Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

4/4 2022
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So I had a big day of adventuring today.
I had to go downtown and do bureaucrazy stuff.
Down at BorgerService. CitizenService. It’s this big place, or places around the country really, where you can go and do stuff with the government and get help and stuff.
I’ve never been there before. My dad was kind enough to come with and show me around. He’s doing ok after his fall. Not back to 100% but he seemed ok. Other than the big black eye. I was a little worried the government people would think I was abusing him or something. Haha. No. I’m really glad he could come with. I don’t know how i would have found my way without him.
So why did I have to go? Well in Denmark we have this thing called NemID. EasyID. It’s basically your official electronic ID, you use it to interface with your bank and the government and various places.
But now the system is changing from NemID to MitID. MyID. For most people this is done quickly and easily with your smartphone and maybe a passport. But for us second class citizens who don’t have smartphones.. well we gotta show up at Borgerservice to get it done.
You have to get your identity verified. And unfortunately it’s not enough to lick all the pictures with a boat or a motorcycle. Nope. You have to show up and have photo ID. I don’t have any official photo ID. So then you have to have two forms of non-photo oficial IDs. I think I mentioned recently that I needed my birth certificate. Well that was for this thing. My social security card and my birth certificate.
And tTHEN you have to answer three questions from the old man at the bridge, no wait that’s a Monty Python movie. You have to answer three questions from the computer using information from your official registry information. It asked me the name of my mother, if I had any children and if I were married.
Now, when I told the computer that I was married to Kristen Bell it said I was a big fat liar. So I thought that was pretty rude. I think there must be a glitch in the matrix because it claimed I was unmarried. Hmm. I’ll hae to ask Kristen to check if all the paperwork was filed properly.
Anyway. Once I had sufficiently proven my identity to the bureaucrat she sent us on to talk to one of the “young people”. I guess there are bureaucrats to deal with bureaucracy and then there are tech people to deal with the tech.
We went on to talk to a very nice young lady, and she was great. Super sweet and patient and helpful. I’m not gonna lie, I had been dreading this whole thing. My anxiety levels have been really high the last few days. It hasn’t been the best of times really, with my parents falling and that bad news from a facebook friend and then this thing looming over my head. My mental state hasn’t been the best.
But it went okay. It was tricky at parts, but the lady was so good. I had to login a few times on my NemID on her tablet and then we setup the new Id with username and password. Even with fairly big text on a tablet I couldn’t really read it. Thankfully I had the foresight to bring along my favorite magnifying glass. So picture me there in the chair leaning in over the tablet with a magnifying glass in hand slowly pressing every letter of the the usernames and passwords one by one. I’m glad she was so patient with me.
I’m amazed when I see in a movie or tv young people on teir smart phones or tablets typing the touchscreen keyboard in a blur. It’s like magic.
Anyway. We got it all set up after a while. And while it wasn’t fun process, the upside is that the new system is a lot more accessible. The old NemID, for people without a smartphone, you had to use a literal paper card with codes. Like 500 codes in tiny text. A four number code followed by a six number code. When you log in somewhere you put in your user/pass and then it gives you a four digit code and you have to find that on the paper card and find the six digit code that matches. Even using my magnifying glass that can be really tough (the tech lady did it for me during this process thankfully). The new system no longer has a paper card. For people without smartphones you get a little codereader where the code shows up on screen. And I got the big fancy deluxe version, about the size of a calculator. it reads the numbers out loud. So instead of searching throught hundres of tiny numbers on a card I know press a button and leisurely type in the numbers that the machine reads out for me. Much, much easier. Assuming it works like it should, it’s a lot nicer. And I just tested it and it did work. So, it seems like it was worth the hassle. I’m just glad it’s done now and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.
Next up is dad! He doesn’t have a smartphone either so he has to go through hte same process. When we got out of there today he said “maybe you’ll have to come with ME and help ME when it’s my turn”. Haha. He’s not a tech savy guy (which is why I occasionally have to do tech support on the phone with him) and I think he was a little bewildered by the whole process that he just watched me go through. But I’m sure they’ll teach him how to do it too. It’s not hard when you know how. It’s basically the same process as before, you just have a new user/pass and you get the code from the code device instead of the paper card.
So anyway yeah. Big shut out to my dad for helping me get there and find my way. And big shoutout to the helpful people at the Borgerservice.
I wish I could tell you the password I chose, because it made my dad laugh and we had a little chuckle about it afterwards. But of course I can’t. Unless you’re a Nigerian prince willing to deposit millions of dollars into my account, in which case hit me up yo.
Sorry if you read all that, I tried to make it entertaining along with the dire bureaucraziness. I feel like a weight is lifted off my shoulders now that it’s done.
One of the tricky parts about it is that there’s a time limit. Every citizen has to do the change and your bank notifies you when it’s your turn. And you have 30 days to get it done or you will no longer be able to access your onling banking account. Now the problem that I have read about on the Danish subreddit is that it can be very hard to get an appointment at Borgerservice. They are swamped what with the pandemic and Ukranian refugees and so many people needing help with the IDs. There are some parts of the country where you literally can’t get an appointment. I have read that you can all your bank and get an extension on the deadline if that happens though. I had to wait 3 weeks for my appointment, which was one of the things I was stressing about. That left me one week until the deadline and I’m just a fatalistic person, I was already envisioning all the ways it could go wrong, some mistake I’d make or some tech failing or whatever. And then I’d only have a week to deal with it.
But. It seems like it worked out. All is well that ends well.
Andthat’s the well end of this long entry. I expect to be receiving my grammy for best spoken word not spoken any time, thank you.
4/4 2022
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Here’s a little video of little Lily getting up in the camera business.
4/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.

