Copied from April Diner:
Got the wound vac dressing changed this morning. Spent most of the rest of the day looking up tech info online about some old memory expansion cards. I already have a manual for one. The others? Zip. Zero. Nada. Bop-kiss. I found enough online to figure them out and get them working right. On one I had to remove then re-seat the chips. That's one bad thing about sockets. They corrode. One of them is what I call a throwaway board. All the chips are soldered on. If something on the board goes toes up just throw the board away and get another one.Time to call it a night or rather a morning here. I have a doc appointment in the afternoon. See y'all later.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good monring!
As Ulrich has stated, it is MAY DAY, MAY 1st!
Used to be anyway, on May Day, May 1st you gave the women in your life flowers!
I am up a bit early. Got up for the facilities and could not get back to sleep. will try again later.
Today I have therapy at mental health. That should be fun! {what did you do/how did you feel these last two weeks? well, I have been very sick for at least one of those weeks...}
Healing thoughts, prayers and energy for those in need...
Ulrich; here in the USA it seems at least two incomes are needed for any family {even one of just two people} to survive, and in many cases like around here, many people have more than one job! We have 3 incomes amonst the two of us alone. That is a foreign concept to those like my father, in whose day one man supported one family on one income with room to save for the future. We have had no hope of saving over the last 14 years together, and little hope of it now. What we may save will go to the higher cost of health care. Part time jobs have also become the norm so employers don't have to pay health care expenses. A healthy work force is of no conern for them now. Even the state-issued health care package MOH has dwindled in coverage. It will cost us a fortune when MOH's hip needs to be replaced, which will be sooner than later. We will probably easily reach the 10% cost of gross income we have to have to write off medical expenses on taxes!
I digress, and lament....
today's quote:
I learn that ten percent of all the world's species are parasitic insects. It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by harnessing, disfiguring, or totally destroying the other ninety percent? -Annie Dillard, author (b. 1945)
Raining like mad out there!
Make it a great day!
-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.
Good Evening everyone,
It is still April where I live. I am looking forward to May, even though April has been a great month. The highlights of April have been going to California for the Vex World Competition, and finishing my Modern World Studies course for this school year.
My brother is on a Vex IQ team, and they placed third in qualifying. Unfortunately in the finals the other team's robot broke which dragged my bother's team down. I am on a Vex VCR team, but we didn't compete (didn't build the robot in time). I found out next years competition, Vex Skyrise, it should be a fun challenge. I am also pushing for the team to meet more often to allow us to build the robot in time.
In Modern World Studies, my teacher gave lots of extra credit, and had to make some quizzes extra credit since you couldn't find the answers in the curriculum (long story). Ironically, I had a 140% but then I took a unit test and a semester test and got 100% on both which dropped my grade to 116%. I find it frustrating, mentally, getting the best score possibly shouldn't lower your grade (though mathmatically it makes sense). Oh well
Hopefully May will be better for everyone.
edit *Has any one else noticed that on the main page of the forum where it tells you how long ago the recent post have been made, it will say "1 hours"
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I forgot to add:
Healing thoughts, energies and prayers for those in need, and we have a lot of them here.
Also, thoughts for those in the south and on the east coast who suffered flooding in the 22" of rain that fell in 24 hours! 22" of snow is almost unimaginable, though a very capable senario here in the NE, let alone 22" of rain!
Good Afternoon!
I am taking a break from the hard work fun doing scenery on my layout.
Flo, coffee and a slice of that apple pie, please, with a topping of vanilla ice cream.
galaxyAlso, thoughts for those in the south and on the east coast who suffered flooding in the 22" of rain that fell in 24 hours!
Galaxy - we a re enjoying calm Spring weather, partly cloudy, mostly sunny. Southern Germany is suffering from torrential rain, flood warnings were given in some areas.
Will be adding some more rock faces in a few moments. When that is done, the left part of the layout will have all the shore line completed
Well, I finally made up my mind about the camera. I bought it yesterday while we were out running errands. It's a Nikon D5300 with 2 lenses. An 18-55 mm & a 55-300 mm. I'm extremely pleased with the photos I took in the house just playing around with it. Makes my old camera look like a toy. Can't wait to use it outdoors while railfanning this weekend. Of course, the weather might not be too cooperative as the forecast is calling for rain through the wekend here. There is a lot of features on this camera that I doubt I will ever use, but time will tell. I may look into a photography class, I'm sure that will help. It was a bit of a budget buster, but I don't see any locomotives or freight cars on the horizon for my collection, so that eases the pain somewhat. Oh wait, I do have 1 pre-order in for a transfer caboose from Bluford Shops. Not a big deal there.
Lots of chores to do around the house today, so I better get going. Everybody have a good one and stay safe...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good morning. It's 56° with 76% humidity. The high will be 72° with some clouds.Nothing much going on today. I have a doc appointment this afternoon and that seems to be the highlight of my day thus far. I may squeeze in a game of Starfleet1 before then. Yesterday I was doing some work on a large memory board that was bought as junk, the problems of which were unresolved when I went to bed sometime after midnight. A little while ago I discovered that it's working. Not only working but completely reassembled and a 'Running Bear Enterprises' label applied to it. And I don't remember doing any of it.
Good Morning All....Coffee and a sweet roll Please..Thank You...Havn't been in for a long time..How You all do'in? See alot of new faces...I am still plugging along on the Illinois and Southern and Illinois Central...in N scale but tore the old fiddle yard out and put in a HO scale small fiddle yard just 2 turnouts..
Trying to stay busy..been working with a young feller how is just starting in N scale...Well its sure is good to see You all...You All have a good one...Jerry
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of vanilla almond granola this morning and a few cups of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee in my FGLK mug...
Not feeling 100% the last couple of days... Couple nights ago I made up some speghetti sauce (Canned sauce doctored up to my specs) and had a nice spegetti dinner. By Morning it had gone through me... Last night I took the remaining sauce (about 3/4 of it) and made some goulash out of it and baked it in the oven... That went through me as well... I have to deduce that the sauce didn't agree with me for some reason and since I am heading for a road trip to Canada tomorrow, I think the remainders will be disposed of in the trash and I shall have something more agreeable to eat tonight! I have been told that I have a cast iron gullet as it is seldom that anything disagrees with me so I guess I best avoid the stuff...
Today is clean the house, run a bunch of errands, and pack for the trip day. As soon as I get the suitcase out Manét will start acting strange and meowing loudly. He often sits in the suitcase and stares at me to keep me from packling. They seem to know that "Daddy" is going away for a few days...
I best get at it as I have 2 days of w*rk to get done by mid afternoon...
Happy May day! I won't say much about May Day as it really isn't a festival that can be discussed here at the forum.... I'll just say the it gave Shakespeare some excellent bawdy lines in his plays!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmus He often sits in the suitcase and stares at me to keep me from packling. They seem to know that "Daddy" is going away for a few days...
Ray that's is exactly what our Burmese does. He's so used to one of us being around that he just hates it when we get out the suitcase. I have to leave my housecoat on the bed for him so he feels better while we have abondended him.
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
howmusCouple nights ago I made up some speghetti sauce (Canned sauce doctored up to my specs) and had a nice spegetti dinner. By Morning it had gone through me... Last night I took the remaining sauce (about 3/4 of it) and made some goulash out of it and baked it in the oven... That went through me as well.
Jeffrey: waking up on the floor, redoing a computer board and not remembering it, there was something else it seems to me you didn't remember doing and i think it was like remotoring a train? you're starting to worry me!
Well, had my therapy session at mental health, and see the psychaitrist for a grueling exam on the 15th. They finally go the transfers form the old mental health clinic and my regular doctor. Then I visited my father, didn't stay too long as I didn't feel like it. I'd rather be home where I can try a nap.
Since I am a homebody, that worries my therapist. I'd often not go out for days on end especialy during the winter. Isolationaism is not good especially for one who has attempted suicide afew times they say. i just feel comfy and safe at home and don't like going out in the cold! Summer time is coming, I get out more, but these days I cannot walk things like I used to could, so even that is limited. It frustrates MOH when I am "done" with something/someplace after just an hour or two and/or have to sit frequently.
The solid food seems to be agreeing more today. But I am not rushing it by any means. Watch me put on the pounds agian in just as short a time frame.
well MOH will be very late tonight so I can go take a nap and tehn do dinner...alone. Not as much fun!
Well hte cat missed me, he met me at the door, that is rare for him to do with me, but he does it all the time for MOH, who brought him home!
Afternoon everyone, just got home from work. Interesting day today, a lot of WIC checks to use as payment, BOY ARE THOSE NOT FUN TO ENTER INTO THE SYSTEM! Otherwise it was an okay day. There are some interesting characters in the town I am working, but at least they are all mostly friendly-except for this little old lady who snapped at me when I had to get past here.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Jimmy: MOH has complained about WIC checks {Women, Infants and CHildren...special food needs for them for no cost for those in need, seperate from food stamps- for those who don't know!} for a long time! Worst part is that the customer will have, say 5 WIC checks and a total of 20 items and will dump all 20 items onto the belt and make MOH sort out the individual items to go with the WIC checks! I HATE being behind some mohter or grandmother with WIC checks for the same reason! Perhaps someday MOH can quite the grocery store! The store where MOH is now has few people with WIC checks, so is now fortuante, but when worked in the innercity store, nearly EVERY other BODy had WIC!
It is now official! My system is REVOLTING against solid food! In more ways than one, but I won't bore you wiht the details, at least I am not back to vomiting...YET
I have a half a chicken in the oven trying to bake it off, I am watching it like a hawk so it doesn't burn, I set the oven for 25degrees cooler and the element seems to cycling on and off, but it sure DID get hot in a hurry{like up to temp in exactly 1 minute!}!
I don't know if I will be able to eat it when it is done, though. I hope so.
Later
Good Evening,
Johnboy, I sure hope that therapist can get your swallowing back on track. I can't imagine how frustrating that must be.
Jerry, great to see you in the Diner!! Please stop back often as people have been wondering how you are doing.
We finally had a nice day with 15C and sun but we will be back to cloud and 10 tomorrow. I did get a little yard work done which was nice. Felt good to be doing something outside but I expect I will know about it tomorrow with a few stiff muscles.
We were down in Minnesota visiting our friends last weekend and had a very nice time despite the miserable weather. I have to say that the U.S. customs officers where we cross are very friendly. They give Robbie a milk bone most times and now he starts getting excited when we pull up to the customs house.
I did pick up my M.B. Klein order which wasn't anything very exciting, mostly scenery materials and a couple of N scale vehicles, gas trucks and tractor trailers. I'm amazed at the very poor vehicle selection available in n scale. I guess my town will have to set as Sunday morning and early at that with the very small number of vehicles I have.
Well time to veg out and that means TV.
CN Charlie
Well, I went to town early this afternoon for my doc appointment. It went well. He's happy with what he's seen. I go back in a month for a general physical. When it was time to leave my van pulled off it's specialty move and stranded me in town. Again. The battery went from charged to dead in less than ten seconds. I had to call my brother-in-law for a jump. Once the battery had a good charge on it the engine kicked right over. Definitely time for a new battery. I'm more than tired of this crap. I tested the mysteriously fixed memory card this morning. It tested as normal in all respects. I guess I can trust it.
I am still modeling the PRR for all the feight and a majority of the Passenger cars. My AVDC will be a commuter rail, with limited freight service. The PRR still does almost all the coal shipment at the Dynamite City Mine, although the AVDC does have a limited (one a week or so) hopper car for the fuel company in the city of Dawston. Thanks for the link though, I will look into those.
Good evening guys
Work was really busy today. Guess people are getting their end-of-the-month checks. Been busy chipping at some other projects. I got stopped on a few because I realized I'm out of stuff. My father took my double-sided duct tape, so I can't finish the few car kits I'm building... Then come the fact I ran out of .5mm drill bits, so I can't install some brass stirrups I wanted to put on a few cars...
Ken, Actually I haven't had an issue with that SD40-2 I got from you other than needing a new motor... It's actually one I bought.
Jerry, long time no see.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Evening guys,
Not much going on here, just watching the Jays vs Royals game. Might get a game of strat o matic in.
Ray: What part of Ontario are you coming to? dont know if your my way.
Jerry: Good to see you in, have you been watching any Cardinals or cubs games yet this year?
After all today's activity I'm pretty sore. I walked the distance of several football fields which for me is a long way. Don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight despite being tired. Maybe I should leave some junk computer parts out. Who knows? Maybe I'll devise a method of interfacing a //e with a modern pc. I did that back in the 80's through a simple cable connection and a modem jumper but back then pc's were glorified desktop calculators and the //e was an overpriced electric typewriter.Time for me to try and get some sleep. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer and may need so help lifting it.
I am just beat, need to be in bed soon. Was half way busy today but while I had good sales noithing with any spiffs on them. I have yet to beat draw, in other words make any commission on sales based on volume of sales. When I do say I made say $115.00 like yesterday, I real should say what I sold had spiffs on them that paid me the $115.00.
Got home at 9:00 PM becsues of a late customer. Well they did not come in late, they where in the store at 6:00 PM. But it kept dragging on and on and on. Finllaly had there ticket done at 7:50 PM and we close at 8. Then I had to do the paper work and so forth. Total for the day was around $2370.00 which for this company is pretty good! That in it self is a sad statment. Marv is 81 and Nancy is 71, they don't run any advertising unless they are closing a store, then the sales sky rocket! I have been there 8 months and they are now closing the second store of the 6 they had when I was hired. I hope Marv will figuer it out that ads bring in customers and it does not have to be Going Out Of Business Ad's!
Bear, yep that Lego House was something like the one I was dreaming about. I have no clue why a Lego house would ever come to me like that is a dream.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, a cup of hot decaf coffee would be very nice right now....
JeremyBRay: What part of Ontario are you coming to? dont know if your my way.
Jeremy, the convention is being put on by the International Division of the NFR, NMRA. It will be held at the wine college in Niagra on the Lake. Right across the border. Only a few kilometers from the Lewiston Bridge.
I think I have everything packed that I can get packed tonight. Shouldn't take long to pack my meds, the CPAP Machine, and make sure my passport is in my shirt pocket tomorrow morning... I have my speech pretty much written... Have to wait un til I talk to one of my members, who is going, to see if his layout will be open for our Convention in 2015. His is the layout featured in NCE Ads. We will have a tour of the NCE Facilities during the 2015 convention, BTW.
I think I best call it a day folks, the next few days will not include a lot of sleep... I probably will stop in tomorrow before I head to the convention. I will be taking my old laptop so I may be able to post while I'm there, and maybe I won't....
Prayers for all in need!
morning coffee in the diner..
quotable quote:
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719)
Good Morning...
Kind of dull and dribbly here this morning...posta get some sun later on....high in the low 60's....
Off to get blood work done then get some more scrips ....sheeesh....
Then to get some more wire for the layout...I burnt some yesterday...still trying to figure out the why part...
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/
It´s rather dull outside - just like at Barry´s place. The wind makes it even more miserable.
I did not get much sleep last night and now I feel up to nothing. I will take a break today, just hang around. I bet you could knock me out with a feather today.
Maybe some strong coffee will help. Chloe, if you please ...
Blessings to all!
Good morning. It's 56° with 81% humidity. The high will be 75° and it'll be cloudy.Still pretty sore this morning. I did manage to get some sleep last night. No unexplained work or completed projects this morning so at least I stayed in bed. Home health nurse will be coming today. No idea what time yet.No plans for today as of yet.
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.
Zoe, I'll have a waffle this morning with lots of real NYS Maple Syrup, a sausage patty, and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee for my FGLK Mug, please and than k you Ma'am.
I'll be taking off to go to Canada fairly soon. May not get back in here untill Sunday evening although I am taking the laptop with me so I can make some last minute changes on my talk about the 2015 Convention. I hope they will have a printer that I can use to print it out if I do have to make any changes...
Currently 49°F with a high around 58°F this afternoon. Cloudy out there and showers are happening now and then. Nothing big, but a dark and gloomy day. Went down cellar last night to turn off the lights in the train room and found the workshop had a flood again due to the rain we got. I started the siphon and will again before I leave.
Have a good one!
I need a shot of bourbon!
I think maybe it's time to take a hiatus from these forums for awhile. I just got back from Carson City and the whole time going there and coming home...stops included, I spent that 3 hours seething about the subject of a thread from this morning. I was right there and completely understanding with the OP...and said so then went on with a few additional comments.
I know it'll rub many people the wrong way...but when are we going to stop being like the little dog that rolls on the floor and wets itself when excited or challenged.
It's not that the MR manufactures aren't making money...the big names in particular, are...they are just not making enough money to suit themselves. Pretty classic thing these days. Farm it all off to China so they can pocket more profit and...support the economy of another country. It's called greed!
Model railroading IS becoming 'A Rich Man's Hobby' more than ever.
Sorry for my griping...but it's only a matter of time till I'll be priced right out of the hobby.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Wow, sure is super quiet around the diner today. Weird to say the least
Not a heck of a lot here to report either. Not doing much except looking after my wife who is still pretty much still under the weather. If she isn't showing signs of improvement soon, it's back to the Dr.
I haven't had to be chief cook and bottle washer for quite some time so I'm sort of out of practice but I did note that it all coming back real fast.
I did manage to get the yard cleaned up, lawns fertalized and the waterfall running so that's done. We had 3 days of + 20 sunny calm weather so it was a good time to do it. Today, is a different story as are the next 4 days. Forcast is for lots of rain, below normal temps as in back to the zero's and 2 inches of sn*w.
So glad it's May, yeh right.
Been watching a fair bit of House MD on netflix to pass the time. Sort of hooked on it and that my friends is strange for me because I normally watch about 1 hr a day of TV. Spend most of my leisure time reading normally. Who knows.
Oh yes, the new car/suv or whatever it is now has... wait for it.... a whole 197 km on it. About now I'm wondering why we ever need a car but then this isn't normal around here right now. I will say this, it's a boring vehicle but most of them are nowdays. Glad I've got the Fire Bird for the summer. At least I enjoy driving it just because it's a fun car.
Currently waiting for supper to cook in the oven. Everything else is ready. Anyway that's about it from my little part of the world. Take care all.
I was looking around on Ebay today and came across an Apple IIe enhanced motherboard up for auction. The bid at that point was below $2 but the auction had six days to run. Below the auction info was a buy it now price of $20. Shipping was $6. I read all the information on it. Clean, tested, working. Those were the only three words I needed. These things usually sell for $60+, some in questionable shape go for around $40. This one looks to be in great shape so I snapped it up while I could. It'll be added to my parts inventory. Deals like this don't come along every day.
I hear you on that Dennis. Sometimes there will be something that gets me hooked on TV but for the most part all I watch is baseball hockey or football. Id rather spend free time reading or playing a game of some sort or working on the railroad.
Well seeing as its almost midnight I should get to bed, just in the last hour or so I have got a pounding headace. Will finsih browsing up here and over at one of my strat o matic sites then call it a night.
Chamomile tea in an Undecorated cup, please.
***Johnboy, continued healing thoughts for you, and now your next door neighbor as well.
***Jerry, always good seeing you in the Diner. Sure has been awhile. Hope you come back more often.
***Ray, Manét is a handsome cat. Indeed some of then absolutely do know such things.
***Ulrich, you seem to work rather quickly. Looks good.
Have a good night all.
Cheers! Rob
Only thing to report on is that I have a memory card that wants to stay dead. It's a 128k AE Memory master. Half of it works, the other half doesn't. Replacing the chips just gives me a blank screen. Of well, into the reject box it goes. It would make a nice piece for a display but that's about it.Home Health nurse came today and changed the wound vac dressing. She did her job too well. The dressing is sealed so tight the vac can't work and keep giving me shutdown alarms, blockage alerts and pressure loss alarms. Any of those will shut it down. Tomorrow I'll be going to my fathers place and put a new dressing on it myself.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Gang,
I'm Down in the dumps tonight, all day for that matter. My good Neighbor was taken off life support at 11:00am this morning. He had a massive anyorism in the center of his brain and apparently lost a horrific amount of blood. SO so sad. RIP Konrad. You were one of the few Good Guys.
Thanks for all the kind thoughts in regard to this and my situation. Much appreciated.
Not much else to relate other than I have been trying to keep myself busy and not dwell on my real feelings about my friend and have been working on a few Bad Order issues with a couple of B-man GP-30s, Think they are solved now as they are running like swiss watches.
Time to hit the hay, so have a good night y'all.
Johnboy out.............................but pretty sad tonight.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
morning coffee in the diner...
Quotable quote:
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. -Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998)
Good Morning!
It´s a beautiful day! Nice and sunny, no wind, not too warm - my kind of weather!
Johnboy - I am sorry to hear about your neighbor´s passing - may he rest in peace! Continuing prayers for your improvement!
Calculated the material I need for that first dock on the left side of the layout,only to find out I was short of a few lengths for the planking. A quick run to our home improvement store took care of that. Would you believe, that I need 22 yards of 3 by 5mm stripwood for that? I have to cut quite a few hundred pieces from that - without that mini table saw I have a forbidding task! I will start on that tomorrow at my friend´s house. On the way back I bought a bottle of alcohol and black india ink to weather the wood. This is supposed to give it a natural gray and aged look. Two tablespoons of ink on a pint of alcohol. There will be an enlightening smell in our home, when I start on the weathering
More plastering this afternoon!
Sir MadogWould you believe, that I need 22 yards of 3 by 5mm stripwood for that? I have to cut quite a few hundred pieces from that - without that mini table saw I have a forbidding task!
