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
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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
Great News, I’m Transgender!
Exactly one month ago, on the 18th October 2023, I came to the realisation that I am transgender. Two weeks later I had an appointment with an endocrinologist. And one week after that a prescription for estradiol valerate 6 mg … Continue reading
Dell P190Sb LCD Monitor – The Heist
7th October 2023. Picture the date, picture the time. Walking along a major arterial road. Out of the corner of my eye, a monitor. E-waste? Maybe. Dumped? Definitely.
10th October 2023. It’s still there. There’s a nagging inside me that … Continue reading
WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure… Again
Oh my sweet WD Blue SA510 M.2 SATA 2280 blade drives. You are such trash. I had two of these for GeoCities, one master and one backup. However, since I took GeoCities offline I thought I’d erase and sell … Continue reading
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