5/4 2022
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Hope you got your tickets to Milo at the opera.

5/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

6/4 2022
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You’ve goata be kidding me

6/4 2022
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Good goat times today. And if you saw the picture I posted, yes good snow times today.
Oh my. We had, apparently, the driest month of March in recorded history. And now a week into April we got snow. Climate change smimate snange.
It was a wet kind of snow. I don’t think it will last very long. In fact the weather forecast for next week shows considerably higher temperatures. But hey, today was a snow day.
Of course the goats were not too happy about this turn of events. Cold and wet, booh.
Sassy came running to the fence with her head hanging low, like she could avoid the downfall. Cute but unsuccesful.
So yeah just a lot of hanging out in the shelter and the house. And later when it stopped snowing we got out in the pen for some fun in the snow. Pretty sure they wouldn’t have followed me if it wasn’t for the bag full of treats in my pocket.
Now, let’s get back to spring please.
6/4 2022
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It’s beginning to look a lot like boring winter photos again.

6/4 2022
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And a happy birthday to my father. He is still on the mend after his fall. Sounds like he’s doing fairly okay, just tired and sore and such. His doctor has given him some referrals to some rehab / physical therapy, so hopefully that will help even more. One day a day.
6/4 2022
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Snow below the Sky.

6/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bob from 2012.

7/4 2022
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Watch out for the yellow snow.

7/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2006.

8/4 2022
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Happy Soup Day!
My parents were good enough to cook me up a pot of soup. I’m not quite feeling up to going to family dinner, so dad came over with all the soup for me. Yes, I am a spoiled boy. Last soup of the season. i will enjoy it for the next few days.
8/4 2022
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I wanted to extend my thanks to you all, once again. Thank you for the love and support and for just being there.
It hasn’t been the best of times lately. With my parents’s problems and that beaurocracy stuff giving me anxiety. And as most of you probably now by now Tanya Cliguh lost her sweet goat Azende, which brought back a lot of memories of Palle, and others, from the past. And there’s other stuff on facebeook that’s been tough. And then there’s the whole real world going from pandemic to war and I’m sure we’re all still traumatized by the oscars slap which, as far as I can tell by social media, is the worst thing in history.
Anyway, I haven’t been feeling great. But I feel very thankful that I have my facebox full of good people. I always feel bad that I can’t give back as much as I give, with broken notifications and broken comment typing and weird feeds that don’t show me what I want to see and then sometimes I take a day away to just sleep and so on and so forth. But rest assured that I am grateful that you’re here. All the names that you see day after day, some years after years. It means a lot to know that there are people out there who are about me, because for a long time I did not feel that. It makes a big difference to get up in the morning, or evening, and see that hey I’m not alone.
Thank you for that. And lots of love to everyone going through a hard time. Sometimes it feels beyond unfair, how much pain and suffering there is in the world. From small scale close friends and family to large scale war crimes and environmental collapse. Sometimes I wonder if life is worth it when suffering is inevitable. Why put people through that? Would it be better if we weren’t here?
But then who would feed the goats? So hopefully the good days outweigh the bad ones. Thanks for helping tipping the scale in the right direction.
8/4 2022
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Snowgoat Nuller.

