Infection
Good goat times today. Absolutely freeezingly cold, and overcast. Jeanette was inside doing some sewing work, the couple of times I talked to her she mentioned how bitterly cold she had felt it the couple of times she’d one out. Yeah, brrrr.
This week is winter vacation in Denmark, so I wasn’t sure if we were going to have anyone come by at all. But we did get a group visiting, maybe from the neighbour school, or maybe it’s a daycare or something. None of the usual kids, but one of the usual adults. She’s a very soft spoken lady, many of the adults are a bit on the loud and outgoing side, you know to keep cotrol of the kids. But this one seems almost shy, but she always makes a point to come over and say hi to me when she’s there with kids. I like her. And the kids got to pet and feed the goats, which is always good.
Got some more silly running from Bella and Luna. Luna has been very animated lately. She’ll butt heads with Bella then bleat at her and run way, and sometimes it rusn into a sprint across the hills. Sometimes she’ll end up sprinting in the direction where Sky is, and even though she’s not runnint AT Sky, Sky will still run to get out the way, and bleat back at her. I do love when they get active like that. Good way to stay warm too.
Another good way to stay warm? Soup, and how to eat it.
10/2 2025
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That’s one way to at your breakfast, Sky.
I put her bowl on the ground, but she couldn’t reach it, so I put it there instead. I guess that worked.
10/2 2025
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I am the owner and CEO of Soupelay Industries. We are in the business of importing and exporting soup. We import it into my mouth and export it into the toilet.
Sorry.
Yeah well the stupid facebook post store called and they’re all out OF ME.
10/2 2025
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Fun fact: The movie version of the book that inspired grandma Mio’s name was Christian Bale’s first movie role, also starring Christopher Lee.
Other fun fact: Mio is a boy’s name, but grandma Mio was in fact not a boy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio_in_the_Land_of_Faraway
10/2 2025
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Not a whole lot left of teh christmas tree. But it’ll be good for nibbling on for a long time.
11/2 2025
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Going well at it. Starting to feel my stomach tighten up, getting rid of the worst bloat of the holiday slash sickness slash inauguration depression. So that’s good. Going to keep working at it to get it even better.
While doing my stretches and cooldowns after the exercise, I finished Cujo. I really enjoyed it, I think it’s a well told and captivating story, if you can get past the dog part. Which admittedly is hard. I can see why King, as the narrator, put in a bit at the end about how Cujo was a good boy and was not to blame for what happened. Clearly he knew that people would not be happy if the dog had jus been evil.
I did feel bad for Cujo, I also felt bad for a character that died at the end, without going into spoilers, it was a very innocent character. And I can’t really explain why, but as I was listening to that, I started getting flashbacks to Mia’s passing. So I ended up crying in the shower afterwards.
It’s easy to see all the horror of the world and forget the good. It’s easy to get trapped in thoughts of the saddest days, and forget the years of happiness. It’s better to have loved and lost,,, right?
I am tired of the world, but it seems the world is not done with me. Kicking screaming gucci little piggy.
Alright alright. Think of the good times. May they outweigh the bad.
Oh and hey, thank you to everyone out there with whomst I can share the good and the bad times. I appreciate it.
11/2 2025
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The Gulf Of Denmark has a nice ring to it. Once we’ve bought California, we should just keep expanding.
I hope it’s ok if we pay with crypto.
11/2 2025
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Always exciting to load up the MP3 player with a new stack of books. Next up is another Philip K Dick. A Scanner Darkly. And then i’m going to start on Jeff VanDerMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, which was one of the recommendations for books where “things aren’t what they seem”. I’ve been wanting to read these for years, so hopefully they’ll be good. Also lining up Stephen King’s Christine, another of the old Kings that I need to fill in the gap. Sometimes I feel like just stopping everything else and just reading books. But I do need to go goating and then I need to do editing and I need to exercise and sleep and other things.
I’m glad to be reading more again. I keep a record of teh books Ive read, and there were a few years were I read around 10 books, and that’s a very low for me. The number starting going up again with a couple of years around 20-25, and last year I got to 44. Not that I’m reading to fulfill a quota or anything, but it’s just nice to be reading more. Reading while I do stretches and exercises after biking has given me more time to read, and it’s a reward to look forward to while working hard on the bike.
11/2 2025
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goatlog
12/2 2025
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Tired and headachey, slightly dizzy. It’s too cold. The forecast ahead says all days around freezing or below. There’s a night that says -10C/14F. You know yo’re in trouble when the C and the F is almost the same.
Bleh. I think i’m going to take a page out of Bella’s playbook, and do some napping.
12/2 2025
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Urk. Feeling worse. Headache and tiredness gotten worse. Feeling woozy and the kind of tired where you eyes hurt, nad had a queasy taste in my throat. I thought I was just tired because I didn’t eat enough yesterday, after exercising. But now i feel like I might be coming down with something. Or maybe it’s the hypochondria. Maybe I just need sleep. I have eaten. Feels like I may need a little break. I’ll see I guess.
zzzzz
12/2 2025
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Oh hi. I got myself a nice 12 hour nap last night. I guess I needed that. I still wasn’t feeling super great when I got up today. Decided not to go out in the freezing cold. Plans change.
