Good goat times and museum times today.
Ahh, I needed that. Getting out of my head and into better company. So much nicer. Felt good to get out.
Pretty nice day out. Cloudy, but the sun came through at times, and it was doing its thing. Comfortable temperatures. I had my winter coat on, but I had to leave it open most of the day, it was almost too warm to wear it. May be time to bring out my spring jacket soon. Maybe even t-shirt weather, soon? Nice anyway.
Good to see Jeanette again too. She had an understudy today. Intern. Named Conrad or Konrad. I think she said he is 15. He has some issues that are making it hard for him to go to school, so they’re trying it out to see if our place may be something for him, while other stuff is being worked out. So he’ll be Jeanette’s intern. He came in and fed the goats some carrots, seemed nice enough but I didn’t really interact with him much. I hope this will be useful for him though and help him find his place in life. I know it’s a nice place in my life.
Lots of other visitors too. Kids petting the goats. I was sitting down at the podium with Bella and Luna, and I looked and saw Sky with a circle of kids around her. She’s such a good petting goat. Luna can be a little feisty at times. And Bella doesn’t feel super comfortable with kids when they are loud or moving around a lot. She will often withdraw from them. But Sky will just stand there and let them pet her and she’s perfect and calm for it. So sweet. Like Mia used to be.
And I got lots of goat time of course, snuggles and cuddles and handing out treats. The goats were working on a big haul of branches too. Jeanette and her family are in the process of acquiring some neighbour land. Lots of wooden stuff that needs to be cleared from it, so she’s bringing in big bounties of branches and pine for the goats. The pine gets eaten quick, and then the branches are good for nibbling on. So the goats got a lot to work on now.
And then Helle came to get me for our museum trip. But I’ll write more about that later. Need me some soup now. But a good start to the week, feeling much better than last week so far.
23/3 2026
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The goats working on the branches. Lots and lots of branches and pine coming from Jeanette’s land acquisition.

23/3 2026
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Hi Sky!

23/3 2026
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I finally managed to hand over Keiko’s original art piece to Helle! She was delighted with it, her face lit up as I gave it to her.
Thank you so much again, Keiko. From the both of us. I know Helle loves it.
I had a lovely visit to the museum again with Helle. She showed me their exhibition about activism. Some of you are aware that the neighbourhhood I live in has kind of a reputation. And a lot of history. And one that has called for a lot of activism over the years. I won’t go into all the details here (you’ll have to visit the museum!) but Helle has been a part of a lot of it, she truly is an activist. Someone who cares and someone who helps. As I have well found out. And there was a lot of really fascinating history, I am glad she could tell me about it all. It was very interesting and cool, and it is always nice to spend time with Helle. She is just the best.

23/3 2026
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We met a little friend when we left the museum today! Such a sweet little cat, it came and said hi to both of us. It took me a long time to get the camera out, so the photo is kind of the aftermath. But kitty really liked some cuddles.

23/3 2026
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Got an hour fortyfive on the bike today.
Trying to get back onn track. The last almost two weeks I had only been on the bike once. The last week was pretty bad for me. Mentally and physically. To be honest, I think I ordered pizza or cake every single day, and no exercise.
So it’s pretty much like starting from scratch. This is how it always goes. I make a lot of progress, and then I throw the progress away and have to start again. The rollercoaster continues. I will always be a fat person, no matter how much I weigh. It has left deep scars on my mind and body. And it is a constant struggle.
But hey, at last I’m working hard. Again. And aftet the really bad last week, this week has started better. With goats and Jeanette and Helle and exercise. Back on track, just have to keep moving forward now instead of sliding backwards.
The doctor’s visit will be interesting… pretty sure I’m doing better than at last checkup, but is it enough? And what about my blood pressure? Well, I’ll find out I guess.
24/3 2026
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Me thinking of ordering more pizza.
Don’t worry. No more pizza. But thinking about it.. oh yeah.

24/3 2026
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I have an update in the exciting heater/ventilation saga. Now now, hold you applause until AFTER the post.
Well, things are not LESS confusing.
To recap. I had the service visit last Wednesday to fix heater measurer, because all the time since I moved in I have not had any readings of how much heat I was using.
So it took a couple of days but then the readings appear. It says I have used 2061 kWh in 2026. The 2061 kWh are shown plit over Wednesday/Thursday/Friday.
And in comparison it has shown that the apartment used 891 kWh in 2025.
So. 2061 kWh is a lot. But for 4 month, knowing I use a lot of heat. Not catastrophical.
Okay, so now to the new information. Yesterday I come home and check the readings. The total amount for 2026 is no longer 2061 kWh. It has changed. Considerably. Can you guess what the new reading is?
Okay, I’ll tell you. 200 kWh.
It has changed from 2061 kWh to 200 kWh. For all of 2026.
That is a considerably huge difference.
So yeah now I don’t know what to think. Is the new reading correct? It took a few days to get any readings, did it take a few days more to get everything correctly added up?
I don’t know.
If 2061 was correct then I’d alreay used more than twice what was used all last year.
If 200 is correct, well then I’m on track to use less heat than what was used less year.
Also the readings are no longer just showing usage for Wed/Thur/Fri. Now the usage is split out over all the days. So that seems more accurate.
Sorry, I know this is all technical and boring an irrelevant to everyone else.
But hey. I can only assume that the newest reading is the most accurate and that my heat usage is not as alarming as I had feared. Right?
It will certainly be interesting to see in September or October when I get the real bill and see what I have to pay.
At least the measurer seems to be working as it should now. The days I’ve had the heat turned off it reads 0. And the days I’ve had the heat on it reads some usage. So it seems to be working as intended now. I’m just not sure if I should trust the 200 number. But in any case, the catastrophical bill fears seem to have been vanquished. And that’s a relief.
I have more to tell, but it’s getting late now and this is already way too boring. So look forwards to a further update tomorrow, less techical thankfully!
Trying to keep a more optimistic frame of mind and not sink back into the darkness.
Doing my best not to obsess over things. Haha, how’s that working out for you? I mean me.
One day a day.
24/3 2026
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goatlog


