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Good goat times today.
It’s good to get back to goating. It will be a couple of weeks before I can really get back to the old routine, but for now I’m just enjoying the time I get.
It was a snow day today. But just barely. Tiny little patches on the ground here and there. And a tiny bit coming down. Nothing to really speak of, but winter certainly is here.
Sweet fluffy goats growing their winter coats. And their tummies. A couple of visitors asking if Sky was pregnant, and being somewhat shocked that she isn’t. oh dead. We’ve cut down on rations, but apparently it hasn’t had much effect yet. And going to a couple of weeks without the treatbag has done nothing either.
There was a boy who brought carrots for the goats. He was filming them with his phone. He asked me if it was okay that I was in the film, and I said sure. A little later he proudly told me “I got you in the video!”. Hey, I’m no stranger to being in goat videos!
As the slight snow came down, sweet Sky retreated to sit under the podium down in the front pen. I guess that’s her new safe space. She sat down there last week too.
On the one hand it’s super cute seeing her tucked down under there. And I’m glad she’s got a dry spot where the big girls can’t really get to. But I also feel a little sad that she feels the need to. Hopefully she doesn’t go down there all time. Hopeully when the weather is drier she’ll be out with us more. She is getting to be an older girl, I don’t blame her for not wanting to run around with, and from, the younger girls. I just don’t want her to hide away all the time.
Now, it is soup time. Tis the season now for sure.
24/11 2025
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Where’s Sky at?!
24/11 2025
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Got a surprise this morning when my phone rang with the doorbuzzer number.
It was my mailman, you know my favourite mailman. I was surprised he buzzed me, I thought they had their own access code to the building. But I guess it’s easier for them to buzz up instead of going up to see if anyone is home.
I knew there was a package coming today, but I figured I wouldn’t be able to receive it, since I was going out goating. But he was there earlier than usual. Last time it was later. In any case, I buzzed him in and he came up with the package. First postal package delivered while I was in the new apartment. Glad I got it. Still very happy with my mailman.
Oh and the good news is, I could hear him clearly through the phone. I guess the grocery delivery guy that I couldn’t really hear what he said, he was doing it wrong. So nice to know that I can hear people buzzing downstairs.
24/11 2025
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I know you’ve seen it already, but here’s my new building. Seen from the path I take up to the goats.
I wonder if I can get Helle to take a picture from street level of me standing and waving from the balcony of my apartment. That would be kind of funny.
24/11 2025
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What if the best is yet to come?
24/11 2025
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Had a little too many people in my apartment this morning. TWO. Two too many.
Haha. Well, yesterday when I was at the goat place I got a call from the housing association service guy, asking if he could come look at my blinds that needed fixing. Told him I wasn’t home. So we arranged for him to come over today.
Also today I had a Pepsi&Protein delivery scheduled.
Not like it was a problem, but it did give me a little anxiety. Of course they came at the same time more or less. But it was fine. I got the groceries lugged in while the service guy was fixing the blinds. My social phobia was flaring, but it wasn’t a problem. And the nice thing was the that the delivery guy didn’t have to buzz me, he used the temp code I had set up in the electronic lock system. So that was good, didn’t have to let him in via my phone.
Also had to call the housing association. Haven’t had any bills for next month’s rent. You pay the first month’s rent along with the security deposit in advance. The guy on the phone said I was supposed to have gotten the bill for next month’s rent already. If I hadn’t then “that was a mistake”. Yeah yeah. I’m not a complainer, and generally I have been happy with the way I have been treated by the housing association. But it does feel like there have been a number of little mistakes along the way. Wrong information about this apartment not being renovated. Not getting my name up on the door instead of the old tenant’s. Telling me I needed to buy new pots and pans when I didn’t. Not sending a bill for the rent. Imagine if I hadn’t been paying attention, my rent wouldn’t have been paid. Would they have kicked me out? I guess they would have sent a reminder. Anyway, there have been other mistakes. Thankfully I think we’ve caught everything and nothing serious has happened. But it’s not great when you get official information that’s outdated or just wrong. I know Helle has had her battles with the housing association, she’s the activist type. I’m more the “keep my head down and go along to get along” type. I would usually rather let people walk all over me instead of causing a fuzz. Not the best quality to have. But sometimes you have to speak up and I guess I have gotten some experience lately in being pro-active and dealing with things.
