June

I love the colors and I would love to see this one in action!

I’m excited I’ll get to see your posts again!

I mean that’s definitely what I was thinking

Cosigning this; I started right after turning 39 and worried some, since “half my life was already over.”

I’m now several years down the line and can confidently say it was the best decision of my life. Even a few years of finally being able to live was already worth all the pain of transition.

Wait an OS X theme I can get behind? I’ll take it! Or at least, I would have, an age ago.

For the moment, maybe one of the forks of Firefox for system systems like Debian (is IceWeasel still a thing…?) is the best option.

Seriously, though, what are the options? Modern web browsers are super complex and essentially all of them derived from one of three or maybe four engines. Apple and Google are both all in on AI already. I’m not sure about Opera, or if they even still exist and are up on modern standards.

I always miss the only as wide as they need to be and obviously owned by the OS, not the app totle bars. Limiting the colors to scrollbars is subtle yet a nice nod.

Aww, cute! BeOS UI lite!

This is so nice! Somehow seeing it with such novel colors really brings out how nice the pixel-perfect designs of earlier days could look.

It’s beautiful!

I’d be an *expensive* cute cat girlfriend. 😆

This was 100% a joke, but honestly, if someone accepted the terms of the contract I wrote, I might very well go for it.

So I once in conversation drew up a contract of what it would take for someone to hire me as their live-in cat girl. Thinking it through, it was surprisingly involved. Headpats and treats should not be enough; you need health care and either a 401(k) or, in lieu of that, funding for a Roth IRA.

そんなに面白くて美しい表紙があれば、誰でも読みたくなります。素晴らしい本みたいです。

ガーデンを歩くとき、写真を撮って、その後弟の側に追いつくために走った時の一つ、「私、インタバル・トレーニングにしているね！」と言いました。

弟は「君、公園や自然の場所や博物館に行くとき、いつも同じものだよ。今日だけじゃなくて、いつでも面白い所に行くとの普通は止まり走りだ。家族の中ではもう慣れているよね」と言ってくれました。

なぜか分かりませんけと、気に入れましたものです。

It’s hard to tell, but I worry that the checkboxes and radio buttons (incredible to me that zoomers will mostly never have experienced directly why they are called that) would be visually challenging. OTOH, they might be kind of awesome.

Also I love the pun on OS 8.

今日の投稿は駐車場での撮った最後の写真。

オレゴン州の意外又は面白いものの一つ：夕方にでも、朝露が時々まだあります。それとも、一日中、露が集まり。まだよくわかりませんけど、綺麗です。

葉では複雑の面を出す植物には、特別に美しいです。

I also maybe can’t remember my biology. I’m having doubts that seta is the right term for the hairlike structures of these fuzzy bud coverings. Maybe it’s trichome? I’m having a little trouble confirming that that’s applicable to those case.

*fantastic. I just can’t type today, 英語でも日本語でも。

It’s time for another photo! This was a fabtastic collection of lichen and moss on a bare yet vigorously budding deciduous shrub in the parking lot rather than the garden proper. I was quite taken with the dense setae on the buds.

機械* 🤦‍♀️

又のオレゴンガーデンからの写真。

光と影を混ぜるともっと綺麗なイメージを作ることになるだと思います。でも、撮った後、目のイメージに比べると、いつもちょっとがっかりします。目が素晴らしい機会ですね。

All of our bodies know every minute detail of how to develop in either direction, and thankfully, these days, we get to choose which direction(s) to tell them to go.

I don’t enjoy seeing what I used to look like, and I’m worried about what people could do to me with this information. But, I still come across people every single day who have just no idea at all that changes like this are not just possible, but natural and easy.

I’ve thought long and hard about whether to post a transition timeline here, especially in today’s political climate. I guess at the end of the day, I decided it’s more important to show people the joy of becoming than it is to hide myself away.

Take the estrogen, if that’s what you need to do!

(Or the testosterone, if that’s more your style!)

I strongly identify with the idea that as soon as I realized what hormones could actually do, I jumped on the chance to obtain them. I moved quick once I knew. I think If I weren’t so deeply in love with my spouse and worried for her, I would have opened that door wide as soon I noticed it.

It’s easy to get sad knowing that if I’d just met the right person or read the right article 20 years earlier my life would have been entirely different, but I’m really proud of how I still managed to be a version of myself even back then instead of what the world around me said I should be.

For just one year after getting an inkling that HRT exists and works, because I knew it would change everything, I closed the door and kept just trying to be the best version of myself I could be without it.

Nearly a single year to the day after, I clicked the next link and changed my life forever.