25/3 2026
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Got an hour thirtyfive on the bike today. Feel like I’m back on the right track wih that. So I got that going for me. Onwards and around the twist.
So, I teased another update on the heater/ventilator business. Let’s get to that. It’s nothing important, just more of the usual rambling. You can skip it all.
I left the ventilator coompletely uncovered for a day, and it didn’t seem to affect my heating usage. Which is good I guess.
It did make me feel cold and annoyed though. Storming through my apartment.
So I have covered it up again. But this time I took the fb advice and covered it with cloth. A couple of wash cloth things yesterday, and added a third today. Previously I had covered it with plastic and just completely stopped the airflow. Which was nice for keeping things warm, but probably not smart or healthy.
With the cloth over the ventilator I can feel a little air going through. But it’s way less loud and stormy.
So I guess I will have to see how that works out. Is covering it with 3 doublelayered cloths still going to let it freshen the air in here? Take out the carbon dioxide and give me enough oxygen to breathe? I’ll find out! And see how it affects how warm I feel.
Now that the heater is giving me readings, I can experiment a little on how much heat I want on to find a balance between feeling warm enough and not spending too much money on it.
It’s still kind of a mess, but at least I can make some better informed decisions and have less uncertainty. Assuming the readings are correct… I’m still not sure how the 2026 reading it could change from 2061 kWh to 200 kWh like it did.
But whatever. I’m looking on the bright.
I also got a reply back from a mail I sent to the housing association. When the heater still wasn’t giving readings a couple of days after the service visit I sent a complaint about that. I only got an auto reply on that. When the heater started giving readings, I sent another mail and was a little snippy. Basically saying “I don’t know if you guys are getting my emails since I have only gotten autoreplies the last 4-5 times I have mailed you..” but I told them that I was now getting the readings and that was working as it should. And then I told them that I was still not getting information about the temperature and humidity levels in the apartment. At the old apartment I got readings for that. And at this apartment there were still two fields on the website that looked like it was supposed to show that information. When I load the site the bar at the tops says “? deegrees / ?% humidity” and it looks like it’s trying to bring in that information, but then it gives up and the fields disappear completely. Well, I did actually get a reply to that last email and the guy Oliver, whomst I have talked to on the phone before and seems like a really nice guy, told me that yeah that function was only available in the old apartments, not in the renovated apartment. I think that’s a little odd and too bad, it seems likea good function. It was nice to have information on temperature and humidity and you could click on the numbers and it would give you a little text info too, saying things like “the temperature in your apartment is appropriate” or “the humidity in your apartment is to high, here is some advice on how to correct”. I thought that was nice and helpful. But I guess we can’t have that anymore. Seems like renovated apartment should have MORE info and functionality, not less. But ok.
Glad I got a reply back. I now from Helle that they have been understaffed, they just got a new super too. That’s probably why the information has been harder to get.
Oh and they promised to get my name taken off the door at the old apartment. Again. I had complained about that too. I don’t think I mentioned it on here, but when I came home from the goats and museum on Monday, I went over to the old apartment to check if my name was still up there. As my dad had claimed when he had mistakenly gone to the old place. And my dad hadn’t been confused about that part. My name was still on the front door. I had complained about my name still being on the mailbox and door months ago. And they had promised to take it down. I guess I must have only checked that they took down from the mailbox, because they did remove it from there. But they hadn’t removed it from my front door. It’s what, five months since I moved out? Not that it matters so much, as long as my name isn’t on the mailbox. But it’s still not great that they haven’t gotten it removed from the apartment door.
I guess renovation on that building must be about to begin. And my apartment will be completely taken down. So I know at least my name will be gone by then!
Yeah, April is coming up. If I hadn’t gotten the other apartment offers, now would have been around the time when I would have had to move out and get everything done in one week. I sure am glad that it didn’t go down like that. That I had all the extra time and help and have been settled into my new place for months. It would have been a lot harder if I had to rush through things now.
Anyway. I think that’s about the end of teh heater/ventilator saga. I’m still going to do some experimentation on my preferred settings. But there shouldn’t really be any news about the situation anymore, so hopefully can breathe a sigh of relief and not have to suffer through tome long posts about numbers and technicalities. I’m like the heater/ventilator version of Tolkien describing foliage.
Alright. I need some food. Not pizza unfortunately. But I’m progressing.
25/3 2026
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More goat posts, demand the goats.

x25/3 2026
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Good goat times today. A strong cold wind. But some nice sunshine too. The goats were busy with a bunch new pine trees and branches. They hit the jackpot with Jeanette’s land acquisition. Lots to munch on. And lots of visitors too. Kids in the pen meeting the goats. Always sweet.
Later on Bella got quite worked up and started running around and doing pirouettes. I have rarely seen her so animated.
i have more to talk about, but I need some soup io me now. Priorities!
26/3 2026
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Lapgoating with Sky. Does my heart good to have her near. Hard to get a good picture of it, though.

