Thursday, April 10, 2025

Maybe I should subscribe to a yoga routine

 I'm literally yelling at the monitor at times the last few days.   I'm trying to be more chill but it aint easy.

I tried to list my house share on FB marketplace.  They require an ID to list on marketplace, this is a good thing overall, but probably FB will cancel my account because I signed up with my last initial spelled out like it was a name instead of letting those voracious thugs have my actual name when I signed up with them 10+ years ago, so now my real ID does not match my FB name.   

So frustrated at work too.   I knew that trying to deal with TKWs code would be a nightmare.   Writing the wrapper for it was nothing but of course mr autistic scientist had to use the newest possible fortran and whatever versions instead of asking IT and our ops group what versions we are and will use and developing his code in that framework.   I'm so sick of the BS of the scientists doing that.  They should be capable of understanding that having custom latest greatest outside packages in their home directories is ok when they are writing tools just to analyze data to create papers but if they have a grant to develop a product they need to be developing that product with the packages we use for operations.   We have FISMA requirements up the wazoo and cannot just install their shiny new tool that gave them a shortcut or something on the 30+ systems used in operations.    Stupid jerks, and stupid jerk managers for having let them do this in the past. 

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Got the horse pens cleaned today

I went and got the 3 twin mattresses that some toad had left at the corner of the road I like to ride on.   I think they are spring coil but I was able to fold one and tie it and get in the dumpster.   If I can tie the next two more tightly I can probably get them both in the dumpster.   Cut down the dead tree by the horses water tank while waiting for Paul to get home from church and lunch out.  I could have gotten the mower off and the blade on myself if I had too but he offered to swap them for me and I'm not good at it.  

I even did some quick cleaning of the mini's pen.   Pulled some of the wet hay away from the fence to the middle of their pen.  I want to till it in someday.   And then where they had a bunch of wet hay by the gate I used the tractor bucket to 'rake' it back and then scooped up 3 bucket loads of it.  The second  was only about 1/2 a load, but I grabbed the manure fork and loaded it full for the last trip.   

I was worried about Taj sneaking out of the pen when I went in with the tractor and thought, 'I'll push the gates open with the tractor as I go.   DUMB move.   I caught the gate with the bucket and didn't notice and pulled the big railroad tie post the gate is mounted to off kilter.  It looks like the post just moved in the sand vs breaking so I jacked up the gate to get the post sat and tamped the post and when I released the jack it wasn't as bad but was still off so I jacked it up again high as the jack wanted to go for me and tamped it again and left the jack under the gate.   Maybe it will set up better overnight.  

Took an ibuprofen with a beer plus had some frosted shredded wheat and pretzels.   My right shoulder and neck are whining hard.   I should make myself look over my left shoulder half of the time the next time I am backing the tractor a lot to clean pens.  But tonight I will take an Alleve and hopefully the NSAIDs will work so I'm not too stiff and sore tomorrow.    

P.S.   The post did hold this morning.    Yesterday I also did a load of laundry and vacuumed the entryway.  I need to get pics of the basement room and dad's horse trailer and do FB marketplace posts.  Yesterday when I took the tractor back to P's yard he and S had just put the cows away after letting them graze in their yard so I didn't text or call him that I was finished since I was sure couldn't have missed hearing the tractor.   They did not turn and make any contract with me and I was in a hurry to get back home to fix my gate post so I didn't try to initiate contact with them.    I keep feeling a weird vibe that they want to avoid me.   If I had been born 20 years later than I was, I'd probably have a diagnosis of 'being on the spectrum', or Asperger syndrome.   I do fit the Asperger symptoms,  though not too strongly IMO.   Regardless I have very low confidence in my ability to pick up on social cues and I don't want to be a pest, so I err on the side of deciding people are busy and don't want to talk to me. 

Shoulder and neck feel pretty good today so the NSAIDs and pain wizard last night did the trick.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Ughh. Of course Colorado is not one of the 25 states that allows IRS direct file

And of course I am over the limit to use the free file option.   Well I'm not going to be forced to buy one of the commercial online tax softwares.    The IRS can just scan in my paper return until they talk Colorado into getting on board with the direct file option.  I was thinking I had used E-file last year, but that must have just been dad's taxes that I filed for him. 

And maybe someday they will allow to report the schedule E directly on the 1040 instead of having to fill it out, and be forced to fill in just one line on schedule 1, 2 times of course because its the schedule E,  then total extra income to report on the 1040.   Such a lot of stupid hoops when I have just the one small royalty payment I have to add.