This is just too cool! Mom emailed me today and said that she has pictures of my foal, who is still in utero. You know how doctors can take pictures of babies using ultrasound? Well apparently her vet did the same type of thing with Sabbath, the mare who is in foal to Sirdar. Mom is going to send me the pictures. Baby pictures! I’ll scan them and post them here when I...
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Rajiyyah Update
The Grey Wonder Mare™ is really doing well. The swelling has continued to go down. The cut is now about the size of my thumbnail. It looks great! She is still a little lame on it — means she probably has some tendon damage to get over. We’ll keep working on things now that the skin is closing up. Overall, very good progress. (Except I got the vet bill. Ouch. Yay equine medical...
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A friend of mine sent me this term: Desk Rabbit Someone who hides under an office desk with out informing the desk’s owner that they are there. Being a desk rabbit can have many benefits, one can listen into office gossip, find out who the boss is going to fire next or even look up the secretary’s skirt. (Definition from Urban Dictionary) Related Images:
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Your Score: Lion Warning Cat 75% Affectionate, 72% Excitable, 37% Hungry You are the good Samaritan of the lolcat world. Protecting others from danger by shouting observations and guidance in cases of imminent threat, you believe in the well-being of everyone. To see all possible results, checka dis. Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test Related Images:
Continue reading...Performance Madness!
We’re practising like mad. Performance is today. Here’s hoping it goes well! Related Images:
Continue reading...Ming arrived!
An-ti-ci-pa-tion… I’ve been waiting for a bloody week. And today, my precious has arrived! For over a year I have been lusting after the Motorola Ming A1200. The Ming is a quad-band GSM phone, so it works in analog and digital frequencies both here and in Europe. The 2MP camera also doubles as a camcorder. The Ming runs linux (Motorola’s customized version of Monta Vista Linux) and has J2ME Java environment. There are...
Continue reading...Vet visit, part the next
Even though Rajiyyah’s leg has been healing well, she has been doing something to it every night. Finding dried blood that has dripped half-way down a leg isn’t normal. It’s not oozing or seepage, it’s like she is re-damaging the leg every time she is in her stall. I don’t know what she is doing. One of the vet students suggested that maybe she has something still stuck in the cut that is...
Continue reading...Additional Roman Saddle Info
I emailed Deepeeka about their saddle. They are incredibly cheap (for a saddle, at least) — under $200 US. However, you have to order at least two. So very tempted! My coauthor suggested doing more research and sent me some good links to consider. I could end up with an expensive display piece. (Although I suppose that is what my side saddle is — it doesn’t fit my mare but it sure is...
Continue reading...Half in, half out…
When I drive to work, I normally charge my cell phone using the cigarette lighter port. I was going to swap the charger for the Ming with the Verizon phone (especially when I realized the Verizon phone’s battery is low). The Ming’s charger wouldn’t come out. I had to wait until I was parked at work to try and pull it out. It was stuck — so I carefully pulled harder. The silly...
Continue reading...Roman Cavalry Bibliography
I was going through some of my old emails and found a bibliography I had compiled for a friend on the Roman Cavalry. I attended a Roman re-enactment in October 2004 in Nashville. A Deepeeka representative had a reconstructed Roman cavalry saddle (Deepeeka item code AH6405). This really peeked my interest. Picture I took at the Roman re-enactment of the Deepeeka saddle (see the Photography section for additional pictures): One of the vendors...
Continue reading...Apocalypse Ponies!
This is too funny! Remember “My Little Pony” from a way back? I always had people assuming that I wanted those little (obnoxious) things because I had horses. Why would I want a plastic poser pony when I had the real thing? They struck me about as useful as smurfs. 😉 Related Images:
Continue reading...Zaurus bites the dust?
Okay, not sure what is going on. I have a 6k running the stock Sharp ROM. I have a 1 gig SD and CF cards installed. Most of my non-critical apps boot from the CF card. I have not installed any new program nor changed any settings. The Z usually sits on my desk or in my purse in its case. I tried to turn the Z on today, and the power button...
Continue reading...Update on the Grey Wonder Mare
Rajiyyah’s leg is looking much better! We stopped wrapping it on Sunday evening. Monday night it was still swollen and the cut looked kinda nasty — caked with blood and pieces of shavings. However, after 20 minutes of hosing to reduce swelling and get the gunk off of it, there was a pleasant surprise: the wound has made major progress in healing. The sides are coming together and it’s healing really well. Almost...
Continue reading...ChaCha Search Engine
I just tried seaching for Epona using a new search engine, ChaCha. Interspersed with the results were sponsored ads posing as search results. That really ticked me off. If I want to see ads, then put them on the side, but do not confuse the frickin’ ads in with the actual search results. I do not recommend this search engine at all. Related Images:
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