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.

Another weekend and I made no riding dates.

 Sighhh,  I need to get over my fear of rejection and be trying to make 'dates' to meet at a trailhead with other riders.   But the horses are enjoying grass this morning.   I decided I need to see if Tanza can handle a bit of pasture romping.    He seemed a bit off as he was trotting in circles waiting for me to open the gate, sigh again.  Stupid Taj has been stuck in the fence the last two mornings.   I suppose I should try to find some short mesh fencing and put around the bottom of his pen.   I need to get my butt to TSC to pick up beet pulp and their store brand SR feed that the dinks get.  

Yay, co-worker is having a baby

It's a good thing,  the world needs smart people to have children.   Sadly my main reaction is "oh great, we'll be even MORE short staffed with good old w4h's expected to pick up the slack".   Actually probably the big thing is my supervisor will stretching herself even more thin, and V will have less time to develop the skills to replace me down the road, the expectant mom mainly does tasks I've not been involved with.

But that assumes our group will even still exist down the road when I retire.   I'm in a catch 22.   I dive into work to keep from going into a depression spiral because I have such a hard time connecting with people.  But then I don't feel like I can make time for social activities.  

I want to give some Gibb's slaps

  Or at least one.   The brand new hire is refusing to understand me telling him that his little python code to convert formats is bad.  Even before that misunderstanding of what I plainly told him, I was pissed that he only did the most basic preliminary check that the starting values matched but had never looked at the end of the converted file to make sure the values still matched and had wasted a good chunk of mine and V's time processing data with clock files that were garbage because his python converter loses it place somewhere and is outputting garbage by the end of the file.   grrrr grrr grrr. 

Then V herself.  'big boss is concerned because ONE day has lower #s and needs that explained before approving the results for publishing.   She checked and the prelim file type inventory itself is low, but big boss wants to know why is it low.  It is probably because the level0 file for that day was low on data, but working for horses is not pulled enough different ways already because no one can bother to review the basics of their job before just expecting me to give them a quick fix with no effort on their part and big boss has to have every I dotted and every t crossed, EXCEPT when big boss is express-laning CRAP code from the senior software engineer who always thinks his new code is perfect and doesn't need to be tested on data other than the one or two samples he used to develop it.   So tired of that crap, especially since big boss is taking a whole lot of PTO lately and expecting my supervisor who was already over loaded to pick up his slack.   

I got the Blahs.

 That was a kid's book from my childhood.  I tried to go to a sunrise service on Sunday, but they had listed the wrong time on their web page; and I didn't go to the church's FB or think "hmm, that time is after sunrise" or anything so I got there for only the last 5 minutes of the service.   Sweet people, they invited me to come to their regular 10 am service in their church but I didn't go.   I checked out their website when I got home and wasn't sure I wanted to engage with a 'contemporary services' church.   Although the bit of service I heard was okay so I might check them out later.  Not sure whether to try the church that many neighbors go to or not.   Feels like they are avoiding me at home, maybe me going to their church would warm them to me, but maybe they would feel like I was stalking them. 

I didn't text or call sibs, thought they might have plans, plus decided to see if they would text or call me - they didn't.  I did get the Purple@tm mattress from the non-maintained road where I ride and get it cut up and in my dumpster.   Weirdest thing, maybe an hour after I had got back from fetching that thing the neighborhood text group went hot.  The neighbor that lives right by the corner where that spot is spotted someone heading to illegally dump some stuff.   The litterer got their pickup stuck.  HA! karma caught up with them.  It looked like a pickup that had dumped a whole rotted out camping trailer there a few weeks ago.   The really weird thing is the person abandoned the pickup and fled on foot when the police came.   

So now I wonder if they had stolen that pickup, or if they were an illegal with a warrant for something and were scared they'd get deported.   There is a considerable fine for littering, but I don't think the fine would be higher than the value of that pickup, it looked fairly new in the pic the neighbor took of it on the tow truck.    Side note,  the mattress was heavy.  It was all I could do to get it on B's flatbed.  After all the commotion I am like "thank you god for looking out for me that I was not coincident with the dumper, they might have stolen B's pickup" , I left it idling cuz I haven't driven it in ages and thought it could use the battery charging.

I rode Tanza,  he hardly stood for me to do a few minutes of laser treatment.   I need to ride him in the pen or pasture next time.  He seems ouchy on the road and I think that is just him being sensitive to the rocks with no shoes on, it doesn't feel like he is limping on the back leg with the fractured sesamoid bones that I think are fairly healed up now.  If he is sound in the paddock, then I'll try hoof boots on him and see if he can handle going down the hard pack road.   I might take him to CSU for another check.  I'd like to know more clearly where he is at.   I'd like to get a good evaluation from Dr Mike, but when he did vaccinations he just looked at Tanza trot with no flexion and said "start riding him at a walk,  he will always react to flexion now and not be sound for riding faster for any length of time"   I could just ride Tanza, gradually increasing distance and possible doing a bit of trotting,  I just don't trust myself to know what is going on anymore and I don't want to overdo and be missing Tanza trying to tell me "this is an ouch".  

Neighbors had their friends over for Easter dinner I think.  The sunrise service had pancake and sausage breakfast after, fundraiser for a youth building they want to build and I ate that and gave them a 50 buck donation.  Then I just munched the rest of the day.   I have so much fish, and ring sausage in the freezer I should cook up some day but I never feel like making it.   Maybe as weather gets nice I'll fire up the grill and cook the fish, it is nice to keep the fish smell out of the house.