Hey guys, (And gals)
Powerlifting- My school has an option where you can choose between 3 different types of gym classes, an athletic performance class or powerlifting.
As for scores, I placed 8th in bench 180 pounds, and third in deadlift with 400 pounds lifted.
sorry I haven't posted earlier, I was fishing with a friend yesterday and was working on rewiring and welding on a jack to the tongue on my trailer today after work.
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
All aboard!
The Diner is about to be moved to the new location for the month of April. See you all next month!
JimRCGMO Mr. Parks! - how are your classes going (and what are you taking now) at school, young David?
Mr. Parks! - how are your classes going (and what are you taking now) at school, young David?
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Heartland Division CB&Q Jim ... It's more than our taxes. I do them for my elderly Mom, and there are many complications with that. Also, I do them for some of the kids who work for themselves with small businesses. Ours gets complicated because we still have one small business plus numerous transactions with other stuff. I am treasurer for a small non-profit organization, and we must submit tax returns when there are no taxes (Stupid IRS rules). Yes, I favor a simple sales tax to replace the IRS nonsense.
Jim ... It's more than our taxes. I do them for my elderly Mom, and there are many complications with that. Also, I do them for some of the kids who work for themselves with small businesses. Ours gets complicated because we still have one small business plus numerous transactions with other stuff. I am treasurer for a small non-profit organization, and we must submit tax returns when there are no taxes (Stupid IRS rules). Yes, I favor a simple sales tax to replace the IRS nonsense.
Taxes? Somebody say taxes? LION has a whole platform on taxes, but to stay on the good side of the monitors here, can I sell you a box of tacks? I got some really nice brass tacks that hold solder well.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
How did that happen?
Double post but second is anonymous.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
.... ssshhhhhh ..... Don't awaken the baby. Youngest grandchild (1 year old girl) is sleeping. I'm watching her and the house while everybody else is outside walking off a heavy dinner (steaks) in the dark .
The first wave of grandkids are here and the wooden trains (Brio, Thoma, etc.) are out on the floor.
Bill T ... I like the interlocking tower photo.
Curt ... Good to hear about your vacation.
Not much done on the layout except cleaning the layout room for company coming. Also, cleaned some rails.
Good Evening, Janie - I'd like the roast beef dinner, with Waldorf salad and asparagus, and a glass of Finger Lakes wine, please. Thank you!
Tom (tcwright), good to hear of the good report for your wife (and good that you could relax with a dinner before heading home. Best wishes with learning the new car and all its gizmos!
Bill T. - have you been providing photos to Walthers' structures manufacturing team? That one photo you posted this morning looks a lot like their new interlocking tower kit.
Lee, ain't that the truth about retiring! Of course, since we're falling apart, we have to un-retire to have the health care coverage to pay for the 'body w**k' (so to speak)..
Ulrich, nice-looking plan there! Maybe you could arrange some kind of trade with Petra for the flextrack (some chore that she's not wild about but you could do (and endure long enough to get the track...). You're a creative guy, so I'm sure you could come up with an idea or two.
Barry - 1200 pages?! Depending on the cost, I'd be inclined to find a Kinko's or other print shop that you could take the PDF file to, and have them print for you. But then again, might set you back too many 's... Ah, the good ol' days, when software actually came with some kind of printed manual!
Ken, if it'll make you feel any better, my one lottery ticket didn't win, either! But I was waiting before I put that money into next month's budget, anyway...
Ray, I don't know that it was early for tomorrow, but they did show some the body (torso?) of a dead/non-moving snake that looked the right coloring for a cottonmouth. Of course, in the promo spots they were running earlier in the afternoon, they showed a rattler coiled up and all ("If you're scared of snakes, don't look!"), Probably gave a bunch of kids in the area nightmares...(I'll quit that topic before I bring the out of the corner with talking about media types...)
Yep, Galaxy, our trees are in full blossom here, too. Didn't know we had that many flowering trees in the neighborhood until the last week or so. (We'll see how the skeeters and flies are this summer...)
Curt, so did I read that right, you stopped off at your bank in the Grand Caymans? (Just havin' some fun with ya...). Sounds like a great time for you two. We do expect a few photos, of course.
