Hallowed Goat’s Eve

October 31st, 2011

Ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and goblins. Happy Halloween. If you celebrate it. Or observe it. Or party it. Or whatever you do.

I don’t think Halloween is that big in Denmark yet, but my Facebook feed is a buzz with buzz. So I hope you have a good one. Smash a pumpkin for me.

I celebrated Halloween with those most devilish and scariest of beings… GOATS! You can keep your zombies and werewolves. There is nothing as diabolical as a hungry goat.

Actually, don’t get me started about goats being portrayed as demonic and satanistic and hooves and horns etc. It pisses me off. Goats are not evil, they’re just misunderstood.

Anyway, I had a great time with them. It was grey and wet but not too cold. And the goats seemed hungry for tricks and treats. By which I mean scratchies. And treats. Funny how goats never pick tricks if you ask them.

As the weather is getting colder they are getting fuzzier and fuzzier. Bob especially is getting quite woolly. I swear he looks just like a little, black lamb now. It’s so adorable. I could probably make a sweater out of him. A scary, black Halloween sweater.

I think he’s too big to get through the fence now, too. So hopefully no more heart attacks for me when I can’t find him anywhere because he has run off on his own. He’s still just about small enough that I can pick him up and put him in my lap and sit with him like that. Cuddly little woolly furball of fun.

In other news, I finally got my new computer back on Thursday. So that made me quite happy. Unfortunately some new problems arose with it fairly quickly. So I have been spending more time on technicalities and OS frustrations. But I’m confident I’ll have it all solved. Probably tomorrow. No worries.

I’m probably going to hook up my new computer to the TV. While it has been away for repairs and upgrades I have been using the old computer at the TV. And now I have gotten used to sitting in my comfy chair by the TV. It’s just nicer. Bigger screen, higher resolution. Much comfier chair. The TV channels just a click of the remote away. I have gotten to like it. So when everything is sorted out I’ll swap the two computers around so my new computer is down by the TV and my old computer is up here on the desk with the computer monitor. For some reason my eyesight is better down by the TV too. I’m not sure exactly why, but my theory is that it has something to do with my blood circulation because of the different positions my legs are in when I sit in the comfy chair as opposed to the office chair at the desk. I don’t know. I can’t explain it but when I sit in the office chair my eyesight gets darker and yellowy faster. Less so in the comfy chair. So I want to keep sitting down there.

And I just had to rewrite all that because my computer BSODed before I saved. Now it’s late and I’m tired. Think woolly thoughts think woolly thoughts think woolly thoughts .


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Appular Science

October 25th, 2011

Looks like my new computer is almost finally done. It’s been almost two months now, so I’d be happy to have it back. Hopefully working well with nice improvements. Fingers crossed. What could possi bly go wrong.

Otherwise nothing really new. The goats are getting fluffier as the weather gets colder. Bob is nice and fuzzy. Getting woolly for the winter already. I miss the warmth. It’s not freezing yet, but it’s cold enough to sting the skin when I’m outside. I wish I could fastforward to springtime. Skip past all the gloves and mittens and scarves and sweaters. Go straight to shorts and sandals. Although I don’t wear shorts or sandals. But still.

A couple of weeks ago I got a message on youtube from someone who asked if they could use the audio from one of my videos for an app they were making. They were making an app that would help kids to learn what baby animals look and sound like. And they wanted my baahing lambs for it. That made me quite happy. The idea that kids would hear ‘my’ lambs is very nice. So of course I said they could go ahead and use it. Maybe I should have asked for royalties in case they go and sell the app. I don’t really know if it’s just some random person who wants to give the app away for free or if it was a representative from Apple who wants to sell it for millions in their app store. Haha. I don’t like apps. But I like baby animals.

I know that’s a horribly controversial statement, but there you go.


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