Good goat times today. Grey and cold, what else is new. But the company is good. Sweet goats running around. They had some willow branches. Might be stuff brought down by the big storm that passed through Denmark. Or maybe just stuff that people have picked for them. Visitors feeding and petting the goats. Jesper is working on putting a hatch in the goat house, something Jeanette had seen at another playground I think. We’ll see how that turns out.
Got my sweet smooches from Luna. She jumped up in my lap a couple of times and surprised. She also managed to jump up and stand on my shoulder, like a parrot on a pirate. Given my shoulder is still kind of giving me trouble I probably shouldn’t allow her to do that, just like it’s a go-go on my back. But it’s hard to say no to her. I was impressed she could keep her balance standing on my shoulder. But then you’ve seen her perched on the steep ramp.
23/10 2023
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Breakfast time with Red Sonja and Sky. It still makes me laugh how Sonja will just peck grains right out of the bowl while Sky is eating.

23/10 2023
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Some people look at half a pot of soup and say it is half empty.
I look at half a pot of soup and think “oh the pot of soup is empty because I ate it all while finishing this thought”.
23/10 2023
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I took one of the willow branches, I think it’s willow?, and put it in the hay rack. People often just throw the branches on the ground, but when it’s wet and muddy they really prefer it to be off the ground. So I usually pick up branches and prop them up on stuff.

23/10 2023
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Oh yeah and mark the calendar, I saw the first “Merry Christmas” thing in the grocery store today. Ho Ho Oh No No.
23/10 2023
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Back to the doctor today, for the results of last week’s blod tests. As expected, the results weren’t great. A year and a quarter of completely letting go and living unhealthily has taken its toll. So the readings weren’t great. They weren’t as catastrophically bad as I had feared. Part of me had worried that the nurse would go “I can’t sen you home, i’m sending you straight to hospital”. Kind of like it happened all those years ago when they diagnosed with diabetes. I don’t even remember why they were testing me back then, I just remember they measured my blood sugar and sent me to the hospital where I had to stay for… days? More than week? It’s all a distant blur now.
Anyway, not that bad. But bad enough that we have to do something obviously. I argued that in the past when things were slipping I managed to change my lifestyle and get back on the right track, and that I’d like to try that again. So I got 3ish months to change things around, before we start looking at other medications or whatever. So here’s to hoping I can do that. Gotta get back to exercising. Gotta get back to eating healthier. Really, I just need to stop eating candy. I know it makes me sound like such a child, but I have been eating lots of candy. To dull the pain. To fill the void. To take my mind away. Need more soup instead.
Hooves crossed I can get it done.
It was kind of funny, the nurse kept calling me Peter. She went right up to me in the waiting room. Peter? Peter?? Haha. That’s my brother’s name. I’m not even sure he is still seeing the docs in that place. I know my mother isn’t, but the nurse asked about her when I was there last week. She remember the family. She apologised for calling me Peter, then did it again a couple of times in her office. Haha. She made up for it by complimenting my cologne when she did an EKG on me. She said it was nice and asked what it was. I told her I didn’t even remember. It’s an old one I have had for a decade, only use it when I go out among people. Honestly I just don’t care about that stuff, usually I smell of goats and berries. Whattareyagonnado.
24/10 2023
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“It was the craziest thing, I was standing here just minding my own business and then suddenly this here tripod just falls over by itself I was like whaaaaa”
Likely story, Bella.

