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Good goat times today. Not the standard routine today, though. I was getting ready to leave the house when my phone rang. It was Jeanette. My mind immediately went “no no no what happened who died”. But it was nothing like that, thankfully. She just wanted to give me a heads up that there was construction going on at the playground, they were putting in electric cables to the goat house. So I would not be able to take the goats out today.
But I went anyway. Spent the day inside with them, with the door mostly closed. Outside the sound of digging machines and people working. Sometimes one of them would come in and go into the storage room and do some drilling. Jeanette met me when I got there and helped me get safely to the goat house, avoiding the big ditch dug along the path. Hopefully the work won’t take too long. I hope it means we’ll get a light inside, that would be nice! Could have used that today haha. But it wasn’t too bad, I sat in the goats’ bedroom where there was a fair bit of light coming in through the two windows. The goats munching on breakfast, hay and the christmas tree. And the kids constantly begging for treats. They’ll both paw at me relentlessly. And sitting on the chair they got up on the tub that was next to me and then either Luna would jump up and stand on my legs completely or Bella would get up with her front paws on my legs. I’m gonna be sore tomorrow!
It’s nicer when you can actually go out and do stuff different places, but it’s always good to hang out with the goats.
26/2 2024
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Breakfast in lockup.
26/2 2024
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Finished reading Patrick Stewart’s autobiography today. One of the instances wheing being forced to do audiobooks has an upside. Listening to Sir Patstew talk is a delight, even if his voice has gotten quite gruff with old age. But with autobiographies having the author narrate it really adds something extra. And he sings a little and reads Shakespeare!
I enjoyed very much hearing about his childhood, and his early ‘serious’ acting in the theater and Shakespeare and all that. And of course. Star Trek. The Next Generation was my first trek and a big part of my early life. Premiering on the fancy SECOND national tv channel. The music, the font. Hits right in the memberberries. So hearing about all that was great. But my favourite part of the book was the story of how he and his wife befriended a squirrel. I loved that so much. You ciould hear how excited and happy he is about that squirrel. And how with treats they managed to become close with this wild squirrel. When he said that they gave roasted peanuts in the shell to it. Well, that’s what I give the goats for treats! Naturally that touched my heart. It reminded me of one of my first goat friends, Mathilde. I have told the story several times about how she was scared of humans. And how with patience, and food, I managed to gain her trust and become close with her. And that one day when one of the workers told me ‘she doesn’t trust anyone like she trusts you’ and how it made me feel like that goat thing was a thing that maybe I was good at. I can just imagine fancy Sir Patrick, knight of the realm, and the wild squirrel coming in to get her treats from him.
We’re all just squirrels looking for a knight in shining spandex uniform.
26/2 2024
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Ten ttuths and a lie. Can you guess which one is false?
1) I don’t like the Church Lady sketches.
2) I like Chelsea Handler.
3) I went to school with someone who had music featured on Grey’s Anatomy and The Blacklist.
4) I eat soup at least 3 times a week.
5) I was once interviewed for an artice about sex toys in an online zine.
6) I have never watched any of the Twilight, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, The Lord Of The Rings, Marvel or DC superhero movies, Toy Story Movies or Mission Impossible movie franchises..
7) My mother read The Hobbit to me when I was a kid.
8) I am not related to Lance Henriksen.
9) I spent a new year’s even in the hospital with a burnt foot from a piece of firework.
10) I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs.
11) I have never had a Nintendo or Sega console.
27/2 2024
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Luna sitting down on the tub, next to me on the chair. Love when they sit with me.
Thanks for the replies to my little game earlier. I’m going to let it ride till tomorrow, see if anyone else want to leave an answer. And then tomorrow I’ll let you know the astonishing truth of the one FALSE claim, no takebacksies, factchecks not included, guarantee void in Teneesee.
27/2 2024
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I feel into a depressed nap and ended up sleeping most of the day. So that’s not great.
But what IS great is that now I’m up and ready to give the long awaited answers to yesterday’s big game show.
I feel like there may have been a bit of confusion, as smoe people seemed to pick statements from the list that they thought were true, but you were supposed to guess which one WASN’T true. Ten of them were true, one of them were not. I’m not sure if I didn’t make that clear enough. But it’s all fun and games. Thank you for participating to the ones that did.
And the first person to correctly guess the false item on the list was… drum roll… Jasper Zanzibar ! Congratulations, report to the principal’s office to collect your prize of a pack of dried fignewts!
