Post 365

365 posts and RR draws a blank on today's post. Generally I have 10 things I might write a book about, but today, on Post #365, the horse part of the brain is "gone fishing".

This in part results from my efforts over the last several days to upgrade the old dinosaur of a computer pictured above left that I built two years ago. It was a "price is no object" effort to get everything to pop instantaneously, and so I bought all the parts from New Egg, read up on the tech forums, and as everything arrived, truthfully, if you know how to turn a screw and read the English language you can "assemble" a computer.

This Athlon X2 4800 with WD Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drives in Raid 0, Corsair XMS DDR1 memory and Asus 32 motherboard was top of the line stuff in early 2006, and though the old system is getting a bit creaky (notice the dust), it's still plenty fast.

But, a few days ago the computer bug hit me again as I noticed I could paste in an Intel E6850 Core Duo processor and some new DDR2-800 Corsair memory and new Asus Maximus X38 motherboard (see New Egg) for about $700.00 and get 35% yet more speed.

So, the last few days instead of scanning the Blood Horse, RR has been busy at Extreme Tech and Tom's Hardware catching up on all the latest. Takes a bit of concentration, and gives the cerebral cortex a bit of a needed break from racing. Planning to be back in good horse racing fettle by tomorrow though, and will catch up on the latest.

Training:
Art: Wednesday off after three consecutive days of trotting under tack. Thursday: second day under tack in the pasture. It was almost dark with deer jumping out of the bushes. Call it walk-trot. The horse was a little spooky in the new digs.

Y: Both rear shoes now on. What fun to shoe a fidgety yearling. You do it one nail at a time, folks. Y now with in full podiatry gallops about 3 x 2f with the big boys and some trot. We're being careful with these very open knees.