Sue, it "sounds" like you had a good time at Sound Rails, and got some useful info, too. (3 weeks of summer, eh?...) Of course, if I recall correctly from geography class, your wet season lasts much of the rest of the year (if it doesn't turn into the white stuff)
Rob, you're getting off easy if your area is only gonna get quarter-inch sized hail. One part of Southern Illinois in the past couple of days had some one-inch sized (luckily for them, I don't think they got as much of it!)
Well, my plans of lunch with my buddy Mark (north of Cape) didn't w**k out. I had neglected to send him an email confirming we were gonna grab lunch, and he forgot. So he already had some farm w**k he needed to get done today. I did get to see some changes he's done on his place, though. Added a porch over the concrete slab outside of one entrance door to his house (still has soffit to put underneath, and siding for the pediment on the outside end), and added an equipment shed behind/beside his barn to keep some of the equipment out of the weather (the barn's not in best of shape). He also showed me a couple of cows he bought not too long ago (Charlais and a Hereford). He asked me if I was looking for a house/trailer (not looking to buy, given my finances), even offered to rent me a trailer pad on one piece of property he has (but I am not really a trailer person, especially when there are bad storms...). We'll look at doing the lunch thing in the next couple/three weeks on a Saturday when I'm not on-call.
Found out today that FedEx apparently tried to deliver my new hard drive (I'm guessing at the office, or else they couldn't find my physical address) - just showed an "exception error" when I pulled it up on the FedEx website. Hopefully they won't send it back, but will try again on Monday).
Didn't get much of anything on the MRR front done today. May get to some of that tomorrow after church, I hope.
I'm gonna sit here in the corner booth with Rob and watch the evening peddler freight while we discuss hailstorms. Fairly quiet tonight here, though.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
Coffee refill, please.
***Sue, having lived in WA for many years, I know how much you guys are looking forward to another beautiful summer there..."all 3 weeks of it".
Double Severe Weather Warnings right now for the ol' farm here. Potential for quarter sized hail and 60mph winds. Been hearing it approach for some time now.
I'll be in the corner booth awhile, unless things turn ugly.
Cheers! Rob
Glad you had a great time Curt.
On our side of the world, we have been having record rains. Monday some friends have planned a rock climbing trip to Vantgage. A chance of rain is not my idea of good weather. Our fingers are crossed.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Afternoon All,
MOH and I have made it back home after a great vacation. We visited Cozumel, Belize, Roatan, and Grand Cayman. Weather was great and the seas were mild.
Lee- You would appreciate one tour we went on. We were on a small sport fishing type vessel that was trying to anchor in about 6 ft of water. It must of took them 20 minutes and 4 attempts to finally get the 2 anchors to hold. It was like watching amateur hour, by the time they were finished I was laughing. We did see a USCG cutter at anchor in Grand Cayman.
Everyone take care and prayers or those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Well, with the storm that moved trhough last {and DIDN'T leave us any snow} I now have a Migraine.
Took 2 doses {maximum} of my medication but not working. Yet anyway.
RAY- Yes our May flowers are in bloom and NO SNOW means they will continue to bloom out wonderfully instead of freezing to death. Trees are in blossom too.All kinds.
Going back to bed now..I think.
later
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Italian roast coffee in a BURLINGTON NORTHERN mug, please.
***Ulrich, any of the layout plans you have posted thus far look good and would offer a nice mix of train running activities. Good luck!
***Regarding Mowing: Hooved animals mow my lawn and most of the property. None are allowed in the orchard, so I do that on a little Cub Cadet, which is a much rougher ride than any tractor.
Storms kept messing with Internet connection last night, so shut it all down and actually got some work done.
Have a good day all.
Rob
Mornin'!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sourdough toast and lots of hot dark roast coffee.
Wet and cold outside this morning here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 37°F with a high around 44°F late this afternoon.
Galaxy, ah..... Don't know about the Southern Tier, but up here all our "May Flowers" are already in bloom....
Jim, the snake scare must be in Southern IL. The range of the Western Cottonmouth (an Eastern Snake....) does extend into Southern IL. They have probably been their all along and somebody decided to make them "NEWS"! OMG, be afraid, be very afraid! OTOH, maybe it was an early April Fools........
