Back from the Chicago auto show. We did mostly truck looking but did do a few other things, Had a great time and got in and out at the right times. Lots of cool stuff but tooo many people. I had a very good time with Dan, his dad, Al and Jordan, (pictured)
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Kev - great pics!
Regards, Roy
Good evening all,
Quiet day at work, but could get very very busy shortly based on potential activity. Not sure what will be happening. Much colder today on walk. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
back from frying fish. Had a shower, a hot tub soak and a glass of wine. Now hoping to finish this before I crash. Head count was down, only 605, but we still put out a lot of food. It's all you can eat but when the line is long people won't wait to go through again. Short wait and some make a couple trips.
Best get to sleep.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good morning,
Wow I must of been tired, Never woke up last night.
My tax guy has been blowing me off so I may have to come up with a plan B today. The daughter said she could do them, maybe I will let her. She has been doing her and Dan's for years? We are just a straight 1040A file anyway.
15 heading to 37 later. The big warm up for next week has been shut down. They were calling for 70 on Tuesday but now that is 62. Still not bad.
Kevin if your just a straight 1040A goto to turbotax.com and do the free version. It will keep asking you to upgrade but just stay on the free version and you can get it done in about 45 minutes. It's how I do mine and then I save a copy to a file. Been doing it this way for about 5 years now. You will be able to save a copy at the end.
Morning all. Not a lot going on here today. It's dreary and raining. About 64* out there, suppose to get up to 76*, we will see.
Hope all have a good weekend, talk to you all later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning all. Chilly and rainy.
Kev, you didn't have to send your cold Yankee temps here. No snow like forecasted for north of us.
Great photos. Good job. He will not forget this.
Train Box until around 3. Youngest SIL and hubby coming to go and eat mid afternoon meal.
Enjoy the weekend.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Misery loves company Chief.
I think I will try that RT! Thanks. My friend does it on H&R Block and I have last years copies so why not?
Man Roy, Chevy is sure proud of those Tahoes almost 80K!!!!
Morning all!
46 and supposed to hit 64 today? light rain and overcast. Need the rain so it is good.
Kev - Tahoes (and Suburbans) - prices through the roof since I bought mine in 2009 at the depth of the recession - Chevy was dumping them had so many on the lot. I just intend to rebuild mine as issues come up - cheaper in the long run.
Have a funeral to go to this afternoon. Father of my son's best friend from HS. He was much younger, a fast cancer and only a few weeks from the time it was dianosed. Sad.
Trying to see an end to this Xfinity race lets me know why INS rates are so high for guys under 25.
Kev - Xfinity final 2 laps, final 2 laps, final 2 laps, final 2 laps...
DDid lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.id lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.Did lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.
Just posted. When I hit submit, blank page. No writing at all. Then went back and hit edit to type this. Cuser moved as I typed but no letters. See above. Had to go out and come back in to do. Somone needs to take this software and........
Did wire some cutoffs for sidings this afternoon and evening. Now power them up as needed.
Diet Canada Dry Ginger Ale and TV.
Morning All!
Enjoying a nice quiet morning with my coffee before I go and play hockey. Not too much on the go this weekend. We had Christmas 2.0 at the in laws yesterday. My FIL out of town for the las 7-8 weeks dealing with his ailing parents, so we had the full turkey spread again. I was okay with that! Going to my folks for supper tonight, so we managed to weasel out of cooking for the whole weekend!!
Going to watch the Daytona 500. Boogity boogity!!
Spank - Wow. I was complaining about the half inch we got last night. Can't wait for mid week temperatures.
Kev- I'll second RT's recommendation. I've been using Turbotax for 10+ years and it's very straight forward to use. I don't have my "millions" tied up in foreign investments, so I just use the standard version. Nice pics from the auto show!
Roy - Suburbans are awesome! I wonder if the Secret Service ever has a used truck sale.... I'd love one of their models.
Chief - Any "diet" whiskey in with that ginger ale?
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
ChiefEagles DDid lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.id lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.Did lots of wiring cutoff switches to sidings. Never had done. Now power them up as needed. Did get interrupted. Wifey wanted to go to Red Robin. With two burgers, two Diet Cokes and endless fries, $5 tip, bill was $20. Rainy and chilly. Goodnight all.
Best ever post by the Chief. LOL
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Mornin'... Buckeye - Mostly cloudy and several inches of fresh snohizo on the ground. Last night's train was full of nice couples, and the ladies said the snow added a "magical" quality. Wasn't cold, just pretty.
Wifey spent afternoon cleaning kitchen at middle princess's apartment, after she had a stove fire yesterday morning. Stove is electric, so it appeared to be a wiring issue. Daughter put it out with fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, landlord wasn't answering his phone yesterday....
Still covered with white stuff and 22 degrees now. Hope it melts by this afternoon.
Got grandkids coming to spend the night and Washington's birthday with us tomorrow this afternoon.
On those taxes,,, Do any of you just get the download and back-up CD?
I see on all the so called Free ones you have to pay for the state so free is not free. It would not be much more to do the download and get the back up CD and then your not doing it in cyber space and your set for next year. I have no thought of direct deposit. I want it all done in the good old slower but safer USPS.
TKS for any advice.
Dennis, Back to cold 68
Kevin it depends on state for free or not. I don't know why some states can be done free and others not but mine was free.
I don't pay for anything. at the end you can save it to your computer and then if you want to put it on a CD thats up to you. There trying to charge for something you can do yourself. and on Direct deposite thats up to you but you still can print it out and mail it if you want. I did direct deposite as it was a big $24. Normally I break even.
