Good goat times today. Cold and grey morning. Picked up a little later on.
Unfortunately Bella seems to have had a mishap. She was limping around when I got there. Something wrong with her left front leg. I told Jeanette about and she came and had a look. We can’t see anything obviously wrong. Jeanette gave her a hoof bath and we’re monitoring the situation. She otherwise seems fine, didn’t mind us touching her leg, limping around and eating and chewing her cud. Hopefully it’s nothing serious, just something to walk off.
Luna was quite feisty today. Butting heads with Sky again. Sky complaining and not able to really fight her off. She’s not running from Luna like she does from Bella, but she does retreat after a while.
Luna also butting heads and trying to get food from Bella. Maybe she’s sensing Bella’s temporary weakness. Maybe Luna is eyeing the chance to be top goat. Once Bella’s leg is back to normal I don’t think there’s much chance of that.
Hooves crossed everything will be good.
23/9 2024
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Bella is the one needing some extra love today. Good thing I got enough for all of them.

23/9 2024
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Three scenes from today.
Top part is Luna trying to get into Sky’s breakfast bowl. She never would have dared that a couple of weeks ago.
Second, I put out the box with hay again so Sky could eat in peace while the others hog the hayholder inside. What happens? “Ooh, the human is carrying hay outside,we must follow him because the stuff he has must be the best”. Jeez. So Bella and Luna ends up eating from the box while Sky looks on.
But I got the gruesome twose moved away and third part is Sky eating from the box of hay on her own.
Man, things have gotten more complicated around here.

23/9 2024
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“He’s distracted. Butt him in the knee, I’ll grab the treats, we meet up at the bench”

23/9 2024
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Had an appointment at the eye doc today. Unfortunately, just like last time, my eyesight has deteriorated a little bit. Another notch down on the scale. I feel it mostly when using the computer, where it’s gotten hard to see things.
Well, eye doc still can’t see any problems with the diabetes damage to the eye, things look stable there. Which is good. Apparently the worsening of my sight is related to my generally poor eyesight that I’ve had all my life. I think it’s called astigmatism. Better that than diabetes damage, because that almost made me completely blind. The fact that that is stable is a relief, because going completely blind, I couldn’t live with that.
Like last time, the doc tried to see if adding lenses, like galsses, would help. Last time it didn’t. This time it did. Wearing glasses again might give me 10 percent more vision. So, I’m considering that now. If it’s worth it. I guess I’ll wait 6 months till my next appointment, see how my eyesight is going. It would probably be best for it to settle before getting glasses. If it does settle…
I don’t know. When I got home I looked through my drawers and found several of my old glasses. I wore glasses from childhood and until the diabets ruined my eyes so much that glasses didn’t help anymore. The filter glasses I wear outside are to filer out light, they don’t have any strength.
Anyway, I tried my old glasses one after one. Didn’t seem to do anything, until the last pair. Wearing that pai I could actually read a letter. Had to hold it all the way up to my face. But without the glasses I couldn’t read it all.
I was starting to hope I could use those glasses when using the computer. But I just tried it, and unfortunately it doesn’t work. I have to put my face right up to the screen for them to help, and that would cause more trouble and be a worse experience in general. So no luck there.
I guess in 6 months I’ll see if there is any more change in my eyesight and talk to the eye doc about it. Ten percent extra vision would help at the computer. It would put me back around where I was before it started getting worse the last 8-9 months.
The thought of dealing with getting new glasses just makes me very tired. I would have to go to places and talk to people. You can see my dilemma.
And of course there’s the fear that my eyesight will keep getting worse.
So yeah that’s not great. It’s pretty depressing in fact. I don’t have a lot of eyesight left to lose.
Got home and did an hour twenty on the bike. So I got that going for me.
24/9 2024
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A brighter note from my eye doc visit was that he immediately asked if I’d lsot weight. Given that we only see each other briefly every 6 months, I didn’t expect him to really notice that. But he did and was very complimentary, so that was nice. He asked if I’d gotten on wegovy or ozempic. I said nope, did it on my own. Trying not to sound smug. Well, not trying very hard.
Those meds are in the news a lot over here too, in fact just this morning I saw Bernie Sanders in Denmark to talk about Novo Nordisk and their prices in the US.
Anyway that’s neither here nor there. When my blood sugar was getting too high last year and my doc was talking about putting me on new meds, I think one of te suggestions were ozempic or wegoyy, because she said it would often help with weight loss too. But I’m glad I was able to get the blood sugar under control and the weight lost without it.
Oh and after considering it, I guess I should get the glasses. Just for sitting at the computer. I’ll have to look into it.
24/9 2024
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Resting Bella face.

