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8/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

9/3 2020

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Good goat times today. Started out with a very light rain. But eventually it cleared up and we got some lovely sunshine. Until a heavier downpour on my walk home. The circle of weather.
Happy to take the goats out. Trying to contain the rising infestiation of greenery. Yeah, the goats still don’t understand the concept of letting it grow so there’s more of it. But hey, i’m the same way. Gotte eat the whole pizza right away. No time to lose!
Met so cute (human) kids who got to pet the goats through the fence too. And there was a guy with some kind of electric instrument, I’m not sure exactly what he was doing. Cutting branches maybe? But it was funny because he would stop and start the tool and it would make noise that scared the goats, but not enough to completely terrify them. So they would be grazing and the noise started and they’d run in terror.. for about 5 steps, then the noise stopped and they stopped and were like “Oh I guess it wasn’t the end of the world” and they’d continue grazing and then the noise started and they’d run another five stpes “OH NO, IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD… oh nevermind it stopped”. And that cycle would continue for a while.
Bravely brave sir Milo ran away away
I didn’t!
He turned and he ran away and
I did not!
He fled and ran for his life and
I NEVER
…sorry, things took a turn for the Monty Python.
9/3 2020

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Goat butt parade

9/3 2020

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That thing when you’re standing in line in the supermarket and the kid next to you keeps coughing all over the place.
Welp. Pretty sure I have the coronavirus now.
I joke about the coronavirus, but it is serious. And I’m not not worried. My family is in pretty poor health, if we were to get it we’d be wiped out I’m pretty sure. Coincidentally my parents just back from a trip.. They didn’t go abroad, but still. You know. I wouldn’t really care if I got it, but I’d be crushed if the folks did. I wouldn’t do well in a quarantine either.
But still, you gotta laugh. When you have fucking world leaders who want to keep sick people on a boat so they don’t count in the statistics. What’s next, ship infected people to shithole countries so you can brag about keeping America clean? Goddamn motherf
but I digress. Luckily I spend very little time wiht humans, so as long as goats aren’t carriers and my pizza place keeps delivering, I’m probably fine.
9/3 2020

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Rest in peace Max von Sydow. An absolutely legend of an actor. In Denmark he is probably best know, at least if you’re a little older, for his academy award nominated role in the Danish movie Pelle The Conqueror. He had one of those faces that just… tells stories. You could sit him in a chair and just look at him. It would still be fascinating.
Bit of trivia: In Pelle The conqueror his character is named Lasse. And called Lassefar. Which translates to something like Lassefather. And back when I was a schoolboy my gym teacher though it was hilarious to come up with a dumb rhyme using that name for me. Which would have been totes awsome if it wasn’t for the fact that I was already plagued by insecutires and deadly afraid of attention and gym class was already a nightmare for me. But hey. That’s neither here not there.
von Sydow is a true legend of the arts.
9/3 2020

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Caught a Milo. And dropped the winter coat for a while again.

9/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi Day everyone.

10/3 2020

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Just to clarify… it’s a good idea not to touch your face too much to avoid the virus right? But I can still go around and touch other people’s faces? Because otherwise I’m going to need to find a new hobby.
10/3 2020

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I’m still pissed they canceled The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Honestly, I’d rather they’d continued that storyline than more movies. Although to be fair I haven’t watched Dark Fate yet.
This scene is still one of my favourite tv moments ever. The muted gunshots in the background as bodies fall into the pool.. dark.

10/3 2020

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Someone call the cops, Sky escaped from the pen!

10/3 2020

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Nuller is back on this throne.

11/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

11/3 2020

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Goat butt parade.

11/3 2020

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fyi if I hear you coughing I’m unfriending you
11/3 2020

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Danish Prime Minister just addressed the nation. “We have to stand together”. Ehm yes. Just not too close together, ok?
Seems they are shutting down schools and non-essential public functions. Encouraging people to work from home. Suggesting that people don’t meet in groups over 100 people. May be an actual ban coming soon.
Things are pretty serious. There will be businesses going under and people losing their jobs over this. Just a matter of time before we get our first deaths I suppose. Hope it won’t get too bad.
11/3 2020

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Ugh. Reading r/Denmark right now isn’t fun. Looks like people went straight to shops to start hoarding. Reports of stores literally emptied. Pictures of crowds. Great idea, let’s gather together in a big crowd to get supplies for our isolation…
Sheesh. I wonder if there will even be anything left tomorrow. I just want like a pack of spaghetti and a pack of toilet paper.
Italy’s been on lockdown and there’s still no shortage of food, they’re closing down stores and businesses, but food stores are going to stay open. People need to calm the fork down. There’s plenty for everyone if people don’t go nuts. Ugh. People are the worst.
I might just hibernate for a couple of weeks and hope it’ll all have blown over.
Hope you all everybuddies are doing okay wherever you are. Don’t worry, be happy. Happy birthday Bobby McFerrin.
11/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.