8/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.

9/4 2022
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Mia with her adoptees, the bandit and the little one.

9/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

10/4 2022
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Have I told you lately that I love soup?
Just finished a big lunch pot of it. Not much left now, just half a serving for tomorrow.
10/4 2022
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goatlog

10/4 2022
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Lily in the snow. I’m pretty sure the snow is actually gone inside, so we’ll be out of snowphotos soon.

10/4 2022
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That’s all for now.

Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

28/3 2022
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I just hope Will Smith’s parents won’t send him off to some fancy rich people place after this.
ps I don’t care about the oscars even after this.
28/3 2022
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My keyboard is starting to malfunction. Annoying. Especially since a new one costs almost a thousand Danish bucks, about 150 us dollars. I need a special keyboard with high contrast and accessibility. And furthermore I need it with Danish keyset so I can’t just go on Amazon or whatever. There’s literally one place that sells the kind I need so they can jack up the price nice and good.
Anyway, this is just mostly to explain if I’m making even more typos than usual. If that’s even possible.
I also still can’t type comment on Facebook, I have to type them up in the browser url bar andcopy them into a facebook comment and along with my bad eyesight it just makes it very easy to make lots of mistakes. MAybe I’ll hire a goat todo the typing for me ER&”#RTHDFGHFcanihavemytreatsnow
28/3 2022
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Look, Milo got a mini Sky!

28/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.

29/3 2022
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Good goat times today. Always good to get out and goat. I’d rather watch goats butt heads than people slap each other on TV.
We had a little escapee today. If you follow Mia’s page you’ll know that I like to take Sky out of the pen on her own now and then to give her some treats without having to worry about the big goats chasing her away. Well, I was going to do that today. But it’s always a little tricky, you have to make sure the other goats aren’t near the gate. She won’t come to the gate if the newbs are there and if Mlo is there he’ll try to get out too. So, I was trying to get everyone into a position so I could get Sky out of the pen and… then suddenly Sky was out of the pen. Whoopsie, looks like we have to mend the fence again. Haha. I guess she was impatient and took matters into her own hooves. But she still got a nice juicy pear and enjoyed that very much.
A cold day, but with some nice sunshine. Enough that I got some nice time sitting with Mia on the pallets. She gets tired pretty fast these days. I can definitely tell she’s getting to be an older goat. As I was sitting with her head resting in my lap I couldn’t help thinking of how 9½ years ago I sat with her in my lap too, only then she was a tiny baby and all of her fit in my lap. Now her head is pretty much the size all of her was back then. I still love holding her as much as I did back then, if not more. She’s still my big baby girl.
29/3 2022
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It must be, love.

29/3 2022
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Why does this remind me of C3PO telling stories to the Ewoks?

29/3 2022
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Oh by the way, I know you all don’t have an interest in the soccerballfootsportsgame. But in case you remember Christian Eriksen who collapsed with heart failure during the European Championship, you might like to know that he’s back to playing the footballsport and he’s doing so well that he’s back on the national team. And he has scored two brilliant goals in his two first games back on the national team. We lost 2-4 to the Netherlands andbeat Serbia 3-0 tonight. So that’s wonderful. Hopefully he can stay healthy. And now we’re looking forward to the World Championship. Even though I still think we should boycot Qatar.
29/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

30/3 2022
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Not sure if Milo is enjoying the sun or is just not taking any of your ¤&#”

30/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce from 2014.

31/3 2022
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It’s a little sad and scary when I talk to dad and he has no memory of an agreement we made yesterday and stuff we’ve been planning all week. He’s got an appointment for some brain exam thing, but it’s not until November NEXT YEAR, I think it was.
He’s still doing pretty well most of the time I think. Just has to write a lot of stuff down. But it’s no fun.
31/3 2022
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Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Oh Nuller isn’t that bad.