Cheers, the Bear.
Started the scenery on the right side - now I have a couple of hours before I can continue. I am also slowly running out of plaster, but don´t want to get more today.
There is quite some discussion on a British forum about my rocks, how natural or unnatural they look. Here is my answer to them:
Well, a geologist probably will have a few words how wrong the rocks look for what they are supposed to represent, but...
I am happy with the looks of it
I had hoped my new loco would be in today´s mail, but no, it wasn´t
Ulrich: If YOU are happy with your rocks, that is all that matters! Look how many opinions Ray had on his Smithy, on how it should "look"! Besides, none of them live in New England like you are trying to model, so pish posh on them!
Well I have been out already. I went to the gorcery sotre again. Actually it was to the pharmacy within the grocery store for one of MOH's scripts. The pharmacy wasn't open yet, so I wandered around the store while waiting. that was a mistake. I came out with another $42 worth of stuff in 4 bags. Most of it was "Mix and match 8 for $0.88 each" stuff! That adds up! I also managed to get two meals worth of main courses. That doesn't mean much!
Then on to the regular pharmacy for my script.
It will be a boring day as there is typically nothing in in TV on Sat or Sun. I hav one load of laundry to do and just a few dishes, so I will be bored out of my skull after awhile..maybe I should attack the train/junque room! Nah! don't feel like THAT monster!
I am still not feeling so good, though my system does seem to be tolerating solid foods on a better "ok" level now. Far better than 1 week ago! I think I have gained back a few pounds. That can be good or bad. Summer is coming I typically lose a few then, so maybe I won't gain so much back.
dunno what else I will get into trouble with today!
Morning Folks, and Good Morining Ulrich!
Flo, Diest Dew to go please.
Johnboy sorry about your lost.
Well got to get going, off to work I go again.
Ken
galaxyUlrich: If YOU are happy with your rocks, that is all that matters!
Galaxy - I am happy with the way they look. There is still alot to be done to get them right, but I am glad that I have a good basis to w*rk with!
I just finished the second and last batch - for today. I have run out of plaster and have to buy a new box on Monday (or later). Will be watching some steam vids now ...
Ken - eine guten Morgen to you to and have a pleasant day! I sent you a PM, please check your inbox.
Have fun!
Jeffrey, I remember when chip sockets came out. What a luxury. Used to have to unsolder 7400 chips using the braided wire method. I started in the U.S. Navy submarine service, and TTL was exactly that. I believe two "and" gates would fit on a six by six card. Storage was on huge magnetic drums weighing around 100 lbs. each. Graduated to medical electronics design useing the venerable PDP 11/05 with real core memory. Arghhh, that unibus backplane. Have you ever done any backplane wire wrapping. Went to work for Tallgrass Technologies designing winchester drives. We had a 20 meg drive for the IBM PC and XT before IBM had hard drives for them. Anyway dude, I feel your pain, been there done that.
Steve
Life is tough, but it's tougher if your'e stupid.
Coffee TO GO, please.
***Johnboy, sorry about your neighbor. A good neighbor is a gem to have. Now, as others have suggested, be sure to take good care of yourself and continue healing.
***Ulrich, your work looks great to me. Heck, I just slap together leftover building materials to make the "rocks" on my layout and soemtimes it looks like it, too.
My worker didn't show this morning. I could have got much more needed sleep. Off to brushcut more pasture. Have a great day all.
Jeff, love the weathering on the Magnolia. SOP troubleshooting on the Apple II even the brand new ones that had problems was pull ALL chips, and reseat them. I believe the micro processor was a 6502, and it always had problems in the socket. I believe we started install the zero insertion socket for the 6502 when they came out with that socket. Their external 5.25 Floppy was a nightmare too. Fixed any Commodore 64 or VIC's? Ha. I have worked on many Vector Graphics S-100 systems. They were a lot better. S-100 problems? Pull all cards and break out the old pencil eraser. I just noticed the 80 column card. Wonderfull stuff.
Fouled Anchor Jeffrey, I remember when chip sockets came out. What a luxury. Used to have to unsolder 7400 chips using the braided wire method. I started in the U.S. Navy submarine service, and TTL was exactly that. I believe two "and" gates would fit on a six by six card. Storage was on huge magnetic drums weighing around 100 lbs. each. Graduated to medical electronics design useing the venerable PDP 11/05 with real core memory. Arghhh, that unibus backplane. Have you ever done any backplane wire wrapping. Went to work for Tallgrass Technologies designing winchester drives. We had a 20 meg drive for the IBM PC and XT before IBM had hard drives for them. Anyway dude, I feel your pain, been there done that.
Fouled Anchor Jeff, love the weathering on the Magnolia. SOP troubleshooting on the Apple II even the brand new ones that had problems was pull ALL chips, and reseat them. I believe the micro processor was a 6502, and it always had problems in the socket. I believe we started install the zero insertion socket for the 6502 when they came out with that socket. Their external 5.25 Floppy was a nightmare too. Fixed any Commodore 64 or VIC's? Ha. I have worked on many Vector Graphics S-100 systems. They were a lot better. S-100 problems? Pull all cards and break out the old pencil eraser. I just noticed the 80 column card. Wonderfull stuff.
I had to smile and actually chuckle a bit when I read the part about you breaking out the trusty old pencil eraser. There were many times over the years when I got scandalized stares and horrified gasps when I'd snatch up a pencil and rub the gold plated connection fingers on the boards with the eraser.
Good afternoon. It's 77° with 38% humidity. The high will be 85°.The wound vac almost drove me nuts last night. One alarm after another! Blockage alert, low pressure warning, bad seal warning. And none of those were in evidence. At 4:15 this morning I'd had enough and removed the vac dressing and replaced it with a standard dressing. Later I'll apply a new vac dressing.No other plans for today.
I've got work tonight for 5 hours, thankfully I don't have a social life outside of my trains lol. I am glad I work tonight because otherwise I would be still stunned about how bad some people can be to you, and how some intentionally try to hurt/drive you away.
Jimmy_Braum I've got work tonight for 5 hours, thankfully I don't have a social life outside of my trains lol. I am glad I work tonight because otherwise I would be still stunned about how bad some people can be to you, and how some intentionally try to hurt/drive you away.
Jimmy: hope you have a good night at the grocery!
Unless you are talking about a friend who has turned sour, then:
MOH ALWAYS comes home complaining about how customers are! They are the worst, rudest people MOH claims! WISh MOH could quit that second job.
I have worked retail {non-grocery} and restaurant cooking all my working life.
The retail customers often expected you to solve their problems of getting larger purchases home from a "cash and carry" enterprise! The worst place is the returns counter! you would not believe what some would try to pull!
Restaurant customers: some were NEVER going to be happy with their food, no matter what! WE often suggested they try another dish if they didn't like something about it. Some idiots would actually eat 3/4 or more of a plate and THEN complain and expect it to be comped...thereby effectively giving them a free meal! On the rare ocassions I have had bad food at a restaurant {stone cold food for example}, I try to be pleasant and turn it back immediately! I don't like to complain, but not right is not right. We stopped going to our favorite restaurant after 3 episodes of cold or wrong food, Their cooking staff just could not get it right. Part of a chain, we found the one in Scranton worse than our location. SO they are off our list of places to eat anymore.
well, I have busied myself today and it has gone by... MY will be out of work at the grocery store in about an hour and home soon after that! I'd better on to dinner, it may be early, but MOH will be hungry when getting home!
MOH has next Saturday off from the grocery, and plans on going out the long trip to the military cemetary where MIL is buried. Taking some allowable flowers too. WE have not been out since she was interred and the weather went bad. Wants to go for Mother's DAy. wants to take flowers to my mother's grave too. Haven't been there in a few years and it is local!
Speaking of which, Mother's Day is the 11th, for those of you to whom it stilll applies! You have been warned!
later!
Lamb, corn and flavored rice is for dinner, in case you wondered.
Got the wound vac dressing put on today. Different nurse did it as my usual nurse was on weekend call and was swamped. So far it's holding up well.Apparently my Apple Image-writer II printer will be brought to me sometime this coming week. It's costing me a whole $25. It's supposed to be in working condition. We'll see.The motherboard I picked up cheap yesterday should be here the sixth or seventh.Haven't done anything else today.
Thanks Galaxy. It wasn't anyone at work,but a family member. Work went okay tonight, but got SUPER slow after about 6PM (I was there until 9:00PM). Well at least my register balanced tonight, so there is that. Plus I am going to spend tomorrow figuring out what undecorated locomotive I want for a project (OLD NS logo locomotives, and a few sheets of letters for my fictional railroad-the NS is to model the Local train here,right after Conrail was split up so no Dash 8;s or anything like that lol), But yeah, I need to get in contact with Bachman to get my parie locomotive fixed (fried decoder when I tried programming it), If I can get that fixed I will have my two locomotives (And a Consolidation I still need to purchase)>
Found an offer in the mailbox today from the company I have my satellite TV with. EPIX at half price for six months. I can live it at $3.50 a month. I just gotta remember to have it taken off my service in October. For now it makes a nice addition to my current HBO. Next month I'll change that to Starz, Cinemax or Showtime. Haven't made my mind up yet. Depends on which on is showing more of the movies I like.Nothing more today. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
A randy old fellow named GrayDidn't shave for a year and a dayBut he said that the GirlsQuite enjoyed his new curlsWhen his tongue didn't get in the way
Zoe, strong coffee, please, I can hardly keep my eyes open. The weather has changed - it´s ra*ning and quite cold. The nighttime temps were below freezing.
Today´s sawdust day. I´ll be busy cutting the stripwood for the dock. That should occupy me for quite some time. I hope that table saw I bought a year and a half a go does a good job. I´ll watch my fingers!
Ken - the track spikes I was taking about are from MicroEngineering. Part # is 30-106.
CUL
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Good Morning Galaxy and all the rest of the Crew,
Galaxy, you really did get up too early today as if you didn't know, it is May not April.
I'm only up because the dogs woke me up and now I can't get back to sleep. I am tired though, we have been babysitting our Grandson this week and for the next two weeks as his Mother is in Vancouver on a training course for the Feds. His Dad comes and gets him after workand in the morninng takes him to a day care till around 3:30 and then we pick him up. He slept over here on Friday night and we had him all day Saturday and again today as my son has previous commitments. These little guys, no matter how good they are, sure play you out. But we love him dearly.
Weather has really cooled off here again this week end. I sure hope Dennis doesn't send any more snow this way even though he has his fountain running in the snow.
All our Neighbors family has arrived for the funeral, a Son from Scotland, Daughters from Arizona and New Mexico, BILs from California ( they are staying with us in our spare bedroom.) The funeral will be on Wednesday. Thanks again for all the kind thoughts on this.
No work on the LM&E yesterday and doubtful if any today, should make some headway this month as I am now feeling a little stronger and have somewhat more stamina. If I could only heal enough to get back swallowing and eating properly I know I would get back to normal in a flash.
Prayers and best wishes for all who stand in need this day.
It was great to see Jerry swing by the Diner, hope that becomes more of a regular occurance.
Ulrich, you really do quality work, I am always impressed.
Jeff, how long do they think you will be saddled with that wound Vac??
Rob, so glad you have come up with some good help for the spring work on thr ranch. Hope you get back to running that new Steamer soon.
Well. I will try a little shut eye again now and see if it cuts in or not.
You all have a great Sabbath day and I hope it is springlike for everyone where ever you are.
Johnboy out...................................and tired if only the eyes would close. maybe
Johnboy: good to see you again!
Sorry, I changed the month, sometimes the old month get stuck in my head! Sometimes I do It just to see who is paying attention! Obviously Ulrich wasn't!
I get up so early as that is when i wake up to use the fcilities for the second time during the night and usually cannot get back to sleep!Of course, I go to bed around 9pm too! Plus after about 4-5.5 hours, i usually wake up anyway, but never fear, I usually get a nap of about 2 hours + somewhere during the day or evening unless i am in a "non-sleeping mode", in which case it doesn't matter as I won't sleep much or at all regardless of what I do. Around the solstices that happens! I DO take a med to help me sleep! It doesn't always work!
SOunds like you have a full house! and yes. I understand little kids/grandkids can be a handfull...parents seem to forget how rambunctious their own little ones were by the time they get to grandkids, plus they are {sad to say} oldER!
Johnboy, it IS May, not summer, yet, so we have to still think of cooler days. We seem to forget the middle temps when we are exhausted from the cold and cannot wait till the warm months get here! The furnace was running this early AM, and later I MAY have the AC on, its just that way this time of year. I went out at 6:15 to get the local free paper with store inserts, and to go to Wally WOrld to get a few items {$125 later!}, and had to warm up the vehicle to clear the windows! I am very thankful we DID NOT get the snow the N mid-west got, the wildfires out west, OR the rains down south got! I am sure we will have our share of weather disappointments coming! Let us be thankful if they are managable!
good luck and healing with everything you have going! I have you and your neighbor on the list! Johnboy, I thought of you a LOT recently as I was so sick, eating was not possible, and when it was it was hard to choke something down once a day. And then my sytem rejected solid foods so I had nearly a week of not eating. I thought of you and swallowing and eating and not being able too, that helped me get through what i was dealing with. I knew I could recover fairly quickly, but you would still have a long row to hoe. GOod luck relearning how to do that again.
have a GREAT day everyone!
I placed an order for some model railroad stuff this morning- a weathering pastel kit, a fishbelly kit(Data only-owned by the fuel company on my eventual layout), some more couplers (Why does it seem like they always go first?), and some decal paper/spray. I may get my consolidation tomorrow and strip off the WM lettering on it for my freelanced railroad. I'll say that micromark is really cheap for their stuff and I like it. I also decidedI think I am going to build a diorama to use for photographing my stuff. Oh yeah, I don't have a layout anymore, I have to take down my first 4X8 layout
Jimmy Braum: It gets easier as you take down a layout! I assume you have been TOLD to do so? Or are you doing it to build something better in its place?
I tore my 3.5x5.1 HO layout down to expand it, a lofty goal, but really found we DON'T have the room for it! I tore it down to the tracks. I didn't want to do it, but....in building it i had torn down two others before it that had lofty high grade percentages that did not work in reality.
My FIRST layout- O/O-27 is STILL up at my father's, though he is figuring to clear it off down to the basic table to use it as a flat horizontal surface..which he will promptly fill up with meaningless goobledy-gook like every other flat horizontal surface he has! For a small while, he was playing with the trains, and even re-routed the tackage to suit him, but lost interest in it again.
I have toyed with converting the HO to N and even toyed with building a Z scale layout so I can get A LOT in the small space! I would do it in an under-bed container, if not in the space I had for the HO.
So, buck up, and take some pictures to remember it by, and salvage what ever you reasonably can!
The next pleasure will be in building something new!
I was told I had to take it down, and I don't have the space to build a home layout right now (Long story, it was in a space I will no longer have access to). So yeah right now, I just have the club layout. I hope your right about it getting easier, I should be able to salvage most of the track, all the buildings and such.
last mountain & eastern hoggerJeff, how long do they think you will be saddled with that wound Vac??
Hey Johnnyboy, we've got 3 inches and it's still comming down. I put the sn*w shovels away when I was getting the yard cleaned up. Should have known better. Supposed to get down to -6 tonignt. I think it just may be too early to plant the sweet peas.
Around here, bedding plants don''t get put out till the end of May or early June because we are bound to get frost. You know about that too living in Regina.
Sounds like you are starting to get better bit by bit. Glad to hear it.
Good morning. It's 71° with 53% humidity. The high will be 88° with some clouds.Nothing much planned for today. I'll probably be going to town later to do some grocery shopping. Other than that I'll just take it as it comes.
Good morning
We returned from southern Arizona late last night. It's very good to see all the Diners again. I'll read your recent posts later. Scanning through the May DIner I saw Jerry posted again, and was happy to se him with everybody elese.
Here is a picture from our hotel window in Casa Granda, AZ in the Sonoran Desert. The UP double track main line is about a block away. I used a cell phone for the pictures and quality was not good.
Numerous stack trains pass thorough town daily along with other freight trains. It is hard to photograph them as the trains are moving at about 60 mph, and buildings are in the way. I also saw the Amtrak train.
Here is a westbound stack train.
The stack train power was usually 2 to 4 units pulling and 0 to 2 units pushing. GE and EMD units were intermixed. Engines were dirty.
I'll post more photos. We followed the line going west of otwn for several miles, and I have Some to share.
One of the photos is of an old California Zephyr observation care on display in Maricopa, AZ adjacent to the UP line. You can see a stack train passing through behind it. I am not sure why decision makers decided to have a CZ car parked in the Sonoran Desert, because the CZ operated elsewhere.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Back again!
Cutting those lengths of stripwood into 500+ pieces of various shapes and sizes was done in no time at all. It sure adds to the fun when you can w*rk with proper tools. The job wasn´t messy at all, as I could connect the vac to it. Tomorrow will be assembly day
What else did I do today? Marked the texture of the stonework onto the foundation, using a felt tip pen. Engraving it is going to be an awkward and messy job, for which I will have to select a day when Petra is not around
I missed to say hello to Jerry - good to see you, now and then!
Hi everybody. I hope you all had a nice weekend. I sure did. We went railfanning as usual and I got a good chance to try out my new camera. All I can say is I am more than pleased. In fact I'm happy as all get out with it. There's still a lot about this camera that I have to learn, so a class somewhere is definately in order. But I got somewhat comfortable with the basics. Even tried out the 55-300 mm zoom lens. Definately need a tripod for that one though.
We caught 7 trains in 2 hours on Saturday, and 15 trains in 3 hours today. 1 denatured alcohol, 6 intermodal, 4 mixed freight, 2 crude oil, 1 string of empty gons, and 1 coal train. I had a nice surprise on the very 1st train we saw today. A nice set of locomotives with the New York Central Heritage unit leading, followed by a BNSF & a CSX.
There were numerous meets today which are always nice to watch. If fact, a couple of times today all 3 tracks of the main line were occupied. It sounded on the scanner that Conway Yard was sort of busy. I think everyone there was earning their pay today.
We didn't get over to the other side of town this morning to catch any CSX traffic, as a lot of the streets I would use to get there were closed for the running of the Pittsburgh Marathon. I had no interest in fighting all the closures and traffic jams. We just had a nice Sunday dinner and finished off a bottle of Reisling, so I think it may be nap time. Take care and have a great week.
Well I got the grocery shopping done. As I don't trust my van to get me there and back especially where perishables are concerned I called my sister and asked her if she was going shopping today. That's like asking a frog if it hops. There's always something she wants to go shopping for. Turns out she and her daughter were going to Wal-Mart so we made a threesome of it. As an added benefit they brought my groceries to my door. Very nice of them.This morning I stripped some junk computer boards of any usable parts and I took three repowered Varney F3B's off the layout and cleaned and serviced them whether they needed it or not then put them right back where I got them on the layout. One has an Athearn/Stewart/Kato drive, another has a Proto 2000/Athearn/A-Line drive and the third has a Bowser frame with a junk box special drive made of whatever parts I could make or scrounge up. All three are DCC with Digitrax decoders. Other than that I haven't gotten anything else done today.
Nice out today, sunny but with a cool wind. Spent most of the morning do maintenance on my monuain bike as I am planning a ride for Tuesday morning ( usually set out about 5:45am ) cleaned out my hydration pack and got it ready to go, all I have to do is fill the water bladder on Tuesday morning. Got the bike all ready to go also with a chain cleaning and lubing as well as cleaning and lubing of cables and derailleuers. I put the bike away clean so its just a qucik go over before the riding season.
Watch the Jays game before going over to my parenst for dinner and may sneak a quick game of strat o matic in while watching the sunday night game.
Iiiiiiiiiii'mmmmm Baaaaaaaaaaacccck!
Great weekend, great Convention. I'll tell a bit about it tomorrow!
I'm just catching up on my reading for the moment, and will need to get a good nights sleep toninght!
Watched a movie today. Nothing major, something called 'Josie and The Pussycats'. In my opinion mildly entertaining so not a complete waste of time. It also gave me a chance to pull my Atlas H24-66 and Atlas SD27J off the display rack and give them much needed attention. The SD27J was badly damaged in the tree mishap. It's back together now but still looks like it's been through the mill. The H24-66 took hardly any damage. It just required a cleaning. It's a dual decoder loco. A Bachmann decoder for motor control and a Digitrax DZ125 (burned out motor circuit) for lighting.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Quotable Quote:
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Good evening folks,
spent some time tonight painting the foam. It is nice to not be looking at yellow foam any more, at least for the most part
With paint I'm a little bit happier with some of the shapes and land forms, although I'm still going to sculptamold some parts to contour it a bit more.
Shoved some trees in to green it up a bit I'm just happy as this is the most I've accomplished in about the last 2 years...
Cheers,
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
galaxy typed: Sorry, I changed the month, sometimes the old month get stuck in my head!
Sorry, I changed the month, sometimes the old month get stuck in my head!
That's OK. April Fools is a dish best served cold.
All of my women are out of the country. My wife and sister are in Ireland, and my daughter is in the Dominican Republic at one of those all-inclusive resorts.
So, I'm home alone with ... Gigi the new GG-1. I had her taking my old Mantua streamliners around, and I even did a little test video using our digital camera. It came out pretty well, but the dining car and observation car both have broken wires from the trucks, so their lights are out. I decided to fix them, and then I thought it was time to take the cars apart and add that burgundy stripe I've always wanted. So, the newly-painted shells are sitting on the table, awaiting decals including names of illustrious people. The dining car will be Alferd Packer, after the only American ever convicted of cannibalism, and the observation car will be William Le Petomane, after the Governor in Blazing Saddles. One of the coaches will be Hillary Rodham Manson, but I'm still looking for a name for the other coach. Homer J. Simpson, Samuel Adams and James T. Kirk currently top the list, but other suggestions are welcome.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Ok. NEW question for those who know {and expect me to be thick headed aobut it} We are old school when it comes to technology.
