The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real for it is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live

Monday, October 6, 2008

and they all fall down

"Waxman said that in January, Fuld and his board were warned the company's "liquidity can disappear quite fast."

Despite that warning, he said, 'Mr. Fuld depleted Lehman's capital reserves by over $10 billion through year-end bonuses, stock buybacks, and dividend payments.'"

IMHO I say the federal governemnt go get that 10 Billion dollars and use it toward paying back the 700 billion we're shelling out.

All over the place

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, ....." Not that there have been any earth shattering developments in my life in the past 72 hrs, but there sure were one or two on Orenthal James Simpson's life huh? Poor thing, after remaining free for 13 years to the day for hacking up his ex-wife and a total stranger,he's gets his, behind something even more stupid that he did last year. The narcissistic just can't help but let their sense of entitlement run themselves to ground can they? The arc of the Universe may be long but it sure does bend toward justice. How many 13's can a guy get stacked up against himself? 13 years after his acquittal,and after 13 hours of deliberation for a crime he committed on the 13th of the month, he shoots craps! There are cycles to life aren't there? Run from that OJ.

Woke up to a dead fridge this morning. Always the way I want to start Monday. With soggy strawberries. Yummy! That's the beauty of renting. I put all the stuff in a cooler and called the person who owns the fridge to go fix it.

I met what may be my first horse on Saturday. Sunny is a pretty sweet ride. He needs some work, he's apparently been someone's yard ornament for three or four years, so we gotta find his flat walk and then his fox trot. Poor little guy is so short he has to canter to keep up with everybody else. So on Saturday we found the flat walk, but were able to do little with it. But on Sunday he got in it and stayed in it for quite a while. He's a little skittish when I approach from the right side, but after a few minutes that stops, so I think that will be easily worked out. And yesterday I realized that he must get chafed by the girth on the saddle I'm using right now, cause he's jumpy when I try to brush him right where that girth passes behind his legs. He wasn't that way in the morning but he was in the afternoon. I'm not sure if that's the girth or if he just needs to get used to one, I'll try another saddle this weekend.

But as I said, he's a little palomino, probably about 14h, seems pretty even tempered, didn't get fussy when I pulled on his face while trying to get him in the flat walk, and though he shakes me off once in a while when I ask him to do something he always seems to do it without complaint. He's a little chubby right now, but I hope to have that off him in a few weeks. I'd like to have him up in shape to ride all winter, so that if I do buy him in the spring, which is the soonest I could do it anyway, we'll know each other pretty well. He may be short, but as I get older the closer to the ground I want my horse to be anyway.



This isn't him but you get the general idea.

Guess I'll get a dog too.