It’s the night before christmas. And all through the apartment complex explosions are heard. I do not enjoy fireworks season.

Anyway, it’s almost time for christmas. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve which is when we celebrate because we are Danish and righteously so. I shall be going to celebrate with the family as is traditional. Hopefully a nice, quiet time with some nice food and good company. This year uncle Jens will be celebrating with us. And he’s bringing his new lady friend. Whom I don’t really know anything about and have never met. So that’s not really optimal for me, because having a “stranger” there will mean it will be hard for me to relax and feel comfortable. But I’m sure she’s very nice and it will be nice to meet her and we’ll all have a jolly good time. So I’m not going to worry about that. I’m just glad that my dad is back home and doing better and better. It would have been very sad if he had had to spend christmas in the hospital.

It’s quite cold now, too cold for me. But I looked at some of my old christmas videos on youtube today and it struck me how we have had no snow yet this year. It’s not going to be a white christmas. But that’s okay, the snow only makes it harder for me to get around. So I’m not really going to miss that. Especially with the new bus routes.

Other than that there is still nothing new really going on. A couple of goat videos:

youtube.com/watch?v=QwfY4iOnEa4. The new girl settling in. Being chased around. I need to find out if they have named her yet.

youtube.com/watch?v=xOZrKVDHj5Q. From yesterday. Probably my last visit to the playground this year. Since it will be closed for the holidays and I don’t have a key. I like the bit at the end of the video where Bob is playing around with my shoe. I was sort of moving it around abruptly to see how he’d react.

And that’s all for now. Hope y’all will have a nice and safe and happy christmas. Or whatever you may celebrate.

There goes the last of the soup. Down the hatch. You can’t complain when you’ve had soup for dinner from Sunday to Friday. That’s a good run. A couple more days and you might run the risk of getting tired of it. Unless you were me, of course. But now it’s time to clear the digestive system for the next batch.

On Wednesday I went back to my parents’ place. This time not for soup but for computer technician duties. Their computer had a virus. A virus that changed the hosts file so google wouldn’t work, amongst other things. You don’t realise how much you rely on google until it’s gone. But I managed to fix things. It annoys me though that AVG antivirus, which they have installed, did not prevent the virus infection. And did not detect it during a scan. Good thing I brought a Kaspersky recovery CD. That found and fixed the virus. Now I just need to teach my parents and brother not to install strange programs and not to click on dodgy links.

It took me a couple of hours to get it fixed. Afterwards I went to the playground and spent some time with the goats. Bob wasn’t feeling too well. I think he had been overeating. He seemed drowsy and unresponsive. You know a goat isn’t feeling well when it isn’t interested in treats. I picked him up and sat on the bench with him. And he wasn’t at all interested in squirming out of my lap. He just sat there quietly while I scratched his chin and behind his ears. Poor little fella. Goats don’t know how to limit themselves with food. Kinda like me and soup.

The new goat girl seemed to have found herself a little more at home. She came over to me several times. Still walking in a big circle around Magnethe and Mio, though. She’s learning the ropes. Magnethe and Mio were standing next to each other with their front legs up on one of the logs on the ground. It almost looked like they were equals. It’s nice to see Mio with more confidence and status. Magnethe could still chase her around. But they’re getting along better. Now that they have a common “enemy” to bully. It’s like a big kindergarten in that goat fold.

Today I got another christmas present in the mail. Another calendar! This one from the lovely Debster. With lovely, silly squirrels. I’m going to have a hard time coming up with excuses for forgetting dates next year! Thank you, Deb! It is extremely sweet. For the card as well. Please pass my thanks on to the husband and all the others.

Jolly jolly.