Every day's a holiday

I've got Dog Ranch puppy duty today and it will likely happen but the high today is not very and right now the wind chill is at freezing so I'm not really excited about being out there.  I've already gotten used to spring and for the second year am less enamored with winter and the cold than I used to be.  Other than the Ranch I've got nothing on the agenda.  There are things to do outside but they will be there when it gets warmer in a few days.

Meanwhile I made a little progress on Oculus.  There is a program that demonstrates the basics, a walk through of what you need to know to get started.  The weird thing is it does not come installed nor is it really up front and center when you first put on the googles.  Nor does it show a lot of pretty basic stuff that is covered in various independent 'Like and Subscribe' YouTube videos.  Once I found that I've got things to do and things to play with.  Not a lot but at least somewhere to start, a foothold.  Still way too much costly software.  BUT I just found a 'L&S' video that gives leads to the best free games so I now have something to do today other than freeze outside.

I finished the 10 book Expanse series yesterday.  The video series stopped before the end of the story and I'm hoping it will return.  But I've read through to the end and was really surprised at how much I reacted to the loss of the characters.  I've lived with them for the past four years since being immobile with my hip surgery.  One of the authors has another series out soon so I'm hoping it has legs too. Meanwhile I've got a dozen other books, mostly Amazon freebees, to work through.  None of them really exciting but I've not yet read them so there is hope.

Kindling 'Death in the Sunshine'
Audibling Stephen King's 'The Cell' 
Watching 'Upload' second time through, this time with Dana, in prep for the new season

The owner of the Dog Ranch asked me to plant some lady banks rose bushes she bought.  Anywhere else it would be a huge no big deal.  Here you've got to dig through a 65 million (or 6000 depending on your theological bent) year old seabed to get a hole deep enough to let the roots do anything.  So I've got my pickax and shovel and will soon head out.  This instead of walking dogs.  But not like I can say no. 

So, good work out for me today.  One of the biggest annoyances in my life is I can no longer take NSAID's.  I used to take them before bike rides.  Cyclists liked to call it Vitamin 'I'.  Now I have to settle for arthritis strength Tylenol and muscle relaxers.  Not nearly as effective.

Zoe is not feeling well again.  We're changing her food back to what she ate when we first started to deal with her allergies.  I don't think it is the food, I think it may be something else but the something elses are not as easily dealt with as allergies so I'm hoping.  

I ordered an Oculus 2.  I've kind of wanted a VR experience for a while.  As long as no one can see me.  This is so well thought out I've got to try it.  And Dana gave me money for our anniversary present for me to spend on something geeky.  She will use this too.  The only real downside is you HAVE to have a Facebook account.  At least for now.  There's a lot of push back on that so it may change.  I've got the VERY locked down FB account I use for the Senior Dog Ranch so I have at least some communication with them.  I think I can use that.  It has its own email account that I really don't use at all and only collects notifications from FB that can collect and be ignored.

Anyway, Oculus is on the way.  We'll see how interesting it is, what kind of stuff it has.  

Just got a report from my sister that the importer worked for her so I'm going to try that one more time.