Charlotte's scratch post

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Just for reference this was my FFS journey. Looks pretty undramatic apart from bruising!

On morning before surgery
Morning after surgery
Day 2
Day 5
Day 7
Day 9 (some BB cream)

[Dawn Kellie]

I see a big change. I still think you are very cute

[Lori Dee ✅]

I can see the difference, too.

They did a good job. I agree that you look cute.

[Stottie Girl]

Charlotte if you can't see the big change maybe your next operation should be on your peepers cos they're clearly not working lol!

There is night and day difference and the changes got much better since the last pic too.

Maybe try to take a current pic in the exact same pose and see the difference that way?

[Dances With Trees]

Wow! And you went through all that just so you could use the ladies' loo?

Charlotte, you look amazing!

Like a chrysalis bursting apart for all the world to see!

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I can definitely see the improvement for sure. Just my surgery pics look pretty tame compared to most. Like minimal babdages, equipment and such. Kinda in then out to recover.

I am growing to finally love my face more now thanks to suppport on here. Just like a hair transplant one day. Not so happy with my body but hopefully it'll get where i want it in the next couple of years.

Charlotte 😻

[Petunia]

Charlotte and Courtney, I can only judge from the photos/avatars you have but there are no guys in any of them. I'm not trying to be kind, it's just what I see.

Of course being correctly gendered goes a lot further thsn that, mannerisms, voice, movement etc

The biggest critic you are ever going to have is yourselves.

I hope you both cut yourselves a bit of slack and enjoy how far you've come, pat yourselves on the back and just sit and smile for a little while.

Congratulations girls, I wish I looked as good as either of you

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I know a few on here like electronics and tech so I'm going to geek out a bit here with something I'm working on in case you're interested!

This a capture of the activity on a DALI lighting control bus. Essentially the bus is held high at a nominal 16v DC. But the available current is limited so master (control devices) and slave (lights/sensors etc) can pull this bus low to encode data.



The cool bit is that the data is what's called Machester encoded. In most data lines a logic 1 is defined by the signal voltage being high, and logic 0 by the signal voltage being low. The problem here is if you have successive repeats of the same logic level you end up with a continuous high or low period. This means for a receiver to interpret this you either need to send a clock signal separately, this way on each clock pulse it reads the logic level so can interpret how many of logic 1 or 0 are in this period. Alternatively the clock on both the receiver and master must be so accurate that the signal can be faithfully read by a local fixed clock signal.

Manchester encoding gets around this by ensuing there is a level change in the middle of each data bit regardless of if its a 0 or 1 and even with successive repeats! The creates an embedded clock pulse within the data itself. Now we can have +/- 10% accuracy of the data clock yet its fully readable by any device on the bus without a second separate clock wire. This is now a reliable 2 wire control bus. So a logic 1 is represented by a transition from low to high and a logic zero by a transition high to low on the control bus. A full bit should last 833.33us which I've marked on the scope - it shows 850us - this is just the resolution of the marker, but still with +10% requirement for clock accuracy. As you can see the first bit (start bit) is a logic 1 as it transitions low to high mid pulse. Followed by the first data bit which is logic 0 being high to low transition mid pulse.

Hope you found that interesting. If not sorry - I'm a geek at heart!!

Charlotte X

[Stottie Girl]

I won't pretend to understand all that Charlotte! I must say when I first looked at the post I thought you had posted a screenshot from a Spectrum Game from the 80's!

[Dawn Kellie]

I followed a lot of it. I will have to show it to my son. He's currently working on his masters for electrical engineering. He may geek out a lot

[Lori Dee ✅]

Very cool, Charlotte.

I have worked on Nurse Call systems in hospitals and nursing homes that use a Bus High voltage to signal "power on", then pull low to signal an alarm. Of course, they are not pulsed; just steady state.

I spent an hour on a trouble call trying to figure it out, and it made no sense. I called a senior tech for advice, and he laughed at me. He said, "Stop thinking of a 'negative ground'." It uses a "positive ground". Suddenly, it all made sense.