The correct false answer was number 6, that I hadn’t watched all those movie franchises. Now even number 6 was partially true, since I haven’t watched any of the Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games, Toy Story, Mission Impossible or Marvel movies. But I HAVE watched some DC superhero movies (before they became a cinematic universe franchise though) and all of the Lord Of The Rings movies. So therefore that item was false. All the other items on the list were true. Including Number 2, which was the most popular guess. But, I am afraid I do like Chelsea Handler. Sorry! I put that on the list because I figured that could trick a lot of people, since I know many people hate Chelsea haha. And okay to be fair, maybe it would be more accurate to say that I USED to like Chelsea Handler. I watched her show Chelsea Lately back 10 years ago and… I liked it. I haven’t really kept up with her since then, other than when she went viral for stupid shirt. She can be pretty annoying and abrasive, so maybe it’s a stretch saying I like her. But if you weigh up the pros and cons I come out more pro Chelsea. Don’t hold it against me!
And I do eat soup at least 3 times a week. The key word being at least, so it can be more in some weeks! And I’m not realted to Lance Henriksen, but I wish I was. I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. And I never have, apart from a little gbit of ‘fun’ alkyholic drinks, and two sips of beer on school graduation day.
But yes, the whole list was true other than the bit about not having watched The Lord Of The Rings, in fact I have all three of the special edition DVD boxes on my shelf here.
Congratulations to Jasper. And honorary mentions to Cyd and Trish who also picked the correct number 6.
Thanks for playing!
28/2 2024
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For those interested in item number 5 on the list, I’m afraid the article is no longer available online as the website changed ownerships over the years and went down long ago.
It was a long time ago, and I never posted or tol anyone about it. I don’t know if any of my friends ever saw it.
I do have a screenshot of the article on my hard drive. Maybe some day I’ll post it as a special treat for everyone. Haha. It’s just A) not very interesting and 2) kind of embarrassing. On the other hand it’s kind of funny. If you manage to get me drunk maybe I’ll post it!
28/2 2024
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Good goat times today. A rainy day. So we stayed mostly inside. But at least we had the doors open today. The digging and cable laying all done. They’d cleaned fairly well after their work. Nice to have that behind us. We had the feathers out with us again today, which is always a treat. Even if they have to run for their lives now and then when Bella or Luna butt them away. Sky doesn’t mind them at all, but the kids will sometimes give them a shove. We had human visitors too, and thankfully none of those got shoved.
My stomach started feeling a bit poorly so I went home a little earlier than usual. By the time I got home it seemed to have settled. Oh well. I decided use the spare time to get on the exercise bike. Got a good hour in. Phew it’s tiring to exercise when you’ve already been out for hours. But it felt good. Afterwards got my best weight checkin since last April, so hopefully that’s going in the right direction. Hooves crossed. I’ve earned my soup now though.
29/2 2024
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Here’s the Sky.
29/2 2024
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Looking through old videos to find some jumpy fun for Leap Day on the goat page. Came across this one with Peanut. It’s not quite jumpy enough for the leapcelebration, but I thought the premium subscribers would enjoy the super sweetness. Boy, I miss Boer babies. So much fun.
29/2 2024
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Aw, Richard Lewis died? How sad. Rest in peace. He was great. Loved him so much on Curb Your Enthusiasm, him and Larry were wonderful together. And he was great back in the day on Craig Ferguson’s talkie show. That’s where I first got to know him really. He was one of those guests who had great chemistry with Craigh and you could just watch them banter about nothing and it was a delight. Always a highlight when eh was on.
And I just watched him on Curb like a week ago feuding with Larry over their wills.
Brilliantly funny chap.
1/3 2024
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Still working on the script for the pilot episode of Jesus Christ Dinosaur Slayer. Evolution Is About To Be Intelligently Creationismed.
Patent pending.
1/3 2024
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Bella tucked in.
1/3 2024
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I challenge you to find anyone else in the world who has Cripple And The Starfish by Antony And The Johnsons on their exercise playlist. Who needs a thumping beat when you have violins?!
Got on the bike and did an hour. I would have gone longer, but my MP3 player ran out of battery after 50 minutes and it kinda killed my mojo. But still good to get on it and get going and keeping it going.
Last night I dreamt I was in some public place, I forget which, with lots of people. And suddenly sirens and explosions went off and I was in the middle of a huge terrorist attack, or maybe it was a Russian invasion, who knows. I woke up with a loud ringing in my ear. The wrost tinnitus I can remember ever having. Usually when I get that tone loudly it dies down very quickly to a level I barely register, but last night it seemd to just keep going. I did fall back asleep and it seems to have disappeared again. Or at least died down to the baseline that I don’t notice. I usually have my space heater going (on cold) to drown out all the noise from the building and then I usually have music or podcasts or youtube videos going on top of that. When I go to sleep I put on a 10 hour rain video on youtube. So I rarely have complete silence.
Anyway, happy weekend you all peoplebuddies.
2/3 2024
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I’m glad Leap Day is over so I can get back to Sit On My Fat Ass Rest Of The Year.
2/3 2024
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goatlog
3/3 2024
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Sunday funday hugs from Palle. He was such a lovely boy.
3/3 2024
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That’s all for now.