But I did decide to give the exercise bike a try a little later on. I figured I’d have no energy for it, but I actually got a good ride going. Got an hour forty and decent effort.
Pretty beat now. Still tired, but not in the way I eas yesterday. Still a little headachey. I don’t know. I still figure I didn’t get enough to eat, I ramped up by diet this week and probably went too far. Or didn’t get enough water, even though i’m trrying to drink a lot.
I don’t think I’m sick, I just need to get enough fuel. And to that end, I’m going to cook me up a pot of soup.
13/2 2025
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I made the mistake of looking on twitter. And saw Mark Hamill trending because the bigots think he said Luke is canonically gay in Star Wars. He didn’t say that of course. But that it would spark such outrage from those segments isn’t surprising.
I couldn’t help thinking though, with my stereoytpical view of certain statse in America.. I bet they would have less of a problem with Luke doing his own sister than with him being gay.
Humans are so stupid.
Me included, obviously. I’m dumb as a doorknob.
And I don’t really think that about American states. I was just kidding. Other than that one state. You know the one.
Btw my long sleep last night involved some wonderfully vivid dreams, including one where John Lithgow was dancing. Oh never have I wished dreams came true harder than that. Imagine a Danish John Lithgow. I would be so happy.
13/2 2025
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🎶 who’s the sleepiest goat of all, it’s Bella! 🎵
brb, composing a theme song
13/2 2025
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Got a Pepsi & Protein delivery today.
It’s always good to get a load of protein on Valentine’s Day.
Happy valentimes!
14/2 2025
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Sigh. Bad news again. My brother has been taken to the hospital. My dad stopped at my place, before going out to the hospital. He was worried that it was a blood clot or stroke or something like that. But he called mom, who was with Peter wand went with him to the hospital, and it sounds like it isn’t that serious after all. Maybe an infection, probably connected to the hip surgery. But we still don’t know for sure.
Hopefully it’s not too serious. Just sucks that he’s having so many issues, I had hoped the hip surgery would get him feeling much better, but so far it’s been up and down.
Hooves crossed for better news later.
14/2 2025
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An update on my brother. He’s not doing so well. Dad says they can’t really get through to him. I think he was asleep when I talked to dad. They are not sure exactly what’s going on, but I think there’s a lot of infection in his system, the doctors are working on it. He is in good hands, we just have to wait and see for now. Hopefully he will be better soon. Send him all the positive energy you can, thank you everyone.
14/2 2025
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I am about to head off to bed. Latest news is that my parents have gone home. Peter has been sleeping all day since he went to the hospital. The doctors are talking about doing tests on his.. spinal canal? I am not sure the right term. But maybe that can shed some light on what is going on with him. Hopefully tomorrow will being better news. I am pretty weighted down with depression and worry, but one day a day. Tomorrow is another.
Thank you everyone, again.
14/2 2025
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Hey, sorry to leave you all hanging. I distracted myself today with exercise and cleaning out kitchen cabinets full of ancient dirt and clutter.
But good news today. My brother is doing better. He’s awake and aware, able to have conversations with my parents. And they are moving him from intensive care to a kidney ward. They still don’t have a diagnosis, they don’t know exactly what’s going on. I’m not sure if they’re suspecting it’ a kidney issue, or if that’s just a precaution since he had a kidney transplant years ago. But he’s feeling better, and I’m feeling a lot more confident that they’ll get it all figured out and get him back on his feet.
Thank you everyone for all the support. I appreciate you care about me and my family, both the fur and the people kind. It feels good to know so many people have our backs. And fronts, in some cases.
Gonna grab me some soup now.
15/2 2025
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goatlog
no news is good news
16/2 2025
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My brother continues to improve. Awake and alert. There’s some kind of infection in his body, but the doctors still haven’t figured out exactly what’s going on. But apparently there is talk of sending him home tomorrow. I feel like that sounds way too early, but what do I know… A couple of days ago he was ‘unreachable’ in intensive care. I’m worried they’ll send him home and then he’ll collapse in a coma or something. I know my parents will do their best to keep an eye on him, if they do end up sending him home. We’ll have to see. I guess it’s good that he’s doing well enough that they’re considering it.
I had pizza today. My plan to get more hardcore with my diet kind of collapsed first with burning out with lack of fuel, probably, and then depression and worry. Been eating way too much. But I’ll try again next week. The forecast says we might get a little warmer temps soon. I woud appreciate that. Sick of the freezing.
And trying to ignore the news, because the news are the news and the news ain’t good.
Despite my concerns about them wanting to send Peter home tomorrow, I do appreciate the Danish health care system a lot. Can’t help wondering what’s going to happen to the US one now. But that’s news to me.
Thanks everyone for all the support. Still so happy to have a perfect circle of facebook friends.
As all the social media platforms get worse and worse, and everything gets fragmented, I hope people will still be able to find the support systems they need. I miss diaryland and livejournal and AIM/MSN Messenger. And Napster and remember when MTV played music videos AND YOU CLOUDS MAKE ME ANGRY *SHAKES FIST*. And don’t get me started on cloudflare maliciously targetting non mainstream browser now and
okay okay I’ll shut up.
16/2 2025
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That’s all for now.