If the sun comes out this afternoon like it is predicted, I will make a quick run up to Alloway, NY and get a couple photos of the Octagon Blacksmiths shop for the gentleman who drew it for me. He has an appointment next week to talk to a kit maker about making it a an HO or O kit. I need to get to w*rk making the molds for the walls for the scratchbuilt one I am making of the place.
Speaking of gas...... I had to fill the Yaris a couple days ago. I was down to an 8th. of a tank. Cost me $32 to fill it! I did get 38mpg this tank though in mixed city and highway driving..... Feel sorry for some of the neighbors mowing their little postage sized lawns with their big John Deere tractor/mowers. Some of them have to cover the same area 5 or 6 times to actually get the mowing done due to all the flower beds, big store bought rocks, trees, and other obstacles in the 1/4 acre lot (including the house) they have..... They have to use the big mowers to save their energy for the afternoon walk around the block you know! Then they get out the gas powered blowers to blow the lawn clippings into a small pile near the road to be hauled away later...... Me, I walk behind a battery electric mower. Costs me about 10¢ to mow my lawn, and I am done almost a quickly as they are (my lawn is slightly bigger), don't have to go for a walk in traffic around the block for excercise, and just mulch in all the lawn clippings avoiding having the Lawn maintenance people come and fertilize everything. Every year several people stop when I am outside and ask me what I do to keep the lawn so green? Ah, we Americans do love our lawns.....
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good moaning folks, it's currently 1.15am on Sunday 1st APRIL! I know most of you folks still have about 12 hours to go until april.
See you all soon. I need sleep.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Morning
Flo, Lemonade to go please.
Have not posted for a few days, just not in the mood. I only got Friday off this week, have to work today. I was all geared up for 2 days away from work.
Guess we did not win the Lottery last night. I bought 6 tickets. Did a lot of running Friday, got some bills paid, went to the grocery store and spent way to much. Never have got the yard cut, I was going to do that Saturday, but Nooo I have to work.
Did watch HBO The Pacific and it was pretty good. But Band Of Brothers was better.
See you later
Ken
Pictures of a friend 68 Charger in Holland. It has my 68 Road Runner radio in it.
I hate Rust
A Dr. Pepper please! It has been a while since I have been in here but thought I would do so before I ghet snowed under in w*rk again. Have a good day. Healing thoughts and prayers to all needing them.
Good morning. It's 64° and partly cloudy with patchy fog. There's a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. The high today will be 85°.Just running trains this morning. I have the F3 A/B set pulling now. No problems with it after changing that bum decoder. Sometime this morning I'll run the F2A-F3B-F7A set. The GP9's and GP7's will get their turn sometime today.
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Good Morning!! Coffee and a beef sancho please. Thanks.
Welp, gonna be.... Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Good day to finish mowing. Maybe I can.... Funny. Real funny. I know the difference between a real and a rubber snake. Besides, it's not like I go outa my way to get a snake, just don't want 'em near the house. They're.....creepy.
Called the counter top people. As I suspected, it will be the last half of next week before they are ready for delivery. It’s terrible not being the only customer a business has. And then to not be first in line at that. Guess I’ll have to wait my turn. Doesn’t seem fair.
Looks like it’s mow the back yard day today and some cleanup around the outside since I don’t have to wait for a phone call for the countertops.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
JimRCGMO Jeff, your DPM building there looks good! - how'd you do the interior on it?
Jeff, your DPM building there looks good! - how'd you do the interior on it?
Good morning, Gang. Coffee, please, Chloe.
The Sound Rails ops session yesterday was fun. We met some great guys. The gentleman who dispatched shared some great info with me. I am like a sponge.
We must get back to the layout. I only work on Wednesday, so I will be lurking around more during the day.
Later, Sue
Good Morning
Doing this while waiting for something to print now...a wonderful 1,200 manual that I need for one certain Audio program...oh frabjious joy........printer is really slow sometimes...
Weather here is kinda dicey..we had a small accumulation last night that melted away a little earlier this morning...going up to 44F for a high...yay..
We had a wonderful time yesterday...we went to a local restaurant that is a cozy little place and had butterflied leg of lamb, twice baked potato, grilled asparagus and herbed creamcheese cake....then went to a series of stores and got her a new outfit...a lovely time to be had....
