Oh well, I did go in and work on Presidents/'Washington's Birthday' holiday. Apparently the popular notion that they combined Lincoln and GW into presidents day is wrong. They just took away Lincoln and put in MLK and made the 3rd monday the official Washington's birthday holiday according to the federal register or whatever. Bit of trivia I picked up from one of the Ace ONT posts.
Aside from the tangent last monday was snowy and I was feeling too lazy to do any deep housecleaning at home and looking at the forecast Thursday was going to be nice and then more snow on the weekend so I went in and worked, have to love flexible hours at work. Then took Thursday off, got Dad to ride RazzMo and go with me on Tanza and we went 2 miles out and back and Tanza did quite well, in spite of Razz mildly acting like an idiot for a bit after we turned towards home and trying to take off behind us a couple times and Dad having to pull him up. Dad did make Razz go in front when Tanza got 'sticky feet' and it really helped vs me having to ask, push, reassure him. Then I rode Sadie 5 miles and did a nice amount of trot and canter.
Friday morning I rode Tanza for 20 minutes in the pen before work, he is getting pretty good, I asked him to maintain a canter 3 laps in each direction at one point and he really is coming along.
We did get our forecasted snow Sat and Sun, I was pretty lazy and it felt good to be able to have a lazy weekend.
I haven't checked forecasts but am hearing some rumors that we might get 10 days of cold and new little snowstorm systems moving through. If its still icky but not unsafe roads this weekend maybe I'll work a weekend day and take another day off in middle of week.
At some point I have to organize my stuff and do my stupid taxes. I wish we would just have a flat rate and forget all the credits for 'saving gaia with electric cars' and deductions for anything other than the standard amount. A good politician could sell it to LIVs if the media didn't shout out the message "its clearly UNFAIR that rich fat cats with McMansions get a higher deduction than the working class with only basic houses"
Monday, February 23, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
scored at the MRER convention raffle drawings
We have cool conventions with ride managers donating entries + other stuff with lots of names being pulled for the raffle not just a few.
And I SCORED. Two ride entries to rides that I will try to get to plus a great hay bag. I have one bag from that vendor and have been meaning to buy more. Now that I have two I don't have to hurry on buying although I'll probably try to get a 3rd one early this summer.
I rode Tanza Sat morning because it was nice but forecast to get cold and icky Sunday which was true so I missed the morning talk. It was on riding to achieve light collection and I figured "Ive gone to 5 centered riding clinics to learn this so I can really safely skip this lecture"
Afternoon talk was by a vet on 'alternative therapies' A lot of times I find that rather BS, but I enjoyed the talk and was excited to find she has a clinic just down the road from me. She has me convinced that I should skip vaccinating the horses this year because Sadie and Tanza have allergy issues and she has been involved in studies and they've found that horses have immunity for 3-4 years from vaccines and do not need annual shots and getting shots to things they already have antibodies for can cause allergy issues.
I take her word more than a lot of veterinary acupuncture and chiropractic practitioners because she said *if my horse is colicking the first thing I do is give him a shot of banimine and then I'm going to do some acupuncture stuff* well I'm pretty sure she didn't use the word stuff, but that was the gist of it. She gave examples of when it would not be a good idea to use chiro or acupuncture treatments as well as examples of horses that were helped by them when conventional treatments had struck out.
She does something interesting where she draws blood and then injects it at acupuncture points to treat allergies so I will have her work on Tanza and/or Sadie if they have the skin allergies this year. At least I will try it first, the explanation of making an artificial bruise stimulated the lymph system and can reset it to be more normal seemed sensible to me.
And if Dr Mike is worried about not doing rabies or WNV shots I may have titers done if its not super expensive. I really don't want to have to give a bunch of allergy shots every year and Tanza registered positive to a lot of stuff on his blood tests so I sure don't want to trigger anything else even though it was a stupid 'natural' fly repellent that set off his allergies.
