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

7/3 2022
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Good eye doctor times today .Had my half-yearly checkup. Although it’s been nearly a year since the last one, because my eye doc had the corona last year. He’s all better now. And my eyesight is still stable. Nothing new there. Peaceful, is the word he usually uses. He said it was very unusual the way things happened for me. But he expected no drastic changes in the coming years. So that’s good to hear. He couldn’t give me a written guarantee, but that is what he’s expecting. And no change is the bset I can hope for so hooves crossed for that. Now i’m just going to sit here and wait for the eyedrop blur to wear off.
7/3 2022
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Here’s a little bit of video from last week, when Sassy was bothering Mia. This is what I mean when I talk about Mia’s disgruntled whinny. She primarly does it when one of the others are in heat and start sniffing her rear/underside.
7/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.

8/3 2022
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I love how Lily and Nuller always end up sitting close. Nuller may be grown up and big guy with a big ego but he still loves his mama.

8/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

9/3 2022
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Good goat times today. Freezing and foggy morning. No spring feelings today. But sweet kids at the fence when I arrived. And once I showed up the goats showed up and the kids got some closeup time with the goats. Happy squeals.
If you follow Mia’s page you’ll know that i’ve been trying to get Sassy to eat biscuits. She won’t take them. She’s often picky with unfamiliar foods though, and there’s always so much competition that you have to be quick to get a bite. So I figured, it’s just a matter of her getting a taste and she’ll love them. So today I took her out of the pen, like I often do with Sky to get her some safe space to eat without interruptions from the others. Well, i got Sassy out and she had time enough, but no luck with the biscuits. She did get a little bite and I thought that’s it she’ll want them all now. But nope. I guess Sassy just doesn’t like biscuits. Weird. She’s not usually one to skip a meal. Or treat. Or fruit. Or vegetable. Or anything. Oh well. The others were happy to take the biscuits and Sassy got some peanuts instead.
9/3 2022
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Sweet visitors and sweet goats.

9/3 2022
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Sassy’s hoping the kids brought her something good. Anything but biscuits.

9/3 2022
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Hey Milo, I think they’re trying to get your attention.

9/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Natal from 2006.

10/3 2022
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Got on the exercise bike when I got up today, for the first time since… well just before christmas I guess, which was the last time I tried to get back to exercising and then quit after a week or two. Let’s hope I can keep at it this time. I got about 50 minutes on the bike, which I think is decent considering it was the first and just having to get back in the swing of things. Been sticking to my cleaner diet too. There’s room for improvement but it’s already a lot better and my blood sugar has been fine, so here’s to hoping I can keep it up.
10/3 2022
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goatlog

