I am done moving old videos to youtube. So I thought I would just put a few of my favourites here. That you may enjoy them like I have.

eager Magnethe

Hay baah

crazy running

Twin lambs

Magnethe looking for mama

Young Magnethe. I can’t believe she was ever that small.

And of course Mads:

dancing for leaves

coughing

I miss you old boy. Some day I’ll see you again.

+plenty more in the youtube channel

Oh I sure do miss those days. So much.

Other than that, things are okay. Nothing much new. I got my Earl DVD. Opened the door and signed the electronic board for the mailman. I’ll have to open the door for him again soon, I preordered 10 copies of the Everybody Hurts charity single for Haiti. Making up for years of not being very charitable.

It is never too late.

A quiet time is being had by me. A couple of months unril I have to go back to the hospital. A couple of weeks until I have to go back to the doctor. Another snowstorm on its way, making leaving the house more difficult. So there is not a whole lot going on. It feels a little like limbo.

I have started uploading some of my old videos to youtube. Old plume.dk videos. So keep an eye on my youtube channel the coming days if you’re interested in those. There is for example the first video I ever made of Mads and Mads on the fence. Before I even knew his name. It seems like forever ago, but it’s only from 2004. Crazy. I wish I could be back in the sunshine with Mads, Mathilde and Magnethe.

I have spent money lately. Donated $200 to Danmarksindsamlingen. For women in Africa and victims of the earthquake in Haiti. And just so I don’t appear completely unselfish I also bought Michael Palin’s Full Circle (audio book), My Name Is Earl season 4 DVD box and a transistor radio. I’m still waiting for the two last ones to arrive.

My blood sugar is doing swell. I had pancakes. With sugar and jam. And no noticable effects on my sugar levels. I think as long as I take my medication and do my exercise then I am pretty much set. I could probably start drinking sugary sodas again and still be okay. I’m not going to, of course. That’d be silly. But it’s still nice to know that I can have pancakes or a piece of cake on my brother’s birthday or things like that, without panicking over my blood sugar. My exercise biking is going well too. I’m doing it pretty much every day, longer, faster, harder. And I quite like doing it. The only thing I don’t like is stretching before and after. I’m not very flexible, so it’s a struggle to get the muscles properly prepared and relaxed. I have to do it, though, otherwise my legs get completely wrecked. I’m probably close to being in the best shape I’ve ever been in, but I’m still far from being really fit or anything like that. Still, I’m working on it.

The final season of Lost is starting in a couple of days. I am extremely excited about that. I remember last year I was worried whether I would have enough eyesight left to watch it. But it seems I will. It will probably be hard to follow, but I am confident I will love it. I don’t think there will ever be another TV show like that, for me at least.

And so on and so forth. Happy February, everybody.

What a beautiful day today. Snow on the ground and a bright, sparkling sun in the sky. The kind of day you would really enjoy, if you could see it.

And very, very cold. They said on the radio that it had been -17 C during the night. It wasn’t quite that cold when I headed out to see the goats this morning. But the sun didn’t seem to warm much, and even with all the many layers of clothing i had on I was still pretty much frozen to the bone. And with the snow on the ground and the shining sun, it was sort of the worst of both worlds for my mobility and vision.

Beautiful, though.

And then I got to the playground and it was closed.

No one there. I stood at the goat house for a second and considered my options. Then I made my way to main playground house to see if anybody was there. Closed and locked as well. I knocked on the window but there was no reply. So I went back to the goat house. Luckily I still have the keys from when I was working there. I wasn’t sure if it would be a good idea to lock myself in, though. I haven’t done that since my eyesight started failing. Could I do it, could I lock again afterwards, would there be animals runinng wild and escaping? But I decided to do it, since I really needed to see the goats.

I got in okay, and there were no animals on the lose. Two sweet goats were in their pen, excited to see me. It’s very dark in there. At least for me. So I could barely see anything. It’s not exactly the best conditions to enjoy a good goat time. But of course I did enjoy it. Magnethe and Vanilje sweet as ever. Pushing each other around to get my attention. And the old bread and carrots I brought them. I’m not sure why the playground was closed, but it did seem like they hadn’t been fed yet. But you know how goats are. They have never been fed enough.