We had a 2 year contract on cable that gave us the hard wired internet, internet phone that can call anywhere USA free and Mexico{we hardly ever use}, and I don't know, some 250-odd channels of TV. We are addicted to TV around here. the TV goes on first thing when we get up or when we come in the door and is last thing to go off for the day or we go out. The 2 year contract ended at $75/month {too rich for some of you I know} it was a relative bargain. Now the new price for what we have on another 1 year plan is now going to cost $100/month, that is STILL better than the full price for what we have which woudl be about $200/month. I have seen/heard about 16 different ways to "cut the cord" on cable..by buying this or that gizmo, hooking to you computer and watching streaming TV.
I don't know a thing about them. Just watched a youtube vid about an Amazon one and it includes a gaming device..we are NOT gamers and don't intend to ever be! I am still not sure I understood it though it was a "tutorial on getting it and connecting it up". that is supposed to cost about $100/year IF you have Amazon Prime {we don't and that is another $100/yr now}.
We have a newer flat screen TV with a few different connections back there, but had to call the cable company to connect it for us to get it right as it made no sense to us. We were trying to use the wrong cable to hook it up to the cable box!
We NEED some kind of internet connection as MOH's "homework" for work relies on the computer input. How do we get internet if we don't have reliable cavble internet? DSL IS available from our landline phone comany {we are the only ones with working phone after a power outage or a few days without power!} Bit I understand DSL to not be as good as cable.
WiFI is not available around here except McDonalds and Starbucks. I f we go paid wifi, the only option I know of is the cable company again..and wifi through them is not cheap!
We DO NOT have a "smart phone" yet either and don't want a phone that must be connected to the Tv all the time to view TV either. WE have looked at them and don not know which one to get and want to stick with verizon for service, but the phones are not cheap and the service to have one for the limited use we give it is rediculous! We know we will have to ditch our pre-paid flip phones sooner than later, but the costs of a smart phone seem redicualous to us too.There are so many phones and options we don't know what to choose! we feel like dinosaurs!
WE are NOT so much into watching endless movies either. once in awhile maybe but not alll the time.
Anybody in the park who has gone to satellite, goes back to cable as soon as they can so that is not an option.
I found a "free TV antenna" site that listed only 4 local stations broadcast here and needing two different antennas to get the whole 4 stations as they are accepetd only on certain antennas apparently. Reminds of me of when I was a kid..it was the same 4 channels only!
so..the question is WHat are the options, how much do they cost and where do we get them? can a google chrome thingy be plugged into one of those holes on the back of the TV or must we connect some kind of computer to it?
i uderstand some of the "cable-less" streaming video TV options only cost like $10/year to have, but how many do you need to get adequate TV coverage?
Will we get local new statations? that is all the complaints about the satellite too...no local news!
How can we get about the same thing we have for less?
Thnaks for all answers...
Good morning, everybody!
Ulrich ... You are making great progress with the layout.
Oz James .... The sky looks very good.
PA Tom ..... I like your photos. You must have a real camera.
Here are a few more cell phone photos (poor quality) from Arizona.
A local train serving industries near Casa Grande with a pair of old GP40's. Those who like to weather locomotives might be inspired.
Next is the lead locomotive for an eastbound train of containiers.
A large steam era water tank is still standing. It might last forever.
Ulrich: Great work on the layout scenery.
OzJim: The sky looks good. Layout rates good too.
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Good morning. It's 69° with 79% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 88° with some clouds.Nothing planned for today. The Home Health nurse will be around sometime. She always calls about a half hour before. The party I worked a deal out with for an Apple ImageWriter II printer should be bringing it today. I hope it works as well as he says it does. If not I'm not out much. I think I have everything I need to repair a CP/m card that's been taking up space in the junk box.Other than that there's nothing going on.Click image to play video.
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Organic Vanilla Almond Granola, and a cup (probably 3) of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug please. Huh? Yes, I was out of town for a couple days, I thought you knew...
I haven't had time to download all the photos I took of the layout tours on Sun day yet. Hopefully later this evening I will post some shots of the convention. They had close to 120 people attend the convention and one record was broken at this one. There were more ladies there than ever before. I think the count was 23 women. The one wife from our division who attended was delighted to be part of setting the new record. She is the lady who you see in the NCE ads in MR and other Hobby Magazines. I went around with them Saturday afternoon to do the layout tour. We got talking and she mentioned she has a book on the many women who, way back when, worked for the railroads, and wondered why the NMRA doesn't do anything to get folks to know of the many contributions of women on Railroads. She then offered to present a clinic next year on the subject and will call the clinic, "She's been working on the Railroad...". I told told her I loved the idea, so I announced that at the banquet when I did my speech. My speech (little tiny 15 minute one) went well. I guess it went over well to the group as I was told again and again by Canadian members that they expected to come South of the border next year to be at our convention.
Did get to see some great model Railroads and attend several fine clinics over the weekend. The clinics I attended were all very informative. I attended "Designing a Narrow Guage Railway for Operations", a Prototype slide show of the local RR "Toronto Hamilton, and Buffalo Sub", "Open Loads", "Niagara Escarpment Scenery and Rock Formations using Foam" (I will be giving this a try on my layout soon...), and "Snow Plow Service (another Prototype Slide Show). All were well done.
I have to get moving. Need to get over to my son's house to watch the Granddaughter for a short while while my son attends a Parent Teacher Conference on the little one.
Catch you all later!
It´s already more like evening in my neck of the woods.
Things never turn out the way one had planned them - today´s schedule was "interrupted" by the fact, that I had to take over Petra´s part of the household chores. She has a bad pain in the back, so it was my turn to do the Monday grocery run, do the house cleaning etc. It wasn´t before noon when I finally was able to start building the dock - only to find out that the super glue I intended to use does not work with wood - although it is written on that package it does! So another run to our home improvement store to get my old fashioned wood glue, that´s not white glue...
I think I achieved quite a lot this afternoon - here are some pics:
Of course, the dock is far from being finished, there are tons of more parts to be added, then I will send the surface, clean the whole thing with my Dremel (substitute), weather the wood with my magic formula of 2 tablespoons of india ink to a pint of alcohol, paint it, add nut-and-bolt-and washer-detail, and, and, and...Will there ever be an end to this task. Right now I am not feeling up to doing any more on it - my fingers are covered with glue, my nose is dry from the fumes of that glue, my eyers are watery.
Taking a break now - have a good one!
PATom - congrats on the new camera!
well, I have accomplished finishing off the dishes and a load of laundry. I will get out the little vacuum as the long haired cat left tufts in the hall racing up and down last night at breakneck speed.
Still as confused as ever about the TV thing. guess for now we are stuck with cable. Actually we are for the next year, anyway. You'd think since apparently people are leaving in droves, they'd have more value-priced pacakges instead of increases every chance they get...
I'd like to look for options to replace the cable in said year. apparently no one has any info for me yet.
Took my diuretic so I can't do much that takes me away from the facilites for more than about 10 minutes! At least me feet will feel warm again.
later.
I think I may spend today drawing up plans for a completely scratchbuilt wooden engine shed for my shortline.
galaxy - Unfortunately, the cable companies will give you an "introductory" rate for a year or two, and then raise it by a whole bunch if you want to continue. We ended up getting rid of the superfluous stuff like HBO, which we didn't watch much. But, we are still paying a lot more than we did originally. Until recently, we were stuck with only one cable provider in our neighborhood, although other parts of town had a choice. If you have two or three options, I'd imagine that you could switch providers and get the good price from the new one for a year or two.
I had satellite for a few years, but I found they kept raising prices and dropping channels.
The mistake I made was establishing my e-mail address with Comcast. So, if I went to Verizon, I would have to tell everyone I know that I've changed. Proably not a big deal, but I should switch over to G-Mail so that switching providers wouldn't be such a pain.
Mr. Beasley: thanks for your reply on cable and TV.
Unfortunately, Time Warner cable is the only game in town, and soon to be merged with/bought out by/sold to Comcast, which many on here have had nothing good to say about.
We also do not have ANY seperate pay channes and NEVER use "pay on demand" services, $14.95 for a movie is TOO MUCH!
We also don't have Verizon as a landline phone source, though the surrounding area does. We are the token market that Verizon DOESN'T have so no can claim they are a "monopoly" in this area!
WE have Frontier phone which does offer a DSL link, but I guess not as good as high speed cable.
Our cable rate for the internet and the 100 channles we had for $60/m was fine for a long time-until they suddenly wanted "fullprice" of $125! WE took in the box to turn it in for the lowly 16 base channels and internet 2 years ago. a guy pulled us out of line with box in hand and asked if we going to turn it in, we said yes. He offered us a deal- for $69 we would get the 250 some channels we get now, the internet, and the phone for 2 years. Of course, over the 2 years that crept up to $85 with new fees, and increased fees, etc. Now, naturally they want us to go to full price at some $250! we balked and were prepared to turn in this box {DVR we never did figure out how to use} again to the lower base 16 channels, and were given the year more of what we have with no changes for the $100 rate. Next May we face the same problem!
WE are, in short tired of cable games and have NO IDEA how the Comcast thing is going to affect us or our channels/service etc. They claim "no changes or interruptions of service". Pish posh I bet.
we only watch about the lower channels to about 180, and even then a lot of time there is nothing on! There is really no other channels we are interested in, being that we are so glued to the TV all the time. For some people it is the radio, for us, TV! We are lost when the power goes out for days on end and have NO TV! We also watch a lot of the NEws channels..at least 2 if not 3 hours of news of all kinds at night alone, and 3-4 hours all morning.
So, we are now seeking an alternative to giving them $1,200 a year for so-so coverage at certain times of the year when nothing but repeats ad nauseum is on. like now.
I guess we will spend the year searching.
I DO agree wiht you on one thing: an independent email addy is a necessity. I have one on Yahoo, nad should I guess go gmail too. Why? we are also considering droppin the high-priced, low-service now greatly compromised AOL, another service we have paid for for years and who keeps jacking up the price to rediculous rates to $225/year! I HAD to have AOL as my boss required it when I was working. Now? don't need it, though it IS easy to use. Searching for a replacement isn't turining out to be easy either. You'd think these companies would WANT to keep good paying customners, but instead they punish us with high prices to offset the losses of those who left their high-priced ways!
We do intend to CUT THE CORD , we just don't want to cut off our nose to spite our face!
Maybe a smart phone is a cheap bargain by comparison....but how to write and print a letter?...
MisterBeasleyUnfortunately, the cable companies will give you an "introductory" rate for a year or two, and then raise it by a whole bunch if you want to continue. We ended up getting rid of the superfluous stuff like HBO, which we didn't watch much. But, we are still paying a lot more than we did originally. Until recently, we were stuck with only one cable provider in our neighborhood, although other parts of town had a choice. If you have two or three options, I'd imagine that you could switch providers and get the good price from the new one for a year or two. I had satellite for a few years, but I found they kept raising prices and dropping channels.
Well my friend 'Andy' brought me the printer this afternoon. It works in a self-test. question is will it work when connected to a computer. None of the 'extras' alluded to when I bought it were included. I've found I do have a manual but no extra ribbon cartridge. I'm holding off on getting any ribbons until I confirm that this beast actually works. A power cord and printer cable for this type have been packed away in my closet for about twenty years so I don't have to get them. I can get a pack of six ribbon cartridges for under twenty bucks, so I know where part of next months fun fund is going (if this thing works). I'd forgotten how heavy these old printers are. My friend set it down then I picked it up and had to make sure my arms hadn't stretched! It's only fifteen or twenty pounds but if you're not expecting it you're in trouble. Bulky is the operative word here.
Good evening. Not much went on today. Got my wound vac dressing changed as is usual for Monday. Got my ImageWriter II printer. It works for the self-test. Don't know about full operations yet. I was looking around online and found a word processor that was written for the Apple II series and the Commodore 64. It's one I've looking for and it was going for cheap so I grabbed it. Other than that I've been watching TV. Got a call from mt father. He said they were in Lancaster Pennsylvania waiting on my younger sister. She's meeting them there tomorrow. He said they'll probably be back here some time this month. I told him he better be. He only left enough food for the dog for three weeks.Didn't make any headway on the CP/m card I mentioned this morning. As you can see below it's missing several chips and the processor. Maybe I can complete it tomorrow.Well, nothing else going on here so I'm calling it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
I had something really touching happen tonight at work. An older woman on government assisstence, didn't have enough money for her groceries. She was about ready to take it all back, when the man behind her line said he would pay her the amount she was short. He then refused to have her pay him back someday.
Janie, just a decaf please.
Jimmy, you know, there are still many, many good people in this world. We just don't hear about them often because what they do doesn't sell newspapers.... I always try to live up to this:
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Had hoped to have some photos to share tonight, but too many other things got in the way. Hopefully tomorrow.
Have a great night and my prayers for all those in need...
howmus“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
Jimmy_Braum I had something really touching happen tonight at work. An older woman on government assisstence, didn't have enough money for her groceries. She was about ready to take it all back, when the man behind her line said he would pay her the amount she was short. He then refused to have her pay him back someday.
Jimmy .... I think other people can follow that man's example. I know when I have done similar deeds, I am promptly rewarded with a good feeling. ..... I recall stopping for gas while on a trip. A poor old man with an old car needed gasoline to get home and had no money. I gave him $5.00 worth of gas. He wanted to pay me back at a later time, but I said if his situation improves to donate the money to a church of his choice. He thanked me, and I continued my trip.
Talking about good feelings, Shelley and I attended a fund raiser this evening for a program which helps young pregnant women to avoid abortions and assist them with their needs if they choose like.
Ray .... you are doing good deeds in your community all of the time, and I bet you have that good feeling.
Also Ray .... I saw Finger Lakes mentioned in Trackside Photos of June Model Railroader
Not much model railroading from em to report. Still catching up with suff after our trip.
Quotable quotes:
Once you label me you negate me. -Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)
Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Jimmy. while there ARE some good people out there, and I myself have done that to help someone, unfortuantely there are a few people who rely, yes rely on someone behind them in line doing just that for them.
I DO rountinely here periodically suggest everyone do a good deed for someone on a praticular day, and I encourage them to tell us what good deed they did.
More than one person who routinely pulls that game at the store MOH works at have been "banned".
So while it may appear touching, unfortuantely a few unscruppulous people take advantage of it. They expect someone to step up and pay the extra and know the chances of having to pay it back are nil. The older or "poorer looking" they are, the more they can tug at "heart strings".
They will hem and haw about which items to "put back" to reduce their bill to what they can pay for while holding up the line, hoping someone behind them will step up to speed things up and pay for them.
There are also people who "jump line" by throwing money on the counter at the cashier for a coffee or a paper and try to skip waiting in line to pay for it.
Not to burst your bubble, but Please be AWARE of that.
And pay atttention to who these people are in case they are routinely pulling this stunt.
Hi folks,
cheers for the kind words on the progress so far.
Hoping for a bit of help!
I'm having trouble locating what would be common fair large scale industries (rail served) located in the Tehachapi, ce central valley or Mojave area's of california, more specifically in the late 80's to 1995 (my era) The obvious one that sticks out would be a cement plant for the desert areas and something like a produce warehouse for the central valley. Was there any other common industries? Perhaps a lumber yard, chemical plant or plastic pellet facility etc?
One thing I'm thinking of doing is a brewery, because I really want to buy alot of the upcoming BLMA "beer" cars!
Any help would be great
cheers,
Morning all. I work again today from 10-4, so another 6 hour day. I am fairly impressed right now with micromark. I placed an order on Sunday, shipped on Monday,and will be here tomorrow-nice fast quality service. I need to get in contact with bachman to fix my Parie loco (DCC with sound-the decoder fried when I was programming it into the club's decoder library). 35 dollars for the loco to be fixed/new one, so that isn't bad. Desert Industries...Did you think of a cattle yard? what about a farm with rail service using irrigation? If you want a modern industry, try an industrial park-they usually build those out in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe a shipping company. There is something like this in Westmorland county Pennsylvania. It ist eh Westmoreland rail freight terminal served by a class 3 shortline. It's worth looking at on google maps,
Time for a break!
Janie, coffee and a sweet roll, please.
I was busy from early morning till right now. I weathered the first part of the dock with diluted ink. I put only a few drops of black india ink into a pint of alcohol, but that stuff sure is strong. The wood looks quite seasoned now ...
I also added some details, painted a few things and glued it to the base. I intended to do that later, but due to the weathering, it developed a slight buckle, so I thought it´s better to glue it down and put some weight on it until the glue sets. Pics will follow later.
I´ll have to do some clean up now, just to keep Petra happy....
CUL!
I have the eye Dr in a few hours, in case he dialates my eyes, I won't be able to bore you with details for a long while, although I have heard they now use additional drops to undialate your eyes.
I tore the cornea with a magazine whne i was about 20. It is a source of mild irritation once in awhile, but while i was sick it seemed like a golfball was stuck between the eye and my eyelid. It has since settled down.
Its been at elast probably 10 years if nto more since my last thoru=ough eye exams sans what teh optometrist give you for new glasses, so I am due.
I havbe my usual insurance which I don't think works for that, and we are SUPPOSED to have some kind of {cheap} coverage form MOH's work, but have NO CLUE how to use it. No card came for it at all, and when MOH asked HR about it, thy said "see the handbook"...WHAT handbook??? we got a few papers with the basics of insurance listed on them and a slew of enrollment papers! SO it will be interesting! There is a different insurance coverage for every segment offered!
If I have to, I will pay for it myself. I need to get it looked at to see if more damage over the years or age has damaged it further.
MY GP, while I visited him for being sick, said he "could see it" with just his high intensity mag light, so it might be damaged.
We'll see. If he dialates my eyes, you may not hear form me for the rest of the day {some may be happy at that!}
later
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup and a pot of Seneca Lake Dark Roast Organic Coffee to start the day, please.
I slept late this morning... Didn't wake up until 9:30 so Blackie got his morning medicine a few minutes late. Guess I needed to get caught up from the weekend. I have to start mowing lawn today if the weather doesn't turn bad.... Only 50°F here at the moment and the temp is falling to 40 by this afternoon. Will probably be mowing lawn with a heavy jacket on.
Garry, I have also been in the position of need. Not money in my case, but one time my VW Bug got stranded on a bank of snow while driving to our parents homes at Christmastime. We should have stayed home as there was a blizzard in progress. We came up route 14 North of Watkins Glen and tried to buck our way through a 100 yard long 2' snow drift across the road. We got through the drift, but the snow packed under the front of the car made the car into an unsteerable snowmobile! We continued right up and onto a 3' pile made by the last snow plow that had been through. The car behind me came through in our tracks until he tried to stay in the unplowed drift where mine had gotten blown up on the pile. He got stuck. The car coming right after him couldn't see and didn't stop, rear ending that car. I had packed a snow shovel so after determining everyone was OK I started to dig out the Bug to the tune my wife was yelling at me (can't say things like that on here...). Farmer who lived right where we got stuck fired up his Ford Tractor and came over with some chains and pulled us out. I tried to pay him for the tow, but he refused and said, "Next time you see someone in need help them. That will be my payment!" We promised him we would, and I have had the opportunity to do just that a few times in my life. If more people practiced "Random acts of kindness, and senseless act of beauty" it would be a lot better world! Yes, I feel good about who I have become at this point in my life.... I know I am not alone here in the Coffee Shop. Hanging around with the good, kind folks who are in here is fun!
Heartland Division CB&QAlso Ray .... I saw Finger Lakes mentioned in Trackside Photos of June Model Railroader
Thanks for the heads up! I hadn't get a chance yet to even thumb through the June Issue. Ithaca is on the Southern end of Cayuga Lake. Seneca Falls is the Northern end of the same lake. Nice to see see someone from around here get a shot in the Trackside Photos.
I best myself moving. Lots of STUFF to do today!
Here are a couple of quick shots from today´s work on the dock:
The dock is still a little wet - I hope it gets somewhat lighter once it has completely dried. If not, I´ll use powdered pigments to "lighten" it.
Ulrich, love the little loco!!! Great work on the dock scene so far. Yes, the wooden dock should lighten over the next few days. Even if it doesn't it will still look the part.
The dock is looking good Ulrich.
Good morning. It's 71° with 65% humidity. The high will be 85° with a few clouds.Already been busy somewhat. My father called saying that he needed some prescription information so he can get some prescriptions filled at his present location. So I went to his house, got the information and relayed it to him from there. His reception wasn't so great so I had to do it in the military Alpha/Zulu comm code so there was no doubt that he got every word of it. If I knew the language better I could have really scrambled his brain by giving it to him in Cherokee.Only thing on the agenda today is to complete the CP/m card I was working on yesterday. The processor I have for it came from another type of card (not CP/m) but a Z80A is a Z80A so it should work. It's not like I'm trying to put a 65C02 into an otherwise unchanged 6502A environment. That by the way doesn't work as the 6502A and the 65C02 firmware are incompatible. I'll know instantly when I test it, but as I said, it should work.No other plans. I'll take whatever else as it comes along.
james saunders Hi folks, cheers for the kind words on the progress so far. Hoping for a bit of help! I'm having trouble locating what would be common fair large scale industries (rail served) located in the Tehachapi, ce central valley or Mojave area's of california, more specifically in the late 80's to 1995 (my era) The obvious one that sticks out would be a cement plant for the desert areas and something like a produce warehouse for the central valley. Was there any other common industries? Perhaps a lumber yard, chemical plant or plastic pellet facility etc? One thing I'm thinking of doing is a brewery, because I really want to buy alot of the upcoming BLMA "beer" cars! Any help would be great cheers, OzJim
OzJim .... I just returned from the Sonoran Desert, and it might be similar to Mojave. Here are 2 photos. ... poor quality cell phone pictures...