24/9 2024
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goatlog

25/9 2024
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eye am tired
25/9 2024
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I am based on a true story. I am not filmed in front of a live audience. Nine out of ten dentists recommend me. Ask your doctor if I may be right for you. If your Lasse lasts longer than four hours consult an exorcist. Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?
25/9 2024
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Another camera fall to add to the collection. Funniest part, after the camera fell I threw some peanuts to distract goats. If you look carefully you’ll see a Red Sonja shaped blur swoop in and grab a peanut and run off.
25/9 2024
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Thou shalt not kill, asterisk.
25/9 2024
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On a lighter note, Bella cracks me up with her trying to knock the door down. Bless her, she couldn’t quite figure out why it wasn’t working. I thought I had an all access pass?!
25/9 2024
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Good goat times today. Cold and rainy, though. No trace left of summer. Oh well.
The good news is that Bella is doing much better. Almost back to normal. If I hadn’t know she’d had problems with her leg I wouldn’t have noticed anything. So that’s good.
We had a lot of visitors today. The little girl with the eyesight was back. She’s super sweet and really loves saying his to the goats. She had the sweetest laugh while Luna was doing something, nibbling on her coat I think. She’s just lovely.
And Jeanette made pancakes on the campfire. She asked me if I wanted any, but I said no thanks. Later on she came over with one anyway and asked if I was suuure. Well, I couldn’t turn down that. So I got one. It was just a small pancake, about the size of her palm. Not a full plate one. But mmm it was good. With strawberry jam. Oh boy. I haven’t had pancakes in many years. And I haven’t had any sort of cakery in I don’t know 6 months at least. it was very yummy.
Came back home and did an hour twenty on the bike. Had to work off that pancake!
And now soup, it’s good weather for soup.
26/9 2024
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So reliveed Bella was doing better today. Even if she is a lil stinker sometimes.

26/9 2024
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When Vader told Lando to pray he didn’t alter the deal any further, which god was he referring to? Or do you pray to the force? Our midicholrians who art in the bloodstream,
26/9 2024
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Sky out with the feathers.
It was sad today to see her out in the rain, looking in and trying to judge if it was safe to come in. Now I really wish we had an extra shelter like at the old place, so she could have a place to go more easily. She does get in, but it’s a lot harder. And she has to run out if Bella comes near. Sigh.

26/9 2024
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I can still taste that pancake.
I want more pancakes.
JUST GIVE ME PANCAKES AND NOBODY GETS HU
27/9 2024
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Finished watching all of On The Air. Only seven episodes made, two aired. It really is astounding that David Lynch and Mark Frost followed Twin Peaks with this show. A lot of people will say it’s trash, but I must admit. I love it. I love dumb goofy humour and surrealism. One of my favourtie parts is The Hurry Up Twins. There’s one scene in every episode where they go through the frame, saying nothing but “hurry up hurry up hurry up” while a voiceover says “The Hurry Up Twins” and there’s no rhyme or reason to it, but it makes me laugh so much. And there are talking dogs and quacking ducks and there’s a guy who’s visually impaired but he doesn’t see less than other people he sees MORE and in every episode there’s one scene where we got to see what he’s seeing and it’s a chaotic insane diorama of puppets and angels and loops, and it’s just nuts. Oh man.
And it’s funny how the show is about a TV show that falls apart and the real show is kind of like a TV show that falls apart. And as I have previously said, it’s got Miguel Ferrer, who is sublime at being angry. And it also had Ian Buchanan who was also in Twin Peaks. His character in TP was one of the most hated by the fans, but I always kind of enjoyed him just because his face is so funny, he’s so smug and insincere. Which is perfect for his role in On The Air because he plays the smug and insincere main actor.
And also also, it has music by Angelo Badalamenti. What a gernius. One of the things that stuck with me all these yers, with just fever dream memories of the show, is the opening intro with the broadcasting tower and that music. I love that music.
So yeah. it’s not Twin Peaks. But I can’t help loving it.