24/10 2023
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goatlog

25/10 2023
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Who’s got two thumbs and just did exercise? This tired guy.
Back on the exercise bike. For the first time in.. well more than 6 months I think. I felt it too. Just a couple of minutes with no resistance and my legs felt like spaghetti. But I kept at it and went for just over 30 minutes. Ten minutes warmup, ten minutes at level 2 and ten minutes cooldown. Something like that. Just good to take the first step. I am so out of shape. Even the relatively short walk to the goats leaves me out of breath these days.
Felt good to be on the bike though. I do love it. When you get into the groove, the music in your ears, your heart pounding, legs going. Feels good. I wish it was summer so I could have the sunshine and heat on top, but I made do with my space heater. I need it to be a little tough to get into it, I think. Hopefully I can keep at it. Find the time and motivation. I’ll try.
25/10 2023
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Other than starting to rewatch some old movies, in preparation for more current sequels, I have also started rewatching Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I have vivid memories of watching it late at night when we got cable. Part of our cable pack was.. What was it called? The SciFi Channel? I guess they’re called SyFy now, or whatever. Dumb. It may have been a European version of the channel I had, I don’t know. Anyway, they’d show MST3K. But then would show it at 2 am. I don’t know why. Was MST3K not popular back then? Maybe they only had the rights to show it late at night, maybe they were in a timezone than Denmark. I don’t know. Anyway, I’d set the vcr to tape it and then watch it at a more convenient hour. I thought it was the. Funniest. Sht. I laughed so hard at some of those episodes. When I came in it was already into the Mike Nelson years, so I never watched any of the Joel episodes. Which is why I started my rewatch at Mike’s first episode. That’s what I have the nostalgia for. If I do get through them all then maybe I will watch the earlier Joel seasons too. It’s probably a Kirk/Picard kind of thing, your first one is going to be your favourite.
Anyway, it’s nice to watch the old eps. I have watched a couple already and it’s such a nice nostalgia, trip, the robots, the music. Happy days.
Getting cable was such a big thing. As I often mention, I grew up when Denmark had ONE channel. And I was there when we got a SECOND channel called TV2. Weird to think of now when the default is a million channels, or everything streaming or youtube or you kids get off my lawn.
Anyway where was I. Yes. Happy I downloaded the entire run of MST3K to my hard drive many years ago. Good stuff.
25/10 2023
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Oh look, newfeather aaaalmost at the goat house. So close. Lured in by a dropped piece of cucumber from a goat feeding. I bet one of these days one of the newbies will make it into the goat… and promptly be chased out by a furious Luna monster.

25/10 2023
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Good goat times today. Cold and grey. A little rain, but we got a lot overnight. The rabbit house was flooded, Jeanette informed. Her and Jesper were working on trying to fix that up. Thankfully teh goats are up on a hill so the water runs down from there. Bella and Luna came to the fence to greet me, despite the mud. Maybe the new pathway is working. Sky came out with me when it was time for me to leave too. And Bella and Luna went to the fence several times to meet visitors. So maybe that’s working. There was a big puddle right at the gate, though. We could use some bricks there.
Because of the muddy conditions we stayed in the goat house. i miss summer, sigh. But it’s still good to sit with the goats. Luna made some sneak attacks, jumping up in my lap. One of them while Jeanette was there, which made her laugh. At one point Luna jumped up on my legs as I was sitting in the yellow chair. She stood there on myl egs and looked out on the grounds while she chewed her cud. Eventually I wrangled her into sitting position. She sat and chewed her cud. Eventually stopped chewing. I listened to her breathing. And then her louder breathing quieted. And then soon after I felt her eyelids twitching against my arm. Off to dreamland. She’s such a little cutie. Can we just all agree that she stops growing now? Thanks. She always was small one, she can just stay this size so I can keep having her sitting in my lap. Deal.
I was a little afeared that my walk there would be tough, since I got on the exercise bike yesterday for the first time in half a year or more. I thought my legs might be wrecked. But I actually felt better on that walk than I’ve felt in a long time. Less wheezing. I’m not saying one little exercise session has completely turned it all around, but I’m glad I didn’t feel bad at least. Motivation to keep it up.
26/10 2023
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Hey look! Newfeathers in the goat house. I knew it wouldn’t be long before they made it. They were only inside for a minute. It’s funny how they go along together everywhere, like a little chicken troop. I wonder if we’ll start seeing them hang out with the goats in time, like Henrietta and Sonja.

