Knockleheads
Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
11/4 2022
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PSA: I am out of soup. If we stand together we can get through this.
11/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
12/4 2022
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Soup withdrawal is no joke!
Okay, maybe it’s a slight joke.
12/4 2022
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Shoutout to whomstever liked my latest Livejournal post, I can’t be bothered to dig out my password to find out who it was.
Also, why did Facebook just ask me to accept cookies? I’ve been using fb since what 2008, NOW you want to have integrity?
Also I want cookies, give me cookies.
12/4 2022
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Rest in peace, Gilbert Gottfried. A voice that will never be forgotten.
12/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
13/4 2022
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Good goat times today. A lovely day. According to the forecast up to 15C/59F, although it probably wasn’t quite that warm in the morning when I was out, and there was some cold wind and occasional cloud coverage. But still, warmer than most days we’ve had this year. And Easter holiday I guess, more young kids around than normal
Just when I arrived a young mother with a couple of little girlsand a baby in a stroller came over to the fence at the goat house. She asked if it was ok to give some apple pieces to the goats. I said sure and Mia jumped up with her front legs on the fence and poked her head through trying to get at them. Startled both the kids and the momma. She was holding out an apple piece for Mia, but she was doing it in the way where you try to keep your hands as far away from the mouth as possible. She admitted she was a little scared. Mia was trying to do the giraffe and get her neck as long as possible to get at the apple piece. But it wasn’t working out. Eventually the momma asked me if I’d show her how to do it. So she gave me the apple piece and I held it out in a flat hand and Mia gobbled it up immediately. Oh that wasn’t so bad, the momma said. I told her how goats don’t have upper front teeth, so unless you’re really poking your fingers into their mouth you’re not really going to get bitten. Her kids got a pasta wheel each but yeah they were too scared too and ended up throwing them into the pen for the goats to run after. Still, a lovely little family. The mother thanked me for the talk and wished me a happy Easter as they went along.
Later on I was sitting over by the gate with the goats when a couple of young girls came over. “You know you’re not really supposed to be in with the goats” one of them said. I told them I had permission because I was a volunteer goat herder. And that was ok. “They’re all so sweet” she said. And quickly followed with “except number 18. He’s the one everyone is afraid of”. Haha. Milo’s bandit reputation is still going strong. And he was quite the bandit today actually. But I’ve typed enough for now, i’ll tell more with pictures later. I’m starving and my legs are cramping. Gotta stretch and make food. Here’s hoping for more warm days soon, the forecast shows a bit of a cooling down again now. Come on spring, you can do it!
13/4 2022
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Okay, time for the Milo bandit story. In this picture Mia the sheriff is trying to school the outlaw bandit Milo.
They were really going at it. Like really. I think it’s only the second time, that I can remember anyway, that I’ve seen goats go at it for that long and that hard. It actually started with Sky and Mia butting heads. But then Milo butted in and it turned into long brutal duel. I actually started thinking maybe I should break them up before someone got hurt. Really hard headbutting and panting and running around with their heads together, I almost thought their horns had gotten locked together or something, but no they were just struggling. Mia running several steps back so she could get a running start to a rear up and headbutt. And Milo was making some guttural grunting buck noises that I’m not even sure I’ve ever heard him do before. It was quite the racket. I’m not sure what got them going like that. It’s very rare that Milo and Mia butt heads. Sky will butt heads with Miasometimes, when the hormones are acting up I think. But not often that Milo will do it. And not like this. Maybe I should start packing aspiring in the treatbag too.
But don’t worry, they were okay and eventually calmed down.
13/4 2022
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…and fastforward to a little later in the day. After their brutal and save infight.. here’s Mia sitting down with her head resting on Milo’s body, best of friends again.
13/4 2022
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One, two, three, four, five, six goats in the shot … and one Cowzilla!
13/4 2022
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Today will be good day. Here’s Fuzzy from 2016.
14/4 2022
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Had some good exercise time today. Up to about 1½ hour session. And dropped about 1½ kg in the last couple of weeks. Lowest recorded weight since some time in 2019. Not that weight loss is the main goal, I just need to get in better shape after the lung business, and get my clood sugar under control. But it’s always nice to drop a bit of weight, especially when t-shirt weather is coming up.
