Strange... It's been good so far, generally. Going to a friend's lake house next weekend. Looking forward to that! Also, finally made a Meetup account and my plans for getting my modern anemometer/windvane to ESP32 to ESP32 to Heathkit ID-4001 setup sketched out a bit more. With the CPU upgrade board, it might even have a serial output, and I could theoretically have my computer read it. That would be awesome!

Then, I had my oldest "friend" contact me out of the blue on Discord and then he called me. I got hit with a tirade of insane anti-Semitic nonsense. At some point, the fact that I'm going to try and transition MtF slipped out and he got really "worried" about me. He said these things "never end well" and that "you always hear about these things online, but it's really scary when it happens to someone you know" and that he was worried about that when he saw my Discord pfp (my character, female). I'm pretty meek/timid, but I did tell him firmly that "I don't want to talk about this with you", and he responded with "It's OK, we don't have to talk about this right now". Right now. Like we will have to eventually. Then a bunch of stuff about how he doesn't want me to be a "blood sacrifice to Moloch" and that "we're the lowest-T generation, and bombarded with all sorts of media" stuff like that. Freaky nonsense.

It's... really upsetting. I've known this guy for decades. I just feel... betrayed. Scared. I threw up after the call. He wants to call again and even hang out. I definitely don't want to. I shouldn't have told him about my plans to transition. I don't know why I did. I've told my brother, my closest (actually good, ally) friend, but not even my parents yet. So I have no idea how I let it slip to this crazy old friend. That happened about an hour ago. Still pretty shaken up about it.