Nothing much planned for today..more listening to the finches in our backyard sorts of things....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Howdy,
took a day off yesterday - I have an infection in my right elbow, which hurts a lot, especially when typing. It is one of those nagging things, which makes you feel really miserable.
Lee - welcome to the crowd. Not a day here without a smaller, and sometimes even a bigger health issue.
I still have not finalized my ideas on what to do with that Z scale stuff. The main reason is again a space issue. The only place left for it is above my desk, which imposes a strong limit on the layout size. Whatever I come up with, looks too crowded and is far away from where my real interest is. If I could persuade Petra to let me have the place where she puts the laundry to dry (those things that don´t go into the tumble dryer) I´d have ample room to do something right. She´d need to put the rack up in the bathroom instead, that´s what most people do. Now if I had that space, I´d build the Salt Lake Route in Z scale, sell all the German locos and rolling stock, plus the surplus track, to finance the purchase of some US motive power and cars. There are nice locos available from AZL and MTL, which are about the same price as Marklin locos. A rough estimate is that the money i could get for it would buy me 2 locos and a sufficient number of various freight cars to get started. There is even a source for that stuff here in Germany, which seems to have reasonable prices.
The plan looks like this:
I have most of the track, all I need is a few lengths of flex track to build this layout. But how to talk Petra into approving ???
My arm needs a rest - CUL & have a good one!
Good Morning,
Thoughts and prayers to all those in need and a special one for Garry having all those Grandkids over even if it is in small doses.
I went to the Doc and he is referring me to an endocrinologist to look over my hyper parathyroid issues. Never retire! I was in pretty good health when I left active duty now it seems I’m falling apart.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, March 31, 2012!!!
March is now {almost} Officially OVER!!!
April Showers Bring May FLowers!!!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Gould Tower-N&W-Toledo
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
It was a busy day for us. Started off with a visit to the surgeon who put the wife's leg and ankle back together. After taking another series of x-rays, he told us they looked really good and he was very satisfied with her progress. And that whatever swelling and pain she still has was to be expected. He then released her with directions not to hesitate calling if she has any problems. So technically speaking, this ordeal, which began last October, is officially over.
We left the Doctor's office and drove up to the dealer to pick the new car up. Everything went well there too, except now I have to pay for it. It will take some study to get the hang of of using everything from the radio to the built in navigation system. There are 2 screens, and most everything is set up using menus, touch screens, etc. And the voice recognition will handle the radio, cd player, nav system, air condioning/heater, etc if you want to use that method. I think I will have to make selections or adjustments before leaving the driveway for awhile until I can get a handle on all this.
We decided to stop and have an early dinner on the way home. That turned out nice with a good meal and a nice glass of wine. So all in all, a nice but expensive day. Everybody have a nice weekend. Tom
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Evenin', Chloe - just a Rio Grande mug of decaf please. Thank you!
Stopping by tonight for a little, before I head for home. Looks like y'all have been talking cars & mileage, eh? My car gets about 16+ mpg usually, but the biggest hindrance for me on that is that the majority of my driving is just in-town (probably less than 30 miles a week, not counting if I have to drive someplace for w**k). Now if they could price those Preeyus's more reasonably, I might consider one...used...
Man, hadn't heard about Earl Scruggs dying - what a musician (wish I could play the banjo at all, let alone play worth a quarter of his talent on that thing!). Wish I hadn't sold off the 5-string I had, but then again I wasn't doing enough any practicing on it for a while before I sold it to one pastor's kid who was into music a lot. And my hands are more used to guitar picking than banjos (which seemed to me to go sorta backwards - but they sounded great!).
Well (might've got some hail in it, up Todd, Ken, Inch and Jerry's way tonight), it looks like Ray might make it until Sunday before the grass gets high enough that he can't see the mower... 'Course, if you'd just use the Roundup, Ray, you might not have to worry about the mower for a lonnnnnnggg while.
Barry, 97 years is a good long run at it for your aunt, I would say. Hey, did you forget to send Mr. Murphy a note about your op session? Best wishes on pulling off your Anniversary Suprise for Audrey.