26/3 2026
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Not just goat times today. I also had my doctor’s visit.
Got in a little panic yesterday, when I checked up on the traffic info. Good thing I did, because it turns out that just a couple of days ago they started some construction work downtown and the bus I take to the doctor’s office won’t be stopping at the doctor’s office few months. Whoops. So of course I immediately got anxiety and started worrying.
I don’t like taking the bus. There are people on it. And since losing my eyesight it has also introduced a lot of anxiety about getting off at the right stop and finding my around etc.
I have a couple of bus routes that I have used most of my life, and I feel pretty comfortable with them, as long as I know where I’m going. But once it gets into unkown territory, so to speak, then I start to worry. What, me worry? Yes, always.
I even thought about calling my parents and asking if they could help me get down there. But I didn’t want them to have to get up at 6 am to come help me with something I ought to be able to do on my own.
So I had to start researching alternate routs. Thankfully, even though the bus doesn’t stop at my doctor’s office now, it still had stops not too far away. And I was able to find my way from that stop to the doctor’s office. As always, the worrying was the worst part. Actually doing it wasn’t too bad. Although walking around in unfamiliar streets just is never going to be easy for me.
Anyway, got to the doctor’s office about 25 minutes early because I had gone way too early to give myself enough time to find my way. So I had a nice wait in the doc’s office.
Did the blood and urine tests, some heart listening and weighing in. My blood pressure is indeed too high. And I got answer back later in the day that I was low on Kalium. Which turns out to be the Danish word for potassium. I didn’t know we had a different word for that.
Anyhoo. So two new medications to add to my already huge cabinet of various medicins and supplements. One for blood pressure, one for potassium. And I have to go back in a couple of week to get another blodo test to see how thet pot ash is doing and in a month I have to measure my blood pressure and see if it has gotten better.
So we’ll see how that all goes. The doc said that it wasn’t too unusal for diabetics to need the blood pressure meds eventually.
And of course I’ll try to keep on working on the diet and exercise. It really is fun when your mind is screaming at you JUST GIVE UP AND DO THE EASY THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD while your body is falling apart and begging you to take it all seriously. Oy.
And speaking of busses, my bus card stops working in a couple of months as they’re phasing that card out. I have to figure out how to get the new kind of card, since I don’t have a smartphone. Everything is a fkn app these days. So I hope I can figure that out. We’re Denmark, why don’t we just have free public transportation? You want people to not pollute and spend energy with all the cars, but you’re making bus transport worse and worse for people out in my neighbourhoods and
okay I’ll shut up. Don’t want my blood pressure to explode anymore than it is.
Thank goodness I managed to go see the goats after the doc visit. I have a hard time doing more than one thing a day. My capacity is low, I require compartmentalising. Especially with the bus anxiety today too. But I managed goating, and that is always good.
One day a day, keep on goating.
26/3 2026
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Oh by the way, I think I have identified the crowing birds that we have at the playground, and that sometimes crow up a giant murder in the morning.
At least according to Helle. They are rooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird)
I think I previously have thought they were several different kinds, I remember thinking they were Hooded Crows. Well, the rook is part of the crow family I think. So it’s all related. But what’s murder of rooks called then?
They are pretty smart. I can tell that they know I often throw out some peanuts to the goats when I leave. And sometimes in the mornings if I can’t get the welcome peanut to Sky because the big girls are keeping her away from the gate, the rooks will try to swoop in and steal the peanuts I throw to her. I think the rooks recognise me, just like the goats do.
Squawk.
26/3 2026
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Do you ever feel like you’re the bad guy in a Columbo episode and life keeps going “oh just one more thing..”
I hope I can have a quiet summer. I would like that. A quiet summer with goats. Either that or alien invasion.
26/3 2026
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Bella loves that pine

27/3 2026
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I have bit the inner lining of my lip and there is protrusion because of it and I keep accidentally biting into the protrusion. It’s officially I am cursed and everything bad always happens to me.
Anyway, i’ll try to find a way to survive this latest slander up on my person.
Today I got a message from my doctor. Saying that I should take 4 of the potassium pills a day and come in on Tuesday for a test.
Yesterday I got a message from another oft the doctor’s of the clinic saying I should take one potassium pill a day and come in for test in 2 weeks.
So now I have to figure out which of these orders I should actually follow.
The message I got today was from my regular doctor, so maybe I should follow that. But I don’t like the appointment time she has set for me on Tuesday. So I’m going to follow the other doctor’s orders instead, so I don’t have to go in until two weeks from now. Hopefully that’s okay. I don’t know if it matters a lot. Four pills a day for four days, or 1 pill a day for two weeks. Whatever, I can’t talk to them until Monday so I’ll have to see what they say then. But for now, I’m doing one pill a day and counting on going in two weeks.
I just wanna bury my head in the sand. And then bury the rest of me in the sand. And then wait until it’s high tide. And maybe take a trip to Thalassa.
I’m going to need another shot of Pepsi Max. Pour it up, Lloyd.
27/3 2026
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Don’t lick the camera, Luna.

