If you are offended by WTF its your problem for putting in the words btw.
I signed up for soldiers angels shortly after POTUS BS was elected. I like to use his adopted last name. I was spurred to get active in supporting our soldiers when I felt they no longer had a CIC who would have their back.
Monday I had a notice, labeled from a different post office than my local one that I had a RTS package. I called them and they said it was probably just a floating temp had used their forms on our route. So today after my chiro visit I walked acrossthe street to the post office. I was fearing it would be my last care package but thinking it should not be since I have not had letters returned and the customs form indicates the package should be treated as abandoned if delivery fails. Well its NOT my last care package, its the one I sent on Feb 17th!
Stewpid ARMY, I can buy that some cards had sticky labels that came off and could not be returned but I was out of labels and had just hand written my return address on some letters. And even if they closed down the FOB where my solider was they could have effing handed the package to someone at Bagram or something. the SA group has been pretty good I think and I have had emails that the unit is coming home, stop mail etc, but of course with my package back, plus never having heard from any of the soldiers I've had despite including email and cell ph address for texts my paranoia is up that nothing in the past 1.5 years has gone to an actual soldier overseas.
Plus I had sent fudge in this package, I cant eat much of it, trying to get back to my proper weight so I have to just share it with my mooching, lefty liberal co-workers now. GAAAH, I thought I had sent something nice to a patriot and now its going in the maws of a bunch of big state libs. I am so not a happy camper right now.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Got summer tires on the car today
It REALLY feels summery too, I had the AC on periodically driving to work afterwards. I hope the car runs long enough to justify the tires and extra rims. I have to talk to dad, we have got to do some more fencing. I want him to be onboard for how we should proceed and helping rather than just trying to make something work myself. Three options, 1 just get a working charger and a lower strand to keep the dogs from slipping through the paddock back fence into the pasture area and through the pasture fence. 2) put woven wire on the back of the paddocks. 3) put woven wire on the pasture fence along the road.
Damm dogs are trying to give me an ulcer. The neighbors I met at the caucus were walking as I fed. I chatted with S, they had 2 horses and a daughter riding one horse, on their way back home I think a horse knocked her DH over, or possibly he just tripped. Mia got in a snit because they were stopped right at the corner where the woven fence ends and she had to run out barking. *I'm fairly sure that the fall happened first, but not 100% positive and regardless I was not happy to have Mia charging out to make the situation worse. I was heading out there on foot with Ole on lead, then decided to grab the car and offer the guy home, he walked a bit and then needed to wait and clear his head. By the time I got back with the car he was almost to the corner, damm Mia had been trailing him rather than came home on her own, grrrr stupid dog.
Then I rode about 2 hrs later. Mia stayed back from the gate and I figured she was going to stay home since its quite warm today. NO, the dammed hard headed white dog came through the paddock and slipped through the fences. When I cut her off from turning left at the subdivision road she turned around and went west. She stayed west instead of going north at the utility road and I did not turn north to see if she'd stick with me when she saw I wasn't going her way. Had to cut her out of the driveway she likes so well down that way and then their little dog slipped through his fence and came out to be all tough guy -well maybe all curious guy is more accurate. I did a quick dismount and got the lead on Mia just a bit after little dog starting sniffing her. Had to grab Ole too as he came up to check on the fun.
The dogs were reasonably tolerant of the little dog, which they damm well should have been since we hardly ever even go that way-- but trying to lead a horse by her bridle and two dogs on one lead and discourage a pesky dog from following but not sound too mad lest Ole decide he has to save me was stress I did NOT need. Little dog finally went home although not into his fenced house yard where owner was calling him. He was little but just as ornery as hard headed Mia.
By the time I got home it was almost lunch time and I did not want to interrupt the lunch of the family from the morning incident so I didn't swing by on my way to work/tire errand to apologize and find out exactly what happened. This is why if *I* picked out the dog for the family to have it would have been ONE COUCH POTATO, older rottweiller (well its CLOSE on spelling dammit.) I freaking hate having dogs that want to come along when I ride, I curtail my mileage or speed or route for them so dammed often, it is NO way to condition for endurance. Lousy clingers.
Damm dogs are trying to give me an ulcer. The neighbors I met at the caucus were walking as I fed. I chatted with S, they had 2 horses and a daughter riding one horse, on their way back home I think a horse knocked her DH over, or possibly he just tripped. Mia got in a snit because they were stopped right at the corner where the woven fence ends and she had to run out barking. *I'm fairly sure that the fall happened first, but not 100% positive and regardless I was not happy to have Mia charging out to make the situation worse. I was heading out there on foot with Ole on lead, then decided to grab the car and offer the guy home, he walked a bit and then needed to wait and clear his head. By the time I got back with the car he was almost to the corner, damm Mia had been trailing him rather than came home on her own, grrrr stupid dog.
