Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Digga-dig , Part 2
Got an offer I couldn't refuse on a horse I've been wanting for quite a while. Great horse, extremely mellow, should be an awesome rider. Buckskin quarterhorse gelding. That's all I'm saying.. don't want to get my hopes up until the deal is done.
IF (<- that's a big "if") I can afford to keep them both (not likely), this will be a near idea situation. I'll have one super-mellow horse to help me become a better rider, and one pretty crazy horse to make me a better trainer.
Now I just to dig up a western saddle, oh, and a trailer (you know, so I can actually go riding on plots of land bigger than 50 acres). Yes, a trailer would be good. Ideally a 3 or 4 horse slant load with ramps and living quarters. Those suckers aren't cheap.
Wish I could just trade my 5th wheel RV for one. Oh well. "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up first" , right?
IF (<- that's a big "if") I can afford to keep them both (not likely), this will be a near idea situation. I'll have one super-mellow horse to help me become a better rider, and one pretty crazy horse to make me a better trainer.
Now I just to dig up a western saddle, oh, and a trailer (you know, so I can actually go riding on plots of land bigger than 50 acres). Yes, a trailer would be good. Ideally a 3 or 4 horse slant load with ramps and living quarters. Those suckers aren't cheap.
Wish I could just trade my 5th wheel RV for one. Oh well. "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up first" , right?
Wine and Beer, it's Everywhere!
Been on a homebrewing and winemaking kick lately. I've researched the wine a lot. I've got 5 of the top wines all fermenting at the moment, with a 6th coming soon. 3 beers are fermenting and 2 more on the way.
Finally, after like 10 years, picked up some cornelius/'corny' (soda) kegs. Get one helluva deal on a commercial grade keg fridge. Just gotta convert it from 1 tap to 4. I'll use my 5th corny keg to secondary fermentation and carbonation before putting in the fridge (room for 4 in the fridge).
All this stuff has to age a while. Beers are 2-6 weeks, wine 2-6 months. God, my liver must hate me! No worries, I'm not drinking it all. I've got something more interesting in mind.
Finally, after like 10 years, picked up some cornelius/'corny' (soda) kegs. Get one helluva deal on a commercial grade keg fridge. Just gotta convert it from 1 tap to 4. I'll use my 5th corny keg to secondary fermentation and carbonation before putting in the fridge (room for 4 in the fridge).
All this stuff has to age a while. Beers are 2-6 weeks, wine 2-6 months. God, my liver must hate me! No worries, I'm not drinking it all. I've got something more interesting in mind.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Barack Obama
"It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
- Barack Obama
Yup, we're good god-fearing people that know how to hunt and feed ourselves and have a sense of responsibility that makes us want to work and provide for our families instead of living off an already over-burdened system.
Oh snap! That's not what he said,.. he just called us rednecks, didn't he?
Well, we shouldn't be offended, I mean...
"When people tell me they've all stressed about racial discord, well, you know, try slavery for a while."
- Barack Obama
Shit, I'm not stressed about racial discord. I'm stressed about my job, about fuel prices, and all the normal stuff. Umm, Mr white-collar-politician-man... I've worked 60-80 hours a week for the better part of 10 years. No, I don't get paid overtime. No, nobody contributes to my "campaign fund", "trust fund", or pays my speaking fees.
Betcha I'm a whole lot closer to slavery than you've ever been. fucker.
The other two major choices aren't any better.
For the love of God, people, if you really want a change, and want America to get back to being "land of the free, home of the brave" then vote for real change, vote Libertarian!
- Barack Obama
Yup, we're good god-fearing people that know how to hunt and feed ourselves and have a sense of responsibility that makes us want to work and provide for our families instead of living off an already over-burdened system.
Oh snap! That's not what he said,.. he just called us rednecks, didn't he?
Well, we shouldn't be offended, I mean...
"When people tell me they've all stressed about racial discord, well, you know, try slavery for a while."
- Barack Obama
Shit, I'm not stressed about racial discord. I'm stressed about my job, about fuel prices, and all the normal stuff. Umm, Mr white-collar-politician-man... I've worked 60-80 hours a week for the better part of 10 years. No, I don't get paid overtime. No, nobody contributes to my "campaign fund", "trust fund", or pays my speaking fees.
Betcha I'm a whole lot closer to slavery than you've ever been. fucker.
The other two major choices aren't any better.
For the love of God, people, if you really want a change, and want America to get back to being "land of the free, home of the brave" then vote for real change, vote Libertarian!
