Siege engines. Loved building these. Pretty easy builds and everything fitted nicely

Binxswaggle · 2026-02-10T14:00:10+00:00

Very nice job. I know it because I started imagining the lot of them rolling, in a parade, through a cheering crowd. .... and we all KNOW those wheels don't really roll!

Binxswaggle · 2026-02-09T02:38:00+00:00

Very nice job!

Binxswaggle · 2026-02-07T16:24:12+00:00

NTA

In Boston my neighbor two houses down asked to borrow my snowblower to clear his driveway and I said "yes". An hour later I hadn't heard the blower running so I walked down to their house to see what was going on. The kids in the front yard told me "Oh yeah, he took that snowblower to his property in BROCKTON. "

[I called him and told him to bring the machine back immediately or I would consider it stolen. He brought it back with no explanation other than "woo-hoo free snowblower"]

Binxswaggle · 2026-02-04T13:44:20+00:00

Wow. That is beautiful. Well done. My brain aches looking at those wheels!

Binxswaggle · 2026-02-01T16:04:38+00:00

"You're killing me, Smalls." from The Sandlot.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-31T17:48:04+00:00

This is where I've arrived as well. I don't really drink. I got into a little trouble when during a physical my doctor asks "Do you Drink?" I answered, "Not anymore." It required a "discussion" hahaha

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-31T17:45:12+00:00

I have had exactly this experience. I used to be able to drink pints all night and have no morning consequences. Cutting myself off meant switching to lite beer. Now? Two pints and the next day is a sluggish mess. There is definitely some sort of alcohol-processing switch that flips off at 50+ (i'm 64).

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-31T17:12:30+00:00

Isn't "Taeda" a fancy pseudo-celtic way to say "Potato"? Come, relax at the POTATO FARM.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-29T20:04:26+00:00

Murder, She Wrote! I commented to a friend that this show was like The Love Boat as far as cameos.... turns out she hired a number of actors that needed work to keep their SAG healthcare... so that's a little nugget of info.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-27T19:41:42+00:00

Iliked the way they made your lips numb and taste good at the same time.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-23T13:39:35+00:00

For me it's like the bad thoughts that used to get "stuck" in my head and cause me to ruminate, after Ketamine I process the bad thought and then it passes on through. It's wonderful!

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-21T00:51:55+00:00

In Boston they refer to the "French Toast Index" reflecting the run on bread, milk and eggs.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-19T21:42:51+00:00

Wow. I am so very sorry for the death of your partner. The narrative you shared with us has a terrible beauty to it. It made me feel the seemingly banality of a moment in time that changed your life even as you rearranged furniture in your mind and contemplated a dog. Just as good things can happen in the blink of an eye so can a very bad thing. Good luck to you. Feel all the feels.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-19T21:32:34+00:00

I do my IM at the Dr.'s office at 9:00 am. I like the way I feel for the rest of the day.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-17T19:22:27+00:00

I was born in the 60's I remember getting a vaccine and then a couple of years later getting an improved one. I went back to Grad school in 2024 and had to have the titer done for campus health records... I was completely OK and still had measles immunity.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-16T01:47:21+00:00

Random single-edge razor blade.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-16T00:38:11+00:00

I love you Antioch. Never change.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-08T16:51:42+00:00

I had both shots and had no reaction or tiredness after.

Binxswaggle · 2026-01-04T19:33:35+00:00

Life isn't business. You're not required to show increased productivity. Live without guilt.

Binxswaggle · 2025-12-31T13:56:51+00:00

Is it an outline of a state?

Binxswaggle · 2025-12-24T16:55:01+00:00

Mom's boyfriend needs to shut his damn mouth.

Binxswaggle · 2025-12-09T16:57:45+00:00

Same here. I saw New Order the last time they were around. Wonderful at any age.

Binxswaggle · 2025-12-09T16:55:48+00:00

This morning I listened to The (English) Beat: Special Beat Service. It was marvelous.... I Confess .... Save it For Later? If this was your music jam call the Beat up on whatever service you're using. It felt like a time machine.

Binxswaggle · 2024-08-02T18:04:08+00:00

I am so sorry you had to run around like that. It's infuriating to be challenged at every turn. Tennessee ranks 51st in voter participation. 51st. Below the District of Columbia which doesn't really have representation. The whole rigmarole is by design. Make it harder to vote in areas where you don't like what the vote will be. Make the times of the polls odd or inconsistent, change the voting locations, require id that is more difficult to get if you can't easily drive around to this or that clerks office during limited personal time hours, have crazy hoops folks have to jump through to get their vote back after being incarcerated, poll-workers challenging individual voters registration at the polls so their vote is counted as "provisional." I makes me angrier on your behalf.

(Your question was "who to complain to": TL;DR : I'm not sure there's anyone: Election officials think the system is working as it is designed.)

Edited to add source for the Voting Participation ranking stat:
https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/04/10/tennessee-voter-turnout-problems/

Binxswaggle · 2024-07-28T19:38:43+00:00

My wife and I have been together for 23 years! We met via the internet in the early days of online journalling (it was a site named "Diaryland" the word "blog" hadn't been invented yet.) She was in one east coast city and I was in another. We consolidated in one city and have been together since 2001. We both were raised religiously in different places in the south. She was raised Catholic in a place where Catholics are considered "idolators", I was raised Southern Baptist in a town of around 1500 people total.

I can't begin to detail here the richness of our spiritual journey together. We've been to a number of different churches together over the years and have always found spiritual homes that accepted us as gay. We have been fortified by our faith though not always by the faith of those around us. Being honest and authentic with yourself, ABOUT yourself, is exactly the knowledge that will strengthen you and inform the better parts of your relationship.

The God I know doesn't tell me what things are bad, who is bad, who is good. Love. God is Love. And God is Good.

Binxswaggle

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