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Today will be a good day. Here’s Vanilje from 2008.
1/10 2018
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Good goat times today. I can tell the world is really getting to me when even going to see the goats seems like it’s not going to be worth it. I mean, I know it will be. But my brain still says ‘no, go to bed. Dreamworld is better’. Luckily I know that my brain is stupid. Haha, I win this round. Against myself. I’m too smart. Or too stupid. Or well, it worked out because I got to see goats. Cold morning. But a sunny day, so as the sun did its thing it got quite nice out. Took the gang out to the greens. We went behind the bicycle parking shed. I was surprised to see Mio head in there, because it’s quite dark. Normally she’s very cautious. But she headed into darkness. And since we’ve never been behind that thing before that meant untouched greens. Yum. It’s October now. The greens are less lush and plentiful. I miss the summer days already. Getting bellyful of greens and then sitting down in the shade on a blazing hot day. Sigh. But at least the company is still good. And hopefully the greens will last a little while yet, even if it’s more work getting the belly full.
And then suddenly the sound of an acoustic guitar and kids running around and screaming in the soccer/basketball rink. Poor kids, they were made to run around the block again. I thought last time was like a unique Exercise Day. I remember when I was a kid there was ONE day per year where the whole school had to go out for a long run all day. A real fun day for a fat kid, I tells ya. Anyway, apparently these kindergarteners are being made to exercise REGULARLY. Thoughts and prayers. What is the world coming too.
There was one girl who was so fast that she left all the adults behind. One adult going “i’m just going to catch up with her” to another. And then adding “no, that’s not going to happen…”. She was fast! And of course several kids stopping to admire the goats, horses and bunnies. Which is totally a tactic I would have used if I had been one of the kids. “No yeah, I’m totally running! But look at the little bunny *draws breath* so cute! *gasps for air* little… *heeeave* bunny..”.
And then we went back to the goat pen to relax, because watching people exercise is exhausting. A mother with a little kid came over and asked for help. They accidentally thrown their ball into the horse field. So I had to go retrieve it. And I found that the outside hasp on the horse door was gone. So I couldn’t properly close the door. Which almost led to Shadow escaping. And then I found a bucket to prop up against the door to keep it shut. And Shadow got the lid off it and started eating whatever was inside. Some kind of horse food I guess. So I had to remove that and find something else to hold the door closed. And then walk across the field and get the ball and give it to the people and wow I need to sit down for a minute.
I ended the day with super sweet Mio time. Sitting together in a ray of sunshine, holding her head in my arms as she dozed off. Perfect wonderful sweetness.
1/10 2018
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I do NOT have a Messiah complex.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to feed my disciples.
I mean, I have to give treats to my goats. That’s what I meant to say.
(I had a picture where I had my arms completely outstretched like a Messiah statue, but it was framed all wrong and unusable. But I decided to keep the joke anyway, so just.. imagine. dragons. Or something.)
1/10 2018
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Overheard in the supermarket today:
Mother: “Where is your pacifier?”
Kid sitting in shopping kart, with a big smile: “IT’S GONE!”
Mother, patiently: “Where did you put it?”
Kid, happily: “IT’S GONE!”
1/10 2018
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The goats are not what they seem.
Oh wait, yes they are. Totes awesome, just like they seem.
It’s not a good day if you don’t have goat hair all over you.
1/10 2018
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Everyone has a picture folder called “Too fat to post”, right?
1/10 2018
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Because they’re worth it
1/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi Day everyone.
2/10 2018
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I am always a little surprised when Mio makes it up on the platform, even if it’s not very high.
2/10 2018
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FINALLY managed to find a place to buy a DRM free copy of Esther the Wonder Pig’s audiobook. Thankfully Audible doesn’t have a complete stranglehold on the market after all. Looking forward to getting to hear it, at last. And there’s a new Murakami (HAruki, not Keiko) book coming in a week or so. Good booktimes.
Look forward to Mia’s autobiography, in stores soon. She narrated it herself, it’s a lot of bleats.
3/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day everyone.
3/10 2018
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Good goat times today. Out early, while it was still dark. A little too early, a little too dark. But I was anxious to get away from the outworld and get into the goatworld. Goating around in the greens. Cold morning, but as the sun took hold it got better. When we got out of the wind and sat in the goat house, in the ray of sunshine, it felt almost summery.
Funniest part of the day was when the kids discovered that they can still fit through the gap by the gate to the horse field. I remember they slipped through there easily a few months ago. Now they had to squuueze, like trying to get the last toothpaste out of the tube. But they got through. Barely any grass in there, but they started picking fallen leaves. I lured them out with treats, but then they went right back in. Sheesh. So goaty. It doesn’t matter if the grass is actually greener on the side you’re on, if there’s a place they’re not supposed to go then they want to go there. I let them stay a little and then lured them out again. And promptly started walking to get away from that gate. The goats usually follow me if I start walking away at high speed. Group mentality kicks in. Except this time Mio didn’t follow us. She just stood there at the gate and looked into the horse field. Aww grandma. No way you’re fitting through that gap! Mia had tried following the kids in there but she just got her head through the gap and I had to help her get it back out. No way the big ladies can get through there. I had to go back and give grandma a gentle push on the rear to get her going. I don’t know why she’d want to go in there, she doesn’t appreciate the company of the horses! It’s like with me and humans. Better to keep a safe distance.
