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November 8th, 2026Good goat times today. Back to the goat place to recharge the soul batteries.
A dark and grey morning. Sporadic little rainfalls, but not too bad. Temperatures inching upwards of 10C/41F. Gets cold when you’re sitting around outside for hours. Might need to bring out the sweater soon.
Jeanette is on vacation, so I had to hold down teh fort today. A pretty quiet day with the girls. We did have some visitors, including some kids in the pen with the goats, but not for too long and they were very chill.
When I got there in the morning, Bella was in the new little goat house. But Sky was actually inside the big main house, with Luna. So that’s pretty good. It does seem like Sky and Luna are spending more and more time together. With tension, sure. Sky still not at ease when the others are too close. But I do see them together more. And I do think it’s easier when I’m not around so they don’t have to compete for attention and treats. Nice that Sky could be inside like that.
Not super surprising that the big girls end up wanting to use the new little house too, but if it can hel Sky be up there and be in the main house, then that’s pretty good.
And now I need some soup to warm up.
2/11 2026
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Sky and Luna together. They came down to the fence to greet me. Bella doesn’t like when it’s muddy out. She waited up by the house. But again, Sky and Luna more together.
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2/11 2026
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Sky in the little house in the goat pen. She went in there a couple of times on her own, without me prompting her. That was good to see. She did also go down under the podium a couple of times. I don’t think we’ll be able to make it just her house. I wish it could be moved just a little bit more away from the hatch and main entrance of the goat house. But the vegetation blocks that. But hopefully she can get to use it as much as possible, and when the others use it there will be space opening up in the main house.
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2/11 2026
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I like this song. Never heard of the band before.
2/11 2026
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Got another new thing for the goats, here modeled by Luna. Its half of the door that used to be inside the goat house. Some might remember we had a door that was split in half, so you could open the top and or the bottom part. Well at some point the bottom part fell off, so there was only a top part. Eventually I asked Jeanette if e couldn’t remove the top part. It made not sense to have a top part wen we don’t have birds flying around in there. Without the bottom part the goats could just walk through. And inevitably I ended up smacking my head against the top half because I couldn’t tell if it was open or closed. So we took the top half down too, and it’s been standing in the storage room since. When we got the new house I found that putting that door down in front of it worked like a good ‘porch’, a platform in front. So I put it there last week. But today I moved it, because having it in front of the little house meant that Bella wanted to sit there a lot. And having Bella sitting in front of the little house would just make it less likely that Sky would go to it. So now the platform/porch has been move here, on this side. Next to the two boards that came from my old book shelf. I have noticed several times recently when I have arrived in the morning, Sky has been standing on those boards, up by the others. So now there’s more to stand on. Both Luna and Sky got on it for a while today. Always good to have thinsg to stand on, when you’re a goat.
So that was a long boring story just to say, new platform.
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2/11 2026
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Quiet day today.
Well, other than the neighbours drilling so hard my whole apartment was shaking. I hope they’re done now.
Other than that, quiet. Had stuff on the computer that I needed o work on. And of course, had time that I needed to waste. That’s kind of a speciality of mine.
Hope all you Americans have a nice voting day. I would like to think today will be the first step towards a better world. Obviously I don’t believe it, but I ‘d like to.
I just hope when AI destroys humanity, they will leave the animals alone. Let the animals inherit the earth.
Anyway. I resisted buying junk food today. Instead I had rice in coconut oils with Pringles. Scooping up rice with a Pringles chip is kind of nice. Not healthy. But probably not as bad as pizza/fries/cake. I used to eat Pringles and rice a lot, I sort of had a craving for it. But I think that’s out of my system now. ‘
Ta Ta Tuesday.
3/11 2026
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I never got to play Skyrim, but seeing the teaser trailer for Sentinel still give mes me some goosey bumpies. The Elder Scrolls still has a bit of my heart. Funny when I only really played Oblivion. But I played Oblivion absolute to death. All the DLC and expansions. One of my best gaming memories. Getting lost in that world. And having a powerful computer that could run that beautiful beast.
I only ever got a minute or two in Morrowind and in Skyrim. I wish I could play them. I wish I could play the Fallout games. I wish I wish. Yeah, gaming is a wound now. A thing I had to bandage and forget, let it heal out of sight. All my life, since my dad and I picked up that used Commodore 64 when I was a kid. Gaming was a huge part of my life. There were periods when it was almost all of my life. And then it got cut off. And if I think about it, it just makes me sad. So I try not to think about it. Kind of like goats of the past. Not that I want to forget them. But I could easily make myself very sad very fast by letting some of them back in my head. It’s easier to deal with the days if you can think about what you have, not what you have lost.
Anyway. I hope Sentinel will be good and that people will enjoy it. Will there by horse armour?