10/3 2022
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For reasons that aren’t important or interesting, I will be needing my birth certificate soon. So I thought maybe I should get that from my parents. Haha. It never really occured to me that I’m actually and adult and I should probably have possession of my personal papers and records. Well, I’ve never really had a use for them before now. But my dad came over with a folder of all that stuff that my parents have had all these years. Birth certificate, baptism/name/cpr number. School records, graduation certificate. Bunch of old stuff. And some things that are no longer valid or useful. Receipts. For our first internet subscription. Other stuff. The one that hit me a little in the heart was the purchase receipt for my old Amiga 500. On the 18th of March 1992 we went to the Merlin store in the City Vest shopping center (this is the shopping center that I live right next to today, back when I was a kid we lived a little bit further away) and we purchased one Amiga 500 + 1mb memory upgrade. For 6995 kroners. 1032 US dollars. I have no idea what it would be in today’s prices with inflation. Well according to the google it would be doubled in today’s prices. Two thousand dollars. I was surprised it was that much. I didn’t remember it being that expensive. March 18th. My birthday is March 15th. So I guess it was a birthday gift. I honestly don’t really remember if I paid any of it myself or much of the details. But I remember going up the moving escalator with the big white box with the Amiga, excited to take it home. And years of good times with it. I loved that machine.
As I loved the Commodore 64 we already had. I have told the story of how we got that before. Driving late at night with my dad in our old unfashionable Wartburg car. The family we were buying the C64 from turned it on to show that it was working and loaded up a game. I don’t remember what the game was called, but I remember what it was like. It was one of those city defense games were you had your city on the ground and you had aliens coming in the sky and you had your two laser turrets or whatever on the ground and you had to shoow the aliens before they reached down to your city.
And driving home in the dark, so excited to finally have a computer of our own. Our neighbour had a Commodore and we’d sometimes play on it together. But it was mindblowing to actually have one IN THE HOUSE. Funny to think nowadays you probably can’t find a house without a computer. Or at least a few phones or tablets that are a million times more powerful than a C64. Loading games from cassette tapes, kids today will never know the joy and pain.
I have tremendous nostalgia for those old computers. Like music and movies and tv. Arts and entertainment that imprint on you and become parts of your self. I still spend considerable amounts of time on the youtubes watching people play or talk about the old games and computers. And I have huge collections of old games on my hard drive and if I weren’t too blind to enjoy it I’d play them on emulators.
I didn’t actually have the Amiga as my primary computer for as long as I thought. 1992, that must have been towards the end of 6th grade. And I got my PC .. in the 9th grade at the latest. Because I remember my classmate Stefan helping me get the PC. Him and Morten had PCs and played sophisticated games like King’s Quest and Space Quest and Larry.. haha so grown up. And the PC was much more complicated. So Stefan helped me find a good one in an ad in the papers. A 486 dx2, which was better than Stefan and Morten’s. Nice. And then Stefan helped me set it up. That was before Windows. You couldn’t just turn on the computer and let the installer do it. You had to setup the hard drive and I remember we had to note a bunch of figures down on paper because it was information you might need. And then we had to format the hard drive. I don’t remember how big it was but probably like 50mb or something like that. Maybe 100 or 2. But formatting it took so long that we went outside and went down to the local kiosk to buy candy and it was probably an hour or two before we could get back to the pc. Install dos 6.2. And Norton Commander. typing nc at the dos prompt to launch Norton Commander, that double paned blue menu. Scrolling through menus. Playing the wav file of breaking glass to test the fancy Soundblaster 16 sound card. Playing Ultima 7 and Day Of The Tentacle. Doom of course. Was Doom out when I got my pc? I’m not completely sure. Maybe it was only Wolfenstein 3D At that point. But it definitely wasn’t long until Doom was there and it felt like the graphics were so real. Laughable today. But mindblowing at the time.
Yeah I’ve spent a lot of time on computers over the years. And I mean I still do. I’m typing this on a copmputer, donchaknow. But I miss the old ways. I know it’s better now. But I miss the old days. I wish I could have some of it back. Not that life was great. I have always had.. issues. But memory wears rose tinted glasses, and it looks prettier than the dark blur of my current vision.
Anyway, I’m sorry. I just thought it was funny seeing that old receipt for my so beloved Amiga. There’s no longer a Merlin in City Vest. I don’t know if they still have physical stores, I know they still sell electronics online.
And next Friday it will be 30 years since I got that Amiga. I don’t know how we got here but here we are.
10/3 2022
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So, on the topic of rambling about the past. Nita asked how I started goating. Well, sit down and I’ll tell you a tale.
It wasn’t exactly in the cards that I should becomea goat enthusiast. In fact, I remember as a kid I was scared of going to the playground. Why? Because there were goats. And they were walking around freely. And the thought of being face to face with a wild goat really scared me. I was scared of dogs too. I remember befoer I got the Amiga that I rambled about in the previous post, I would sometimes go to my classmate Pelle’s house because he had an Amiga. He liked to brag about how the Amiga was way more advanced that the Commdory 64, and I mean he was right. Amiga was 16bit and Commodore 64 was 8bit.
I’ll get to the goat part, I swear.
Anyway, Pelle’s family had a dog. So I was always torn between really wanting to play on his Amiga and being terrified of potentially encountering his dog.
So yeah I wasn’t an animal kind of person. Although, now that I think of it. When I was really young I used to love books about animals. Exotic ones primarily. From the jungles and desserts and antarctica and stuff. I was a member of the WWF for a while. Not the Wrestling foundation, tha Word Wildlife Foundation. So I did have an interest in animals. Just not being face to face to them.
Anyway, at some point after leaving school and trying to find a way to cope with the world I found myself doing something or other, some work testing programme or whatever. And on my daily commute I had to walk from the bus stop and past the playground, the first playground some of you will remember from the old days. With the red house that burned down. So I’d walk past there and sometimes see the goats, sheep and horses outside. At some point I started walking through the playground area instead of past it. I was still pretty intimidated by the ‘wild’ animals. But I remember stopping by in ‘Favorit’, the supermarket next to the playground, and buying some bread and then taking it over and feeding the goats. I remember the first times were quite exciting and scary and fun, wondering if they’d eat my hands. Letting them eat off the bread until they neared the edges and then dropping the bread. Haha. Slowly I got a little more used to it and realised they weren’t going to attack me or bite me.
So, then at some point, in 2002 I believe, I got a digital camera. And started getting into photography. Purely amateurish. But I enjoyed it. Took pictures from my daily life. And started looking for subjects. Places to go just for taking photos.
And of course, a natural thing to want to take pictures of is animals. And that’s when I started really spending time at the playground. First just to take pictures. And eventually just spending time with the goats. My personal life was not great, I was having a hard time coping with things. And I guess that’s when I realised that being with animals was just good for the mind. And so goat therapy started. And I just started spending more and more time there. I became a known face and a welcome visitor. Part of the place. Even working there as animal feeder during some weekends, until I had to stop that because of my eyesight.
But yeah, that’s the too long version of how I started goating. I have lived all my life relatively close to that first playground. In fact in my very young childhood, something I can’t really remember now, we lived briefly in the apartment blocks next to the playground. The buildings you see in the background of some of the old photos. Some of you might remember the goats sometimes wandering up there in the residential area above the playground. I lived there for a few years. But we moved when I was little. Still within 5-10 minute walking distance of the playground. I could have spent a lot of time there if I hadn’t been terrified of being face to face with wild goats. Took a long time before I realised how wonderful that could be.
Anyway, I think that’s all. I’ll shut up now!
10/3 2022
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I’m sorry about all the longwinded word posts. Here’s a picture of Sassy not eating biscuits.

