Horse = Horsepower
Posted in: Farming, Frustrations, Green-Living, History, Horses, Life, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 08 November, 2009
I have had this little note burning in the back of my mind for sometime now. Driving around Circle 4 in Lexington, I caught site of a billboard for the Speed School at the University of Louisville. I think, if I recall correctly that is in particular the engineering school. The billboard said something to the effect of without engineers horsepower would still be horses. That has kind of stuck in my crawl if you will and every time I think on it, it chaps by proverbial behind end.
Sometime last fall/winter (though I actually started writing this in the early morning hours of the actual night of the concert), I had tickets to see what I think is one of the greatest things to come out of the country music scene in a LONG time. Yeah Joey & Rory, of CMT’s Can You Duet fame as well as those really great Overstock.com commercials that were especially active during the Christmas holiday season so recently passed. I almost nearly stumbled into the tickets, having caught a glimpse of the flier a week or two prior, I purchased tickets immediately without even knowing who I would get to go with me for sure. If you have a chance anytime soon it is well worth the $15.00 I paid for tickets to see this awesome duo live and in person.
This morning as I headed into work, I was listening to NPR of course. It was an usually early hour for me to be heading that direction, but I had a computer drive issue that I needed to check out. During that brief commute, I heard another favorite of mine this morning waxing on about the waning status of August as that do nothing month. While I did indeed enjoy Frank Deford’s description of August having historically marked the end of summer as it slipped into fall and a time of really nothing – I personally think it lends to his having led a sheltered life or at least an urban life.
As I sit here on a cool, almost to the point of cold, Sunday afternoon I am reminded of a recent conversation that I had that may very well prove relevant for today. The recent conversation started with a question from a friend of mine, who is often challenging my mental capabilities and between us there are many theories exchanged though often questions left unresolved. This particular one though has an answer. The question was something to the effect does a ice cold glass of water use more energy from your body that one served at room temperature? 
As many of you know I have been gone the last several days and prior to that I had not done much in regards to blogging for a bit, both in getting ready for heading out, being busy in general and a good deal of lazy thrown in as well. But I am back and have a few hundred blogs to catch up on and post.
I look back over the last month and I realize that I started out the month like a lion on prowl for prey with my posting and was well on my way toward getting a post everyday. Then I had hit a snag or two and before I knew it, I was three or four days with out a post. Then it go worse, I finished the month with one post in ten or twelve days. What whimpering finish to the month.
Following up on the post from yesterday I thought today I would mention some small wants of things that I would like to have. Some of these things are almost kind of random and therefore I am not really sure what category or picture to use at this point. I am also less then sure of where this will go and I am almost certain that I will not recall all of the things I am kind of tossing around in my head at this point. Anyway, without further contemplation on the details, here is the list: 
As I noted a toward the end of last month I plan on participating in the the NaBloPoMo idea for the month of February. The theme for the month is wants. There are lots of ways to interpret the theme of wants and I thought I would start off with something that I have been thinking about a little bit of late and especially this afternoon. Before I got into that though, it should be noted that I will not be using the theme for every post this month, but I will pick it up on occasion.
Some quick updates since I have been away from the blog for a few days. Lots of stuff going on in my life right now and I have purposefully put the blog aside for the past few days. So a few quick things just to get them out there and get a post. Speaking of posts, that is something to note. If I don’t post the traffic flow to the website crawls to a sluggish almost stop. I thought you dear readers hung on every word I had to say and checked in regularly just to make sure I had not said anything. Guess I am wrong on that one. 
