Soupr

February 27th, 2022

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

21/2 2022

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Don’t look down, Sassy.

21/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.

22/2 2022

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Good goat times today. I had an appointment at the doc this morning, for the regular diabeetus checkup. So they drew blood. After that it was goat trip time, and luckily the goats didn’t draw blood. They just drew treats, lots of treats. Cold and sunny day. Muddy. Come on spring, we’re waiting.
Sky got a bee in her bonnet. Or maybe a bug in her fur. All of a sudden she started running about and swinging her head at her own side. And then she jumped up on the rocks and from there she did a big leap into the air. I wish I’d been flming because it was a real big one, off with two hooves from the rock and her front hooves up in the air. It was a Palle worthy leap. I guess that got the bug off her, because after that she was fine again. Maybe she was just showing off. “Can a baby do THIS”. Well. Actually baby goats are pretty good at leaping around, so I’m not sure that did her any favors. But we love our leetle baby.
22/2 2022

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We love our little leaping Sky baby.

22/2 2022

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i don’t know man. I think it’s a little weird timing to choose today to announce your ‘rock invasion’ tour. I know they’re US cities that you’ll be ‘invading’ but I mean. At least it’s not a rock pandemic tour I guess.
Being a Smashing Pumpkins fan sure has been a ride. Nevermind the wrestling.
22/2 2022

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Got a confirmed soup date for the weekend, so things are looking up in that respect at least.
22/2 2022

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Insanely loud bagpipes and drums outside. This is not the invasion I was expecting.a
22/2 2022

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Happy Twosday! It’s Tuesday 2022-02-22 20:02
Just the two of us!

22/2 2022

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Don’t look behind you, Sky. I think you have a stalker.

22/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

23/2 2022

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Do you really need the circumstance if you already have the pomp?
23/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. I hope. Here’s Mathilde from 2005.

24/2 2022

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Good goat times today. Got out and goated. Staying in the sane zone. Had a doc appointment in the morning and then off to the goat place. Bit of rain today, but not too bad. Just nice to hang out with the goates. And a few visitors too. The elderly couple with the impaired man came by. The lady remarked that it was always ‘the big white one’ who was sitting with me. Yes, coming up on 10 years together, so we’re a little bonded. There was a daycare group too who decided to sing for the goats. They sang that old song about the three goats and the troll? Three Billy Goats Gruff, the googlemachine says. That was very very sweet. Unfortunately my blood sugar is too sweet too, says the doctor. My longterm numbers aren’t great. And I knew they wouldn’t be because I haven’t been eating well thanks to the depression and world affairs. So I gotta try to get that under control now yes. Headbutt me if I don’t.
24/2 2022

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The sane zone.

24/2 2022

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I slept through most of yesterday. Got up real early today to go to my doctor’s appointment. Turned on the TV before leaving the house. Saw the headline. Russia invades Ukraine. Welp. Great. That’s just.
I don’t know if I didn’t think it would happen. But it’s still pretty crazy. Crazy that things like this are still part of the human race. You’d think we had evolved. But that’s just wishful thinking I guess.
Looking at old footage from the world wars, I wondered if something like this could still happen. That old footage is so choppy and in black and white, it seems like a different world. Or fiction. It’s still hard for me to understand why you’d want to conquer. Why would you want more land? What is it good for? It’s strange to think that Denmark was once occupied by Germany. Why would you want to occupy other countries? If you told me Denmark had the power to take over Germany or Sweden or whatever, I’d say no thanks. Why would we want them? I know in the case of Russia and Ukraine there are some other factors, because they used to be part of the same ..country? Or whatever. It’s more complicated than just taking over a foreign country. But I still.. I don’t know. More land, more people, more problems. Look at America. This giant beast at war with itself, where they can’t decide if small rural populations should dictate what big compact states should do, or the other way around. How can you ever have unity if you have so much land, so many people. Maybe the reason Denmark always top the ‘most happy’ lists is because we’re so forking tiny. I wouldn’t want us to be bigger. I wouldn’t want power over people who don’t want it. What’s the point. Imaagine all the people. Ugh.
Strange times. I’m not worried about being physically harmed myself, but I do worry about the state of the world. I wonder what a cyber war would be like. There’s a lot of talk about cyber warfare. Taking down the banks? There’s already supply problems everywhere and heating/electricity costs are skyrocketing. The Danish government is planning to send out a cheque to people to help pay for the exploding heating costs. There’s a lot of things that could affect a lot of people all over the world.
And then there are people being killed. I thought we were beyond that in the western world.
I don’t know man. It’s not a great time to be an ultra pacifist and overly empathetic. I can’t find a way to see this world as something I want to be a part of. At least I have a safe space sane zone.
24/2 2022