Then I rode about 2 hrs later. Mia stayed back from the gate and I figured she was going to stay home since its quite warm today. NO, the dammed hard headed white dog came through the paddock and slipped through the fences. When I cut her off from turning left at the subdivision road she turned around and went west. She stayed west instead of going north at the utility road and I did not turn north to see if she'd stick with me when she saw I wasn't going her way. Had to cut her out of the driveway she likes so well down that way and then their little dog slipped through his fence and came out to be all tough guy -well maybe all curious guy is more accurate. I did a quick dismount and got the lead on Mia just a bit after little dog starting sniffing her. Had to grab Ole too as he came up to check on the fun.
The dogs were reasonably tolerant of the little dog, which they damm well should have been since we hardly ever even go that way-- but trying to lead a horse by her bridle and two dogs on one lead and discourage a pesky dog from following but not sound too mad lest Ole decide he has to save me was stress I did NOT need. Little dog finally went home although not into his fenced house yard where owner was calling him. He was little but just as ornery as hard headed Mia.
By the time I got home it was almost lunch time and I did not want to interrupt the lunch of the family from the morning incident so I didn't swing by on my way to work/tire errand to apologize and find out exactly what happened. This is why if *I* picked out the dog for the family to have it would have been ONE COUCH POTATO, older rottweiller (well its CLOSE on spelling dammit.) I freaking hate having dogs that want to come along when I ride, I curtail my mileage or speed or route for them so dammed often, it is NO way to condition for endurance. Lousy clingers.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Willing spirt, weak flesh .
Actually that seems backwards, I wasn't physically hindered from friday goals, I just gave in to temptation to browse my usual web sites on sunday rather than reading/reviewing the science paper. I did start the paper at least.
I stacked some hay on saturday, We didn't get any rain but it was windy, and it was a cold old wind, spit just a bit of sleet for 2 minutes as I finished walking the dogs saturday morning and got the horses their grain. I read through to chap 37 in the KingofOne online novel - I was trying to talk myself into spreading the reading out but I just kept going back until I was out of chapters.
I'm wondering if the writer will take a break at this point. Many of his chapters were cliff hangers. This one could be an End of book 1 chapter if the final novel gets written that way. I will probably try to wait until he has several more chapters if he/she continues writing because I prefer to read that way. At this point I can think about the direction I would take the story if I were writing it. There is a bit of temptation to share my idea but I don't want to distract with tangents if the author has a vision of where they are going.
I had a decent ride sunday on Shade. 7 miles. I really need to be riding 15-20 miles sessions SOON to prep for the early ride season I want to have, but it was a fun ride and that is the key thing right now. Cindy got a good curry session too, I cleaned up the paddock a bit, where it was wet and mushy after last weeks wet weather and moved AJ's feeder, so he wont be standing in his deep wet spot. I'll clean it sometime but it was too wet and heavy to mess with this weekend, and at SOME point his actual owner needs to start dragging herself out to do that stuff. She thinks she picked up a virus, probably did since her immune system took such a beating trying to fight the infection? before she finally convinced oral surgeon to pull the troublesome implants and she did have a bounce for about a week after the implants were gone.
I stacked some hay on saturday, We didn't get any rain but it was windy, and it was a cold old wind, spit just a bit of sleet for 2 minutes as I finished walking the dogs saturday morning and got the horses their grain. I read through to chap 37 in the KingofOne online novel - I was trying to talk myself into spreading the reading out but I just kept going back until I was out of chapters.
I'm wondering if the writer will take a break at this point. Many of his chapters were cliff hangers. This one could be an End of book 1 chapter if the final novel gets written that way. I will probably try to wait until he has several more chapters if he/she continues writing because I prefer to read that way. At this point I can think about the direction I would take the story if I were writing it. There is a bit of temptation to share my idea but I don't want to distract with tangents if the author has a vision of where they are going.
I had a decent ride sunday on Shade. 7 miles. I really need to be riding 15-20 miles sessions SOON to prep for the early ride season I want to have, but it was a fun ride and that is the key thing right now. Cindy got a good curry session too, I cleaned up the paddock a bit, where it was wet and mushy after last weeks wet weather and moved AJ's feeder, so he wont be standing in his deep wet spot. I'll clean it sometime but it was too wet and heavy to mess with this weekend, and at SOME point his actual owner needs to start dragging herself out to do that stuff. She thinks she picked up a virus, probably did since her immune system took such a beating trying to fight the infection? before she finally convinced oral surgeon to pull the troublesome implants and she did have a bounce for about a week after the implants were gone.
Friday, March 26, 2010
If it weren't for spam comments ...
I'd have no comments at all. Sorry this isn't really a pity party post, that old song "If it weren't for bad luck ...." from that old HeeHaw show popped into my head, because I did have to remove a couple spam comments today. My blog is just my online journal, I leave it open for public viewing, but I'm not writing FOR anyone and I know it.