10/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2004. An example of the big bread I’d get so I could feed the goats without getting my hands eaten.

11/3 2022
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Here’s a gathering of goats, only missing Lily who was off in the goat house taking care of business. Or whatever it is goats do.

11/3 2022
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Yeah I mean the ten commandments are important, but not as important as the gas prizes. Fork your feelings, ban fear socialism and support the poutine, we haed a moral commpass but we sold it for a wooden nickel. Stick a jesus fork in christ cos we’re done.

I should probably get a goat post on top of the page, cos I’m going to bed early. All hail the hypno Nuller
11/3 2022
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11/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mathilde and Mads from 2004.

12/3 2022
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goatlog

12/3 2022
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Goat company

12/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

13/3 2022
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Here’s a little Sky under a big sky.

13/3 2022
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That’s all for now.

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

28/2 2022
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Just ate a huge pot of soup all by myself like a big boi. I almost feel like barfing, but I have no regrets.
28/2 2022
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This is a new thing Mia has started doing. I keep my backpack in the hayholder on the other side of the wall. And when I got to the backpack to get some snacks for the goats Mia will come over and jump up against the wall and put her head over like that, hoping to get a headstart on the snacks.
And then sometimes I’m just going to get fresh batteries for my camera and it’s a terrible disappointment for everyone involved.

28/2 2022
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_I got the video of the visitors singing for the goats up finally. They put on a good show for us!
28/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.

1/3 2022
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Good x-ray times today. My doc wanted me to get followup xrays done of my chest. Since there was a thing on the last ones, you just want to keep an eye on how that develops. The little part of the lung tissue that had collapsed. So we’ll see what the new ones say. But in general I’m feeling much better than the end ofl last year. Not in the best shape, but I don’t get immediately exhausted and out of breath whenever I do anything. So whatever caused it, I’m sure that lung thing was what was the problem.
Now I just need to get in better shape. I had started exercising a bit again but then stopped because.. depression? Let’s blame depression. But I gotta get back to that. Back on the exercise bike. Hopefully the weather will get warmer soon and I can do springtime goating. Get better control of my diet. 2022 will be the best year yet, apart from the pandemic and world war 3 and NFTs. Here we go. The summer of Lasse!
1/3 2022
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And now, i’m goig to finish off the last of the soup. Afterwards an xray of me would just be a big skinbag filled with liquid
1/3 2022
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Can Lasse come out and play?

1/3 2022
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Today will be a good day . Happy Hump Day everyone.

2/3 2022
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goatlog

2/3 2022
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Sky also likes tomato.

2/3 2022
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I have often wondered what I’d look like with a goatee.
And also with a goat’s beard as a mohawk.
Thank you, Keiko, for making my dreams come true.

2/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2006.

3/3 2022
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Good goat times today. What an absolutely beautiful day. Lots of sunshine. But still cold. Kind of funny actually. There was frost on the grass and blue skies above. Temperatures just around 0 degrees in the morning. As the sun shone on it got a little warmer and so nice that I actually ended up opening my winter coat and leaving it open. But I did have both a blouse and a shirt underneath, so I was still layered. Frosty beautiful day. It really felt like a taster for spring. Lazy goats sitting around in the sun. Lots of yawning. Mia snoring in the sun, haven’t heard that since last year. I love when they get lazy and tired in the sun and just want to sit around and do nothing. Feels good man.
The morning was considerably more active though. Sassy was all over the place. Normally Lily is the one being silly, but today it was Sassy. I noticed it first when her tail kept wagging when I gave her treats. She doesn’t usually do that, at least not that much. I thought maybe she was just hungry, but then she started going after Mia. Poor Mia. Whinnying her complaints as Sassy kept trying to sniff her rear and under her and just following her around. They were butting heads and Mia tried to get away. Eventually she got up on the big water bucket thing to get away from Sassy. Sassy proceeded to ride Nuller around like a lawnmower for a bit. Sheesh. Have some decorum, old gal! Hard not to laugh, though. I don’t mean to be mean, but that whinny sound Mia makes just cracks me up. One of the only times she uses it is when when of the other goats are in heat and start sniffing at her. It’s a very different sound from her normal bleats or growls when they try to get her food.
Yes, quite a day. Several groups of visitors at the fence too. Now I just need the temperatures to start going up too.
3/3 2022
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Here’s poor Mia trying to stay away from her tormentor Sassy.
What would you guys call that water bucket she’s standing on? It’s way bigger than their regular water buckets. But I’m not sure there’s a specific name for it. I grabbed it out of the horse field since well.. no horses using it.

