Wednesday, October 19
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Ongoing lovely weather. I will say though, this long, long stretch of sunshine means it is DRY around here now. Very dusty.
I got some very good sleep. No Contractors today. They did succeed in removing the tree stump, apparently. That's good.
The duct guy is coming tomorrow, with our contractor to hook up the last of the furnace ducts to the addition and to the sun room. They shouldn't need access to the main part of the house, just the basement.
I went to see River, and that was good. Routine work on the ground, at Liberty, and with the neck rope until we get new homework.
We didn't have a lesson today, because R is preparing to leave for a training summit in the U.S. tomorrow.
My husband finally got in touch with the guy from the bank who is supposed to be handling our sale of U.S. stocks. Apparently his excuse is that he was sick. So...he's been sick for the two whole months that we have been unable to connect with him? I'm skeptical. Yes, sure, I knew he was sick, then we were told that he had returned back to work almost three weeks ago. Either he was fit to work, or he wasn't, which is it?
My husband is supposed to have an in person meeting with him tomorrow afternoon, and I hope that this person actually responds in a timely manner to our request to sell the stocks and transfer the money here. It is not inspiring confidence that it has been so hard to reach him, and so nearly impossible to meet him in person.
I finally screwed up the courage to see the scores for our recent online show. We did well on the riding without a bridle, fairly mediocre on our Liberty pattern at the shoulder (me "leading him" in a pattern), and I messed up and downloaded the wrong video for the obstacle class. Sigh.
I don't know that I ever do a single show for these people where nothing gets screwed up or done wrong.
Anyhow, I am not pleased that we scored so hohum on the liberty pattern, because R was glowingly praising how well she thought we did on that one when we recorded it. She declared it nearly perfect.
Yet, the judge took points off for not being perfectly round, not being perfectly in the middle of the pylons, and so on. Things that when I reviewed our video, I thought we actually did pretty well. The judge took points off of EVERYTHING we did. I can see getting 4/5 on most of the elements, but we were scoring mostly 3/5, which I am confused about.
Either R is not really thinking we could have done better, or she really didn't see where we were going to lose points.
No, I can't really complain about it. Lots of asshole judges out there in the showing world.
One thing we keep losing points on, every single class I submit, is that River is slow to respond. I have WORKED ON THIS to the point of exhaustion, trying to be more energetic with him, trying to do the thing of ask, then tell when looking for a response, and so on.
If R and I can work on this (I think I have asked to work on this at least ten times now, probably more like 50 times) and can get somewhere, I could do a lot better.
It bothers me that we are pretty good overall, but his slow responses are losing points with every element in a pattern.
Sigh.
I am feeling frustrated with the clutter. I have piles of stuff everywhere again, from having to move things so the contractors can get to windows. I have piles of jackets and other crap we moved out of the porch so I could mud and sand that (haven't been doing that, either). They all got full of sawdust and drywall dust from being in the basement, so I have been washing them.
There are only two of us, but I bet we have over 20 jackets each. Hoodies and lots of different weights of fleece. Half for doing chores, and the rest for town.
I feel like our stuff is a lot like that story about algae on a pond (originally meant to explain population growth). Every couple of years the amount of stuff we have doubles, and at one point, that expansion will be catastrophic.
Well, enough positivity for one day!
I learned that the original design for the Canadian Dollar Coin was very different from the Loonie pattern we are now familiar with.
"In an effort to save $43.50 The Mint in Ottawa decided to use a local letter-courier firm instead of the usual high-security armoured service like Brinks to send the dies to Winnipeg. This decision would result in a historic turn of events.
As the dies were packaged to be shipped on November 3rd, 1986 the usual protocol of packaging each side of the coin’s dies separately was sidestepped for unknown reasons. The two dies were to be shipped in separate shipments. This security practice was in place so that if a die package fell into the hands of counterfeiters, they would only have one correct side of the coin. Yet, somehow, the new dollar coin dies were packaged TOGETHER and then went mysteriously missing.
With the new coin dies supposedly in transit via this cheaper courier service, the Winnipeg officials waited 11 days but still no delivery. On November 14th the RCMP was called. The dies never made it from Ottawa. It seems they had been stolen before they even left the Nation’s Capital."
So, the original design featuring two men in a canoe was ditched completely, and the new design with a loon on one side was created very quickly to meet production deadlines.
https://ottawarewind.com/2019/12/30/canadas-lost-loonie/
Ongoing lovely weather. I will say though, this long, long stretch of sunshine means it is DRY around here now. Very dusty.
