Winded
Good goat times today. Light rain on and off all day. So it was mostly spent in the goat house. Wrangling goats.
The big question was of course, would Luna still have her collar on?
Spoiler alert: No. She would not.
I put it back on her, so we’ll see how long it lasts this time. If she keeps getting out of it then it will probably end up being lost. She doesn’t mind wearing it at all, but since it easily tears away, I figure she breaks it while doing one of the full body scratches they like doing against things.
But other than that a quiet day with not much happening. I am ready for some soup now.
28/10 2024
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Luna sez: I’ll be out of this thing five minutes after you’ve left, just wait and see.
28/10 2024
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Bella has been standing on the rock a lot lately. I don’t know if it’s because we’re into the wet season and she wants to get off the ground more, or if she just only realised it’s there recently. Anyway, it’s always cute when goats stand on things.
28/10 2024
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goatlog
29/10 2024
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Got an hour ten on the bike today. Back to work after a week and a half’s break.
Felt good to get back on it, although I wasn’t feeling great and even the short break from cycling makes you feel like you’re starting almost over.
It was my own fault I wasn’t feelnig well. Yesterday I bought two bags or pistachio nuts. And I ended up eating BOTH bags in one evening. Geez. Completely nuts. So nuts. Just goes to show I can’t be trusted with them. The only way to win the game is not to play. I can’t limit myself, hopefully this will teach me not to buy them.
My blood sugar levels have risen a bit lately. They are still in the acceptable range, but now they’re in the highest values of the range. That’s not great. I’ll do my best to get them back down to the lowest levels.
My weight has been stable, although flushing teh whole system because of the nut intake may have helped that today..
Anyway, good to get back on the bike. Now just to keep at it. And no nuts for November, hopefully.
Didn’t sleep well last night because of running to the toilets to get rid of nuts. So I’m pretty tired now. S M R T!
29/10 2024
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Good goat times today. The goats were good, me not so much. Started feeling dizzy and short of breath on my walk there. And my back started hurting really badly. Not great. So only an hour or so of goating for me before I headed home.
I was hungry in the morning, but didn’t get any breakfast. S m r t. Not sure how much to blame that was. I did grab some of the goats’ peanuts and carrots, didn’t seem to help too much.
I’ve also been trying some new stretches for the back, and I guess that’s what made my back hurt so much. Maybe it was the combination of pain and no fuel that made me go all weak. Maybe it was getting back on the bike yesterday that drained my system, maybe there’s some sickness lingering. I’m not a doctor, Ji.
Been home for a while now and feeling fairly ok. Ready to get some soup and maybe to bed early.
We had some sweet visitors in the goat pen today, petting the goats. There was a little girl who was petting Luna and then she bleated and the girl went “It made a sound! Why does it make sounds?!”. Aw. Jeanette is great with the visiting kids, answering questions and always being enouraging and telling them how well they’re doing and how brave they are etc. A lot of visiting kids are a litlte nervous meeting goats for the first time, so they get a nice win when they dare pet the dangerous monsters.
Anyway, what was that you said about soup?
30/10 2024
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Jeanette was doing some work. Bella was supervising.
30/10 2024
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Bella sez: Nice wheelbarrow, would be a shame if someone were to jump into it…
You’ll never believe what happened next.
30/10 2024
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A. Few. Moments. Laterr.
30/10 2024
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Well I’m not feeling reat. Stayed in bed this morning. Did get up later, and did do an hour on the bike. So that’s something. But it wasn’t easy. No energy, quickly out of breath, much more than usual. I don’t think you can get out of shape that fast just from not exercising in a week and a half, so i must still have some sickness lingering. Maybe i got some long covid. Nah, I wasn’t that sick. But hopefully I just need a couple more days to get back to normal.
Happy Halloweenies everyone.
31/10 2024
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Happy Halloween you alls. Recently looking at old videos of Palle when picking flashback posts for the goat page has made me really feel how much I miss him. I miss all of them of course. There were some great goat loves in my past. But at least I got a lot of time with most of them. More than a decade with Mia and Mio. Palle was so special and went so young. I can look at the videos of hm now and feel happy for the time we had. Not quite there with Mia, that heartbreak is still very open. But I do think i am fairly good at being goat. Living in the moment and not dwelling. Mostly. Sometimes.
Anyway, happy Halloween. May the Ghosts’n’goats bless you with benign visits.
31/10 2024
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Well, good news. I have been granted financial aid for the glasses. So I can get them for free. It’s been a month of running in circles, bput wee got there.
EXCEPT. They sent the grant electronically and I have to give it to the optician. I don’t have a printer. My parents’ printer is malfunctioning.
i reached out to Jeanette and she said that she would try to print it for me. She’s the best. So hopefully that will work out.
Hooves crossed.
1/11 2024
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I said i was feeling better earlier. But I have to take that back. i’m not really feeling sick, but I’m feeling pretty weak and tired. I’m kind of getting out breath just walking around my apartment. Clearly I’m not back to normal. Hopefully a couple of days will get me back.
