Intensive
Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
17/8 2020
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I dreamt that my parents got me a puppy. It was pretty darn cute.
Also, my dad’s appointment has been moved up till Thursday, so that’s really good and hopefully he can get rid of all the pain.
17/8 2020
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I wish I was David Lynch.
17/8 2020
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Nuller The Dominator
17/8 2020
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We now go live to the White House for the Trump administrations latest COVID-19 response relax it’s a joke
17/8 2020
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This is so wholesome and sweet and funny. If you’re looking for a funny tv show ‘Schitt’s Creek’ is a lot better than you might think from the title, and I recommend it.
17/8 2020
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The sweetest pillow
17/8 2020
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“Join our program for Black Creators!
Apply Now”
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Uhm. Okay, Facebook.
18/8 2020
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Look. I really like Will Smith. And Kevin Hart is also an actor. But under no circumstance should they remake Planes, Trains And Automobiles. I love that movie and I used to watch it on my old worn VHS tape often and please leave my childhood alone. 2020 the year that never stops, period.
18/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
18/8 2020
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Good goat times today. Lovely to get out and do some goating. It was a hot and humid day, though. Not too comfortable. Looks like the summer is over soon too. The temperatures are going to drop below 20C/68F soon. It’s been a weird summer. Quite warm June, then the coldest July in 22 years, then heatwave in August. The rains are coming too. And by coming I mean they came today. I got to spend some time in the shelter and goat house, listening to rain with the goats. They hate the rain of course. I don’t mind it too much if it’s warm, like today. Although I could have done without the walk to the bus in the rain. I got quite drenched. Let’s hope I didn’t catch a cold, or a pandemic.
But the company is what maters, and Company Of Goats is always good. I brought a big bunch of branches and leaves for them. I guess it won’t be too long before green start going away, so I gotta make the most of it while I can. The goats get so excited when I carry in a big load of fresh green. I miss seeing them run along in the horse field, but I do enjoy seeing them climb around on the big pile of branches to get at the new ones.
We had some sweet visitors today too. There were some really funny kids, but I’ll tell you about them with a pic later.
18/8 2020
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Here are the goats digging into the fresh greens that I threw on the old pile of branches. The new pallet is an excellent place to stand on, and Mia has commandeered it for herself.
18/8 2020
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Here’s Mia, Milo and Sky in the back. Sheltering in the shelter as the rain started getting stronger. The new squad was holding up in the goat house. That’s one advantage of being back in the goat pen. More cover when it rains. In the horse field there was only one half-roof.
18/8 2020
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The visiting kids today were really funny. It was like a bunch of mini-Keikos. They were obsessed with the goats pooping! Haha. They were laughing and cheering. A couple of the were like crouching down and looking up at goat butts. And one boy had a litlte chant. “Activate poop powers!”. Haha. He said it like ten times, as if trying to command the goats to poop.
And here on the photo you can see that Mia was very obliging. Know you audience! She literally turned and pointed her butt at the fence and started pooping. And the kids were thrilled.
18/8 2020
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Okay, Milo you’re up! Haha. Oh lord. Look at that kid crouching down and staring up Milo’s butt. Sheesh. One of their adults asked the boys ‘do you have anyone watching you that intently when you poop?!’ to which they replied affirmatively. I’m not even gonna ask..
18/8 2020
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Here’s another shot of Milo entertaining the troops. I mean, poop troops.
18/8 2020
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If you’re one of the people saying anything bad about Michelle Obama because of what she said about Weinstein, then I’m going to assume you think I’m a horrible person. Because Louis CK was my favourite comedian and I have posted clips of him on Facebook, I have probably spent hundreds of hours watching the Cosby Show and I once went several weeks without mocking Scott Baio.
But hey, if you’re supporting a President who actually goes public and says that a vp candidate might be elligible to run for vp without actually first trying to find out if that statement is true or false, well then you’ve already shown that your standards are pretty low.
Science, miracles, monkeys, or prayer, I’ll believe anything when I’m there, I’m certain I’ve said that before,I’ll believe in anything when i’m there, I’m certain i’ve said that before.
18/8 2020
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Here is Lily and Nuller, mama and boy. Always near and dear. Watching the rain coming down.
18/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone, with bonus Bob.
