Thinking about getting another horse.

 There are a couple of completely different ads that have me intrigued.   One for a 'spicy but seasoned' 15 year old small bay gelding.   That is close to what I thought I should get, old enough that I won't worry about how to rehome a prime of life horse if my health fails but young enough that it should have 5-7 years of being able to do the shorter endurance rides.  

The other one is a 5 year old Arabian.   Actually I just read through his ad and he has zero rides.   So I'd have to pay someone to put at least 6 weeks on him,  I can deal with a spicy horse or a green horse, but they have to be good with my somewhat clunky mounting and I would not trust a horse that had only had ground work to handle that. 

 I also found an ad for feed bunks on FB that might? work for keeping horses out of big bale hay net.  It is a falling apart feedbunk, so I would just take the top off and put the frame that holds it up over the hay to minimize horses putting feet in the hay net.  But I've no ambition to contact either seller and maybe check them out.  

 I was pretty productive yesterday.   I did two loads of laundry, ran the robot vacuum on both floors and cleaned out the BATs mangers,  I need to sweep out the crud on the bottom, yesterday I just scooped out big chunks of wet crud ; then I need to put back the buckets I want to have for trips.  And I should clean out the tack compartment today.   

Thank God my 'home' life is not rough right now

 Work has been such a bear the last couple of weeks,  if I was having to deal with breakdowns or sick critters etc at home right now too I'd probably be in a fetal position.    But work will sort itself out.  They can't afford to fire me for the #W*& downlink site that lied about being ready to collect data for us, cuz the group is already stretched very thin and they'd have to actually do some research and trial and error for issues instead of just asking me;  and the patches I made to software have not broken processing, knock wood.   I'm just sooo frustrated with that downlink site,  that outfit is pretty reliable, but this is a tropical ocean location, not their Norway/Sweden sites for polar satellites, I should have expected the tropical attitude would be in play, but nooo, I had to trust their email that said they were all set.  And then I didn't make myself clear enough to the sat ops people in Taiwan that I did not want them to do any extra work to turn on links right away.   Oh well, people are not dying in the streets because of this glitch, it is okay.

Mostly like my new house mate

 Well that reads wrong.  I like her, period.   So far I mostly like sharing the house with her too.   That is not 100% because she has a hyper Australian shepherd dog that she just keeps on leash all the time to manage the dog.   But I can throw no stones wrt to dog selection and that goes quadruple for dog management.  She is great feeding the horses for me in the mornings and last weekend when I camped overnight just to do a local fun ride.   I was hauling a young gal that lives near me and the ride was starting early so it was nice to get there and get registered and vetted the night before and only have to tack up in the morning.  I don't love the feeding in the mornings for me only because her dog barks when she puts the dog inside to have hands free to work.  I don't mind a bit of barking but the dog is shrill in the morning knowing that she is missing feeding and my noise tolerance is low when I first get up.  I may ask R if she could try tying the dog while she feeds. 

R got a job at the Animal Sanctuary.   L will probably be happy about that.  I am happy for housemate that her commute should be really easy, the Sanctuary is close to here and the drive is low traffic; and they are offering decent pay and benefits.  

Ugh my work.   One of our download sites was down with a power outage for days and recovered at 3 am local time last night.  I asked on slack this morning should we ask the satellite ops folks to add them to the schedule.   Radio silence from management and our satellite ops person.   So this evening I put on my Being in Total Charge hat and emailed the satellite ops folks myself (no one said we should NOT do this.)  I am not the one who should have made that call but someone needed to make it.  

P.S.   The #)W@)@ download site is NOT sending us downlinks after they SAID they were ready to downlink from the spacecraft and send data.   Argghh I hate it when I do something pro-active and it backfires.