Good goat times today. Absolutely gorgeous sunny day. Temperatures up around 12C/53, even warmer now. The first really feeling it Spring day. As I said to Jeanette, it almost feels like summer. Good to see her again. After her vacation and Easter it’s been a while. Now the gang is back together. The goats frisky in the spring sun. Lots of headbutting. And of course when the weather gets warm they love to sit and relax too. And I love to sit and relax with them. Bella usually the first to sit down, the first to curl her head around her body and nap. Luna always like to sit up against me. Sky liking her tub throne, but also found a new place. I took teh wooden boarde that we’ve had laying over by the fence and I moved it over to the mountain, put it on the side there. Great spot in the sun and Sky settle down no that for a while.
Nice visitors at the fence too, and chimney sweepers. By the hair on my chinny chin chin. They came over to the fence and said “Hi, we’re the chimney sweepers”. And I said “okay….”. Haha. Jeanette wasn’t there yet by then but I told them there would be someone over in the office building who could let them in and tell them where to do what. “I’m just the goatsitter..”.
But a lovely day, I hope to get more like this. Sun and goats is good for me.
8/4 2024
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I missed this. Sitting with my three little ladies in the sun. Spring jacket for the first time, and it was warm enough I could have taken it off.

8/4 2024
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Here’s Bella on the board. As I had suspected, and hoped, the moment I dragged it over to the mountainside it had goats jumping on it and buting heads because “This thing is my territory now”. We had a similar board at the first playground and there were some great times with goat kids playing on it. Just a wooden baord slightly askew (well askeeewse me) and you have a Disneyland for goats.
And as previously mentioned it also made for a great place in the sun for Sky to relax on later.

8/4 2024
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Hope it’s a good eclipse for you all, but for me it’s just not fun if it doesn’t involve the world’s most powerful man staring right at it like a belligerent toddler.
8/4 2024
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Speaking of the sun, here are the goats out in the sun. Notice anything strange? Yes, they’re out of the goat pen. I brought pumpkin seeds today, and in my quest to find a good surface to serve them on, I thought I’d take the goats out of the pen and do it on one of the tables there. Went pretty well, the goaties enjoyed the treats and they followed me when I called them back to the pen. Good show.

8/4 2024
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8/4 2024
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Got on the bike and did an hour 37 today. Every second counts. After a 6 day break exercising my legs were good to go hard again. So that was good.
It was harder getting up and started because the depression was strong this morning. I’ve had some sad dreams lately. A couple of nights ago I had a long dream where I was Steve Martin and Martin Short had just died. Obviously that documentary I watched got in my brain. But it was a really sad dream. Last night I dreamt I murdered someone. I don’t remember who or why, just that I went on with my life waiting to be discovered and apprehended. And then I woke up and by pillow was gone! No just kidding about that part. Anyway, I still love my dreams and I still dream a lot. The real world holds less appeal.
9/4 2024
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For the premium subscribers, an outtake. This is some video from the rains last week. It’s not a particularly interesting video, hence why I’m not posting it on the goat page. But I do think it’s kinda funny how it almost looks like it’s security camera footage. I put the camera on the tripod and up on the storage shelf which is why the angle is a bit funny. And I guess I accidentally set my camera to some weird mode, it almost looks greyscale. The whole look of it just reminds me of security camera footage from a robbery in a supermarket or something. The only one getting robbed here is me of apples by the goats.
9/4 2024
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Here’s Sky yesterday, after the pumpkin seed party on the table outside the goat pen. It was like she was looking out of the pen thinking ” I wish I could go back out there”. She was the only one who did a little looking around after most of the pumpkin seeds were devoured.

9/4 2024
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Soon..

10/4 2024
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Got a Pepsi delivery today. But contrary to usual routine, I got less Pepsi this time, I mean, I still got 6 1½ litre bottles. But that’s a low for me. Along with it, and some other goods, I also got bottles of Blåbærbrus, sportsbrus and hindbærbrus. Blueberry, sports and raspeberry sodas. Still sugarfree, still probably not the best to drink. But hey, without caffeine. I’m going to try to not drink as much Pepsi. I still like Pepsi on soup days, it’s my joy. Hot soup and icy Pepsi. But on non soup days I’m going to try to not drink Pepsi. So, we’ll see how that goes. Maybe in time I’ll completely dump the Pepsi. Or maybe I’ll cave in and go back to a 1½ litre of Pepsi a day, don’t judge me I’m a reponsible adult I can do whatever I want to do ner ner.
Speaking of being a responsible adult, I’m having noodles again today. But on top of the ketchup and coconut oil I am adding fried potatoes. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I have always loved mixing refried potatoes with pasta. Just me? Okay then. Tune in soon for more In The Kitchn With Lasse, responsible adult chef!
10/4 2024
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Judge me by the company I keep, not the stupid sht I say on Facebook.

