Well here we are. 2024. Let’s see how this goes.
Hope you all got through the night okay. I really hate it. There was a time when I would get up on January 1st every year to check on the goats, but that night of anxiety and worry and little sleep, it messes me up even more than usual. Hopefully the goats got through the night okay. They always do, I always worry needlessly. I’ll check on them as soon as I can. I hope I can make it a good year for them too.
Best wishes for you all, may the year bring you good stuff, pretty pretty good stuff. Thank you for your friendship, hope it neer sinks.
1/1 2024
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Good goat times today. Good to get goating again, a new year, same great goats.
And just good to see that they are okay. Got through the fireworks night okay.
Although, they seemed pretty shook when I got there in the morning. Especially Sky. I thought it was all the fireworks the last few days that had gotten them on edge. But it turns out that might not be it. Jeanette came and asked me if I’d seen all 6 hens. There had been 6 when she let them out in the morning, but now she could only find 5. And there was a big pile of feathers on the ground… uh oh. Damnit. We had not found the last one when it was time for me to head home. I hope hope hope it will turn up, but it doesn’t look good. And I guess that would explain why Sky was so on guard, even more than usual. It was raining a bit, but she still refused to come inside when I got there. She was staring out at the bigger goat pen. I even did a round, looking through the pen to see if I could see anything. I couldn’t. I may have missed the feathers if they were already there by then. I thought it was all the fireworks that had her so upset, but it would make sense that she was that much on guard because of a predator in the goat pen. Even when I put breakfast out in their bowls she would not come in and out of the rain for a while.
I’m guessing the fox came and took one of the hens. I am pretty sure I had eyes on Red Sonja and the two whites, Henrietta and Susie. Henrietta is the only one I think that really goes wandering on her own at times. The newbies always seem to be together. So for one of them to be missing… dang. That would be sad.
It was raining more or less the whole day, and a cold cold wind. so we sat inside. And Sky loosened up after a bunch of cuddles and treats. I dragged the remains of the christmas tree they got last week into their bedroom. And Jeanette brought a bag of fresh pine from home that we hung on the tree. So they had that to munch on. So good to see Jeanette too, I feel much better when I know she’s around to take care of the goats.
So. Great to be with the goats again. But sad that we have probably lost a hen. Crossing my fingers for a miracle.
2/1 2024
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Sky on her guard post. Poor girl was really rattled, she goat pretty soaked standing there in the rain. She’s a good protector.

2/1 2024
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The goats and the christmas tree, with fresh pine on the side.

2/1 2024
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Huge snowstorm hitting Denmark right now. Apparently the most snowfall in 25 years. Trains and busses in my region are all cancelled. Police say don’t go out unless you have to. My mom even called me this morning telling me not to go out. So no goating today! Hopefully the goats are okay. And hopefully the storm will pass soon. I think it’s going to be snowing all day. There’s a part of me that wants to go out and be in the snow. But then there’s a part that wants to snuggle up and sleep under my blanket. And that part is a lot more sensible.
3/1 2024
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I don’t care what the weatherman is saying, cause the last time that I saw him he was on his knees he was praying

3/1 2024
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3/1 2024
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Double goat butt salute, from yesterday.