Morning all. 59* now going to 64* a cool down of about 10* from yesterday's high.
No train news on this end. Will talk to you all later.
Morning all,
49 right now and may hit 60.
Was warm enough yesterday afternoon to work in the garage/shop. Installed a 4' LED light fixture. It is labeled as 60w and I wanted to see how well it worked. It lit the area fine so I am going to get a couple more. Have to modify an outlet on the ceiling for the light as that is where the garage door opener and radio control unit plugs in.
Kev - no help here, the ms. does our taxes on her pro S/W.
Well sometimes things happen in waves - found out yesterday evening one of my best friends of the last 40 yrs has a cancer at stage 4 - not good.
Sunny and 61 degrees. Keeps rising. This morning at dawn, tenp higher than high yesterday. Record high forecasted for this week. Watchout fruit trees, flowers and shrubs. March can be a surprise.
May do more wiring in Train Box.
Kev, I use CPA. Screwy taxes due to farm, retirement, Wifey working and Mayor's stuff.
Have a great week ahead.
ChiefEaglesKev, I use CPA. Screwy taxes due to farm, retirement, Wifey working, multiple sets of books "under the table", and Mayor's stuff.
Sun and 40 today.
Rain coming Monday thru wednesday.
I have a tax man, he's very reasonable and it's done in 30 minutes. Direct deposit was back in 1 week from the feds. The state is much slower not back yet but totally normal.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Kev - I've had no issues with e-filing and direct deposit. Usually get a refund in 7-8 business days. Much faster than waiting 4+ weeks for a check. Even buying Turbotax every year is still cheaper than the basic H&R filing fee and we know no one ever pays just the basic fee!
Roy -
Thanks,
My guy uses H&R Block. In Turbo tax they want $39.95 for the IL State. With H&R it is $54.00 for download for Federal with free state. Do it on the PC and send it in the mail. Everything is saved for fastrack next year. Our daughter does it e-filing but I can wait to keep ity out of cyber space. Just me.
Guess I will have to decide after the kids leave tomorrow.
Roy, you got it on Da Chief.
Just down loaded Chrome and it found all of my lost bookmarks from Firefox and the last ten years even from PCs and laptops I no longer have? They must of been out in space because FireFox was un-installed from this PC when it crashed?????
Weird
Good Evening from 45°F Southern Ohio,
It was a beautiful day. Crazy weather. Yesterday we had snow and the boys and I spent a couple of hours scraping off the hill. I'm saying next year we'll have a scraper blade for the tractor. IT has been crazy busy. Last week I worked two night shifts, helped distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday, then Friday led stations of the cross and assisted with Mass at the High School. Saturday had class in Columbus then drove home in the snow and preached at Saturday and Sunday Masses. Today the boys and I moved the chicken coop. It was in a low spot and had become a muddy mess. The kids have some friends over, and two of them are staying over tonight, and my bride is frying chicken for supper.
Chief – March can bring some surprizes. Some of our heavest snows have been in March. The spring flowers are beginning to sprout and some of the trees are budding.
Roy – I got a few of the 4 foot LED shop lights from Rural King and they do a real good job. I've put them over the work benches in the garages and in the basement.
Rob – Turbo Tax is what we've used for several years too. I tried unsuccessfully to talk my bride into a Suburban instead of the last three minivans!
Banks – are you in the K of C?
May God bless
Jim
Jim for driving reasons You would do great probably with a Suburban but for some reason wifes look at a Suburbun as a tractor trailer and the minivan is a VW bug in there view. Suburban is so big. LOL
Goal accomplished. 13.1 miles in 3:36:44 for a 3.62 MPH average. What is better is that I maintained that speed the entire distance. I had a little slow down about halfway thru but a protein bar bumped the energy level up to where I could keep going. Came home and crashed. Did watch end of taxicab race. Warmer today and supposed to be over 60 tomorrow with rain. I hope everyone has a good day.
Just checking in on a Sunday night. Quiet day today. Went to the local sizzler this afternoon and treated myself to steak and lobster. It was good but size was a big dissapointment. It wasn't cheap. I know you get what you pay for but I got short changed. Try a different place next time. They are selling Eastern oysters in the shell in the super markets here. They look awfully small though. I don't think I even own an oyster knife now. They are selling for a buck each. About like the price of avacados. Even shucked Pacific oysters are a lot higher now than last year. What isn't? I like them in a stew. When I called my brother in Virginia this week, they were having fried oysters. I could almost taste them over the phone. Oh well, back to California fare I guess. Have a good week all,
Ray
SPMan
Aloha. Warmer and rainy though we had a few inches of new snow on Sat. so it is still largely with us.
Fife, glad the daughter knew how to use the extinguisher!
Kev, if you want to stay free - you can do your taxes on the state's website - it is free though you need a PIN. I thought it worth the TurboTax fee to have them submit them for me this year because I didn't want to input everything again.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
37 heavy fog and rain all day, 60 tomorrow then back to 33 mid week.
Kids showed up at about the end of the race yesterday.
Grand daughter is sick and running a fever of 101 Grandson is still sleeping. She was sick when she got here. Before bed she was 101.4 and is on meds but in the dumps. She was good at midnight but warm again this morning. She wants soup for breakfast.
Got a group of turkeys in the front yard.
Grandson just got up, got to run.
Think I will have the daughter do the taxes and see how that works out.
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