28/3 2026
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Good day. Hello. It’s a brand new day, wouldn’t you know.
I took my first doses of the new potassium and blood pressure meds this morning.
After 2-3 hours, and doing chores and organising in the apartment, I checked my blood pressure. And it was a fair bit lower than I usually have around that time of day. So, does that mean the meds are working already? Or placebo effect? Or just random nonsense? I don’t know man, you tell me. Just like people in charge of America’s health system, I have no medical expertise or knowledge.
But hey, it’s better than if the readings were higher.
And as for the conflicting doctor’s orders about the potassium pills, I have decided to go with the “one pill a day for two weeks” way. So I’
ll cancel the appointment my regular doc made for me on Tuesday. And if they aren’t happy with that they’ll just have to tell me. Hopefully it’s fine.
Other than that, I’m just going to take it easy over the weekend. And NEXT week I’ll work SUPER HARD, and I mean it. Here we goooo.
28/3 2026
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I managed to order my new bus card today. Turned out to be super easy. At least the ordering process was. Now I have to wait for it to arrive.
This will be interesting. As some of you know, the Danish postal service shut down their letter carrying business this year. And it was taken over by a private company. And they have had a really hard time living up to their new responsibilities. The media and social media have bee full of reports of people not getting their mail, mail being literally dumped in trash cans and streets, huge delays. Seriously impacting things like hospital and banking stuff. People not getting their new bank cards, hospital tets not arriving in time.
So I will have to see. The bus card is supposed to arrive within 2 weeks. Here’s to hoping. And hopefully adjusting to the new card won’t be hard. I always worry about new things. But so far so good.
28/3 2026
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Wait, if Brian can understand Stewie and the family can understand Brian, why doesn’t Brian just tell the family what Stewie is saying?
And why did it take me 30 years to think of that?
28/3 2026
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The hill is alive with the sound of goats.

28/3 2026
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goatlog

29/3 2026
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Have a Sunny Sunday and a funny funday.
I lost an hour to daylight savings this night and I may headbutt the clock.

29/3 2026
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Another week down. A quarter of the year is pretty much done. Time sure flies when the world falls apart. Hey now hey now, don’t dream it’s over.
Anyway, a week with ups and downs. The doctor stuff is never fun. But museum trips and handing over art to Helle was great. Healthwise the week started well, getting back on track with things. And then.. well let’s just say the week didn’t end great in that regard. But tomorrow I’m starting again again again! And this time I’ll do great, for more than 4 days. Can’t wait! And hopefully my blood pressure and potassiums are stabilitattering.
No great plans for next week. Wonder if I’ll hear from my doctor about my potassium plans. Or if they’ll just accept my decision to do one pill a day for two weeks. I guess I’ll find out.
I hope you’re all doing well out there. I appreciate having you all as particles in my atom. Or atoms in my particle. The blood in my veins when I’m under pressure. dun-dun-dun-dun pressure.
29/3 2026
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. My birthday party with the goats. Hmm, why did THEY end up getting all the treats then?
Well, of course I got the treat of their company, a gift that keeps giving all year long. So I’ll take that.
A rainy day. Especially in the morning with quite a bit of rain.
When I got there Jeanette was just heading out of the goat pen. Sky was down with her, while the big girls were up at the house. Jeanette let the gate open and Sky came out of the pen to meet me, that was very sweet. And she followed me back into the pen like a good goat girl.
Lots of time spent inside today, and trying to make sure Sky could stay dry too. At one point I was sitting next to the hatch opening inside and she came because one of the big girls had gone out and was chasing her a bit. She came in and tried to jump over my legs as I was sitting sort of hunched over. I grabbed her and took her in my lap. Aw. It’s been a long long time since I had some good lapgoat time, especially with Sky. Because of her bulky sides it’s easy to forget how little and light she is. Bella and Luna are way heavier than her now. But it was so sweet to have sitting in my lap. The way I had my legs drawn up towards my chin, she fit perfectly there, laying across my legs and chewing her cud. Had to keep Bella and Luna away, as they were hovering around, trying to get to her. I wish they would go easier on her. But I really loved the lapgoat time today. So sweet and loving.
Now I’m back home and drying up, and it’s time to get some soup. It’s a soup weather kind of day for sure.
16/3 2026
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Sky trying to stay dry. The extra floorboard space now does help a little when she has to stand her. She’s getting more confident, I hope we’ll see the day when she just comes inside even though the big girls are inside too.

16/3 2026
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Aw, sweet sweet Sky. It felt so good to have lapgoat with her today. She’s light as a feather and fits perfectly in my lap. I love how she just settled in and chewed her cud, relaxing to the sound of the rain outside. So good.

16/3 2026
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At one point when the big girls weren’t being nice, Sky wandered down to stand under one of the ramps. I haven’t seen her do that before. But I took three of my boards and went down and put them under there. Maybe something to sit on if it’s raining and she can’t get into the house. I don’t know if I’ll keep the boards there, but for now that’s 6 out of 9 being used.

16/3 2026
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Hey hey! Thank you so much for the lovely birthday card, Beverly!
I think it even made it to me before my birthday, I didn’t check my mailbox Friday, it might very well have been down there on Sunday. In any case, thank you for thinking of me and your kind friendship over the years. <3!