26/10 2023
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Here is a goat photo instead of the paragraph I just wrote and deleted after looking at the news, you’re welcome.

26/10 2023
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Pizza today, exercise tomorrow. Everything in its right place. Priorities. Just call me a life counselor, my wisdom dispensed for free. Whether you want it or not.
27/10 2023
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Heads in the hay.

27/10 2023
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Lunaskew

27/10 2023
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In the Tomato Dimension, this is the poster for the Jaws movie.

27/10 2023
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One from today’s exercise mix.
Yes, I kept my promise and got on the bike. Upped to 45 minutes this time. Didn’t have spaghetti legs at the start this time. But they did get pretty tired when I upped the resistance. Still, it feels good to be back to work. I do like it, so I just gotta keep at it.
And this song is one of my favourite in the exercise mix. I love the song, and it’s got a perfect thumping beat. Always gets me going good.

28/10 2023
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Oh yeah, tonight is the daylight saver switch in Denmark. I am not crazy about the whole thing, but I do appreciate getting an extra hour to sleep. And it’s going to help to have a little more light in the morning. Last goat trip I almost stumbled, I have a hard time seeing when it gets darker out.
So i’ll allow it.
28/10 2023
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Aw man. Rest in peace Matthew Perry. That’s so sad and way too soon.
I loved Friends. A lot of people like to put it down, but when it comes to sitcoms I think it’s one of the absolute best. It did sitcom perfectly, if you want easy happy sitcom, it’s hard to find better. Being angry at it for just being a sitcom is like going to McDonalds and being angry that you’re not getting five star Italian cuisine.
I remember it starting on TV2, like I remember Seinfeld starting. When the world was smaller so things seemed bigger. I taped it on my vhs machine. Comfort food for a sad, troubled kid. I loved Chandler Bing. Bummer.
29/10 2023
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goatlog

29/10 2023
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I don’t think we’ve had all the feathers in a photo together before. But here they are. Red Sonja and Hernietta Solo and the four newfeathers. The Newfs stick pretty closely together mostly I think. Henrietta And Sonja are together a lot, but not always. Henrietta especially will wander off on her own at times, while Sonja is often hanging with the goats.

29/10 2023
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Someone should do the Too Many Cooks video skit but with the Saturday Night Live intro, just introducing name after name after name and going on forever and ever, you know like the real thing.
29/10 2023
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ood goat times today. Still cold. But we got a good deal of sunshine today, which helps. It’s Fall vacation in Denmark, which funnily enough means LESS visitors than normal. Since the new neighbour school is closed. But we did get a littel group, I think two adults and two kids. They got to feed and pet the goats, so that was good for all.
There was a major giant huge change at the playground today. I will tell you later with a photo. Sorry about the clickbait, but you know how it goes. Okay okay, it’s nothing impoirtant or exciting. It involves sunshine, though.
Stay tuned, don’t touch that dial! And now a word from our sponsors. Soup. Soup, it’s what’s for dinner.
16/10 2023
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Here’s the big change. Can you tell? Haha. I moved the bench. Jeanette actually suggested it last week, to move the bench into the sun. But I declined. I didn’t think it was necessary, and I liked the bench where it was, at the base of the mountain, close to the goat house and the gate. But, the cold got to me. So I dragged the bench to the far side of the goat pen today. And spent some really lovely time sitting there in the sun with the goats. I would rather be sitting closer to the goat house and fence and gate, but the sun doesn’t reach there anymore. And I’m going to need the sun, when it’s there.

16/10 2023
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Dang. Seems like tomato season is over. The last week or two the tomatoes have been pretty bad. I have been eating lots of maters. Guess I’ll be leaving them to the goats now, until next spring, if we make it that far. I’ll miss ’em.
16/10 2023
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Oh Luna. After I moved the bench I spent a good long time sitting in the sun with the goats. And of course the kids got sleepy. They usually take a nap after we’ve been running around for an hour or two. I love when they use me as a pillow. Their little eyes twitching. I could feel Luna’s breathing slowing down. And then a couple of times her heart would start beating faster, like she was dreaming of chasing butterflies. The sweetest is when they make little noises in their sleep. Tiny little dream bleats. Doesn’t happen very often. I got a couple from Luna today. And once from Bella. Bella’s voice is a lot calmer than Luna’s. And her sleep-bleats were like tiny little baby bleats. So darn adorable.

