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Good goat times today.
Starting to regain some normalcy. And regular goat trips is an important part of that.
Thankfully the goaties don’t seem mad at me for missing so much time recently. They’re still happy to see me. And the treats I come baring.
Just nice to hang around with them. Get the sweet cuddles and silly goofing around. And seeing Jeanette is always good too. The feathers are on lockdown because there has been bird flu going around. Somewhere. So no feathers out with us. I hope they can come out soon.
We had several nice visitors. There was a boy who remembered my name and called out to me. He seemed happy to see me again. Later he asked if it was okay if he took a picture of me, as I was sitting and scratching Bella. I said of course. What a polite kid. Pretty sure he was the one filming that one other time. Wonder if he’s got a goat facebook page of his own…
And now it’s time for soup. Goats and soup, that’s the routine I need.
8/12 2025
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One two three, little goats are we.
7/12 2025
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Santa’s list better be GDPR compliant, I am not consenting to him gathering or storing any sensitive information about how I may or may not be naughty, allegedly. If I end up on the naughty list I’m suing his f*t a**.
7/12 2025
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Missed my Luna smooches.
7/12 2025
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Got fifty minutes on the bike today.
Good to get back to exercising. First time in the new apartment. It’s been more than a months since the last time I exercised. And before that there was a long break too. So I have only exercised about 5 times in two and half months. Way too little of course.
Even though I have been fairly active the last month, I can definitely feed I am in worse shape.
But that’s okay. Just have to get back into the routine. Today was mostly just a test run, to see if everything works. See how it all goes. There are some things that are different, that I will have to get used to. But it should be fine. And I will start up slow. Maybe do it once a week in December, build up a little form and then go harder in January.
I can definitely feel that my muscles are weaker and I’m out of breath much sooner than normal. And I have put on weight. I would like to lose about 10 pounds. I’m planning to try the 5:2 diet. Two days of strict calorie restriction. When I have lost a lot of weight in the past it was with pretty severe calorie restriction. But I’m pretty sure I wasn’t getting enough protein and I don’t think it’s great for the metabolism. So I’m going to try two days of restriction and 5 days of just eating what I want. Combined with exercise. And see how that works for me. If I can lose some weight like that I would be happy.
But the most important thing is getting in good shape again and getting my blood pressure and blood sugar where they’re supposed to be.
Got the doc appontment coming up, and slightly dreading the results. But now that the move is completed I should be able to get back to a healthier lifestyle. Here’s to hoping!
Step one done. Back to exercising.
Now I just gotta keep going.
9/12 2025
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I feel like playing the old Gremlins text adventure. For the seasonal joy. And for putting the gremlin in the blender and pressing the on button.
I think you could kill some of the gremlins with a snow plough too.
It was a pretty buggy game, I never completed it.
But it was still so fascinating. You could be IN the Gremlins movie! You kids can keep your Nintendos and Segas, I had a Commodore 64 with a keyboard and TEXT ADVENTURES.
Gandalf enters…
9/12 2025
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Got my final statement for the old apartment today.
Now I’d already been told verbally at the final inspection that there wouldn’t be anything I was liable for, nothing I would have to pay.
It was still with a little trepidation I opened the pdf. You never know. Maybe after Helle and I had left, the inspector found something crazy and now I’d get a huge bill. I don’t think that would actually be legal. But I mean, you know me. I have to worry about things, even if they are improbably or impossible.
But the statement had a nice big ZERO at my expenses and a nice little christmas bonus of the deposit I’ll be getting back.
It’s nice to have that settled and in writing.
That should be the last I hear of that place. Eighteen years later, it is off my hands. I wonder if they start renovating it immediately. And by renovating I guess I mean demolishing it. Or if that work won’t begin until the whole renovation of the building starts in April. And then there’s the matter of people who are objecting against it, I’m pretty sure Helle told me some of the other people in the building were filing objections. I remember Helle asked me if I wanted to do that, when we first began talking. I told her that wasn’t something I was up to. And I’m certainly glad I didn’t. Because I ended up in a better place, all things considered. But I wish good luck to the people objecting. Who knows what will happen with the whole EU verdict and all that.
Well, other than that I’m just relaxing today. Might take a nap. That’s how I roll.
10/12 2025
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Sweet Mousy. It’s mostly goats that I miss, but there have been some sweet kitties over the years too.
10/12 2025
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When night falls and the darkness calls, you’re howling at your doom.
10/12 2025
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Had my checkup at the doc’s office today. The big yearly one. So we’ll see what the blood and urine samples say. Got an EKG done too. And my heart rhythm is fine. Pulse is a little high. And I’m getting the dose of one of my meds upped to help my blood pressure.
Hopefully the test results don’t come back too bad, and then it’ll be better next time when i should be into my healhtier routines.
I’ll try.