17/3 2026
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Got an hour forty and change on the bike today. My birthday weekend got a lot unhealthier than I had hoped ad planned, so now it was time to make up for that. Pay the piper. The pie piper. With his delicious pies.
Anyway, good to get on the bike again. I will try to work hard now until my doctor’s visit in a couple of weeks. And maybe even after that, who knows.
Why is it always so much easier to let go than to hang on? Annoying. I will give the Fifa peace prize to anyone who invents a pizza that burns more calories than it..has. Okay.
Still not feeling quite myself. In my head. I feel.. odd. In my head. But it’s probably fine. A few whacks with an oversized cartoon croquet mallet should fix me up.
17/3 2026
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For the premium subscribers, since you were all so nice to me on my birthday… here is a treat. A preview of an upcoming video in the edit queue. Lapgoat time with Sky. So so sweet.
17/3 2026
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Oh good morning. It is now 7:45 am. I am waiting for visitors.
Having my water and heating measurers serviced today. Between 8 am and 3 pm. So, that’s something. I’ve been up since 6 and I probably have a whole lot of hours to just sit and be nervous. Because you know I can’t not worry. And having people in my apartment is still a slightly traumatic thing for me. Well, I don’t like it anyway.
I know it’s silly, they’re just coming to do their job and I’ll never see them again, so who cares what they think.
But nonetheless. Mine is a worrying mind.
I do also want it to be done. Since I moved in I have had zero measuring of the heat i use or the temperature or humidity in my apartment. I would really like to have that fixed. I like to keep a close eye on the water/electricity/heating usage. And heating is the part I needto monitor the most because I use too much because I get too cold.
Anyway. I just hope it gets done today, gets done properly, and nothing else gets screwed up in the process. Here’s to hoping.
And it would be nice if they could come early so I could have time to exercise today too. Hooves crossed.
Didn’t sleep well last night, anxiety now. Not great. But when it’s done it’ll be good.
18/3 2026
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Alright. The service guy has been here. He came around 1pm. So that’s not great, 5 hours of anxiously waiting. And it’s a bit too late to get started on exercising now. Doesn’t fit my rhythm. But oh well. At least he came. I still can’t see any temperature readings on the self-service website, though. He said it was fixed. I hope it just takes a little time for the site to update or something. I really don’t want to have another visit. It took them 5 months to get this one set up.
It shows the water it used when I flushed the toilet after he left. But no date for the radiator, no reading of temperature or humidity in the apartment.
I bet there’s still a problem. Sigh. Well, hopefully it will start working sometime today. Otherwise I’ll have to contact the housing assoc again.
At least I can relax now. Something this simple shouldn’t be so stresful for me. But you know me and people. They don’t mix easily.
18/3 2026
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Yeah. Past 6 pm, no measure of temperature or humidity in my apartment, no readings on radiator usage.
Pretty sure today was a waste. A waste of time, anxiety and worry and nothing to show for it.
Well, I will give it over the weekend. Mostly because I just don’t want to deal with it again right now. If it’s not working still then I’ll have to contact the housing association. See what they say. If I’m going to have to wait another 5 months. And have another day of waiting around and not being able to do anything because I’m too anxious.
Sigh.
The guy seemed very nice. He was talking to another guy on the phone, at their office I guess. And I could hear him say that the unit was brand new, and he wasn’t sure changing it would help, and then suddenly while they were talking it started working and the other guy said he was getting readings, and the guy in my apartment was all happy “I saved us 2000 kroners”. Yeah, maybe you should have changed it after all.
I got all depressed, and ordered pizza. Again. This is why I can’t have one pizza. Birthday pizza is fine. But now I want pizza all the time to cope with depression and axiety. I need to stop that.
Anyway. Maybe I’ll get a miracle over the weekend and it’ll start giving me readings. At least he didn’t mess up any of the other stuff. My internet router is in that ‘technical closet’ too, I was a little concerned that maybe he’d fumble around and ccut the internet somehow. Or that I would stop getting readings of the cold/hot water and electricity, but those are still being measured and updated. So at least it’s not worse than before. Just a waste of time and mental challenge.
Tra la. Hey the pizza was good. Next week I got museum trip with Helle and doctor’s appointment. And we’ll see what happens with the heating.
Definitely need me some goat time.
Forty-eight is off to a flying start!
It’s fine. Just annoying. Lots of people have a lot worse to deal with, I know.
18/3 2026
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Think goat thoughts! Three sweet goats, working on more branches brought by Jeanette. Nice to see Sky digging in with the others. She is getting braver, little by little. Not that often to see her like this.

18/3 2026
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Sorry bout the negative posts today. Try to look at the bright side, and use the flash light if you need.

18/3 2026
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Well, unfortunately today was not succesful. Depressed and tired, I did not make it out of bed in the morning. Missed my goat trip. And ordered cake.
I need to find my way back to my head. Has anyone seen it? It’s always in the last place you look. Either that, or in the fireplace.
Well anyway. Did write an email to the housing assoc complaining that the heater is still not measuring. The last 2-3 times I emailed them I only got the auto-reply and they never got back with a real reply, I’m not sure if I have gone in their spam filter. But I’ll see if they reply to this one, otherwise I’ll have to call them. Just to be clear, I don’t have a problem with the heating. I get het. It’s the measuring I’m not getting. I’m not cold, I just don’t know how much I’m paying. So it is firth world problem indeed. I’d just really like to know, since I know I’m using too much heat. It would be good to know whether I’m still in an acceptable range.
Okay, i’ll shut up about it. I’m going to take a couple of quiet days. Then try to work hard. Get healthier and go goating, those things will make me feel better. You know when you know what you gotta do but you still don’t because you’re your own worst enemy? That kind of thing. But it’s fine. Let’s call it an extended birthday celebration, and now I can get back to real life.
I was going to do an Infocom verbose joke about my writing, but probably no one would get it.
I hope you are all doing well out there. I really appreciate all the good people in my life. Without the good people and the goats I would be a false prophet screaming at nothin from a mountain top, and that would be less than optimus prime.
sorry, my mind wanders off kilter.
Hang in there, kitten!
19/3 2026
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One day a day, one raspberry at a time.

