Workers In Progress
October 25th, 2020Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
19/10 2020
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Good goat times today. Oh, I needed that. Like putting a battery in a recharger.
A challenging day in some ways, though. It was cold. Too cold. Good deal of sun, but for a while it felt like the sun didn’t help. Thankfully later on it did warm up a little. Enough to drop the jacket and lounge in the sun. That makes a big difference.
There were other fouls ahoof than the temperature, though. There were workers and machines. I’ve heard Alice talk about it, they’re going to change some stuff around with the horse field, maybe the goat pen too. Not sure exactly what will be done. But there was a digging machine and humans making noise. And it clearly had the goats a little bothered. I noticed first when I got there and handed out morning treats and Mia didn’t really want any. Unusual to say the least. And when I got in the pen I found there were still goat pills in the feedboxes and hay in the hayholders. Like the goats hadn’t eaten anything in the morning. That’s a very rare thing. I had brought bananas because we haven’t had bananas in maybe half a year and I thought it’d be fun to see the goats guff down naners again. But Mia didn’t want any at all, only Nuller really ended up eating any.
So yeah, clearly they were disturbed. Mia iwth her tail tucked down and her ears spread out, listening to the noises. Lots of worried and alert staring at the workers, and also in the other direction where there were noises too. She was standing around on high alert instead of coming to me for treats and cuddles. Oh dear.
Thankfully around noon the workers went on break and Mia started to relax, maybe the warming weather helped too. The difference was quite clear. Wagging tail, cuddles, begging for treats. Eating the leftover bananas that I had dumped in their feedboxes. Much better.
They are so sensitive to change and disturbance. Hopefully the work won’t last too long or be too intrusive.
19/10 2020
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A very concerned Mia. Staring into the distance, tail tucked down, antenna ears folded out to catch all signs of danger. Darn humans and their machines disturbing the goat peace!
19/10 2020
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Sassy was also was very concerned. So concerned that she decide to hide out under the house.
19/10 2020
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It wasn’t all bad human noise today. There were happy kid noises too. Sweet visitors. Mia was being so good, standing with her face right within reach and the kids were petting her. “Not in its eyes” said their adult. Reminds me of grandma how she’d stand still while kids poked her in the eyes and nose. So good with kids.
The humankids also got a thrill when Nuller managed to jump up on my back. I was not going to let him do that anymore… but he’s a ninja. And once he stood on my back and the humankids were laughing, I couldn’t be mad.
19/10 2020
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Where”s Sky? Oh there she is.
That also happened today. Sky gave me a little fright. I suddently realised I hadn’t seen he for a while. I counted goats and there was only 5. I checked her usual safespots. Nothing. Eventually I looked around the side of the goat house, and there she was sitting. I don’t think I’ve seen any of the goats around there since we came back to the goat pen. Maybe she liked that spot because the sun was coming down right there. Or maybe it was because Sassy had taken her spot under the house. Who knows. I was relieved when I found her there. I was starting to wonder if she’d ran off with the circus.
19/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everyone.
20/10 2020
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Mia, calm yourself! Not sure Lily was amused.
20/10 2020
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and now for something completely different
20/10 2020
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goatlog
20/10 2020
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Here’s a spectacular bit of Danish history. This is a real Danish prison break caught on video back in 1995. Someone carshed that big yellow wheel loader into the prison wall and 13 prisoners escaped. They were like hardcore prisoners too, murders and bank robbers. Someone had tipped off the tv station that ‘something was going to happen’ so they showed up and caught it on video.
It came up on reddit today because our submarine murderer (whomst you might havr heard of) escaped from prison today. He got caught pretty much right away.
Anyway yeah, it’s a pretty crazy video. I remember when it happened.
20/10 2020
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Fuck. Facebook switched me to the new layout again. My workarounds don’t work. Mia’s page is different and no longer has a link to switch back. Maybe it’s time to start working on making the new layout as useable as possible instead of the constant fight to avoid it.
It just fucking sucks when your only social contact with anyone is made so much harder to use. I literally cannot tell if I have clicked the Like button in the new layout. It slightly changes colour when you click it. I can’t tell the difference. so get used to a ton of my liking and unliking your comments because I’ll have no clue if I already click the button. Fucks sake. If you Love something it changes to Loved. Why can’t it change from ‘Like’ to ‘Liked’ when you click Like? Ugh back to hating everything, same as it ever was.