And I SCORED. Two ride entries to rides that I will try to get to plus a great hay bag. I have one bag from that vendor and have been meaning to buy more. Now that I have two I don't have to hurry on buying although I'll probably try to get a 3rd one early this summer.
I rode Tanza Sat morning because it was nice but forecast to get cold and icky Sunday which was true so I missed the morning talk. It was on riding to achieve light collection and I figured "Ive gone to 5 centered riding clinics to learn this so I can really safely skip this lecture"
Afternoon talk was by a vet on 'alternative therapies' A lot of times I find that rather BS, but I enjoyed the talk and was excited to find she has a clinic just down the road from me. She has me convinced that I should skip vaccinating the horses this year because Sadie and Tanza have allergy issues and she has been involved in studies and they've found that horses have immunity for 3-4 years from vaccines and do not need annual shots and getting shots to things they already have antibodies for can cause allergy issues.
I take her word more than a lot of veterinary acupuncture and chiropractic practitioners because she said *if my horse is colicking the first thing I do is give him a shot of banimine and then I'm going to do some acupuncture stuff* well I'm pretty sure she didn't use the word stuff, but that was the gist of it. She gave examples of when it would not be a good idea to use chiro or acupuncture treatments as well as examples of horses that were helped by them when conventional treatments had struck out.
She does something interesting where she draws blood and then injects it at acupuncture points to treat allergies so I will have her work on Tanza and/or Sadie if they have the skin allergies this year. At least I will try it first, the explanation of making an artificial bruise stimulated the lymph system and can reset it to be more normal seemed sensible to me.
And if Dr Mike is worried about not doing rabies or WNV shots I may have titers done if its not super expensive. I really don't want to have to give a bunch of allergy shots every year and Tanza registered positive to a lot of stuff on his blood tests so I sure don't want to trigger anything else even though it was a stupid 'natural' fly repellent that set off his allergies.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Blahs are still dragging on me
I was pretty productive at work last week but it did take some long days so that is part of it but it is not all of it. I rode Tanza yesterday down the road. Friday I took just a short ride in the paddock on him and he was quite good and it was a mood booster. Yesterday I was exhausted when we got back even though it was only a mile out and then back. It is a lot more tiring having to keep asking for forward motion, turning back in the outbound direction, reassuring the greenie away from his herd ... but I feel so old being so exhausted from a 2 mile ride. I MUST crawl out of my hermit shell and try to find some folks to ride Lady so I can take him out with a buddy a few times and also get him loading better so I can haul and ride with others so I can get some miles on him and build up his body regardless of his baby mind and herd dependence.
I should think hard on what I *WANT* as far as house mate etc. I get so irritated living with Dad at times and perhaps he would be better off if I moved out, it would force him to find some new friends, maybe remarry or something. He probably should have someone coaxing him to eat more decent food and do less snacking but I just will not even try to take that role, blegh just thinking about it in the slightest amount.
But for now off to ride Sadie and I must remember that she has come so far, just last year I was thinking I needed a BTDT horse because she was OK at home but so crazy at rides and now she is my hop on and ride at home with no worries regardless of brisk weather etc and has gotten pretty good at rides. Tanza will no doubt get there too, the greenie horse stage is just hard.
I should think hard on what I *WANT* as far as house mate etc. I get so irritated living with Dad at times and perhaps he would be better off if I moved out, it would force him to find some new friends, maybe remarry or something. He probably should have someone coaxing him to eat more decent food and do less snacking but I just will not even try to take that role, blegh just thinking about it in the slightest amount.
But for now off to ride Sadie and I must remember that she has come so far, just last year I was thinking I needed a BTDT horse because she was OK at home but so crazy at rides and now she is my hop on and ride at home with no worries regardless of brisk weather etc and has gotten pretty good at rides. Tanza will no doubt get there too, the greenie horse stage is just hard.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Life is OK, busy at work
CJ seems much better. We opted not to retest for fibrinogen but just give him tucoprim for 10 days. He got a sore neck from the penicillin shots, Dr Mike recommended using Surpass cream on the knots in the neck muscles. If we had done the test and the fibrinogen was still quite high it would have indicated he probably has a tumor but we would barely change what we are doing.