Right now I’m going to get some soup. Because that’s pretty healthy eating. Yum.
11/12 2025
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Life is a balancing act.
11/12 2025
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A What’s Lasse Watching&Reading report.
Finished Caravan by Tim Curry. Loved it. Took a little time to get used to the post-stroke voice and cadence. But his charm and wit remains. I only wished it was longer, as long as his career. I wanted to hear about Earth2! Even though there’s probably not much to tell. I loved that show, though. The good ones always get cancelled too soon.
Started reading King Sorry by Joe Hill. Not too far in yet, but I’m really liking it so far. Like his previous works, it makes me feel like a fresher version of his daddy, Stephen King. And there has already been a huge connection to his father’s extended universe. Really good so far.
Started watching season 2 of Ander. After a way too long break. I watched the first season what, 3-4 motnhs ago? More? And then I had some technical difficulties with media files and then suddenly my world got turned flipped upside. But now here I am the fresh prince of 6th floor. Anyway, yes. So far Andor continues to be great and I am looking forward to finishing it.
I really feel like starting a rewatch of Lost. I dreamt about Jin last night. I feel like I have to go back.
Still basically just listening to Frank Turner and David Bowie, nothing new there.
And that’s all for this post.
11/12 2025
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Got a Protein&Pepsi delivery today. With extra vegetables. Trying to get the healthier thing going. So, eating more vegetables. Sigh. Can we start a petition to get ice ream reclassified as a vegetable?
Okay okay.
But I’m drawing the line at broccoli. I’m sure if properly prepared it’s fine. But the boiled from frozen suff I just had, no thanks. Not doing that again.
12/12 2025
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Sigh. My toilet started running again.
At least I caught it this time. No, I didn’t run after it. But I got it stopped right away. Or maybe it wasn’t me.
I flushed the toilet and when it stopped flushing, water kept running. Instead of the flush that comes down all the way around the bowl, it was a single stream at the back of the bowl.
I tried jiggling the flush buttons. Which didn’t do anything. Then I removed the back plate that the flush button are on. I saw the housing association go doing that last, so I knew it could be done without tools. I figure the water shut-off must be in there if I need to use it. Couldn’t find it at first glance, but I jiggled and poked around back there. I don’t know if that was what made the toilet stop, or if it was random. But it stopped.
Checking my water usage it seems to have used about 40 litres. I think a normal flush uses 6-9 litres. At least it didn’t go for 800 litres this time..
But I guess I’llhave to call the housing association again on Monday and ask them to come look at it. Because now i’m worried again. Something else must be up with the toilet.
I almost stepped out of the bathroom without noticing, good thing I caught the sound of running water. I guess I cannot allow myself to let my guard down about that. Gotta stay and wait till it’s complete. Not just the flush, but afterwards when you can sort of hear the cistern filling in the wall.
I was planning to send them a message on Monday asking if it’s normal that the freezer is wheezing so much. Going on and off like clockwork all day and night. But I guess I’ll wait with that, because the toilet is more important.
Just great. More service repair visits. Maybe they’ll send a real plumber this time, not just their own guy.
Not super happy with my wall mounted toilet so far!
12/12 2025
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My mind is a fragile one. It only takes a little stream of water to trigger my anxiety and raise my depression again.
Went to bed last night feeling pretty crummy. I had been planning to get up early today and get all my unpacking done.
Predictably, that didn’t happen. I ended up spending some 12ish hours in bed. Had some great dreams. But not very productive.
When I got up, my toilet ran again. So I had to chase it down. This time it stopped running when I pressed the flush button. So that’s good. Only some 20 liters of water gone. But it definitely needs to be looked at.
I did get some stuff done today. After a while I got going on the unpacking. Got maybe halfway done today. It wasn’t so much unpacking really, more like looking in boxes, moving stuff around, labeling things. But I’m pretty happy with some of the organising I did. Getting stuff into places where they fit and having easy access to things I use a lot. So I’m pretty happy with how that’s coming together. It will be nice when it’s all done, but I’m not in a hurry. I will probablay try to finish it next weekend. Going to take tomorrow to just decompress. And then next week, well I want to prioritise goat time and exercise time, and now I also have to put energy into the toilet situation. Having to have strangers in my apartment kind of takes a whole day out of me. Even if they’re just here for 20 minutes, I don’t have capacity to do much else that day. I hope they ‘ll send a plumber right away, but they’ll probably send their own guy again. And then I fear he’ll say to send a plumber. That would be TWO humanvisit days. You can see how plagued I am. Is there anyone in the world worse off than me? I doubt it! I haven’t checked the news today, though.
Anyhoo.
After the unpacking I did some experimentation with something in my apartment that I have not used yet. I am planning to try it out tonight. So I’ll write more about that later. Put in your guesses what I’m talking about.
13/12 2025
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Previously, on Lasse.