3/1 2024
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Look at this moe from Bella! How can she do that and not get dizzy and fall over like a fainting goat…. full video of silly running goats is up on the goat page now. Use promo code Lasse Needs a Pizza Plan for eleventy percent off, act now! Shakespeare if you can.
3/1 2024
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Good goat times today. Phew. It was a tough one.
Might not have been smart for me to go out. The biggest snowfall in 25 years in our region, possibly. I checked the forecast in the morning and it said the ‘snowstorm advisory warning’ was ending right around the time I would be leaving the house. The police was still advising against any unneccessary driving. But hey, I’m not driving! So I got out the door.
The first one anyway. I started wondering if I’d made a mistake when I tried to open the front door of my apartment building and.. couldn’t. A big pile of snow, frozen solid, right in front of it. Whelp. I went down to the basement level, which is also sort of ground floor because well we have two levels of ground here. Anyway, I could open the door and get out there. And proceeded on my way to the goats. I remember when my back was better and I could make that walk in 20ish minutes if I hurried. After my back problems got worse it typically takes me 30ish minutes. Today? At least 45, if not more. It was a tough walk. I started wondering if I’d even be able to get into the goat house, I might not. And there might not be any staff able to come at all. But I figured I’d make my way there and see what I could do.
Thankfully the goat house was not completely snowed in. Being up on a hill probably helps. most of the snow got stormed to the side. But it wasn’t easy getting in. First i had to force open the gate in the fence, clear some now and brute force it open. Then I got up to the goat house. Cleared a bit more snow. Had to hit the padlock with a wooden board a few times to be able to unlock it. Then with all my might I pried the sliding door open a bit. Curious goat noses poking out. I got it open enough that I could get my body into the gap and bodycheck it open almost completely. Phew!
So that all took some effort. But it was nice to be there with the goats. The wind wasn’t too horrible, no more snow coming down. I do love a snow day with goats. Very cold though. And in places the snow was really high. Like knee high, for me. Or belly high for goats. In places it was high enough to reach up past my waist probably, where the storm had piled it up.
The goats were fine, thankfully. No problems. We spent some time out in the snow. Sky mostly staying on the hill and complaining about the snow. The kids a little more adventurous. Got them both out in the pen for a few walks and runs. Seeing them wading through snow was kinda funny. A couple of times they did those corkscrew jumps they normally do when they’re going to start running, but here it was just to get out of piles of snow haha.
Well, I’m tired and hungy. Need soup. I’ll come back later and talk more snow. The important thing is the goats are fine. It’s been a couple of tough days for my region, but hopefully it’s easing up now.
4/1 2024
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Obligatory snow pic. I am not sure you can really tell how bad it was on here. But the fact that this road usually has long lines of traffic is an indication…
This particular road was fairly cleared, but lots of places in the region were not. I got up in the rmorning and looked at the news, and one of the big stories was lots of people having to spend the night in their cars on the big roads. Just stuck. They interviewed a mother who’d spend the night in her car with her 8 year old son, no food or drink. I believe the emergency services were starting to bring out food and drink, and I read something about evacuation centers that some drivers could go to stay overnight. But yeah, it was a big mess. I read yesterday that it might be the most stnowfall we’ve had in 25 years, not sure if that came to fruition or not. But we got a lot. And with a heavy storm that made it really hard to clear.
I figured I wouldn’t be seeing Jeanette today, since she has a long drive to the playground. I don’t think she would have made it here. I didn’t see her while I was there, I assume she stayed home. As the police had directed drivers to do.
On my outing I saw several cars strandeed at the side of the road. Some with emergency lights blinking, some just abandoned. At one traffic crossing there was a car abandoned right in the crossing, so I had to walk around it to get across the road.
I was happy though that there were people working today. I was a little worried if the goats would just be completely stuck for a couple of days without food or care. But after a couple of hours, a couple of people turned up. Andrea the boss and a male worker, not sure who that was, I’m terrible with names because I can’t see faces, they just don’t stick. But I heard the guy say something about it being nice to have a boss who was so hands on, not someone who just sits at a desk. I am really happy that Andrea takes an active part in the care of the animals. So far she has been great. She thanked me for coming in and letting the goats out early. I’d taken care of their food and hay, and Andrea came with a couple of buckets of fresh water. To replace the frozen blocks. And she was there yesterday too, when apparently the goats had refused to come out of the house. Which I don’t blame them for, since that was the height of the storm and the giant snowfall. But I am just glad that even during a couple of days with really hard conditions, the goats still got their needs met and got cared for. That’s a relief, I did wonder if I was going to be the only one there and if the goats wouldn’t be fed if I hadn’t been there. But thankfully that’s not the case.
My legs are going to be hurting tomorrow after all that walking in the snow. Because of the stormy winds it was all very uneven, and with my bad eyesight it was hard to see sometimes where the snow was deep or not. I did fall a couple of times, but not the bad kind of falls where you slip and hurt yourself. More like.. walking into a pile of snow and my feet getting stuck and falling forward into a big pile of soft snow. Not hurt at all, just covered in snow.
I was kind of stumbling along, zig zagging between the walkways and the bicycle paths, which were often more easy to walk on, no cyclists to be seen. A guy was walking in my direction and he stopped me and said “it’s dangerous weather, huh?” and I laughed and agreed. And he asked if I was managing okay, and I told him I’d manage okay and thanked him. But I thought that was nice. He saw me with the blind badges and walking unsteadily and checked to see if I was ok. That’s the kind of that almost gives you a little hope for humanity. For a second, until you remember… everything else. But that was nice.
I was relieved that the grocery store was open. I had worried a little about it. When I got there a couple of people were standing outside talking and I walked to the sliding door and.. it didn’t open. And I thought ohnooo. But then I walked around the side and the sliding door there opened. Phew. There were some empty shelves, no fresh bread for example. But I got veggies for my soup, so that was a relief. Outside a couple of kids were laughing because they saw people walking out on the road, because the sidewalk was just.. a pile of snow. And one kid said “Denmark has become Snowland” and the other replied “Denmark has become Greenland!”. Hah yeah, today it was pretty Greenlandish out. I don’t know if the schools were open today, but I’m sure some kids have had fun sledding. Maybe I should get some skis.
Well that was quite a snowday. I’m glad it all went okay in the end. The morning wasn’t easy, streets almost completely empty, dark and freezing and hard to see where you could walk. By the time I went home there were a lot more people out and efforts underway to clear the roads. All public transportation was cancelled. But I imagine things are getting better now. The storm has died down which makes it easier to deal with the snow. I have a postal package scheduled to arrive today. “Estimated delivery: Today”. Hah, that’d be a neat trick. It was actually originally scheduled to arrive Tuesday, but I wasn’t surprised it didn’t get here due to the holidays and all. Then the storm hit yesterday and there were no updates to the tracking at all. Now it’s almost 8 pm and I’d be shocked if it gets here tonight. I’d rather the tracking just said “Are you nuts? We’re not going out in this weather, if you’re lucky we’ll show up tomorrow”.
Anyway. Sorry bout all the rambling. But it really was quite the ado about snowstuffing. I have been out in some snowstorms, but I can’t remember the region being hit this hard in many years. This was one of the hardest treks to the goats I can remember. If I had known for a fact that there was staff coming to take care of them and how bad the conditions were, I might have stayed in. But I’m glad I didn’t. Now that I’m full of soup and cozy.
Ready for spring tho.