19/3 2026
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goatlog

20/3 2026
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Dad was over earlier, but he went to the wrong place. My old apartment. He called me on the phone and asked why I wasn’ opening the door, because he had rung the doorbell. It’s hard to see him like that, getting confused and forgetting things. But I got him got him guided over to the new place. Thankfully just next door.
He said my name was still on the door at the old place. I thought we’d gotten that fixed, I know I complained about it to the housing assoc. They told me it was taken down, and I think I even checked, but I am not completely sure if I only checked the mailbox or if I went up and checked the door too. I’ll have to go check and then complain if the name is up. Maybe dad was just confused about that too, but it sounded like he was reading my name off the door when we talked. Not like it matters much if my name is still on the old door, as long as it’s not on the mailbox. But I better check.
It’s been a noisy day, construction outside feels like it’s getting closer and closer, apartment practically shaking at times.
mentally I am still not doing so well. But I’ll get there. Wherever it is. Check whose name is on the forehead.
One day a day.
20/3 2026
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Okay. I got news. About the heating and stuff. And it’s kind of all over the place and partially extremely worrisome.
It’s a big mess, this post is going to be a long ramble and probably won’t make much sense, feel free to skip it. I’ll put a TLDR highlight in a comment.
To recap: Since I moved into this apartment I have had no readings on how much heating I have been using. The system only showed numbers for water and electricity, the heating numbers were blank. I was told by the housing assoc that there was ‘no contact’ to the heating measurer and that it would have to be serviced, which happened on Wednesday after many month’s of waiting.
So. Numbers about hte heating usage have started coming in on the self-service site. For the first time since I moved in, there are numbers for the heating.
And as I had feared, they are pretty bad.
But I’m not sure what to make of it.
My usage for 2026 is at 2061 kWh.
In comparison, the reading for all of 2025 (before I moved in) is 891.5 kWh. So. Okay.
The thing is, those 2061 kWh are readings for three days.
The readings for Wednesday (when the service guy was here) and Thursday are both 881.8 kWh and the reading for today (before I turned the heat completely off after seeing this) is 297.4 kWh. 2061 kWh spread over 3 days. All other days say 0.
Now. Is it even possible to use 881 kWh in a day? I don’t really understand kilowatts.
I’m thinking, hoping, that when the service guy got the measuring thing working on Wednesday, that it took all the usage for the last 4 active months and divided it up for these 3 days. Like it had a backlog of counted usage and it splashed it all out on those 3 days when it came online for the first time.
The readings for every day before Wednesday just says zero. But I’m not sure how to interpret that. Are the 2000 kwh, are those a total for all the days that also read 0. Or are those days with 0 uncounted for and would the total actually go way above 2000 if all the days were counted? Were they counted and not listed or were they not counted. I’m having a hard time expressing what I mean. Is 2061 tge actual total or is there a hidden extra amount that isn’t showing because the system wasn’t connecting previously.
I can’t on a daily basis have used the same amount that the previous guy used in a year, right? I can’t have used more than 800 kWh per day if the previous guy used 800ish a year. because if that’s the case I’d end up with a bill for many thousands of dollars, many tens of thousands of kroners.
It must be 2000 kwh for the 4 active months I have been living here. That would still be a lot. That would still be like twice as much as the previous guy. But I wouldn’t completely rule that out as unrealistic. I keep the apartment way too hot because of my bad circulation ie diabetes, I get so cold. Paying twice as much as other people wouldn’t be completely unexpected for me. I have made preparations on that, saving as much as possible on hot and cold water and electricity to make up for the extra heating spending.
One of the things that complicates this whole thing is the damn ventilation system. I’m not sure ventilation is the proper term. It’s basically an air duct sucking and blowing, make your own jokes here.
I had it blocked off at times because it bothered me so much, but I don’t think I mentioned that the blocking fell off a while ago so it’s been going again.
I blocked it off today, after turning off the heat. And I could immediately feel how the apartment felt warmer. Along with quieter. Without the constant rush of air.
That ventilation system has been gushing air in and out of my apartment constantly. I remember around the move when Helle was over here, I asked if you could adjust it. And she tried to adjust it but couldn’t do it. She said that in some other people’s apartments you could turn it to adjust it. But mine can’t be turned. And I remember Helle noting with surprise how much air was going through it.
What if that damn system has been taking all the heat out of my apartment and I have been paying to heat it up way more than I had to? And I have had no way to monitor the usage because the system wasn’t giving any readings, and no way to adjust the ventilator.
I don’t know man. It’s all firing up all my anxiety and depression and worry to extreme levels. Have I been pumping heat straight out of the apartment on max for 4 months? And would I have some kind of legal recourse since the monitoring system hasn’t been functioning and there has been no way to adjust the ventilation?
I guess I’ll find out in.. I think it’s September or October. When you get the yearly statement of your consumption usage and you get money back or a big bill. We pay a fixed anount every month and then once a year it’s added up to see if we paid enough or not.
Will I get a big heating bill or an astronomical heating bill that will ruin my life?
Oh boy.
Well, I have turned off the heat completely now. With the ventilation blocked maybe I can live with that until next winter.
Assuming the 2000 kWh is actually for the whole 4 months, then I suppose it’s not a disaster.
I don’t really know how KwH functions. Is it possible to use 800 kwH in a day in a 40 square feet apartment if you have the heat fairly turned up and a ventilation system sucking it out? Is that realistic or not?
I haven’t kept the heat on as high a setting as at the old place, but then it’s a new system maybe. I don’t know if the radiator levels are the same. I don’t know how many kWh I used at the old place either, because there it only measured “radiator units” not kWh.
Ugh what a mess.
I guess it’s nice that the heating readings are actually coming through now. But yeah I don’t know what to make of it all.
I celebrated by ordering pizza again because I feel utterly defeated and just want to give up on everything.
I was hoping writing all this down would sort out some of the thoughts in my head, but not really unfortunately.
And I can hear the neighbours a lot more without the constant woosh of the ventilator.
The fact that I have had the heat turned off for 5 hours and it’s still fairly warm because the ventilator is blocked, is making me worry about how much I had the heat on for barely any reason.
Oh well. I guess I’ll see. The bill won’t come for enother 6-7 months, and when it comes to places to be homeless Denmark is probably one of the better ones. Tra la.
Oh and even though I now get readings on the heating usage, the system still doesn’t display the temperature/humidity in my apartment like it’s supposed to and like it did at my old place. Don’t know if that will kick in too at some point. I’m pretty sure the heating numbers only started appearing today even though they show readings from Wednesday and Thursday too.
I just. Don’tk know man.
Sorry about this, rest assured I will be due a flogging to punish me for the word scramble.
20/3 2026
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Hello. Good day. It’s a new day. Trying to stay calm and not let depression get me completely wrecked.
Before going to bed last night I went and scheduled a grocery delivery today. And I added cake, unfortunately. So I’m getting cake today. May even order pizza again too. Because I’m just.. not doing well.
The last week and a half have been real bad for my mental and physical health. But I’m going to try to draw a line in the sand after this weekend. Next week I’m startig fresh. I pretty much have to start all over again, because I have wrecked most of my progress.
But it’s fine. It will be whatever it will. Starting next week I will work hard and be back on track. No problemo.
Probably.
I have had the heat off in my apartment sice yesterday’s debacle. Not going too bad. My ventilation block has slipped a little, I can hear the air and feel a little of the cold.
My plan now is to try to find out what’s wrong with that venilation sucker and how to fix it. Because there has to be somethign wrong with it. I have reached out to Helle and asked if she can use her contacts with the housing assoc, and if not then I’ll call i myself and ask.
But I was laying in bed last night and thinkign about it, and it occured to me that I did have one of those ventilation things at the old apartment. It was over the kitchen and it was sort of encased in a box thing, a grease filter over it I guess? But I think it was the same kind of air sucker. But the thing was, there was barely any air flow through. A very very light air flow. And I think that must be how it’s supposed to work. A very light air flow. The one in here in the new apartment must be stuck on a wrong setting, it’s like maximum setting. I need to find out how to adjust it. I don’t know if that’s something I can do myself or if it’s something that the housing assoc has to do, or maybe those service people who run the heater measurer and all that too. I don’t know. But there has to be a way to set it so it doesn’t pump air through like a storm.
I read somewhere in the past about a setting in the suction system for when there’s a fire, to suck out all the smoke, it almost seems like mine has been set on that setting by mistake. But I can’t remember where I read that, if it was something connected to our buildings or if it was a general thing. But I think I read something about that being a remotely controlled setting. Maybe.. it’s been set on the wrog setting and they need to set it right from their end?
I don’t know, man. But I guess that’s the next step. Contact with the housing assoc to find out about the ventilation system.
And if I can keep the heating turned off from now on, maybe my heating bill won’t be catastrophic.
I’m just.. not doing great. But hopefully I can get back on track. There will be lots to do next week. Museum visit with Helle, doctor visit, trying to find out about the ventilation, getting back to healthier living, goat time. I’m going to try not to think too much for the rest of the weekend.
Sorry for all the complaints.
21/3 2026
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Does anyone know how to interpret my bathroom radiator?
The radiators in my living room go from the * snow icon * to 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5.
The bathroom radiator (is that even the right word in English?) in my bathroom goes from 0 to small 27 to E (?) to *snowflake to 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 -5.
I’m not really sure how to interpret that. I guess in the living room the snowflake is the off setting, but in the bathroom 0 is the off. What does the E mean, is it even an E or is it a pictogram, it has like a circle on top. And a litte outjutting thing next to it that would line up with the dial pin or whatever it’s called.
Anyone?
21/3 2026
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Rest in peace Nicholas Brendon. Oly 54, that is just tragic. I know he had a lot of problems and health issues. What a sad story. The Buffyverse was very important to me in my younger days, and I always loved Xander as part of it.
I just heard that the Buffy reboot was cancelled, I thought that it had been sure to go ahead. But I guess not. I am not really sad about that, I loved Buffy and Angel but I’m fine with that staying in the past. But so sad to hear about Nicholas. And after Michelle Trachtenberg died so young too. Tragic.
21/3 2026
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A little goat fun to take the mind off things.
On the big rainy day, I let the door into the storage stay open for a while, to give more space for the goats so Sky had more of a chance to get inside. The storage room is normally locked, because there’s food in there.
Here Bella discovered the hay bales. And of course is there any better way to eat hay than to stand atop a bale and eat from it? If I could stand on a pizza and eat it, I would.