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On a lighter note, this managed to make me laugh despite the doom and gloom.

24/2 2022

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Choose love. Choose goats.

24/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Ping from 2016.

25/2 2022

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Didn’t realise how high up I was, now how do I get back down again?

25/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Preben from 2012.

26/2 2022

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goatlog

26/2 2022

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Good soup times with the family today. I hope it was clear that when I said I had a soup date, I meant that it was a date with soup. The soup was the date. I wasn’t going on a date with a lady to get soup, that would never happen #ForeverAlone
But I love the soup and now I have leftovers for a few days. #ForeverSoup
Good stuff.
26/2 2022

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Look up my profile on Soupr and swipe up for hot soup dates
26/2 2022

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Uhm, I’m not saying Facebook is the devil but…
Also, i wish there was a way to tell fb that I’m not looking for ‘customers’.

27/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone

27/2 2022

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Heelp, I’m still stuck up here! Send treats.

27/2 2022

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That’s all for now.


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Lost Vale

February 20th, 2022

A couple of days ago was the 25th anniversary of Blur’s selftitled alubm.. ehm, Blur.
That was an important album for me. Around the time when my music taste was maturing I guess. Blur’s first albums were britpop, and I quite like them. They were quirky and fun and catchy. But with Blur they really grew and the songs became darker and more personal and I really loved it. I remember back in those days there was a big Oasis vs Blur thing going on in the media. I guess Oasis was the Rolling Stones and Blur was the Beatles. And I loved the two first Oasis albums. But then they just stagnated and bacame boring clichéd rock. While Blur grew and became much more interesting. And with Damon Albarn’s solo album and his Gorillaz stuff. Just much more inventive and deep. And I feel like the record Blur was the beginning of that journey. And the next album 13 was even better.
Those were some formative years. The year after came the releases of Eels’ Electro-Shock Blues and Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore. Those two albums are still my favourite records of all time. Deep and emotional and powerful and informed by loss and experimental and powerful.
Good times. Back when you’d watch music videos on mtv and go to the record store and look through racks of CDs. Put music albums on the wishlist for christmas.
Now you can find every video on youtube and every song on some mp3 site and it’s easy and accesible, but it’s not the same man. You kids don’t know what it was like you weren’t there man. Everything was better in the 90s don’t at me.

