winged that, so may end up with tough meat with way too much vinegar tang but will find out at supper.  

update-  I wasn't wild about the pork but dad said it was good.  Sigh,  I suppose I can cook chops that way, sans the vinegar.  Chops should not need the extra acid to get tender.  I'm dragging again today.  If I'd had a cold I could say I must have "long covid" but this has to just be depression and less than great diet.  I'm nowhere near as bad as dad but I do eat too much sugar and wheat.  

Must fight off doldrums and get to convention tomorrow

 I normally enjoy it, sometimes feeling like it is a bit much by the end of the day.  But two stupid years of WFH cuz Covid could kill us all, and the general dread of having a socialism pushing idiot in the WH has made my general crowd, not phobia but discomfort, worse.   Plus I was overwhelmed when the Pres. of the group wanted me to tally up points; someone else said they could do it and I gladly whiffed it over to them. So there will be a good bit of making myself go.    But hiding away from it will not help me get over any of my foibles and its not like it will be a great riding day.   The snow is finally starting to melt but footing is likely to be much better on Sunday.  

Finally dropped some stuff off at Arc thrift store yesterday.

 Part of me hates to just drop stuff off there, wondering if they will just toss it, but it was past time for the fancy tea sets and glass serving dishes to have a chance to find a new home instead of continuing to sit unused in their water damages boxes.  I didn't even know the history of when they were acquired so there was no sentimental value to conflict with the "I will never use these"    Also included a calendar hanger/holder.   The calendar we use hangs behind the indoor/outdoor thermometer.  We don't have bare wall space that needs to have a decorative wrought iron calendar holder plus scenic calendar,  I think it was an impulse buy of mom's, possibly she meant to give it to someone.  And a bag of purses she had downstairs and a box of jigsaw puzzles H had given us.   I'm too much of a clutter bug to create and keep a nice surface for jigsaw puzzles to be worked.  Can't do one on a coffee table because the pets would scatter the pieces and we don't have any higher tables or wide shelves that are not occupied. 

And last night I replaced half of the broken zipper on my jacket.  The zipper I used is exactly compatible with the one that broke, just black instead of blue and the jacket zips now so I'll probably just leave it as a two-tone zipper because sewing in a zipper is so painful.  I was trying to take enough time, pin it carefully etc but my work is still very rough.   But it would have taken me months to get around to finding a seamstress to do a nice repair and I was wanted to hang on to the MRER jacket.    Saturday I hung up 3 pictures and a plaque from work plus a doily that aunt Julianna had made and aunt Mary had had mounted in a nice frame.    Yesterday I dumped the last 3 big jars of old soft pickles.  Mom had re-used store bought pickle jars so I just tossed them.  I've been washing the Ball and Kerr jars with intent to off them on Next Door since I do not see myself doing any pickling.  I barely make time to steam some frozen veggies in the microwave.  

Rode with B yesterday

 Been ages since I was able to ride with her on Tanza.  Last time we rode together Tanza was playing "you can't catch me" so I just grabbed Razz.  Then it was holidays and then I burned my foot.   It was fun.  We only rode for 75 minutes with plenty of walking through spots where the trail was still muddy but it was fun.    

Today is supposed to be errand day.   So of course I had to spend a couple hours debugging a problem with the processing for one mission.   I have got to push for more people to be ready to debug and fix problems because I MUST be able to have some completely offline breaks soon.   But it was my bug, of not having a system still emailing me when a meta data file for orbits changes.   And I knew something was up because the clocks systems had been emailing that files had changed but I didn't dig up what was going on until processing with the Gal clocks was down this morning.  

I hope my riding buddy is not long term mad at me

 I missed her text sent a week ago Friday about maybe riding last Sunday until Monday and when I saw it I still kept punting on replying until yesterday and then announced I would not have been up for riding in the cold anyway but am getting shoes on Tanza so should be ready to ride going forward.   Since I was 8 days before replying not hearing from her within 1 day is nothing; but I always fret that I may have lost a riding buddy because my communications are sucky. 

I'm still having difficulty motivating myself to just take a short ride here at home.  But now that Tanza has shoes I don't have to worry about him beating his feet up so one barrier removed.  I need to shake off my other mental barriers and just do it.  

I burned trash after throwing just hay a bit before noon.   Thinking I should catch Tanza when I grain today.  I was still chilled from holding horses for the farrier but got pretty well warmed up doing that.  Arghh still have the lack of energy though and some foods taste off to me for the last several weeks.   My hypochondria side wants to wonder if I had a stealth case of covid but it is very very unlikely.  I can imagine I'd have fatigue and altered taste without having had noticeable flu/cold symptoms.  The fatigue is  most likely just low level depression and not getting quite as many hours of sleep as my very non Trump body wants to have.  

I need to text my brother and see if he would like one of the old generators we have or did he get a newer one to cover outages he'll have when his utility shuts off power when they get windy days to avoid having another fire.   California is so unbelievably stupid anymore.   If bro has interest in generator, chair, maybe some framed pics I should get P to tune up the generator and plan on driving out there this spring with a load of stuff or possibly hint that S and bride could borrow the p/u Ed gave to some church buddy and drive out here and back since they aint working unless that status has changed.  I've got a mental block on reaching out to him.  I had to absolutely force myself to send a Christmas card and check for a gift in December.  

I miss Oregon Muse. My "hobby" lately is throwing out expired pickles

 I feel like such a loser when people are discussing their hobbies or crafting.  It's like being back in HS.  My hobby lately is trying to create/hold useable space.   This house is huge so that should be easy but I tend to scatter shit around.  So I'm trying to reduce the amount of shit.  I have made some progress there but the progress is obscured by my scattered shit.   Hopefully I can get myself back into enjoying riding more as the weather gets nice.   

But the chess thread was just nice.  I could usually work out the easy puzzle and always look at the fashion shots and pics of Melania and princess Kate and enjoy those.   Only a handful of folks would be announcing how they had conquered the medium and hard puzzles, most of the easy puzzle folks I think did like me and solved it but didn't post since easy.  

I guess I really should try to work on my messy nature.  I'd get more enjoyment out of having removed stuff if I kept surfaces more clear.  It is not a huge priority but something to think about moving towards. 

I'd like to ask if they could bring back either the chess or a fashion thread or both maybe monthly and rotated with the hobby/crafting threads but I don't want to offend anyone.  There is interest in the hobby threads and no one can replace OM.