21/3 2026
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I’m not going to go on too much about it, because it doesn’t matter and talking about politics is so dumb when everything else is crashing.
But man. Seeing Trump talk about Pearl Harbor and post about Mueller.
I will never. Ever. Be able to understand. How anyone can look at him. And not see what a giant flaming piece of garbage he is.
Say what you will about all the previous presidents in recent history. Agree or disagree with them. Agree or disagree with Trump’s politics. There has never been anyone of such outspoken open lack of honour and dignity and moral quality.
Can you imagine Obama or Bush saying these things? I mean I vaguely remember Bush vomiting on.. the Japanese PM? But that wasn’t a choice, that wasn’t a dumb person being dumb or an evil person being evil. That was just shit happens. You can ridicule or judge him for it, but you can’t argue that it was something he WANTED to happen.
And can you imagine Obama publically saying he was glad an American had died. Or Bush saying he was glad someone, even if it were a political opponent, died.
I’m not saying you can’t come up with bad things about Obama or Clinton or Bush or whatever. But there has never been anyone of such repeatedly transparent openly extreme low class. Even if others did crimes or really bad things, that had to be exposed and (mostly) had consequences.
The Mueller and Pearl Harbor things are not politically important. Not the things that should be discussed and have real consequences. But they’re just the latest in the endless flood of proof of what a shtty horrible ashhole of dumpster fire he is. And his supporters cheer as America’s name is dragged through the mud, its standing plummeting. I mean even sweet friendly Denmark has been planning to blow up its own airports to keep America away from our territory, imagine that happening under any other president?
Absolutely fkn disgraceful. Inveinting and co-opting peace prices will waging wars wars and couping countries, it’s fkn bananas. Congratulations on all the policies you support that have been pushed through, but you have wrecked yourself and the world in the process. If you think the ends justify the means, just wait till you have to argue that at the pearly gates. See if your gold plated Trump signed america flagged bibles will get you into heaven. Don’t forget your wooden nickels and false idols.
Alright alright. Had to get that all off my chest. Back to feeling sorry for myself and complaining about every little thing that goes wrong, hooray!
Imagine how smoothly things would run if -I- were president!
two scoops
21/3 2026
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Sky to the front page.