20/10 2020
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Well after some 5ish hours work.. I managed to fix some of the problems with the new layout. Maybe I can actually make this work…
I guess I’ll have to wait and see if new problems crop up during extended use. But if the stuff I’ve done tonight holds up then it’s something at least.
We’ll see.
Thank you for bearing with my temper tantrums.
21/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
21/10 2020
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Lily and Nuller enjoying the attention of the kids. And the greens they brought.
21/10 2020
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Shutting down early today since I’ve spent all night and most of the day working on making NuFb work as well as possible. You have no idea how stressful it is for the eyes and my head. I am tired. of everything.
Hope you’re all doing ok out there. I can’t really keep up with the feed right now. If you need to reach me, send a subliminal smokesignal to my vacation house in dreamland, i’m going to be spending some time there.
21/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Clark and Bruce from 2014.
22/10 2020
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“Texas social workers can now turn away clients who are LGBTQ or have a disability”
‘Murica! Let’s hope we can get a ban on disabled people getting married. Don’t want those rats breeding. What’s next, disabled wedding cakes?! Can you imagine the wedding cake makers that would have to fabricate little marzipan wheelchairs or blind-people walking canes? Can you imagine how hard it would be to participate in society if you had to do that? Thoughts and prayers, for blessed be the cake makers.
22/10 2020
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I found a neat place in my dreams. It was in the middle of a big forest. There was a clearing. A mesh fence around it. Inside were people sitting at big campfires. And there was a huge, white tiger. A man came over to me and told me I was not ready to be there. He showed me to a giant road that was leading out of the forest and sent me on my way.
I hope I get to come back there some day. I want to play with the tiger.
22/10 2020
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In case you aren’t following Mia’s page, I shared a little bit about how I got started with the goats and all that. So even if you aren’t interested in the goats, hey maybe you’re interested in me.
Wait, what are you doing with that rag of chloroform?!
link: goat story
22/10 2020
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How do you pronounce ‘Nokia’? I’ve seen Americans pronouncing it something like ‘no kia” which is funny because in Denmark we say “nok ya”.
Okay, not that funny. Don’t forget to like comment and subscribe!
22/10 2020
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Lil Lily love
22/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Choko from 2008.
23/10 2020
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Good goat times today. Nice to be back where it matters, after a too much time in Hurricane NewBook. Much better to be among goats.
However, things aren’t back to normal in the goat pen. The workers are still working, and they’re now working right next to the goat fence, in the horse field. And there was a digging machine parked outside the gate to the goat pen too. The goats are not amused by all the noise and weird unfamiliar goingsons.
In fact, I was a little worried when I arrived in the morning and started handing out treats. There were only 5 little goats. Well, one big and four little. I was relieved when I spotted Sassy looking at us from the goat shelter. She refused point blank to come over at all. Even for treats I don’t think that has ever happened before. Later on when we were hanging out on the rocks she also just stood in the goat house and watched us.
I am not completely sure if it is because she’s on edge because of the workers, or if it’s the mud. The mud is starting to set in for real. It rained overnight, and there was barely any completely mudfree paths from the goat house to the shelter and on to the rocks and the gate. I do think that Mrs Sassypants refused to get her hooves dirty. I don’t blame her.
There’s more change in the goat pen and stories about the workers, but I’ll end this post here and write more later with photos.
It’s not the best of times right now for the goats, but they’re doing fine, especially when they get their share of treats. Hopefully the workers will get everything done before too long so the goats can get back to normal.
23/10 2020
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Uncle, please slay that mechanical dragon.
23/10 2020
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Ret in peace Ebbe Skovdahl. I know no one here knows him, but he was a great Danish soccer coach, and responsible for many big triumphs of my favourite club, including a famous win on Anfield against Liverpool. Maybe our best coach ever, and also super funny and charistmatic and by all acounts a swell guy. He coached Aberdeen in Scotland too and while he never reached tremendous success with them I’m still sceeing scots on twitter talking about what a great impression he left there.