We stayed in the Casa Grande, AZ Holiday Inn and the UP mainline was only a block away. I could see the local train with two old GP40's in addition to through trains. A petroleum products company received tank cars. There also were lumber cars and covered hoppers in the local train.
This photo (poor quality from cell phone) shows the local train running from Casa Grande to Maricopa with covered hoppers for a large fetilizer company there.
Ray .... That's a good story about being stuck in the snow. I suspect the farmer did more giving than taking.
Ulrich .... Nice dock!
Well,
The eye Dr. went Ok.
He said that the source of my irritation is a bacterial infection in my right eye. Probably somehting I picked up when I was so sick and immune system compromised, nad probably on a finger adn then rubbing the eye transferred the infection.
The tear looked OK he wasn't so concerned about that as he was the infection. Eye drop 4 times a day for 10 days then resume my regular dry eye drops.
He said without a thoruough exam he said everything else looked OK, but to schedule a thorough eye exam, that turns out to wait til Dec.! He couldn't do it today, he was over loaded with patients. So no dialation!
Boy it is definitely getting hard to get in to see any DR, and long time for appts to get in these days, and that was happening even before the influx of Affordable Care Act {obamacare} new patients!
Nothing but nap and dinner planned for the rest of the day.
i know, the life of Reiley! Somne people!
I have only been sleeping about 4 hours a day lately, that is starting to catch up to me now.
Back is starting to catch up to me without the heavy duty prescription onboard. Next week I will try it again and see what happens. Till then, have only the back-up script.
Dinner will either be beef ribs, or chicken, haven't decided which yet, Both are pre-cooked so heat-n-eat is in order as MOH gets home LATE tonight.
Have a good one,
Coffee in an Undecorated mug, please.
Saw a beautiful mixed frieght train today. Such a nice mix of different colored box cars right behind the locomotives, would have made a nice pic or vid, but I was pressed for time and couldn't stop this time.
I always help others when and where I can, although never financially. It is not always easy to tell a gamer from someone actually in real need and my priority is keeping my horses fed, as well as myself. But changing some elderly folks flat tire, or pulling an old mail lady out of a ditch with my tractor (yes, I did that) or simply giving a hand every chance I get, that is my norm. Today I donated a couple large bags full of clothes to a battered womens shelter, although had to do so through one of my lady friends, because those places have to be very careful about giving out where they are located, for obvious reasons.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Horrible day today. absolutely horrible day at work. At least I have my model trains to take my mind off of it, and I do not work tomorrow.
Jimmy_BraumHorrible day today. absolutely horrible day at work. At least I have my model trains to take my mind off of it, and I do not work tomorrow.
I finally got the CP/m card done. It's been tested and it works.As for the rest of the day, been watching TV and got a nap which I needed.
Cuda Ken
Not a bad day all in all. I got the CP/m card completed and tested. It's good. UPS brought me a box of supplies for my wound vac. The Home Health nurse will be happy to see that. We used the last filter canister yesterday.A friend of mine should be bringing me his Apple IIc before the weekend. Last time I fixed the disk drive. Now it has a memory problem. Probably a loose RAM chip. I'm going to see if he'll allow me to post photos of it. It belonged to his son and he's kinda touchy about that.When I was at my fathers place this morning I put a sliced up frankfurter on the dogs snack plate. She ignored it for a while. Then the cat ran over and swiped a piece! The dog made short work of the rest.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.Here's an AHM C628. The old three pole motor was on the weak side. I had to make a couple of modifications to the frame but I shoehorned in an Athearn blue-box motor and made a set of shafts to fit it. The test of the new drive can be seen in the video below.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
Morning Folks, Good Morning Ulrich!
Flo, I will take eggs over easy, bacon and a Diet Dew if you would.
Well back to work, thank goodness I need the rest after yesterday.
See you all this evening.
Yoohoo! Anybody in here? The place looks deserted!
Cuz´ Vinnie decided to launch a special marketing campaign - all the meals will be at 1960´s prices for this month! This should attract a few more customers.
The first part of the dock has become a liitle lighter, not as balckish as it was yesterday - big relief! I finished the second part today. I must have built it three times, as odd bits and pieces came off during construction. The second dock will be done in a different way - I will drill pilot holes into the frame and the pilings, insert a piece of wire and then glue everything together. This should prevent the pilings from falling off all the time. It´ll be a tedious job, but much better than doing a second or even third time around! The jig I made to ease assembly finally was not of much use!
The loco I orfdered has not yet arrived! I called them to inquire about my delivery and they found the shipment, already packed and ready to go. It was sitting under their nose for a week! I got the proise that it will be shipped today, so it should reach my doorstep by Friday.
Thoughts and best wishes to all suffering from illnesses!
Good morning.
Ulrich: 1960's prices is a good idea as long as the food is not 50 years old too.
Ken .... Glad you had a good week at work, and very glad your toe ulcer has heeled. Sorry about the other adventures with medial appointments though.
Happy Model Railroading!
Morning to you too, Ken!
Would you believe it? I am taking a break fromw*rking on the layout. Somehow today´s job was no fun. At least the thing is finished now - I hope it doesn´t fall apart gain.
Garry - the food is fresh. After all, Barry used to ave such an enormous intake, there can´t be any old food
I already went to the grocery store. SPent $145 for not much! Of course the waters I bought cost some, but not that much. I cannot drink our tap water as it is well-city supplied water with chlorine and who knows what else in it! Even the Brita pitchers don't take out the chlorine adequately for me not to vomit. I like to keep at least 4 24-packs of spring water {that may contain who knows what} on hand cuase if the power goes out, we will have water flowing, but it should be boiled as apparently the water supply is on generator, but not the chemical treatment system??? ANd when the electric company or towns pass out water it comes in 6 bottles of the regular drinking size to a household per day. Not enought really for one person, let alone a household.
I see the weather people say the NE will be wetter than usual until the summer when it will be hotter than usual after our rather harsh winter. The drought will get worse for the folks in the SW and Califorinia.
I just caught a program on History channel that points out the US, Europe and Russia {at least} DO have ways of/have been using ways of controlling the weather with weather machines and cloud seeding, ideally to control warfare outcomes. SO maybe there really is MORE to the story of man causing the global warming than just our cars and factories and fossil fuel generation plants. Prehaps our weather is being controlled by someone else. They say they can cause droughts by rasing temps in targeted areas, as well as rain in targeted areas and perhaps cause things like Hurricanes. Not making a political statement, just sayin'! Interesting! And there are no aliens in Area 51!
Ken:If you missed my tale oof woe about the recent trip to the ER..well the night Dr refused to look at me and other arrivals, so he "could get out of work on time", then for a WHOLE HOUR there was absolutely NO Dr. in the ER at all before the Next day's Dr. came in! AN HOUR in the ER with absolutely NO DOctor???? it took 4.5 hours to see the Dr for me, and MOH went back and complained to the Patient advocate too! The ER Dr.s are under contract from a different compnay and are NOT hospital affilitaed! Imagine that! Fortunately, I/we have GREAT regular Dr. {General Physician- GP} who actually listens to his patients adn DOES something! Unfortunately it can also take 2 weeks to get in to see him sometimes! The medical system will opnly get WORSE after the Affordabel Care Act now, perhaps making it not-so-affordable. Oh, and I have heard other horror stories about the VA, apparently it is NOT the place to go to for help. Glad your foot has finally healed...now if we can get Jeffrey's foot to heal...
Well, I don't what other trouble I will get into today. It reamains to be seen. Probably not much as my back is revolting after the grocery store! Without the heavy duty script, I feel it! I can increase the secondary med to 4 times a day but that may still not do it...I have been lucky that it has not bothered me as much as I had the injections about a month ago. but the futher I get away from them, the more the pain sets back in. I have to the middle of JULy to wait for the next set.
We have a Celtic festival/ renaissance festival to go to the end of June,it will be a LOT of stnding/walking and I will be in agony I am sure as too far from last injections and not close enough to the next ones. That is why I go the canes with a seat on them. One for Me with my back, and one for MOH with the hip. CAn't wait! I can wear my KILT! i am looking forward to the festival, but not looking foreward to the agony! WE may have to just go back to the hotel and rest then return to the festival! I am good for about an hour or two, then I am in trouble nad need to sit frequently to say the least.
well, have a great day!
Don't get into more than trouble than I would!
galaxyKen: Glad your foot has finally healed...now if we can get Jeffrey's foot to heal...
Zoe, I would like a bowl of Vanilla Almond Granola, skim milk, and a cup of Seneca Lake Blend Coffee in my R&GV RR mug please. What, you don't take Credit Cards cause we are back to 60's? OK will a few pictures of dead Presidents work? Oh good, I'll give you three pictures of George and you can keep the change...
Ulrich, the wood should continue to lighten for a couple weeks getting slower over that time. I have used the India Ink mix for a long time and it turns out very well, but usually looks too dark at first. Give it time and it should be right on the money!
I shut off the computer at midnight last night after downloading and working with about a third of the photos I took at the convention. Of course it was after 11PM when I got around to start it. Didn't take that many photos as I forgot my camera for the tours on Saturday. I'll give you a peek... The layouts ranged from plywood central (club layouts) to 100% track laid and 100% scenery finished. These photos came from the second layout we stopped at on Sunday. This was a small On30 layout with brass locos, hand laid track, and using NCE control. The rolling stock and the buildings are both kit and scratch built and the track is all hand laid. The layout was featured a few years ago in a Canadian Model Railroad magazine. (Probably not supposed to mention the actual name around here....)
Notice the waterspout. He has it rigged so it moves up and down to "fill" the tender... Below is one of the most incredible rock faces I have ever seen on a model railroad.
Sorry for the poor quality photos. I had to use the flash since I didn't have a tripod. Using the auto setting doesn't give much depth of field either....
Good afternoon. It's 77° with 62% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds. South winds 15mph with gusts to 25mph.The Home Health nurse has already been here and gone. Different one this time as the other one has the day off.Nothing particular on the schedule today. No projects to work on. I worked on a couple of drive controller cards last night. That didn't go well. There are several chips soldered to the cards. Guess which ones have the problem. Yeah, at least one per card and they're soldered ones. So those cards are going in the trash. No worries on those as they sell for cheap online. If I need one I can always find one there.
Sounds NICE Jeffrey! Alittle windy perhaps,as has been here lately making it feel chilly at only 50 degrees.
58F at the airport u on the man-made garbage hill, so it should be warmer down here in the valley...it is supposedly 70 on the porch which now has large gaping holes in the corrugated see-through plastic that "encloses it" as the tops and bottoms and the angled eaves are not enclosed. A guy last year gave us an estimate of $700 to fix it, but didn't know off-hand what the price of the corrugated plastic now is. It got shredded and made into swiss cheese during a major storm the year before last year. thank goodness the trailer windows held, especially the front big bay window that was taking the brunt of the large golfball sized hail! We also sustained a roof leak at the furnace and discovered the furnace install-comapny had used the WRONG sealant on it. He basically used clear silicone caulk! The trailer repair roof guy patched it with tar-type roof sealer. He is hte one who offered about $700 to fis the proch. I told MOh to leave the heavy mil plastic UP covering the holes, but MOH wanted "air circulation"..so the wasps don't take up reisidency. I guess that makes sense. Last year when the park manager came around looking for "violations" or "cleanup" charges, I had hoped they would pass us by and they did. Apparently the swiss cheese didn't look to bad, but now the extra large gaping holes in the front section will give away the dilapidation. We just don't have the money now.
It got to 72 in here, so i turned on the Ac for awhile, then will turn it off for a while. I usually wait to 75 in here, but lately 72 seems to be "to warm" for me. DOesn't take long to cool down, though.
Supposed to be in the 70s coming few days, at least it will finally feel warm! More rain coming the next 5 days..its supposed to be "April showers bring May flowers"..not "rain all May"...we had enough rain in April for 7 days in a row once toward the end. I can't complain though, we haven't yet flooded this year, and the rain has been "civil" not like the storms out mid west plains and in the south. We are supposedly supposed to be wetter than usual here this year.
WEll, I finished off the dishes...all 4 pieces and the few silverware to go with it. I've got the towels all in the dryer,a dn need to take a break..m back is strting to complain again.
Don't know if I will see MOH betweeen clients or not..should have been home by now for a few hours, but Not home yet.
RAY; those pics look fine. I guess I am not so picky about high-res pics, because people on here complain about "poor quality' or it being a "lowly cell phone photo"..personally I see no big difference...wouldn't know the difference if they hadn't said anything! I mean its only going to be so close-up to me here on the computer! Its not like its a giant 20x30" pic!
well, time to veg in front of the idiot box and cool down some.
My eye is feeling much better after only 3 administrations of the med...no wait, 4 administrations...about time for another one actually...
My order came in today, and part of it was decal paper. Micro mark's decal paper works great, but now I need to darker the color I was using (sunshine yellow instead of the Pullman yellow).
Well, whatever I had 2 weeks ago that made me so sick, i may just have been re-exposed to.
A few days ago I went out at the wrong time to do errands, and my next door neighbor was waiting for her kid to get off the bus, i had to wait for the bus at the corner. SHe asked why the ambulance? so i told her how sick I was.
Well, fast forward to today, i go to get the mail, and she is out walking the dog. SHe said whatever 'ickyness" i had I gave to her, as the last 3 days she has been violently sick the way I was, in fact her husband stayed home from work yesterday in case she had to go to the hospital, and to take care of the kids.
SO now I have re-exposed to what she had, whether the same as me, or anther bad thing.
My system has really NOT recovered completely and the last 2 days have been really bad, but not as bad as when I was sick, just severe "internal distress".
Then, When I came in from the mail, MOH tells me the grocery store pharmacy called, I have 2 scripts waiting and they can't hold them any longer. I said "you mean CVS called" {I just called in for 2 refills needing a DR call}. MOH said "no, the grocery pharmacy"...so I looked at caller ID, sure enough it WAS the grocery pharmacy. SO I called them and asked what scripts they had? When She told me, I knew then, well, the ones that disappeared into the "ether" that my Dr had electronically sent when I saw him last week, that the Dr.s office says was sent, and CVS says they never got. I had a fight going between the two. I NEVER thought to ask the Drs office WHERE he sent them. WEll, Mystery solved, he sent it to the grocery pharmacy instead! I HATe the electonic sending of scripts for exactly this reason, or if the pharmacy is out of something, you can take you written script to some other pharmacy if need be.
I only have one "3 months supply for $9.99" script that my insurance won't cover anymore at the grocery store. Last time it got filled, the pharmacist called and said it was no longer on that plan, and that it is an expensive script. It is one that keeps my Irritable bowel under control when my system is "normal" so it doesn't act like it is now. He ran it through the system and said it still rang up at $9.99 even though that is way below their cost so he could give me that refill for the $9.99..had too, but next one would be the full price. I will have to ask tomorrow for a new list as they have the big sign still up for "300 scripts, 3 month supply for $9.99" out in the lobby. It was down for awhile, but a new one saying the same thing is up now. If it is still on there, the next refill will HAVE to be for $9.99!
well, dinner will be beef soaked in herbs/spices over noodles. with califlower for MOH and brocolli for me. I probably should n't even have the broccoli, but I defintely cannnot tolerate the califlower, it definitely wreaks havok on my system on a good day. But MOH complained the other day that "we haven't had califlower in a long time" so I bought some. One serving and I was reminded WHY I don't buy it! Sick or not, broccoli can be bad enough, but tolerable, califlower, NO WAY.
I am EXTREMELY ticked. I just wasted 6 bucks on decal paper when it will not even print out yellow letters....UGH!!! I guess my shortline will never be done!
Jimmy_Braum I am EXTREMELY ticked. I just wasted 6 bucks on decal paper when it will not even print out yellow letters....UGH!!! I guess my shortline will never be done!
Yes I did try clear paper this time, but I tried white before and had the same translucent result.
Jimmy_Braum Yes I did try clear paper this time, but I tried white before and had the same translucent result.
I may order the microscale letter sheets, but I like your idea Jeff
Nothing much went on with the rest of my day. Watched some TV, played a couple games of Starfleet1. That's about it.I'm tired so it's time to call it a night. Ecce vos omnes die crastino separatim.
Hiya gang!
Guess what, I actually had a day off today,,,,well,,,,sort of. I did have a day, but some knucklehead (me) scheduled a customer appontment for 6 pm,,,so I got to work at 5,,,,waitied around til 7:30 and unable to reach my customer, went to a friends house to play trains. While I was there I bought a proto FA2, decorated & weathered from him for 40 bucks...............to drown my disappointment!
Gotta catch up on the rest of the threads. Peace & health to all, I'll be back soon!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Evenin'folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf please...
Lets see.... I finished mowing the lawn for the first time this year. Only houses that haven't yet mowed their lawn are the two houses across the street from me. The one directly across is for sale and the owner has moved out and is living with his girlfriend at the moment I think. That is the guy who used to mow his lawn every other day and did it twice to get an professional criss cross effect.... The other house is the one where there is a sale pending to a gentleman who is interested in trains (member out at the Museum). I also started weeding the small garden where my asperagus grows and some herbs. Used the string trimmer around the property as well. Tonight I had a Scout Roundtable and Commissioner's Meeting to attend. I finally processed the rest of the photos I took last weekend at the NFR Convention in Canada.
Here is a few more from the fantastic layouts on display Sunday afternoon. lots of rocks being modeled so I will show some of those shots. The first is from an HO Layout that has hand laid code 70 track and some Fast Tracks Turnouts. He has done a great job of modeling the stone of the Niagara Escarpment around this part of the country:
Some of the rock work looked like the formations down in Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake. The last layout we saw was definitely a "Must See" layout. Hand lid code 83 track on a layout measuring 17' X 40'. Incredably done!!! Just incredable! My photos don't do it justice... He is modeling the town and area around Chama, NM in On3. So it it real or Memorex???
I kinda like this shot:
Time for me to clean out the cat's litter box... I can tell, Blackie just used it... (sniff, sniff) Then I need to take my evening meds and hit the sack... Prayers for all in need!
Well I got a surprise! Just out of curiosity I hooked the ImageWriter II printer up to my //e. I turned on the computer then the printer then enter PR#1 to route the video output to the printer then did a catalog of the boot drive. To my surprise the printer reacted! I couldn't see anything on the paper but then the ribbon was dry. I opened the ribbon cartridge and sprayed some CRC 2-26 inside then closed it up and put it back in the printer then tried again. This time I got a lightly legible list of the files on the boot disk.What are the chances that my //e just happened to have in it a serial printer controller that was already set for an ImageWriter? I've never had an ImageWriter before so how's the controller (which I've owned since new) set for it? Surprise, surprise. Just nipped over to Ebay and picked up a new ribbon for under $10. It should be here no later than the 12th.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937)
Lunchtime!
Janie, make that a big burger, fries and an RBF, please!
Just finished staining the second part of the dock. It went the same way as the firts part did. I now found ount why - that blooming ink did not dissolve completely! Some of those blobs of black ink found their way into the brush, while I was brushing that stuff on. Well, it´s OK, I am not unhappy with it (but not really happy, also). NTB - Next time better!
Need to get a can of high-gloss, clear acrylic paint to put the "water" into the scene befor I glue the second part onto it. I don´t feel like leaving the house today - I am having heart issues again, and my stomach´s got a queasy feeling to it.
Hello again!
This place looks deserted - 3 hours of twiddling thumbs for the staff!
I took a nap, as I seem to tire pretty quick these days. Can´t say that I feel refreshed, though.
A quick snapshot of today´s work on the layout:
1. This morning
2. Temporarily put in place
Looking good Ulrich.
Good morning. It's 73° with 90% humidity. The high will be 85° with a fair chance of showers and thunderstorms.Not feeling good today. Gall bladder was acting up last night. Nothing planned for today. No projects, no ideas. I'll just sit back and take whatever comes along as best I can.Bonum habere diem
My locomotive shed is starting to take shape. I am unsure where else to put braces on the wood though. I am planning to see if my club has any scale lumber that was donated with the other stuff, and would buy some of that.
well,
I started to to go to the grocery pharmacy, take back bottles, go to the post office, go to Bed Bath and Beyond, go to Best Buy.
i did all but the last one. They weren't open yet, not until 10 am. I was home, unloaded, put away and ate before 10!
I was early for the grocery pharmacy, I went early to have time to feed the bottles into the hungry machine. But I was still early, so I wandered around the store. Found some marked down beef {there wasn't any yesterday} that expires 2 days from now. It will be eaten or feozen or pre-cooked later. MOH loves beef, and the only way we can afford it these days is to buy the marked-down stuff. MOH would eat "beef and noodles every night". So I did an experiment about a year ago. I served beed and noodles EVERY NIGHT for 3 weeks straight! MOH NEVER complained. I figured sooner or later MOH would say"lets have something else"...but NO. I was the one who broke! I switched and told MOH I wanted no complaints about the chicken I served {my favorite, MOH's least favorite, next to fish} as I was tired of 3 weeks of beef!