27/9 2024
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wut wut cluck cluck

27/9 2024
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Make sure eto get a golden watch, so you can watch time run out for humanity in style.
In other news, i got an appointment at the optician next week. Gonna see if I can make the glasses thing happen. I am not sure it will work, but getting ten percent’s help at the computer would mean a lot at the end of the day.
27/9 2024
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Sky on the mountain, looking out.

28/9 2024
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Begging to be born
Another unicorn in a uniform
It’s a thing you hate
Another switch and bait that you abhor

Made in America on a factory floor
There’s a Disney character breaking down the door
And the orchestra plays
A cartoon score for war

No separation
No Berlin Wall
No celebration
No confusion
When it falls

Made in America
On an assembly line
Where they make mass hysteria
Yeah, it’s all streamlined
Nobody bats an eye
‘Cause the trains still run on time

28/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Didn’t really find my groove, but I did the time. So that’s what counts.
A little bit weight lost again, but not enough to really count anymore. So I think it’s time to get off the weight loss diet. I’ve said that a couple of times before, but this time I mean it. I was getting sick of sky and apples. Now I’ll do my best to find a stable, healthy diet where I can eat more normally. Starting slowly, to give my metabolism a chance to recover. Hopefully. I expect to put on a little weight now, but that’s okay. I made it to 50 pounds lost since last November, I’m very happy with that. Hopefully I can keep most of it off. Maybe next spring, when I can get good cucumber and tomatoes again, I might start up and try to lose a little more. But i’m comfortable where I’m at now, and that’s what matters. Unfortunately now T-shirt weather is over, I can feel it getting colder and colder. Eight months until we get warm days again, hooray for the climate. Well, I can’t complain when I look at the hurricane and other stuff in America and around the world. Danish weather is very mild, rarely so hot or cold or stormy that it’s dangerous. Although when I hear you guys talk about hurricanes I’m always reminded of 2013 when the big tree crashed down into the goat pen during a big storm. That’s today’s flashback video on the goat page. That was such a surreal morning, coming there and seeing the walkway around the goat house blocked by leaves. Crazy. Hope you’re all safe out there.
28/9 2024
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Sometimes I worry that I smell like the goats, but then I realise that’s silly. I don’t need to keep goats away from me, I need to keep humans away from me.
28/9 2024
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goatlog

29/9 2024
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My mind swings from optimism and hope to pessimism and despair like goat’s tail wags when you give it a treat.
29/9 2024
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Help. I’m watching Eraserhead.
29/9 2024
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A little Luna love.

29/9 2024
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That’s all for now.

Good goat times today. A lovely day with lots of sun. Not quite summery temperatures, but up there.
We had a bunch of sweet visitors, several groups of kids coming in and petting the goats. Luna has been behaving well again, so that’s good. Now Sky has gone back to being “the little one”. I’m not sure if Luna is actually bigger than Sky, certainly Sky is still wider. As one kid remarked “she’s the little one, but she’s fat!”. Ruude! Haha. Sky still taking a hike when Bella comes near. It’s sad. But i’m making sure she’s getting lots of time with me. I used the waterbottle on Bella to get her to stay away and not chase Sky. Bella seemed mostly just mystified. How is it raining out of the human’s hands?! I felt bad about it, but I’m just doing my best to keep them all as happy as possible.
Gonna get me some soup now.
16/9 2024
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Relax

