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[MollyBeGood]

^ Have you had goat's milk before? I drink goat milk fairly regularly (since I'm allergic to lactose and lactose-free milk is expensive.) and it's actually not bad! Of course it depends on what your goats are eating that determines the proper flavor. More grass and good quality hay and feed, plus giving them your veggie and fruit scraps and less commercial anything makes the milk sweeter -- or at least that's my experience here with my mother's goat that she milks.

Cool what kind of goatees do you have? I really like the Nigerian Dwarfs, but the Nubians have the cutest big ol floppy ears I have had chevre, goat cheese a lot and love it. No ..no milk yet...Heck it's not legal to sell unpasteurized milk in my state which is a total crock. I cannot wait to have some dairy goats and chickens, too.

 

[Phoenixx]

Cool what kind of goatees do you have? I really like the Nigerian Dwarfs, but the Nubians have the cutest big ol floppy ears I have had chevre, goat cheese a lot and love it. No ..no milk yet...Heck it's not legal to sell unpasteurized milk in my state which is a total crock. I cannot wait to have some dairy goats and chickens, too.

^ I don't think it's legal to sell unpasteurized milk here either, but I know in PA it is with proper licensing. We actually have Boer/Nubian mixes, their floppy ears are so adorable. ^_^ I've had goat cheese before several times, chevre, feta, even cream cheese -- that being my favorite. It's so good!

 

[MollyBeGood]

^ I don't think it's legal to sell unpasteurized milk here either, but I know in PA it is with proper licensing. We actually have Boer/Nubian mixes, their floppy ears are so adorable. ^_^ I've had goat cheese before several times, chevre, feta, even cream cheese -- that being my favorite. It's so good!

You're so lucky =D Happen to want to share any photos of them? I'd love to see them So do you have to kid them out every yr to get enough milk? I have gotten so many mixed answers about this from breeders saying different things about milk production. It would be great if you didn't have to breed them every yr to get milk, right?
You don't have a billy do you? I think that is where the milk can get weird is when you have one of them around making the females crazy.
We do have a lot of sagebrush here I worry a bit about it effecting the flavor too but maybe they won't eat it? That's another thing I have had trouble finding an answer to.

 

[Kiwong]

Recognising I need to change, to try and take the edge off my anxiety, so it is less noticeable. If I don't change I realise people will still react to my anxiety the way they do. I am not blaming anyone for the way they react, the change has to come from me. In many ways this time in my life is really wonderful, at over 50 I'm doing some of the things I always dreamed. If I could reduce my anxiety, it could be even better. I miss having a simple conversation with someone without fear. I would like to feel at least accepted on a basic level, to be viewed as a decent human being, or maybe not noticed at all, not a strange man that is gossiped about, held in suspicion and avoided. I need to learn to trust, so I can earn trust.

 

[Phoenixx]

You're so lucky =D Happen to want to share any photos of them? I'd love to see them So do you have to kid them out every yr to get enough milk? I have gotten so many mixed answers about this from breeders saying different things about milk production. It would be great if you didn't have to breed them every yr to get milk, right?
You don't have a billy do you? I think that is where the milk can get weird is when you have one of them around making the females crazy.
We do have a lot of sagebrush here I worry a bit about it effecting the flavor too but maybe they won't eat it? That's another thing I have had trouble finding an answer to.

^ I don't have any uploaded to my laptop, but I do have a picture of the new kid that was born a couple weeks on my phone. (Don't have time to upload it right now though.) Breeding to get milk varies on the goat, I think. I'm no expert by far, my mother knows a lot more than I do, but I do know you have to breed at least once to get milk. The one my mom has that she milks, she bred her a few times, and it was only just this year after weaning off her kid she actually stuck to producing milk. (The last three times she had kids, then weaned off, she dried up.) Just from what I've witnessed, some goats will dry up completely after their kid is weaned off, so sometimes you do have to keep the breeding going in order to get regular milk production. Like I said though, this is just what I've witnessed. There might be a bit more involved or some other factors I don't know about.

Also, you're right about the billy affecting the flavor of the milk around that time. Ugh, the scent is horrible. Probably one of the worst things I've ever smelled. We have one, but the last I knew my parents were going to get rid of him. Probably because they want to introduce new blood to breed with.

 

[jaim38]

I got an email from a school advertising for a manager position. Normally I would delete such emails in a heartbeat, but this time I gave it a read. The position seems a bit daunting, requiring the manager to liaise with students, other employees, and the community in general. I don't have much "managerial experience" - I've been team leader as well as leader in volunteer work but it's almost all virtual. My anxiety isn't so bad anymore, but my lack of ability to connect with people still impedes. I feel like an idiot for even reading that email. Should a social phobic like me try out for this position? Why the heck am I taking this seriously anyway? I do have an entrepreneurial spirit in me, but I imagine myself working as my own boss, with my own business.

 

[coyote]

floppy-eared nigerian dwarf cheese...

and people think wisconsinites are odd :idontknow:

 

[this_portrait]

I tried nicotine for the first time ever tonight (e-cig, not those disgusting chemical-filled, smelly cancer sticks). The buzz is nice, sort of like an antihistamine without the drowsiness.

