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Blood Test Results February 2024

Nix McRetro // 21st February 2024 // News

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 stopped pregabalin because it wasn’t helping my anxiety symptoms, although it had helped with sleep. I also ceased indometacin successfully. Hemicrania... Continue reading

The Garden, Lizards and Bees

Nix McRetro // 20th February 2024 // Nature

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 hasn’t shown up since! 😭 Stumpie continues to appear intermittently.... Continue reading

New Year, New Something That Rhymes with Year

Nix McRetro // 19th January 2024 // Nature, News

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 good from an environmental standpoint either. Maybe the answer lies in... Continue reading

Maintenance Complete - User Is Online!

Nix McRetro // 18th December 2023 // News

CG-NAT defeated! Cloudflare Tunnel, which I was still habitually calling Argo Tunnel, works and has done so for about a week. cloudflared makes outbound connections from my network to Cloudflare, so I can publish the web server without needing an inbound public IPv4 connection. However, due to the way the... Continue reading

Downtime - Planned Maintenance

Nix McRetro // 28th November 2023 // News

Here comes the downtime. As my NBN connection regresses to 4G home internet, expect this site to be down for at least a few weeks while I get my head around carrier-grade network address translation, or CG-NAT for short. Unlike the NAT in my own router, this one lives in... Continue reading