16/9 2024
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I got a new jacket today.
It’s the same as the old jacket, just a size L instead of a size XXL.
Now, as I have mentioned with t-shirts before, I prefer my clothes oversized. So XXL was probably way too big from the start. The sleeves certainly were comically too long. The sleeves on the new jacket are fitting much more appropriately. I would like the jacket itself to be a bit longer, I just prefer bigger size. But on paper at least it sounds cool to have gone from an XXL to an L.
Unfortunately I probably can’t get my pants in a smaller size. I remember when they greyish pair I had finally gave up and fell apart. There was no way to find them anymore, and I need all the pockets they have. I’ll have to stick with the black pair I have, even though it’s way too big in the gut width now. Used to be tight, now I gotta snap the belt on tight.
I might try to see if I can find a new winter coat in appropriate size. But eh, because of my bad circulation I have to war 17 layers of clothes in the winter, once I’m wearing a shirt a blouse and a sweater I’ll be bulked up anyway.
I’m glad I have trained myself to not care about fashion or how I look. I’m still a walking mudpile most days. Goat hair everywhere and berry smell from the shoes. What are ya gonna do.
Hopefully it will still be t-shirt weather for a bit. The new jacket came off when I got to the playground and the sun was doing its thing.
16/9 2024
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The goats were busy working on a bouquet of branches that Jeanette had brought when I got there. Good to see all three of them working on it.

16/9 2024
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Bella cautiously observing me after I used the waterbottle. She didn’t freak out about it, but was more like “I’m not sure what’s going on, but I don’t think I like it”. We made up later with some cuddles and treats. It’s a balancing act, I don’t want her to get scared of me and withdraw, but I need some space with Sky now and then. And more and more Sky is acting like the old days at the old playground, when she’d run away when the bigger goats came near. Even if there isn’t a sign of trouble, just Bella walking over towards us can send her fleeing. But they do all three eat together as shown before with the branches and when I give out cucumber or apple or tomato. It’s more complicated, but doing my best to make everyone happy.

16/9 2024
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goatlog

17/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Go go Ladget. Afterwards I did some cleaning in the apartment. I want to get rid of some of the junk i’ve been piling up. Organize things a bit. I ended up spending a couple of hours on it, barely made a dent. But got several bags of stuff to lug down ot the trash. Feels good to exercise, feels good to do some proactive stuff. Look at me go. GO TO THE BUFFET, amirite.
17/9 2024
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Good goat times today. A very foggy morning. Dense fog advisory. Later on the sun came out for a bit, so that was pretty good.
Still trying to adjust to the new normal. Although things aren’t quite done changing i think. Today I started seeing the signs that Luna may also be overtaking Sky in the hierarchy. Sky did butt heads with her a couple of times. But she also did the complaining bleats at her and a couple of times ran away. And Luna was challenging her quite a bit. I think soon Sky will just be running from both of them. It’s sad to see. It’s sad when I sit down and I look over at Sky looking back at me, and I know she wants to come over to me like she always used to do when I sat down. To get her cuddles. But now she has to look around and judge whether the others are at a safe distance. Man, it sucks. Maybe I’ll start taking her out of the pen to get some alone time. We’ll see. I do still get my cuddle time with Sky when the others are preoccupied.
Funniest bit today was when Jeanette came with a couple of bags of food and took them into the storage room to fill the barrels in there. She closed the door, and Bella and Luna though that was a really bad idea. Bella started bashing her head against the door. Not super hard, but just headbutting at the door because she wanted in. At one point she jumped up and with her hooves she managed to pull down the door handle, but she didn’t manage to pull teh door open. Not for lack of trying. Like me at the pizza place when I get there too early and they aren’t open yet. I just start headbutting the door until they let me in.
18/9 2024
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Around the christmas tree, conversation is lively.
Another bouquet of branches from Jeanette. And good to see all three goats going at it.

