Gates
I’m sorry I haven’t posted any great April Fools jokes, i’m just swamped with rehearsels for my upcoming tour with Taylor Swift, I hope you guys understand. Tay Tay won’t cut my no slack.
1/4 2024
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Good goat times today. A rainy one. Massive rains passing through overnight. By the time I got out it had died down to more regular, but steady, rain. so it was an indoor day with the goats. That’s fine. Because of Easter and depression I’d been gone too long. Good to be back. No Jeanette, she wasn’t working today. Too long since I’ve seen her too. Imagine that, me looking forward to seeing a human. Let me just check the date, no it’s not April first anymore.
But the goat company was lovely. Bella trying to get up to my backpack on the storage shelf, managed to drag a plastic bag down from there. Luna being a litlte bucky and grunting and snorting. With her little beard and little headbutting, I’m starting to wonder if she’s a little boy after all! She’s not, but then these days. Can goats be gender fluid? She’s a funny one in any case. And Sky is her sweet old self. The goat house wasn’t open yet when I got there. When I slid the door open she was sitting right on the inside looking up at me. I love those three snootiepies.
2/4 2024
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April showers bring.. wet flowers? Luna is watching the rain.
2/4 2024
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If you accidentally push the shutter button, just call it art.
2/4 2024
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Sky is also watching the rain. Let’s hope it makes the grass grow.
2/4 2024
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Got on the exercise bike for another hour and a half today. He’s going the distance. He’s going for speeeed. Well, I’m going somewhere.
I wish the display and digital component (whatshamacallit) on my bike still worked. Broke long ago. It was kinda fun when you could see how fast you were going, how many miles you’d gone and all that. Many years since that broke. Nowadays I put a timer up on my computer and put it so I can see it from the bike, to keep track of how long I’ve been going. And that works fine enough.
I do wish I could get a new bike. It’s rusty. It works, but the pedals are kinda noisy and bumpy. It’s not a smooth even ride. I’ve tried oiling them, but it doesn’t really help. Getting a new bike would be a big bother with delivery and assembly, though. So I’m stuck with this one until it falls apart. It has served me well. No doubt getting my own exercise bike is one of the best investments I ever made. I’m not the kind of guy who can go to the gym and work out. Having it right here has been a big help. I’ve had my ups and downs healthwise over the years, but when i put in the effort on the bike it is always helpful. And it just feels good. It’s easy to forget whn you’re in a slump and you’re depressed and you just want to sink into the chair or bed and never get out and lifting your arms feels like a struggle. But it actually feels great to tax yourself, feel the burn, push yourself. Once you get going it feels good.
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3/4 2024
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High Luna.
3/4 2024
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Off to the doc’s office today. Just seeing the nurse and getting blood drawn. Took a couple of tries. Always fun to get jabbed with a needle!
Last time I was there my blood sugar levels were too high. The last 3-4 weeks they have been getting better. It also turned out that i have been getting too small a dosage of one of my meds. So, unless the new blood tests show drastic problems, I’m going to keep up with the exercise and diet and then get the higher dosage of the med, and then we’ll see next time if things are as they should be. That’s the plan. Just treading water. Or bike pedals.
4/4 2024
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Hey hey! Thank you so much Beverly Fish for the lovely cards! A funny Easter and a darling belated birthday one! Thank you for thinking of me. I love your Canda do attitude!
4/4 2024
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Eleven years ago. Feels like eleventy. It’s strange sometimes looking at the old videos and photos. I miss the old places sometimes. Each playground had their ups and downs. I spent so much time in those two past pens. They were my world for so many years until cataclysmic shifts pushed me to new worlds. It’s like looking at photos from my childhood home, I can still see the colour of the wall, the slope of the back yard to the apple tree dad planted, the old tv that had 8 channel buttons, no remote. It has been a weird life, you don’t know the half of it. But you know the goat half of it.
4/4 2024
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Speaking of the mail, which is sometimes slow reaching me. Today I got a package from amazon. Stuff I ordered. The side of the box was a little rough, almost open. I was a little worried something might be missing from it. But that wasn’t the problem. It was the opposite. Inside the box, along with the things I had ordered, were a smaller package. Addressed to someone else. I don’t know how that happened. It was a small, flat package but I still have a hard time imagining it sliding into my box by accident. But I don’t know why the mailman would put it in there. Oh I don’t know.
