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you know, its funny how the smallest things can try one's patience. and not to a small extent where you can just shake it off and move on, but full out final exam quality patience testing at its best. i had that experience today, and it was quite a challenge, but i think i survived. in fact, i'm better for it, because now, same time tomorrow i can resume my herculean task and keep on keeping on. seguir a delante. i spent over six hours today cutting out a stencil for my job, a stencil which will serve as the standard for 41 signs which will be placed around the community in certified farms for the upcoming inspection. yeah, i know i've written about the signs once already, maybe twice, but frankly, thats what my life is about right now, so deal with it. i now have an immense amount of respect for those people around the world that spend their days cutting out little letters with a little knife out of cardboard. where ever you are, you champions of miniature stencil letters, i salute you. three cheers, a low bow, and whatever else i can do. it sucks. whats worse, is that this is the first day, probably of three, that i will have to spend cutting out these fuckers. and even worse than that, is once i start painting, there's a chance that the size of the letters will be too small, and the paint will run, and the whole thing will get completely ruined. so, let's hope against hope, wish against wish, want against...oh whatever, you get it. cross your fingers. but back to my original point, about stress release. today i found mine. and you know, it didn't include beer, grass, or video games like in the states. simply put, i rode a horse. and for the first time, longer than for just five minutes and only around the cooperative. today i took that beast down to the nearby river. we trotted, cantered, and even almost galloped, but i got kinda frightened for my rear end, as it was being severely battered by the motions of the animal, so i took it down a notch. together we almost made it out of the community, but as we were about to cross the border with the next village, a truck went by, and the horse decided that it would be exciting to chase after it. at first i couldn't help but laugh, but i soon realized that i had lost control, so i pulled it aside and gave it a stern talking to. i think it got the point.