Hopefully the mower will start this morning

 It started right up for me yesterday but the gas tank has a tiny leak, probably a hose connection is not tight.  Since I know gas will leak out I only put enough gas in it for one mowing session and last night it ran out.  It's on a slope and the bit of gas I put in it was not enough for it to fire up and get off of the slope, and then the battery was done cranking.    Could save myself frustration if I fixed the leak but I'm not positive that it's only a hose clamp and my to do list is always a yard long. 

I rode Tanza yesterday because he came up when I was trying to catch fat Sadie.   He was tender on the road, his feet are soft from all the rain we had so I couldn't tell if his hind fetlock was bothering, I think it was a bit.  I hope it will continue to heal and get to a point where I can take him trail riding.  Right now I feel like up and down hilly trails might be a bit much even just riding at a walk.  

I should ride Taj today,  I rode him 8 days ago and he was a good boy but he is getting out of shape.  I should have run to town and bought a wheelbarrow, and dropped off my old cart and some other scrap metal at the recycling place but it didn't happen. 

Working 9 to 5

 9 to 5

Big boss had a meeting about the big reprocessing effort we will do and vetting of an update to a major program.   They didn't invite me, but they needed information from me so my supervisor was asking me questions on slack.   I offered to hop on the meeting but big boss was "not necessary."  Sometimes seems like that punk is scared of me.  I have got to a point where I speak my mind cuz I don't care if he takes offense and fires me.   I'm wired to try to be basically polite so I don't think I'm too out of control, but he's a wimp.   It suckec because I couldn't do something else cuz of having to have the typing only slack conversation and I think I still missed some information because big boss declined to have me just join the stinking meeting. 

Anyway "Big boss doesn't want to overburden you so we are having H do these tasks".   Riiiggghht, pull my other finger.   I have to write up exactly how she should do things in the ticket system cuz she will not figure things out on her own, ever; I could just have done it myself, would have taken just a tiny bit more of my time.   They must want to give H a promotion and need to pad her list of accomplishments is my guess of what is really going on, cuz I AM teaching the new hire how to do processing, I'm good with that,  new hire learns and figures some things out on her own and then writes up notes that checklist Charlie types like H can use.   

I may have a house mate. Knocking wood

He and his uncle are trying to get it lined up for him to get a temporary license plate so he can drive his truck that is in his dad's name while probate grinds out.   I took down my ad,  had another "is this still open" from the landlord? that tried to steer a non-driving tenant to me.   I probably dodged a bullet with the non-driving,  the person that that landlord wanted to leave, or person wanted to leave ?  seems a bit cray cray.  I told her that Uber won't work out here and even offered she could borrow my car for a bit and she ignored what I said,   "oh Uber is everywhere now".  Sure if you can wait much longer for a ride and pay a premium  you *can* get an Uber to bring you here, and maybe get a pick up from here, but its not a workable option for a work commute.  

 I HATE when I tell people something and they refuse to accept what I said; so that was an absolute no go since the gal apparently cannot drive.     And she even was like "if you can take me to Brighton afterwards I can come check out the place" in one text.   Ahhh, so you did find out that Uber would be kind of costly.   Did she think she could move in and then weasel me into driving her to her job?   I AM a bit lonely but my big reason for looking for a housemate is I don't keep up with everything,  no way Jose to the thought of having to taxi someone to/from their job so they wouldn't lose the job.  

Waah, Tanza is sore again

I hope he just overdid things a bit and will be back to where he was.   The pasture is getting fairly eaten down so I'll probably stop letting the horses out to graze soon and maybe that will limit his over doing it.  But I have got to stop tying my emotions to this horses soundess.   I keep telling myself this and thinking I'm making progress, but then he'll have a day or 2 of being noticeably sore and I'm working to fight back tears all day; once my mood goes sour I just spiral with how lonely I am and feeling like no one wants to be around me,  and I don't know how to change that, and on and on. 

I rode Tanza Today and Saturday

He was full of piss and vinegar on Saturday,  trying to take off running, whirling around etc and when I got home and let the horses out to the pasture he was running and bucking like a 4 year old.   And today he was not so eager to go, and had a few ouch steps but just a few, he mostly felt solid.   Knock wood but I think he is sound enough now to be fine for riding on real trails so long as it was just walk and enjoy the scenery riding and not endurance or CTR pacing.    I was going to ride Sadie both mornings but she was doing "you aint catching me" and especially Saturday, Tanza was "I'll go, I'll go"  Today Tanza was not eager, he'd have rather I just let everybody out instead of riding but he didn't try to avoid me.  

I cut dead small trees yesterday and my neck and shoulders are whining about it today.   I should pump the neighborhood to see if anyone has teen boys willing to do heavy yard work.   I have a nibble on my NextDoor ad for a housemate.  It's a gal, so I wouldn't get guy muscles, but I could use organized woman help too.   If it works out maybe she can help me line up someone to install laminate flooring and so on.  So I feel like I'm working out of my blahs from this winter,  it's slow progress but progress. 