It was a package from a bookstore, so now I’m a book richer! Haha. Nah. I gave it to my dad and he’s going to drop it at a postal place. So hopefully it gets to wherever it needs to go.
5/4 2024
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.Did I fall or was I pushed? Did I fall or was I pushed. And where’s the blood and where’s the blood
, i am coming home I am coming to make it alright so dry your eyes
5/4 2024
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Not sure what this face from Bella means. Is it a “oh the hand came out of the pocket empty” disaproving look? Or “don’t take a picture, I haven’t put my face on yet” one?
5/4 2024
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This election, don’t forget to set your clocks back a 100 years, it’s a leap election.
5/4 2024
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It is amazing, the power of music. Still to this day when I listen to music from Ultima 6 The False Prophet I feel it deep within. Like visceral memories of another world. The magic of childhood before the information age, not knowing everything, not clearlyh completely being able to tell the difference between fact and fiction, I mean you know there’s a difference, but at the same time you feel like the magic could be real, like there could be gates ot other worlds and there could be dragons and wizards and there could be boat rides across vast oceans, there could be dungeons beneath castles, there could be mountains to scale. And you’re a lonely loser with no life and you delve into the other world and you live there and it’s almost real to you, not really real but more real than reality. And the music brings it back. A yearning for the wander, the adventure, the wonder, the great tales of heroes and villains. And the villains were true and easily recognisable and defeatable and they would never win.
And this kind of cinematic intro, I don’t know if I had ever seen anything like it on my Amiga before this. When most games were simple action type things with maybe a little text and a picture. This was like a movie with a soudtrack, it was a story and you got to be in the story. The whole fiction of Ultima is that the player is the one in the game, you’re not playing a character, you’re playing yourself transported into a different world. Maybe this is where my love of the trope of people from the real world being transported to other worlds comes from. The wardrobe leading to Narnia, Fate Gates Of Dawn, Zapped. I always love movies and stories where the main character is from our world but ends up in another. Maybe it’s from there my deep desire to go to another world stems, or maybe that’s just from my deep desire to not be in this world. There must be other worlds, right? Like the partice accelarator in Another World sending Lester to Another World. There must be magic and portals and dragons and orcs, right? There must be a road to Middle Earth, there must be a galaxy far far away. You can’t confine us to this world, to this place and time where the villains are deceitful and enduring. There must be a wardrobe in the attic or a stairway beyond the physical dimensions. There must be a yellow brick road, there must be
a point to this?
probably not. Just feeling nostalgic. I wish I could play the Ultima games again. I have them all on my hard drive, but no longer the sight to play them. The moongates are closed. But still the music reaches me. One more dance.
5/4 2024
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goatlog
6/4 2024
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Happy Birthday to my dad today. He unfortunately had a bad fall in the beginning of the week, had to go to the hospital and was diagnosed with a concussion. So he’s still recovering from that. Along with all the other stuff. But he’s hanging in there. It’s been a tough time, but he’s not letting it stop him from getting out and doing things. Thanks for all the help and support, dad.
Also got the results of my blodo tests back. My blood sugar levels are going down, but still too high. I will continue with the diet and exercise along with the higher dose of one of the meds, hopefully the levels will keep falling. One day a day, one hoof in front of the three others.
6/4 2024
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Don’t take any wooden bitcoins when you sell your soul. As the abridged orange bible says, if the sin is profitable is it really that bad? If god was angry at you he’d be sending tornados and earthquakes to set you straight or something, don’t worry about it. With the golden sneakers you’ll easily be able to jump the fence we’re building around heaven.
6/4 2024
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Oh goats.
6/4 2024
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Noodles drenched in coconut oil and ketchup and mediterranean salt. That’s my dinner today because I’m a respectable adult who functioning at a socially acceptable level, ner ner.
7/4 2024
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A little Luna face to wind down.
7/4 2024
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That’s all for now.