10/4 2024
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Good goat times today. The lovely summerly spring went away and was replaced by cold, grey and lots of rain. Boo urns. So it was a day mostly spent inside. Other than a trip down to the fence to say hello to some kindergarteners visiting Jeanette was away for a meeting today, so I had to take the goats down and play ambassador. Thankfully the rain had mostly died down by then, so the goats came down to the fence with me. They got some snack and the kids got to feed them, s that was a succes for all.
Other than that I spent a lot of time sitting in my chair, with Sky in her regular spot next to me. It’s funny, if she sees one of the others standing next to me and getting attention she’ll walk over and send them packing, like she’s claiming me. “He’s mine”. She can stand for absolutely ages and get scratches and cuddles. She’ll nudge her head against me until I do it. And she seems to be happy just standing there and getting attention for as long as I care to give it. Sweet old girl.
11/4 2024
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Luna watching the rain.

11/4 2024
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Luna again. I don’t think I have ever mentioned it, but I have thought it often, sometimes her white patch of fur on her forehead looks like a mohawk to me. Now the fur doesn’t actually stand up like a mohawk, it’s just that because of the colouring it kind of looks like it sometimes. Lil punk rock bleater.

11/4 2024
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Watching more old snl. Tonight, John Lithgow from season 14. I love John Lithgow so much. Him as Margaret Thatcher, don’t even need to say anything. Just the look.
Stealing the show though, musical guest Tracy Chapman. I don’t wanna talk sht about current snl, but some of the musical guests… Ice Spice. Travis Scott, 21 Savage. Jesus. It makes me feel very Old Man Yells At Cloud. YOU CALL THIS MUSIC. It amuses me because a while back I watched Radiohead doing Idiotequeom 2000 and I have to wonder if there weren’t a bunch of older people watching that going THEY CALL THAT MUSIC?!
Anyway. Tracy Chapman. What a voice. John Lithgow. What a voice. I laugh until my head comes off.
11/4 2024
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Well, I think I broke my back,
Or a bit of it anyway.
For a while I have been using a psoam therapy massage thing. I don’t know if you all know what that is, it’s basically a black piece of plastic with two protusions rising up. Like twin peaks. And you rub your back on it. It’s been feeling really good to use it. Well this morning I was doing it and suddenly I felt a give in my lower back and there was a loud crack. My spine cracks a lot, lots of sounds from my bonest. But this was a loud one. Neighbours might have heard it. I thought uh oh what happened. It felt kind of like the many many, many, times I have broken or bruisd a rib. Only in my lower back. It actually felt good right when it happened. But a couple of hours later it started hurting. The pain also reminds me a lot of the bent ribs. How far down do the ribs go anyway. Maybe it’s my hip. I don’t know. On my lower back left of the spine. Well, it hurts I move those parts now. I guess I’ll be hurting for the next few weeks, that’s how the ribs usually went. Maybe it’ll take away focus from my regular back pain. Oh boy. My body is just a wreck.
Well as long as it doesn’t get much worse than it is now I guess I’ll just have to live with it for a bit. Take it easy with the psoammer.
12/4 2024
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Thank you everyone for the concerns and advice. I’m going to take a page out of Bella’s book and relax as much as possible this weekend and see how I’m feeling. I expect a painful few weeks, but then I can’t really remember a time when I was ok. Oh I’m fine, what would I do if I didn’t have things to complain about! Love you all everybuddies.

12/4 2024
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Hello. Good day, good morning, bonjour mess amys. How are you all doing this fine temporal fixated occurence? I am apained in my back. Feeling sad and tired of depression and pain. But hey hoo, one day a day. I’m going to sit back and watch the TWin Peaks pilot and try to get started on that rewatch I have been threatening. Three seasons and a movie. I will be inviting BoB back in, but I want to go back to there. Along the yellow bridge roads to galaxies far far away, there are also portals to the lodges, I know them well.
And then I’ll have some soup and pepsi and then we’ll see where the lost highway takes us.
Happy weekend, I hope you’re doing fine.
13/4 2024
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I am posting this photo of Bella and Luna butting heads instead of a mile long ramble about Twin Peaks and the real world and terror beneath the glossy surface. I hope you appreciate my restraint. I just want it noted that a) Twin Peaks is still phenomenal. 2) It’s lovely to watch a show in 4:3 aspect ratio when your vision is limited. q) Angelo Badalamenti’s music is absolutely genius and such a giant part of the Twin Peaks experience. Other than maybe John Williams’ Star Wars score I can’t think of a score that hits deeper and is more important. Absolutely class, rest in peace Angelo.
I know i’m going to have nightmares again, but I am excited to rewatch the entire Twin Peaks saga. My first time watching the entire stretch, if I survive it.