Anyway, I got some cucumber and tomatoes in the delivery today. I have not eaten tomatoes in.. maybe a year, because I was worried about how acidic they are and my teeth weren’t doing so great. Today I’m going to have me a cheese sandwich with cucumber and tomato, I used to eat that a bunch.
May also have gotten some iced creams. May be having some for dessert.
Well, better go pay my rent for next month. Get it added to the automatic bill paying system.
25/11 2025
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I have some bad news.
The tomatoes weren’t good.
Practically no taste. Ah well. I’ll try again next spring. I love a good tomato, but this wasn’t it.
Cheese sandwich wasn’t bad, though.
Another exciting update from the life of Lasse!
25/11 2025
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Here’s Helle’s picture of the gate tonight. It is lit up to promote the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
25/11 2025
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Well, you’ll never believe it. Or maybe you will. I hurt another rib.
I was sitting in my chair with my psoas massage tool. I don’t know if any of you know those. They’re shaped kind of like a U. Two ends justting out. I leaned over and one end jabbed into my lower rib and I felt a sharp pain. Pretty sure I bruised another rib, this one was the lowest one, I think. On the right side again. So that adds another week or so of pain, to the one I bruised or bent last week. Sheesh.
I was telling Jeanette about my hurt rib, and she wondered if I might have Osteoporosis, since I keep bending or bruising those ribs. Apparently all it takes for me is to lean some weight on a rib and it just .. cracks. Well, I guess they’re just bent or pushed or bruised or whatever. But weeks of pain isn’t fun. Maybe I should talk to my doctor about it. I do take calcium and vitamin D supplements, doctor’s orders since the diabetes beginnings.
So now I got two hurty ribs on the right side. I have never hurt the lowest one before, I wonder if that will hurt worse when it gets really going. Fun times.
Got my rent for December paid today. My rent is actually lower than at the old place. It’s supposed to be higher, since it’s a renovated apartment. But it’s lower because the prepay for heat/water/electricity is way lower. It’s set to the average used by similar apartments. I know from experience my usage is going to be considerably higher. I had the prepay increased at the old apartment, that’s why my rent was higher there.
What’s it called in English when you pay a set amount in advance each month, and then once a year you either get money back or have to pay extra? It’s called “a conto” in Danish, and google translate suggests “on account”. Is that right? Or just ‘prepay’. I’m not sure.
Well, anyway. I know from experience that especially my heat consumption is a good deal higher than average. I get so cold, so I have to have the heat turned up. I also have a fairly big electricity usage because I basically have my hefty computer running 24/7, along with other things. I’m trying to keep my heat turned lower than at the old place, but that means I have to run my space heater sometimes to give me some warmth. Not sure if using a space heater a couple of hours a day is cheaper than running the heat higher 24 hours a day or not. But either way, my consumption is going to be higher than average.
So, I may be paying lower rent for now, but at the end of the consumption year (I think that’s in August) I’m likely going to get an extra bill. Instead of money back, like I’ve been used to getting in the old place.
I have cut way down on my warm water usage, hopefully that will make up for some of the heat I use.
And next year I will see if I get an extra bill. If it’s too big then I’ll try to get my monthly prepay increased to a higher amount. But for now I think I will just let it be. Enjoy the lower rent.
it’s been an expensive month. I had the dentist. I have been buying stuff for the apartment, taken advantage of some ‘Black Friday’ deals, I got my annual insurance bill coming up. Helle just dropped off the curtains for my new place, have to pay her back for those. I’m paying a month more of TV/internet than I needed to because I was too slow in cancelling at the old place. Bought a lot of iced creams and pepsi too.
