Guess what?

I’ll give you a hint: Vanilje had a baby! Yes, a wonderful, little goat kid. I guess I was right when I said she was far along! And what perfect timing. It arrived just last night. To think I almost didn’t go to the playground today. I almost canceled my plans because I wasn’t feeling so great this morning. I had a bad dream. Or rather, I had a good dream. I dreamt that my eyes got better and I could see clearly. And then I woke up and reality made me sad. But I eventually forced myself to go to the playground because I know that the more depressed I am, the more good the goats will do me. And boy did they do me good today.

It’s not all good news, though. She actually had two kids, but one of them didn’t make it. That’s very sad of course. But I will focus on the positive. And that is a beautiful little baby girl. She looks so much like her mother. Almost completely white. Just a little dark markings on the face. She seems happy and healthy and curious. Just like a goat kid should be.

I am so glad I went. It has been a beautiful day too. The forecast said up to 17 degrees. I don’t know if it was quite that warm, but it was comfortably warm at least with lots of sun. I didn’t have to wear gloves or anything. I even went all by myself. My dad has been helpimg me get up there during the winter, but now that the snow and ice is gone I thought it was time to try on my own. And it went fine. The bus on my way home was a little crowded, but no big problems.

It was great spending time with Vanilje and her girl. Is there anything sweeter than a newborn goat? I think not. It was almost like the good old days. Lots of people coming over to see the little new one. Three girls came and asked if it was okay to go in and pet her. I said yes, and they came in. And I got to help them and answer questions and listen to them oooh and aaah and awww everytime the little kid moved or made a sound. One of the girls asked me if I was a doctor. “I thought you were. Or… a vet”.

Trust my camera to run out of battery power halfway through my stay. And trust my backup batteries to be flat as well! But I stil managed to make a video. youtube.com/watch?v=mWl42QjRm7I.

My clothes smell like goat poop. It’s been a good day.

Guess what I did last night? No, no, it’s nothing rude. Geez, get your mind out of the gutter people. Let’s start again.

Guess what I didn’t do last night? I didn’t turn on the heaters. For the first time since last fall. I wanted to see if I could make it through the night without jittery feet from the cold.

And I could. Sort of. It didn’t get too cold. My feet didn’t get jittery. But I did wake up in the middle of the night. With hot feet. See, I wear woolly socks. To keep my feet warm. And I guess… turning off the heat in the room made my body a bit colder and therefore the feet in the woolly socks felt hotter. That’s my theory anyway. I had to take off the socks. Now I wonder if I woke up because of the hot feet or if I woke up for some other reason (I have been known to wake up at times during the night, although that has seemingly gotten better recently) and I just felt the hot feet, but they weren’t the actual cause of the awakening. I don’t know. I guess I’ll try sleeping without the heat on and without socks on tonight. And see if that works okay. A little experimentation is in order to find the best way to sleep. I do miss my old circulation. Damn you diabetes.

Time to reveal my secret projects. Although it’s really nothing that interesting. Just fun and timewasting for me. I have bought three new domains. Yes, I am practically a domain shark now. Four websites in total. Isn’t that something? In addition to plume.dk I now also own plume.is. I’m not going to be doing anything special with it other than silly Facebook status messages like http://plume.is/going/to/bed/. Isn’t that just so clever it makes you want to throw up? I know. I always wanted to have one o the “big” plume domains, like plume.com or plume.net. But they are not available of course. So I ran a domain availability check that searched for all plume domains. And plume.is was available. So I figured, why not? I have the cash. Might be a bit of fun. What I really was looking for was an extra domain to do some experimentation and backup, though. And for that I chose http://djaliplume.com. Since other people always rudely take the “plume” username on all sites around the net, even though I’m clearly the person who deserves it, yes, I always end up having to settle for “djaliplume”. So I figured I’d snap up that. I’m planning to perhaps move my plume.dk domain to another webhost, but I’m very apprehensive about it. So I’m going to test out some stuff on djaliplume.com. And also eventually probably have a backup of the blog there. So in case you are one of the admittedly few people who would actually care if plume.dk disappeared for a longer period of time due to webhost problems (as it happened last year) then you might want to bookmark djaliplume.com, as it is currently on a different webhost. So if anything were to happen to plume.dk, I could at least use djaliplume.com to let you know that I’m still alive.

Yes, that’s all terribly fascinating. The last domain I bought was http://cliffclavin.com/. Hah. I don’t know why I even ran cliffclavin through the domain checker, but to my surprise it was available, so why not? Seeing as though I’m a big fan of The Clavin. I’m not going to be doing more with it than what is there now, and I know even that is somewhat of a dumb waste of time. But it’s been nice for me to be able to spend some time on new computer-related things. Things that are not related to everything that is going on in my life. Things that make me think of stuff other than “I’m going blind”. You know? The art of distraction is very important. In life as well as in magic.

I think I am already getting somewhat tired of the whole Clavin and twitter thing, but hey it’s been fun. And there’s still a month’s time to the next eye operation, so I need something to preoccupy myself with.

So that’s what that is.

(Alternate entry title: In The Unheat Of The Night)