Naturally with the bottle coupons in my shirt pocket, I forgot to give them ot the cashier to take off my bill! SO I went back and picked up some premade teas that were on sale for 5/$5. Guess how much I had in returnable bottles? Yep, $5 even.
Got my script, and also bought 3 large bags of red mulch on sale for the front planter. I can't lift such things any more and my back was screaming already without the heavy duty pain med and I hadn't ben standing in the store that long! The one who did the carry out and loaded the bags of mulch was a young girl! the male cashier asked if she wanted him to do it or not, and she said no, she would do it, I reminded her i had the bags of mulch, too. SHe said No problem. I feel bad when something like that happens! It took me forever to ask for the first time for a carry-out as it just goes against my "manliness" I guess. I used to work retail and I was the one doing the carry-outs!
MOH will have to unload the bags, or I get the hand truck and roll them out onto it to move. One of tehse days I will go to the Restaurant supply shop nad get one of those giant Ice scoops restaurants use. It will come in handy for such situtations where I can take out a giant scoop at a time of something like the mulch.
The red mulch will be the only thing in the planter this year. A couple years ago MOH had the brilliant Idea to spray RoundUp brand weed killer in the planter as that year I just could not manage planting it, and it was full of weeds. well, guess what? it has "spoiled " the dirt for anything else to grow EXCEPT the crabgrass and other weeds now! I thought last year maybe the RoundUp had leached out the bottom of the planter or had lost its potency as MOH sprays it every year around the trim areas of grass to avoid using the weedeater and to stop the weeds growing in the stones in the driveway. The plants I planted last year died quickly due to the Round Up.Then the rabbits ate off the foliage anyway. WOnder if they got tummy aches? I wonder if we dug some dirt down a ways, put in heavy mil plastic and re-topped it with new dirt if I could plant anew this year? I want somehting like the gray "poofs" mounds of Silver-something-whatever-it-is-called. They are suposed to stay all year. I could leave few holes into which to plant some annuals if I wanted. The planter is a far cry from the home of teh "Franken-mato" tomato plant a few years aog that TOOK over the whole front ot the trailer! SOme of you may remember that .
I went to B,B&B to get a new shampoo/soap rack for the back corner of the tub/shower. Got a new stainless steel one i hope fits. there is a ledge around the tub to sit it on and it expands to reach the ceiling. If it DOESN't fit on the ledge, ther is no orom for it because the back of the tub curves quite a bit. the rack would be in the center of the tub. The old was was stainles steel and wasn't supposed to rust, and of course it did. the old claimed the same as the new one: "won't rust and will last forever". HA! I also found a Panama Jack "air conditioned hat". I t has holes in the top uprights for airflow, but has the very top full covered and a big wide brim on it to keep sun off. Having big huge scars on my forehead from having skin cancer remoced, I cover up in the sun and don't care if I look "pasty white" or not. But I sweat profusely if my head has no heat release, so the hat will work fine. I have a couple nice straw woven ones, but, also, the sweat bands have outlived their usefullness, are stained nad a bit mishaped, and I can't throw them in the washer like i can the baseball caps i usually wear. so a new hat was in order. Scrubbing wiht a brush proved futile.
Never got to Best Buy to get new printer ink, They don't open to 10. BB&B used to nto open til ten, but that was only for the winter months. I thought may Best Buy would have changed hteir hours too, but NO.
So that is my exciting morning.
Now I will see if I get into other trouble, or go out later to Best Buy for the ink. I can change oput the shower caddy adn do a load of laundry adn finish of fthe dishes. That is a start!
have a great day!
Extra strong coffee TO GO, please.
Some neat pics being posted in the Diner lately.
Have a terrific day all.
Zoe, just a bowl of Organic Maple Pecan Crunch cereal and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend dark roast coffee. Keep my R&GV RR mug full if you would! Thank you Ma'am.
Jeffrey, same to you my friend and remember, "Illegitimi Non Carborundum"!
I got a call from my son this morning telling me he started mowing his lawn today... He is mowing and rolling it at the same time. He had to stop as the lower part is still too wet at the moment. He is also getting ready to till up a garden spot so I need to use my Rototiller and then give it to him. Since my garden is raised beds I will use my little battery electric tiller as the old gas one cant' do much in there. Figure he can use it more than I and will know where it is if I need it. That will take care if the last gas operated piece of equipment here at my house. From now on everything will get power from the roof of my house...
Have to go over to the Drug Store at the Medical Arts Building here in town and drop off a prescription and ask then if they will take care of renewing my Diabetic test strips for me. I have my 6 month check up with my doctor in not quite 2 weeks but will run out by early next week....
Couple more shots from the convention:
howmus Jeffrey, same to you my friend and remember, "Illegitimi Non Carborundum"!
well, I installed the new shower rack. It comes with set screws for each shelf. I scrubbed the plastic tub where the old one was {which wasn't supposed to rust either} wiht Kaboom and Lime away and a scrub brush. got all but a reminder stain of rust off the ledge. I gave up trying and scrubbing.
Naturally the Allen wrench they say is INCLUDED ISN'T in the package!
I only have 3 or 4 sets of Allen wrenches, think I could find just one set? The borrowers must have them all. I got resourcefull and found the middle screwdriver of my mini screwdrive set worked! I am not sure they are tight enough, but when I got to Best Buy, I will go to Harbor Freight and get yet another set of allen wrenches. They may even have a coupon in this months flyer. I only get two different flyers.
I am not sure this rack is as sturdy as the other one adn it sure is BIGGER. It takes up more space in the 2' x4' shower than the old one did. The old one also attached by a spring loaded tube to the ceiling,and held firm. This new one is a twist-n-lock affair that may need ocassional adjustments. I don't know. Might be to easy to pull over! MAybe we should get a piece of thick foam rubber and wedge it between the ceiling and the end cap to help squeeze it in tighter.
That and a load of laundry and a hamburger for lunch is my accomplishment for now. The hamburgers are grocery store premixed/made things at 1/4lb which when marked down come out to be about $0.60 a burger, Not a bad price for a quarter pounder...
I am exhausted and BOTH hips have been giving me grief all day. Must be the rainy weather we experienced last night or the showers we expect today. My back was acting up at the store nad I carry emergency meds with me, so I took both a pain and muscle relaxer then. Buit I had NO joint stress relief {or what ever medical term it is} with me, so I had to wiat til I got home. It does wonders! Gotta refil my emergency stash WITH some of those.
I think except a few household chores I am done for the day. I am not going out to BEst BUy or Harbor Freight.
My hips aren't up to it. Unusual for them both to be bothering me.
Ulrich: looking good! Now a few well placed Sea Gulls flying/sitting around and you will be more realistic! Got any boats yet to put in the "water"?
Satis magnum diem!
Gee, Nobody in in 3 hours? I must smell. I took a shower...honest!
When I went to get the mail it was a beauteous day out there. 72 warm and sunny, i went in shorts. FIrst time this year...
When I came back I threw the mail on the porch with the keys and set about doing something with the front planter. I pulled the cascading crabgrass {franken-grass by the size of it} from off the "bricks" {the gray stackable kinds for just such purposes}. The planter is in sad shape. The rear wall is the thin cinder blocks stacked over pounded-in steel rebars. It all is removable and NOT cemented together so the park can't really say anything-it is Always "removable". I gave up trying to pull more of the crabgrass core out and just piled the dead stuff in the planter for now. should go out and bag it up to take into the wooded area behind us, but it got too hot out there. The front of the trailer faces W so the hot late afternoon sun baring down can be uncomfortable. Especially for us pale northern folks who haven't seen the sun for 8 months now!
I hunted down some of the cheaper algae killer. I wasn't sure we had any left, but found half a blottle it isn't the heavy duty stuff, though, this is meant really only to keep small aquariums clear of algae if you have no algae eater bottom feeders in your tank. I don't know if it will do anything for the 65 gallon pond.
The pond is rather gross looking now, It USED to be a farily healthy pond with frogs and other critters making homes in it when left to its own devices. But now there is strange stuff growing or dying in it, including some strange white stuff. Looks like white fluff. The kinf you ues to make puff ball trees. I am not sure what it is. I will have to get an extra cheap large strainer to scoop out the bad stuff. Or get a small pool skimmer i guess.
I have no idea what happened to the siphon hose, I would have started it siphoning off the water, as ultimately the pond must be removed then scrubbed clean and start all over again.
I haven't put up the waterfall part as the pumps, even with filters and filter bags kept giving out every year. they'd last a season, then well drained dried and stored for the winter it wouldn't work too long the next season, so I gave up. The waterfall is a plastic pre-cast affair sculpted to look like a natural stacked or eroded stone waterfall, much like we may make on a layout.
I left the solar lights out in the planter all winter as when I went to remove them last year, the ground was frozen. Amazingly enough, they still work well!
well, that all got to hot for me to do. MAybe in the early morning when it is cooler and shaded out there I will work on it some more....
dinner will be all heat-n-eat leftovers. I cleaned out fridge and we have beef ribs, mashed taters, stuffing, flavored noodles to have. So I don't really have to cook tonight, but now I made myself quite a few dirty dishes to do before dinner.
have a great night.
Numquid a nocte
galaxyGee, Nobody in in 3 hours? I must smell. I took a shower...honest!
Howdy! .... What's for dinner? .... Hmmmmm ..... I'll have a taco salad, please.
Ray .... Thanks for sharing the photos of the convetion. Great stuff!
Jimmy ... Good start on the shed.
Ulrich ... Nice work so far with your layout.
Evening guys
I got a job offer from the comissary. 40 hours a week and I make 1.5x more an hour than I do now. I do wonder if it is tax-free being a government job.
Have been too busy to do a whole lot lately. I'll be able to do more later...
Packer Evening guys I got a job offer from the comissary. 40 hours a week and I make 1.5x more an hour than I do now. I do wonder if it is tax-free being a government job.
Good evening. Well maybe it is for you. I've felt rather 'off' all day. I did at least get a parts drawer set up to store the computer cards I use most and have the most of. It's set up to hold four types. #1 is 80 column RAM expansion cards, #2 is standard 80 column cards, #3 is CP/m cards and #4 is X104 drive controller cards. Though I don't have many of any of these this gives me a place to store them other than having them in a pile in a box with a bunch of junk cards. It t6ook about an hour to get everything sorted. I also cleaned up the ImageWriter II printer as I now know it works.That's about all I had the energy for today as I was standing almost the whole time.Showers and thunderstorms tonight with a 60% chance of thunderstorms.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good Morning Gang!
Not a good night! I woke up at 2am and could not find any sleep thereafter. I finally crawled onto my sofa at 5.30am, but only for a snooze. I am too tired too sleep. It´s a rainy day here and I´ll better stay put and don´t go out. I should get some paint, but I don´t feel like doing so.
I always thought this to be a model railroading forum, but when I read the title of a thread "Looking for a Good Looking Caboose", I started to have my doubts. Could this be a dating platform in disguise? What will be coming next? "Looking for a compatible B-unit to form a consist"?
Flo, I´ll need some eye opening, dark roasted, strong coffee, please!
I'm late...morning coffee in the diner...
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. -Charles Simic, poet (b. 1938)
V8Vega:
I FULLY believe in the INsurances !!!
the Park requires us all to carry home insurance. I once lived in a rented house. The old electrical system caught fire in my room-mates room durning the night-he was fortunately staying at his GFs house that night. I had to climb out a window in my BR {thank goodness because I had a room-mate my BR door was CLOSED}. I had on only a pair of undies and socks...my winter coat was luckily on the chair under the window I crawled out of which had my wallet in it {that would later save me a LOT of trouble}. There was NO neighbor to answer their door as I banged on it{rural}...I was having much trouble breathing {asthmatic AND smoke inhalation}, but since my keys were in my pocket I drove to the nearst convenience store that had a pay phone out front. This was pre-911 or early 911days..I had to try to explain WHERE I was and where the HOUSE was {1.5 blocks away} as they had no idea! One cop was dispatched to me at teh convenience store, and one to the house to VERIFY it was, indeed, on FIRE! An ambulacne was brought and I spent the night in the hospital for smoke inhalation treatment. The Ambualnce guy, about 2 weeks later, came in into the restaurant I worked at and told me about that night..apparently I had stopped breathing on him twice, and gave him a scare!
Point coming: I fortunately had a "renters" insurance policy that would cover my belongs. It was only for $10K and I stupidly, though he never paid any for the policy, put my room-mate's name on it too. He had bascially a suitcase of clothes and a good camera and a few things. He settled out for $1000 of the policy as I had the rest of the household full of stuff. That COULD have been a mistake as he could have had claim to $5k of the policy. I LOST EVERYTHING BUt about 7 garbage bags of stuff {mostly clothes} that I tried to salvage, and mostly could be washable} When I calculated up the loss/damages {with a boat load of pics} to claim the total loss the adjuster said I had {and I didn't have to try to salvage anything}, I came up with about $22K in stuff from lots of CDs, major stereo/AV equipment {i was younger then}, and furniture. The adjuster said I could write the rest off my taxes for the unreimbursed amount. Well, that turned out to NOT be true...I could write off a percentage of a portion of a part of the remainder that was not insurance reimbursed, so for the other 12K I wasn't reimbursed I got a whole like $200 deduction off my taxes ONLY!
Final Point: I WOULD NOT live without FIRE INSURANCE, or household Liability for that matter, which is included in the $272/yr { the rate has gone up over the years by about $20/year} we pay on the trailer...heavy on the liability, because if someone falls on our lot, WE, not the park, Are considered responsible, even if it due to a crumbling driveway or porch pad that THE PARK OWNS and is "responsible for" {and our driveway is in sad shape the blacktop is crumbling, think the park is going to replace it?????not in 14 years adn I doubt anytime in the future}!
When I moved in here with MOH, I looked at the woefully inadequate home policy MOH had, and we increased contents by a large amount {MOH had only $2k in contents!} , and went in search of a new policy because the State Farm policy MOH had only included "exact replacement with matching kind" coverage. In other words, they will only replace our 1983 3br/1ba trailer with a USED 1983 3br/1ba trailer! I wanted FULL replacement of the trailer with a new one! I contacted Allstate, and got the best deal..it includes replacement costs up to $55k, which should do it. New ones can be had around here for about $39K. I did not care what it cost!
I now believe in the insurance, and hope it never happens again, but I KNOW trailers tend to go up in smoke in a matter of minutes, not hours! I will ALWAYS carry it now, even if I NEVER have to use it again in my life! The "peace of mind" is overwhelming.
I URGE all of you RENTERS to get renter's insurance...it costs relatively little {about $100/year}, and MAY come in Handy as the Landlord's insurance DOES NOT COVER the renter's property!!!
Packer: congrats on the JOB! The Q is not whether you get a free ride on taxes{no one does!}, but do you have government things like: pensions, retirement accounts, etc! THAT can be where a gov't job pays off! 20 years in and a stack of bennies to help you through the rest of your life! THAT is what I'd be looking for, not tax reductions!
WEll,
Have a GREAT day!
Carpe Diem!
Good Morning All,
Been a while again as it's been crazy busy all day at the track or in the shop and then home, exercize and sleep. Haven't seen the layout for a couple of weeks. I'll have a regular to go and blueberry crumb donut please Zoe.
Oz James - good to see you back. The Mohave and lower valley didn't have much industry but did have lots of orange groves, farms, ranches and oil wells towards the hills. further north there were towns with the usual stores and in the central San Joaquin there was again cattle and farms and grape vines for Gallo, etc plus Armstrong Rubber had their big west coast tire plant in Hanford. What I recall most living there was miles and miles of nothing outside of town.
Dennis. Ditto on the fire insurance. Both Rob and I have been through house fires and it isn't easy. Make sure you have adequate insurance on your personal belongings as well as coverage for code upgrades. Allstate has every item seperate and you need to be very diligent that you have what you really need. We were never informed about the code update rider so when we needed a different peak beam that was out of pocket along with the rewiring to current code, etc. Very expensive. It's almost easier to let the house burn to the ground. Oh, and document what you have. I lost all my racing programs, memorabilia, team gear, drivers suits, etc. and if there wasn't enough left to identify, we wouldn't have gotten a cent for any of it. Fortunately between inventory lists and evidence, we were able to get full value (another rider in the policy).
Jeff - you never cease to amaze me. A ribbon printer? Really? If you can keep after the switching and roll it should last forever, no? And what nefarious use will you find for it? Could come in handy for printing train orders for your fleet.
Packer - congrats on the new job. Yes you will pay taxes. In fact the Navy witheld income tax and SS on my $47 a month I made as an E-3. Will you be an actual gov't employee or will you be employed by one of the private contractors (DelJen or the like)? Nosey people want to know.
Time to get going, still lots of stuff to do and people popping in with questions. Cheers, J.R.
The mail man (it´s not the nice mail lady anymore ) brought a little package, the contents of which perked me up a little.
The Keg Harbor R.R. & Nav.Co. now has a second loco on its roster.
As it appears to be usual with Bachmann products, some of the detail parts, that are supposed to be included, are missing. The loco has achoice of three different stacks, I got only two, Unfortunately, the one I wanted to have is missing. The saddle to mount the different stacks is also missing. I just wrote an email to the Bachmann parts department to send me the missing parts. Until they arrive, I have to settle with the wood burner version. Still, isn´t she a beauty?
After lunch, I went out to get some more paint. I also bought a glossy varnish. I grabbed a can from the shelf marked "acrylic paints" only to find out, that the one I bought is solvent-based. Of course, I found out after I opened the can... . OK, no harm done, all we have is this nice smell of solvents in our house. Should I not report back by tomorrow, Petra has killed me ...
Good morning, everybody.
Ulrich ... I like the photo of your layout
Jeff. That is a nice looking pocket watch. Does it have a story. My mother still has the pockect watches that were owned by my two grandfathers.
JR .... Good to see you! .. You sound busy.
Todd ... Gald to see you too.
Vincent .... Congratualtions on the job. I'm happy for you. (Dang taxes anyhow)
Galaxy ... Sounds like a very scary experience. Glad you are still with us.
V8 Vega. ..... I wonder why the big jump for fire insurance premium.
It's a good idea to have complete homeowners insurance (or renters) to protect from fire, liability, etc. Higher deductables keep the premiums lower, but you should have enough in your savings to cover the deductible in case of need.
My Soundtraxx decoder was returned from the manufacturer. I'm thinking of putting it in one of my 4-8-2's because apparently, my 2-10-2 does not like Tsusami's..... While I was out of town, gremlins creeped into my layout, and a couple of other decoders were not working yesterday.
Italian Roast coffee in a STORMY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
Does Fox Valley Models still exist or were they one of the companies that have gone out of business? I'm curious if the Hiawatha set (with 4-4-2 loco, HO scale) is still made and available anywhere? Not that I can afford it right now, but I am curious.
Looks like a fair chance of storms for this years Mothers Day Powwow. I'm hoping it will hold off or go around the park where it is held.
Healing thoughts to those in need. Have a great day, all.
Cheers!
Zoe, just a coffee to go, half and half and stevia please... Nice to see the diner full for a change!
I am just about out the door for a meeting with the new committee of a Cub Pack I am helping to get restarted... The District Executive will be there as well. We will be primarily discussing recruitment plans. That's the big place I come in I guess with District Membership.
Going to get up into the 80's today so I will be checking out the air conditioner to make sure all is well. Need to do some grocery shopping later this afternoon and fill the PiP with that fossilized Dinasuar dung stuff... I have 20¢ off a gallon which will help a bit. Been running on electrons all week but will be out at the Museum for opening day on Sunday. Working Train Crew. Will be found on Erie C-254 most likely.
Ulrich, nice addition! The dock is looking very good, BTW!
Best get moving! Later!
Morning guys
Did the last of my homework for this semester. I have to turn it in, which means driving 20 miles. I'll probably do that around noon.
IDK what the plan for today is. I have a few cars to weather for some people, but it's supposed to rain... I also got a few P2K kits in the mail yesterday. I may work on those too.
On the new job, I did forget about benefits. If they do a decent health plan, I can drop my existing plan which eats about 40% of my income.
I'm off to take my mom to the hospital for a check-up.
GMTRacing Jeff - you never cease to amaze me. A ribbon printer? Really? If you can keep after the switching and roll it should last forever, no? And what nefarious use will you find for it? Could come in handy for printing train orders for your fleet.
Yep, an old ribbon cartridge dot matrix line printer. This is the first ImageWriter printer I've owned. Sold a boatload of them but never owned one before. I thought it might be tough to figure out all the settings on it without a manual. It has fourteen DIP switches up front that fortunately are set properly for the type of serial card my computer has and by the wildest stroke of luck that card is set for this type of printer. It's one of several serial cards I had back in the 80's and thinking about it it's properly the one I had in the computer that was used to demonstrate an ImageWriter printer for customers. Yes, I sold Apple IIe, Apple IIgs, Apple IIc and the first Macintosh systems back then. There's another part of my life you didn't know about. Well in looking through my manuals I found that I DO have an ImageWriter II manual. Haven't so much as opened it yet but I do have it. However I couldn't find the manual for my Super Serial II card so I bought one on Ebay for next to nothing. Now, what am I going to do with this beast? Well using the AppleWriter II or Super-Text word processor programs I'll be typing up a roster of my fleet and I'll print it out on this printer on single sheets or on continuous fanfold printer paper, expensive stuff these days. A box of 2700 sheets would run about $40 with shipping. A dot matrix printout also fits my general era. I've tried but you just can't fake a dot matrix printout with an inkjet printer.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff. That is a nice looking pocket watch. Does it have a story. My mother still has the pockect watches that were owned by my two grandfathers.
