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ifixcoinops

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Hello! I fix #pinball machines and #arcade games, and tell you all about it! I fix lots of other things too, and occasionally tell you about that. I also run one of the web's longest-surviving #textAdventure games, called Improbable Island, and I often write here on Fedi about decade-scale online community management stuff. Husband, dad, professional Thing Fixer and amateur woodworker in my early 40's, an #immigrant from the UK to the USA. Gun enthusiasts pls do not follow/interact.

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Wanna guess what I'm making?

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@http_error_418 yyyyyyyup

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I don't wanna take it downstairs again FFS this thing has barely existed five minutes and I already resent the idea of moving it

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Might just run it outside and lacquer it

ifixcoinops,
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@benpocalypse I ended up with a 16-gauge one because a quirk in sale pricing made it like half the price of the smaller 18-gauge one so now I got Big Nails to go with my Big Wood

ifixcoinops,
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ugh nope can't lacquer it outside because of the baby robins

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wax in situ maybe?

ifixcoinops,
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I bought a new HVLP sprayer in like February when it was on sale and I had a lucky coupon, I said to the guy "Boy I can't wait til I can try this thing out in like May," bloody robins wait to hatch until I'm just about ready to spray some lacquer

🐣 Whatcha got there Dan?
🦝 Something that'll kill you dead as heck if you get so much as a whiff so instead of firing it up and trying it out I'm just gonna grumble about it on the internet

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Also this lad's back again

Bit of a special day today innit, hatchy robins, visiting fawn, it's all go in my yard today

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"Remembering when it's faun or fawn" is right up there with "How to spell parallel (or rather how to stop spelling it)" on my list of Language Things That Dan Has Made His Peace With Never Quite Grasping

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So last time the fawn visited, it was gone by they time I picked the kid up. So I didn't tell her about it, didn't want her disappointed that she'd missed it.

This time, I clocked it were still there from the road, told her it was a special day and she had to be quiet and smooth and slow and not go any closer than me, and we went and saw the fawn.

THEN, we went and saw the baby robins.

THEN, while we were watching the robins, we heard movement, and there was the mum, up the hill, with the fawn around her feet.

"Wow," I whispered to her, "Quiet fawn, didn't hear him going up the hill."

So then we got our bikes down and took them past the original fawn FEDI THERE ARE TWO FAWNS

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