16/10 2023
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Off to the doctor’s office today. For a yearly checkup. I think it’s been more than a year since the last one.. kind of been skirting out on it, along with all the other health stuff. I have barely been functioning, it’s been a bad year and a quarter.
We’ll have to see what the blood and urine tests say, but I am expecting that my blood sugar levels have skyrocketed. I have been eating very poorly, stopped exercising, put on like 15 pounds. Yeah it’s not been going so well. The nurse was quite sympathetic and understanding when I mentioned some of the stuff that’s been going on. We’ll see what the results say and what they’ll want to do. Not looking forward to it.
Another notable thing today was that I used my new bus card for the first time. Rejsekortet. The travel card. As I mentioned a while ago they are phasing out the machines that let you buy tickets with cash in the busses. And I go by bus so rarely that it would be stupid to have one of the longer running passes that I’ve had in the past. So I had to come up with an alternative, and I was really worried about that since everything is digital on apps and phones and whatnot these days, which I can’t use. But turns out the travelcard isn’t and app. It’s just a card. I guess there’s a chip in it and you hold it up the readers in the bus. It sounded super easy on paper, but it was still causing anxiety for me. I kept pictuing myself there in the bus getting the ANGG REJECTED noise instead of the DING ACCEPTED noise. I looked at several videos on youtube just to make sure how to do it. But it went fine. It’s literally just holding the card to the machine and both my check-ins and check-outs worked as they should. So that’s good. This is a case where the change is actually good, it is way cheaper and easier than the cash ticket. The ticket machines are also anxiety inducing for me, because there you have to insert coins and make selections in menus. Way harder. That troubled me so much that I used to get my dad to come along when I needed to get cash tickets. The travelcard is so much easier, as long as it works anyway. I am sure I will always have some anxiety when using it. Being blind and social phobic is not a fun combination, it leaves you feeling helpless a lot.
But anyhoo. Glad that’s done, sometimes change isn’t bad. But you just have to drag me kicking and screaming into it. We’ll see how the test results go next week. I would rather have been goating today, but oh well.
17/10 2023
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My Seth Green / Patrick Warburton fanfic is coming along nicely.

17/10 2023
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Moving the bench yesterday was not the only new place I sat. I don’t know if you can tell from the picture, but I am actually sitting on one of the platforms here. For the first time ever. It’s the platform with the less steep ramp. Although i did not climb the ramp to get up, I am not a goat. Unfortunately. I dragged the black tub over there and got up on that and then was juuust able to get my keyster up on the platform. Getting down again was tricky because I could only just with a lot of stretching reach my foot back down on the tub. But it was fun to sit on the platform with the goats. Maybe next summer I’ll get up there on some sunny days and lounge with the goat crew. Gravity is a harsh mistress though, I usually stick closer to the surface. Sometimes with my face plantedc in the grass.

17/10 2023
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goatlog

18/10 2023
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Feeling a bit nauseated and tired today. Hope I didn’t catch anything at the doctor’s office. I was sitting at a table and the guy on the other side of it was sneezy and coughy. And he went into the nurse’s office before my turn. I’m sure it’s just the hypochondria and paranoia. Or maybe it’s typhoid. Hashtag pray for Lasse.
18/10 2023
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Of course when you put a tub somewhere, it won’t be long until there’s a goat on it. Here’s Luna.
She actually was up on the platform first, and then she wanted to jump down onto the tub. And she did that thing of walking back and forth on the edge of the platform looking down, like judging the distance and probability of surviving the giiiiant leap. Pretty cute.