NEEEERD
3/11 2026
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Congratulations to my fellow voting fraudsters, looks like we might have pulled off an impressive steal.
I can’t remember the last time I got up and scrolled through r/news and didn’t want to just jump out the window in despair.
I am sure everything will go to shit soon enough, but it was nice to have five minutes of hope.
RIP all the cheeseburgers
4/11 2026
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Well so much for No Nut November I guess
/Gary Whitta on bsky
4/11 2026
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I think all the republicans who closed their eyes and pretended Trump was on the ballot just completely missed it. Should have probably kept their eyes open when aiming.
4/11 2026
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Got an hour twenty on the bike today. So I got that going for me.
A bit of a struggle today, both on and off the bike. I got out of breath quickly and my legs were tired. Bit at least I gotter done.
And I almost didn’t get going at all. Kind of a weird days with ups and downs. I had planned to get up early and do some stuff before exercising. Had a bad night though and ended up staying in bed. Don’t know when I would have gotten up if it wasn’t for the fact that construction got really loud outside. They start work at 7 am sharp. And their machines often driving in before that even.
So I got woked out of bed. And then I saw the woke news from America. And I got almost, dare I say it, happy. And I decided that I was just going to sit all day and read news and what people were saying because it was so nice. And then, because I’m dumb, I decided I should celebrate with pizza. And then I got tired and leaned over in my comfy chair and started dozing off. I set the alarm on my computer to three hours. Intending to sleep the day away and get pizza.
Woke up after 30 minutes and somehow managed to get a hold of myself and get out of the chair and get on the bike. So I got my exercise instead of pizza after all. Prety good. And there’s still time to enjoy reading chatter about the smurf wave.
4/11 2026
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I looked on Youtube and unfortunately no one has put together a supercut of Craig Ferguson starting his talkshow with “It’s a great day for America” over and over. Shame. It would have been a good day to post something like that.
I know it doesn’t change everything. I know everything isn’t suddenly super. But after drowning in a river of shit for so long, it’s nice to look out over a calm, blue ocean for a minute.
I hope this is something America can build on. A foundation for something new and better? Yeah, I know it’s still a torn country. A whole lot of people will think THIS is the river of shit. And the baby in briefs in chief will do his best to stomp everything.
But I hope the “new” people can build something up. Gay, muslim, female, poc. A diverse future? It’s crazy that there are people who think that’s a threat. Let them eat cheeseburgers.
4/11 2026
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🎶
We don’t really want a monster taking over
Tiptoe ’round, tie him down
We don’t want the loonies taking over
Tiptoe ’round, tie him down
🎵
4/11 2026
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Hold on, let’s see who wins the FIFA midterms before we celebrate.
4/11 2026
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Good goat times today. Good to get back to the goat world, and away from the human world for a bit.
Cold morning, though. Just around freezing. Frost on the walk there, for the first time. And I got my sweater and neck roller thing (I can still never remember what it’s called) on for the first time this season.
It’s hard to find a good balance. I get sweaty on the long. But then I get too cold when sitting down for hours. Could have used gloves today. I really prefer when it’s too hot to when it’s too cold. And it’s just going to get colder for a while. Five months until it starts getting better.
But the goats are great. Jeanette back from vacation. Getting the campfire going, making popcorn with the visiting kids. Lots of kids in the pen too. Most of them well behaved. There was one who needed some ‘instructing’ on how to behave around the goats. But it was all god, lots of happy kids.
Had Bella and Luna isolated down in the big pen for a while. Trying to get Sky to take some ownership of the new house. I think it will be hard as long as it’s placed so near the other entrances to the main house. She will always withdraw some when the bigger girls get too near. Apparently Jeanette found her sitting under the podium when she got there this morning, which isn’t great when it’s cold like this. But we’ll have to see how it goes. We might try moving the house, but there isn’t a lot of good space for it where it’s at a proper distance but still close enough so she feels part of the group. Goat politics are complicated too!
But soup politics are easy, and it’s going to be a big wave now.
5/11 2026
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Sky in the hizzhouse. Or, the herzzhouse.
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5/11 2026
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Bella and Luna down in the pen. They weren’t too happy with being locked down there. I don’t know if it was that or the frost, but they were pretty subdued in the morning. They got more animated when I let them back in the house pen.
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5/11 2026
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Triple goat score. Reunited after the separation.
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5/11 2026
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Cold day, but quite lovely when the sun was out.
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5/11 2026
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Fired up my oven today, for he first time in months. I have ben ordering much junk food that I stopped using my own oven. Made my own fries today. Made too many, but still better than all the junk I would have gotten if I ordered in. So that’s something.