13/4 2024
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14/4 2024
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Another sleepy Bella pic to end the week. I’m not in the greatest space, but tomorrow’s another day. Spaceballs!

14/4 2024
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That’s all for now.

I’m sorry I haven’t posted any great April Fools jokes, i’m just swamped with rehearsels for my upcoming tour with Taylor Swift, I hope you guys understand. Tay Tay won’t cut my no slack.
1/4 2024
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Good goat times today. A rainy one. Massive rains passing through overnight. By the time I got out it had died down to more regular, but steady, rain. so it was an indoor day with the goats. That’s fine. Because of Easter and depression I’d been gone too long. Good to be back. No Jeanette, she wasn’t working today. Too long since I’ve seen her too. Imagine that, me looking forward to seeing a human. Let me just check the date, no it’s not April first anymore.
But the goat company was lovely. Bella trying to get up to my backpack on the storage shelf, managed to drag a plastic bag down from there. Luna being a litlte bucky and grunting and snorting. With her little beard and little headbutting, I’m starting to wonder if she’s a little boy after all! She’s not, but then these days. Can goats be gender fluid? She’s a funny one in any case. And Sky is her sweet old self. The goat house wasn’t open yet when I got there. When I slid the door open she was sitting right on the inside looking up at me. I love those three snootiepies.
2/4 2024
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April showers bring.. wet flowers? Luna is watching the rain.

2/4 2024
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If you accidentally push the shutter button, just call it art.

2/4 2024
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Sky is also watching the rain. Let’s hope it makes the grass grow.

2/4 2024
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Got on the exercise bike for another hour and a half today. He’s going the distance. He’s going for speeeed. Well, I’m going somewhere.
I wish the display and digital component (whatshamacallit) on my bike still worked. Broke long ago. It was kinda fun when you could see how fast you were going, how many miles you’d gone and all that. Many years since that broke. Nowadays I put a timer up on my computer and put it so I can see it from the bike, to keep track of how long I’ve been going. And that works fine enough.
I do wish I could get a new bike. It’s rusty. It works, but the pedals are kinda noisy and bumpy. It’s not a smooth even ride. I’ve tried oiling them, but it doesn’t really help. Getting a new bike would be a big bother with delivery and assembly, though. So I’m stuck with this one until it falls apart. It has served me well. No doubt getting my own exercise bike is one of the best investments I ever made. I’m not the kind of guy who can go to the gym and work out. Having it right here has been a big help. I’ve had my ups and downs healthwise over the years, but when i put in the effort on the bike it is always helpful. And it just feels good. It’s easy to forget whn you’re in a slump and you’re depressed and you just want to sink into the chair or bed and never get out and lifting your arms feels like a struggle. But it actually feels great to tax yourself, feel the burn, push yourself. Once you get going it feels good.
Anyway, subscribe to my fitness podcast and use promo code GetOffYourHatAss to get fifty percent off your first order of whatever bulslhirt I’m selling.
3/4 2024
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High Luna.

3/4 2024
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Off to the doc’s office today. Just seeing the nurse and getting blood drawn. Took a couple of tries. Always fun to get jabbed with a needle!
Last time I was there my blood sugar levels were too high. The last 3-4 weeks they have been getting better. It also turned out that i have been getting too small a dosage of one of my meds. So, unless the new blood tests show drastic problems, I’m going to keep up with the exercise and diet and then get the higher dosage of the med, and then we’ll see next time if things are as they should be. That’s the plan. Just treading water. Or bike pedals.
4/4 2024
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Hey hey! Thank you so much Beverly Fish for the lovely cards! A funny Easter and a darling belated birthday one! Thank you for thinking of me. I love your Canda do attitude!

