Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

[Thoughts Before Bed]

Getting stuff ready for tomorrow's ribbon cutting/pride event and I'm coming to a realization.

I have a lot of feminine-business clothes.
I have a lot of feminine-around-the-house clothes.
I have a lot of androgynous-nice-casual clothes.

But I don't have any feminine-nice-casual clothes.

I am not really a social person. I go to work. I hang around the house. I go out occasionally. If I need to dress nice for work, I wear the feminine-business clothes. Around the house clothes, is, well, around the house clothes.

But when I go out somewhere, I tend to dress androgynously. I've been the subject of far too many harassments, disturbances, and ejections for being who I wanted to be, that I stopped dressing casually feminine. Not because I felt I should, or wanted to, I just wanted the harassment to stop. It's also the reason I became a "not really social person."

This isn't my first pride. But it is my first in a VERY long time. There will likely be protestors, yeah, but the majority will be other LGBT people who won't do any of the crap I had to deal with. So I could addord to wear something femininely-casual without people making a scene. Tried to put something together to find that those clothes are all gone. Given away as my weight went up or trashed as they wore out.

Now that I'm moving into positions where I need to be in public casually to put in an appearance, I don't have anything to wear that isn't "feminine looking top, jeans and sneakers." I need to get more "feminine-casual" clothes, cause, while I put together something "okay" it's not really great.

Also I got rid of my nice feminine Keds that I hadn't worn in years, and now all I've got are my Big Clunky Sneakers. I coulda used them tomorrow. ;)

Well. That's one way to get ready for tomorrow's pride event...

Nice to check off another bucket list item.

#aurora

Well, here's a warning I haven't seen in a long time....

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

ISSUED: 6:03 PM MAY. 10, 2024 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

...EXTREME GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS OBSERVED AND CONTINUED SEVERE
GEOMAGNETIC STORMS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND ...

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has observed extreme (G5)
geomagnetic conditions Friday afternoon and expects severe (G4)
conditions to continue through the weekend.

A geomagnetic storm of this strength can cause multiple and and
widespread issues with various power and communications systems.
Widespread voltage control problems may occur, and some power
grid systems may experience component failures, disruption of
service, and protective device trips. This could result in
blackouts.

GPS and other satellite navigation may be degraded for days.

HF/VHF/UHF radio propagation may be impossible in many areas for
one to two days.

Low-frequency radio navigation can be out for hours.

Aurora may be visible at much lower latitudes.

For space weather information...visit www.swpc.noaa.gov
For weather information...visit www.weather.gov

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Since people are talking about th eanniversary of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast this month, here's what I consider one of the best lines ever said in television history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-mwIV2pp8&t=38s