12/3 2020

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Let me just turn on the news and see if they’re talking about the Corona vi

12/3 2020

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Welp. Danish soccer league shuts down for the next two weeks, at least. Same with the other sports. Same with everything.
Man, it’s easy to be gripped by the panic. Even for someone who is used to a great deal of isolation. I’m not exactly a flock animal. Not a human flock anyway.
Well, we’ll see how it goes. I’m not panicking. But I am worried and feeling the tension. I think i’m mostly worried about my dad. He goes out a lot, works part time in a store, out in busses and downtown a lot. I’m not sure telling him to stay at home will work…
Also slightly worried about the shops. I had been planning to do a little shopping today. But I think I’ll wait. I honestly have no idea if I’d be walking into a completely normal store or a completely empty one. The government and the stores say there will be no food shortage, there’s plenty of everything. But after the press conference last night people went out on panicked shopping sprees. I’ve seen videos and photos of almost empty stores. At the very least I imagine if I go out shopping now it will be full of people, which is potentially risky and also triggering for all my anxiety. Hopefully the hoarders can stock up on everything and then in a day or two the rest of us can shop normally.
I am in the high risk zone and our prime minister has told people in the high risk zone to stay at home if possible. So now I finally have an official excuse.
The hood is probably going to be crowded with kids and scary teens who can’t go to school for the next two weeks too.
Hopefully my pizza place will stay open and delivering.
Blimey. I can’t recall anytihng like this happening in Denmark in my lifetime.
Sorry. Just had to get that all off my chest. Gonna be a fun couple of weeks ahead..
12/3 2020

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A message from four years ago
link: OK video
12/3 2020

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Well, I am going to go to bed early today. I’m going to hibernate and go for a long dreamwalk. And then I’ll see if the world is still here tomorrow. I will isolate myself with the angels and demosn of the dreams, the monsters and the fairies, and their tales. Better to go adventuring than to sit and get stressed with paranoia.
Stay safe and healthy out there!
12/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here are the Ping Pong twins from 2016

13/3 2020

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Well, I went shopping. And survived.
I was a little afeared of what to expect. But it was fine. I’m not going to say everything was normal. It was more crowded than normal. And there were som shelves that were less well stocked than usual. But everything was calm and I was able to get everything I needed without problems. I was running low on toilet paper, and after hearing about how everyone was hoarding the stuff I did wonder.. so I went straight to the tp first.. and there was plenty. Really, the only sign that this wasn’t just a normal, busy holiday shopping day was that the cashiers were wearing rubber gloves.
It was probably a good idea to wait a couple of days until I wents hopping. And hopefully everything will stay normal now. It’s going to be a weird couple of weeks with everything shut down and all the speculation and worry, but hopefully that’s as bad as it’ll get.
There IS something else, very serious, going on. But i’ am not ready to talk about that just yet I think (it’s not about me, I am ok).
Hope you’re all doing fine out there. I did hear one of my neighbours coughing outside my front door, so you know. Thoughts and prayers please.
13/3 2020

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Well. Denmark is closing its borders now. So, if you were planning to attend my birthday party. Ya caint.
What a surreal time. here’s hoping it’ll get better, not worse.
13/3 2020

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You can say a lot about Jason Voorhees. But he IS wearing a face mask. Safety first! Happy Friday the 13th.
13/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce and Clark from 2014.