Good morning. It's 72° with 100% humidity. The high will be 85° with heavy clouds and a fair chance showers and thunderstorms. with Still not feeling my best. I only got a couple hours of sleep last night (this morning actually but who's counting) so I'm not in the best of moods. Waiting for the Home Health nurse to call. Until then I'm keeping busy with some little projects.Nothing else planned for today. I hope to get some sleep later.
We went out for breakfast this morning, and after that, we stopped at Best Buy where I picked up a nice tripod for the new camera. Playing around with the 55-300 mm lens last weekend, it became obvious that one was needed. Taking photos of the signal bridge down the track, some were a little fuzzy. I was into photography back in the early 60s, but I've forgotten most of what I knew then. So I'm going to have to refresh myself with depth of field, etc. The other thing I noticed is I'm going to have to be a lot more careful with the auto-focus. One shot of the signal bridge was really blurry, but the "NO PARKING" sign about half way down the tracks was sharp & clear as can be. I don't even remember seeing the darn thing.
Spent most of yesterday cutting grass & doing some other yard work. That included planting the cannas, dividing some hostas and general clean up. By the way, that's the 3rd time the grass has been cut in the last 2 weeks. Taking a break today as I'm kind of sore.
I've been enjoying the photos of Ray's that he took while visiting layouts last weekend. Hope he has more.
Looking forward to doing some railfanning again tomorrow & maybe Sunday. Tomorrow may be a little iffy, as they are calling for thunder storms. But we might go anyway and just hope for the best. Stay safe & enjoy your weekend.
Well, my heart has been broken. I had to have one of my cats put to sleep, at least he won't be in any more pain now.
Jimmy Braum: Sorry to hear that. I have had to make that decision not only with animals more than once, {one just 2 years ago}, but also with my mother {to shut off life support}. Guess which is the harder of the two? I have told MOH that we will NOT get any more animals, mostly for this reason. MOh says we will. I wonder who will win out?
Well, I have done nothing much but run around today. It reminded me of WHY I go out to do the shopping EARLy in the morning!
I had 3 things to do down the parkway {why do you park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway??}. The furthest is about 8 miles away. It was the Credit Union. Do hte banking, then go to Best Buy to get 2 mor black printer inks, then to Harbor Freight to get 3 things: a new set of Allen wrench, a box of disposable gloves, and a 27 LED task light/emergency flashlight. I took me 2.5 HOURS! With Best Buy not opnening til 10 AM, i waited to do all that. No waiting in line at the CU, and Best Buy was fairly simple. Harbor Freight was a nightmare,finding stuff, tehn with only 1 cashier open, and a lady in fornt of me returning about 10 items from 2 receipts, one paid in cash one on a card. That and entering her address caused MAJOR problems! the cashier had to call for help, who was no help. Then they did nto have the lgiht i wanted...not until Monday she says. No wonder I couldn't find it in all of the store! Their floofr is bare concrete, which is VERY BAD for my back, waiting in line did not help!
Traffic is a nightmare on the parkway that time of day..the major hiway which connects the parts of the Triple CIties easily is is closed mostly as they are upgrading it to become an interstate. We have a 90degree hairpin curve, connected to another sharp curve that makes an "s" curve that way where 2 interstates connect to this soon-to-be-intersate highway. It is affectionately called "kamikazi curve". They are TRYING to 'straighten it" with new bridges and such. Not only do they close down protions of the hiway, but also local roads below. The parkway is the closest parallel roadway tha can connect the twoi ends of the cities.
Then I had to pick up the arrangement for MIL's grave, as MOH couldn't. It was HUGE, larger than i expected! MOH is happy though, though they made one flower mistake.
By the time i got home this afternoon it was WAY to hot out there to fiddle in the pond/planter. TO give you an idea, it is 74F at the airport high on the garbage hill, 80F downtown, 82F here in our part of the valley, and it is 94F on our porch, with major holes in it, one the size of a large painting, nto quite a movie poster, but large painting!The 94 is aobut what it is at the planter, see the bricks hold/radiate heat.
Jeffrey: I didn't sleep much last night either, nor the night before. I have 2 sleepy meds, one works best on empty stomach, one needs a snack to activate it. I had a snack and took the empty one, then later after midnight, I took a snack one on an empty tummy. didn't work! I finally had another snack to activate the snack one. You'd think it would make me sleep for hours on end! but they don't! I slept about a whole 4 hours last night. I haven't had time today for a nap.
well, go the mail and a bill arrived, so need to settle the banking and pay the bill and see what the other envelopes hold.
Dinner is on my own tonight as MOH will eat out with the client. dunno what I'll have.
Eveing Dinners!
Flo, pleases and a slices of
Soory it has been so long scenes my last visit. Been felling beat to death after work, while I do not much a 10 hour day is pretty darn long. Nothing good wise far as commision, think I may have made a extra $20.00 or so, but still better than a stick in the eye.
Only high lite of this week is Wednesday coming home I got 28.2 MPG! Not bad for a 1994 Lic Town Car around town! I got a green light on ever intesection, and there are 15 of them!
Busy day and had a heck of a scare! I did cut the back grass, got rid of the trash, went to the bank and got some checks and deposit slip. Went to K-10 Model Trains, libaray and to buy some gas. Hum, debit card would not work? Plus I was in St Louis, luckily I had some cash on me. Got back to the bank, Barb (branch Manager) said there was $600.00 in the account. She then looked up my debit card and it showed the trasaction was refused do to the account was NSF?
She called the head of Debit Cards, and they saw the samething! Then we figured it out! I use two braches, Maryville 95% of the time and the Collinsville branch. I use Collinsville to depsot my checks due to I drive by it on the way too work. I was out of deposit slips so they made one for me, when they looked up my account, they picked the one that I don't uses! Quick transfer and everything is fine again.
Ulrich, I went to K-10 and they did not have the spikes you wanted. They had some Mirco Marks ones but having no idea what you could use I ordered the ones you requested. They should be in Thursday and if I am off Friday I should get them picked up. With some luck, I will be able to get them in the mail the same day, depending on the cost.
See you all later, Ken
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Hi gang!
Ken, that & looks good!
I know about the long days,,,,,11 hours each day,, with a 1 hour each way commute. But today was good, sold 2 cars by 2 oclock in the afternoon And Friday isnt our busy day, wait til tomorrow!!
I did suffer a driven gear failure as I was setting up a NWSL gearbox in a loco this week. A call to NWSL and a new gear was ordered under their "disaster plan", only cost me $5:00 for shipping. Nice folks there!
Ulrich, been watching from the sidelines on your progress. Very, very nice so far!
Well, gotta get back to work for another 40 minutes, then I'm home to see my sweetie! Remember guys, Mothers Day is this weekend! Its amazing how a small flower purchase can have such a positive effect on your railroading!
WELL!
A GREAT BIG "FIDDLESTICKS"! {I might choose to use other words, but can't print them here}
Tomorrow and Sunday MOH has off. We are going to the cemetary 2 hours away to the MIL's grave to place flowers for Mother's Day. BUT we WILL go everywhere to look and buy a NEW STOVE!
WHY?
Because I have two glass baking dishes, one square and one oblong. The oblong I loaded with various pieces of beef smothered in marinade and extra water for good measure. That was "precooking" them. The square I put a few pieces in that I was going to eat right away tonight for dinner.
Well, Since the heat stays on, I turned it on on 300F for 10 mins, then off for 5. Repeat. for 45 mins.
Well the last 10 minutes it must have gotten to about 500F in there in that 10 minutes cause while all was well the last few minutes ago, Now everyhting was burning when I checked. The glass baking dishes are "safe" to 450F, so that is why I figured the 500F. I pulled the oblong out first, and took off the tin foil {I know it is "Al-you-min-i-yum"} it was just OK, the pan was burnt at teh edgves, but the food was OK. I pulled out the square and as soon as i set it down on the cool burner it went *POOF* shattered, burst, exploded, pick your word!!!
Fortunately the pieces were mostly large pieces! but there area always tiny shards too! The big ones that hit the vinyl floor STUCk or rather burned/melted into the vinyl! I swept up everywhere, but had to wait till all the pieces were COOL enough to touch.
It may have been bad that I had taken the cover off the oblong as I could not save it as there was glass in it. I got a box to put the shattered square into, and let the big one cool off til I could put it in a bag.
So, also the oblong was really burnt around the edges, so I threw it out too. Lost both my glass baking dishes!
GOOd thing I wear glasses and had on thick oven mitts!
So we buy whatever the cheapest electric oven/stove we can find, probably Sunday. TO be delivered as soon as they can next week. I wonder if they will be backed up with Mother's DAy deliveries?
ARGH!
Well, I am looking forward to next weekend. The NMRA division I belong to (division 2) will be having the monthly meeting at-SCENIC EXPRESS! And they will be open for shopping before and after the meeting! If anyone on here is a member of the NMRA Mid Central Reigon division 2 or going to attend, say hello and introduce yourself- I'll probably be wearing an East Broad Top Railroad hat, and the like. I really needed to do some shopping for some scenery material for finishing up my scrapyard and starting work on an oil refinery from the 1950's.
Hi Guys
Got the yark work done today including getting the grass both front and back. Its looking nicw and clean. The water in the bird bath is clean and there feeder is full. My grass is usually dead or yellow but so far is thick and green. Was nice to see magnolia tree blossom. It smells nice. Have a few other things tomorro being cleaning out the BBQ. And cutting up a few small branches to hopefully get them in leaf bags. First things firsth though. I will be on the bike trails by 5:30am until about 8am, so once I get done outdoors tomorrow I will come in clean the house and then sit down to play some strat baseball. Busy day.
Hi.......been busy getting a project finished.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Good evening. It's a pleasant 74° here tonight. There is however a fair chance of getting wet if going outside. Say a 50/50 chance.I took the time today to set my other two Super Serial cards to the same settings as the one in my platinum //e 2128 so they're all ready for use with the ImageWriter II printer.Went into town and got five prescriptions refilled. I only had about a week left on those.Got the wound vac dressing changed for the weekend. Hopefully it'll last til Monday.That's it for now. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.I did a short test print today. If you look at the paper you should be able to see some faint lines of text on it.
Quite nice to be woken up by some sunshine! The last couple of days saw more ra*n than in the entire month of April. Some regions in southern Germany are already under a flood warning.
Well, Petra did not kill me, but there is that pungent smell of paint in our entire house. I wonder why the neighbors have not started to complain. The paint isn´t even dry, yet, so I´ll have to wait for quite a few hours before I can start doing any job on the layout. I might use the time to sketch up a drawing for my background. It´s about time I get rid of that wall paper look behind my locos.
Galaxy - I am glad you weren´t hurt when your dinner exploded. From now on you´ll have to wear protective clothing when cooking up a meal!
Jimmy - I am sorry to hear about loosing your kitty!
MIA roll call!
Any news from Chris?, Jim? Sue?
Have a great weekend!
A fellow named Homer had woesWhich he’d drown in his liquor at Moe’sWere his troubles so largeThat he couldn’t tell Marge?He’s a man of a great many D’OHs.
There once was a man, quite unbalanced,Refining his limerick talentsA sensational poet,And the whole world would know it,But he can’t get the last line to rhyme.
Sir Madog Galaxy - I am glad you weren´t hurt when your dinner exploded. From now on you´ll have to wear protective clothing when cooking up a meal!
Well, It was just such a SHOCK when it happened!
One does not expect a dish to explode like that! {unless you do something that might cause it to explode}
Since the glass dishes are "safe" to 450f, I figure in that short 10 minutes it must have gotten to be 500f or more in the oven since the burner burns all the time!
Well, we haev put off a new stove for a long enough time, I guess. It will be nice but strange to put something in the oven to bake or roast and NOT have to watch it like a hawk! Apparently I did not watch closely enough last night!
Just a few quick shots I took this morning.
I definitively have to do something about this backdrop...
Good morning ....
Dennis B .... Good to see you in the Diner! ..... Your RS1 is fabulous! I saw your posts in the diesel thread too.
Jimmy .... Nice idea to meet at Scenic Express where you can shop too.
Karl .... Good to hear NWSL took care of the gear for you.
Ulrich ..... I like the photos of the engine on the dock. I am still very confident, you can make a nice backdrop yourself if you choose to do so. I would encourage you to try so you will see it actually can be fun. Otherewise, Faller makes nice paper backdrops which are not too costly and have good looking clouds.
Good morning. It's 71° with 89% humidity. The high will be 88°, cloudy with a small chance of rain. with Not much going on today. Postal tracking shows that the motherboard I picked up on May 2nd for $26 will arrive today. The printer ribbon I ordered is in Shreveport at this time so I should have it on Monday at the latest. Scratch that! I've just been notified it'll be here today!Got a call from my father last night. They took my grand nephew to Steam Town yesterday. Where I'm told he had a blast. Like me he's a train nut.And that's all that's going on in my world at this time.
Heartland Division CB&QI am still very confident, you can make a nice backdrop yourself if you choose to do so. I would encourage you to try so you will see it actually can be fun.
Garry - in any case, I will give it a try. If I fail, all I will have invested is a little money for the paint and lots of time. I can still get this one:
... and cut off the lower part. I know am ambitious, but I am also confident I can do better than this one!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Pumpkin Seed Flax Granola with Skim Milk and Stevia to go along with my Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug please....
Tomorrow is open ing day out at the R&GV RR Museum. We got a nice bit of free publicity on a local TV News program a few days ago, so we are hoping it will be a busy first day. The museum has several other large publicity events going on this summer as well. We have doubled the number of diesel train days out there so I will be working train crew more than museum guide this year. Why hang around the staion when I can be aboard the train!
Jimmy, very sad to lose a pet. Know all too well how hard it is to say goodbye to them when that time comes. We all know you made the right decision for the cat if he was in pain.
Tom, this is for you...
I will be heading out to Canandaigua this afternoon. I have some stuff to deliver to my sister (flyers for her summer Art classes, a bag of fresh cut asperagus, and about 50 cat whiskers from the boys) so we will take a trip to a well known local gardenplant store a few miles south on Canandaigua Lake. I want to get some strawberries to plant in the rock garden I put in last year, and possibly some other items.
Sun is trying to make an appearance from time to time. Today should be a very pleasent day. Currently 69°F outside with a high around 73°F later this afternoon. Nice to be out and around without a heavy winter coat. Also gives me a chance to do the "sun bathing" my dermatologist wants me to do for the psoriasis on my back.
Time to gte moving I think. Will catch up to you all later!
TMarshThat, and you're German so you can say things most of us don't understand, but sounds good while you do it.
Is my English that bad?
Italian Roast coffee in a SANTA FE mug.
Lots of rain today. Not the best conditions for the Mother's Day Powwow about 30 minutes from here. Need to go get my once a year Fry Bread fix and catch up with a few friends.
Got the new printer ribbon, installed it and did a test print using a listing of my boot disk greeting program. Working great. At some point in the future I can get started on typing up rosters of my locos and rolling stock.
we drove the hour and a half out to the military cemetary to the MIL's grave site. We haven't seen it since the stone was put up. MOH also wanted "alone time" with MIL. So I saw it and walked away leaving MOH alone. WE took this HUGE arrangement MOH ordered to go there. MIL LOVED flowers, so for Mother's Day it was appropriate, we would have taken her some kind of {potted} flower anyway.
Stopped at a Bob Evans Restaurant. I used to be a cook in a restaurant and even once dated a waitress co-worker {often a bad idea to mix work adn pleasure...not in this case, though she did move away}, so I am aware of the inner workings and pay scale of wait-staff in particular. Here in NY they only get $2.19/hour as wait-staff minimum wage, and are taxed based on what gets rung up under their # for food sales. They may or may not also have to share their tips with: busboys, hosts, cashier and, oddly enough, in at least one case that shocked me on TV, the cooking staff! Now the cooking staff usually gets paid relatively well { at elast I always did}, usually quite a bit above Fed. minimum wage{$7.25/hr. Here in NY and some other states is higher by law}. The host/cashier may only get paid based on Fed. minimum wage{or state}, too.
Now i say this because I saw 2 little old ladies {70s or 80s} in my field of vision straight ahead to the left of the aisle finishing up their complete meals and sodas, and have desserts. Probably at least $25 tab without the desserts. They left only a single dollar on the table. SOme people are under the impression wait-staff just "rake it in", but not on $1 tips for a half-hour sitting on a $25 tab.
So, I was gonna leave a 15-20% tip anyway {I always do, unless service was particularly bad-not the food, as food is NOT wait-staff's control-you send it back to the kitchen -or ask to see the chef or cook- if not satisfied with the food in any way}, but bumped our tip up to a bigger tip to help make up for the old ladies who essentially left her no tip. A $1 tip on 2 meals and drinks and desserts now-a-days is considered "no tip". Unless you had a coffee only.
Some people just don't know, and I hate to say it, but the older they are, the less likely they are to tip appropriately. It is hard to understand if one doesn't know the rules inside workings of a restaurant. They also "live in the days" when you left two pennies or a nice shiney nickel with the quarter for coffee only, and that was a "fine tip",and figure a $1 is a grand gesture on their part. Or they figure 10% only is enough,and so on a $10 entree that appears to be a proper 10%, but they fail to consider the cost of their drinks and desserts, too, if applicable. any "special resquests" also deserve extra tip.
that is why some places state on their menu...that "a tip should be between 15-20% of the total dinner price", AND/OR add a 20% tip for "large parties" as often to have help with the table, 2 or 3 wait-staff are needed and they share the tip. AND to make sure the wait-staff doesn't get a $1 tip for 6 meals and drinks.
My FIL is one who tips only a $1 per meal, he thinks they get Fed/state regular minimum wage{the $7.25, or here in NY $8.00}, and that he does them a favor by leaving a tip, even at only $1.
Personally I think tipping should be abolished here in the USA-they get paid like the cooking staff does {only the lowly dishwasher in the back of the house gets the fed/state regular minimum}, then there would be less confusion over the issue!
Not being "political" just sayin'.
It was a nice meals and we both brought home leftovers for later.
MOH insisted we stop at my mohters grave on the way home. The plots next to my mother's plot {3 of them apparently} is new recently. Only one party of the marriage had passed, so the dual stome was marked incomplete for the living party. It sure 'crowded" my mother's ample stone.My father spared no expense and had a big stone and a vinyl "permenant" portrait of mother installed in a recess on the stone. He will be buried at her feet in his cremation urn or box. The military plaque he gets will be bolted to the back of her stone. There are 3 other family plots, one in which, unless we move somewhere else, will be the plot MOH and I share. My brother is there too. Funny thing is the next door neighbor that I and my parents hadwhile I was growing up and who's son still has the house next door, well when the neighbor passed, they buried him in the plots next to ours. so My mother and the neighbor's wife {still going at 97} who was dear friend to my mother will be "neighbors" with her husband "afterwards" too.
Both cemateries looked nice, though the military is better kept, I think. $250 "perpetual care" fee doesn't buy you much.
Enough about that, I am sure I bored you.
was a NICE sunny day in the early 70s untill we got home, then thunderboomers set in up from the PA border.
WEll, Jeffrey is certainly excited about what came today. I can see why, I think? All I got was a bill and "junque mail". Usually all the bills mostly come between the 12-22 of the month, SOme i think are 'moving up' to an earlier date on me! Used to be only one bill was a straggler from the norm there. But not now.
well, we will rest the rest of the day. MOH has already gone for a nap, I think I go join with the puddy!
Dinner will be leftovers!
Afternoon guys
Been working on some cars for someone else again. These ones are a bit unusual. I'm putting Kadees on the Roco and a Flieschmann (sp?) coach. The former got the NEM adapted kadees I pulled off of a trix UP 40' boxcar when I body-mounted kadees to it. The later got body-mounted Kadees. I need to get some standard-shank underset couplers for that. I have longs on it and they are too long...
It's supposed to rain today, so I'm not doing anything outside if I can help it. We really don't need any more rain as some of the ditches around town have a lot of water (someone sank their car in one) from the flooding last week.
Dennis, nice job on that RS1.
Ulirch, you could paint one, but I'd smooth out the bumps in the walls first (I never liked those things, but it seems every house has them. Why I don't know)... Looking good so far.
JR, It's for the comissary. The downside is it's only temporary "summer" work that ends in September. Hopefully they decide to keep me afterwards though.
Galaxy, I hope it includes those. I just hope taxes aren't gonna make it to where the difference is moot. (like my current job's overtime; the tax rate on the overtime pretty much knocks it back down to regular pay)
Cederstrand, Fox Valley Models are still around. But I think the Haiwatha set was a limited-time thing like everything else today. I'm trying to find a few of their SOO boxcars, and maybe a couple in BN. They seem to be focusing on N-scale though. They recently annouced a Southern Silverside coal gondola.
Jimmy, sorry to hear about your cat.
Packer Galaxy, I hope it includes those. I just hope taxes aren't gonna make it to where the difference is moot. (like my current job's overtime; the tax rate on the overtime pretty much knocks it back down to regular pay)
They say {and it works out that way} that for an hourly person, only 8-10 hours of overtime is "worth it", as beyond the 8-10 hours, the law of "dimishing returns" takes over as the "extra taxes" will eat up more of the OT pay.
What always got me {from my accounting days} is that if I earn $200/week regular, and get $100 OT, that I would pay MORE taxes on the $300 total, than compared to a person who's regular pay WAS $300/week!!!
Never made sense to me.
