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    I found a shop with experience in a specific kind of typewriter--so I can get my '36 Noiseless...

    I found a shop with experience in a specific kind of typewriter--so I can get my '36 Noiseless Portable going, hopefully. Somehow I broke the return handle.
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    Talking About Trains...

    Your tracklaying skills are an inspiration. Handlaid track? Even if you can get tracks cheaply at a model shop it just looks so much better for a narrow-gauge line to lay one's own tracks. What are the sleepers made of again? Already mentioned the small stash of vintage American Flyer here but...
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    [ATTACH] Here's the one I used to have. She wasn't fully grown and had gotten flattened by a...

    Here's the one I used to have. She wasn't fully grown and had gotten flattened by a car way out in the country. In South Carolina we get plenty of mockingbirds and they are quite common urban birds here, as long as they have shrubs/low trees and grass for habitat. They are fond of eating fruits...
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    didn't know they had the name Cenzontle-- from Classical Nahuatl, "possessor of four hundred...

    didn't know they had the name Cenzontle-- from Classical Nahuatl, "possessor of four hundred words." Going back to some pre-Columbian stuff there. Wow. Thx for telling me mockingbirds had a different name!
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    Yep! Mimus polyglottos. The northern mockingbird. Always a pretty bird to see on a nice day--I...

    Yep! Mimus polyglottos. The northern mockingbird. Always a pretty bird to see on a nice day--I used to have one; she was super cute and when her wing healed she flew away and started a nest of more mockingbirds.
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    Talking About Buses.........

    Most people here like trains! There are a few good train threads already started including one for scale model trains. But there's nothing wrong with more trains. The other week a friend and I went trainspotting on Sunday and we saw something I'd never seen, but they had seen--the bogies under...
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    @FayetheAspie yes, it is for truck driving. And I passed! Now to enroll in a technical school...

    @FayetheAspie yes, it is for truck driving. And I passed! Now to enroll in a technical school and get the practice needed to be able to test again and actually get the CDL. I was taking the test for CDL-A, interstate commerce, combination vehicles (trailers), with air brakes.
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    Going to do something very silly today--Don't mind me. Going to try for my commercial learners...

    Going to do something very silly today--Don't mind me. Going to try for my commercial learners permit.
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    Brilliant way to get calcium though and a cheap source of protein. Long live 'deens.

    Brilliant way to get calcium though and a cheap source of protein. Long live 'deens.
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    Whoever invented the idea of tinned sardines, you're a legend and a wonderful human being.

    Whoever invented the idea of tinned sardines, you're a legend and a wonderful human being.
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    my bird commited suicide

    Keep some bird seed out and get in touch with other people in the area--he won't look like any wild bird out there and there's a good chance you'll be able to catch him again.
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    Almost catatonic without wifi

    Family pressured me into donating them, kind of like how my dad destroyed my 78rpm record collection. I got a lot of pressure from my parents for being "weird" so -- yeah. They thought the old books and records were what did it. I am now living alone and can have all the books, wax cylinders...
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    Almost catatonic without wifi

    ohhhh goodness, I was raised on the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, all 29 volumes of Edwardian weirdness. What wouldn't I give for another copy!
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    The smell of ants

    One very small black ant here is called the pismire or "piss ant" which is probably because they do smell faintly of urine. At least that kind does. Ants do very much have a smell and they communicate with smells only other ants understand; fascinating little guys really.
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    Well that's pretty cool. Do you mind letting me know how the mental effects of it are once it...

    Well that's pretty cool. Do you mind letting me know how the mental effects of it are once it kicks in? I hope it works as well as it did for some friends; one fellow I knew started that stuff awhile ago and it turned him into a girl but she's got much improved mental health and clarity as a...
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