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After months and months of fighting insurance companies and doctors offices, I have finally gotten medical clearance. Pre-surgical consult is on Wednesday in Titusville and surgery is scheduled for May 18 in Altamonte Springs.

Without interruption, The situation is going downhill smoothly and picking up speed ahead of the inevitable crash. Supposedly the adverb can also apply to the use of disposable razors But I have not yet found a reasonably priced blade that fits the description when operated.

That would be ridiculous. Next we are going to learn that I am actually part Norwegian Blue.

I always thought something was fishy about those two.

So we know that Grace is part Squirrel. Are you suggesting that Susan and/or Diane may be part Red Herring?

* Moses walks in, looking surprisingly unlike Charlton Heston * Moses: "What's all this, then?"

That we know of. Not that there is any reason to suspect artists might slant the images of a dictator-king who could have them tortured to death.

Truth be spoken here. What would be worse? The biological father had a divorce, kept Susan but gave up Diane, remarried, and later left Susan with his second wife. This sounds like the kind of spin that Dan would put on the story.

That must be a bitch. o.o

With a tiny little steering wheel.

In this case, paranoia speaks the truth. I have a 5-user license for G. DATA Antivirus and will be purchasing another license of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. That pair has kept my network clean for years.

What is this 'smoothly' word you are using? Is it English?

Yikes! I hadn't heard that detail before. I now have a mental image of Thom valiantly trying to stop the server from crashing to the floor with his own body, and it makes me want to award him a virtual purple heart for taking the hit(s)!

Warning! Rant coming up... I watched an interview with a man who had been a prisoner of ISIS. I he was kidnapped and held for ransom and it took something like 14 months before he was released. When asked about how he was treated and what kind of people the ISIS soldiers were he said that very few of those he met seemed to care about the religion other than going through the motions. What they did care about was having free access to people to torture and humiliate. He himself had been tortured in many ways and had been through nine mock executions. Usually he was told in the morning that he would be executed as they hadn't got the money, or alternatively they had got the money and had no further use for him. They then left him to stew for a day. When evening or whatever time they claimed he was to be executed at came they put a hood over his head and dragged him outside, got him on his knees, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Usually it was just a click, a few times they fired a gun just next to him. These mock executions wasn't ordered, it was just the guards having fun. Nine times he went through this, with some variations thrown in to keep him scared. Nine times different guards got their jollies from playing with mock executions, and that was just one prisoner. These guards came from all over, many from European countries, and they joined ISIS just so they could be assholes and torture people. Now this was a man, what they do to women isn't better in any way. Having heard that, I'm not surprised that some people might find it fun to join a bunch of misogynistic fascistic sadists in a video game. Hopefully there are very few of those who feels it's OK to do this in the real world. Unfortunately though there are some who do, and organizations like ISIS or Boko Haram and The Lord's Resistance Army in Africa are just too happy to recruit them. Sorry for the rant... I just had to say that there are people out there that are worse than what we like to imagine is possible.

Well, then, kill all the Bromans and use them as fertilizer. Voilá, you've improved the world.

I would feel bad for the Bromans if I did. Only I don't, so I don't.

Ohhh! A new spell for Elliot... If I were Magic I'd give him an awesome autopilot... that followed the GPS instructions to the letter including obeying speed limits, traffic lights, and always stopping for pedestrians crossing the road. I'm not sure if I'd make him follow the roads at a height of six feet, or fifty, either way he'd be at the mercy of traffic, the spell having him follow the rhythm of road bound traffic while paying no attention to birds, drones or anything else that flies. I can visualize the look on her friends faces when they learn that Cheerleadra is stuck in traffic and can't figure out how to disengage the autopilot... It's probably a good thing that it's Dan writing this comic and not me...

I wasn't even including Trans people in that statement, I would imaging if the ability was available, they'd probably use it in a heartbeat. But certainly many cis people would be curious about it, me for instance, I'm a guy, I'm totally comfortable being a guy, there's a lot of things about being a girl that I wouldn't want to deal with, but if the option to switch back and forth safely and easily was available, I'd be curious enough to try it for a bit. Whether I end up liking it or not is something I can't answer because I don't know what it's like so it really could go either way.

Definitions of terms in this area are still in flux, but I'd class Elliot as gender-neutral rather than agender. Among those most involved with the issue, "agender" is becoming more defined as the absence of gender identity, where "gender-neutral" is a more or less balanced and unstressful presence of both male and female gender identity. Elliot has embraced being male, and owned being female ("I'm cute and sexy", not "this form is cute and sexy"), and since learning that he was awakened hasn't shown much sign of feeling internal conflict over it. (Granted, you can easily find instances of broader definitions of "agender" - occasionally you'll even find definitions that include Tedd and possibly Sam.) As for Elliot being genderfluid, I don't think we've seen any evidence for it. We've never (since learning he's awakened) seen him voluntarily change sex just for the sake of being the other sex for a while, without some non-gender-related reason it seemed desirable or necessary; and we've never seen him reluctant to change sex when there was a reason it was a good idea to do so and no stronger reason not to. However, it's still possible, particularly if (as you suggest) he's only mildly genderfluid.