I got some very good sleep. No Contractors today. They did succeed in removing the tree stump, apparently. That's good.
The duct guy is coming tomorrow, with our contractor to hook up the last of the furnace ducts to the addition and to the sun room. They shouldn't need access to the main part of the house, just the basement.
I went to see River, and that was good. Routine work on the ground, at Liberty, and with the neck rope until we get new homework.
We didn't have a lesson today, because R is preparing to leave for a training summit in the U.S. tomorrow.
My husband finally got in touch with the guy from the bank who is supposed to be handling our sale of U.S. stocks. Apparently his excuse is that he was sick. So...he's been sick for the two whole months that we have been unable to connect with him? I'm skeptical. Yes, sure, I knew he was sick, then we were told that he had returned back to work almost three weeks ago. Either he was fit to work, or he wasn't, which is it?
My husband is supposed to have an in person meeting with him tomorrow afternoon, and I hope that this person actually responds in a timely manner to our request to sell the stocks and transfer the money here. It is not inspiring confidence that it has been so hard to reach him, and so nearly impossible to meet him in person.
I finally screwed up the courage to see the scores for our recent online show. We did well on the riding without a bridle, fairly mediocre on our Liberty pattern at the shoulder (me "leading him" in a pattern), and I messed up and downloaded the wrong video for the obstacle class. Sigh.
I don't know that I ever do a single show for these people where nothing gets screwed up or done wrong.
Anyhow, I am not pleased that we scored so hohum on the liberty pattern, because R was glowingly praising how well she thought we did on that one when we recorded it. She declared it nearly perfect.
Yet, the judge took points off for not being perfectly round, not being perfectly in the middle of the pylons, and so on. Things that when I reviewed our video, I thought we actually did pretty well. The judge took points off of EVERYTHING we did. I can see getting 4/5 on most of the elements, but we were scoring mostly 3/5, which I am confused about.
Either R is not really thinking we could have done better, or she really didn't see where we were going to lose points.
No, I can't really complain about it. Lots of asshole judges out there in the showing world.
One thing we keep losing points on, every single class I submit, is that River is slow to respond. I have WORKED ON THIS to the point of exhaustion, trying to be more energetic with him, trying to do the thing of ask, then tell when looking for a response, and so on.
If R and I can work on this (I think I have asked to work on this at least ten times now, probably more like 50 times) and can get somewhere, I could do a lot better.
It bothers me that we are pretty good overall, but his slow responses are losing points with every element in a pattern.
Sigh.
I am feeling frustrated with the clutter. I have piles of stuff everywhere again, from having to move things so the contractors can get to windows. I have piles of jackets and other crap we moved out of the porch so I could mud and sand that (haven't been doing that, either). They all got full of sawdust and drywall dust from being in the basement, so I have been washing them.
There are only two of us, but I bet we have over 20 jackets each. Hoodies and lots of different weights of fleece. Half for doing chores, and the rest for town.
I feel like our stuff is a lot like that story about algae on a pond (originally meant to explain population growth). Every couple of years the amount of stuff we have doubles, and at one point, that expansion will be catastrophic.
Well, enough positivity for one day!
I learned that the original design for the Canadian Dollar Coin was very different from the Loonie pattern we are now familiar with.
"In an effort to save $43.50 The Mint in Ottawa decided to use a local letter-courier firm instead of the usual high-security armoured service like Brinks to send the dies to Winnipeg. This decision would result in a historic turn of events.
As the dies were packaged to be shipped on November 3rd, 1986 the usual protocol of packaging each side of the coin’s dies separately was sidestepped for unknown reasons. The two dies were to be shipped in separate shipments. This security practice was in place so that if a die package fell into the hands of counterfeiters, they would only have one correct side of the coin. Yet, somehow, the new dollar coin dies were packaged TOGETHER and then went mysteriously missing.
With the new coin dies supposedly in transit via this cheaper courier service, the Winnipeg officials waited 11 days but still no delivery. On November 14th the RCMP was called. The dies never made it from Ottawa. It seems they had been stolen before they even left the Nation’s Capital."
So, the original design featuring two men in a canoe was ditched completely, and the new design with a loon on one side was created very quickly to meet production deadlines.
https://ottawarewind.com/2019/12/30/canadas-lost-loonie/
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Date: 2022-10-21 06:56 am (UTC)