What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[MrPopo]

I can't remember which variety of show that is on late Colbert is moving to. Do they offer streaming of their show like Comedy Central does?

Colbert is taking over for David Letterman on The Late Show, which airs just before The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. James Corden is taking over for Ferguson in mid-January.

Can I watch eps of The Late Show online the next day at work like I do with Colbert and Daily Show today?

[Ack]

Can I watch eps of The Late Show online the next day at work like I do with Colbert and Daily Show today?

Yes, on the CBS website.

[MrPopo]

Can I watch eps of The Late Show online the next day at work like I do with Colbert and Daily Show today?

Yes, on the CBS website.

Huzzah!

Smile: Double shoulder amputee now has arms:

[Ack]

Smile: Double shoulder amputee now has arms:

Awesome. They didn't show him move the shoulders much, but it looks like the joint could potentially go a full 180 degrees. The motion is limited currently to the ranges they specified, but I would like to see what could potentially be done beyond the limited range of human motion.

[lisalover1]

Frown: Returning home has been much more stressful than I expected. Pretty much all of the emotional progress I have made in the past few months just vanished as soon as I got back. Now I realize that this is exactly how I felt before - I just didn't know things could be better back then. But now... now it's soul-crushing to be back with people that I know don't accept me.

My mom confronted me last night (and a few nights ago), essentially saying that she won't support me if I transition, emotionally or fin (a little late for that - she doesn't know I have started). She essentially gave me an ultimatum: Eschew transition and continue school, or drop out and transition. If I try to do both, she'll stop helping me pay for housing. So, I had to lie to her in order to keep things stable. She'll find out eventually, but I just need to keep on my feet for now.

After she told me that, she went on and on about how everyone will only ever see me as a man no matter what I do, and how I will "always be her son" - calling this out whenever she could. She said I had to "respect her wisdom, since she's older and knows more about the world than me".

I don't feel safe here. I feel miserable, since now I know what it is like to be happy, and this is not it. There's also a good chance that my dad will disown me when he finds out - he's prone to such irrational anger. The best case scenario will be he stops giving me my monthly food money, which would still be a big disadvantage.

Less Frown:
I have a backup plan for any of these scenarios, and I would be able to survive even in the worst-case-scenario. I have friends' houses I could stay at - even for extended periods of time - until I get back on my feet. I may need to drop out of college temporarily and get a job, but I'll do what needs to be done.

[AppleQueso]

Frown: Returning home has been much more stressful than I expected. Pretty much all of the emotional progress I have made in the past few months just vanished as soon as I got back. Now I realize that this is exactly how I felt before - I just didn't know things could be better back then. But now... now it's soul-crushing to be back with people that I know don't accept me.

My mom confronted me last night (and a few nights ago), essentially saying that she won't support me if I transition, emotionally or fin (a little late for that - she doesn't know I have started). She essentially gave me an ultimatum: Eschew transition and continue school, or drop out and transition. If I try to do both, she'll stop helping me pay for housing. So, I had to lie to her in order to keep things stable. She'll find out eventually, but I just need to keep on my feet for now.

After she told me that, she went on and on about how everyone will only ever see me as a man no matter what I do, and how I will "always be her son" - calling this out whenever she could. She said I had to "respect her wisdom, since she's older and knows more about the world than me".

I don't feel safe here. I feel miserable, since now I know what it is like to be happy, and this is not it. There's also a good chance that my dad will disown me when he finds out - he's prone to such irrational anger. The best case scenario will be he stops giving me my monthly food money, which would still be a big disadvantage.

Less Frown:
I have a backup plan for any of these scenarios, and I would be able to survive even in the worst-case-scenario. I have friends' houses I could stay at - even for extended periods of time - until I get back on my feet. I may need to drop out of college temporarily and get a job, but I'll do what needs to be done.

I ranted about this with you last night until I just didn't have any more energy, but it still makes my blood boil. It's so heartless of your parents to so openly reject you like this, and they clearly don't care how it hurts you. That "ultimatum" is absolutely disgusting.

Probably isn't worth to retread my thoughts from last night, but yeah. You know where I stand, you know you have a friend who's behind you.

[CFFJR]

I'm kinda hating your parents right now lisalover.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this shit.

I know its not the same as family, but just remember you have a bunch of people here on your team.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I'm kinda hating your parents right now lisalover.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this shit.

I know its not the same as family, but just remember you have a bunch of people here on your team.

I'm with CFFJR, ane my heart breaks reading about your situation. If there is anything I can do to help, please send me a PM.

[KalessinDB]

Good god, Vicky, that's terrible. If you weren't on the other coast I'd say I have a spare room you're welcome to, because that's just not right.

I hope you can figure something out that doesn't involve that worst-case you mentioned. Fingers crossed for you.

[Tanooki]

My monster laptop showed up an hour ago, big smile day, never had a dedicated very high end laptop before, and one that's do it yourself where nothing is soldered in and is totally upgrade ready.

Got this http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8278s-cl ... -6985.html Change the defaults to have a 16(8x2)GB RAM, GeForece GTX980M 8GB video, 1TB 7200rpm hdd, and a bluray/combo dvdr burner. It has the base CPU but can take something much faster and I could double the ram in time too. Also could take up to I think 3-4 hdd/sdds.