Disciples Of The Nile
Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2006.
3/12 2018
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I had that dream again. Of regaining sight on my blind eye. That’s getting real old real soon. It was another dream where I knew it had to be a dream, but it was so real that it couldn’t be.. but it was.
Hopefully I’m saving up karma for that Kristen Bell & Jessica Alba dream I’ve been waiting for.
3/12 2018
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On top of the dream, there has also been a lot of technical frustrations with websites and stuff, and I may have ruined my camera so I might need to buy an expensive christmas gift for myself, and the world in general is just… wearing me down. My brother and dad has health stuff coming up, and there’s other stuff I don’t talk about.
I really wish I could hibernate until spring. Maybe everything will be fine when the sun comes back.
Just kind of tired of everything and the continuing feeling of hoplessness for the world and myself continues.
But we’ll keep on trucking. Thank you for listening. Thank you for reminding me everything is not always the worst.
3/12 2018
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And thank goodness for goats
3/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi day everyone.
4/12 2018
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I dreamt that I started a band called Disciples Of The Nile and we played nihilistic rock.
4/12 2018
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Good goat times today. Cold. Well, actually it wasn’t too cold. But the wind was. It’s always the wind that kills. I was going to wear my beloved sweater for the first time this winter. But I couldn’t find it! Nooo. I was already a little late so I didn’t feel like spending an hour blindly ransacking my apartment for it. I have… unconventional storage habits. But it must be here somewhere..
Anyway, instead I duct-taped a couple of chnemical foot warmers to the back and front of my blouse. That’s… normal, right? It worked somewhat, felt good with some heat on the body. But it wasn’t enough. I hope I’ll dig up that sweater, or I’ll have to start wearing 3 blouses, at t-shirt and a couple of foot warmers in a pear tree.
The goats were out in the pen when I arrived. I didn’t manage to sneak up on them, Mia spotted me across the horse field when I got there. So they were bleating after me by the time I came around the corner. But they didn’t want to come out of the pen when I opened the gate for them. I’m not sure if it was the strong wind or the muddy ground. Or maybe it was because grandma Mio wasn’t budging. Grandma has a strong will and once she’s set on something it takes time to change. I have noticed that about her when she’s in the goat house. Even if i’m at the gate with treats, once she’s comfy in there she doesn’t want to leave. And she knows I’ll eventually bring hte treats to her…
but it was a funny scene. Grandma was watching from the goat house and Mia and the little ones were at the gate like “uncle says come out, but grandma says we’re staying in. What do we doooo!?”. They actually got really worked out and started bleating and running around. Sky was especially vocal today. Normally Milo is the biggest talker, but Sky had a lot to say to day. And then the little ones started sprinting from the rocks to the platforms and then up on the goat tower and then into the goat house with grandma. And then back and forth like that. They got Mia riled up for a little running and headbutting too. What a circus. I went in and gave grandma some treats and then I did my stretches and we waited a little. And eventually grandma had made her point about who’s in charge around here anyway, and she decided that we could go out. And then we went to the grazing. Pretty much no leaves left, but there’s still grass even if it’s not great quality. But it’s something to do and something to fill the goat tummies. And then it became a battle between me and the wind. The goats happily grazing while I stood with gritted teeth and tried to survive. “You can do it, stay strong, the goats need their time outside, just hang in there”. I need to outsource my willpower. But we went around for an hour and a half or something, and then back in the goat pen. It was much nicer to hang out in the goat house. Not much wind in there and it was actually quite lovely and sunny. Both the little ones got some lap time and Mia cutely sat down next to grandma who was still standing. Normally grandma is the first to sit, but I guess Mmia needed to relax after the morning silliness. The little ones never run out of energy it seems.
Now where’d I put that darn sweater. You know the one, right? The one my mother made for me some 20-30 years ago and that I wear every winter. Gotta be here somewhere. I thought it was hanging out in the entryway with my coats. Hmm.
4/12 2018
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Sorry, grandma says we can’t come out and play yet.
4/12 2018
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This is my most commented photo from 2010, according to the facebox algorithm.
