Dirt on My Tires
Posted in: Farming, Green-Living, Horses, Life, Philosophy | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 21 July, 2010
Noticed the other day that my truck has some dirt on the tires and even more up on the side of it. Was a reminder of several of the places I have been of late. Which in itself was a good reminder of who I am and where I have been, many of those places being things that I have only gotten back to just lately. Thought it would be an appropriate post for number the 365th post on the blog – which is a years worth if they had been one a day, but alas, that is not the case. The blog is actually coming up on its third year here pretty soon. Anyway, let’s get on with some of the dirt that has ended up on my tires…
It is odd that I was pondering a blog about George Strait just this past Friday. I had been going back and forth on the angle until late Sunday night/early Monday morning, when I caught a re-run of a tribute to Straight on CMT where he is being honored as the ACM Artist of the Decade. Granted it originally aired sometime back in May and I am not completely sure where I was and what I was doing, but seeing this show pretty much made it a have to do deal, and so here I am with a few thoughts…
We are less then a week away from the first Saturday in May, which around these parts is famous for one thing – the Kentucky Derby! I have, for the past few years made a habit of tracking the horses and giving my picks at various points. This year, I am behind, but with a few days left and the field still not completely set, nor gates drawn, here are my thoughts on some of the horses to watch in the quickly settling field…
So why is that when the boss heads out on three day business trip and you have committed to plans a, b, and c being complete before his return that is when everything just seems to get mixed up and off track? I give you yesterday and today in short (to save you from technical pain). Yesterday while on a late lunch, one of two air conditioning units went out. With the heat in the server room building, we had a major system loose a hard drive before anyone caught the heat situation. Rebuild that last night and get final things in place this morning. Doing final configuration for a project install phase one this afternoon, when another system coughs up a hairball. All is running again forty five minutes later and I still am not sure I can explain it. Did I mention the new computer we bought was DOA and a one users system has three trojans? And then the folks and I that were doing the cut over for phase one all got together. It should be be fifteen minutes at most, right? But it fails to work, even after an hour and fifteen minutes – so we have to roll back and this will throw off all the rest of our dates. Why is that this kind of week seems to always occur when the boss is away? A few more why is it follow:
I am about to get married really soon… less than two weeks as a matter of fact. I am not concerned about the marriage. Actually looking forward to that. However, I am taking the time to assess a few things in my life and feel like in some ways I am at a major crossroads. Maybe the marriage has little to do with the assessment, maybe it is in truth much more with having turned forty just under two months ago. Anyway, I have had these kind of major refocusing times in my life a couple of times before and good things have generally come of them. Last major time I got rid of motorcycles and all the rebuilding equipment and eventually got into the dream of horses instead.