21/3 2026
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goatlog

22/3 2026
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Okay. Hello. Good morning.
So last night I turned on my heat again around midnight.
It has now been going for abour 11½ hours. And the measuring, which is now running and giving results as it should it seems, says 7 kWh has been used.
So that. Seems reasonable-ish?
That would at least indicate that the 2000 kWh that was measured over Wednesday/Thursday/Friday, that was indeed for 4 months, not for 3 days. Maybe that’s why it took a couple of days after the service guy visited before the readings started appearing. Becauase there was such a big backlog of measurements and it had to go through all that and that took days.
Anyway, it adds up. Let’s 8 kWh for half a day. That’s 16 for a whole day. times 30 for a month that would be 480. Times 4 for 4 months that would be 1920. So. Around 2000 kwH for 4 months.
Now that’s a lot. But it’s not catastrophically bankrupting. At least it feels like things are making sort of sense now, like I understand it better.
I think.
What I’m going to do is I’m going to leave the heat running today and see how it adds up. I have my ventilation system almost blocked, the blocking I put up sort of fell off a little, so it’s like half blocked. Tonight around midnight I’m going to take the blocking off completely. And then I’m going to let the heat run for a day with the ventilation completely unblocked, to see how that adds up. If that uses way more kWh or about the same.
A science experiment, you may say.
But after that my goal is to have the heat completely turned off at least until next winter.
The next step though is to get in touch with the housing association about the ventilation system. I am not completely sure if Helle is going to go through her contacts and inquire or if I’m going to call in myself on their phone line, but I’ll see about that. The point is, there has to be something wrong. The ventilation system must be set to maximum power by mistake, and I have to find out if that is something they can adjust remotely or if there’s some way for me to do it myself. My fear is that it’s something that the Wisehome people have to do (that’s company that came and serviced my hear measuring, I think they’re the subcontractors taking care of all this stuff for the housing assoc). Because if they have to come and look at my ventilation system I don’t know how long that would take. It took 4-5 months for them to come look at my heater measurer. At the old place we had yearly (before covid) checks of the ventilation system to check it was working. And that check was something that had to be done for the whole buildign at the SAME time, so it’s something that has to be scheduled with advance warning for all tenants, and it may cost the housing assoc a lot of money to do and they may not want to just do it right now, and even if they do it will require I think 6 weeks advance warning if it has to be done fro all tenants at the same time, I don’t know if it can be done for just me.
So bla bla the point is, if it’s Wisehome that has to do it, it could take a long time, like months.
If that ends up happening then.. well I guess I will have to block off the ventilation system myself until it gets sorted. Because I can’t have that storm blowing through my apartment if I have the heat turned off.
Lawson mentioned a good idea about maybe putting some cloth over or something, something to slow it down but not completely block it. I may try and see if something like that is possible. Because it’s not great to have it completely blocked. When I blocked it a couple of days ago, before the blocking started to fall off again, I went to bed with it having been all blocked all day and I started feeling like I was going to choke on carbon dioxide, but I don’t know if that was just paranoia because Lawson had talked about it or if the oxygen levels in my apartment were actually a problem.
But that ventilation system is not supposed to be completely blocked and it is also not supposed to pound air through like a hurricane. Pretty sure of that.
Sorry for the rambling again. But now I do feel like I am understanding it all better and am in more control. We’ll see what the housing assoc says about the ventilation, if they can do something and how long it takes.
Today, I am going to have leftover cake. And then I’m going to try my best to draw that line in the sand and get back on the path towards the light. Oxygenated healthy living here I come.
22/3 2026
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It’s been a week. It sure has.
Not a good week. A pretty bad one in fact. Mentally and physically. That one night I practically thought I was dying from the carbon.. is mono dio xide? Anyway, I wasn’t sad about it. Maybe it was delirium from lack of oxygen, but I was almost excited about that journey.
But hey that journey is not now. Here I am. it’s been a bad week and a half, but I hope now is the beginning of the bettering. I have to pretty much start over on the health. And I have lots of stuff to deal with coming up. But having stuff to deal with means the possibility of dealing with it and that means the possibility of it getting better. Now that I am more aware of the heating and ventilation stuff, that means there is potential of fixing it and things getting better. Everything can get better. As long as you’re still alive, there is the chance of improvement. So that’s what I’m going to try to work for.
One day a day. And tomorrow is in fact another day. And only a day away. Or, an hour away really.
Sorry if I have been extra annoying recently. Thank you for listening if you ahve. Thank you for the support. The birthday wishes. you are like plants sending oxygen into my world. Thank you, my pretty flowers.
No really, I’m not delirious right now. Breathe in breathe out.
On y va.
22/3 2026
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That’s all for now.