I hope the chiropractor I'm trying today provides relief

 My neck and upper back have been getting sore a lot recently.  It is 7 weeks since my last chiropractor appointment before he retired.  Getting an adjustment and the muscle release work he did every 4-5 weeks kept me feeling pretty good but I was wanting to just crawl in a hole a lot of the time the last month and did not look for a new chiropractor until this week when my neck was really irritated.  I think I took it over the edge changing the tire on dad's old gooseneck using the mini size floor jack since I don't have a 5th wheel hitch to be able to drive the trailer up on a jack or couple of 2x6 to raise it for changing a tire.  I guess that may be a blessing in disguise.   I do need regular chiro work to feel good so the sore neck was a good clue bat.     I really should schedule a dental appointment as well before I end up with a tooth ache emergency.  

I put an ad for housemate on Nextdoor.   I suppose I'll put one on CL as well.   I'm a bit paranoid about putting them out there, I definitely need to word the CL as WE need help keeping the place up.  I don't know if churches even have little new sheets anymore or FB pages etc but of course none of the neighbors volunteered to post my offer on their church's media if the media exists.    Probably P, because he would have to deal with getting his own tractor and he hates change as much as I do really would prefer I stay here rather then selling; most of the 'ladies of' neighborhood group would probably be just as happy if the weird old maid moved away.  Well I think L might miss me, but she is busy with baby, and is now in the mommy's club and has that connection with the core group of neighbors that meet semi-regularly.  

Rotten FB,  I can't post on their marketplace app because my account is under Vee for my last initial rather than my full name.   I tried to sign up a new FB account with my full name and immediately got an account suspended response.  I suppose because it is a verboten 2nd account to same person, but I didn't want to just delete my over 10 years old account.    And every time I go there it is overload on my feed with a bunch of crap.  I need to go in and unfollow a bunch of people I guess, or unfriend them.  I should research if people get a notice with the unfriend option.  I don't want to hurt feelings or burn bridges.  Maybe I just need to forget about trying to use FB for any selling or roommate searching and go back to mostly not even checking it.    They are constantly pushing advertising and leftwing propaganda in what they show on 'my feed'.  I don't get enough out of it to put up with a ton of BS by going on there every day.

Neighbor bought dad's Prius yesterday

So one more thing off of my plate.   He took it to place his friend the Ford 6 liter specialist had recommended to me and it was less than $500 to fix it.  I asked $500 for it which is a pretty good deal, trade in value is 2K, but P had also spent some of his valuable labor time on it so I think it's good all around.  I signed the seller's section on the title and took it over there.   P has a Focus that he will sell now so he will get some cash out of the deal that way.  

I rode Sadie Saturday and Sunday.   The saddle that works on her is not very comfy for me;  I'll have to try to figure out how to make it work nicer for me so I'm more eager to ride her.    Tanza has been cantering hard some days when I let the horses out and then his RH with the sesamoid fractures is sore, he is dropping his hip when he trots I think,  now that I've seen that hip drop, any time his trot looks uneven to me and he is not stabbing the toe I assume he is dropping his hip because the fetlock is sore, I'm not often lined up to be straight behind him to really see the hip.   But he seems to get sore and have the uneven trot but not super sore like last fall so I think once the pasture is eaten down and he is not zooming he will be sound for walking trail rides.   Right now I've been figuring he is getting more than enough exercise for those bones and I'm keeping on with using the laser on him.  So with Sadie, Taj and then Tanza for walking rides I have plenty of horses I can ride.  I also found on Dreamhorse what I think is a rescue in Texas that had a couple of Arabians.   I should ask B if she has any friends that would like to ride Taj,  Sadie and Taj are buddy buddy so I think she would do fine on the trail if I had someone to ride Taj and there were not a lot of other horses.  

I have a chiropractor appointment Thursday.   I went online and this place seems like it will be similar to how Dr Williams did things that worked well for me.   If the Chiro doesn't work they have a massage therapist I might try so see if that muscle work helps my back and neck.   Being me I waited until my neck was bugging me to search for a new chiropractor.   

Work has been stressful lately.   Thinking back the big boss and sr software are not any worse than they've ever been; its just that I am more "ARGHHH, listen to my ideas instead of always making things unnecessarily difficult"   Plus I've been getting lost trying to sort out the python 2.7 script for the streaming service that we are supposedly hosting that was not updated when it should have been last year because the person in charge of it was on paternity leave and then taking a new job.   STUPID big boss had it written in 2.7 originally even though I TOLD him several years ago that everything was going to 3 as I was trying to learn python and finding that situation.    I'm not even officially in charge of that streaming service but jumped in because the gal that they assigned to it was over her head.