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altivoNo, that's not "Monday with a cold" it's Mudday. I took Tess out to the pasture for the first time this year, since the surface water has subsided after the rapid snow melt and she needs to get her hooves wet anyway. She was delighted, of course, until she realized that there's only freeze dried grass out there and it's a lot tougher than even her regular hay. Anyway, the lane out there through the woodlot is ankle deep mud. When I let her loose inside the gate, she squealed and took off at a full gallop, dollops of mud from her hooves flying through the air like angry crows. You can guess who got hit.
I had a longish "to-do" list for today, arranged by priority, and got almost all of it done. The two bits that failed were applying the charger to the battery for Tess's fence (the battery had ice crystals floating in the electrolyte. Thus not safe to be charging it right now) and airbrushing the first coat on that GP7 locomotive (just ran out of time on that, it was the lowest priority.) Most important were getting dinner into the crockpot, editing and distributing a guild newsletter, and barn chores. Laundry got done too, which is often a high priority but is also the household task I hate most.
I could have completely ignored the "stupid bowl" except that it flooded twitter with inane blathering. No simple way to filter all that out, and I browsed through some 300 twittertwats in order to avoid missing two posts that I really wanted to see. That's a terrible signal to noise ratio.
I figured out how to get rid of the ads that Echofon has started forcing into my client. It was simple really. Back up to the previous version. Version 2.4 of the Firefox add-on apparently introduces the ability to insert pointless random advertising at the head of every timeline. Backed up to 2.3.6 and like magic the irritating ads are gone.
This is not a longterm fix, as I'm sure 2.3.6 will be "incompatible" with some future release of Firefox, if it doesn't die sooner of some irritating and pointless change in the Twitter API. (Remember how Oauth killed so many clients when it became a requirement?) The downgrade does, however, give me some breathing space while I hunt for a better twitter client for Linux. The first few I tried seem not to have been updated for Oauth and therefore are useless today. Qwit looked particularly promising, especially after I installed it on my netbook (Linux Mint Katya) and played with it, but when installed on my desktop machine (Xubuntu Lucid Lynx) it fails. Apparently it needs a newer version of openssl than what is available on Lucid. Twitvim does work, but is too complex to use (at least for me, I'm not into twitter at that level of complication.)
I had a longish "to-do" list for today, arranged by priority, and got almost all of it done. The two bits that failed were applying the charger to the battery for Tess's fence (the battery had ice crystals floating in the electrolyte. Thus not safe to be charging it right now) and airbrushing the first coat on that GP7 locomotive (just ran out of time on that, it was the lowest priority.) Most important were getting dinner into the crockpot, editing and distributing a guild newsletter, and barn chores. Laundry got done too, which is often a high priority but is also the household task I hate most.
I could have completely ignored the "stupid bowl" except that it flooded twitter with inane blathering. No simple way to filter all that out, and I browsed through some 300 twittertwats in order to avoid missing two posts that I really wanted to see. That's a terrible signal to noise ratio.
I figured out how to get rid of the ads that Echofon has started forcing into my client. It was simple really. Back up to the previous version. Version 2.4 of the Firefox add-on apparently introduces the ability to insert pointless random advertising at the head of every timeline. Backed up to 2.3.6 and like magic the irritating ads are gone.
This is not a longterm fix, as I'm sure 2.3.6 will be "incompatible" with some future release of Firefox, if it doesn't die sooner of some irritating and pointless change in the Twitter API. (Remember how Oauth killed so many clients when it became a requirement?) The downgrade does, however, give me some breathing space while I hunt for a better twitter client for Linux. The first few I tried seem not to have been updated for Oauth and therefore are useless today. Qwit looked particularly promising, especially after I installed it on my netbook (Linux Mint Katya) and played with it, but when installed on my desktop machine (Xubuntu Lucid Lynx) it fails. Apparently it needs a newer version of openssl than what is available on Lucid. Twitvim does work, but is too complex to use (at least for me, I'm not into twitter at that level of complication.)
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Date: 2012-02-06 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-06 11:22 am (UTC)At this point in the year, my first boy Asher is starting to drop a little weight, but he has always been the most difficult to keep in condition of the three. Tess is at the opposite end of the scale, and I have to restrict the amount of feed to keep her from blimping out excessively. She outweighs Asher by as much as 15% and gets about 15% less feed without losing an ounce.
To give her credit though, she was well-behaved yesterday and only did the impatient prance once on the way out. Came to me when called to go back in with very little prompting, and the brief mud shower was my fault, not hers. After nearly ten years, I do know how to predict her foibles and that mad dash when first she reaches the pasture is pretty regular. She races off to the back fence, loops and comes back at full tilt as if showing off for me, passes in review right in front of me and often repeats that a second time before slowing down to inspect the grass. It's very showy, but makes me glad I'm not on her back right then. I prefer a more sedate ride.
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Date: 2012-02-06 11:26 am (UTC)As a result i carry excess weight. I really do think it runs in families. I certainly need far less food to function than my housemate does.
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Date: 2012-02-06 03:06 pm (UTC)Re: Stupor-Bowl
Date: 2012-02-06 03:39 pm (UTC)Football has probably seen a huge increase in popularity since Kyell Gold started writing his series of porno novels about a pro football star. Sigh. Kyell offers every year to "teach us how to understand football" so he's obviously a major addict who believes that anyone who isn't excited about the sport just doesn't understand it. Sorry, Kyell, I know how it works. I just think it incredibly stupid.
And there's the FBA, too. That's a fantasy basketball league with furry players and regular sports podcasts. I find basketball even more boring and pointless than football.
Of course I abhor all the stereotypical excitements of American males. I don't care about beer or gasoline powered toys or airplanes or guns or NASCAR either. Not even when they have half-naked bimbos lying all over them like they do in car magazines.
Hmm. No wonder I feel like an alien all the time. ;p
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Date: 2012-02-06 03:54 pm (UTC)Re: Stupor-Bowl
Date: 2012-02-06 04:13 pm (UTC)Re: Stupor-Bowl
Date: 2012-02-06 04:20 pm (UTC)