I always was willing to, and often did work the OT, up to about 10 hours then I would refuse any more. Unless it was "mandatory" {usually for gov't work contracts} to keep my job...
It is also illegal to work someone more than 14 days in a row without a whole day off. It is by law mandatory {here at least and I think it is FEderal law}that the 15th day be totally off from work. I had to push that issue a few times when asked to work extra hours i would not usually turn down, but couldn't because it would have been the 15th day in a row, I turned it down and had the day off. doesn't mean the 16th day didn't start a whole new 14 in a row again...
just sayin'
Enjoy you new job! be glad you got one in this economy!
Sir Madog asked: Is my English that bad?
Nein, Ulrich, dein English ist ausgezeichnet!
Herr Beasley
And a heck of a lot better than my German.
Happy Mothers Day to all our Ladies.
Prayers and Blessings to all.
Flip
Evening Dinners, Good Evening Ulrich!
Flo Beer Pleases.
What a great day, sunny, nice breeze and 80 degrees! So in the Mattress Busniess that means Dead! Boy was it ever dead! My only customer was did not come into 2:45? Second customer was Davies and she came in at 4:45. I blew out of there at 5:00.
Seems yesterday I got into some kind of posion plant while cutting the backyard. I think I know which one it was, need to take a photo and post it here. Rash is about the sizes of a siliver dollar, itches a little, but not bad.
Jimmy, I as well know the pain of lossing a pet! Guess it was little over 2 years ago we lost Tiffiny, she was just a tad away from being 17.
">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Personal/IM000345.jpg.html] We lost Shaddy the Irish Wolfhound this January. ">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/photo3.jpg.html] Luckly we found Sparkie, The Rocket Dog. [/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Sparkie%20The%20Rocket%20Dog/Sparkie3-25-14019_zps0c917174.jpg.html] He pretty much saved Sue she was grefiving so badly over the Shaddy. I could just tell in the morning she had no reason to get up. Sparkie is a great dog. Ulich, I will say one thing, your spelling of English is much better than mine! I did order your spikes and they should be in Thursday. As luck would have it, I am off Monday and Tuesday. I am normally off Tuesday and Fridays so I don't know if I will get to pick them up this week. K-10 use to be open on Thursdays till 9:00, if they are I should still beable to pick them up. Galaxy I did read about your visit to the ER. While what you went throght was bad, you where not under there lack of care for 2 years! My wife told me the other night that in a western state the VA is beinging aduted and being held accountable for the death of 48 Vets that did not recive care. Like my self, no fall up care, not in the ER. Jeffery, far as you working on old computers, is that just because you enjoy doing it? If so, I can understand. All so I have a question for you about XP. Mirosoft is no longer supporting XP so do I need to up grade? Or will AVG keep it safe? Mopar Friends. Have had one reach out to me about coming by and helping me get off my butt and work on Miss Lumpy! All I need is a little nudge (spell check all most typed nude), no rain and the darn grass to stop growing! I hate live grass! See you all Sunday! Ken [/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Charger%20Site/1-9-05-4_zps735888ab.jpg.html]
We lost Shaddy the Irish Wolfhound this January.
">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/photo3.jpg.html] Luckly we found Sparkie, The Rocket Dog. [/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Sparkie%20The%20Rocket%20Dog/Sparkie3-25-14019_zps0c917174.jpg.html] He pretty much saved Sue she was grefiving so badly over the Shaddy. I could just tell in the morning she had no reason to get up. Sparkie is a great dog. Ulich, I will say one thing, your spelling of English is much better than mine! I did order your spikes and they should be in Thursday. As luck would have it, I am off Monday and Tuesday. I am normally off Tuesday and Fridays so I don't know if I will get to pick them up this week. K-10 use to be open on Thursdays till 9:00, if they are I should still beable to pick them up. Galaxy I did read about your visit to the ER. While what you went throght was bad, you where not under there lack of care for 2 years! My wife told me the other night that in a western state the VA is beinging aduted and being held accountable for the death of 48 Vets that did not recive care. Like my self, no fall up care, not in the ER. Jeffery, far as you working on old computers, is that just because you enjoy doing it? If so, I can understand. All so I have a question for you about XP. Mirosoft is no longer supporting XP so do I need to up grade? Or will AVG keep it safe? Mopar Friends. Have had one reach out to me about coming by and helping me get off my butt and work on Miss Lumpy! All I need is a little nudge (spell check all most typed nude), no rain and the darn grass to stop growing! I hate live grass! See you all Sunday! Ken [/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Charger%20Site/1-9-05-4_zps735888ab.jpg.html]
Luckly we found Sparkie, The Rocket Dog.
[/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Sparkie%20The%20Rocket%20Dog/Sparkie3-25-14019_zps0c917174.jpg.html] He pretty much saved Sue she was grefiving so badly over the Shaddy. I could just tell in the morning she had no reason to get up. Sparkie is a great dog. Ulich, I will say one thing, your spelling of English is much better than mine! I did order your spikes and they should be in Thursday. As luck would have it, I am off Monday and Tuesday. I am normally off Tuesday and Fridays so I don't know if I will get to pick them up this week. K-10 use to be open on Thursdays till 9:00, if they are I should still beable to pick them up. Galaxy I did read about your visit to the ER. While what you went throght was bad, you where not under there lack of care for 2 years! My wife told me the other night that in a western state the VA is beinging aduted and being held accountable for the death of 48 Vets that did not recive care. Like my self, no fall up care, not in the ER. Jeffery, far as you working on old computers, is that just because you enjoy doing it? If so, I can understand. All so I have a question for you about XP. Mirosoft is no longer supporting XP so do I need to up grade? Or will AVG keep it safe? Mopar Friends. Have had one reach out to me about coming by and helping me get off my butt and work on Miss Lumpy! All I need is a little nudge (spell check all most typed nude), no rain and the darn grass to stop growing! I hate live grass! See you all Sunday! Ken [/URL]">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Charger%20Site/1-9-05-4_zps735888ab.jpg.html]
He pretty much saved Sue she was grefiving so badly over the Shaddy. I could just tell in the morning she had no reason to get up. Sparkie is a great dog.
Ulich, I will say one thing, your spelling of English is much better than mine! I did order your spikes and they should be in Thursday. As luck would have it, I am off Monday and Tuesday. I am normally off Tuesday and Fridays so I don't know if I will get to pick them up this week. K-10 use to be open on Thursdays till 9:00, if they are I should still beable to pick them up.
Galaxy I did read about your visit to the ER. While what you went throght was bad, you where not under there lack of care for 2 years! My wife told me the other night that in a western state the VA is beinging aduted and being held accountable for the death of 48 Vets that did not recive care. Like my self, no fall up care, not in the ER.
Jeffery, far as you working on old computers, is that just because you enjoy doing it? If so, I can understand. All so I have a question for you about XP. Mirosoft is no longer supporting XP so do I need to up grade? Or will AVG keep it safe?
Mopar Friends. Have had one reach out to me about coming by and helping me get off my butt and work on Miss Lumpy! All I need is a little nudge (spell check all most typed nude), no rain and the darn grass to stop growing! I hate live grass!
See you all Sunday!
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Sir Madog TMarsh That, and you're German so you can say things most of us don't understand, but sounds good while you do it. Is my English that bad?
TMarsh That, and you're German so you can say things most of us don't understand, but sounds good while you do it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and Todd will probably correct me if I am wrong:
No, ULRICH: I think you mistook what he was saying.
Ihr Englisch ist sehr gut, Herr Ulrich. {your English is very good, Mr. Ulrich}
I think he was basically saying this: German is not exactly an easy language {at least for some of us English speakers} to learn and speak. It can be a tongue-twister for some of us. That, and some german words are very long.... one long tongue-twisting word.
So, I think he was saying some of us can't understand some of the things you would say in german, but when you say it, it sounds so good the way you say it {in german}!
For many of us German is like trying to say the {English} medical condition that is the longest English word in the dictionary according to Guiness Book of Records {45 letters long}:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
{a disease: a disease caused by the prolonged inhalation of fine siliceous dust {volcanic ash} } {can be attributed to coal miners and other miners}
{ FOr those who have trouble, to pronounce it, break it into parts:
pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcano co ni o sis
{new-moe ultrah microscopic sil-i-kovol-kane-o ko knee oh sis}
The words-within-the-word kinda tells you what it is.
OR, to listen to it pronounced, try the video here:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006153610AAt52g7
cudaken Jeffery, far as you working on old computers, is that just because you enjoy doing it? If so, I can understand. All so I have a question for you about XP. Mirosoft is no longer supporting XP so do I need to up grade? Or will AVG keep it safe?
Spent all day yesterday and today working outside. Also got in 12 miles on the bike this morning and plan on getting more in tomorrow morning. They are calling for rain and alot of this week so want to get biking and outdoor work in now.
cudaken Galaxy I did read about your visit to the ER. While what you went throght was bad, you where not under there lack of care for 2 years! My wife told me the other night that in a western state the VA is beinging aduted and being held accountable for the death of 48 Vets that did not recive care. Like my self, no fall up care, not in the ER.
Yes, Ken, I was merely illustrating that it isn't only the VA that is getting lax in health care, It can take 2-3 weeeks to get in to see my GP on a good day! Granted, that is not in years, but it is not the old days of getting in within 2-3 days if not the day you call for an appt.!
The VA, nationwide, is being audited, not just one state or facility!
WIth your complaint, I was gonna ask you if you had seen that on the news, it has been all over the news lately. VA ignoring veterans for years until they die.
And all the VA hospitals/Dr.s are being investigated and audited NATIONWIDE.
So your complaint is not unfounded!
What gets me, and I play "devil's advocate" here: is that the veterans in question did not seek medical attention anywhere else, and with serious illnesses just waited forever to see the VA???!! I don't care if the VA is "free" for veterans who may not have any other kind of health insurance, but if you are serously ill, a trip to the ER, if nothing else, is in prompt order!
What Many people apparently don't know, is that {many} hospitals/health care systems have an {apparently little known} Program to reduce by 100%, 75% or 50% the cost of any hospital services low-to medium income people receive, IF THEY APPLY FOR IT.
FOr example, the Hospital I complained about has a program that if you apply, with supporting documentation, that with an annual household income of up to 350% above the Fed. Poverty level...that is a 2 person household with income of up to $55K a year can still get a 50% reduction in the unreimbursed or copay costs of that hospital-incurred or Company Dr.s bills! That applies only to the hosptial and the hospital supported Doctors and outside satellite office and walk-in office visits., the ER Drs. are a contract company so they bill differently.
If a 2 person household makes less than $31K a year {200% over Fed poverty level}, they get a whole magical 100% discount! ITs FREE! Yes FREE!
The Dental clinic we go to is in another hosptial that also has a program..up to 60% off dental services, depending on income. We should still get 40% off our share of the co-pay of what the dental insurance we have won't cover.
SO SEARCH out these programs by asking for the PATIENT FINANCIAL ADVOCATE at any hospital. ALL hospitals {at least the ones who take Medicare} are required to have a PFA, and they represent the PATIENTS, NOT the hospital! They can point you in the right direction!
You also CANNOT be denied ER services at any hospital, even if you don't have insurance, are underinsured, and/or don't qualify for your state's medicaid program! there should be signs all over the place in hospitals ! They have to fully treat you, OR at least get you stabilized to go to a facility that can treat you {say a Burn Center hospital that specializes in major burns, for example}
So there ARE programs for the lower {and even to middle} income people and NO ONE should be denied or wait forever for health care.
If you can't find a for-profit hospital with such programs, seek out a good nearby Catholic Charitable hospital...they are all over the country , it doesn' t mean you have to be Catholic..the hospital of which I speak and go to is one. They HAVE to treat everyone! Like the sign and law says!
Have a great day tomorrow, Ken, I don't think you will have a busy day tomorrow {SUnday} either, if you are open, not many people will take MOTHER out On Mother's Day to a matress place!!!
Janie, I'll have a nice hot cup of decaf please...
Went to my sisters this afternoon. We drove up the lake to the place that has been for many, many years the best source for trees and many garden plants in this part of the country. We knew it had been bought by a place in the midwest, but thought it was still open here. Nope! Totally closed and empty... We weren't the only ones to find that out today as another car pulled in right after us. So we went back to Canadaigua to a place owned by a former student of my sister. They now have many varieties of trees and such as well as flower pots, seedlings, etc. I was looking for some strawberries to plant. He had strawberries in stock, but not the everbearing variety. Sold out already. He has more coming in so my sister will pick up a couple boxes for me next week. I did spend some $$$ to get a couple hanging baskets for out on my deck.
Packer and Galaxy (and others). Taxes are ultimately paid on your yearly income after deductions! (you know that April 15th. thing...) You do not pay more (%) because of overtime unless overtime brings your yearly income into a higher tax bracket (and even then you only pay higher taxes on the portion in the higher bracket not the whole amount you earned...) Therefore you never end up with less earnings because you work overtime. (There are some certain corporate types that would like you to think that and want to pay you less so you will actually make more money [for them] ...ahem..). Now, that said.... In a given pay period, your witholding assumes that your gross for the pay period is what you make every pay period and so may withold on a higher level because of it. But in the long run you do not lose money by working overtime and usually do not even have to pay a higher rate (but what they take out may be more because it is a percentage of the total). Here it is straight from another source:
"You may wind up in a higher tax bracket if you regularly work a lot of overtime, however you will ALWAYS be $$$ ahead in the end as long as the tax rate is below 100%. Given that the maximum tax rate is 35% you will always be money ahead. Most employers withhold taxes on any individual paycheck as if you earned the same amount every pay period. With 38 hours of overtime that will result in a higher percentage in tax withholding than if the employer annualized your income and withholdings. Few employers do that, though I've worked for a couple that did. At any rate, it will all even out at tax time next year when you file your tax return. Your tax liability is based upon your total income and all wages are lumped in together whether straight time or overtime."
Also remember that you only pay a higher amount on the $$$ that are over each tax bracket. Lets say (I don't have my tax info in front of me) that the tax rate changes at $20,000 for this conversation... If you, without overtime, would make 18,000 per year (after deductions) and with overtime now make $22,000 in that year (after deductions), the higher tax rate only applies to $2,000 of your income, not the whole $22,000 you earned. So go ahead and work that overtime and enjoy getting some extra $$$!
OK, I have to be out at the museum early for Crew Call so I will be calling it a night soon. Have a great one! My prayers for all in need.
Good evening. 70° and a little cloudy tonight and no rain. Can't say the same about tomorrow.Did some cleaning on the printer today but had to stop. I ran out of Goo-Gone. At least I got some of the dirt and grime off it. It doesn't look quite so old now.The $20 motherboard I had picked up on Ebay that was advertised as good turned out to be a dud. After some back and forth with the seller I settled for a $10 partial refund as there's still parts on it I can use. Some good news is the manual for the serial card that runs the printer will be here Monday.That's it for now. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good Morning (Morning to you, Ken)!
3 hours of sleep are not enough for a big fella like me, but that´s all I got this night. I could hardly breathe, my head felt like being hammered on. I suppose it´s an allergic reaction to the fumes of that paint. I hope it´ll go away soon.
galaxysome of us can't understand some of the things you would say in german
That´s the story of my marriage! Petra always complains that she does not understand what I am talking about
Nobody loves me, everybody hates meThink I'll go and eat wormsLong ones, short ones, fat ones, thin onesSee how they wriggle and squirm
I bite off the heads, and suck out the juiceAnd throw the skins awayNobody knows how fat I growOn worms three times a dayOhh...nobody loves me.
Ken - thanks for your help! Is this a recent picture of you you posted? You seem to have lost a lot of weight!
Vincent - I won´t paint the backdrop onto the wallpaper. I will mount a 2 by 11 ft. sheet of masonite to the wall, on which I will paint the backdrop using latex paint.
No real plans for the day. I am pondering to fire up my soldering iron, but have to make sure we have stocked a sufficient amount of burn ointment
Ich wünsche Euch allen einen schönen Sonntag!
Ray: I won't argue with you, but I will post a 'rebuttal" of sorts, and you don't name your source.
The source to which I referred was/is a well known respected Financial Services publication. I may not name them here as we don't wnat to get into trouble here on this site.
Perhaps I didn't clarify enough: They ran a couple-page article whereby they tracked down the results that proved that OT beyond the 8-10 hours actually reduces your effective hourly rate. Lets say{being a bit arbitrary #s here}, after taxes your $10/hr job takes you home an effective rate of $8.25/hr. Now you work 10 hours OT and that takes you home an effective rate of $9.50/hr. BUT you work 15-20 hours OT, and now your effective take home pay is reduced to $7.50/hr BECAUSE you are now in that Higher tax bracket you mentioned, wihtout the consideration that you are really in a lower tax bracket.
Also, I had many practice problems for accounting classes in which we had to determine the payroll. That is where I learned time and again it came out to be that the more hourly OT you earned, the less you got in take home, compared to the guy who makes that higher salary to begin with.
And to throw a further monkey wrench into the works, the bi-weekly people's taxing structure and the coinciding tax charts is WAY different BECAUSE IF it WASN'T calculated differently than weekly payroll, The appearance of "doubled income" on the paycheck {for the two weeks total} would tax out as a much higher tax bracket than the effective weekly earnings would be. {example: lets say you earn $800 bi-weekly. the tax rate for $400 weekly pay might be, say 18%, but the weekly pay tax for an $800 earner is 30%. You cannot tax the bi-weekly guy at the 30% rate as it is too high a rate for what his weekly pay average really is! SO, they created a totally different taxing table/structure for the bi-weekly people to be sure they were taxed properly, THAT I could assume you would know having been a teacher,and most likely on a bi-weekly pay structure?!
I also know from working much OT in my time {at least the lower paying scale} that that is how it works out. The more I worked, the lower my effective after tax per hour rate came out to be. ANd, after reading the article, and going and looking at my checks and calculating the effective rates, I saw what they claimed was indeed, true. SO after that, where I could, I refused to work any OT over 10 hours.
I also worked at a place {to remain nameless obviously} where we were paid our regular 40 hours on a regular paycheck, but were paid OT in cash equivalent to our regular hourly rate. Obviously the cash was not taxed at any rate, and it was cheaper for that employer to pay out the cash {allowable in that state}. I never did like that program.
Because OT DOES throw you into another {higher} tax bracket, you get less pay effectively.
A golden-eyed tree-frog from MaliFell in love with a swamp-bat from Bali,said the frog to the bat,"I like your new hat,It looks like a painting by Dali."
There was a young person from Brent,Who to a large prison was sent,And as sentence was passed,She screamed out, "Someone grassed!'T'weren't stolen, ah swear, i' was lent!"
-Francis Wessel
galaxyBecause OT DOES throw you into another {higher} tax bracket, you get less pay effectively.
Galaxy - no one who is still in command of all of his/her senses, would ever work overtime nor thrive to get a better paid job, if that were to be true.
I think you are right and wrong at the same time. I think you will still have more money on hand, if you work overtime, yet your average hourly rate after taxes goes down - see that little table:
Happy Mothers Day .... in this forum, this is mostly for wives of the model railroaders.
Looks like today's off-topic is overtime pay after taxes. I suspect the analysis Galaxy saw was for a worker who keeps the same job for a full year which may of may not be the case. .... Also, payroll taxes have a cap, and as soon as annual income exceeds the cap, there are no payroll taxes. ..... There are other consdierations besides taxes. Firstly, when the boss tells the worker he must stay late and work overtime, the worker should do so if he wants to keep his job. ... Next, the overtime hours would not have any costs to commute to work because the worker is already at work...... Of course, any job is good to have in this economy. ..... How did we get on this subject in the first place?
I've been cleaning up the layout room, and trying to get everything working well. We're having guests visiting from out of town this week. I'm trying reduce the chances of gremlins spoiling my fun. ... The visit starts with a couple from Michigan tomorrow. Following their visit, friends from Colorado will be here. .... Of course, there are many honey-do's for the rest of the house also.
One honey-do chore was to replace light bulbs on this light fixture which hangs from the ceiling. I set up a ladder, and went to get the light bulbs. I returned to find Sassy the cat on the top step (8' from floor) waiting to assist me.
Nice picture, Garry!
The soldering iron stayed cold today, as we have run out on burn ointment and the pharmacies are closed on Sundays. The one open for emergencies is located 30 miles away from our place. Instead of starting on the wiring, I decided to give a try on the stone wall texture of the lighthouses foundation. I used a scriber to engrave the texture. 3 hours and a couple of blisters later, it looks like this:
In the meantime, it has received a coat of light gray paint, Some of the stones will get various shades of darker gray, some with a light brownish touch to them. When that is done, I´ll give the whole a wash of white to enhance the mortar lines.
Garry- Be thankful she wasn't up a tree and you needed to call the fire dept.. lol
Good looking cat I admit, tho I'm a dog lover.
HappyMOMs Day y'all.
Prayers,
well, we went off to Lowes.
We looked at a regular Electric stove for $349 or $359, depending on which model you liked. Plus tax.
The only gas stove that had: a broiler IN the oven for me {i DON'T like getting down on the floor to broil in the drawer!}; grates MOH approved of; a warming feature for the oven; and {extra not looking for} a self-cleaning oven was $599. Plus they will install it for $119 bucks...that is connect it to the gas for us..I refuse to do that myself! They offer free delivery and haul away, so, plus tax, $749 total.
MOH was no help, but wants a gas stove "for even heat baking" {MOH bakes MAYBE twice a year. Guess who does the baking the rest of the year????!!!}. I would PREFER gas for cooking, but NOT necessary! All restauarants I cooked in of course had GAS.