Thank you for all the good times, Ebbe.
link: bbc article
23/10 2020
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Here’s a change in the goat pen. I’m not sure how well you can see it, but behind Milo there used to be a little pile of branches. Now there’s a huge pile of branches. Someone dumped a big ole load of branches on our pile. If this had been a month ago it would have been awesome with sooo much green. Now eh, not so much green on all those branches. And they kinda just dumped it on top of everything. Completely blocked off access to my triple pallet bridge. And since it rained overnight all the branches and leaves were wet. So the goats weren’t even a little interested in it.
Later on I did start moving some of the branches around, clearing the path up on the triple pallet bridge. And the sun dried out the leaves, so the goats could actually start snacking on them.
At some point when things settle down a little I’ll have to tidy up a little and make it more manageable.
23/10 2020
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…and this photo is from later on in the day. Here I have dragged some of the new branvhes away and cleared a path up to the triple pallet bridge. The butt bandit Milo is investigating.
I’m not sure if all the new branches are connected to the workers or not. There were so many, and so big, that I almost think they had to be dragged in there by machine. But I’m not sure exactly where they came from.
23/10 2020
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And here’s a photo from even later in the day. There’s a goat butt parade from the new squad on the triple pallet bridge that I had cleared. And then I pulled some of the new branches out over the bench so Mia could stand on the bench and snack on the leaves.
23/10 2020
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I am going to bed early On A Friday. Because that’s the kind of party animal I am.
I am still working on getting the new facebook working well enough to use, right now I just can’t stomach looking at my newsfeed really. So other than sometimes seeing the first post on the feed, I’m not seeing anything. Sorry if I’m missing anything important. Hope you’re all doing well. Rest assured I completely agree with [your political opinion] and I also can’t stand [the other candidate] and I’m quite shocked at [America not being able to find the parents of the kids they put in clean cages] and so on. It’s a good thing that 2020 is the cause of all evil and next year everything will be fixed. Remind me to play the lottery on January 1st.
– With great esteem from your emissary in Denmark.
23/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bob from 2013. And I think it’s auntie hiding behind the hayholder, but I’m not completely sure.
24/10 2020
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Here’s a little look at the work in progress next to the goats. The white door on the left there is the entrance to the stables. They’re laying down pavement tiles in the beginning of the horse field. Maybe to combat the mud. Would be real nice if they could come in and lay some pavement in the goat pen to make a path from the goat house to the shelter, rocks and gate. But we probably won’t be that lucky. Maybe when they’re done there will be some leftover tiles that I can …,’borrow’. I kinda never got permission to take the tiles that I used to make platforms etc.
Well we’ll see what happens amyway
24/10 2020
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Here’s Mia keeping an eye on one of the workers.
There were three workers yesterday. A woman and two men. The goats aren’t too happy having loud workers around, and I must admit having humans there constantly makes me feel self conscious and a bit uncomfortable too. You know, because I don’t like humans.
They were nice enough, though. At one point one of the guys wanted to give a pear to the goats. But the goats wouldn’t come over to them. So I had to help out. I managed to get Milo to come over to the fence. He wasn’t super interested in the pear, but I think he ate a little. Then I managed to lure Mia over to the fence. The workers seemed to like getting some closeup time with the goaties. The woman especially was asking a bunch of questions, and petting Mia. They thought it was really funny that I was giving the goats pasta and peanuts. “Do they like the crunching or does it taste good?”. Good question haha. She also thought maybe there would be goat kids, since I told her that there were two males. Sorry, no kids. As workers now, it’s important to have the right equipment. And our guys don’t have the equipment for making babies…
They also thought it was very sweet when Mia gave me kissies. It was nice to talk to them, and I hope Mia maybe felt a little more secure after seeing that the workers weren’t that dangerous. They even give out cuddles, although no treats.
I think it made Mia feel a little more comfortable. Although I don’t know how much it’ll help when they start using machines and hammering again. But hopefully it’ll be done soon.
24/10 2020
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The American election gets a lot of coverage in Denmark as well. There was a bit on Danish news about the older generations and how they may vote. There was an older married couple interviewed. They said “We’re not as much voting for Trump, as we are voting against socialism”.
I really don’t get this fear of socialism. Is it because of the communism thing? What is socialism anyway? What are you so afraid of?
What really bothers me is these religious people who seem to have forgotten about the whole ‘do unto others’ thing. You don’t want to give up your own wealth to help the weak? How are you going to stand at the pearly gates and try to get into heaven arguing that you were right to not want to sacrifice your own wealth to help those in need? You’re afraid your hardearned money might go to immigrants? Refugees? Gay people? Others? Your fat bank accounts aren’t going to count in your favour when you’re trying to get into heaven. If you truly, literally, honestly, with all your heart and soul, believe in the bible and your god, how are you not wanting to give up your own wealth for the poor, the sick, the oppressed?