3/3 2022
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I tell you hwat. I am super tired, though. Such a beautiful sunny day. But I am wiped. I was up all last night. I hadn’t really planned to go goating today. I’m glad I did, because of that glorious day. But yeah I was tired and my back was killing me from the morning already. And then I stayed out with the goats longer than I have in a long time because I was just enjoying the sun and lazy goats so much. Not complaining about that. But yeah, even more tired and achey on my way home. And then I went shopping. And as I’ve mentioned I’m trying to turn my diet around and get healthier. So I had to buy a bunch of fruits and vegetables and other stuff and of course my mandatory supply of Pepsi Max. So I was dragging two heavy plastic bags and a heavy backpack on my back home from the supermarket. Thankfully it’s about a 5-7 minute walk. But still, I had to collapse on my back bent over a chair to try to straighten out some of the pain in my back. I’ve had some painkillers and done some stretching so I’m starting to feel better. But still very tired and an aching body. Hopefully I’ll be able to start getting in better shape and that will help things along too. I’m going to miss cake though.
3/3 2022
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Did you know that pouring Pepsi Max Lime into a tub of Ben & Jerry Caramel Chew Chew is frigging delish?
I had a BJ in the freezer, wait that came out wrong. You know what I mean. I didn’t want to just throw it out even though I have to start some cleaner living. So I thought since I’m kinda aching all over, I’d spoil myself with the last of the iced cream. And I decided to pour some of my Pepsi Max Lime into it and mix it up and mmm it’s like cream soda. I guess. I don’t really know what cream soda is. But ice cream soda is good. Too bad I can’t have anymore now!
But thank goodness there’s no sugar or calories in Pepsi Max. I don’t know if I could live without that stuff.
3/3 2022
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The tub is good for other things than avoiding Sassy I guess.
Mia has really taken a liking to it. Maybe it’s because I gave her treats a few times while she was up on it. Or maybe it’s just the natural instinct of a goat to climb everything. But she really likes getting up on it. I usually just use it to put my camera on. Today a couple of times I wanted to film me and Mia sitting on the bench. So I put the tub down and put the camera on it and start recording and go and sit on the bench and wait for Mia to come over and join me, as she’d usually do. But both time she just RUDELY ignored me and instead just jumped up on the tub and practically stood on the camera.
And then later, as pictured, she actually sat on it. Which surprised me. Not much room there. But we know, if goats fit they sits. And they seem to like the restricted places. Or, confined spaces I should say. Not that it’s confined, but it’s just a smaller place seperated from everything else. Anyway. Mia was actually sitting on the bench and I was sitting on the tub and had the camera (placed on the shelter roof) filming. I got up to get the camera. And Mia got up from the bench and clambered over the handrest of the bench and got on the tub. And sthen started the ‘pawing the ground’ they do before sitting down. And she did it for a while and I didn’t think she’d be able to get comfortable on that thing. But eventually she did find a good groove and sat down. Yeah she really likes that thing. sorry for the rambles. I think it’s bed tim.

3/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.

4/3 2022
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Here’s some video from yesterday. Mia twice deciding to get up on the tub and stand on the camera instead of getting on the bench with me.
4/3 2022
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Highlights from another series of mishaps from yesterday. I wanted to get some pics of Mia and me on the bench. After finally getting her off the tub and onto the bench with me. So I set up the self timer. I always have it set to take 3 pics in quick succesion. I did it like 5 times, so that adds up to about 15 pictures of me .. Mia ..and various degrees of Milo getting into the shot. Every time I’d try to shoo him away and then I’d set the self timer and sit down with Mia.. and then he immediately got back in the shot. And you know once you’ve set the self timer there’s no point in getting up and trying to get him out of the shot because then the camera will just go off just as you’re standing up and the shot is ruined anyway. Haha. Milo is an expert at ruining photos and videos.
Well, not that they’re ruined. It’s just sometimes i’d like a photo without 3/4ths of a Milo.

4/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Vanilje from 2006.

5/3 2022
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One, two, three, four, five goats. Five goats in the shot. Too bad we couldn’t get all six but at least we got close and… hey.. who’s that under the bench! Six goats, we got all six goats in the shot.

5/3 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

6/3 2022
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I love Mia under that blue sky.

6/3 2022
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The camera falls. A sighed ‘Milo’. I feel like we’ve done this before.
6/3 2022
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That’s all for now.