Don Edwards

Here's one for you.

WHAT! You have a birthday and don't tell anyone until afterward? What kind of person are you! You're supposed to tell us these things in a timely manner!
But since you didn't...
 
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Happy berated birthday.
 
ok I'll go hide now

WHAT! You have a birthday and don't tell anyone until afterward? What kind of person are you! You're supposed to tell us these things in a timely manner!
But since you didn't...
 
....
 
Happy berated birthday.
 
ok I'll go hide now

Between being born in a Boy Scout uniform (if there's trouble, he'll go after it and try to fix it)  and Primary Protagonist Syndrome (the story comes looking for him), Elliot has precisely zero chance of not having another incident.

Doctors know more than pharmacists about most aspects of medicine, but pharmacists are specialists in drugs and often know more about them - particularly about interactions - than doctors do.

What makes an artist express himself by telling the story of gender bending high school kids?
All art is madness. Celebrate Insanity.

Well, he has to do a lot more punning before you'll have a book to throw at him.

Tedd's reason for this choice is inarguable - in both relational terms (his actual spur to the choice) and pragmatic terms (ID cards, school enrollment...)
Whether it's the best choice is, nonetheless, unclear.
Frankly, as genderfluid as Tedd appears to be, I'm not convinced that there is a "better" choice on anything other than pragmatic and relational grounds. And the pragmatic issues would be temporary.

Tedd's reason for this choice is inarguable - in both relational terms (his actual spur to the choice) and pragmatic terms (ID cards, school enrollment...)
Whether it's the best choice is, nonetheless, unclear.
Frankly, as genderfluid as Tedd appears to be, I'm not convinced that there is a "better" choice on anything other than pragmatic and relational grounds. And the pragmatic issues would be temporary.

I don't blame you. I'd want to give him away too, just to get him to leave.

Just forget it, all of you. None of you live in the country with the strongest still existing roots to Viking mentality.

At those sizes, Catalina just tucked a foot in between so she wouldn't slide down.
Or maybe both feet in hopes that she would.

At those sizes, Catalina just tucked a foot in between so she wouldn't slide down.
Or maybe both feet in hopes that she would.

(waves)

Tonight I cooked steak & lobster-tails. Some interesting things:
1) A 1.41-pound package of bacon-wrapped beef tenderloins. How many steaks in a package that size? Answer: two. I wanted the answer to be four or six. Between the two of us, we couldn't finish off two lobster-tails and the smaller steak. The larger one is in the freezer.
2) First time in quite a few years that I've cooked lobster tails. And the best job I've ever done. I put some butter in a ramekin, added spices (salt, pepper, smoked paprika, cinnamon), and put it in the oven with the broiling steak until the butter clarified. In the meantime I split the shells and skewered the tails lengthwise to keep them from curling. When the butter was ready I pried the shells open and spooned the seasoned butter inside. (Then looked at the ramekin, added more butter, and put it back in the oven so we'd have enough to dip the lobster in.) When the steak had 5 minutes left I put the tails in the oven as well, then when the steak was done I took it out and moved the tails to that location for another five minutes.
3) The steak had a weak spot and, while cooking, split from the edge nearly a third of the way across. The result was a heart-shaped steak. On Valentine's day.

Tonight I cooked steak & lobster-tails. Some interesting things:
1) A 1.41-pound package of bacon-wrapped beef tenderloins. How many steaks in a package that size? Answer: two. I wanted the answer to be four or six. Between the two of us, we couldn't finish off two lobster-tails and the smaller steak. The larger one is in the freezer.
2) First time in quite a few years that I've cooked lobster tails. And the best job I've ever done. I put some butter in a ramekin, added spices (salt, pepper, smoked paprika, cinnamon), and put it in the oven with the broiling steak until the butter clarified. In the meantime I split the shells and skewered the tails lengthwise to keep them from curling. When the butter was ready I pried the shells open and spooned the seasoned butter inside. (Then looked at the ramekin, added more butter, and put it back in the oven so we'd have enough to dip the lobster in.) When the steak had 5 minutes left I put the tails in the oven as well, then when the steak was done I took it out and moved the tails to that location for another five minutes.
3) The steak had a weak spot and, while cooking, split from the edge nearly a third of the way across. The result was a heart-shaped steak. On Valentine's day.

