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lagilmanWork goes well; I'm really quite pleased with how this book is developing. There will be a nasty sinkhole or brick wall coming: I know it, I acknowledge it, I'm not worrying about it until I fall into/hit it. Then I'll panic. Pausing to eat the last of the farro soup I made and froze a while ago -- it reheats exceptionally well, with the addition of a little chicken stock and fresh herbs. I have fresh herbs on my porch! (it seemed safer to buy herbs than house plants; if Boomer eats them all, he won't get nearly as ill)
Anyway, it's wednesday so it's time for the obligatory House comment: It was interesting, it was well-played, and it was amazingly obvious (to me, anyway). But they did mess with the usual expectations of a series finale and so, while not up to the "classroom lecture" episode from last year, I'll give them a solid B on plot and an A for the acting and dialogue.
And now we go into rerun hell. *sob!* No new House until fall!
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From the NYT:
More on Barbaro, and the surgical tools used to try and save him, here. Still no admission of culpability, but they're inching around the topic, especially at the end. Unfortunately, the better the medical advances, the more justification we have to push -- as with humans, so with horses. Look at any pre-teen gymnasts in the past few decades? Same thing, in many ways. Young bones and tissue, damaged too early.
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On happier, random topics:
Is anyone else reading the Frugal Traveler series in the NYT? Fascinating. I've always wanted to do that, only within the U.S. So many places to see, so many people to meet... Bt for now, my traveling is a bit more structured (off to Germany soon, then Chicago, then Virginia, then Los Angeles; the cats are already eyeing which shoes they're going to pee in while I'm gone).
If you could pick up and go to any place you'd never been, anywhere in the world tomorrow - - no worries, no planning, just get up and go -- where would it be? For me, I think it's the Serengeti. Right now this moment, anyway.
Meanwhile, the U-Hauls and Ryders and what-not have been pulling up and down my block all day, and tired looking twenty-ishers hauling furniture out to the curb. You'd think there'd just been a graduation, or something.
Oh. Wait. Right.
*waves buh-bye*
Have a nice summer, kids! Good luck finding jobs!
Anyway, it's wednesday so it's time for the obligatory House comment: It was interesting, it was well-played, and it was amazingly obvious (to me, anyway). But they did mess with the usual expectations of a series finale and so, while not up to the "classroom lecture" episode from last year, I'll give them a solid B on plot and an A for the acting and dialogue.
And now we go into rerun hell. *sob!* No new House until fall!
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From the NYT:
More on Barbaro, and the surgical tools used to try and save him, here. Still no admission of culpability, but they're inching around the topic, especially at the end. Unfortunately, the better the medical advances, the more justification we have to push -- as with humans, so with horses. Look at any pre-teen gymnasts in the past few decades? Same thing, in many ways. Young bones and tissue, damaged too early.
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On happier, random topics:
Is anyone else reading the Frugal Traveler series in the NYT? Fascinating. I've always wanted to do that, only within the U.S. So many places to see, so many people to meet... Bt for now, my traveling is a bit more structured (off to Germany soon, then Chicago, then Virginia, then Los Angeles; the cats are already eyeing which shoes they're going to pee in while I'm gone).
If you could pick up and go to any place you'd never been, anywhere in the world tomorrow - - no worries, no planning, just get up and go -- where would it be? For me, I think it's the Serengeti. Right now this moment, anyway.
Meanwhile, the U-Hauls and Ryders and what-not have been pulling up and down my block all day, and tired looking twenty-ishers hauling furniture out to the curb. You'd think there'd just been a graduation, or something.
Oh. Wait. Right.
*waves buh-bye*
Have a nice summer, kids! Good luck finding jobs!
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Date: 2006-05-24 11:26 pm (UTC)My trainer's trainer is here from England, and the first thing she said when his name was mentioned was pretty much verbatim what you wrote. Nutrition and training methods and medicine get better and better, but the whole system is deeply flawed because of a fundamental blind spot: the fact that equine biomechanics and maturation patterns simply do not support what the horses are asked to do. We were bitting Gaudia at the time--she's Barbaro's age almost to the day. Won't be sat on for another year at least, and she's a Very solid, deep-bodied, massive young horse.
Her feet are at least as big as his. She has about the same amount of bone in the legs--at probably two hands shorter. She's built to last--but if she were hit with the kind of work he's been hit with, she'd break down faster if anything.
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Date: 2006-05-25 05:49 am (UTC)Japan. There's so much there that I want to see, taste, hear, touch, feel.
Teri
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Date: 2006-05-25 03:23 pm (UTC)As for where I would go.. I have been debating that very idea. I keep wanting to go back to beloved places tho.
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Date: 2006-05-25 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 07:03 pm (UTC)Ireland. More specifically, the towns where my maternal grandparents came from. We have dozens of cousins there that we've never met, and I've been told by other family members that they love meeting the American side of the family.
(Second would be my dad's home town in Sicily, but there is no family left there at all.)
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Date: 2006-05-25 09:42 pm (UTC)Three words:
Remote-control foreplay. Yeah, baybee.