Sunday, October 1
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A cool but sunny day. Most of the flies are gone, so maybe River will be finally okay without a fly mask.
I spoke with Sister E, and it sounds like they've had a very pleasant weekend with lots of walking, and listening to people play real music in someone's back yard. She is trying to walk more in general, and they need to now that their farm dog is in town but still needs exercise.
My Sweetie continued to work on the siding, but tried to work on things that wouldn't use his pulled chest muscle.
I went to see River. I tried not to feel any personal strife/pressure about the freestyle. Either we get it or we don't.
I let him graze for almost half an hour again, since he seemed hungry.
I washed his mane and tail, since white tails always look yellow otherwise. I don't know if it will still look nice by Wednesday, which is when we are supposed to video (or try, anyways), but I thought I would give it a go.
Then we went outside and practiced the freestyle, and while it wasn't GREAT, it was a lot better and he seemed to be trying. I only went through it a while, and left it while it still felt relaxed. That's the best way to end things, when you can.
The Sunday rider was there with her Mom, and I chatted with them a bit.
Then I came home, and we watched "Wakanda Forever". It was only okay, and that was because it was visually beautiful and had great music. The plot was okay, but within that were giant "dumb things", like the heroine never before having any motorcycle experience but doing very complicated and dangerous things during a chase scene like she's done it her whole life; same thing with fighting. This was a woman who was supposedly a full-time scientist, not a warrior.
Like a land-locked country getting into a battle at sea and having an ENORMOUS, war ship, and no explanation to where it came from, or who was even running it, since there appeared to be NO ONE acting as a crew or a pilot, and there's no "navy", just one really big ship with no dedicated military structure.
Main character gets completely run through with a spear, and SHE'S FINE! Literally pulls herself off of it, and keeps fighting, and there is no more mention of it. Nothing.
So, I have gotten to where I sleep through all the Marvel fight scenes (that often take up half of the run time) because they are meaningless and the weird "slow" action shots are weird. NO ONE IMPORTANT dies, and if they do, there's a very good chance that they won't stay dead.
Way too long. By an hour.
Meh.
I learned about the "Doomsday Plane", meant to act as a command center during a time of great crisis (think nuclear incident). Only the U.S. and Russia have them.
They are analogue, made to withstand EMPs, and have a secure communications system able to communicate with ballistic submarines far under water.
They have a five mile long antenna for communicating with the subs on low frequency, but when they use it they don't just trail it behind them, they bank in such a way that the antenna is more vertical. The subs also have a long antenna that they have to get into a fairly vertical position, sometimes by floating it.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31477/heres-why-an-e-6b-doomsday-plane-was-flying-tight-circles-off-the-jersey-shore-today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_plane
A cool but sunny day. Most of the flies are gone, so maybe River will be finally okay without a fly mask.
I spoke with Sister E, and it sounds like they've had a very pleasant weekend with lots of walking, and listening to people play real music in someone's back yard. She is trying to walk more in general, and they need to now that their farm dog is in town but still needs exercise.
My Sweetie continued to work on the siding, but tried to work on things that wouldn't use his pulled chest muscle.
I went to see River. I tried not to feel any personal strife/pressure about the freestyle. Either we get it or we don't.
I let him graze for almost half an hour again, since he seemed hungry.
I washed his mane and tail, since white tails always look yellow otherwise. I don't know if it will still look nice by Wednesday, which is when we are supposed to video (or try, anyways), but I thought I would give it a go.
Then we went outside and practiced the freestyle, and while it wasn't GREAT, it was a lot better and he seemed to be trying. I only went through it a while, and left it while it still felt relaxed. That's the best way to end things, when you can.
The Sunday rider was there with her Mom, and I chatted with them a bit.
Then I came home, and we watched "Wakanda Forever". It was only okay, and that was because it was visually beautiful and had great music. The plot was okay, but within that were giant "dumb things", like the heroine never before having any motorcycle experience but doing very complicated and dangerous things during a chase scene like she's done it her whole life; same thing with fighting. This was a woman who was supposedly a full-time scientist, not a warrior.
Like a land-locked country getting into a battle at sea and having an ENORMOUS, war ship, and no explanation to where it came from, or who was even running it, since there appeared to be NO ONE acting as a crew or a pilot, and there's no "navy", just one really big ship with no dedicated military structure.
Main character gets completely run through with a spear, and SHE'S FINE! Literally pulls herself off of it, and keeps fighting, and there is no more mention of it. Nothing.
So, I have gotten to where I sleep through all the Marvel fight scenes (that often take up half of the run time) because they are meaningless and the weird "slow" action shots are weird. NO ONE IMPORTANT dies, and if they do, there's a very good chance that they won't stay dead.
Way too long. By an hour.
Meh.
I learned about the "Doomsday Plane", meant to act as a command center during a time of great crisis (think nuclear incident). Only the U.S. and Russia have them.
They are analogue, made to withstand EMPs, and have a secure communications system able to communicate with ballistic submarines far under water.
They have a five mile long antenna for communicating with the subs on low frequency, but when they use it they don't just trail it behind them, they bank in such a way that the antenna is more vertical. The subs also have a long antenna that they have to get into a fairly vertical position, sometimes by floating it.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31477/heres-why-an-e-6b-doomsday-plane-was-flying-tight-circles-off-the-jersey-shore-today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_plane
