Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Last Boost: I really feel that now, and I'm horrified for the trans kids growing up in it. When I came out, there weren't many of us out in public. I was treated more as a sympathetic curiosity than a threat. I had a lot more help than hindrances, which, to be fair, were there.

Now there are laws being pushed up that will kill our kids, all because conservatives are willing to throw us under the bus for (unecessarily) angry outraged votes.

I am really not looking forward to the rest of this week, and frankly, month and year.

"According to the bill, the state would be allowed to take children away from their families if the state believes that a child has been or may be experiencing gender-affirming care. If the custodial parent receives gender-affirming care, then a child can also be seized from their family. The law would redefine living with a transgender person as an abusive situation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Senate_Bill_254_(2023)

I hate time changes. Can we just choose one and stick with it?

https://www.readtpa.com/p/on-the-rights-call-to-eradicate-transgenderism

So Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be rough food wise. Clear liquid diet. Fun.

I AM HAVING A FEAST THURSDAY.

Tonight's TNG was "Data's Day." There's a scene where Data asks the holodeck to conjure up a dance partner, and I don't think it's a coincidence that she looks like Denise Crosby's Tasha Yar.

Given what Data says in about his relationship with her in "Measure of a Man" it seems to have gone deeper than his one night with her in "The Naked Now." I do believe he got closer to her right up until she died.

One thing I really think should have happened in Season 1 of Picard was not that Picard was waiting for Data when he dies, but Tasha.

Taking it easy on the cooking this week, cause of the food restrictions I have for the doctors appointments this week. But I think I'm gonna make some yeast rolls for NEXT week.

Okay, Valentine-Who-Sent-Me-Candy-In-My-Dreams-Last-Night...Chocolate Covered Mushrooms?! MUSHROOMS?!

A rare pic of Steph and Jenn in High School, 1992.

BEST. NUMBERS. STATION. EVER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ua2U5CrAsE

All of Star Wars in a 5 Minute "Trailer." Bonus points for using deleted footage. Topher Grace managed to even make the sequel trilogy look compelling.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdoWJywrOuw

1 Doctor's Appointment Down, Four to Go.

This one could have been an email.

Huh. Robert Blake died.

I might have been two degrees of separation from him. I knew a guy in the early 90s who claimed to be one of his bodyguards. I was skeptical, given some of his other claims, but there were a few times he was supposedly on the phone with him at the same time I was there. So who knows. I knew a guy who knew a guy.

What I know about both of them though since then makes me wish that there were a lot more people between those two and me.