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How strange
This last week I’ve received notices of three class action suits I might be eligible to join. I’ve never in my life been part of a class action, so I’m a little bemused at the sudden onslaught. Who turned on the lawyers? I’m actually only eligible for two, which would pay out a grand total of $10 between the two of them. That’s not even worth the time it would take me to fill out the paperwork.
The third I’m not technically eligible for, but it relates to my Mac laptop, and gives me hope that I’ll actually be able to repair the computer after all. Yay! Now to find a Mac store.
In other news: the blog carnival is coming up fast. Submit your entry here; it will be hosted by Rising Rainbow.
Anyone want to beta test?
I’m about halfway through getting the next version of Horse Bloggers ready to go. If anyone is interested in beta testing, there are a ton of new features in this version and it would be helpful to have extra people poking holes in it before it goes live.
If you don’t have a HorseBloggers account already, you can register for one or I can set you up with a test account.
I anticipate having it ready for testing around, oh, Friday or Saturday of this week.
HUGE thumbs down for Macromedia/Adobe
My lovely Mac laptop died and so now I’m forced to transfer everything over to my PC, because a new Mac is not in my budget at the moment.
Among other things, this means transferring over Macromedia Studio, which I use mainly for Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
After a very long phone call with their customer support person, we finally were able to dredge up my serial number (and I have to say, whatever I feel about the company right now, the customer support service person was great—she looked up every single number I have on my packing list until we were able to find my account information, which is something like four years old and apparently not in any of their primary databases).
We finally get the serial number, and then I find out that since I installed the software on a Mac first, I’m not allowed to install it on my PC.
I’m sure this was in the original license somewhere and so there’s nothing I can do about it, but, seriously? WHY DOES IT MATTER if my one copy of the software is …
Can I play hunter/jumper for a while?
Don’t worry; I have plenty of cheese to go with this whine.
I’ve said before that my background is primarily hunter/jumper, and almost all the dressage I’ve done has been in a seat somewhere between the hunter/jumper forward seat and a true dressage seat. This has worked for me, and has been good for me in a lot of ways, but now, of course, my trainer and I are working on developing a real dressage seat.
It’s hard. It’s really hard. Every time the horse and I get stuck, I want to tip forward on my pelvis and get my seatbones off the saddle.
And trust me: it’s not that I think hunter/jumper riders have it easy, or that it’s so much easier to ride in a forward seat. It’s just that it’s instinctive for me. I know those aids. My body will default to those aids without having to think about it. I have to think really hard about dressage aids.
Wah, wah, wah.
I feel better now.
On the plus side, I think I’m starting …
It’s Friday Night. Do you know where your sanity is?
My cat hates me because I cleaned the whole house before I fed her.
I do not understand this apparent love fest with the phrase “He’s a good handle” in classified ads. Is this a Texas thing? Are horses naturally knobby things that open doors? Are they the wooden ends of sweeping implements? Have we forgotten the difference between the noun “handle” and the verb “to handle”? Am I just a grammar snob?
I went shopping for groceries, came home, and discovered the only thing I didn’t buy was anything I wanted to eat right this moment.
The cardboard boxes in my living room are now broken down and stored away. Does this mean I’m finally moved in?
Why do people refer to their horses as a “YYYY model”? Do all horses born in 1996 have three white socks? Were all 1988 horses a little nuts? Do all 2003 horses have bad pasterns? Do we secretly wish our horses were cars?
Should I buy a house? Will any bank lend to me?
If I clean my half …