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Old posts apparently neither die nor fade away. Nor does this disease which appears to be rampant in the hobby. but It is as normal as alcoholism or drug addiction. Pardon my crankiness, Mother Nature has decided to cover the front yard and drive with the dreaded four letter word! I wonder if the people responding here have participated in topics crying about the high cost of new kits, locos and rolling stock and structures. A few suggestions for overcomming this problem: 1) Open an E-Bay account and sell two unbuilt pieces for each new item purchased, might even produce sufficient excess ca***o pay the heating bill. 2) Actually build some of those structures, locos, or rolling stock before you buy something else, perhaps a 3 built to 1 purchased ratio. 3) Log off the internet, and go finish a project before you come back here, with the exception of a pass for return if you encounter a problem that requires help from those left here who have no stockpile of unbuilts. 4) Help stamp out Bird Flu, buy nothing from Asia until the World Health Organization gives the all clear for the pandemic. (Have you noticed the spread of this disease into Europe, perhaps we should swear off Europe for a while too) 5) Swear off cigarettes until you have cut your backlog in half (National Smoke Out Day) which may give some of us better health and more disposable income for heating costs this winter, and more trains. Non smokers will derive lesser advantages here , except for having more old cranky modellers to give advise to the new comers. The time needed to fulfil this project should be sufficient to break the smoking habit and actually get some railroad modelling done! Lastly, a confession, I am as guilty of the collection fettish disease as any other poster here. Time to take some "retirement time" and put it to good use, and follow some of my own suggestions! Signing off for some basement time and inventory coversion! Will ... one more cigarette!
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