Thankfully my finances are very healthy. I live such a basic life that I usually come out ahead most months. But this move is going to make a dent in my bank account. Nothing I can’t handle. But the dream of buying an island somewhere in the Caribbean and forming a goat commune, well it will probably have to wait.
I am secretly dreaming of getting my deposit back from the old place. That would be nice. I don’t dare really hope for that, though. I would be happy if I don’t get any extra bills from that. I’m still scared about that. But I will find out soon now.
Now I’m just going to relax for the rest of the day. Tomorrow should be the final work on the old place . And if we have time Helle will help me put up the curtains at the new place. I may have a package to go pick up too. So there will be stuff to do.
The sun is shining right now. Lighting up my apartment. I wish it didn’t hurt my eyesight so much. It’s so nice having sunshine, but it makes it much harder seeing the screen here. And it’s already hard enough. It will be nice to have the curtains up.
Hope you’re all doing well. Can you believe it’s almost December? Feels like only yesterday it was summer and nothing interesting was happening and I thought I’d have a simple rest of the year to look ahead to. And here I am a tooth less, a root canal and some bruised ribs more, and a whooole lot of moving and peopleing later. It’s been a crazy forking half year. But at least it looks like it’s going to end up.. okay.
26/11 2025
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Here’s Sky in her litlte hidey hole. I’m glad she’s got a little safe space where she can sit and not be bothered. But I’m sad she feels the need to have it. I don’t want her to withdraw from the others. I can’t blame her though, since I am mostly withdrawing from others too.
26/11 2025
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Here’s Bella on snowlogs. A little taste of winter.
26/11 2025
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HelloOOoo! It’s meEe!
Haha I don’t even know if you can see where I am in the lower part. With my eyesight, I’m like a little blob. Where’s Lasso?!
But thank you to Helle, for incredible work today, and or taking the pictures. It’s.. peculiar to see myself like that. In my deluxe apartment in the sky.
27/11 2025
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Phew. Hard work today.
Mostly for Helle, I mean. But I helped!
Helle is just amazing. She has done so much for me. She’s been an electrician, a mover, a cleaner, a carpenter, a photographer, a champion. I can never properly repay her for all she’s done for me.
It is strange to think that I’m done in the old apartment now. Unless something unforseen pops up, I’m done. Just one more time in there, next week for the final inspection and handing over of keys.
No more being alone there. I don’t even know if i’m technically allowed to be there after Sunday. I’ll have the keys until Thursday, but December 1st I guess it’s legally no longer my apartment? Well, it’s not like I’m planning to throw any parties there. But it is an odd feeling. After eighteen years in a place. Part of me thought I’d be dragged out of there in a bodybag some day. But the powers that be had other plans. I suppose that’s not a bad thing. So far it’s all going.. pretty well.
I got up early today and went to do some work in the old apartment by myself before Helle was going to get there. I didn’t want her to have to spend too much time cleaning. So I went over everything with a cloth. And washed the floors. That’s basically the extent of the cleaning that was required. I am so lucky they aren’t going to rent that place out anymore. It would have been a very different undertaking if I had to get the place in rentable condition.
And even so, my floor washing wasn’t quite up to standards. Helle ended up washing the floors too. Putting a lot more work into it than I did. I am not a great cleaner. As should be evident.
But we went through it all. Have to leave it in a good condition for the handymen/construction workers that will be working in there..
I’m still scared of the final inspection. But it will be what it will bee, buzz buzz.
