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Maybe Soon

The computer front is looking a bit brighter, like the eastern sky a couple hours before dawn.

Our laptop is undergoing unknown experimental treatment by my sister-in-law. How that will pan out is anyone's guess.

More standard remedies are being applied to our desktop Dell. My wife has reformatted it after backing stuff up on our new external drive. She might be willing to release me to the interwebs on it soon.

I fear that I am the culprit that brought trojan horse viruses to our two laptops. I think I picked them up on tg caption sites. I may be old and harmless, but I ain't dead. A little kinky fantasy about forced feminization still turns this girl's crank. I will just have to have my fun elsewhere.

Still typing on the Wii for now. It works okay for blogger and making comments, but is incompatible with Yahoo's email. I can read email with no problem, but I cannot type a response. I hope no one has decided that I'm an uncouth biotch, because it is beyond my powers to fix it. I will spend some nights catching up as soon as I have a proper connection again.

Ta for now, ladies. Hope to be back in saddle soon.

A Wii Setback

A brief note of excuse, typed painfully on the Wii out of necessity. Our third and last computer resort has been violated by a virus. My sister-in-law believes she can wipe it out, so she has it now.

In the meantime, I am reduced to hunt and peck with a Wiimote pointed at a TV screen. Going better than expected, but still very slow. Unanswered emails are piling up, and they will get responses slowly at best. I hope this will suffice as a reason for my relative silence, because I would love to be writing and sharing with you ladies. I still love y'all. It's nothing personal.

Also, reading blogs is no picnic on the Wii, so I won't know if something big happens in your life. Just saying...

I'll be back in the saddle asap. Try to be more patient than me.

Dull Recap (with pic)

Okay, ladies, I'm a little out of practice with blogging, but I'll muddle through with your kind patience.

I attended my monthly suppport meeting Saturday. I was very happy to be there, and proud of my increasing speed and facility transforming on site. The makeup is almost second nature now, and the hand stays steady. The adrenaline doesn't surge quite like it used to, but that means I don't crash afterwards either. And I'm less likely to get a headache. I don't need that kind of negative reinforcement anyway.

We had an electrologist visiting the meeting, telling of the wonders of electrolysis. I thought I understood the process pretty well, but I learned a great deal. She also seemed almost affordable, at least for isolated sessions. She gives a discount to TG clients! There were loads of questions and animated discussion, so I think we can call the meeting a success. Next month, an endocrinologist will talk about hormone treatment with us.

I sat with Sylvia most of the night, and she was a delight. She's very warm and gentle, with a good sense of humor. She and Tina both made overtures about getting me to come along on a girls' day out to Louisville sometime soon. 1) They like my company, I think, but, 2) they are kind people who recognize that I have a need to get out more. Much talk of kidnapping me, but I'll try to discourage that for now. Maybe when the dysphoria gets stronger in the fall, I'll beg to be taken against my will!

I got to say my last goodbyes to Sophie, who was with us for too few months. She is starting a new career in Utah shortly, and I am very happy for her good fortune. Her energy added a lot to the group dynamic.

Tina very kindly offered to take a few pictures of me, and I readily accepted. I don't think I've had any new pics made since March. Time to document my progress. I am pictured here sitting next to my biggest fan. Click on the image for a larger version, but shield your eyes first. Actually, I'm very pleased with this. Let me down easy, girls.

The cropped jeans were found in amongst bags of clothes in my garage. The original owner is quite petite, so likely full length on her, but whatever. The purple shirt is boy clothing that I wear often, paired with a pink cami, which I wear less often. During the meeting, I was inspired to tie the shirt at my waist, such as it is. Voila! C'est magnifique! Sehr schoen! Where's the damn umlaut on this keyboard?