I have been reading the coolest novel. I'm sure its not a brand new idea but the author publishes it online in a blog. I am going to get to the end of what he has written and be wishing for more. I can read it like I would a novel for now because I only found it when he had 36 chapters done already. So I haven't had to wait for the next section to be written but I think its still a work in progress and I'll probably catch up to the author this weekend since its supposed to be rainy tomorrow. It will be hard to wait for the new chapters. I wonder if the author gets enough donations for this to be a financial viable publishing method?
I did send him $7, its what I would spend on a book, I always wait for the paperback version for novels. Since the author gets most of that minus the paypal cut instead of whatever authors get after a publish takes a big overhead it may well work out even with folks who just read and don't chip in. Its really cool as a reader because I was able to read several chapters and decide its good before paying.
OK yes I AM going to include the link for my possible lurkers.
Alone King of One
I have been working on updating the web page for the sites I added to my processing at work. I wanted something that was not mind intense, but typing in #'s into the web page was mind numbing. I had to take a break twice. I MUST take home the paper I agreed to review and not just do fun reading this weekend at home. Perhaps I will take the weekend off from surfing for any news bits, it all seemed depressing today. A couple days of just fiction, clouds of shedding horse hair and science minutia, should fill my time, and I can always stack some hay and clean out my closet/organize my stuff that is not in that closet to make room for the closet to be emptied so it can get its new flooring as well.
I have been reading the coolest novel. I'm sure its not a brand new idea but the author publishes it online in a blog. I am going to get to the end of what he has written and be wishing for more. I can read it like I would a novel for now because I only found it when he had 36 chapters done already. So I haven't had to wait for the next section to be written but I think its still a work in progress and I'll probably catch up to the author this weekend since its supposed to be rainy tomorrow. It will be hard to wait for the new chapters. I wonder if the author gets enough donations for this to be a financial viable publishing method?
I did send him $7, its what I would spend on a book, I always wait for the paperback version for novels. Since the author gets most of that minus the paypal cut instead of whatever authors get after a publish takes a big overhead it may well work out even with folks who just read and don't chip in. Its really cool as a reader because I was able to read several chapters and decide its good before paying.
OK yes I AM going to include the link for my possible lurkers.
Alone King of One
I have been working on updating the web page for the sites I added to my processing at work. I wanted something that was not mind intense, but typing in #'s into the web page was mind numbing. I had to take a break twice. I MUST take home the paper I agreed to review and not just do fun reading this weekend at home. Perhaps I will take the weekend off from surfing for any news bits, it all seemed depressing today. A couple days of just fiction, clouds of shedding horse hair and science minutia, should fill my time, and I can always stack some hay and clean out my closet/organize my stuff that is not in that closet to make room for the closet to be emptied so it can get its new flooring as well.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Jogged a wee bit
This morning with the dogs and again on my afternoon walk. My scale finally showed up the extra eating I thought I was doing this weekend --or it was a blip but it did goad me to burn a few more calories. I had to fight not to weigh myself again after the morning dog walk etc. I think a weekly average of daily weights is way more accurate and less deflating than a weekly weigh in with the dips and blips I get, but I have to watch myself. I could easily go OCD and start weighing myself multiple times a day and then taking diuretics or something to get rid of blips when I'm suddenly 2 lbs more than I whatever I was trending at.
Just sent $10 to Pelosi's oppenent John Dennis. Happy Birthday San Fran Nan. I hope he raises a million or more today. I cant think of a more perfect message than if the witch herself gets defeated this fall.
Yesterday I mailed a donation to Buck. I hope CO bucks the slide to socialism and elects him. We HAVE had conservative senators from this state. I had been thinking oh Norton is it, she's getting all the contributions and she is okay but Buck led in the caucus straw poll so maybe we can get the most conservative candidate after all. And I sent $5 to Stupak's opponent in MI. He has become a serious candidate with the backlash over Stupaks weaseling. I'm going to have to watch my budget with all this campaign contributions but if the marxists are not stopped my savings will either be inflated away or confiscated anyway and then they will come after the toys *pickup and trailer are bad for the environment .... * and the WY land after that, and probably the horses themselves so it is time to get serious about peacefully defending my rights.
I have to decide for my house of representatives district. I have not found the straw poll results for that and I am conflicted on who is the best choice there. But any of them is far and away preferable to Markey.
Just sent $10 to Pelosi's oppenent John Dennis. Happy Birthday San Fran Nan. I hope he raises a million or more today. I cant think of a more perfect message than if the witch herself gets defeated this fall.