I almost wondered if i’d hurt my lung. One of the new stretches I was doing had me lying on my back on my bed with my head and shoulders over the edge, kind of trying to stretch back like that. Because my back pain has been around the under the shoulders place sometimes. Almost wondered if I’d poked a lung.
It reminds me a little of how I felt before I lost the weight and got in shape, there was a period.. when was it, a year and half ago? When I was out of shape and getting tired and out of breath quickly. i even had lung xrays back then, I remember they found some kind of minor lung change or something, not something that was deemed important.
But just that feeling of getting out of breath with minimal efffort.
Anyway, hopefully it’s just because I’ve been sick. Time and getting back to the regular exercising will hopefully clear it all up.
I can’t believe it’s November already. We made it this far.
1/11 2024
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Preparing for election night.
1/11 2024
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I had an almost traumatic catastrophe last night. As I was getting ready to go to bed I accidentally pushed my TV and it fell over and off the desktype thing it was on. Crashed to the ground. I can’t tell you the panic that set into my head. I use that TV as my computer screen. My computer is my lifeline. Getting a new TV would be a big ordeal, and there’s pretty much no chance I could get the same model anymore and who knows if I could get anything as good and easy to use for my special needs anymore.
I know it may seem silly, but imagine you thought someone had cut off both your legs. That’s how I felt. Disaster.
THANKFULLY. I got the TV back up and it was okay. Took some work to get everything plugged back in. But the TV seems to be working okay still. Gurgh. My external hard drives aren’t working though, the falling TV pulled a bunch of cables some USB cables too. I’ve plugged them all back in, but the two external hard drives I have are not showing up in the computer. Hopefully they’re not broken, hopefully I missed some cable or something. i’ll have to take a closer look. Replacing an 8tb hard drive wouldn’t be fun. I do have backups though so there shouldn’t be any data loss at least.
So that was a bit of a heart attack.
How am I feeling other than that? I’m not sure. I started coughing earlier and felt like my throat might be hurting a bit. I used my mouth spray and I seem to be feeling ok right now. But there’s still something going on in my system I am pretty sure. I am going to try to go exercise. Not too much, just a little to get the pulse up and see where I’m at.
I got a bunch of other technical issues i’m dealing with and i’m kind of feeling stressed and depressed along with the somewhat sick and weak and breathing and all. Not feeling super. But at least my TV is working.
Hope you’re all doing well out there. TTYL LLAP
2/11 2024
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Got an hour on the bike. Took it pretty easy. Definitely still not up to speed. As soon as I started the intervals I was out of breath. But I’m not coughing and my throat isn’t hurting, so maybe that was false alarm. Just gotta give it some time.
Not fun afterwards though, as I spent hours working on technical stuff. First my alarm clock has started behaving erratically, and in order to get to the power outlet I had to move my bed haha everything is going swell huh. Well the alarm clock is dead now. Sigh.
Not that important. Much worse is that my external hard drive also seems dead. I think it’s the cable input plug that broke. I spent hours working on it and other stuff with the wires and stuff with the computer and tv. Lots of time in awkward positions, my back is killing me now.
And the hard drive is probably gone. Replacing it will not be cheap, an 8tb external hard drive would cost more than the glasses, maybe I can get financial aid for the hard drive too! Haha. Gallows humour.
Ah well. I still have a couple of things to try, but I think I will have to get a new one. And even if I get a smaller model it will still be expensive. Bummer.
Just feeling frustrated and stressed. And out of breath and in pain.
But I will try to calm down with some soup. Go with the flow. Of the soup into ma mouth.
November’s off to a great start, can’t wait to see what happens next..
2/11 2024
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Thinking goat thoughts, with Sky.
2/11 2024
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goatlog
3/11 2024
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Oh yeah, with everything going on I forgot to mention that this happened at the playground. I don’t know if you can tell from the photo, but the platform broke. It’s slanting downwards.
When I made it, I wedged it resting on the two troughs that went along the walls. Bella and Luna love jumping up in those and standing and walking on them. And they finally broke the one on the right, it tipped downwards, which means the platform is no longer level. So that’s a bummer. It’s still stable, but I don’t know how much they will want to use it to stand and sit on when it’s crooked like that. I guess we’ll see.
Jeanette told me that she had found out that they have a little more money in the budget than they thought, and the plan is to have carpenters come by, before christmas, and finally fix the platforms out in the pen (finally get the ramps better for the goats) and make an outdoor shelter that Sky can use when it’s raining and the big girls won’t let her in. And maybe the carpenter can fix this platform too. We’ll see. First priority would be the ramps on the platforms outside, they’ve been on the to-do list for years. And an outside shelter for Sky would be really great. I would like that.
3/11 2024
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Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t stand so goat to me.
Just kidding. Keep your friends close and your goats closer, but if your friends are goats, keep them very close.
Anyway. I’m feeling fine, as long as I sit still. When I start doing stuff I get drained and winded. Hopefully my energy levels will increase soon.
3/11 2024
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That’s all for now.