Famous song by Gordon Lightfoot.

I’ve read the second, which I liked tremendously, but haven’t gotten to the third yet.

Wow, that’s neat! Do you mind me asking what kind of work you do that let’s you read?

No, she/we didn’t eat it all at once, but none of the rest of it made it into the oven, either.

Thanks for sharing that. I was repeating things trans people in my personal life have said, but as you point out, there’s no single universal experience.

Really glad to hear you’re happier now. It very much sucks that society (and individuals in society) made you feel badly for being who you are.

A week or two ago, I made my wife some peanut butter cookies, because she really likes those. I decided to keep half the dough in the fridge so I could make more fresh. The next day I grabbed a nice dark chocolate square from a bowl we keep on the counter and thought, “I wonder how the league butter dough would be on this.” Oh my god, it was like the best Reese’s peanut butter cup you’ve ever had. Truly amazing.

However I feel in no way that I am in the wrong body.

I’m not trans, but I believe that’s the key. You said “turn out trans,” but I believe most trans folks never really felt like they were in the right body, ever, though they might not have realized what it was that was wrong earlier. It’s not like people wake up one day and think, “oh shit, I’m trans!”

Not sure how anyone would consider it a brag, any more than listing movies that you watched or whatever. I have the list handy because I make notes about each book so that I can refer back and they don’t blur together. I was just saying it doesn’t seem unbelievable to me.

I did post my list to the SF community here after I had a year’s worth, along with my notes, in case it would help someone else with their reading list, which a number of people said it did. Still not a brag, just info.

The only ones of those I’ve read are The Book Thief, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and I may have read The Firm. All good books.

He’s mine (all ebooks, so no pictures)

• The Cloud Roads, Wells
• Passage, Willis
• Gods of Risk, Corey
• Sundiver, Brin
• Transition State, Leckie
• The Serpent Sea, Wells
• Abaddon’s Gate, Corey
• Hominids, Sawyer
• The Time Ships, Baxter
• Beggars in Spain, Kress
• Humans, Sawyer
• Blindsight, Watts
• Startide Rising, Brin
• The Churn, Corey
• Leech, Ennes
• The Siren Depths, Wells
• Starter Villain, Scalzi
• The Host, Meyer
• Provenance, Leckie
• Nona the Ninth, Muir
• Perdido Street Station, Meiville
• The Watchmen, Moore
• How to live safely in a science fictional universe, Yu
• The City & The City, Mieville
• The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut
• Neptune’s Brood, Stross
• The Scar, Meiville
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Chambers
• Children of Time, Tchaikovsky
• Rule 34, Stross
• Consider Phlebas, Banks
• The Fifth Season, Jemison
• Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro
• Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, Wells
• The Saint of Bright Doors, CHANDRASEKERA
• The Player of Games, Banks
• Children of Ruin, Tchaikovsky
• The Edge of Worlds, Wells
• 17776, Bois
• Echopraxia, Watts

Some of those are novellas, but some of them are really long, so probably balances out. When I’m not working and my chores are done, I’m usually reading.

Oh, well, that’s pretty well documented. Most of those guys started companies and worked giant amounts of time.

I’ve read about the same number this year, and work full time. But we hardly watch anything on TV and don’t go to movies.

Edit: I thought I saw it was 44 books, but I see it’s 104, so that’s way more than me. Not someone who works full time, I’d guess.

What are you disagreeing with?

And I in no way was saying that the wealth inequity wasn’t absurd.

What are you basing that on? Here’s a list - most are workaholics.

Yeah, that’s mostly the case. There’s a lot of people here just making a lot of assumptions, but there’s quite a bit of information on billionaires as individuals. For instance, there’s this Forbes list, where you can click each one to get a summary of how they got rich.

I think you’re overreacting. He’s far from assured, but also far from out of the race.

There isn’t one type. There are the ones like Bezos and Dell, who got rich by growing one or more businesses, and are still at it. They likely don’t work normal hours, but they likely work more than 40. Some of those, like Gates, get older and move on to other things like foundation work, but not an actual job. Hard to say what kind of hours they work. Then there are the ones like Christy Walton, who inherited their wealth and don’t really ever work.

I know quite a number of them. My company is overall pretty conservative, with lots of ex military. Many folks are lifelong Republicans but have adamantly said they won’t vote for Trump.

I completely agree, which was more or less my point.

I can’t think of a Democrat who has a better chance from this juncture, sadly.

Like who are you thinking?