18/9 2024
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Got my first ever spam robocall today! I think it’s the first anyway, maybe I’ve just forgotten. I’ve read about people getting them a lot, though. Mostly in Denmark I’ve heard of them coming from “the police”. Mine was from paypal. To inform me that I had purchased 2000 kroners worth of bitcoin. Funny, because my paypal acct isn’t connected to a bank acct and there’s almost nothing left in there, I just sent most of what was left to a charity donation here on fb (polishes my halo). But those bitcoin will be worth a lot some day, I am sure!
In other financial news, today I got my yearly statement from the housing organisation detailing my consumption of electricity, water and heat. I am always terrified that I’m going to get a huge bill, but I always get money back. And this year too. So that’s a relief. I know I can check for myself how much I’ve used, but their site isn’t very accessible so I don’t really keep up with it. I just look at it once a year. So far it has worked out. It’s always nervewracking opening that PDF file and checking the beginning of it where it says if I’m getting money back or have to pay extra.
There was one year, many years ago, when I used so much heat and electricity that they increased my monthy payments to be closer to my actual consumption. Since then I have massively cut back on electrixity and heater use, so now I always get money back. I suppose I could contact them to lower my monthly payments, but honestly I’d rather pay too much each month and then get money back once a year. I feel safer like that. I get so cold that I use a lot of heat and electricity for my space heater, but not as much as back in the day I guess.
Anyway, ask me how much soup I just ate. Okay I tell you. I ate a whole pot full. No waste here.
18/9 2024
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Interesting to see a certain segment being very upset about fact-checkers. Like, “oh can’t you just let me use your platform to spread disinformation without interfering”. Says a lot when you feel like the checking of facts is a problematic thing and fact-checkers are your opponents.
Maybe if you think of them as Bible Integrity Enforcers. They’re just making sure you’re not bearing false witness. Check your signed golden bible, it’s in there somewhere, unless they took it out to make room for casino ads.
18/9 2024
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Goats in the fog. The below part is Sky eating hay. I took some from the hayholder and put it in a box outside so Sky could have some while Bella was hogging the hayholder inside. It’s too bad we had to take the second hayholder down. Maybe I’ll ask Jeanette if we can get it put up again, we just have to make sure it’s in a safe place. But it might be good to have two of them now.

18/9 2024
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Good goat times today. A nice bit of sunshine, with a bit of a cold wind. Not too much happening today. Some sweet visitors. Kids at the fence calling in to the goats. I got them to come over to the fence so the kids could see them up close. Answered some questions.
And then goat diplomacy, trying to get everyone to get along. Somewhat. Doing my best to make sure everyone gets a share of the loving. Used the water bottle on Bella again. She’s starting to recognise it. I didn’t have to actually spray her, I just shook it about and gave it a tiny squeeze, that was enough to make her stay put. Got some good time sitting with Sky. Eventually she went over to get on the platform, and I sat back at the logs with Bella and Luna. I was leaning back on the overturned bench and taking in the sun, I think we were all dozing off a bit. With Bella and Luna napping I could get up and sneak over to Sky and give her some more loving over on the platform. It’s like being a divorced dad running fromone family to the other. Hmm, maybe I don’t know how divorced dads work.
Then home and got an hour twenty on the bike. And then a bit more of the cleaning/reorganizing of the apartment. Busy day!
19/9 2024
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Naptime for the goats. Luna on the tub, Bella on the board, Sky on the platform.

19/9 2024
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Just resting my eyes.

19/9 2024
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I know what you’re thinking. But no, those aren’t clown shoes. I’ve just had a lot of goats stepping on my feet over the years.
19/9 2024
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Hey there’s no food in there! What a ripoff.