Monday, April 07, 2008
A Few Good Utilities
Need to keep track of these somewhere outside of my computer, so here they are:
Defraggler
www.defraggler.com
DriverMax
www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax | Free
Use DriverMax to back up your hardware drivers. Then, after a fresh Windows install, DriverMax puts all the drivers back in less than 10 minutes. That's much better than reinstalling each printer, scanner, network adapter, and camera individually.
DisplayFusion
www.binaryfortress.com | Free
Multiple monitors of different sizes on your computer may not always provide the best visual setup. DisplayFusion assists by placing different wallpapers on each screen, even a contiguous background across displays with different resolutions. It helps control windows, too, dragging them from screen to screen. I'm using it now.
FireTorrent
www.wyzo.com/firetorrent | Free
Your BitTorrent downloader can be part and parcel of your browser. Though FireTorrent was originally developed for the Wyzo media browser, it took just a simple port to make it available to the larger Firefox user base.
Defraggler
www.defraggler.com
DriverMax
www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax | Free
Use DriverMax to back up your hardware drivers. Then, after a fresh Windows install, DriverMax puts all the drivers back in less than 10 minutes. That's much better than reinstalling each printer, scanner, network adapter, and camera individually.
DisplayFusion
www.binaryfortress.com | Free
Multiple monitors of different sizes on your computer may not always provide the best visual setup. DisplayFusion assists by placing different wallpapers on each screen, even a contiguous background across displays with different resolutions. It helps control windows, too, dragging them from screen to screen. I'm using it now.
FireTorrent
www.wyzo.com/firetorrent | Free
Your BitTorrent downloader can be part and parcel of your browser. Though FireTorrent was originally developed for the Wyzo media browser, it took just a simple port to make it available to the larger Firefox user base.
Friday, April 04, 2008
False Alarms
This is kinda funny.
I went to the gas station to get some Pepsi Max. The utility company is doing a bunch of work, laying pipes, etc beside the road. I'm driving by all the construction on the way back home, go by this big machine in the middle of a sharp curve and *BAM*!
It was so loud/hard that it shook my seat. I'm like "WTF was THAT?!? It felt like a g'damn bowling ball hitting me in the back!"
I get home, and you know what? it was a bowling ball hitting me in the back. Mine.. In the back seat.
Vocal Ranges for Singers
· Basses should be able to sing low E to G above middle C.
· Baritones should be able to sing low G to B natural just below the Tenor high C.
· Tenors should be able to sing C (below middle C) to E above high C.
· Altos should be able to sing low C (below middle C) to high C.
· Mezzo-Sopranos should be able to sing G (below middle C) to Eb above high C.
· Sopranos should be able to sing G (below middle C) to F above high C.
· Baritones should be able to sing low G to B natural just below the Tenor high C.
· Tenors should be able to sing C (below middle C) to E above high C.
· Altos should be able to sing low C (below middle C) to high C.
· Mezzo-Sopranos should be able to sing G (below middle C) to Eb above high C.
· Sopranos should be able to sing G (below middle C) to F above high C.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Controlling the weather
Sci-fi is finally becoming reality. The chinese are attempting to control the weather for the olympics. Check this out.
Sex
Listening to the "This and That" podcast. so much interesting stuff on there. regarding sex. ... and the numbers may not be right since I'm buzzed.
1) people are having something like 38% less sex than 30 years ago . The reason? obesity. more fat = less blood flow. needless to say, less attraction as well.
2) One in four *teenage* girls have at least one STD.
Capricious Acumen:
1) people are having something like 38% less sex than 30 years ago . The reason? obesity. more fat = less blood flow. needless to say, less attraction as well.
2) One in four *teenage* girls have at least one STD.
Capricious Acumen:
Friday, March 28, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
A quick note
I don't have much time to post these days, but would like to keep this log alive. I've signed-up with twitter.com. It's a site that allows you to post SMS length messages just telling the world what you do in 1-2 sentences. These are displayed at the left of this blog.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Amber - It's really bad, but getting a little better
I've been through a lot with Amber these past few months. Her arthritis and other skeletal problems have been getting really bad. She has had non-stop diarrhea for nearly 6 months and no medicine would take care of it. She had dropped from a very healthy 65lbs down to 51lbs and was nothing more than a bag of bones.
Over the past two weeks I have been taking her to a different vet as Lake Norman was doing nothing to help and costing a fortune.
In 3 days time (doing the same tests that LKN did repeatedly) they found that she has very bad liver cirrhosis and told me that she had a week or two, but now wouldn't be too soon to put her down.
