http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=D561988 Transsexual Transition In Prog http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10373 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10373 <p> Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Festivus, or whatever else you want to celebrate!  May your holidays be safe and filled with love and good food!</p> Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10372 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10372 <p><a href="http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/">www.calamitiesofnature.com/</a></p> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10371 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10371 <p> Hey everybody,</p> <p>Hope you're having a good Fourth.</p> <p> </p> <p>We're prepped to bbq for a bunch of friends this afternoon. At least, I hope it's a bunch. If not, we are gonna be overloaded with bbq and all sorts of stuff....  </p> <p> </p> <p>More about house plans and such soon, I promise.</p> <p>-Jude</p> Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10370 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10370 <p> Hi everybody.</p> <p>Yes, another long-absent entry... </p> <p> </p> <p>Stuff, in no particular order:</p> <p> </p> <p>We're trying get a custom house built up in Maryland, and it has been successes and setbacks. We bought the property last September and have still not broken ground, and probably wont for another 2 months.  It's too long and somewhat painful to relate at the moment. Suffice to say that the current plan for permitting and building is in fact a big improvement over where we were a week or 2 ago, so maybe the delays are for a reason.</p> <p>So, hopefully now, we break ground in July.  Move in would probably be next Jan-Feb (this is after initial move-in estimates of Aug-Sept)</p> <p>My son is back from his 1st year at college.  Straight A's both semesters, lettered in his sport (sabre fencing) his freshman year, and got the Rookie of the Year award from his team!  Yay!!  He's back to working at the pizza place around the corner for the summer to recharge his bank account.  He's a good egg.</p> <p>My daughter finally graduated from college a couple of weeks ago, a year late. She was delayed because of a medical issue - had a weird virus that caused orthostatic intolerance, which took much of a year to get diagnosed properly and straightened out.  Then that led to her having severe feelings of inadequacy (my assumptions) and basically, well, a form of depression.  She's apparently felt that Sweetie and I are too hard on her, so she avoids us, and we were dis-invited to the graduation ceremony.  She has a vague plan to get a job in the area and share an apartment with a college friend, however, we'll believe that when we see it.  </p> <p>My opinion on her is that she's really pretty emotionally immature (originally observed by the therapist we sent her to when she was ill), so she's 23 going on 15.  I think she'll take years to grow up and be able to handle relationships and conflict properly, so, I'll wait.  </p> <p>Work is going gangbusters.  I seem to work better, and get more recognition the last year or so. Quite interesting.  i've hooked myself into a project (actually, a whole family of projects) that I can work on after the new house is built, and will allow a very nice, easy, and pleasant commute.  ;-)</p> <p>I am nearing the end of my second term as president of our local transgender support group.  Sweetie is nearing the end of her 2nd term as Outreach director, unfortunately, she had to remain in the post to prevent a well-meaning but incompetent, and possibly alcoholic person from winning the election.  But we're phasing out of that at the moment.  There's too much going on, and you would not believe the in-fighting and nastiness that exists between sections of the transgender community.  As if LGBT wasn't enough of a minority, let's take the few T people out of that, then break them up into 2 or 3 subgroups and have them fight each other.  It's just ridiculous, and frankly, I'm tired of it at the moment.  Will look for another way to help out in a few months, as the house gets underway perhaps, or after we move.</p> <p> </p> <p>One last thing: I'm almost disappointed the Rapture didn't happen.  Frankly, might have been nice to be rid of those folks, and since they didn't actually leave, we had to cancel the Post-Rapture Looting party. Sigh.</p> Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10368 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D561988&entry=10368 <p>Hi folks.</p> <p>yeah, I know,  I haven't been on OD in  a long, long time. </p> <p>Things are fine in our lives. Work has been consuming much of my time, as I've taken on additional responsibilities and am getting more visibility with my work.  Especially remarkable since I transitioned last fall, the company has been good about this, and things are working out fine.</p> <p>Sweety has finished acupuncture school!!!  I am so proud of her. The graduation ceremony is June 7, and she's been invited to join a local practice.  </p> <p>I'm on my last course for my nutrition diploma, then I can sit for the boards and begin nutrition counseling. </p> <p>My son starts college in the fall - he's going to Cleveland State U - it's a bargain, and they have a fencing team. He's excited.  He's a very cool dude, love him alot.</p> <p>My daughter is spending the summer in Paris studying art history. She's very fluent in French, and is getting a good handle on Chinese as well.  She's an absolute whiz at languages.  She'll get her bachelors next May (2011).  Interesting young lady.</p> <p> </p> <p>But with all of this great stuff going on, i feel like we're living through the end of the world. The oil well leaking in the gulf has the potential for killing off not only large parts of the Gulf of Mexico, but Atlantic fisheries as well.  If the well leaks till August, as it may, or even longer, then I think we'll watch the world slowly die, poisoned.  Right now, I hoping my kids never become parents, I wouldn't wish that on any little babies, to grow up in a world slowly dying.</p> <p>This Memorial Day, may we remember not only those who died fighting for our freedom, but remember us as well, and how we killed ourselves off, not in a war, not in a holocaust, but with a global poisoning caused by stupidity and greed.</p> <p> </p> Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT