Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I really shouldn't give myself so much grief about my spanish comprehension. I just had a very basic conversation in Spanish with someone, and I understood him, and he understood me.

I know way more Spanish than I give myself credit for. All I need to remember is "raisin" is not "uvas viejas."

I have just spent four hours on the phone between two insurance comapnies and my dermatologist trying to get a Tremfya prescription that is now three weeks late filled. And let me tell you, I herded those cats, but I deserve All The Comfort Foods right now.

The American Healthcare System is a joke.

So, in a recent Street Fighter stream, and few times before, I got some comments from overly competetive folks that called me a joke because I had problems playing Street Fighter on a Sega GamePad layout. (Chill, my dudes)

The main reason is I was always a Super Nintendo gal. Thirty years of Muscle Memory is keyed to that setup, which is totally not the Sega way.

But there's another setup I'm not only good at, I'm even BETTER than a Super Nintendo control pad, and that's a Keyboard. Arrow keys, and 123 for punches and QWE for kicks. I played SSF2T PC so much, as well as all the testing I did for SFJenn all through the 90s ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByDGURoEKX0 ), that my fingers can play SF2 just as well as anyone with just keys.

In fact, I'm BETTER at the game on keys than gamepads from all that work.

This is the Triforce of Samosas, Link.

Sometimes, your transition lessons suddenly start back up. In my case, 24 years later.

When I first transitioned, I wore a lot of makeup. And because Steph was my "Professor of the Femininities" I used her makeup at first. Eventually I got my own makeup, but it was older makeup she was replacing.

As time moved on, and I started buying my own, I just simply kept getting the same kind of makeup over and over again. And as I stopped wearing makeup all the time, I got less and less makeup.

A few years ago, my mother mentioned that she didn't like my makeup, because it lightened my skin too much. And she was right - Steph is lighter complected than I am, and Mom lent me some of hers. It looked great, and I started getting that instead.

And then it got discontinued. Well, as I'm wearing makeup more and more for stuff I'm doing, I'm quickly running out of foundation. I need to buy more, and I've never really bought my own makeup before. I always just used Stephs or Moms and kept buying it when I ran out.

So I'm gonna need to buy some more before I run out...and...well...even though I transitioned in 2000...I kinda don't know how to do make sure I get the right color.

Lessons never end.

Aw, yeah. Jenn's first forays into modern computing....

Was discussing a way to transfer money from one bank to another today, without incurring a percentage fee, and my mother brought something up I hadn't heard of in FOREVER.

A thing called a...."check." Or "cheque."

It's a piece of paper that says "pull money from account A into account B!"

WHAT A COUNTRY!