Author: Elaine

Lily – Another Mystery Solved, Maybe

It was a gorgeous early fall day, so I asked my trainer if she had time to school me on Lily. After some flat work, which went well, we once more tackled the problem of trying to keep me from falling back as Lily jumped small jumps.

I’ve been here and done this on other horses, without a problem, so it has been a bit baffling why I have been so stuck on this. I’ve had a longish hiatus from real jumping, so I thought that might be part of the problem. For a while, we blamed it on me using a dressage saddle, even though I have successfully jumped in dressage saddles in the past. And I seem to have found a combination of pad and jumping saddle that make Lily happy at the present. It just has been one of those minor things that was starting to drive me crazy.
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Linux

I am exhausted from a day spent exploring Linux. For some time, I have been intrigued by the idea of using Linux as my primary operating system. However, I didn’t want to give up Windows 98 on my machine in case I decided to go back. A few days ago, I bought a sixty gig drive, and yesterday Jack installed it for me. I’ve installed Linux Redhat 9 on the new drive, as a dual boot system with Windows 98. Everything went fairly smoothly until we attempted to use DHCP when connecting the LAN. Nothing we tried worked, and Jack finally set up static ip addresses in the router so we could use them instead.

However, everything seems to be working now for my machine, for both Windows and Linux. First thing tomorrow, I will install Mozilla 1.4 since the distro we used provided Mozilla 1.2. Then, I will probably attempt to get Windows file sharing working using Samba.

My goal is to see if I can do everything I normally do on Windows in Linux, with the exception of updating the household accounts in Quicken.

Learn2Stamp

Learn2Stamp is a website that has a series of tutorials on a variety of rubber stamping topics. For example, under backgrounds, there is a useful article on how to make “Faux Handmade Paper”:http://www.learn2stamp.com/paper/paper01.shtml. I saw this technique demonstrated at my stamping club a while ago.

J-Walk Good News

Yesterday, the writer of J-Walk Blog announced he was discontinuing his excellent weblog. Today, he stated that the emails and posts about his decision made him reconsider. I am so glad that I took the time to send him email yesterday about how much I had enjoyed his weblog over the past few months since I found it. Now, if he would just add a comments feature.

Carved bull

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I was charmed by this carved bull at the “Royal Ontario Museum”:http://www.rom.on.ca/explore/current.php.

Carving Gallery

This Native American Swap of carved art was taken from the Native American swap of the Carving Consortium. Also check out the other items in the menu at the top of the page. I have some other soft block carving related information at my “Carving Topics”:http://www.stardel.com/homecarv.htm page.