Yeah taxes suck. But there’s a reason why Scandinavian countries always rank highest in the rankings of how happy countries are. We pay high taxes. And people complain. But people complain about taxes no matter how much they pay. It’s a fact of life. You give up some of your own money for the greater good. And if you end up being the one in need, then society takes care of you. And you are happy. Money in your bank doesn’t make you happy.
And seeing elderly people voting for Trump… the guy who thinks you’re expendable in a pandemic. You think you’re going to get a helicopter ride to a state-of-the-art hospital if you get sick? You won’t. You’re nothing to him.
You’re sacrificing your place in heaven for a guy who would burst into flames if he ever got near a bable.
It’s maddening.
If you need to check the skin colour, gender, age, religion or political affiliation of your neighbour before deciding if you love them, then you are not a good Christian.
What would Jesus do, for christ’s sake.
If it’s everyone for themselves, then everyone loses.
But hey, if you have a secret Chinese bank account you’ll probably be okay.
Make America Care Again.
24/10 2020
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I have to admit, I don’t really see lazy people getting a free ride as a big problem. If your society is working well, if you have money, if the sick and needy are getting taken care… maybe some people will be lazy. It’s not the worst thing in the world. Honestly, I’d like to see more experiments about a Universal Basic Income. For humanity, I think that’s a better way to go. Potentially.
If you wanna worry about lazy people getting a free ride.. how about all the millionaires that have never had to do manual labor in the life? Living off the interest of their fortunes. Stocks and tech speculators. Rich kids that start off their lives with a million from their daddy, and ride a stride of bankrupt casinos. Maybe taxes would be lower if the rich didn’t cheat on them or have expensive lawyers to find legal loopholes. Stashing away cash in foreign countries. That to me is a lot more offensive than a joe schmo who doesn’t feel like working. If you get all the rich people to actually contribute you’d solve more than forcing joe schmos into factories to take work away from robots.
There will always be people, rich or poor, that want to take advantage of the system, no matter what the system is. That’s another fact of life, just like complaining about your taxes.
I don’t know. I’m just on a train of thought going nowhere. I just guess I think letting some lazy bums get a free ride is worth it for a sociaty that ranks topdollah in happiness, where you don’t consider old and sick people expendable in a pandemic, where you don’t have to worry about paying the bill if you get sick. Don’t think about the little amount of money that is wasted on people who don’t deserve it, but think about all the money going to all the people who do deserve it. Including yourself, deserving to live in a happy society.
To show you how much I care about you, I just deleted a paragraph where I started talking about gun control. I guess I’ll save that for another day. You’re welcome. Time to stop the train and get off. Next Stop Crazy Town.
24/10 2020
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Wow, how about goats huh? That’s me. All goats all the time. I sure love goats. Do you love goats? Then we all love goats! Next Stop Goat Town.
24/10 2020
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Along with the new huge load of branches on the pilebranch, there was also this smaller bunch. I wonder if it’s going to be used for a fireplace. If not, then maybe I can build something out of those smaller logs. We’ll see. Here’s Milo and Nuller checking it out.
25/10 2020
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This is one of my favourite things in the world. When big little Nuller boy rests with his head on lil mama Lily. He’s grown up so big, but he’s still a lil mama’s boy.
25/10 2020
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
25/10 2020
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The sun also shines.
25/10 2020
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I have to tell you something shocking about myself. Something no one could have ever suspected, and few could ever accept.
Hello. My name is Lasse. And I don’t actually have a problem with the whole Daylight Savings thing.
For those of you who are still here, thank you.
Today was the end of summertime in Denmark. So I got to sleep an hour extra! Of course, I don’t like when I lose an hour in the spring. That day it sucks. But otherwise and in general, I am thankful that I can get out to the goats an hour later. I have big problems with the cold and the dark, so mornings are easier for me with the change. The sun matters a lot to my comfort level and ability to function. So, I don’t mind adjusting the time according to the sun’s availability.
There. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
25/10 2020
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Her Sassyness.
25/10 2020
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That’s all for now.