 

[MollyBeGood]

^ I don't have any uploaded to my laptop, but I do have a picture of the new kid that was born a couple weeks on my phone. (Don't have time to upload it right now though.) Breeding to get milk varies on the goat, I think. I'm no expert by far, my mother knows a lot more than I do, but I do know you have to breed at least once to get milk. The one my mom has that she milks, she bred her a few times, and it was only just this year after weaning off her kid she actually stuck to producing milk. (The last three times she had kids, then weaned off, she dried up.) Just from what I've witnessed, some goats will dry up completely after their kid is weaned off, so sometimes you do have to keep the breeding going in order to get regular milk production. Like I said though, this is just what I've witnessed. There might be a bit more involved or some other factors I don't know about.

Also, you're right about the billy affecting the flavor of the milk around that time. Ugh, the scent is horrible. Probably one of the worst things I've ever smelled. We have one, but the last I knew my parents were going to get rid of him. Probably because they want to introduce new blood to breed with.

Thanks for the advice/help/comments, Phoenix. Hope to get to see a pic sometime of them.
Yes, Billies seem to be the most disgusting creatures ever! The more I read about their behavior the more I think "Gross!"

 

[BlackPuma]

They're using Oculus Rift to simulate several forms of exposure therapy. Things like fear of heights, claustrophobia, arachnophobia and (to a lesser extend) agoraphobia. I find this really, really interesting.

PsyTech's Anxiety Management Virtual Reality Platform: AMVR Pre Alpha Footage - YouTube

 

[jaim38]

They're using Oculus Rift to simulate several forms of exposure therapy. Things like fear of heights, claustrophobia, arachnophobia and (to a lesser extend) agoraphobia. I find this really, really interesting.

PsyTech's Anxiety Management Virtual Reality Platform: AMVR Pre Alpha Footage - YouTube

Interesting. Too bad this tech isn't affordable or in widespread use yet. But I've been hearing lots of benefits for exposure therapy.

 

[Shali]

Everything can go to hell.

 

[BlackPuma]

Interesting. Too bad this tech isn't affordable or in widespread use yet. But I've been hearing lots of benefits for exposure therapy.

Yeah. Let's hope the consumer version will be a more affordable when the prototype is smoothed out, so that many people can practice virtual exposure therapy at home. Or otherwise used by local therapists, so it's still brought to those who need it.

There's tons of uses for virtual exposure therapy - since it's safe, but still challenging the phobia/fear.

Personally, I hope to tackle my fear of heights with it.

 

[BlackPuma]

When I took a nap this afternoon I had a odd dream. I woke up several times, but whenever I fell back to sleep the dream would continue.

It was about a recently zombiefied rat that we found. For some reason, I felt compelled to take it with me. The rule was, even when zombiefied, it takes up to ten hours for them to become feral. Even though these were the rules of my own dream, I distinctly remember denying the logic.

We went for quite the adventure the rat and I. We'd go all over the place with the rat on my shoulder. At a certain point we even were at a party. The rat didn't like that, though. It panicked from the noise. I felt bad about that. It's odd how you can bond with something in your own fiction like that. Heh. But after I woke up and fallen back to sleep several times, we were hitting the nine hour mark.

When I woke up the next time, I didn't have the heart to go back to sleep again - I didn't want to see how it ended.

 

[MollyBeGood]

Recognising I need to change, to try and take the edge off my anxiety, so it is less noticeable. If I don't change I realise people will still react to my anxiety the way they do. I am not blaming anyone for the way they react, the change has to come from me. In many ways this time in my life is really wonderful, at over 50 I'm doing some of the things I always dreamed. If I could reduce my anxiety, it could be even better. I miss having a simple conversation with someone without fear. I would like to feel at least accepted on a basic level, to be viewed as a decent human being, or maybe not noticed at all, not a strange man that is gossiped about, held in suspicion and avoided. I need to learn to trust, so I can earn trust.

No offense, but I think most of your issues lie in with the people you work with being absolute ****-offs.

 

[jaim38]

How to use BCC in email:

HTG Explains: What BCC Is and Why You’re a Terrible Person If You Don’t Use It Correctly (Or At All)

^I am guilty of passive aggressively using BCC. I didn't know it was classified as "passive aggressive" because I see my boss use it all the time. He would send such emails to other volunteers and BCC me. I copied him, thinking it was the right way of doing things. Furthermore, he would send mass emails to dozens of people CCing or BCCing people, and someone in HR remarked that mass emails are bad but I think he still does it.

This article's very informative and cleared up my understanding about BCC.

 

[Ithior]

How to use BCC in email:

HTG Explains: What BCC Is and Why You’re a Terrible Person If You Don’t Use It Correctly (Or At All)

^I am guilty of passive aggressively using BCC. I didn't know it was classified as "passive aggressive" because I see my boss use it all the time. He would send such emails to other volunteers and BCC me. I copied him, thinking it was the right way of doing things. Furthermore, he would send mass emails to dozens of people CCing or BCCing people, and someone in HR remarked that mass emails are bad but I think he still does it.

This article's very informative and cleared up my understanding about BCC.

I never knew exactly what CC and BCC were (I knew CC was carbon copy and that they would both send e-mails to the people in there), and for that reason I never used them. Now that I know what they are I can think of a few occasions where I wanted to use something like BCC.

 

[Silatuyok]

Man, this week is rough.

 

[A_Void_Ant]

It was such a simple life then.

 

[Kiwong]

No offense, but I think most of your issues lie in with the people you work with being absolute ****-offs.

There's no doubt people can be really unkind, that's for sure and it does damage. I'm trying to think pragmatically about learning how to deal with that, so it doesn't do so much damage. Trying to not get angry, because that makes me sick, trying to learn to how to go under the radar, so people don't notice or react.