I’m telling you, Kristen. You need to hitch your wagon to my fame-train.
link: Kristen Bell photo video
4/12 2018
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Check your local pizza place for tour dates of Disciples Of The Nile’s upcoming debut tour. Recording is allowed, but only if you promise to trade MP3 sourced discs #WhatYearIsThisJoke
4/12 2018
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So tired. I should go look for my sweater, but I’m going to go look for my pillow. Here’s the talkative Sky to keep you company while I’m gone. I believe she’s prepared a long speech, and there WILL be a quiz afterwards so please stay focused. There will be a bathrrom break every 2 hours for those who need it.
4/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day everyone.
5/12 2018
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Good news everyone. I found my sweater. Along with some big fleeces. Hopefully that’ll keep me warm.
I was getting worried that I had accidentally thrown the sweater in the trash during one of my “must simplify, clean the apartment, get rid of as much stuff as possible” attacks. That process, by the way, has been stalled for a few months due to low mental capacity and general hopelessness. Who cares if I live in a pile of mess when the whole world is a mess and I feel like a mess, right? Well, looking for the sweater I found a few more things to throw out, so maybe I can get that project back on track at some point. I still have a lot I need to just get rid of.
In any case, I’m glad I still have that sweater. I have tried to replace it over the years, but I guess it’s like with soup. Mama’s old fashiconed stuff is just the best.
5/12 2018
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In more good news, look what I done got also in the mailboxaroney! Thank you so much CarolAnn Ellis ! Those are two lovely pillow cases! They are pillow cases, right? They have the zipper. They look so fine I feel like I should hang them on my wall! And a lovely keychain and card too, please pass along my thanks to your furries! Thank you so much for thinking of me!
I have another package from someone else, but it’ll probably take a day or two to get some photos of it, so I’ll keep y’all in suspense about that. But thank you so much to everyone out there thinking of me. You really don’t have to send me stuff, but I sure do appreciate it! I have the best Facebox friends. I’m just some guy on the internet, it makes me happy that the goaties touch people’s lives enough to make them care about me too.
5/12 2018
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goatlog
5/12 2018
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The Good Place renewed for a 4th season.
I think Kristen’s phone must have run out of battery power because she didn’t call to tell me in person, but it’s aight. I’m not insecure.
I guess The Good Place is my favourite currently-airing TV show. I can’t think of another one I like better.
6/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2007.
6/12 2018
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Good goat times today. It was one of those days where I almost didn’t make it out. Literally 30 minutes of Smeagol/Gollum head dialogue in my comfy chair. “But it’s coold outside” “But there are goats” “But you can just go to bed and sleep for 24 hours and have great dreams” “But goats always makes you happy”. And so on. The cold and the dark makes Gollum ´very convincing. But eventually I did make it out. Wearing my newly found sweater. It was nice and warm. In fact, almost TOO warm. It helped that there was little wind. We’ll see how the sweater does when the frost comes back, but it was nice today. Dark and wet morning, but not too much rain at least. Too much mud, though. The goats were not amused when I let them out. Grandma Mio found a little niche next to a garbage container. I think she was standing on an old pallet or maybe one of the pavement tiles that are laying around there still. It was a good spot, though. And as she is want to do, she did not budge once her roots had settled in. The others weren’t thrilled about the mud either. So I ended up unlocking the gate to the goat pen so we could go in there. I still had to put a rope on Mio and drag her a little. To get her out of the niche and into the pen with the rest of us. And so we had some good times in the goat house. It’s nice to just sit and relax. The goats munching hay. Going out to platforms for some treats and filming now and then. But mostly just relaxing. Worth the trip, as it always is. Just gotta make it to spring..
6/12 2018
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In case you haven’t seen the fabled sweater that I keep going on about, you can see abit of it here. It was actually warm enough that I opened my coat for a while
6/12 2018
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I have heard rumours that my sweater was inside-out. Are we so vain? Are we so vaaaain?! #BlindPeopleFashion
6/12 2018
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Here’s grandma in her niche. Now that I look at it, maybe it’s a little big to be called a niche. But you can see how she has the container on one side. And under the plastic stuff there are packs of hay. And behind her some fence and trees. So it’s a nice little enclosed space where she could stand her ground and refuse to get into the mud. She’s so funny. I went away in the other direction with Mia and the littles, but I had to go back because she wasn’t moving. She just stood there with her “nope” smirk.