After cleaning and locking up for the last time, we went to the new place. And started work on getting the new curtains up. We didn’t get it all done. It was kind of hard work. Screwing isn’t easy! Sorry. But it was harder to get the curtain rails up than expected I think. We got curtains up on two of the three big windows. There’s one big window and two doors and one small window left. But I’m going to try leaving the last big window without the extra curtains. To keep some light in the apartment potentially. That window is kind of shielded by a half-wall, when I’m sitting at the computer. So I’m hoping the light that gets through the built-in blinds can’t bother me in this position. That’s kind of how it was at the old place, I left that window with a single curtain instead of the double darkening curtains. But the layout of the windows here is a litle different than at the old place. So I’m not sure if it’s going to work okay. I’m going to have to see on a sunny day.
In any case, we’ll put up some more curtains in the weekend, is the plan. The doors at least. Yes, the doors require curtains too.
Helle did a lot of hard work today. I am very thankful for it. I didn’t work as hard, but I did work and I was on my feet for 6-7 hours. And with hurting ribs. My back has been hurting more too. When I was cleaning the apartment last time, I was bending down in some bad ways for too long. Since then my back pains have been a lot worse. I hope I didn’t mess it all up. I’ll have to try to get back to stretches and exercises and hope it will help.
But for now, it’s time to relax and soup. I am hungry and tired. All that waving from the balcony really tires you out!
27/11 2025
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. I am thankful for my friends, now more than ever. Near and far. Couldn’t have gotten through the last couple of months without you.
Hope you all have a lot to be thankful for too.
27/11 2025
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Not a very interesting picture, but for the record here is Helle working on putting up teh curtains. She has been my superhero through all of this.
27/11 2025
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Well, I got a nasty surprise last night.
I went out to the bathroom, and I heard water running.
There was just water running through my toilet. I pushed the flush button, which seemed to stop it. And after a little time, it flushed normally and seemed to not be running anymore.
I went to check my water consumption. Eight hundred liters of water. 800. I usually use about 50-50 liters in a day. I don’t know if that’s more or less than usual. But 800 is .. a lot.
Sigh. I really look forward to not having to deal with things again soon….
I called the housing association first thing when they opened up this morning. They can’t send anyone until Monday. I was looking at their site yesterday, apparently a running toilet doesn’t qualify as an emergency either, you can’t call their emergency number for that. Have to wait until their open hours.
Anyway, the toilet hasn’t been running since last night, the water consumption is normal. So hopefully it will be fine. And their man will look at it, see if it needs to be looked at by a real plumber.
Just great. Now I’m going to be paranoid about my toilet for the rest of my life.
I don’t even know how long it took to use those 800 liters. A couple of hours? I guess 6 or 7 at the most. If it ran like that for a whole day it would be like at least 3-4000 liters. Geez.
Got a package delivered today. The mailman buzzed me, and I could barely hear him on the phone. Seems like it’s hit or miss whether you get good reception through that.
My mother was also just over, and she buzzed me but it didn’t go through. I think that was when I was on the phone with the housing assocation though.
I am really tired. And it’s 10:42 am.
28/11 2025
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By the by.
Denmark is getting ready to introduce a new national ID app. For amongt other things, age verification online. To prevent minors from accessing things such as gambling, pornography and social media.
I have not been able to find any infomration about what alternatives will be available for people without smartphones. Knowing how the world is going, I wouldn’t be surprised if the alternative is “fck you”.
It’s supposed to be introducted next spring. If Facebook, as one of the biggest social media platforms in the world, will require this app.. well I don’t know if I will be able to continue using the site.
I guess we’ll find out in spring.
Surely, there must make some kind of alternative? For old people, for handicapped people, for privacy nuts.
Surely?
Don’t call me..
28/11 2025
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Well, it hasn’t been a great day. I have been pretty tired and depressed and worried, most of the time. Fun fun.
Had a couple of packages coming today. As I mention, I got the one from my mailman. Worrying though that I could barely hear him on the doorphone.
I had another package that didn’t get delivered, From the delivery company BRING. The tracking says they tried to deliver it at 9:50 am and it was ready for pickup at the package shop at 9:53 am. Which makes me question whether they even tried to deliver it or they just took it straight to the package shop. I just hope they didn’t try to buzz me and it didn’t go through. I am uneasy about that doorphone buzzer system, it seems a bit hit and miss.