19/8 2020
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Always happiest with her.
19/8 2020
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Here’s Mia sitting on the new platform again. I’m glad she seems to like it. And the little broken pavement tile next to it is a good footrest.
19/8 2020
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Sitting with Mia on the platform.
19/8 2020
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I am hereby officially declaring that I wish to be cremated.
I mean now, like right now, DO IT NOW.
19/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.
20/8 2020
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Good goat times today. A grey day. Still moderately warm, but yes the summer is running out. Occasional raindrops turned into more consisten rainfall later in the day. I guess it’s time to start wearing a jacket again, walking home in the rain in a t-shirt isn’t too much fun, although I do appreciate the Mr Wet T-Shirt trophy i got from the suburban moms on the way.
That was a joke, I’m joking. good times with the goats, despite the rain. Our past goats hated the rain so much and wouldn’t tolerate a single drop. This gang can toleratea very light rainfall, but then they’ll head for the shelter and house. But we had some good times before we went for cover. There was a good bit of guttural grunting going on. Goats are great at disgruntled grunts. Nuller was doing it at Sky when I was giving them treats. It’s clear that he fancies himlself a big man now, and above Sky in the hierarchy now. So the human should not be giving her treats! Little does he know that the human has a soft spot for the lowest in the hierarchy, so Sky probably gets extra treats on account of that. Like Kamel and Yogi in the past.
There were also some bucky grunting between Milo and Nuller, along with headbutting. I think Milo is still stronger than Nuller, but as soon as Lily or Sassy joins the fray, Mil othe bandit takes off in a cloud of goat berries. He can take on Nuller, but not the ladies.
At one point, when the rain was falling, Nuller somehow managed to get himself stuck in the goat house while Lily and Sassy went to the shelter. It was quite the pickle for him because he wanted to join his squad, but he was in the back of the goat house and Mia, Milo and Sky were blocking the exit. He looked like he was standing there weighing his options. “I want to get out, but do I dare run past giant Mia and her adoptees?”. Goat politics. It’s like an American High School movie. You gotta be careful where you sit, and who you sit with, and do you dare walk past the cool kids’ table?
Eventually Sassy and Lily came back to the house and Mia, Milo and Sky went to the shelter. I think maybe the newb squad prefer to take shelter in the goat house because they sleep in there at night, so that’s kind of their home. I think Mia, Milo and Sky still sleep inside the stables, although I’m not completely sure because I no longer go so early in the morning that I see them get let out. Oh and I haven’t seen the horses yet, I would have thought they’d be back from vacation. I wonder if the whole pandemic thing is the reason they aren’t back yet, or something else. Oh well we’ll see.
I’ll shut up now, please take a moment to exhale a sigh of relief.
20/8 2020
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Here’s Milo, Mia and Sky in front. Sheltering from the rain.
20/8 2020
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Goat butt parade.
20/8 2020
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not lasses life
20/8 2020
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Family health update. My dad had his thing at the orthopedic clinic today, and it sounds like it went well. As hoped, it seems that thing he thought it might be might have been it, and if so then hopefully he should be getting better. He’ll need time to rehabilitate. But he sounded hopeful that this will work. So let’s hope. It sounds good.
20/8 2020
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Got hit by the depression hammer. It comes out of the blue at random and packs a punch. My mood swings like 70s marries couple from Seattle. I don’t know if any of that is accuate, I haven’t studied winging culture. Anyway, my mood goes from manically happy to deeply depressed. I wonder if there’s some kind of name for that. Nah, probably not.
Here’s a picture of the loser and the bandit. I am going to go to bed and see if I can dream of another me somewhere. See you tomorrow, don’t worry, everything is Å Que.
20/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut and Popcorn from 2015.
21/8 2020
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goatlog
21/8 2020
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I watched the first 3 episodes of Ted Lasso and I really wanted to dislike it because I don’t have time or energy to watch TV shows anymore and I expect everything to be bad.