Yesterday I mailed a donation to Buck. I hope CO bucks the slide to socialism and elects him. We HAVE had conservative senators from this state. I had been thinking oh Norton is it, she's getting all the contributions and she is okay but Buck led in the caucus straw poll so maybe we can get the most conservative candidate after all. And I sent $5 to Stupak's opponent in MI. He has become a serious candidate with the backlash over Stupaks weaseling. I'm going to have to watch my budget with all this campaign contributions but if the marxists are not stopped my savings will either be inflated away or confiscated anyway and then they will come after the toys *pickup and trailer are bad for the environment .... * and the WY land after that, and probably the horses themselves so it is time to get serious about peacefully defending my rights.
I have to decide for my house of representatives district. I have not found the straw poll results for that and I am conflicted on who is the best choice there. But any of them is far and away preferable to Markey.
I rode tuesday morning.
Took the hardheaded white dog and the OCD/ADD striped dog. Mia the hardhead had to be herded to stay out of a driveway. I've had various visions of ideal rides, herding cattle on my own ranch as I was growing up, endurance or trail rides in scenic vistas more now --herding dogs through semi-rural suburbia has never been a dream. I DO like that Shade will do this for me and its still saddle time and keeps me sane, but its not THIS IS WHY I HAVE HORSES riding.
Tuesday night it snowed hard, driving home from work was a bear, and I was really glad that Sergey urged/reminded me to head home early, there was some SLOW traffic getting out of Boulder, but the empty roads were so crappy I was only going 1/2 speed or less too and I don't think the snow plows got to the roads until early morning on wednesday. So yesterdays morning exercise was just tromping thru snow to feed and some arm workout getting some snow off of trees with the longing whip. It worked fairly well to get high up in the tree and dislodge some snow but my forearms were killing me. Dad went out with the big garage broom and got more snow off the fir trees by the house. The cottonwoods and russian olives were budding and had some extra snow but not horrible and it was warming up and the snow falling off by 11 am. It was pretty nice yesterday afternoon, I took a quick walk from work. Its not quite a serious workout groove, but I have gotten to where I really want that afternoon walk to clear my head after sitting at the cpu monitor.
Today I drove the dogs to my park and walk spot. Mia did not go very far, but I jogged most of the way back to the car so felt good about getting blood circulating at least. Ole was playing with his abandoned irrigation pipe in the CRP, I guess after I made him leave the visiting cat in the hay this morning he really needed to fixate on something. I went home, grained the horses and he was finally heading back home when I drove back. I think its good I never had kids, the amount of interaction the dogs demand drives me crazy some days. Horses are happy to be with the herd on days I don't have time to mess with them.
Tuesday night it snowed hard, driving home from work was a bear, and I was really glad that Sergey urged/reminded me to head home early, there was some SLOW traffic getting out of Boulder, but the empty roads were so crappy I was only going 1/2 speed or less too and I don't think the snow plows got to the roads until early morning on wednesday. So yesterdays morning exercise was just tromping thru snow to feed and some arm workout getting some snow off of trees with the longing whip. It worked fairly well to get high up in the tree and dislodge some snow but my forearms were killing me. Dad went out with the big garage broom and got more snow off the fir trees by the house. The cottonwoods and russian olives were budding and had some extra snow but not horrible and it was warming up and the snow falling off by 11 am. It was pretty nice yesterday afternoon, I took a quick walk from work. Its not quite a serious workout groove, but I have gotten to where I really want that afternoon walk to clear my head after sitting at the cpu monitor.
Today I drove the dogs to my park and walk spot. Mia did not go very far, but I jogged most of the way back to the car so felt good about getting blood circulating at least. Ole was playing with his abandoned irrigation pipe in the CRP, I guess after I made him leave the visiting cat in the hay this morning he really needed to fixate on something. I went home, grained the horses and he was finally heading back home when I drove back. I think its good I never had kids, the amount of interaction the dogs demand drives me crazy some days. Horses are happy to be with the herd on days I don't have time to mess with them.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Ole had better stop acting like a demoncrat politician
Refusing to listen to the people who work and pay to keep things going. Dammed dog, I could TELL he heard me calling, he stopped and glanced at me. Then he figured I can't catch up to him on foot so he friggin ignored me till I came back with car after taking Mia home. I can give the effin dog a permanent dirt nap, and if he keeps virtually flipping me off I may break one of these days and rid myself of the aggravation once and for all. I had taken the dogs for a pretty good walk at that point and Ole got a double run yesterday, dad took the dogs with the car so I could ride w/o having to deal with Mia and Ole also went with me and Shade.
OTOH all I can do to the friggin dirty politicians is try to make sure they have to find a new job in January but they have already passed my tipping point and I will find a small way to do that every day just so I can say 'TAKE THAT you SCUM!'
In happier news I had a nice ride on Shade yesterday. I'm still stuck in my rut of riding about 1/2 as far as I should but she is shedding away, feels strong, positively glowed in the sun, I don't know how I ended up owning such a beauty both in body and spirit, very blessed I am there.
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