Jeff, your DPM building there looks good! - how'd you do the interior on it? Do watch yourself there, and don't let your sugar level get too low again like that, okay?
Todd, how do you house train Mud Daubers - what kind of treats do they like? Not to worry about knuckling under mowing your lawn, though - Ray will make up for it, when he is still waiting to mow his lawn, come this May...
Johnboy, it's not us you might have to worry about, it's whether your insurance agent is into model trains and peeks in the Diner window... (Naw, I don't think you would really do that fire thing, either!) Those Kadee cars are pretty nice, especially when you can find a bargain price on one! Atlas' cars aren't bad, either.
Hey, now that you mention it, Johnboy, it has been a long while since Packer (Sawyer) has been in the Diner...
Gabe, my condolences if your Dad is the head groundskeeper for a golf course! That would be tougher than the guy who lived near (well, down to the corner and halfway down that street from) us - he had one of those hand (push) mowers, and though I never saw him out tending to the lawn with them, I suspected that he had manicure clippers, too!
TSF, didn't know you were on a powerlifting team - impressive! How'd that go, by the way? Maybe your dog hasn't learned yet, because he caught some golf balls on the head?
Garry, hope you survive all the grandkids - at least they aren't all showing up on the same day! And best get that tax return finished up (if possible, before the grandkids arrive, so one of the youngest ones doesn't decide that some vital paper records look 'tasty').
Galaxy, that's a great price on your gas - beats what I paid a coupla days ago (to put about 12 gallons into the tank). And that sucks (big time!) about that jerk running over puppies. He has definite problems in his head (IMHO).
Goodness, somebody must've spiked Bill T.'s coffee - he's extra talkative today!
Darren, sad to hear about all the people displaced from their homes by that fire. Watch yourself - that video was scary!
Joe, best wishes on figuring the details out so you can go to one of your top colleges (hopefully, NEastern)!
As for snakes, we had something on the news (yesterday evening, i think it was) about there being some possible cottonmouths along a lake (a bit of a ways from Cape - Illinois somewhere, I think), and it was not far from a public housing complex where there were kids. Understandably, the parents were a tad reluctant to let their kids out of the house once they heard about it! Hardest part would be, the kids wouldn't be as likely to tell the difference between the friendly/helpful kinds like black racers or others and the cottonmouths.
I did order a 3TB drive yesterday (got a good price on it), to use for my TIme Machine backups. Have also started weeding through my iTunes library of... well, tunes... to thin them out. It should arrive next week.
Mostly just for fun (I will put it down for today's expenses as "entertainment"), I bought one Mega-Millions lottery ticket tonight. I refer to it as my "Shark-bite ticket" - local news had on the dinnertime news earlier this evening that the odds on this lottery were 1 in 176 million, while the odds of getting bitten by a shark were 1 in 300 million (and odds of bowling a perfect 300 score was only one in 11,500). Heck, I wouldn't even know what to do with the (after-taxes) lump-sum amount! Don't need that much, and if I did win it, I'd likely give a huge chunk to church and various charities of mine. Maybe get a small/medium-sized house (maybe even one of them thar Preeyus's?...) Ah, excuse my rambling, must be getting close to bedtime...
Prayers for a good night's rest and for healing and comfort for those in need of it (which might be most of us).
Ray .... I take it the coal pocket has been out of service lately. ... Interesting pictures.
Joe ... Good to see you. I am aware college expenses are getting worse. Bloomberg TV ran a story on that topic, and they said tuition for government supported colleges has increased 268% over the past 30 Years. Remarkably they used constant 2011 dollars for that calculation. ............ and we thing gasoline prices are excessive. .... I hope can avoid borrowing excessively. Too many people are stuck with huge student loans and that is a big problem.
Rob ... They train was stopped for the picture and the horses are not moving. The horses and riders are a set from Woodland Scenics. I had some fun putting that little scene together.
Todd ... I agree with Ray. Snakes are good for keeping away small unwanted critters. We used to have a pair of big black snakes here which we named "Charles and Camilla". They went away during construction of a house next door a couple of years ago, and we think the workers killed them. I frown on people killing good snakes.
Darren ... That's sad about the fire. I hope they put it out soon.
Tomorrow, some of the grandkids will be arriving. Over the next week all six will have visited here.