Also been enjoying my audiobooks. I enjoyed Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro so much that I decided to finally get around to reading his Never Let Me Go novel that I’ve had on my list to read for years. Enjoyed that very much too. I can recommend them heartily if you like the sort of sci-fi that has some societal critique and all. Artificial intelligence and clones. I want to read his The Remains Of The Day too, but couldn’t find it in English in any of my sources. So i’ll have to keep an eye out for that.
And let’s not talk about the football.
14/4 2022
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Got to say hello to Nala yesterday too.
14/4 2022
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I’m in the middle of editing the video of Milo Mia’s big fight, and then I hear this. Nuller sounding like a cat for a second.
14/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2005.
15/4 2022
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Having some tummy troubles and feeling a bit woozy. Probably just because I didn’t have pizza yesterday. Or didn’t sleep.
I’m going to go to bed and sleep for al ong and then i’ll probably be fine. JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE.
PS Harrison Ford has been trending on twitter for 2 days and I’m getting tired of constantly having to check that he’s still ok.
15/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Caturday everyone. I thought perhaps I would institute a new tradition, let Mousy have Saturdays. I know some of you really liked her, she was a sweet, old kitty that came into our live when we moved to the new playground. I don’t have a super lot of pictures of her, but we should be able to do Caturdays for a few months.
16/4 2022
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How am I feeling? I’m feeling off. Not too bad. Not snotty or hurting. But there’s just something off. Feel a bit queasy and shivering.
I slept for a very long time and had a range of interesting, funny and emotional dreams. It’s all fading too much to make any kind of sense retelling, but oh boy I love dreaming.
16/4 2022
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Rest in peace Liz Sheridan. The last of the Seinfeld parents has passed. Her character wasn’t as funny as George’s mother, but I really liked her. And I also really liked her as Mrs Ochmonek on ALF. I loved ALF and that name Ochmonek for some reason just stuck in my head. I liked her a lot.
16/4 2022
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goatlog
16/4 2022
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I feel like watching Fringe again. Walter is one of the alltime great tv characters and the father/son relationship with Peter and Walter was just wonderful, and then the cow and ‘Asterisk’ and scifi, it was so good. I wonder how it would be to binge those old shows. I’d like to rewatch Person Of Interest again too. And X-Files, the old stuff. And heck Lost. Again. Those shows that went on for years with 20+ episodes a season. With half a year between seasons and online fandom forum discussions. Feels like a different age, with 8-10 episodes per season and you know practically everything about a show before it starts airing. I remember when X-Files began the Danish tv station where kinda cageya bout it like ‘it maaaybe based on real events, it maaaybe not be entirely fictional’ and you didn’t have the internet, you were just a kid and you didn’t know andwhy WOULDNT the X-files be real it could happen you don’t know, it’s not like a secret government organisation would tell you the trutht it could be happenign why not.
Yeah. There’s so so much tv old and new I want to watch, so many movies old and new I want to watch, so many books old and new I want to read, and I end just watching youtube videos all day. It makes me a little sad. My attention span has just become OH LOOK A SQUIREEL
16/4 2022
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Here’s some goat content! Feed the beast.
16/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
17/4 2022
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Just watched an episode of The Simpsons that featured a baby goat, andit was pretty cute. But shockingly inaccurate. They had it eating a fkn tin can, and other things that goats can’t/shouldn’t eat. Way to teach kids to feed tin cans to goats.
Maybe it was that diet that caused the goats poop to NOT BE BERRIES. The goat poop was actually part of the plot.
There was actually a bunch of stuff in that episode that was kinda sad and disturbing. There were teenagers pretending to be a satanic cult, literally saying they were going to sacrifice the goat. There was Martin going off the rails and breaking into a pharmacy to steal medication to deal his parents pressuring him and there was Lisa desperately wanting to experience what it’s like to be an only child because she’s so neglected in her everyday life.
Honestly, it was kind of grim. But the baby goat was really cute. Just wished they’d got the poop right.
17/4 2022
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When I set up the self-timer to take some shots I always set it to take 3 pictures in quick succession. Nice to have some choices and i just delete the worst ones. Sometimes you get a fun progression in the pictures. This is like a mini flipbook where you can see Milo realizing the camera is on. If i had set it to take 6 pictures then the 3 next would have been Milo’ face progressively filling the screen has he gets up close to ruin the shot. It’s always a race to try and get photos or video before Milo tries to ruin it. The bandit.
17/4 2022
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That’s all for now.