Tuesday feels like Wednesday

[altivo]

Ugly but amusing meeting this morning. I think the library system is about to see a full-scale revolt. It will be fun to watch them try to deal with it. And no, I didn't foment the rebellion. I just sat and grinned as it developed, then voted for it.

Finished a sock for me. That's unusual. Started the second one during that meeting.

Snow is predicted now for tomorrow, though it will melt as it hits the ground. Killing frost is expected Thursday night. Poor little tomatoes.

Laundry running, apple pie in the oven, farrier due in the morning, and tomorrow is Wednesday. Ugh. I hate Wednesday.

For the curious, this new user icon came from a plastic squeeze bottle of... horseradish sauce. I've been waiting for it to be empty so I could cut it up and steal this part of the logo. A little image magic in the GIMP and voila! The heavenly horsey.

Comments

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Do horses like radishes?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Some Do, Some Don't, and There It Is.

Given the source of the quote, it must apply to donkeys as well.

As for horseradish, though, I don't think the association is with eating it. Supposedly it was once a custom for uscrupulous horse sellers to shove a chunk of fresh ginger or horseradish root into a horse's tailhole (ow!) in order to make him keep his tail up and act excited and energetic when shown to a prospective buyer.

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Yow! Is that where we get the term "step gingerly?"

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Could be, I dunno. I'll try to remember to check the OED and find out.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

Would that be like "Sock it to me?" (obscure reference for we oldsters).

Snow??? Ewwwww. Not ready for it.

Good luck on your revolt :D

(Sire, the peasants are revolting!...Yes, I know, they do rather stink now, don't they?)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I thought that was an ancient cheer to be chanted while someone changes a light bulb. (Socket to me!)

The revolt will at least open some eyes. It could develop into a sort of strike unless some suitable response is taken. Real catalogers spend $20K or more and two years earning a master's degree and passing many exams. That used to be considered proof that you were qualified to do cataloging in the library setting. Now they have hired so many people without degrees that they want to impose an examination requirement to prove you are capable of cataloging. Further, none of us trust or respect the person being allowed to create and administer the exam. So the cataloging committee has declined to cooperate.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Viva la revolution...
....run into the winter palace waving bits of paper at each other.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We will drive our book trucks proudly into the district capital, overthrowing the usurper and erasing her tyrannical rules from the book. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Those book trucks have to be returned in two weeks or there will be a fine.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You're forgetting that we hold the passwords to the system. All fines can be erased.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

I might just have to steal that icon. *snatches it while you aren't looking and whistles innocently, then gallops off*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh! That just might cost you. Let me think of an appropriate compensation scheme. Hmmm. *snuffles around your tail and under your belly*

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Hey now! Whatcha doin'? ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*nip* Oh nothing, really... *tongue somewhere perhaps not unexpected*

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

*nickers* Mmmm, you are a naughty horsie (once in a while) ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not naughty. Just very... friendly.,,

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Mmm... Snow. Snow is good. A partial camouflage for me, that is :)

Apple pie... Yummeeh. I wish I could come over to have some with tea. :)

And that thing about horse radish just sounds weird and wrong.
There are better things to stick up there... Nevermind! Forget what I said. :D
I am sure feeding the horseradish in the proper way would have made the horse happier tho...
But I agree, the bottle must have been nice.
Heavenly horse's sauce anyone?
May I have a few servings please? :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Alas, I only saw this brand of horseradish once and haven't found it again. I would buy more as long as no horses were harmed in making it. :)

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Well well, familiar name... hello there! ^^

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

One explanation I've heard is that horseradish was named such as it ws a bit like a radish but much more.. rough? course? forceful? and so "horse" got stuck to the name, in the same way that rough play is known as horseplay.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually, horseplay is called that because when boys do it, they look just like horses playing. I have no doubt about that derivation.

The OED gives no etymology for horseradish, but the one you give here seems to be commonly offered. I rather like the one in Wikipedia, though. It says the German for the root is Meerrettish which, when heard by an Anglo-Saxon ear sounds like "mare radish". In Old English, "mare" didn't mean just the female of the species, but could also be the generic.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

That icon is cute.

As for the revolt, the way you put that made "instant soundtrack"
in my head:

"Smile and grin at the changes all around me, then I pick up
my guitar and play...just like yesterday..."

*facepaws*

Altivo's Soundtrack by The Who.

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

But if it were really my soundtrack it couldn't have any rock music in it. Maybe something more like the 1812 Overture complete with cannons.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Cannons I can do.

Strings?

Hmm.

*looks up his Acid f/x*

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

OK, Shostakovich then. Lots of horns and trumpets.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

How about some Number 11?

This 1905 thing works for me, I had to listen to it in
Doctor Wrights Symphonic Lit class. And memorize the
opening, he had this "I can get an A in two notes" test.

@.@

Anyway...


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This, Aaron Copelands Third Sympony and Beethovan's Egmont Overture
all were very goodly for me at that point in my life.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Recently I've been very much enjoying the healing powers of
Hovehaness. He's much like Vaugh Williams doing "A Theme From Thomas Tallis"

Not exactly, but theres only so many times you can listen to
Vauhn Williams before you wish for fish and chips. ^.~

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Aforementioned Williams.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Thomas Tallis was wonderful. There is a forty part motet
(FORTY PARTS) that lasts a bit less than you'd wish it
would.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU

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Re: Aforementioned Williams.

[pioneer11.livejournal.com]

Thats Vaughn Williams doing his "Theme On Tallis"

Basically a 19th Century Cover.

^.^

Re: Aforementioned Williams.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Still snickering about the fish and chips. But I like fish and chips, so maybe that's a product of overexposure to English music. Vaughan Williams of course, and Percy Grainger, Edward Elgar, William Walton...