Emulated
Good goat times today. A beautiful hot sunny day. Bit of a cold wind. But a cool breeze on a hot day is not a bad thing.
Perfect weather to hang aroaund with the goats. There was a lot of tumbling today. Bella and Luna butted heads on the ramp to the platform and Luna got pushed down and tumbled down the ramp, rolling over on the way down. I had to check to make sure she was ok, it looked almost dramatic. But she was fine. She also tumbled around in the dirt while trying to sit down on the side of the mountain. I had to rub that exposed belly. I did some tumbling too, while sitting down and trying to hug and hang on to Luna and she was moving and I just rolled around a bit in the dirt. Balance is hard.
We had a sweet little visitor in the pen, saying hi to the furs and the feathers and running around for a bit. I recognise her voice, I know she’s been here before. Her adult was new though, he wasking if it was ok for them to come in and other things. Appreciative of me opening the gate for them.
Had a chat with Jeanette too. About what’s going on with the playground, and about my situation with the renovations and the future of my apartment and stuff. She gave me some good advice, that was very nice.
As for the playground, I don’t think I’m allowed to talk about everything, but the important bit is that the playground should be safe for another 2-3 years. It might be up in the air after that, and there’s other stuff going on that could have consequences and repercussions. But for now we’re carrying on as normal. And then we’ll just have to see how it all goes.
for now I goes to the soup bowl.
19/5 2025
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Three goats relaxing in the sun. Actually, this may have been a sitdown protest. Jeanette had just washed their breakfast bowls and handed them to me over the fence, then we started our talk. And it was a pretty long talk. And I was standing there with the bowls the whole time and the goats were like “WTF those bowls need to be filled, we haven’t had breakfast yet”. Eventually they got tired of complaning and bugging me, and they all went to sit down. And once my chat with Jeanette was done, of course I got breakfast served for those poor, starving goats.
19/5 2025
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“Talk to the hand”
“Hey, hand, give me treats”
19/5 225
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So I got a new shirt. An Andor shirt. I like it. Should have gotten it in a smaller size, but you know I like my oversized shirts.
Anyway. Smart blind guy that I am, I did not realise that there was a little white sticker thing on the top of the chest, something with a qr code. So I went around all day with a qr code on my chest, didn’t realise until i got home. Whoopsie. Oh well. That’s what you get for not prewashing I suppose. I just got it and just wore it out.
Luna is diligently ridiculing me.
19/5 2025
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Ouch. My body aches. I guess that tumbling around with goats took more of a toll than I thought. Pretty sore. Especially my left hip/buttocks. Hope I can exercise it away. I’m getting too old for these berries.
20/5 2025
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Got an hour fortyfive on the bike today. Wasn’t sure how that was going to go, since my body was all aches. But turns out the muscles used to pedal the metal were just fine, so I got a good groove on that.
Kind of funny, I was on the bike pounding away, feet a blur, feeling strong. Then I get off the bike and i hobble around like a limping crippled old man who’s lost his cane.
Ah well. Time to relax now.
20/5 2025
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I am starting to suspect Red Sonja does this on purpose. Bella and Luna see the camera and think “I must destroy it”. Sonja sees the camera and thinks “I must walk through the shot and shake my tailfeathers”. Lil exhibitionist chick.
20/5 2025
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Got a new friend requset from a widower.
The new thing? It wasn’t a super handsome ex-military guy from America. It was an overweight guy from Denmark, selling fat loss products as far as I could tell from a quick look at his timeline. Hah. Well to be fair I guess that’s more relevant to me than American ex-military dudes. I’m staying single, though. So far the right fake guy just hasn’t come along. Also, i’m straight. But you know. You have to be flexible.
20/5 2025
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Speaking of Bella and Luna destroying the camera, here’s Bella and Luna destroying the camera. You can hear Jeanette laughing and asking if I’m okay. I survived, and so did the camera.
20/5 2025
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Aww. Rest in peace George Wendt. I loved him. So so much. I loved Cheers and one of my favourite things was just Cliff and Norm. Countless smiles and laughs throughout my life. Pour out one for our Noooorm.
20/5 2025
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goatlog
21/5 2025
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Life is just one big escape room.
21/5 2025
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Face down, berries up.
Sorry!
21/5 2025
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It puts the cheese on the pizza or it gets the farts again
21/5 2025
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Bella to Bella we all fall down
21/5 2025
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For the Keiko level subscribers, here is a greeting from Bella. Unfortunately I was slow with the camera, it was pretty funny just before I started filming when Bella was walking up the ramp while all the berries were rolling down.
21/5 2025
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A good hiding place for Sky. Hiding from teh sun, and from the big girls.
21/5 2025
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Well i was supposed to go see the goats today. But then I woke up feeling crummy and nauseated. And my body still aching, especially my hip hurting when I take steps. And I ended up throwing up.
So, I stayed home today. Sent a message to Jeanette so she could give the goats their breakfast.
And about a 7 hour nap later, I am feeling considerably better. Still achy and bleh, but not really nauseated. Skipping exercise today too. But i think i’ll be just fine. I’m going to get me some soup, that’ll help. Soup always helps.
In other news, I do believe my brother is going in for hip surgery today. He was planned to have it in December, but an earlier date opened up. Last i heard he would be going in today. They’ll be replacing the other hip. Hopefully it will all go well and the recovery will go better than the last time. Send your good thoughts to him, he’s the one that needs it today.