6/12 2018
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Once again my one man show Much Ado About Goats was snubbed by the Golden Globes. Typical elite bias against the rural goat farmers of the world. #BiggerGoats.
6/12 2018
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This here Nigerian Dwarf prince has promised to make me rich. All I gotta do is forward him all my treats and the millions will start rolling in.
Now I have to go to the bed place. Gollum will not be denied.
6/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Springbok from 2006.
7/12 2018
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It’s beginning to look a lot like pizza and a new episode of The Good Place
7/12 2018
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I need more Stephen Merchant in my life.
7/12 2018
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Did you mean everything you said, or did you just say it because the world is ending?
7/12 2018
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That was maybe my favourite episode of The Good Place ever and holy forking shirtballs I love that show. It’s so beautiful. I don’t know another show that manages to combine deep, humanistic philosophy with really really really dumb goofiness.
I’ll shut up about it now. Until January when the new episodes start coming.
link: holy forking shirtballs video
7/12 2018
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The fluffybutt salute
7/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce and Clark from 2014.
8/12 2018
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Look what I done diddily done got in the mailaroony! Thank you so much Beverly Fish ! A Canada cap and a Star Wars hat, and a lovely card! Mia got a little scared when I put on the woolly Star Wars hat, maybe because it has that fuzzy ball on top. I guess it’s not just inflatable gym balls and soccer balls they’re afraid of. But she calmed down when she realised that the hat wasn’t eating my head after all.
Thank you so much for thinking of me, Beverly! I bet that Star Wars hat is going to be warm for when it gets really freezing along the highway walks.
8/12 2018
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I wish I could play Skyrim or one of the Fallouts. I miss digging into a giant RPG and just getting lost exploring a big world and discovering the story and characters and all that. I was getting ready to play Fallout 3 when my eyesight started getting so bad that I had to stop playing games. I miss that escapism.
On another note, Fallout made me think of a funny quirk in my headspace. I know it’s odd, but the idea of being trapped in a tiny fallout shelter seems appealing to me. Just a little, eclosed space, cans of food, books or dvds or whatever. I guess it’s the isolation that appeals to me. I know it’s harsh to wish for nuclear winter just to be able to not have to deal with human society. But still. I do know that in reality it would be horrible and all that. There’s just some romantic notion to the idea of being trapped alone. A cabin in the woods, a sailboat on the ocean, a desert island, a fallout shelter. A pillow fort. A vault.
I do hope the robots keep delivering pizza.
8/12 2018
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Beware the dark shadow of the goatman. Say my name 3 times and I appear to steal your soul, or pizza if you have one.
8/12 2018
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Tuning out for today. Turning the devices off, letting the cable sleep. Isolating myself in my wellness bunker. See you when the radition fades.
8/12 2018
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
9/12 2018
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goatlog
9/12 2018
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Look what I also done diddily doodely got in the mailaroonytoon! You people are spoiling me rotten! Thank you Angeline Slaats ! That shirt is very accurate! And thank you for the card too. Please pass my regards onto all your animals. I love the way you care for them.
9/12 2018
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I know Jason Momoa is all hunky Aquadude with his shirt off to everyone now, but I can’t see him without thinking of Stargate Atlantis. I miss Stargate. SG1 and Atlantis mainly. Those were good times.
I remember watching season one of SG1 on Danish TV and then they stopped airing it and I didn’t even know it was still running until like 10 years later when I suddenly somehow acquired anoher 8 or 9 seasons on DVD and it was a great time binging all that. I loved when an episode started with “previously on Stargate” because that meant one of the olf characters or storylines was coming back.
Another part of the puzzle. Anyway, I could look like that if I took my shirt off but I mean its’ cold so I better keep my shirt on so there’s really no way to prove or disprove that claim.
9/12 2018
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It’s easy to forget sometimes, but grandma Mio and Mia are mom and daughter after all. Been through a lot, always good to have your family there.
9/12 2018
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Can’t believe I didn’t get the role as Giant Talking Head. Maybe it’s because I don’t talk.
9/12 2018
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That’s all for this week.