Thanks for sharing.

[Dawn Kellie]

Very cool, Charlotte.

I have worked on Nurse Call systems in hospitals and nursing homes that use a Bus High voltage to signal "power on", then pull low to signal an alarm. Of course, they are not pulsed; just steady state.

I spent an hour on a trouble call trying to figure it out, and it made no sense. I called a senior tech for advice, and he laughed at me. He said, "Stop thinking of a 'negative ground'." It uses a "positive ground". Suddenly, it all made sense.

Thanks for sharing.

Your 1940s and 1950's American cars used to use a 6v positive ground system. Can really send you in circles if you weren't prepared.

[davina61]

I sort of understood that, very well explained my dear. 6v pos earth, no problem!!

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Can't say at this moment I'm particularly happy its the weekend. I feel wiped out and just generally not that happy to be here. Tomorrow I've got this lesson writing music. Hope I feel better by then or my heart just wont be in it one bit.

Im starting to hate weekends more than the week sometimes. Energy is gone and have no desire to do anything left.

[Stottie Girl]

Can't say at this moment I'm particularly happy its the weekend. I feel wiped out and just generally not that happy to be here. Tomorrow I've got this lesson writing music. Hope I feel better by then or my heart just wont be in it one bit.

Im starting to hate weekends more than the week sometimes. Energy is gone and have no desire to do anything left.

My batteries are flat as a pancake tonight too, I don't see myself doing anything over the weekend. BUT you never know how you will feel in the morning. It sounds like your music lesson could be just the thing to perk you up a bit. Let us know how you got on.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

My batteries are flat as a pancake tonight too, I don't see myself doing anything over the weekend. BUT you never know how you will feel in the morning. It sounds like your music lesson could be just the thing to perk you up a bit. Let us know how you got on.

Well its only 30 mins the first one so either way its not a huge deal. Meant to be a furry meet too, but its going to rain so wont bother with this one as there will be no fursuit walk. Plus i don't really wanna be out the house.

Charlotte 😻

[davina61]

Can I send you some positive vibes, either that or a kick up the butt!! You never know what the universe will send your way, I have days when I dont want to do stuff and when I start on it I find it goes okay.

[Sephirah]

Hi there.

It's your friendly, neighbourhood Spiderwolf. <3

Charlotte... you mean more to the world and to people than you think, sweetie.

I saw what you posted in my blog. You care about others, you put yourself out there for others. Even when you don't feel like it in yourself.

You can hide yourself from yourself, sweetie. But not from people who see you and care about you.

You put your energy into being there for others. But you don't see it. I get that. You do it without thinking, and never think anything of it. It's not something you should care about. Except it is.

Don't give up on you, okay? Because you don't give up on other people. You are no different.

I believe in you.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Hi there.

It's your friendly, neighbourhood Spiderwolf. <3

Charlotte... you mean more to the world and to people than you think, sweetie.

I saw what you posted in my blog. You care about others, you put yourself out there for others. Even when you don't feel like it in yourself.

You can hide yourself from yourself, sweetie. But not from people who see you and care about you.

You put your energy into being there for others. But you don't see it. I get that. You do it without thinking, and never think anything of it. It's not something you should care about. Except it is.

Don't give up on you, okay? Because you don't give up on other people. You are no different.

I believe in you.

Awwww thanks for the care, and Spiderwolf...that just sounds tooo cute! I love both of them and maybe a certain spider influenced my name choice You sooo make me smile, in like your first sentence.

I'm glad to see you back and hope you're getting better. Its such a better place around here with you around too.

Sorry I've not got loads to say back. My mind feels a bit weak this evening.

Charlotte 😻

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Raveronomy's girlie Kemono style head is completed by my maker. Now I can wear her to Confuzzled the furry con in a couple of weeks.

Raveronomy is my main and can present either pre or post transition with them.

I'm also in a new Telegram group so know some people going to the "trans / enby furs social" thats one of the events at CFZ.