4/4 2024
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Eleven years ago. Feels like eleventy. It’s strange sometimes looking at the old videos and photos. I miss the old places sometimes. Each playground had their ups and downs. I spent so much time in those two past pens. They were my world for so many years until cataclysmic shifts pushed me to new worlds. It’s like looking at photos from my childhood home, I can still see the colour of the wall, the slope of the back yard to the apple tree dad planted, the old tv that had 8 channel buttons, no remote. It has been a weird life, you don’t know the half of it. But you know the goat half of it.
4/4 2024
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Speaking of the mail, which is sometimes slow reaching me. Today I got a package from amazon. Stuff I ordered. The side of the box was a little rough, almost open. I was a little worried something might be missing from it. But that wasn’t the problem. It was the opposite. Inside the box, along with the things I had ordered, were a smaller package. Addressed to someone else. I don’t know how that happened. It was a small, flat package but I still have a hard time imagining it sliding into my box by accident. But I don’t know why the mailman would put it in there. Oh I don’t know.
It was a package from a bookstore, so now I’m a book richer! Haha. Nah. I gave it to my dad and he’s going to drop it at a postal place. So hopefully it gets to wherever it needs to go.
5/4 2024
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.Did I fall or was I pushed? Did I fall or was I pushed. And where’s the blood and where’s the blood
, i am coming home I am coming to make it alright so dry your eyes

5/4 2024
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Not sure what this face from Bella means. Is it a “oh the hand came out of the pocket empty” disaproving look? Or “don’t take a picture, I haven’t put my face on yet” one?

5/4 2024
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This election, don’t forget to set your clocks back a 100 years, it’s a leap election.
5/4 2024
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It is amazing, the power of music. Still to this day when I listen to music from Ultima 6 The False Prophet I feel it deep within. Like visceral memories of another world. The magic of childhood before the information age, not knowing everything, not clearlyh completely being able to tell the difference between fact and fiction, I mean you know there’s a difference, but at the same time you feel like the magic could be real, like there could be gates ot other worlds and there could be dragons and wizards and there could be boat rides across vast oceans, there could be dungeons beneath castles, there could be mountains to scale. And you’re a lonely loser with no life and you delve into the other world and you live there and it’s almost real to you, not really real but more real than reality. And the music brings it back. A yearning for the wander, the adventure, the wonder, the great tales of heroes and villains. And the villains were true and easily recognisable and defeatable and they would never win.
And this kind of cinematic intro, I don’t know if I had ever seen anything like it on my Amiga before this. When most games were simple action type things with maybe a little text and a picture. This was like a movie with a soudtrack, it was a story and you got to be in the story. The whole fiction of Ultima is that the player is the one in the game, you’re not playing a character, you’re playing yourself transported into a different world. Maybe this is where my love of the trope of people from the real world being transported to other worlds comes from. The wardrobe leading to Narnia, Fate Gates Of Dawn, Zapped. I always love movies and stories where the main character is from our world but ends up in another. Maybe it’s from there my deep desire to go to another world stems, or maybe that’s just from my deep desire to not be in this world. There must be other worlds, right? Like the partice accelarator in Another World sending Lester to Another World. There must be magic and portals and dragons and orcs, right? There must be a road to Middle Earth, there must be a galaxy far far away. You can’t confine us to this world, to this place and time where the villains are deceitful and enduring. There must be a wardrobe in the attic or a stairway beyond the physical dimensions. There must be a yellow brick road, there must be
a point to this?
probably not. Just feeling nostalgic. I wish I could play the Ultima games again. I have them all on my hard drive, but no longer the sight to play them. The moongates are closed. But still the music reaches me. One more dance.

5/4 2024
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6/4 2024
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Happy Birthday to my dad today. He unfortunately had a bad fall in the beginning of the week, had to go to the hospital and was diagnosed with a concussion. So he’s still recovering from that. Along with all the other stuff. But he’s hanging in there. It’s been a tough time, but he’s not letting it stop him from getting out and doing things. Thanks for all the help and support, dad.
Also got the results of my blodo tests back. My blood sugar levels are going down, but still too high. I will continue with the diet and exercise along with the higher dose of one of the meds, hopefully the levels will keep falling. One day a day, one hoof in front of the three others.
6/4 2024
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Don’t take any wooden bitcoins when you sell your soul. As the abridged orange bible says, if the sin is profitable is it really that bad? If god was angry at you he’d be sending tornados and earthquakes to set you straight or something, don’t worry about it. With the golden sneakers you’ll easily be able to jump the fence we’re building around heaven.
6/4 2024
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Oh goats.

6/4 2024
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Noodles drenched in coconut oil and ketchup and mediterranean salt. That’s my dinner today because I’m a respectable adult who functioning at a socially acceptable level, ner ner.
7/4 2024
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A little Luna face to wind down.

7/4 2024
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That’s all for now.