12,5 miles, been a good 4-day weekend so far

12.5 miles is over 3 days so still not enough for endurance conditioning.  But I am having fun with Sadie.   Yesterday I had her step into the irrigation ditch and walk a bit in the few inches of water in the bottom.  I'm being pretty wimpy and only asking her to go down the one spot that is still quite easy for horse access after they came with an excavator and made it pretty vertical most of the spots where folks had been crossing.   I see tracks where other people are going across a couple of new  places since they filled in the easy spots  but the new spots are fairly steep and while the tracks prove horses can do it I'm trying to keep water stuff easy with Sadie to boost her confidence with it. 

I cooked a turkey and stuffing and mashed taters and roasted squash for T-day and had dad invite his friend Jim over since Jim is farm sitting for his boss and didn't travel to a family meal this year.   Yesterday I cut up the dark meat and cooked up some rice,  sauteed some celery and onion and made casserole with cream of mushroom soup and some canned beans and peas.   I should have left the peas out but it wasn't too bad.  Dad said it was pretty good and actually heated some of it for lunch; he doesn't reheat stuff that often, especially right away the next meal so I guess his taste buds are good with canned peas.    Tonight I'm going to fry up some deer steaks,  I've had turkey and sides leftovers the last two days for lunch and we don't have a whole lot of turkey left so I think we'll get it cleaned up.  

I'll probably just toss the carcass instead of making soup like mom used to do.   I'm trying to get/keep somewhat in practice for stretching a food budget but even with the "I'd rather spend money on other stuff"  I don't have to eek more food out of this turkey and I'd have to buy or have dad buy carrots and taters to put in the soup.  I can't imagine making turkey soup w/o carrots.  

Oh really

Well I guess I'm not a genius and the problem was fixed friday.  Yeah I give that about 5% probability of being true.    If it was just a coinky-dink that I fixed the reference orbits and self-described super genius fixed another problem his love of pedantry would have made him spell out his fix instead of just saying in the meeting today "oh I fixed it Friday"   Yeah sure you did.   For petes sake,  as my boss you could just take credit for directing me to fix it instead of pretending.  

Heh, I'm a genius

Sadly not, or I'd know how to persuade people to wake up and be sensible before the damm o-bots implode the country and cause hyper inflation or something like that with their stupid "help for the poor" (by which the top ones really mean help to keep the poor, poor so the Dems have more power) schemes or explode the world with WWIII by arming the craziest regimes in the ME with nuclear weapons. 

But my boss/supervisor whatever for a good part of my work that fancies himself a genius programmer was beating his head on a bit of code all last week and 1/2 the week before that and running debugger because part of the code was blowing up last week (but not in a broken software mode like a segfault,  just announcing it could not solve some matrix equations and was getting some singular values)  and he could not figure out why it was failing.  

 Being plenty vain I of course had to poke at it on Friday night after everyone had left to see if mr smug was missing something obvious.   And I spent half a workday staring at parameter declarations that turned out to be a red herring but I did also at least do the obvious thing and run the problem orbit day with the old version vs the new version of the big software package we are fitting into our packages for unique application and look closely at all the output files generated by the software package coming out of old version vs new version.

 Thus I did notice "oops the reference orbits with the new version have just one arc for the two day period and in the old version that works they are split into two arcs."  (I was responsible for getting the reference orbit part going two months ago and I had messed up and left a hard set value in a template file where I needed to edit the template to use a variable we would pass in)  --this was not biting us with the first set of stuff we were doing so it was not spotted and fixed by me right away.  

So I sent an email this morning that I'd fix the bug with the reference orbits today when I got in (I work 1-9 + making up lunch break) vs everyone else with 9-5 hours and I did so before our 1:30 quick meeting.   I did not see any 'oh good, that was it' emails by 5; but I ran the new program myself tonight and the not breaking the reference orbits into two arcs was the problem,  the program runs now,  input parameters may need to be tuned to give really good results but it runs.  

NOW the super genius boss can fix the software that he wrote and only he understands that translates some model data we use from one binary format into another format that our other code needs.   The model data changed a  few months ago and his translator code was generating files that looked OK in size and were readable --but actual values are not right now the research folks started really looking at some results.    

politcal/philosophical ramblings

The media in the 30s neglected to inform the public that FDR was mostly confined to a wheelchair because they thought the public might feel he wasn't strong enough for the office.  


 The media in the 60s neglected to inform the public that JFK had Addisons + a back injury from the war because they felt the public might not think a president who needed to juggle drugs to control his condition was the best choice to face off against the USSR.  

The media now neglects to inform the public that BHO is an (ex?) pothead and cocaine user as well as being a communist radical with strong sympathies for Islam.  

I don't know why modern voters do not understand that when the media covers for the party in power instead of being antagonistic it leads to corruption.   Power corrupts and power, unchecked by the glare of media attention corrupts faster and more completely.

 The media itself is corrupted, as well as encouraging political corruption by covering rather than shining the spotlight on Democrat's malfeasance.   The public must find a way to reduce the media's power to reduce their corruption.  If only I knew how to make this happen.  

Glad I took that short ride this morning before work - and, happy dance, I got Sadie to step into the irrigation ditch with a bit of water in the bottom with me mounted.

 We are getting a taste of winter overnight and tomorrow if the forecast is not way off.  I hope we get a good fly kill off and thank goodness we are too dry to get November tornadoes.   wattsupwithtthat had a post showing a secondary peak of activity in the fall so I guess its not so terribly strange that they struck in November as it seemed to me when I heard about all that destruction.  

 Still very tragic and I tend to want to ignore the tragedy just because it also feeds the stupid AGW crowd --right when they are desperate for any distraction from the disaster of Obamacare  --which its going to be racist to call it that now, since the website part is such an utter debacle and  I heard it is/was mandatory to go through the website first and give OFA all kinds of personal information to get a subsidy if you would qualify for one.    Lord knows how many people have been set up for identity theft even though only 27K or so made it through to the point of 'putting a plan in their carts. 

4.7 slow miles today

L was out and we went a bit farther.   She's finally learning to wear enough clothes.  Well,  it remains to be seen if she can figure out to wear long johns or something when it gets really cold but at least she is wearing jackets and putting something on her head and not complaining that its cold when its only a little bit chilly.  

My feeling that the world will go into a great depression soon is ramping back up.   The last one launched the government sugar daddy era but I think this one will find governments with bare treasuries and unable to maintain the illusion with debt and it will get very ugly indeed,  especially if we still have our divider in chief in power.     May the commies get the worst  of it,  they've engineered things with taking over the media and feeding people the lie that 'those rich people owe you.'      Rich is always people who have more than you of course so scads of white liberals think the really rich people should pay more to make life easier for the poor folks but they never think they are rich enough they should be paying for this fairness.  

9.3 miles on Sadie

Not a bad ride even for fairly flat at home.    As a total for 3 rides its pretty piddly but at least I got some vitamin H and am keeping Sadie broke.   Today I had to get my feet wet to convince her she could step down into the irrigation ditch with a few inches of water in the bottom.   That was not bad but then when I led her out and mounted up she still wouldn't go in so I had to get off again,  I got in in the ditch and asked her to take a few steps in the water before going out and called it  good.   I'll probably have to lead her in again next time. 

 Oh well, at least she will lead for me in these situations but I have got to be smarter,  I let her refuse to cross or step into water a couple times and set her up to be all stubborn and I know better than to do that, especially with a smart/smart ass bayrab.