14/3 2020

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You really, really gotta wonder. When Trump goes out, in a moment of crisis, and delivers completely false information stright to the face of America. Is he lying? Or incompetent? I honestly can’t fathom how anyone in position of leadership can just go out and say that Google is working with the government to build a website to help determine if people need a corona test. Or whatever the fuck the actual quote was, I can’t be bothered doing that. The fact is, Google is not doing that. Some company is doing some website for the Bay area, which I guess is a geographical location in America? Don’t at me.
But how does it happen? Are his people giving him bad information? Is he misunderstanding the information? Is it hte same thing when he said that soon there would be zero infections? Is it because he just WANTS it to be true and he just says it? I just don’t understand it. It’s a fucking state of emergency and he goes out and gives verifiably wrong information on the record.
Did google lie to him? Thinking that he wouldn’t say it in public so they wouldn’t have or refute it, which they have done?
I just for the love of all that’s holy don’t understand how anyone can be so irresponsible and dumb. At a time like this.
And there’s lots of other dumb shit you could start berating him over. But this is just so in-your-face factually wrong. I just don’t understand. I’m not expecting Trump to be an expert on any of this, heck it’s a difficult situation for everyone. You can’t fudge this with ‘alternative facts’ or ‘lamestream fake news’. I’d like to see what fucking excuse republicans would come up with this time?
And the speech he did the other day which also had factual mistakes. Or was it the teleprompter malfunctioning? Who the fuck knows. What a fucking time to have an incompetent leadership. Can you imagine if a country like America ends up in the same kind of straits as Italy? If things go that bad under that kind of leadership? I really hope it doesn’t go that bad for you, but what a nightmare. It’s bad enough alerady.
And how the fuck does Kushner have time to deal with coronavirus, isn’t he busy solvign the middle-east?
14/3 2020

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What the duck?

14/3 2020

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Landscapers hard at work

14/3 2020

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That thing when you’re not allowed to touch your face but you constantly feel the need to grab your head in despair.
14/3 2020

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I just love goat yawns. When their bottom jaw (I just realised.. the jaw is the bottom, isn’t it? You don’t have a top jaw, do you? Or do you? What’s the top of the.. jaw called? Damn I shouldn’t have started drinking hand sanitizer already..) ANYWAY when the jaw slides out to the side like this gets me every time.
And I agree with Sky. I am tired. Of everything. I am going to go to bed early again. Sleep along to the sound of dream-ocean waves.
Tomorrow is the big day. That’s right. Leftover Pi Day!
See you tomorrow, bring cake.

14/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone!

15/3 2020

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Good birthdaytimes today. Back from a soup party with the fambly.
I had originally been planning to throw a massive birthday party and invite 1000 people. Then the government came out and banned gatherings of a 1000 people or more. Oh darn, I thought, well then I’ll just narrow it down to a select 100 of my closest personal friends. Then the government came out and banned gatherings of 100 and more. Fork it ,I thought. Let’s just keep it to my parents and brother then.
Twas a good time and I got just what I wished for. A fridge full of leftover soup. Neatly wrapped in a bow.
42. Honestly, I never thought I’d make it this far.
15/3 2020

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My parents told a funny story while we were having soup. Back before my brother was born, when I was around 1½ years old, we were on vacation in Sweden. We used to go on vacation in Sweden almost yearly thing for us. And it often involved picking berries if there was the chance. My dad has always been into that. So at this particualr time he was out picking blueberries. And he was also looking after me. And mom told him to keep a close eye on me. Which turned out not to be hard, because apparently I walked along with my dad, between his legs almost, and ate all the berries he picked! Haha. I guess he had a bowl or something and everytime he put berries in it I’d grab ’em and eat ’em. Beats picking them yourself I guess. that must have been a funny sight. And I have to think, that’s a little goatlike isn’t it? I can just imagine me out picking berries and Nuller walking along between my legs eating all the berries as soon as I got them.
15/3 2020

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That’s all for now.

2 Responses to “Quarantine And Chill”

  1. Debster Says:

    Our schools are closed here, too. Restaurants can only have carryouts, no dining inside.

    Big rush in the stores on soap, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper. We went shopping last week, so found everything we needed.

    We are all supposed to stay home for 4 weeks???? Or who knows how long. We can go out for food, gas, medicine, etc. No big groups, book club cancelled, library closed.

    Kip and Ginger, our fainting goats are happy to have us home. I spent an hour with them on Tuesday. Everyone was combed and scratched and feel so soft.

    It rained Wed and Thursday. Did have a short break in the weather, so spent a short while petting everyone this afternoon.

    I.was able to donate blood at the Red Cross today. I am halfway to gallon number 12. So many blood drives have been cancelled and there is a shortage now. Glad I was able to get out and donate.

    Lots of signs of spring: Robin’s, meadowlark, Turkey vultures, grass is getting htren, and frogs are singing. Some things stay the same in the world.

    Hope you and your family are staying well. We haven’t had any cases in our county yet, but do have cases in our state.

  2. Plume Says:

    Yeah about the same here. Who knows what’ll happen now. We’ll see. Crazy days. I wish I could be quarantined in the goat house..

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