In a sane world, transgender people's use of restrooms would not be an issue. People presenting as male would use the men's restroom, people presenting as female the women's. If their physical anatomy doesn't happen to match their presentation, or if for ANY other reason someone doesn't want to display their physical anatomy, they would go in a stall and close the stall door - so nobody would ever know the difference. People who go in a restroom to ogle or harass other users of the restroom would be escorted from the premises and instructed not to return, or possibly prosecuted - for trespass, if nothing else seems to fit (or the potential victims decline to be publicly identified) - without regard to either their sex or their gender.
(Locker rooms are a more complicated problem. I doubt that there's an easy answer - other than a lot of single-user-at-a-time locker rooms, which would be rather expensive in new construction and quite a bit more expensive, if even possible, in existing facilities.)
I disagree with the idea that anyone who claims to be feeling female at the moment has a presumptive right to be in the ladies' room (meaning that they can't be prosecuted for trespass and escorting them from the premises is a violation of THEIR rights), or the equivalent for feeling male. This is the law that several municipalities have enacted, making this issue hot in the public eye.
I also disagree with the idea that government should demand that private entities attempt to enforce restroom segregation by physical anatomy or by what's written on the birth certificate. As it happens, while the New Jersey state law did demand this, the Texas law (not sure if it's been enacted yet) does not.
I want the people who create trouble dealt with as trouble-makers, and the people who don't create trouble left alone. We don't need sex or gender differentiation for that, but selective application of such differentiation can be a useful tool - and it need not be government that does the selection, it can be a store manager.

The one time - which might or might not have been canon - that we've seen Tedd forget to shift back to male, she came to school that way.
There may have been non-school instances. Even at-home instances, where Tedd intended to shift to male before Dad got home but Elliot had to remind him...
So that specific incident doesn't have to be canon for the "again" to apply.

Yeah, I've seen FATAL before. Calling it the worst RPG ever written is an understatement. I don't know how that's even possible, but it's true.
I had mercifully forgotten about it, and wouldn't have named if it I had remembered it. Like I won't name the web-so-called-comic that treats rape and mind control as spectator sports.

Tedd won't be stuck in either sex - the TFG will still work, as it isn't magic. But apparently in Tedd's mind, being a boy temporarily turned into a girl isn't the same thing as being a girl, and vice versa. She recently (Saturday evening) gained the ability to actually change sex, not just have a temporary enchantment, and now she's aware of a risk that she'll lose that - and pursuing her other ambitions would significantly increase that risk. Perhaps, even, already has.
Tedd using her mark, in and of itself, does not increase the risk. Particularly if she carefully keeps separate populations of "people who know male!Tedd" and "people who know female!Tedd" with minimal overlap. What increases the risk is increasing the number of people who have access to magic. Increasing the number of people who know about magic, probably increases the number who will stumble onto a way to access it, and so is to be avoided but isn't as big a deal as, say, handing out magic watches on a street corner.
I'm very slightly genderfluid centered on gender-neutral. I've had mild dysphoria for as much as half an hour at a time, maybe a half-dozen times in my life. (Twice since I learned enough to recognize it for what it was.) There is no way I consider this comparable to what a trans person deals with, but let me tell you, it still sucks.
In a magic reset, everything Tedd currently knows about magic may suddenly be wrong.
She'll have an easier time learning the new ways than most people, but she had to actually see his own permanent-sex-change spell in action before she thought she knew how to make a permanent-change device. And she might not (probably wouldn't) have that spell after a reset.

If feasible, I suggest putting the power supply down as near the door as possible consistent with it not being an obstacle, and waiting until your back is better before moving it to its intended location.
Perhaps even have UPS bring the UPS in, if they are willing. (Or if they have it on a handtruck, ask if you can borrow that for a moment.)
Or look at alternatives to lifting it. Assuming you don't have a handtruck available (definitely the preferred approach if you do)... Cut two opposing sides (the long ones if it's significantly non-square) out of the box, cut across the bottom of one remaining side, and you get two sides and the top as a sort-of-long handle to drag the thing. Remove those parts of the box when it's more or less in place. Rather than taking the UPS out of the packing material, remove the packing material from it - cutting as necessary.
Oh, and those cheap flexible cutting boards are pretty good for sliding heavy objects across carpet. Plus they are vastly more useful than "furniture mover" pads, when not moving heavy objects. (They are decent cutting boards, for example.)

It predates PERL by a huge margin. For example, YACC1.
For something even worse, XINU2.
 
 
1 Yet Another Compiler Compiler. And it was following an already-established trend in naming.
2 Xinu Is Not Unix

Once I was offered a special deal on high-end shoe inserts: three for $20. I calmly asked the guy if he had many customers who needed three.
After a moment he did a double-take and clarified: three pair.

Once I was offered a special deal on high-end shoe inserts: three for $20. I calmly asked the guy if he had many customers who needed three.
After a moment he did a double-take and clarified: three pair.

Once I was offered a special deal on high-end shoe inserts: three for $20. I calmly asked the guy if he had many customers who needed three.
After a moment he did a double-take and clarified: three pair.