UPDATE: Oh just after posting this I got informed that my brother’s surgery is postponed indefintely. So that’s off. Hope he can get another appointment soon then. Too bad.
22/5 2025
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You know what i want to see in a Jurassic Park movie? I want to see one with a crazy human who got left behind on the island and then he bonds with teh dinos and when the humans send an expedition to rescue him they find him as a Crazy Dino Guy just living with the saurs.
You know there would be people bonding with them. you know when Roy got mauled by the tiger the first thing he said was ‘don’t kill the tiger’. The guy who lived with the bears. And me, sitting with the terribly dangerous goat monsters. You know if there were dinosaurs there would be humans who just sat around and bonded with them. And ended up getting eaten, probably. Which is also how i expect to end up. I know the goats don’t eat meat, but come on. I’m a pretty juicy cut.
Anyway. That’s what I want from a Jurassic Park movie. Instead we’ll probably sooner or later get a “Will Smith punches a T Rex in the face” movie. Mark my words, it’ll happen. Welcome to homo sapiens.
22/5 2025
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Some Americans: “Why do you care about US politics, you’re not American”
America: “ICE Imprisons Danish Dad of 4 at Citizenship Interview: The former foreign exchange student, now married to an American with U.S. citizen children, has spent over a month in a rural Louisiana detention facility”.
Well, at least he’s not in El Salvador or Alcaztraz or whatever. Enjoy those Qatar jets, definitely no hidden cost there.
22/5 2025
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Missing my SkyGirl
22/5 2025
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Erk. Not feeling great. Not feeling sick at least, but just aching and tired. Woken up repeatedly by duelling bulls dozing. Tiredy and hurty and depressy.
I’ll be fine, though. Hopefully the weekend will bring some good rest.
23/5 2025
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Tell me again that the world hasn’t gone nuts. Apparently Denmark beat Canada in the ice hockey balls game. Which is a sport that exists, I have only recently found out since I’m Danish
23/5 2025
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i feel very Norm about the world.
23/5 2025
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I prefer these kind of blues, with a touch of Bella for good measure.
23/5 2025
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Feeling better physically. Good to be able to sleep without being woken by dozing bulls. Mentally not feeling so good. The world and life getting to me. But hey oh, one day a day. i was supposed to exercise today, but I’m not gonna. I’m gonna have soup instead. Next week I’ll get back to proper goating and exercising. You mark my words. And give them a good grade, I worked hard on this update. I definitely didn’t just run them through an AI while I was busy looking at penguins dancing on the roof of igloos, why would you even
24/5 2025
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Let them eat crypto
24/5 2025
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A beautiful Sky, as above so below.
24/5 2025
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Guess what I just did?
I just played some Commodore 64!
On an emulator on my PC.
One of the old hard drives I found during apartment cleaning had backups of my old game stuff, stuff that i had discarded because i can’t really use it anymore.
After a lot of time and stuggle I managed to get the old Gamebase64 installed and an emulator working and I actually managed to load it up. Sigh. That beautiful Commodore 64 screen.
The first thing i did was of course to load up Kentilla. One of my favourite old text adventures, and unusually for a text adventure, with a banging soundtrack.
Played around for a couple of seconds. Then loaded up C.R.E.A.T.U.R.E.S. One of my absolute favourites back in the day. It’s funny, i can still remember so much of that first level. I could immediately tell that, no I can’t play these games really anymore for fun. Sadly. But I could also tell that even with keyboard controls and barely any vision, i can still get pretty far in the first level. Muscle memory of enemies and powerups. it hurts my eyes like heck. Everything is a blur now. But oh. The music, the feel, I miss those old games. You know the old Simpsons bit where the Twilight Zone guy is alone in the library and he’s just happy to be with all the books and then one by one his eyes and hands and everything just falls off and he’s stuck in a library with all those books but he can’t read them. That’s how I feel. I have every game from the old Commodore 64 and Amiga. I have everything i wanted back then. But I can’t paly them. Because my eyes have fallen out. It’s a pain in the heart. On the other hand, if i still had my eyesight i’d spend the rest of my days playing old retro games nonstop, and maybe that wouldn’t be productive. Sigh.
I was kind of hoping i could still play a little text adventure gaming. But no. The quality and clearness of the screen is too low, the contrast is so poor that I can’t comfortably read the text. And even that basic kind of gaming hurts my eyes a lot.
At least I got a little five minute nostalgia trip, and a reminder that no I can’t have this. It has slipped through my fingers. I used to love gaming so much. All my life. From C64 to Amiga to DOS to Windows. Briefly even had a Playstation. It’s all gone now. But the memories remain.
Say Kentilla. Just like the Creatures level is muscle memory, so is a lot of the Kentilla play. Kill urga-maul with sword.
I miss. A lot.
24/5 2025
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goatlog
25/5 2025
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Got that sinking blackout is coming feeling. But no blackout so far, so that’s good.
My mental state is pretty in the dumps, but I guess I’m feeling better physically.
Ever feel like you’re standing on the edge, but you still want to dance?
25/5 2025
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Some day when i’m done with my Bowie journey, maybe i should go on a The Cure journey. I have really listened to The Cure. Other than, like with Bowie, the big radio hits. i have a feeling I would deeply love The Cure. Put it on the todo list.
25/5 2025
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Luna and the blue sky.
And thank you everyone for the good thoughts and love, I appreciate the face box love.
25/5 2025
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That’s all for now.