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I've been up in Raleigh, North Carolina the last several days visiting w/ my son, so I thought I'd just pop in and say hi. Noah-sounds like you had a good birthday - (without sounding patronizing, Noah, you are a very mature young man w/ your head screwed on tight. I thought you were older than you are, and your posts are always a pleasure to read. Happy birthday to anyone else I missed while gone. Lupo - I owe you a reply re: the UP stuff. I've been jammed, and haven't opened all the boxes yet, but should get back to you in a couple of days. Finally got rid of that truly annoying targetword / information search 'puter glitch that has been driving me crazy for so long ! Had plans to stop by the Southern's Spencer Shops (NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC) on the way home, and Mother Nature finally nailed the southeast with the kind of rain everyone else has been getting hit with lately (except the west coast). It was a white knucles ride all the way home - took over nine hours to go 400 miles. At times you couldn't see 50 feet in front of you. . . It's always good to get home to your own stuff, even though we like to travel. Is that a sign of aging? Need to get back on the basement prep tomorrow for the shop and mrr room. Am getting anxious to start on the layout, but I've got to start generating some revenue first, or will severly test the bride's patience, risking possible revocation of my 'kitchen pass' to use 1/3 of the basement for a layout. . . Anyone have any favorite railfanning sites in the San Jose/San Francisco/Santa Cruz area? I'll be out there in Sept. for a week. Not too much else exciting in this neck of the woods to report. At least it is cooler than it was, and should be a good day tomorrow to work my tail off. . .It's 8PM and time to put the coffee on. I'm one of the few people around here that drinks coffee in the evening. In Raleigh they look wierd at you if you order coffee much after 12 noon ! We stopped outside of Raleigh on our way home yesterday for lunch, and I ordered coffee. The sweet young blond thing behind the counter just stared at the register for a bit, then looked funny at me, gazed awhile longer at the register, and literally ran her fingers over each labeled key as she studied it in vain looking for the 'coffee key'. After a couple of agonizingly long minutes, she said that she guessed that they didn't have coffee on the menu. I pointed at the coffee maker behind her and she said she had no idea what it was for. I then pointed up at the overhead menu (which contradicted her), and she said that I couldn't have any because she didn't know how to ring it up. Then she just walked away bewildered. The manager came to the register, and questioned "why would I want coffee at lunch time?" I stated "Because. . ." He then said "I suppose you want me to make some, don't you?" I calmly said "Yup". After fifteen minutes and three or four trips back to the register for the coffee they said they'd bring me, I finally got the worse cup of coffee I've had in a long, long time. I spoke to the manager -again, because the little blond was avoiding eye (and ear) contact, and he said that he "wasn't going to waste a whole pot of fresh coffee on me, so he ran some hot water thru the mornings old coffee grounds." I almost diplomatically encouraged him to drink it, as I presented it back to him, and we left. Good burger - stupid people. That, and the rain, were the most exciting events of our trip ! See ya. BILL
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