We just met a fairly big milestone at work. Still tons to do and I want to keep at it pretty well now and hopefully feel perfectly free to take time off to ride more this summer.
I did get a very short ride in on Sadie on Tuesday. Poor Ole is feeling his years, I had to double back to him half a dozen times. It was seasonally pretty warm but since he lives indoors he shouldn't really have that much winter acclimation. Oh well whenever I hear the "every rose has its thorns" song I think "every cowboy sings a sad sad song its because they've had to send great dogs and horses across the rainbow bridge"
We just met a fairly big milestone at work. Still tons to do and I want to keep at it pretty well now and hopefully feel perfectly free to take time off to ride more this summer.
I did get a very short ride in on Sadie on Tuesday. Poor Ole is feeling his years, I had to double back to him half a dozen times. It was seasonally pretty warm but since he lives indoors he shouldn't really have that much winter acclimation. Oh well whenever I hear the "every rose has its thorns" song I think "every cowboy sings a sad sad song its because they've had to send great dogs and horses across the rainbow bridge"
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
I rode Sadie on Sunday.
Ole was feeling good and tagged along so I went only a 3 mile loop, Sadie did an extra .5 to 1 mile because I made her double back to where Ole was several times to make sure he was still coming.
CJ the family pack horse is pretty sick. He has not had normal appetite for 8 or 9 days now. On the good side he has not completely refused to eat since the first night it started and isn't dropping weight rapidly but he can't go on for too long eating maybe up to one half of his normal intake.
Since CJ was not really getting better we had Dr Mike out this morning now his Stock Show gig is finished. He switched from oral doxycycline antibiotic to IM penicillin shots. He thinks there are 3 possible causes for CJ's malaise.
1. Colitis which the doxycycline would aggravate.
2. Internal abscess which the penicillin will fight same as the doxy would do.
3. CJ has a tumor and will not get better.
I've had in the back of my mind the thought that CJ might have some chronic, still mild liver disease issue since he had the colic 27 months ago at hunting camp so I am not as grief stricken as I might be. Also CJ is a good ole horse for the hunting trips but I'm not bonded with him like I am with my ayrabs.
So we will do the penicillin shots and blood testing and see what is going on. If its a tumor and he doesn't get his appetite back we'll have to put him down before he gets very far down the starving on his feet path. We won't try heroic measures, he is getting a fair amount of $$ of treatment just with giving him basic treatment in case he just has an issue that can be fixed with standard care.
The weather has been beautiful these last 2 mornings but I've been distracted with CJ and work and have not taken advantage and gotten on Sadie or Tanza.
I've been reading a biography of Count Belasarius. It was written in 1938 so I think before the PC era. Its an interesting peek into the influence the fading Roman empire had on the early church but not a whole lot of fun action of Belasarius as a military commander so far. Its good for not being so interesting that I don't want to set the kindle down and go do stuff but readable and I feel like I'm learning a bit.
Oh and just today work and my credit union emailed links to get my W2 info and interest earnings. I don't think I have the oil royalty statement yet. So I am not going to get taxes done by Jan 31. I don't think the royalty income is enough that I needed to send in any quarterly payments or incur a penalty --if I'm wrong then I'll be paying penalty for 4th quarter as well since not going to get taxes done by end of month.
I'm not biting my fingernails worrying about getting bills paid and have been feeling so generally blegh that I just do not care enough to try to shoehorn the taxes in in the next few days even if it might result in giving EarLeader and his IRS and EPA thugs a little extra money.
Oh and just today work and my credit union emailed links to get my W2 info and interest earnings. I don't think I have the oil royalty statement yet. So I am not going to get taxes done by Jan 31. I don't think the royalty income is enough that I needed to send in any quarterly payments or incur a penalty --if I'm wrong then I'll be paying penalty for 4th quarter as well since not going to get taxes done by end of month.
