Author: Elaine

Birthdays

Hap is officially 20 years old today, since Thoroughbreds’ birthdays are considered to be January 1st of the year they were born. (He was actually foaled in May 1985.) I rode him yesterday, and he sure didn’t feel like an old horse after we jumped a little cross rail and in his enthusiasm he decided to run away on the backside. I had to use a pulley rein for the first time in a long while: not a very elegant solution, but it works. Most of the time. The rest of the session he was lovely: after twelve years together we have each other pretty well trained.

I was riding during a lesson being taught by my trainer. I was happy that I was able to keep up much better with the others than I expected, so I am gradually getting back into shape.

Considering the other horses the same way, Rags is also 20 today and Lily is eight. Smoke, born in 1977, is an increasingly creaky 28 years old.

Firefox Custom Keywords

Leaky Tap presents some lists of Custom Keywords that can be used in Firefox and Mozilla, as well as pointers to various other information about setting them up. Once set up, these shortcuts can be typed into the address bar for quick searches. For example, I have a CustomKeyword called write that takes me to the page I use to post to my weblog, as well as one called gnews that will search Google News for a topic.

Hamentaschen

For years, I wanted a recipe for Hamentaschen, type of cookie that I used to buy at a bakery on L Street in Washington, DC. A conversation with a friend reminded me recently, and I remembered to check Google afterward.