I had a long heart-to-heart sit with her, trying to figure out what she was feeling. After sitting with her and watching her behavior for a day, I came to this conclusion : She's sick, she's in pain, but she's not ready to go.
I'll be the first to admit that I have a really hard time with the idea of letting her go. I was so shaken-up when the vet said "now would not be too soon to send her to heaven" that I couldn't even speak. I spent the rest of the day swinging between sobbing uncontrollably and feeling absolutely nothing. Even given my feelings, I can say this: If I thought it was really her time, I wouldn't hesitate.
Knowing that she's not ready to go... still seeing life in her eyes, I'm determined to do all I can.
I've taken her off all traditional medicines (including flea, heartworm, and vaccinations). I've started making batches of home-made food (mainly ground turkey, brown rice, oatmeal, and vegetables as described in "Sunny's Miracle Diet". To that I have added Teeter's Creek Liver Tone (10 drops twice a day), Super Milk Thistle (this is one of the most researched natural treatments), and 1/2 of a human multivitamin once a day.
I have also bought the book "Hope for Healing Liver Disease in Your Dog" and am slowly adding a multitude of other vitamins and supplements to her diet.
There is no cure for liver disease once it reaches this stage, but the change has been nearly a miracle. There are no more "accidents" two or three times a day. No more getting up in the middle of the night at every little sound to rush her outside... the diarrhea is nearly gone. Her appetite is back - sometimes she can't seem to get enough food. She has probably already put on 3-5 lbs in one week on the diet.
Cutting out all of the sodium has cut down her abdominal fluid retention (ascitis) to about 10% of what it used to be. Feeding her smaller meals 3-4 times a day instead of 2 large ones has helped to keep from overloading her liver.
She is still a sick doggy, but she is feeling so much better. She's back to rubbing against the bed, wanting attention, being curious and interested in walks (even if some days her arthritis keeps her from going) and otherwise just being a dog again.
I realize that she doesn't have much time left. God has granted me a gift by letting me find things that help her. He has given us time to bond again. We have petting time in the morning and afternoon, and sometimes play time in the evenings. The time she has left won't be put to waste (thank you, God).
Over the past two weeks I have been taking her to a different vet as Lake Norman was doing nothing to help and costing a fortune.
In 3 days time (doing the same tests that LKN did repeatedly) they found that she has very bad liver cirrhosis and told me that she had a week or two, but now wouldn't be too soon to put her down.
I had a long heart-to-heart sit with her, trying to figure out what she was feeling. After sitting with her and watching her behavior for a day, I came to this conclusion : She's sick, she's in pain, but she's not ready to go.
I'll be the first to admit that I have a really hard time with the idea of letting her go. I was so shaken-up when the vet said "now would not be too soon to send her to heaven" that I couldn't even speak. I spent the rest of the day swinging between sobbing uncontrollably and feeling absolutely nothing. Even given my feelings, I can say this: If I thought it was really her time, I wouldn't hesitate.
Knowing that she's not ready to go... still seeing life in her eyes, I'm determined to do all I can.
I've taken her off all traditional medicines (including flea, heartworm, and vaccinations). I've started making batches of home-made food (mainly ground turkey, brown rice, oatmeal, and vegetables as described in "Sunny's Miracle Diet". To that I have added Teeter's Creek Liver Tone (10 drops twice a day), Super Milk Thistle (this is one of the most researched natural treatments), and 1/2 of a human multivitamin once a day.
I have also bought the book "Hope for Healing Liver Disease in Your Dog" and am slowly adding a multitude of other vitamins and supplements to her diet.
There is no cure for liver disease once it reaches this stage, but the change has been nearly a miracle. There are no more "accidents" two or three times a day. No more getting up in the middle of the night at every little sound to rush her outside... the diarrhea is nearly gone. Her appetite is back - sometimes she can't seem to get enough food. She has probably already put on 3-5 lbs in one week on the diet.
Cutting out all of the sodium has cut down her abdominal fluid retention (ascitis) to about 10% of what it used to be. Feeding her smaller meals 3-4 times a day instead of 2 large ones has helped to keep from overloading her liver.
She is still a sick doggy, but she is feeling so much better. She's back to rubbing against the bed, wanting attention, being curious and interested in walks (even if some days her arthritis keeps her from going) and otherwise just being a dog again.
I realize that she doesn't have much time left. God has granted me a gift by letting me find things that help her. He has given us time to bond again. We have petting time in the morning and afternoon, and sometimes play time in the evenings. The time she has left won't be put to waste (thank you, God).
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