I'm not biting my fingernails worrying about getting bills paid and have been feeling so generally blegh that I just do not care enough to try to shoehorn the taxes in in the next few days even if it might result in giving EarLeader and his IRS and EPA thugs a little extra money.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Well work is OK lately ...
I've been wimping out about riding. Its not totally a cop out because the yard still has icy patches and the horse pens still have snow so the field roads probably would too. But if I had really wanted to ride it was not unsafe for sane horses and I do put Sadie in the pretty sane category now.
But the weather has not been enticing and I just haven't felt deprived of vitamin H yet. What I want is a vacation from sharing house with dad. But I'm not going to go through all the work of finding a new place to live while feeling guilty every step for leaving him lonely. Bummer that they moved the MRER convention to the bigger hotel last year and are keeping that again this year. If it was the small hotel they used to use where MRER was the only group that would feel like a getaway but being in the big hotel with groups doing recreational marijuana vacations would be even yuckier to me than the stuffy house. So I should get riding and haul out to some rides in Utah this spring.
Work has seemed pretty decent lately. I've been getting a few important things done. The new orbital scientist hire is giving me good suggestions and having him around is making me up my game.
But the weather has not been enticing and I just haven't felt deprived of vitamin H yet. What I want is a vacation from sharing house with dad. But I'm not going to go through all the work of finding a new place to live while feeling guilty every step for leaving him lonely. Bummer that they moved the MRER convention to the bigger hotel last year and are keeping that again this year. If it was the small hotel they used to use where MRER was the only group that would feel like a getaway but being in the big hotel with groups doing recreational marijuana vacations would be even yuckier to me than the stuffy house. So I should get riding and haul out to some rides in Utah this spring.
Work has seemed pretty decent lately. I've been getting a few important things done. The new orbital scientist hire is giving me good suggestions and having him around is making me up my game.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
why doesn't this bloody code option work?
I'm fairly certain I ran it before, I must have had some thing that I think should not matter set differently. So frustrating. I'm ready to bag it and just write a perl script to do what the subroutine in the software package is supposed to do but is refusing to cooperate. In fact I'm fairly certain that that is what I will end up doing, I just have to work myself up to doing it.
I haven't been on a horse in over two weeks and am feeling the cabin fever. Trudging around on slick snow pack to feed just doesn't cut it for outdoor/vitamin H time for me.
I should have made a resolution to try to be more organized this year. I'm wasting so much time by not knowing where or even if I documented what I did two months ago, searching for crap that I'm not even certain I didn't toss etc.
The beltway republicans are siding with EarLeader to kill off the last vestiges of proper, lawful Republic instead of trying to stop him. If Palin or someone announces a new party next election cycle I'm jumping in with them. Either we get real change or the country crumbles just a bit faster when the Dems speed the decay again but the GOPe keeps promising to fight the problem and then at most they reduce the acceleration towards ruin but they make no attempt to turn or actually hit brakes or anything. If things crash faster there may be more chance of knowledge of how the ideal worked surviving and I'm just tired of being a pawn while both sides grow government power and reduce individual freedoms.
I haven't been on a horse in over two weeks and am feeling the cabin fever. Trudging around on slick snow pack to feed just doesn't cut it for outdoor/vitamin H time for me.
I should have made a resolution to try to be more organized this year. I'm wasting so much time by not knowing where or even if I documented what I did two months ago, searching for crap that I'm not even certain I didn't toss etc.
The beltway republicans are siding with EarLeader to kill off the last vestiges of proper, lawful Republic instead of trying to stop him. If Palin or someone announces a new party next election cycle I'm jumping in with them. Either we get real change or the country crumbles just a bit faster when the Dems speed the decay again but the GOPe keeps promising to fight the problem and then at most they reduce the acceleration towards ruin but they make no attempt to turn or actually hit brakes or anything. If things crash faster there may be more chance of knowledge of how the ideal worked surviving and I'm just tired of being a pawn while both sides grow government power and reduce individual freedoms.
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