I said hello to the sheep too. It was a little hard, because I didn’t know how many sheep were supposed to be there, and I couldn’t really see. I think I spent 15 seconds petting a stack of hay. There was only one sheep there. I thought, at first. Then I went back to the goats. But out of the corner of my eye I saw a little white fluffball running around in the sheep pen. The light was a little better from where I was standing. T’was a little, young lamb. A cute thing. Very hard to see when I stood at the sheep pen. But I put my hand down towards the ground and waved it around slowly. And eventually the little white fluffball carefully came closer and sniffed at my hand. A cute little thing. It is always nice to make new acquaintances.

And so it all turned out well in the end. Goats, sheep and lamb for Plume.

I just got done updating the wordpress software. Is the blog working okay? Does it look the same? I know no news is good news, but please do leave a comment and tell me it’s all okay.

I have been putting off the update for… a year, probably. I was still running version 2.6.5. The latest one is 2.9.1. I remember when 2.7 came out I didn’t want to update, because I don’t like new things and I was worried that the update would mess things up. And then time passed and my eyesight got worse and worse and new updates were released, meaning the change would be bigger and bigger. But of course you have to keep your software up-to-date for security reasons. So today I gave it a go. And it looks like it has worked okay. The changes aren’t too bad. My theme still works. Not that it’s much to look at. But I like my header-banner, at least. Anyway, I’m just glad I got through it. I hate making database backups and all that. Especially now when everything is harder to do on the computer.

Blah-di-blah blah. Other than that there is not much new. The new kidney medication is making me feel a little dizzy. It’s not too bad, though. I may have to talk to the doctor about it, but we’ll see.

Thanks go to Corrie, who sent me music for christmas. It ended up coming a month late, but that’s how the overseas mail goes sometimes. It was nice to have an early christmas present this year.

Tomorrow I’m planning to go see the goats. Weather and weary bones willing.

And so on it goes.

Today is my brother’s 30th birthday. Happy birthday, Peter!

We celebrated by going downtown and having dinner at Rådhus Caféen. Quite a good time was had by all, although my traditional order of pork wasn’t quite as good as it has been the other times we have eaten there. It was good, but a little greasy this time. Still, I shan’t complain. Better than most meals I have. And as always I find it surprisingly nice to spend time with the family. Surprisingly only because in the past that is not something I have enjoyed a lot. But I do now. And with the current state of my life, it really is nice to get out and spend time with others. Good times, even with the fumbling around in the crowded dark busses.

But that’s not all for today. I also had a trip to the doctor to get the results of my blood tests. Most of them were fine. The long term blood glucose level was “beautiful”, the doctor said. It was doctor Michael. I haven’t seen him in a long, long time. The blood tests are always done by nurses, and since the results are usually fine I just get them by email. And the last few times I have needed to actually talk to a doctor, Michael hasn’t been there, so I’ve had to see someone else. There are 3-4 doctors sharing the clinic, I think. Anyway, nice to see Michael again. He obviously didn’t know exactly how my eyesight was doing, as he was surprised when he told me to have a seat and I couldn’t find the chair at first. But I got seated and we talked a little about how everything was going. He thought I’d lost weight as well. If it’s been more than a year since I saw him last then I guess it’s possible.

Anyway, one of the tests wasn’t so good. Seems my kidney levels are a little elevated. Nothing alarming. But I am going to have to start taking meds to protect the kidneys. So that’s another one for the list. Pills for cholesterol, for kidneys, two kinds for diabets. And two kinds of eyedrops. Along with fish oil and copper and zinc and vitamins. I am a posterboy for the drug industry.

I did ask him if I still had to take the cholesterol stuff since my cholesterol levels have been fine for a good while now. “For the rest of your life, mate” he said. With my diabetes and bad blood circulation it is so important that my cholesterol doesn’t go up that I have to keep taking the pills as a preemptive measure.

I’m not sure if the kidney meds will be for the rest of my life as well. I’m starting off with half a pill, then I’m going back in for a new blood test in 3 weeks and we’ll see if it has had any effect or if we need to up the dosage. At least my blood pressure is fine.

It’s funny, in some ways I am fitter than ever before and living healthier than ever before. Yet in other ways my health is very frail and sometimes it feels like everything is failing. Go figure.

I wonder if I’ll ever be finished with doctors and nurses and hospitals? Somehow it seems to never end. I do still have some other small niggles that I might want looked at. But I have enough on my plate right now. Maybe when the eye stuff is over.

In good health and good time.