4/1 2024
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Another snowpic. From the playground. Not sure if you can get a good impression of how high the snow piled up in places.

4/1 2024
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Oh boy. I just walked in from Greenland, and boy are my legs tired.
Yeah, my body is quite quashed. My thigs feel like I, no nevermind. They’re hurting. My back is a pretty sore too. And I feel like I’m getting a bit of a scratch in my throat, but I hope that’s just the hypochondria talking and not the start of getting sick. Getting cold feet about having had cold feet for so long yesterday.
But otherwise I’m fine. Just going to need to take it easy for a couple of days probably. Intereted to see if my package will arrive today, the postal service tracker says it will. Maybe this time it will be correct. Wonder if there will be pizza delivery possible today too. We’ll see later.
5/1 2024
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Hey, I got my package! Shoutout to the postal service, which is something you don’t hear often in Denmark.
Let’s celebrate with a picture of Bella, goat deep in the snow.

5/1 2024
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For youknowho, here’s a musical berry interlude.
6/1 2024
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One more snow pic from my trek on Thursday. The snow in the hood.

6/1 2024
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Currently editing footage from the big snow day. For the premium subscribers, here’s a little preview. Bella in deep snow.
6/1 2024
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Halp! It snow!

6/1 2024
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7/1 2024
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Lots of photos like this when I come home from a cold day. My camera fogs up when it’s turned off, epecially if I put it in my pocket. When it has been turned on for a bit it’ll start to clear. Really annoying if the goats are doing something cute and I want to film immediately. I get a minute of two of fog before I can see anything.
Anyway, I believe this is a photo of the new king of Denmark and his royal goat. Either that or it’s me and Luna.

7/1 2024
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I thought about spending some time with the goats on the bench, but… like the weather in general right now, it’s very pretty but way too cold.

7/1 2024
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That’s all for now.

Merry christmas to everyone celebrating today. Have a jolly one.

25/12 2023
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Now’s the time to get naughty. Presents for this year have been handed out. There’s a week till Santa starts his list for next year. It’s time to get wild and crazy. I’m gonna skip dinner and go straight to dessert!

