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I was on there quite a bit. Considering that much like Ali123 I had a mother who liked having me dressed as a girl, it was kind of a natural place to be.

This used to belong to my wife's grandfather. It's a 1931 Chevrolet Five Passenger Coupe (their version of the Vicky). Originally we were going to take it back to original, but then we found the engine block was cracked in 18 places and the cylinder head cracked in 12. We had a spare cylinder...

You don't know how much I appreciate what you have to say. I was VERY fortunate in my life, but it was a long and tough road overall. I was able to make my way through college working as a manager at a fast food restaurant. I worked 40+ hours a week while going to school for electronics...

I did well in school, getting into a military academy after high school (then leaving six months later after learning I hated the military). Got a degree in electronics engineering, and lucked out in getting a good job in a solid company in Silicon Valley. That company was great. They took care...

Was voluntold today to see if I could help another engineer figure out an issue he was having on a circuit. Got the circuit, started running simulations, two hours later I found root cause and we hashed out a fix! Stopped by the manager's office who gave me this, he said he had asked for me to...

I get both migraines and cluster headaches. I've learned my triggers for migraines, but the clusters make the migraines seem like a day on the beach. Migraine level pain for several hours, hitting like clockwork every four hours. Happening every day, for over a decade. There are so many...

Finishing up a week away from home to visit the office at work (in different states). Managed to figure out several major issues they were having with some of the parts and test results show the design I finished in October is working great on first units!

I'm not in the medical field, no. I deal with chronic cluster headaches and was fighting six headaches per day for a couple decades. Talk about nasty! Most of the time they would only hit about 5 to 7 on my pain scale but I had regular times where they would easily skyrocket to a 10 and last for...

Unfortunately, the treatment comes from those who aren't willing to look beyond the medication you are taking and your situation. "You're taking drug XYZ, therefore you're a junkie/addict/etc.!!!" Yes, I take that drug under the supervision of a doctor. I take it for this condition, and...

It's been a bit of a mess the last couple years. My little brother accidentally overdosed on nitrous oxide in October of 2022. He left behind a little four year old girl. Her mom had died of an undiagnosed heart condition when she was only a month old, so she was now an orphan. My dad and...

Made aelelskiver for traditional Christmas breakfast/brunch in our family.

Circuit I designed came out and just started getting tested, so far everything working exactly as designed!

I got to help the guys doing construction on my property. I took my tractor over to jump-start their excavator.

Did that take much getting used to? When I first got dressed by mom and then she bought me my own clothes, it took a while for me to get used to the fact that I would open my underwear drawer to find boy's briefs on one side, panties and bras on the other. Or to open my closet and see dresses...

With dressing up in my teens supported and encouraged by my mother, there were multiple times I was dressed up around my sister. One that I do remember was when my mother and stepfather wanted to get a professional family photo taken. Mom was telling us that we were going to have the photo...