18/10 2023
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I don’t get that chance that often, but I like to bear hug a goat. They’re not too fond of being restricted, so I generally don’t do it. Bella sometimes gets up with her legs up over mine, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I grab a quick hug like this.
Oh and I’m feeling pretty okay right now, pretty tired but it’s almost bedtime anyway. Don’t think I’m coming down with anything. Probably. Unless the typhoid is dormant and just waiting to kick back in . We’ll see. Hashtag pray for soup.

18/10 2023
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Time to head to dreamland. Last night I dreamt that I was being initiated into the Dharma Initiative. A low level position, maybe in the car pool. I think I was wearing a grey jumpsuit. Not sure if it was back in the heyday of DI or if it was a contemporary resurgence. Don’t forget, we’re the good guys, Michael.
Goodnight.
19/10 2023
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Good goat times today. It was a sad start to the day. I checked in on Facebook before leaving the house and saw the sad news of Esther the wonder pig’s passing. Shocking and heartbreaking. I think most of you knew Esther, certainly the ones in the goat circle of friends. I know some worked at the sanctuary and I think some found Mia’s page through comments I’d left on her page. She was something special, and the family and friends did wonderful things. As I’m sure they will continue to do, in her honour. The kind of stuff they did and the sanctuary they made and the things they stood for is exactly what I would have done if I was a better functioning and capable human, and had the chance. Animals mean everything, to the world and to the people in it. Don’t I know it for myself with the goats. Sad to see Esther passing almost exactly six months after Mia. Two big ladies. I had a slight taste of going viral with Mia, but Esther was an international superstar. And that was used to do great things.
But I won’t go on about it now. I posted a tribute on the goat page too if you want to read that.
The goats did their best to cheer me up today. They were running up a storm. Literally, it was storming. Cold cold wind. I was already sad about Esther and feeling slightly dizzy and off, and the wind was not helping. Not feeling great. But it was great to see the goats run. They were sprinting like i’ve rarely seen. The kids are so fast. And even Sky came running, dragging her saddlebags. Not as fast as the kids, but she got up to some high speed too. Certainly faster than i am with my saddlebags. So that got some laughs out of me.
I got to meet hte new leader, Andrea, again too. For the second time. Jeanette was showing her the storage room and giving instructions for feeding the goats. Andrea will be on feeding duty tomorrow. I am glad she will be ‘getting her hands dirty’ with that stuff, I think taking care of the animals is probably not in job responsibilities, but it’s good when the captain of the ship doesn’t mind helping with the oars. Or something. My impressions from our two first meetings is that she is super super sweet and seems to give off a gentle and kind vibe. So that’s good. She asked a bit about the facebokbok page too, so she knows about that.
Bless all the people doing good for animals. If we’re not doing good then what the fokfok are we doing here anyway.
19/10 2023
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The gruesome threesome, in the bedroom out of the stormy wind. Jeanette actually put the blanket on me again today, even with a jacket and a longsleeved shirt and a t-shirt I was still freezing in the chill wind.

19/10 2023
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Butt – head.

20/10 2023
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Well that’s a first. Jehova’s witnesses at the door. i didn’t realise they did that in Denmark. Fkkers. If it wasn’t because I’d ordered pizza I wouldn’t even have opened the door. Closed it pretty darn fast on them. Peddling religion at the door, go to hell.
20/10 2023
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Islands in the sun.

20/10 2023
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Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t
20/10 2023
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I miss watching MTV at 1am on a school night.

21/10 2023
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Hey look, the newfeathers made it ALMOST all the way to the goat house. So close. They still haven’t mingled with the goats, but it can’t be long now. Unless Luna manages to scare them off..

21/10 2023
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They even butt heads standing precariously on a steep ramp.

21/10 2023
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I still haven’t forgiven them for cancelling The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Who was the real monster? The Terminator? OR US

21/10 2023
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goatlog

22/10 2023
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I just fell asleep at the computer. Here is a re-enactment by Luna.

22/10 2023
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