And then then there was the phone call to the housing assoc about the toilet. That went fine, but I wish they could have sent someone out today, instead of having to wait till Monday. Still, the toilet has behaved since last night, and from what some of you have said on here, it seems not too bad. Just the doohickey that got stuck in the skewer and I just have to jiggle the flapper. Or whatever. But those 800 liters of water kind of haunt me. I’m never going to walk away from a bathroom visit without waiting to be sure the toilet has stopped flushing in my life again. If that’s what happened.
I have also been feeling like it’s colder and noisier here. I know it’s irrational. But I feel like after the housing service guy was here to fix the window controllers for the blinds, there has been more cold air and more noise from the construction outside. I know it’s just in my head, he just attached the controllers with sticky glue or something, it’s not like he would have opened up anything that lets cold air or noise in. It’s just the same noise as always. And that damn ventilation system sending a breeze through my apartment.
I hope Helle can give me a good way to block that thing. I’m not a smoker, I’ll just open the windows to get some fresh air in now and then. I don’t want a constant breeze.
My body and system is such a mess. i’m so sensitive to the sunlight, but I get depressed from the dark. I get so cold from the slightest breeze. All my ribs are breaking, my back is aching. It takes me 10 minutes of worrying to make basic phonecalls. I feel like i’m a goblin that should be living in a cave somewhere, instead of a human living in society.
Bla bla. I have generally been really happy with the move, and how it has gone, and the help I have received. I have to get back to that mindset. Instead of worrying and sadness.
Now I have to stay home on Monday to let the housing guy in to look at the toilet. And with the final inspect of the old place and the internet technician here, I probably won’t be able to see the goats next week. I hope the rest of December will be less complicated. I really need to settle into a routine that’s less stressful.
I have put on more weight too. Self medicating with bad food. I tried doing rod exercises for my arms, but my ribs hurt. My exercise bike still isn’t set up to go. I almost ordered a new one, had it in my shopping kart and was checking out. The site emailed me the next day telling me I forgot to complete my purchase. Mhm. i’ll hold off. i would like a new one. But I want to see if maybe they have one in the second-hand store. You never know. Or maybe I can make do with the old one. It’s so unstable though, I’m worried it’ll make too much noise now that I have downstairs neighbours. I’d like one with a smoother glide.
Anyhoo. I was going to stop complaining, wasn’t I? Time to sleep. I think Helle is coming Sunday to get more curtains up. I don’t know what I would have done without her. This is me coping with things, imagine what I would have been like withouth her help? I wish our society was better at helping people in need and with special needs. Not everyone is lucky enough to know a Super Helle.
Oh by the way, to be fair I have to say that regarding my rent for December, I said the housing association hadn’t sent me the bill. I found it in my mailbox yesterday, so they had sent it. I guess it’s just with mail being delivered so infrequently, I thought I hadn’t gotten it. But I got it both on paper and electronically, so no problem there.
And the package I got today was the new modem for my internet connection. I was wondering why I hadn’t gotten that yet, so happy to have that. On Friday the technician will come to upgrade my phone/internet jack, and hopefully I can get everything installed and working. It will be nice to get back on highspeed internet. The emergency mobile broadband has worked great, and I sure am glad I didn’t have problems with it. Hopefully the actual broadband will work out too.
Okay, I’ll shut up now. Been tired all day, it will be nice to go to bed.
28/11 2025
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goatlog
29/11 2025
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Well, I wasn’t planning to. But I ended up ordering pizza today. More self-medicating. Still feeling pretty down. But better than yesterday, at least. And now to enjoy the pizza. Couldn’t hear the delivery guy at all over the doorphone, but I got the call and let him in, so i guess that’s good enough.