Put the crazies on the treet, give them guns and feed them meat.
13/2 2022

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

14/2 2022

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Rest in peace Ivan Reitman. Growing up Ghostbusters was one of my most favourite movies. When I was young and had a vhs collection. I’m pretty sure ghostbusters was one of the movies I taped off the telly. You’d have the storebought movies with proper boxes and covers. And then you’d have the blank vhs tapes filled with movies, or endless episodes of the simpsons. In a cardboard sleeve thing. And i’d always take that sticky thing.. whatsitcalled. The word escapes me. The thing you were supposed to stick onto the vhs tape itself and write the contents on? That thing I would always put on the cardboard sleeve and write the conents on there like that. i can picture them in my head, rows and rows of vhs tapes.
Anyway. Ghostbusters was one of my absolutel favourites and I never got tired of it. It was a strange movie, a comedy ghost movie. But also to me it just felt really real. That librarian ghost.. it geniunely scared me. Seems silly now, but at the time it just.. felt so real. It was such a funny and cool movie. It’s still a big part of my vocabulary. The keymaster and the gatekeeper, there is only zuul, stay puft. And the old Commodore 64 game. I didn’t have the manual to it so I never really knew how to play it properly, but I just remember driving around in the big car hunting ghosts and listening to the great SID chip version of the song. The song. Who you gonna call? Its still so embedded in pop culture. I haven’t watched the Ghostbusters Afterlife movie but I have it downloaded and I intend to watch it soon. Sounds like it might not be amazing but at least gets things right and pays tribute to the old ones. Unlike the reboot which i do not intend to watch.
Anyway. Yeah. I looove Ghostbustes. I know he did a lot of stuff, but for Ghostbuster alone. Thnak you, Ivan. Hope you get a good afterlife.
14/2 2022

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Happy valentine’s day to all you lovely people out there. Thank you for all the love you show me, on a daily basis. You keep my old heart ticking.
I’m going to celebrate valentine’s day by going to bed early and sleeping the whole day through because I’m sad and alone, woohoo!
But seriously, have a good day. Love like your life depended on it. You never know when the heart breaks.
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14/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everypme.

15/2 2022

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Good goat times today. Got out and got my goat fix. I’m sorry if I glorify the goat time usage, but what can I say. I’m addicted.
Cold grey morning, but some sunshine later on. Little by little we’re getting pockets of blue skies and sun. Feels good.
This week is winter holiday in Denmark. I guess that’s why we got a bunch of visitors today. At one point I was over by one fence with the goats talking to a group and when they left we headed over to the other fence where another group was waiting. We were in demand today! Well, the goats. And I did a fair bit of chatting with everyone. Answering questions. One of the most common questions? Is Mia the mom of everyone? No. she’s the matriarch of the goat pen, but she’s not related to any of the littles. There was a quite attractive young lady with a few daycare kids, who asked a bunch of questions. She remembered how there used to be posters up at the fence with everyone’s names on them. She was sad they weren’t there anymore. Me too. But they got torn down pretty fast. Shame.
The old lady with the old impaired man came by too, they always enjoy seeing the goats. And lots of little kids got to pet goats and have a good time. The goats got called sheep, which happens a lot too by the kids. And of course Sky got called ‘the baby’ which happens a lot too. And several people told me to have a nice day, which I always appreciate. Not everyone really talks to me, and I don’t blame them because even if I bring the goats to the fence I don’t usually engage with people a lot unless they make the first contact. If they don’t talk to me then I just let them have their good time with the goats. But it’s always nice when they make me feel like they appreciated the goat time. If it wasn’t for me they’d be looking at a bunch of goats from afar avoiding the mud!
15/2 2022

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Here’s ‘the baby’ chatting to visitors.

15/2 2022

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Mia and Milo entertaining the visitors. I think it’s Sassy’s ear in the foreground.

15/2 2022

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I ran into Nala on the way to the goats. She was out hunting outside the playground area. Clearly no time to stop and chat.

15/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

16/2 2022

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Looks like Cowzilla is helping with the christmas tree.

16/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Vanilje from 2006.

17/2 2022

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goatlog

17/2 2022

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Six in a row! Not very good quality but you know I love when I can fit all six in the show. And hey, there’s Cowzilla on the left. This may be the first time we’ve ever had seven in a row!

17/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2007.

18/2 2022

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Little baby! Little baby!
18/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.

19/2 2022

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Orange you glad I said banana?

19/2 2022

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

20/2 2022

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Are you telling me that ALF wasn’t a documentary?!
20/2 2022

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Uh oh, wasn’t this how Birdemic started?

20/2 2022

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That’s all for now.


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