26/12 2023
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Good goat times today. Good to be back with the ladies. I worry about them during the holidays, and I wish I could be with them more. I’m just not.. as strong as I used to. But they seemed to be doing fine. Happy to see me. Just good to be with them. We had some fun running around, spent some time sitting on the bench. The feathers following us around too.
Only bad thing is the fireworks. Going off now and then. The goats don’t like them. Neither do I. It’s noon on a sunny day, the 27th. Why are you shooting off fireworks. Sigh. Sky is especially sensitive to them, not surprisingly. She is always a little on guard. All her life she’s been the little one who’s had to run from bigger stronger goats. Hiding under the goat house. Catching treats on the go. And then losing her family and being alone and then now she’s the single mom of the kids. Often she’ll pick up on some sight or sound and stand there staring. Sometimes I’m giving out snacks to Bella and Luna and i’ll have to fight to get Sky’s attention because something spooked her and she’s more concerned with keeping an eye on the possible danger than with getting food.
And yes the fireworks spook her more than the kids. I could see her twitch when they went off. And then wehen we were out on the bench a louder and longer series went off and Sky was like Nope and started trodding then almost running back to the safety of the goat house. Poor girl. I wish fireworks were just all illegal. But it’s not even legal to fire them off yet, and that’s not stopping anyone. I wish I could be with the goat new year’s night, that won’t be a fun time for them. Not for me either. I hate it.
But I love the goats, so let’s think about that instead.
27/12 2023
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Hey we already got the first christmas tree of the season. Something for the goats to work on.

27/12 2023
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You cluckin’ to me? I don’t see nobody else here. Other than the goat butt. So you must be cluckin’ to me.’

27/12 2023
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Someone threw fucking fireworks through my fucking mail slot in my apartment, fucking assholes.
27/12 2023
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Well now I know what it’s like to live with a smoker. Fkssake. At least I guess it wasn’t a piece of firework that sent out actual fire. Just a loud bang and lots of smoke. What a bunch of losers. This is why fireworks should be illegal. Can’t trust humans with stuff. Numbskulls.
27/12 2023
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Not feeling great today. My head hurts and I’m super tired. I haven’t completely recovered from the flu, or whatever, I had. My nose has been a bit clogged and some coughing, not bad but not completely recovered. Wonder if it’s that now, or if I slept bad, or if it’s ALL THE SMOKE I inhaled. Hashtag pray for Lasse.
I’m just really tired.
28/12 2023
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28/12 2023
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Popup chicken!
Yes, the funny pic of the chicken I posted yesterday was actually a grab from a video. It’s funny sometimes when you come home and look through footage from the day and you see something you didn’t know had happened. Like a lil clucker deciding to get 10 seconds of fame while you’re in the storage room fetching breakfast for the goats.
28/12 2023
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Luna sitting down with me yesterday. That made me happy. They don’t sit down a lot when it’s cold. In the warmer months they’ll take any excuse to sit down and relax. But in the cold months they mostly stay standing up. So it was nice to have Luna sit down, and it always makes me happy when they sit down right next to me, makes me feel accepted as part of the flock.

28/12 2023
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Another round of Bella Vs Tripod. Except this time the tripod fought back. Bella was pushing it around and she got her horns caught in it and suddenly she was running around with a tripod attached to her head. She got it shook off quick so it wasn’t like she was traumatized, but hey maybe she’ll think twice about messing with my tripod from now on.
Or not. Maybe not. Probably not.

29/12 2023
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Speaking of the cluckers, we got a name update. Jeanette told me before the holidays. The white one that isn’t Henrietta, the one with the barcode. She’s a Sussex. And so her name is now Susie. Susie the Sussex. And one of the others, I think the darkest one, but it’s hard for me to tell those apart. But she’s of the Maran breed. So her name is now Maren. That’s a oldstyle Danish name, so it fits well enough with Sonja, Henrietta and Susie. That leaves two that still need names, but we’ll see what comes up for them. To be honest it’ll probably be hard for me to tell the newfeathers apart, other than Susie. But they are joining us more and more, it took so long for them to even get out of their coop. But now all six of them are often walking around together, and often coming up to the goat house. Red Sonja is still sthe one that spends most time with me and the goats, and Henrietta Solo still goes on her solo exploraton trips. But a lot of the time all six of them are together, after a long long time of being split in two groups.

29/12 2023
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Hey hey thank you so much Beverly Fish for the lovely card! It made it before new years at least! Thank you for thinking of me, I hope you’ll have much success in 2024!