3/10 2018
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Lovely day for it. As long as you’re wearing a jacket, or growing some fur.
3/10 2018
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I think grandma went on vacation without us
3/10 2018
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“Brett Bart Kavanaugh was the Judge that told the 17 year old immigrant girl that was raped that she couldn’t have an abortion until she really really thought about it maturely bc what you do at 17 follows you forever”
Brettbart, you’re going to have to go to Oz to get a heart. Maybe bring back a brain for Trump and some fucking spine for the entire Republican party.
Go on, keep the entitled old rich white trustfund babies in power to prevent abortion, meanwhile your fetuses will be stuffed with mercury. Maybe your kids will survive long enough to be shot down in the school yards. At least they won’t be shot in the face while hibernating like bears and their teeth won’t be sold like ivory. Hope you don’t choke on the silver spoons in your mouths.
3/10 2018
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The What-The-Fuck-Duck has had it up to here
3/10 2018
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Anyway, gotta goat.
3/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads and Magnethe from 2007. I opened my flashback folder and randomly scrolled ahead and blindly clicked on a file. And this came up. As some of you may remember, it’s part of a little series of photos of them that was always one of my favourites. They looked so beautiful together in those photos.
4/10 2018
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When you look over and the goat clearly heard you getting the treatbag out
4/10 2018
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I don’t know, that presidential alert thing seems to be taking things a little far. I mean, sure I’d want to be warned if he was in my neighbourhood too but come on..
4/10 2018
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Grandma’s considering her battle plan. Conquer the greens.
4/10 2018
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Jon Favreau’s Star Wars show is The Mandalorian. Cool, I guess. I like Boba Fett as much as everyone else. Never really been too into the Extended Universe Mandalorians, though. I kinda preferred the stuff that the Original Trilogy built in my head, the early Boba stories and rumours. But hopefully it will be good. What I really want is a TV show set on Tatooine. At the height of Jabba’s powers. Tusken Raiders, Jawas in sandcrawlers, a crazy old jedi in the desert. Krayt Dragons, bounty hunters, Mos Eisley. Moisture farmers. That’s what I want. You could make a really great scifi Western show out of that stuff. The Kenobi novel had good stuff like that. Basically Cowboys in the dessert with aliens. What’s not to love? Plus they could cast me as Jabba the hutt, I swear I’d work hard to get in shape for the role.
Anyway, I’m not a nerd YOU’RE a nerd
4/10 2018
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Shadow of the goat
4/10 2018
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goatlog
4/10 2018
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Sky is such a pretty girl. And I love how she acts all coy and sweet but if you (Milo, or even the big ladies) mess with her she gets fierce.
4/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Have a Fuzzy Friday.
5/10 2018
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Gotta get out of my head
5/10 2018
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Going to bed. Can’t be me right now. We’ll try again tomorrow. Gotta light?
5/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bob from 2012.
6/10 2018
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Fell into a black hole yesterday. At least I had good dreams. Tired of this world. Wouldn’t it be nice if life was Minecraft and you could just start up a new world with a new seed. Procedurally generated reality.
6/10 2018
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Dark mornings
6/10 2018
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*pounds fists on nuke to make it go off*
see you in the funny pages
6/10 2018
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I’m getting too old for it to be this early
6/10 2018
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Think goat thoughts
6/10 2018
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Aw, Ben Daglish passed away. He was one of the really great music composers in the old 8bit days. It’s funny, I never appreciated the Commodore 64 music as much when I had a C64 as I do now. I mean, I appreciated it. But I love it even more nowadays. And with retro becoming so popular, I’ve gotten to see and hear more of the people behind the music. Ben seemed like a really cool and engaging person, really interesting to listen to. And the music, always the music. No rest till 8bit..
He was only 52. Fuck cancer.
7/10 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy funday everyone.
7/10 2018
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May god have mercy on your souls. The rich get richer, the poor get raped, shot, doubted and distrusted, fucked and mocked, poisoned and polluted and diseased, deceived and divided, thrown away like the aborted fetuses of their mistresses.
Abortion and guns are just the new church of the rich old white man’s way of oppressing and controlling you. Laughing at you from their money bins. Sing for absolutely nothing.
7/10 2018
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Think goat thoughts
7/10 2018
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goat heart
7/10 2018
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If I could get the littles ones to stack maybe they’d be the same height as Mia…
7/10 2018
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updated his profile picture.
7/10 2018
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That’s all for this week.