20/9 2024
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I think I said I was done with my Twin Peaks rewarch. That’s not quite correct. I’m going through the bonus material too. There’s quite a lot, especially for season 3. It’s fascinating watchinh David Lynch work. He’s so specific with his ideas and direction. You could get the thought that he does a lot of improvising, but when he’s directing the actors he knows exactly what he wants. it’s also fascinating watching him do his art stuff as part of the show. I was reading along on various forums as I watched the seasons and some people were complaining about the special effects in season 3, that they sucked. But it’s very clear that the effects are exactly how David wanted them. Some of the special effets are literally him doing arts and crafts on set. Like when he’s putting the mud mask on Laura Dern so she can remove her face. Just Lynch things.
Anyway, what an amazing work of art Twin Peaks is. Weird scary, inconsisten, wonderful, joyful, sad, happy, beautiful, ugly. Drink full.
20/9 2024
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Sly on the upturned pallet. It’s funny how they’ll just end up standing like that. Even if it’s just an ince above ground, they still gotta stand on it.

20/9 2024
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I tweeted about Richard Kind and it went viral. Well, for me. 35 Likes and 3 retwees in half an hour. Most of my tweet get on average *checks stats* one. One like. If I’m lucky.
I should tweet about Richard Kind more often.
It’s kind of unnerving seeing a bunch of complete strangers react to your post though haha.
20/9 2024
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Three in a row.

21/9 2024
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Got an hour forty on the bike today. Wasn’t feeling too great. Weak legs, tired, aching back. But I put the time an effort in. Started feeling better when I added the arm exercises and intervals, that got the heart rate up and the tiredness away at least.
After that some crunches and contiuing on the cleaning/reorganizing of the apartment.
The bad news is… I lost more weight. New record low. Never seen that range in my adult life. Now it’s about 50 pounds lost since last November. That’s a problem because it means I have to continue dieting. Haha. I’m almost hoping to NOT lose weight, because then it means I’m done. Well not really, of course I’m happy to see the weight go down. I’m just dying to get back to eating bread and other stuff again. But I know that once I go off the diet I will gain some weight, and I just want to see how low I can get before that. It would be a shame to stop now when I have found a rhythm that’s really working for me and giving great results. One more week, at least. Maybe two. If I keep losing weight at the current rate then that would get me to a point where I shouldn’t really try to lose more weight. And if I don’t lose that weight then I can say I have reached the limit of my current capability. Either way I can have bread again.
Today I can has soup.
Oh and by the way, my Richard Kind tweet ended up at 16 retweets and 149 likes. So that was fun.
21/9 2024
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goatlog

22/9 2024
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The royal hoof of Bella.

22/9 2024
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I finished all the Twin Peaks. But I’m not done with Lynch/Frost. Started rewatching their followup to Twin Peaks. On The Air. I have these fever dream memories of watching some of it back in the day, I think I must have downloaded it from some filesharing service, i don’t think it aired in Denmark. It’s so so so weird. It’s basically the weirdness of the weidest Twin Peaks, but in a straith sitcom setting. It’s also, to be honest, really bad at times. But it’s the kind of bad that’s so bad that it’s good. The show is about the making of a tv show and the tv show in the tv show is horrible and it’s almost like meta. But it’s hilarious and weird and very nostalgic for me. And it has Miguel Ferrer playing a tv executive version of the fbi agent he played on Twin Peaks. And I fffkkkn love Miguel Ferrer. Rest in power.
Yeah it takes a certain mindset to enjoy it, but if you like surreal slapstick and lowbrow dumb humour and problematic characters, because it was a different time, but also maybe it’s satirical but they’re making fart noises while playing the saxophone, but yeah, I recommend checking it out. It got cancelled pretty quickly and I think the consesus is that it’s garbage, but damn it makes me laugh. Miguel Ferrer just needs to yell at people.
I also need to watch Lynch’s movies, because weirdly enough I don’t think I have watched any of them. Maybe Lost Highway? I remember parts of it, but I’m not sure I watched the whole thing. Kind of odd being a huge Lynch fan and not having seen his movies hah.
Once I’m done with the whole Lynchverse I’ll get back to the island.
22/9 2024
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That’s all for now.