31/3 2022
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Got some bad news. My dad is in the hospital. Seems he got another blood clot in his brain.
He is doing okay now, in fact he said he expects to come home today already. It happened yesterday. I had gone to bed early to do a long dreamwalk, so I didn’t find out until today.
Apparently he was sitting in his study working on his stamp collection (he’s very into that) and fell down from his chair. I’m not sure if he collapsed due to the blood clot or if the fall caused it or whatever. But he dragged himself into bed and called out for my mom. He hurt his head and body from the fall and was somewhat incoherent I guess. Mom called the doctor and they sent and ambulance and got him to the hospital right away, sirens and blinking lights. He got medication, blood thinners.
I talked to him this morning and he sounded pretty well, just tired. He said the blood clot was gone now and he passed all the examinations he’d gone through. He was expecting to come home later today, but he still has to go through another examination so we’ll see what the doctors have to say.
He was actually supposed to make soup for me today. When I got up and saw that I had a few missed calls I thought it would be about the soup. I mentioned yesterday how he’d completely forgotten stuff we’d agreed on the day before, well that was about the soup stuff. So I thought it was something about that. But then I got a hold of him in the hospital instead. So soup’s off of course. I’d been looking forward to that a lot but I would much rather have my dad healthy and okay. Something like this really puts things into perspective. Scary.
And as if it wasn’t enough my mother fell in the shower this morning. She has mobility issues and uses a walker thing normally. So her falling when my dad is in the hospital if also potentially problematic. But I guess she managed to stop the fall somewhat with their shower chair or something. At least she wasn’t helpless on the ground. She’s hurt but hopefully nothing serious.
Sheesh things are going well eh. Maybe I should cancel my bungee jumping class tomorrow.
It’s a joke, I wouldn’t do bungee jumping. I’m afeard of heights.
So well we’ll see. Hopefully dad will come home later today and be okay. Although I wouldn’t mind if he stayed longer, just so there’s someone looking after him for a bit. We’ll see what will happen next.
I think I’m going to order some emotional support pizza instead of the soup tonight.
It’s hard seeing your parents get older and suffering from these things. My dad has been up and down. For a while he didn’t need his cane anymore but he started using it again recently. And like I mentioned yesterday sometimes there are just gaps in his memory. I wish there was something I could do to help.
1/4 2022
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Thanks everyone for the love and support. I am thankful I have a support system here.
Just talked to my dad on the phone. He’s still not home, but he’s still hoping to come home today. It’s 8.30 pm here though, starting to get a little late. But he’s waiting for some results back. Seems the people taking care of him say the results look good but the actual doctors haven’t reported back.
He says they say it now looks like he may not have had a blood clot in the brain. That the results can’t say for sure that he had it. So it may be that he simply … fell asleep on the chair and fell down and all the damage is from the fall. So. That’s not nice, but I guess it’s better than a blood clot, in the long run. I suppose it’s good news, but we still need the final say from the doctors.
Thanks again everyone. Just trying to distract myself from everything and not worry too much. Hope you’re all doing ok out there.
1/4 2022
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Here’s an update. My dad did come home from the hospital last night. I just called to talk to him and he was actually out shopping. So I guess he’s doing pretty good all things considered. A little worn out and maybe some hurt from the fall. But all things considered I’m just happy that he’s home and doing ok. I guess it was just a bad fall and not a blood clot, so that’s good. Now he just needs to take it easy for a bit.
Thank you everyone for the concern. I am appreciate all the support. I’m probably going to go to bed early today because I’m feeling pretty worn out myself, emotionally. Along with my parents’s problems I got some sad news from someone on here too, (can’t talk about it) so it’s just been a lot. But I’ll try and get back to a better headspace soon.
Thanks for listening.
2/4 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

3/4 2022
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Rest in peace Estelle Harris.
I completed my Seinfeld rewatch not too long ago, and there was nothing better than Frank and Estelle scenes. They never failed to make me laugh. 93 years old, sounds like she had a good, long life.
3/4 2022
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Here’s a little Milo and a big me

3/4 2022
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That’s all for now.