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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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I have her address, but not a phone number. I'm guessing Suzi's got her number.
It's wicked cold up there today. Maybe she didn't have to go to work for some reason.
Maybe.... but seeing as it has been a little while... I have her email but that does us no good.
Ah! I killed it! Oh the humanity!
busybusybusybusybusybusybusybusybusybusybusy......
Sitting here holding a phone to my ear... ah telecons, so much fun :P
Oh well, it is better than being out of the loop.
Other than that I am trying to resist buying a mac mini. I will get one some time just trying to make 'some time' into 'when the card is paid off'. In other news the sky is still blue, so they tell me.
I have her number so I just called.... She's home sick with a stomach bug today, and her computer is all taken apart so she can't post. But she's "OK" if not completely "OKAY".
Bah.
Macs are boring. Much more fun to build your own. I'm hoping to get my motherboard installed in the case tonight...
Ah, thanks for letting us know! I was hoping it was something minor like that.
FIRST, A circuit went dead in the barn. It's the one the fence was plugged into. I thought maybe with all the rain, the fence had shorted out, but the breaker at the panel wasn't tripped off. But for no apparent reason, all the wires and outlets on one side of the barn are dead.
We plugged the fence charger into another outlet with an extension cord and it works fine.... not fried or anything.
SECONDLY, the horses are acting really weird in the lean to. Cyn BOLTED out of her stall this morning and was afraid to go out the end opening she usually uses... (there are three openings, each end, and a middle. She turned around a couple times like she was trapped before bolting out the center. All three horses are acting snorty and weird about that opening, I can grab mane (we didn't put halters on them or anything) and lead the pony and Bay through them, but they hesitate and then bolt through and run off. Cyn didn't want to even get that close, I grabbed her mane and tried to lead her through, but she pulled away and bolted out the middle opening. Every time they run out and then come back, the same thing would happen again.
Here you can see Cyn's stall opening at the far end, the trouble-spot-end and middle lean-to openings.
The power supply to the fence comes out right there, but it doesn't look damaged, and though we are contemplating these two events (the dead electrical and the odd behavior) being related, there's no logical explanation for them being related! WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND HERE THIS MORNING?
Why would a circuit suddenly stop working?
Hmmm... I don't know about the electricity, but any chance there's a strange person or animal wandering around at the barn to spook the animals? (Any chance the wire was cut somewhere?)
Or, could you human people have been spooked by the electrical thing, and then the horses picked up on it?
Any of those things are possible, but when I first let Cyn out and she bolted out of the stall, we were not yet spooked about the cicuit because I didn't know about it yet.
I wondered if a predator had made an appearance in the woods out there in the night... Coyotes are common out there, but they usually wouldn't spook the horses, the horses treat them as nonchalantly as they do a dog. But a deer or something else.... they get spooky about. Don't think a bear went through, no fence damage ;~D
Break out a multi meter and start poking around. I am betting the wires are shorted some place. I would open that breaker and see if the horses settle down.... who knows...
We did use a circuit tester... there are two cicuits in the barn, one still works (the one that controls the main overheat lights, thankfully) but the other circuit that controls the other side (where the stalls are, coincidentally (?!)) is dead. The whole circuit. The feed from the house to the barn is underground.
And the breakers for both are in the barn?
The car computer sounds great. Are you going to set speakable items so you can compute while you drive? (Not that I recommend computing while you drive....)
In other news the graphics card on one of my work Macs is getting upgraded. (Just don't know what they're going to upgrade me to.)
In other other news, I got out of briefing at a big meeting only to be invited to another big meeting the day prior. TDY has just been extended. *pout*
I am neither an electrician or a horsemaster (nor have I played one in the Stormhand's Outdoor Holiday Extravaganza), but could something have shorted out with a "bang" that spooked them?
The breakers are in the house...
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