Tuesday, August 23
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The contractors were here again, and you can see the progress on the walls every time you go down stairs. Getting tired of the daily joke about my sleep schedule. I am hoping that one day it will be boring for him, but I am getting the impression that he is easily amused. He is otherwise just fine, so...sigh.
We made final decisions on the windows, and are still discussing exterior doors. The windows should be here by the end of September.
I am having the sensation of living the same day over and over again, with it being so uniformly hot, and the days are taking on the same shape, mostly with me feeling like I personally am not getting anything done.
I don't get it. I get up, I do stuff all day, it gets dark, and somehow almost nothing useful has been accomplished.
I did go see River, and that was nice. The same pasture mate that tore up his (now mended) fly mask also tore up the neck piece on his fly sheet, so now I have to fix that.
River finally seemed to be doing better circles for me at a trot today using the neck rope. No idea if that will happen again the next time I ride, as in he and I are both working together correctly, or if it was just a fluke.
I did not over do the work today, because it was so freaking hot. He did well at what I asked today, on the ground and ridden, so I called it good.
I spent a fair amount of time with him, just sitting with him and letting him graze around the barn. His pasture is pretty much bare, and I sincerely hope that R is feeding them hay. We have had a dry month now, and the grass is pretty much done growing by August anyhow.
I came home, let everyone out into their pastures, and tried to water some plants in the garden that are outside the circle made by the sprinkler, and it was an unnecessarily complicated process to find one single hose with the correct end piece to fit onto the tank of water (from collected rain). I had to go dig out a hose that has been stored away, that I don't normally use. Hard to explain, but we have fitted most of our hoses with those quick change connections, but the end on the tank was one side of that, and like one of those bad dreams, every hose I picked up had the wrong end to connect to it. All of them. Because normally they connect to the pump first. Very frustrating.
Then I needed to bath, because I was that delicious mix of body sweat stew mixed with mosquito bites.
I wanted to mention that last night I watched "Yesterday", a film about some weird electrical event that changed the timeline of Earth slightly and no one really noticed, but there were things that no longer ever existed. Like, The Beatles. One man who was a musician too, still remembered those songs. No one else. So, he is free to play them and call them his own.
It is a very good movie, would not offend the gentle viewer, is full of good music, and very entertaining.
Would definitely recommend.
I have to say, though I am by no means a "Beatle Mania" type person, and I do not see John Lennon as a messiah, you kind of forget just HOW GOOD their music really is, and how it managed to be so culturally relevant in the time it was made, and how original it is.
Today I learned that "The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer[1][2][3] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.[4][5][6] It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.[7][8][9]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#Popular_culture_and_museum_replicas
The contractors were here again, and you can see the progress on the walls every time you go down stairs. Getting tired of the daily joke about my sleep schedule. I am hoping that one day it will be boring for him, but I am getting the impression that he is easily amused. He is otherwise just fine, so...sigh.
We made final decisions on the windows, and are still discussing exterior doors. The windows should be here by the end of September.
I am having the sensation of living the same day over and over again, with it being so uniformly hot, and the days are taking on the same shape, mostly with me feeling like I personally am not getting anything done.
I don't get it. I get up, I do stuff all day, it gets dark, and somehow almost nothing useful has been accomplished.
I did go see River, and that was nice. The same pasture mate that tore up his (now mended) fly mask also tore up the neck piece on his fly sheet, so now I have to fix that.
River finally seemed to be doing better circles for me at a trot today using the neck rope. No idea if that will happen again the next time I ride, as in he and I are both working together correctly, or if it was just a fluke.
I did not over do the work today, because it was so freaking hot. He did well at what I asked today, on the ground and ridden, so I called it good.
I spent a fair amount of time with him, just sitting with him and letting him graze around the barn. His pasture is pretty much bare, and I sincerely hope that R is feeding them hay. We have had a dry month now, and the grass is pretty much done growing by August anyhow.
I came home, let everyone out into their pastures, and tried to water some plants in the garden that are outside the circle made by the sprinkler, and it was an unnecessarily complicated process to find one single hose with the correct end piece to fit onto the tank of water (from collected rain). I had to go dig out a hose that has been stored away, that I don't normally use. Hard to explain, but we have fitted most of our hoses with those quick change connections, but the end on the tank was one side of that, and like one of those bad dreams, every hose I picked up had the wrong end to connect to it. All of them. Because normally they connect to the pump first. Very frustrating.
Then I needed to bath, because I was that delicious mix of body sweat stew mixed with mosquito bites.
I wanted to mention that last night I watched "Yesterday", a film about some weird electrical event that changed the timeline of Earth slightly and no one really noticed, but there were things that no longer ever existed. Like, The Beatles. One man who was a musician too, still remembered those songs. No one else. So, he is free to play them and call them his own.
It is a very good movie, would not offend the gentle viewer, is full of good music, and very entertaining.
Would definitely recommend.
I have to say, though I am by no means a "Beatle Mania" type person, and I do not see John Lennon as a messiah, you kind of forget just HOW GOOD their music really is, and how it managed to be so culturally relevant in the time it was made, and how original it is.
Today I learned that "The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer[1][2][3] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.[4][5][6] It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.[7][8][9]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#Popular_culture_and_museum_replicas
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Date: 2022-08-24 06:47 am (UTC)I just finished listening to Sean Lennon interviewing Paul McCartney. It was a lovely interview, full of warmth and candour. A commenter remarked that it was "a man talking about his best pal to the pal's son, who wanted to know more about him". I suppose I am a Beatlemania type! I do not tire of the lush harmonies in the early work!
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Date: 2022-08-25 04:26 am (UTC)I decided just to satisfy his curiosity, and hoped that would be the end of it.
At least today he didn't say anything. I hope it is starting to sink in for him that it really IS just "normal" for me, and it isn't some bizarre cult thing or vampirism.
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Date: 2022-08-25 06:19 am (UTC)I told him that I worked at home during the day as an illustrator and brought my artwork to FedEx for the 7 PM cutoff. I shouldn't have bothered. He was pleased with himself for remarking as cleverly as he did.
The contractor thinks he's amusing.
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