30/12 2023
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Uploaded the last batch of photos from 2023 to my online photo album. The album for 2023 contains 1265 files. Now that may sound like a lot, but it’s actually the lowest number since 2016. I have been up in the 1700 or 1800s some years. I think that shows how it’s been a difficult year, taking less photos. Although it’s still an enormous amount compared to most people probably. But what can I say? Am I gonna NOT take pictures of goats?! What what whaddaya I can’t even.
Here’s a photo of me and Sky.

30/12 2023
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Fireworks on and on outside now. I guess the goats are inside now, it’s 8 pm. I hope they’re okay. Tomorrow isn’t going to be fun for them. Not for me either really, I hate it. This year can’t be over too soon enough.
30/12 2023
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31/12 2023
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31/12 2023
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Here’s a little Sky for the last day of they ear. Eleven hours from now the world will be exploding. I don’t like today. I’m just going sit and watch youtube videos or old Step By Step episodes, edit some video, try to get today, and tonight, over with. Hope you all have a safe one. I’ll be writing a year in review later, so get your morphine and whiskey shots ready, it’s going to be a banger.

31/12 2023
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Huh. Queen Margrethe of Denmark announces her abdication in her yearly new year’s speech. I did not see that coming. To be fair, I don’t really follow the royal family and all that jazz. I feel kind of the same about the monarchy as I do about religion. It’s a cute idea but it’s outdated and ultimately speaks to something broken in humanity.
But hey! That being said. I know some religious people who are very wonderful. And by all accounts queen Margrethe has been an absolutely brilliant queen, loved by all, a great ambassador for Denmark. But that has always been my talking point. You can’t judge the monarchy by its best. Look at England. What happens when you get a king or queen that isn’t absolutely fantastic. On January 14th Crown Frederik will become King Frederik. And.. I’m sure he’ll be fine. As I said I don’t really follow that stuff, but I have a hard time imagining the Danish monarchy descending into the catastrophe of the British one. Because Danish people are just better, present company included. I’m awesome. In fact, I hope King Frederik will lead us vikings into a new age of glory, we can start by invading the UK And freeing them from their horrible royalty. Now’s the time. I’d make a good duke. Duke Lasse of the goathorned crown, all bow before me or feel my wrath!
I mean.. I probably shouldn’t say that out loud, I don’t want to give people advanced warning.
Sorry, I think I may have had too much champgne tonight. I mean, it’s non alcoholic. But still. Goes right ot the brain cells.
So anyway, Five hours and fifteen minutes till midnight, I should probbably start working on my sppech. Spoiler alert I will not be abdicating.
31/12 2023
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So the year is running out. Good riddance. I just want it to be over. And I want the fireworks to be over. I hate these hours around midnight.
Well it’s been a year. It sure has. One of the worst in recent memory, to be honest. Family health has not been good. Dad’s Alzheimer’s. Mom’s broken back. Peter’s leg issues, infection issues. At least his kidney transplant seems to ge going well. My blackouts, bloody pool on the bathroom flor, a month of barely being able to use my arm. Excruciating back pain. At least my back exercises have helped some again, I’m no longer taking painkillers before going to bed.
But yeah it hasn’t been great. Losing Mia in April was devastating. My best friend for a decade, the originator of my facebook page. And then seeing Milo being torn away. My depression has been worse than ever this year, and there were times when I really didn’t feel like I could keep going. It still feels like that sometimes. One day a day, ust trying to get through them.
I’m thankful for Bella and Luna coming into my life. Baby goats always make things better. I felt a connection with Luna right from that first day when she sat in my lap for the car ride. And Bella is a perfectly goat-headed goat, troublemaker with the best of them. And my Sky girl, a lot of the purpose I feel in my life now is just trying to make her as happy as possible after all she’s been through too.
Thankful for my growing friendship with Jeanette at the playgroudn too. That has meant a lot to me, I’m thankful to have someone who cares as much about the goats there.
And of course, you all. I can’t thank you enough. I’m not great at socializing and being reciprocative and present, but it means the world to me to have a place where I feel like people are about me. When i’m at my lowest I try to keep going, for the goats, for my family, and for you guys. I appreciate and value you greatly.
And now. I just wish the fireworks would stop. I hope the goats will get through the night okay. I hope we all will.
Here’s to hoping that 2024 will be easier, better, happier. Hoping for the best, hope you all have a good safe night now, and a good year ahead. Tomorrow’s another day, and presumably there’s another one after that and then we’ll see. I don’t have a lot of hope for the world, but I hope the best for some of us in it.

31/12 2023
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That’s all for now.