Oh and by the way. I’m keeping the stapler. The previous tenant has not come asking for it.
So I’m keeping it as a trophy. Some guy lost a stapler here. I GAINED a stapler. I won. I’m coming out ahead. You have to take life’s little victories. That stapler is going to be a good luck charm for me. It’s going to ensure me great success. I don’t lose things behind loose cupboard walls. I find them. I retrieve them. I’m a winner. 2026 is going to be the year of Lasse, I’m going to crush it.Buy into the dip, guys. Everything’s coming up Lassehouse.
And so on and so forth.
29/11 2025
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Ever feel like water is giving you the finger?
29/11 2025
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Third week in the new apartment is almost over. How crazy is that?
I know, i was also amazed.
Pretty quiet day today. Helle was going to come over to do curtains, but she only had time later in the day, and I prefer doing things early in the day. So we’re going to do it on Thursday, after the final inspection, instead.
It’s one of my weird idiosynchrazies. Being around people, even people I like and trust like Helle, and doing things. It just takes a lot out of me. I like doing them before noon. Then I can have the rest of the day to calm down and recharge. I often think of myself as a battery. I get drained an then I have to recharge.
I also prefer doing stuff early in the day if I have to go out, because then it’s light out and there are generally fewer people about.
Of course when it comes to something like doing stuff with Helle, she’s the one going out of her way to be so helpful, and I appreciate that so much. So if she wants to do something at a certain time, I certainly will comply to the best of my abilities. But she’s also been super understanding, and she said Thursday was fine.
I have to admit. Reluctantly. That sometimes it’s even nice to spend time with people. It’s difficult for me, as you know. But with people like Jeanette and Helle and Peter, it’s actually nice. In small doses so I can handle it. My point is that it’s not just that Helle has been such a giant help through this. It’s also just nice being around her. It’s good to get that little bit of social interaction, instead of being completely isolated. I appreciate that.
I didn’t completely do nothing today. Went and picked up a couple of packages from the parcel shop. Stuff I had ordered. And on my way I stopped at the old apartment and checked the mailbox. For the last time, I guess. From tomorrow it is no longer my apartment. Even if I have the keys till Thursday.
Mailbox was empty by the way. But from now on, Lasse don’t live there no more.
Next week will be challenging.
Monday I got the housing assoc service guy coming between 8-12. To check the toilet. There haven’t been any problems since Thursday night. But given that 800 liters of water went poof, I feel better having it looked at.
I also have a couple packages coming. Knowing my luck they’ll probably come right when the housing guy is here, and I’ll have to deal with two humans at once. But it shouldn’t be too bad.
And then a couple of days to try to get my battery fully charged. Thursday will one of the most important and scariest days of this whole thing. With the final inspection of the old place and giving the keys back. Hopefully it won’t be too bad.
Helle will be there with me, which I very much am thankful for. I don’t know how long that will take, but hopefully not too long. And then we’ll go and put up the curtains on my windowed doors.
And then Friday the ISP technician will come to upgrade my internet plug.
I’m not sure if I’m going ot hook up the new internet line right away. I may wait until Saturday.
And I’ll see if I find some time and energy to do some unpacking. I kind of want the curtains and internet plug done first. Because when that’s done then there shouldn’t be more work to be done in the apartment, then I can sort of get things into the places where they should go permanently. And then I shouldn’t have to keep moving boxes around, like I am now.
But after next week, it should all be pretty much done. It’s been a journey. But I can’t complain about how it has gone. I have been very lucky. Apart from the teeth and the water and such. But generally. Very lucky.
I’m still very tired. Had a couple of little dizzy moments. I think my blood pressure is probably too high right now. Got my yearly big checkup at the doctor coming up in a week and a half. Dreading the readings. I have not been living healthily the last couple of months. But it will be good motivation to get back on a proper track. Hopefully.
30/11 2025
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I wanna know what a giraffe is. I want you to show me.
30/11 2025
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That’s all for now.