In other news, I watched the sixth and final episode of Small Prophets. I really love it. Can’t wait for season 2, in five years or whenever. Sigh. Do Americans watch British shows at all? I highly recommend it. And just to show that it’s not just me, here’s a quote from the avclub website about it:
“Apple TV’s Small Prophets is one of the strangest—and strangely sweet—shows on television. A story about loneliness, unresolved grief, and magic both literal and figurative, it’s a warm, low-stakes exploration of many timeless truths of the human condition.”
There. Good stuff.
Also still loving Cupertino. Exploring lots of modern tech issues via lawyer show. Great. By the way, just saw that big tech lost a trillion on the stock market after the midterm results. Funny that. I guess being valuable will be harder when you don’t have an administration that LITERALLY just says “regulat yourselves”. Sure, you can trust big tech. Why would billionaires do bad things, just g’head.
Also started watching Nocturne. I liked the first two episode. It feels a little By The Numbers of serial killers and complicated cops, but it sure is intense and gripping.
The new season of Scrubs is hitting all the riht notes for me too. I was so happy to see the Janitor. And more of Dr Cox. Just give me all the memberberries. Oh, berries! Hah.
Also listening to the new album by my old classmate Tina Dico. It’s getting really good reviews and I’m liking it. I prefer things a little less polished these days, but she’s always been a great songwriter.
Not enjoying the new Eels record as much as I’d hoped. It’s okay. But. I love Eels, so I want to love it more. Maybe with more listens.
Also struggling a little bit with The Talisman, the Stephen King i’m reading. I enjoyed the beginning a lot. But then Wolf was introduced and it started to drag a little for me. But still, it’s not a bad journey to be dragged along on.
End transmission.
6/11 2026
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Good news for the goats yesterday. I found peanuts. I was running out and the only store where I can get them didn’t have them the last time I was there. I thought maybe it was the end of peanut treats.
It’s easy enough finding peanuts of course, but they’re all made for human snacks. It’s hard to find the complete in shells ones. Bought three big packs, so that should last a few months.
I love listening to the goats crunching peanuts.
In other news, my adblocker is failing which means almost literally every other post on facebook is an ad. I don’t get it. It makes scrolling the feed pretty unbearable. Top tip: Never click on a facebook ad, it’s the perfect way to get viruses and scams. Meta famously doesn’t care to clean them up.
6/11 2026
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Stephen Miller? Wow. They’re not sending their best people…
It’s a comforting thought that an American president will always have the best interest of all American citizen’s at heart, not matter how elections go. Definitely not going to be a selfish prick who just wants to burn everything down to punish the world. Nope.
It’s going to be harder and harder to tell the differences between snl skits and reality.
6/11 2026
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Bleh. Depression heightened today. Probably because I didn’t sleep well last night.
I was experimenting with my meds (as smart people do) and had a couple of nights where I slept better and I was all hoping I had found a fix for my problems. And then a bad night and now it’s like being bad at the default of everything goes wrong.
And then I ordered pizza to comfort myself, and the place rejected my order. They are kind of flakey.
Getting some from another place though. Because I have healthy coping mechanisms.
ANYWAY.
Don’t tell them about hte cake.
Cool.
The upstairs neighbours are noisy. Why are people always noisier in weekends? I feel like that was the case at the old apartment too. Is it just because they’re more home? I don’t know. I wish I could live in a little sound proof box at the bottom of the sea. I have thought this through and there are no flaws to the logic.
Got a grocery delivery today too. Got myself three different packs of “snack carrots”. Smaller than regular ones. I like carrots, but the big ones are tiresome if you have to peel them or wash them and stuff. I’m wondering if I can just have packs of the smaller “snack” carrots around and munch on those instead of unhealthier things. An experiment.
Not for today, obviously.
So here we are, all us functioning adults. High five.
7/11 2026
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A Luna hug to clear the mind.
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7/11 2026
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goatlog
8/11 2026
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Got an hour twentyfive on the bike today. So I got that going for me.
Trying trying trying. Tired today, but I got it done. And then stretches and exercises fro the back, down on the floor. I know I need to go to the doctor. I just don’t want to. Sigh. Sometimes physical pain is easier to bear than mental anguish.
Not always, though.
One day a day.
Hopefully I’ll hear back about the MRI and EEG soon now. Tomorrow is two weeks since the EEG. So they’re supposed to be calling me soon. So we can find out what will happen going forward.
Tra la la. Is it weird that I picture myself as Bugs Bunny when I’m gnawing on a snack carrot? What’s up, duck?
8/11 2026
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Triple goat score.
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8/11 2026
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Rumour has it the elongated muskrat is in Denmark. I keep telling them. BUILD THE WALL. We can’t let those types in.
8/11 2026
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Still haven’t found any portals in anyone’s closets. But on the bright side, I look smashing in dresing gowns.
8/11 2026
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That’s all for now.