I mentioned I had done some experimenting in order to do something I haven’t done before in the apartment.
Today… I used the oven for the first time!
Kind of funny that it took me more than a month to actually use it. But there has just been so much going on, and then there’s the insecurity I have about new and unfamiliar things.
And that reared its head today too. After doing the unpacking and organising, I started looking at the oven. And my first reaction was “I can’t work this thing, I don’t know how to do this, I’ll never use this”.
Then I calmed down a bit, and studied the oven controllers with my magnifying glass. And it’s not too bad, I guess. I need the magnifying glass to see the symbols, but that’s okay. Two dials. The left one is temperature. Not too complicated. And the right one is the functions of the oven. And that’s a bit complicated for me. Someone who has never really used an oven in his adult life. When I was young and lived at home I’d make stuff in our oven, but that was a simpler oven I think, and I had the comfort that if something went wrong it would be my parents’ problem, not mine.
But anyway. I think I have figured out what most of the symbols mean. Not sure if I will use anything other than just regular oven and the grill. But that’s fine.
So tonight I cooked up a bunch of french fries. I mean freedom fries. I mean, Make Lasse Fat Again fries. Got them delivered iwth the Pepsi&Protein and vegetables yesterday.
Yummy! I love fries. They must be healthier when you warm them in the oven instead of frying in oil, right? Right? RIGHT?!
Well, anyway. It was cool to cook up a bunch of fries instead of ordering expensive junk food.
Just a little test run of the oven. Now I know I can use it. Not sure how MUCH I’ll use it. But it’s there, that’s cool. Making some bread with cheese under the grill might be what I’ll do most. I’ll see. I don’t really do much actual real cooking, so probably won’t use it super often.
Anyhoo. That was my day. Chasing toilets, unpacking and organising, and baking fries.
13/12 2025
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Just added some frozen pizzas to my grocery delivery next week. Now that I know I can use the oven, baby’s gotsta have his pizzas!
It will be very interesting. Pizzas are actually really difficult for me. Because I cannot stand even the hint of garlic and onion. Now I know the ones I get have some of it in them. But it’s such a battle for me to find pizzas that I can stand eating, where the garliccy taste is mild enough for me to kid myself that there’s not garlic in it.
The nice thing about the delivery site is they list all the ingredients of all the things on there. So I searched out some pizzas with no onion or garlic in the ingredients.
No wagain, I know. There will be some garlic hidden somewhere. But it will be interesting to see if I can actually eat them. It would be so cool if I could have pizzas within arm’s reach, not have to pay overprice for junk food delivery and deal with delviery guys and all that.
It remains to be seen if I can actually eat these frozen pizzas. But it sure would be nice.
It sure would.
In other news, my toilet just started running again. Got it turned off with the flush button. But yes, definitely needs to be looked at.
In other other news, something I got unpacked today were my dumbbells. Just used them for 5 minutes. Gets the heart going. Need to build up that arm strength again. But bit by but I’m putting things back together again. Hopefully.
13/12 2025
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Not feeling super great.
Powerful headache all day. Bit woozy. Tired. Maybe from messing with my sleep rhythm yesterday. Feeling the depression too. Blegh.
Just going to tread water today. Bake water. Water bread. Treats. Something something. One day a day.
Only ten days till christmas. Someone get me baby goats this year? I don’t know how you fit them in santa’s sack, but make it work.
14/12 2025
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Do you ever stop to think how infinitely small you are? Compared to everything else. There is so much mass in all of the universe and you are only such a tiny part of it. It would take an uncountable number of yours to fill even a tiny fraction of the empty space everywhere. It would take an endless age to make carbon copies of yourself to even fill out the solar system, nevermind what’s beyond. You’re like like fleck of dust in a sandstorm. It would barely be worth wiping you off if you got splashed against the windshield of eternity. It’s a world of truck drivers and you’re not even an ant, you’re so small that the ants would have to work forever to build hills out of yous.
Man, what was in those fries?!
14/12 2025
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Too much sadness and horror in the news right now. I don’t understand why humans do these things to each other. I don’t understand why we do what we do.
It hurts in my heart. I wish there was a way to fix this.
14/12 2025
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Five weeks done in the new apartment. Generally it has been really good here. The weekend hasn’t been great because of the running toilet. Three or four times. I forget. Not a disaster when I can get it to stop by reflushing. But it’s concerning and now I have to deal with having it serviced next week.
On the plus side it is nice to have started using the oven. I must confess, I made fries again today. I’m not planning on having fries EVERY day. But I was sad and depressed and the news were crushing me today, so I made another batch. And it’s good.
So we waddle onwards.
Next week I should be getting results back from the doc. And the toilet must be serviced. And I need goat time. And work on getting back to the exercise routine. And finish the unpacking and organising.
I’ll try.
14/12 2025
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That’s all for now.