But, I loved it. Two things. One, Sudeikis. I’m a fan, and he’s great in this. And two, football. The European football. I grew up with football, it’s one of the biggest things in my life even though I don’t talk about it much on here. I was expecting an American show featung soccer to be crap, but it’s really good. And I enjoy just the scenes of them practiving. Or the kids playing it in the park. Just seeing football. Since I’ve lost most of my eyesight it’s gotten really hard to enjoy watching football. Visually. So seeing the few, short scenes in Ted Lasso is just really nice. High quality, upclose people playing football. It reminds me of how much I love the game. I have zero interesting in literally all other sports, but seeing people kick that ball around takes me back to being a 14 year old boy in pouring rain, sliding around in the mud with my mates, kicking the ball in the back of the net. I miss it.
Anyway, the thing I really enjoy about Ted Lasso is the main character. How nice he is. It’s not exactly original or surprising or brilliant. But he’s so nice. To everyone. He’s kind. Simple kindness. Even to people who don’t deserve. Because kindness matters and can change people. And it just.. touches my heart. Because I feel like we live in a time when simple kindness and being nice is so rare. Everyone everywhere is an assholes. Everywhere on social media everyone is an asshole. Everyone is mean. Politics, everyone is mean, and if not evil then aggressive and harsh, because they’re assholes or because the situation calls for it. You have to be aggressive if you think someone is destroying your world, right? And me too when I write about politics. And in the real world, people are mean, people take advantage of others, people are aggressive, people judge, people push, people are selfish.
I know it’s that bad, always, but it feels like it. It feels like the world is a shirthole and we’re all sinking.
And that’s why when I see Ted Lasso being just kind and optimistic and hopeful and nice and trusting and inclusive and openminded and generious and funny and lovely, it almost makes me cry. Because that’s what I want to be, and that’s how I want everyone to be, and I wish that was how you got ahead in life.
Bla bla. I just wanted to write that out. I think it’s a great show, especially if you like Sudeikis and soccer.
And that’s today’s tv review.
21/8 2020
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Ne me quitte
21/8 2020
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We go live now to the press briefing
21/8 2020
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Trying to match Lily’s smile.
21/8 2020
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I was going through my camera roll and I’m not sure why i took this picture when there’s no goat in it, maybe I accidentally pulled the trigger I don’t know.
22/8 2020
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I’m.. sorry. I think I’ve been hanging out with Keiko too much, because now i’m just taking pictures of goat poop.
Here’s the scattered scatological remains of goats in the rain. It’s.. art. You cna hang it on yer wall.
22/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce and Clark from 2014.
22/8 2020
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Hello, I’m a cake. I ate the Lasse.
22/8 2020
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Nuller is in charge.
22/8 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
23/8 2020
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Family health update. Not a good one. My mom is in intensive care. It’s her heart again, but also water in her lungs and other stuff. My dad says she’s stable, but it is serious of course. They’d originally been told to wait and she should go to the doctor on Tuesday, but she went to the hospital when it got worse. Dad says he wasn’t sure she’d have lived if they’d just waited till Tuesday…
She’s in good hands now, hopefully it will be okay. Hopefully this time they’ll keep her until they have everything completely sorted out.
My dad isn’t doing super well either. Sounds like the stuff he had done on Thursday hasn’t fixed all his problems, not yet anyway. He had to go to the hospital yesterday too. He said he was out in the city and just ‘shut down’ or something like that, I didn’t quite get what he meant, we were talking mostly about mom. But he got a ‘blockade’ done at the hospital. Sounds like he’s still got issues with his hips and stuff. I don’t know Sigh.
I woke up feeling dizzy. Not sure why. Also felt like my vision’s gotten worse overnight, but it goes up and down so maybe it’s just a temporary thing. I washed my floors yesterday before going to bed. You may laugh, but for me that’s not an easy thing and it tired me out and my muscles are sore. Hadn’t washed the floor in years possibly! When you’re blind it’s easy to overlook the dirt. Maybe I got dizzy off the soap fumes.
i’m feeling fairly ok, other than the worry anxiety and sadness, who wants to eat hooray.
Hope you’re all doing well.
23/8 2020
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Think goat thoughts..
Thank you everyone for all the support. It means a lot.
Got a message from my uncle, mom’s brother, he’s had some of the same stuff going on as mom and said he’s living very well with it, which makes me feel a little better. Hopefully the docs will get her back to health and she’ll be able to do ok too.
I’m not feeling great mentally, but I’ll be ok. Thanks for the distractions.
23/8 2020
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That’s all for now.