In the past week I have decreased my dose of progesterone to 100 mg twice daily (200 mg total). I have not had one incident of my brain feeling like it was on fire. Additionally, I am now taking my … Continue reading
Author: Shane McRetro
Me, Myself and Progesterone
I touched on progesterone (P4) in my last transgender update post. I am not quite sure if progesterone is working in the way I want it to. My biggest annoyance with it is feeling like my brain is on … Continue reading
A Garden of My Own
It’s been almost a month since I last posted about the garden. I guess we’re due for a bit of a dive into what I would populate my garden with if I had a garden I owned, not rented.
Let … Continue reading
Flicky – The Floury Baker Cicada
Flicky! Ohhh that little cicada was such a survivor. Resting and laying eggs for almost every day for ten days while in captivity. Sadly she succumbed to time on 8th March 2023.
All these events all happened just about one … Continue reading
Blood Test Results February 2024
A few milestones have been achieved this month. I’ve reached my third month of gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and was able to get an estradiol implant (200mg, compounded). I kicked pregabalin as it wasn’t helping with my anxiety symptoms … Continue reading
The Garden, Lizards and Bees
We had a giant blue tongue turn up randomly on the lawn. No doubt here for the snails and slugs I keep finding at night. I picked up a tray of beef dog food with minimal grain content and he … Continue reading
New Year, New Something That Rhymes with Year
Technically I’m still the same, but my hammock is weirdly outdoors. For the first time in years I have an outdoor area. I’m no longer trapped in a box. I hate apartments. At the same time, urban sprawl isn’t … Continue reading
Maintenance Complete – User Is Online!
CG-NAT defeated! The Cloudflare Argo Tunnel works and has done so for about a week. However, due to the way the tech behind it all works…
…I might have inadvertently locked myself out, with help from botnets spamming my WordPress … Continue reading
Downtime – Planned Maintenance
Here comes the downtime. As my NBN regresses to 4G home internet. Expect this site to be down for at least a few weeks while I get my head around consumer grade network address translation or CG-NAT for short.
Theoretically … Continue reading
HTTP/0.9 Request and Other One-Liners
A quick look at HTTP requests on really old browsers. HTTP/0.9, or just HTTP, was a very simple one-line protocol. Mozilla has a great write … Continue reading
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