MOH said "I'm going to walk away and let you figure out what to do"....out of ear shot, I told the salesman "I will NEVER hear the end of it IF I DON'T buy the gas one...even though it is close to being double the cost of the electric!"
The other problem is that the gas stoves now need 110 electric plugged in to it. WHy? for the electronic crap they insist on putting in it to control the darn thing, and for the electronic ignitions. Now, mind you the closest outlet is about 18" across the counter from the stove's location. So that will entail an outlet restricted to the stove, OR to have an electriciton put in a dedicated outlet for the stove [probably the preferred method..another expense!}
SO...guess what they will be delivering this week sometime?
A new gas stove! AS soon as the subcontractor {who can install/connect the gas to it} calls to set up delivery time/date for this week.
Except Thursday afternoon, when i am busy, there should be no trouble getting it here. The bigger problem is getting it IN the house, as the front door was built worng. It opens into a wall, and the closet is eactly 2" deeper than the door is wide and directly acfross form the door. then there is the TV cabinet and the big Fish tank to get by. I think it can be done{i measured} , OR they will have to take it around to the back door and haul it up through the Narrow hall, just as tight! The washer/dryer is right at the back door, so not far to fanagle.
My father is going to come over today to install some electrical stuff for us...{not the outlet for the stove, though} So, I will have a liver/onions/bacon dinner for him when all done.
So, I'd best get going.
later...
Good morning. It's 79° with 81% humidity. The high will be 88°, very cloudy and a small chance of rain. with No plans set in stone today. I may do some more clean up work on the printer. I have a little Krud Kutter that can be used on the areas that have some very hard to remove tape. Looks like watching movies and playing some old (prehistoric by many standards) computer games. I may give Lode Runner a run.
Well I did a major cleanup on the printer today. Using what little Goo-Gone and Krud Kutter I had left I got all the tape and adhesive residue off it. With the application of some elbow grease I got the dirt and grime off. It doesn't look like the same printer. It was a kinda sick looking yellowish color this morning. Now it's a buff white color and very clean looking. If the metal plate on the bottom is any indication it was a slightly off-white color before the plastic discolored from age. I also tightened any loose screws I came across.
Hi Guys.
Not much going on here. Went to dinners at my parents.
My brother and I were playing catch ( he has quite the arm ) he launched one and I missed it on the sun and took it square in the nose/mouth. Bled a little bit and have a sore nose and top gums but no swelling and more imporatanty, still have my front teeth. Also got another 20 miles in on the bike this morning but looks like rain all week so might not be able to hit the trails for a few days.
Janie, I'll have the pulled pork BBQ, a nice fresh garden salad and a cup of decaf for dinner tonight.... Thank you Ma'am.
We had a nice day for opening day out at the museum. Not a great turnout though... guess a lot of mom's would rather do something else than ride antique trains for Mother's Day.... Had about 100 people during the day. The head of operations is taking the number for trips (205, there are two trips for each run. Down to the museum and back to the Trolley at Midway) and seeing how much diesel fuel is used to to operate trains so we know better what our costs are to be open for rides as compared to using the track cars. We run diesel trains again next week. T'was a beautiful day to be riding on the train today, and I always have fun as car host.
TMarshAll I know about taxes is at the end of the year they ask me how much I made all together. Then after deductions I owe x amount of money based on x percent. It doesn’t matter what percentage, or how much they take out during the year, it all goes away on the 15th of April. As for the higher tax bracket…same would happen with a raise. If you’d turn down a raise or a higher paying job because you went to a higher tax bracket….I don’t know what to tell you. Your choice.
Todd is correct. Galaxy is looking at the withholding on the actual paycheck not the real tax burden on the earnings over time. Withholding and actual Tax are two very different things. To be correct it has to calculated on the whole year, not the individual paycheck to be accurate. (My quote last night was from here: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070818105836AAF4f67 ) There is a bit of fuzzy math in the expert writings that warn you to not work too hard... They are technically correct but should be taken with a grain of salt for most people. When I used to work a second (or third) job part time, I always had them withhold $$$ with the rate at 0 deductions. That would give me usually enough at tax time to cover the actual amount owed as it usually bumped me into a higher bracket for some of that and witholding would be at a very low rate as it was low wage.. It did mean a lot of $$$ was taken out of the paycheck to cover that. But at the end of the year my actual taxes would be the same either way. Just a matter of when I had the $$$ in hand to use.
Here is another example of "fuzzy" math on a completely different topic. My Electric Bill. This April my total electric bill was $21.80 and it said I used 45kWh of electric. That would mean that each kWh cost me 48.44¢... WOW!!! Holy mackeral! What a rip off!!! Guess I made a horrible mistake putting in solar!!! Ahem... If I look at the bill $15.11 of that bill is the fee for having my house and the Solarvoltaic panels hooked to the grid. That is paid even if I use no electric in a month from the grid. A much better way of figuring it would be using the entire amount of kWh I produced and used instead of the Net Metering total the bill represents. So I produced 505kWh and used 45kWh from the grid for a total use of 551kWh last month. If I use that figure then my cost per kWh was 3.95¢ per kWh. Big difference. Of course I have to amortize the cost of the panels and other equipment over the lifetime of the equipment so that figure could be considered "fuzzy" math too. Understand that connection fee also saves me about $20,000 which would be the likely added cost of me going off grid.... My actual cost per kWh is exactly the same if I did not have the panels if I drop the connection fee, rounded off, 12.5¢ per kWh. That is probably the best way to figure it. I hope you get my point and beware of those who say you lose money by working harder, they tend to be the same think tanks that say the poor are just ..... I'll stop there as that is close to the line!
I'm going spend some time catching up with a few threads and just chilling out for a bit. Catch you all later!
cudaken Jeffery that is what I was thinking, but I used the Mirocsfot updates, did your dad?
Evening all,
We had a busy, but very enjoyable weekend. Got in a couple of hours railfanning Norfolk Southern on Saturday. Unfortunately, it started to rain about 30 minutes after we got there, and never let up. So the day wasn't great for taking photos. But still, we managed to catch 13 trains in a litle over 2 hours.
This morning, we headed over to the other side of town to catch some CSX action. Best Sunday we have had there yet with 5 trains in less than 2 hours. Left there, stopped for lunch, & then went back to Norfolk Southern. They must have been celebrating Mother's Day as it kind of quiet with just 4 trains. But, a coal train had 2 Canadian Pacific engines on it, & another train had 2 Canadian National engines on it. Oh yeah, an interesting mixed freight over on CSX had 3 lease units as power. 2 HLCX & 1 OFOX. I like it when foreign power shows up.
For dinner this evening, we went to a local Chinese Restaurant. Got my Beef Chop Suey, along with my usuall take out order of Shrimp Fried Rice to bring home. We have been going there for many years on Mother's Day. It was where my Mother always wanted to go. After she passed away, I guess my wife decided to carry on the tradition, because that's where we end up every year.
Breakfast, grocery shopping & errands are on the schedule for tomorrow morning. It's suppose to rain tomorrow starting in the afternoon. I hope we get home early enough to get the grass cut, as it is high now and they are calling for rain for the next couple of days. Here's hoping you all have a nice week and stay safe.
Been a busy day for me computer-wise. I cleaned up the Imagewriter II printer in the late morning/early afternoon. My fingers and elbows are still complaining about that. A much easier task was installing a 1 meg memory card in a Microcom (Compaq) Apple II+ compatible this afternoon.For something having to do with trains I ran the Lima Hustler on a clear stretch of track to see how it acts. It has a good top speed. It responds well at lower speeds and crawls quite nicely. It's only problem is it stalls on turnouts because of the short wheelbase despite the fact that it has four wheel pickup and four wheel drive.Looking like a wet day tomorrow. The weather guesser is squawking about a 50/50 chance of rain and thunderstorms.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
There once was a man named BriceWho had a nasty head full liceHe said, "If I eat 'em,Then I'll have beat 'em!And besides they taste very nice."—Ellen
There once was a Mr. BlowersWho brought his dear wife some flowersShe said, 'Let me see!'and got stung by a beeAnd he's been in the doghouse for hours!—Ellen
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. -Katharine Hepburn, actress (1907-2003)
Good morning! I had a long weekend, starting Thursday night. My daughter was on vacation in the Dominican Republic. Guess who got to pick her up. The connecting flight was delayed several hours in Newark, so we got home about a quarter to 2 AM. I wasn't getting up at 6 for work, so I took Friday off and did a bit of yard stuff. Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day, so I got in a bicycle ride. With ski season over, I need to keep that up for exercise that's also fun.
The Boston Bruins are on a roll, and could finish off Montreal tonight.
Good Afternoon Folks!
It´s been a miserable day, in terms of our weather. Lots of and . It´s so dark outside, we had to switch the lights on.
Chloe, strong coffee and a slice of that berry pie, please.
Did only little on the MRRing front today. My hand is full of blisters, so I got to be careful. Just started to fill the gap between the levels on the right side of the layout and coloring that foundation for the light house. A few shots for those who care:
I´ll have to buy a few things before I can continue. I need more glue, plaster and a few lengths of stripwood.
Have a great one!
well, the subcontractor {who can connect teh gas to the new stove} is supposed to have 48 "business" hours to call to set up an installment date. That gives him {or her} until 5pm tomorrow to do so.
I am waiting with baited breath, naturally! I hope they call sooner than later.
SO much for Lowe's "next day delivery"...even on the replacement electric stove, it would not be delivered until tomorrow at the earliest. SO, "next day" may be if you order and need only delivery drop off of it bought Monday through Thursday, and in certain areas of the city. We are in the next county, though right at the border. So, we don't 'qualify" for next day. And we need the gas hook-up too.
well, I will contend myslef with normal chores.
Oh, My father came over to replace a light switch, while here, he installed a new GFCI in the kitchen, and a new ceiling fixture in the hall. Everything: the double light switches, the GFCI went well. The double light switches needed the artificial imitation wood trim piece cut out so the new rocker switchswitch cover could go in place. Not a big deal, though.
the hall light, another story. I resisted the urge to say it when that project got started, but I was going to say "well, everything is going well, now somehting has to go wrong"....I should not have even thought it!
The hall fixture did NOT come wiht the necessary switchbox screws needed,...fortunately in my mini-bin catchall of screws we luckily found two! They worked, it took awhile to get that part done anyway, with 3 of us working on it...Then when the final assembly took place the center screw rod to connect the nut that holds {imitaiton alabaster}the shade in place was TO SHORT, by about an inch!!! MOH had to go get a new longer one! then we had to adjust it to fit a couple of times...and it was a bit to long, so a washer inserted in before the nut went on worked fine to tighten the shade to the fixture. that whole thing took about 2 hours to complete...
he he, there is a second lamp that is to go in the front door area, but we delayed that one as it will require cutting the ceiling trim piece that covers the crack in the pannels.
My father got a favored-but-rarely-gets-as-he-lives-alone-and-doesn't-cook liver, onions and bacon meal in return for the installation of the electrical items, He actually only came to replace the one switch,but i talked him into being on a roll...It WAS confusing the GFCi in the kitchen, though as it is the first in the line of feeders for the kitchen outlets. The Q was WHICH wires were the "in load" wires and which were the"load out" wires??? He knows electrical theory and I dont. He figured it out perfectly.
He gave up on the 3 way switches to the hall light, though, there is a switch at one end, and then a switch for hte hall light at the other end of the long hall paired with a switch to the outside light for the back door. the one paired doesn't work to turn on/off the hall light though, never has. My father said he'll study his book to see if he can figure that one out. Never has worked since at least 1995 when MOH bought the trailer. I don't give a lto of hope my father can figure it out, as MOh had 2 different electricians try, and without running new wires, would not touch it? The one that works the light has been wired for direct turn on/of and taped up for some reason without a ground connection?.
Oh well,
i will go get my day started...
Good morning. It's 76° with 91% humidity. The high will be 85°, cloudy with a fair chance of rain. with Just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call. Other than that I have no plans. The manual for the serial card that controls my printer will be here today.
Howdy ...
Todd ... Thanks for sharing the Mother's Day grill adventure.
Galaxy ... I've never been fond of liver and onions, but glad your father likes it.
Ulrich ... Layout looks good. ... I grew up with dogs, and Shelley and I have enjoyed having both dogs and cats over the years. Cats seem more suitable now that we are retired.
Flip ... Good to see you in the Diner. We keep our cats inside because there are too many hazards outside like tall trees to climb on. Our neighbor next door had a cat run up a tree, and a tree service guy was paid to use his bucket truck to retreive the cat.
PA Tom ... I enjoy hearing about your railfanning and seeing your photos of it.
We will be busy this week with out of town guests.
Speaking of Mothers and Mothers Day, I called my Mom yesterday. She is doing remarakably well, is happy where she lives, and still plays the piano at 94 years old.
Good Morning Dinners and Ulrich
Flo, Diet Dew pleases.
Well I am off for the two days and weather forcast say's it is going to for both days.
Not a lot of running today, main thing is taking Sparkie to get his heart guard and getting him weighted. Want to keep him around 16 pounds.
Jeffery, I was still getting updates till I think it was April for XP? I think that was the cut off.
Ulrich, layout is looking real good! How big is it and have you gone DCC? Far as the picture of me in my Road Runner, that was last summer. Guess all the white hair in my beard makes me look thinner! Getting old is not for the faint of heart.
See you all later today.
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Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Pumpkin Seed Flax granola and my iusual dark roast coffee to start the day.
I need to get to mowing the lawn again this morning... I would put it off until this afternoon, but they are predicting some "Scattered Stuff" involving flashes and noise by then. It is setting records for quick growth this year... I also need to continue weeding the herb garden and pick asperagus too.
Todd, the line fee I mentioned (you probably already know this) is something everyone pays. It covers the costs of installing and maintaining the electric lines. I don't mind the charge at all, but being a fixed charge can make a person scratch their head when they are not buying any actual electrons form the grid....
Jeffrey, Been a while since I have seen, let alone used, an Image Writer.... Cool hobby you have there!
I'll catch you all later today, I hope!
cudaken Jeffery, I was still getting updates till I think it was April for XP? I think that was the cut off.
howmus Jeffrey, Been a while since I have seen, let alone used, an Image Writer.... Cool hobby you have there!
A strong coffee in a SUNNY SOUTHERN mug, please.
Have a terrific day, all.
Me again.
Thanks for all the kudos. Actually, I am quite happy with the results so far - not perfect, but quite OK for the means and methods I have.
Ken - no, I´ll stay with DC. All the switches are power routing, so I don´t have to go though to much trouble wiring the layout. I won´t be running two locos at the same time. I might install Kato´s upcoming Soundbox system, so I will have sound as well. Plus some background sounds, like these:
Sound
TMarshI wish I new a few choice words in Chinese after all. Maybe German so Ulrich would know my true feelings
Todd - those German words you´d like to know are too close to your English 4-letter words to get posted here, they only have quite a few more letters in them
I managed to solder the first feeder wires to the rail, without getting burned! I feel proud!
Ok, quandry:
Lowe's said yesterday on hte answering machine that the the contract installer will "call within the next 48 business hours". Now, I was thinking OK, that is monday and tuesday by 5pm I should hear from them. Now...is that 48 BUSINESS hours,,as in 6 days of business @ 8 business hours a day, OR is that really "during business hours of the next 48 hours".....
Hmm. I am HOPING it is "during business hours in the next 48 hours...."!!!! at any rate they have waisted the first half of a business day already not calling me!
MOh wants desperately to move the stove and scrub under/behind it so "they don't see a mess"....I m sure they have seen messes before as not everybody moves applinaces! I am one of them! Since I can't really move it by myself, MOH will have to help and naturally has limited tiem to do it. SO MOh declared "dinner should already be cooked so the stove is cool to move and clean"...SO, I have sauteed' the rest of teh liver, and the Hot italian sausages and the red peppers. Still to do is the onions, both for the sausages/peppers/onions AND the liver/onions/bacon. then I can either do the bacon today or not.
tonight after dinner {the sausages/onions/peppers} will be under/behind stove cleaning...
I also have paid two bills, finished of fthe dishes, got one load in the dryer.
I alos mailed the rebate for the stove {which will be a LOwe's gift card...I HATE when they give you a gift card forcing you to spend it in their business instead of the way/where I want!}. I already told MOH yesterday that the rebate will go for the new room area rug for the LR MOh has been nagging me about for about 6 years now. Half of it is we can't affford it, and the other half {luckily} has been MOH hasn't yeat found one to like, or not in a size we can have as we have 2 "stoopid" furnace vents in the middle of the floor at 7'7" from each other. {I do understand why they are there, they would be lost behind furniture and the LR would not heat up as fast, and the feeder vent is one long piping down the middle to feed all rooms..but really did they have to locate 2 of the vents right square in teh middle of the doorway to the bathroom and train rooms???}.
They don't seem to make 5'x7' even rugs anymore! the one in Lowes MOH liked was 7'10"...2 inches too long, naturally!!! It OCULd work, I guess as there is an inch of border on the furnace vents that the rug could cover without much harm I think.
Well, I have babbled enough...mjust now go do the onions...
still wiating for "THE call"!
I also hope the gas will save us some money on the cooking costs..I DO use the oven to cook/roast/bake food a lot for an hour to 3 hours often, so the cost of the gas compared to the electric rate MAY help offset the cost of gas stove!
nobody? in 3 hours? nobody? I must smell again....
Well, one business day almost down...still in the quandry, but will call Lowe's tomorrow for clarification on that "within 48 business hours" business. IF it CAN take up to 6 whole business days AND then most likely up to a week to schedule, I am sure, I will COMPLAIN LOUDLY to LOWES about that! The Salesman should have told us that when we were ready to buy.
Lowes DOES have a sign that says "free delivery in one day and free haul away". I understand we are "out of 1 day zone" but really? when it is in stock at the store I may have to wait up to 6 days to even get to schedule the thing to be delivered and hooked up? I DO have a LIFE!
I am also NOT happy with Time Warner. We have a new "package" coming up to take over on the 16th, when the old two year contract expires on the 15th. That is the $100 package I made reference to a few days ago. I get a new bill today for service dates "5/16-6/15" {they bill in advance always which I think is unfair to others who must provide goods/services first, then bill}. It is for well over $200!!! SO I called "customer NOservice" as Money expert Clark Howard calls them...and am told they "can't tell me what the actual bill should be until after the 16th, because their computers only have the un-contract price locked into it, and it will only back-bill the correct amount AFTER the 16th".
REALLY? I have to wait to the 16th to find out what I SHOULD BE paying??? They knew 3 weeks ago it was going to the new "contract" price of $100/month...and I got a confirmation letter too already! Their computers can't tell??? GIve me a break! SO I told her that that will put it at risk of not getting there in the mail in time for the due date without late charges added{which I swear they push short anyway}. SHe said "oh, you'll be OK". Now I know some of you advocate computer payments, or walk in payments, but I like mail, it keeps several people in jobs, so that is a moot point. I kindly told her "I've been told that before and it turned out to NOt be true. You have been NO help to me have a good day" and hung up.
I have started to tell people who are in customer service that "you have been of NO help to me" when that is the case, which is beginnig to be the case everytime. They NEED to get that message at customer NOservice everywhere! Asking for a supervisor may not help..as they may substitue another customer service rep for a "supervisor" who can't help you either! Companies wnat your money and don't care anymore.
Then I get a call back about the customer service call I just had from TIme WArner. I gave poor ratings of course. I could have left a verbal comment but declined, because it would have come out wrong, but maybe i should have anyway. The only GOOD rating i gave was for her knowlege of my problem...she did see the new contract issued and understood exactly what I was calling bout, but couldn't do anything more. GRR.
Now on to the Car insurance. The new car will cost $30/month more for each month of the 6 month cycle of billing, or $180 for the next 6 months cycle. Then because I pay in advance there will be a discount off that rate.. FOr two months left on the current bill they want double that! It should be prorated at even less than the $30/m because that is actually what the NEW raised rates bill will be {in advance AGAIN}. Also, it took them 6 weeks to get the bill for the addition of the new car to get to me! I went in on Friday to the office to pay it, and the new "stoopid" person {you had to be there} gave me the wrong figure to pay anyway. That will leave me paying a $4 "billing fee" to pay to pay the full amount balance off! I DON'T DO budget payments with extra fees attached, I pay ALL in advance and get a DISCOUNT for it. That is how I do things. GRR SO I have the standard "old guy" looking into it, and will call me tomorrow,and he will, as he doesn't see the numbers adding up,and if there is any balance due, he will waive the extra billing fee for me. THAT is good customer service!!! GRR.
WEll, MOH will be home in aobut an hour.
Dinner will be hot italian sausage {I know not good for you but oh so tasty once in a while} with suateed onions and red peppers over toasted eye-talian bread and potato salad on the side. Heat n Eat since I did all the work already!
We've had big ugly and loud thunderstorms and heavy showers going through here for the last couple of hours. A few lightning strikes have been close, one maybe a direct hit as a couple of locos were knocked off the track on the display rack. Thankfully they didn't fall off. Some DVD's were knocked out of the DVD rack as well. Gotta another big thunderstorm coming so I gotta get off of here.
Flo, pleases.
Got a lot of none fun stuff today, well one fun thing. Paid the Gas, Water and Electric Bill. Got cash so Sue can go to the foot Dr again to have here toe nails cut, she has a in growen nail. Took Sparkie THe Rocket Dog to the Vet for his heart guard. Well, did not need to taken for the heart guard, wanted to get him weighed. In 2 months he has went from 16.2 pounds, to 19.2? That is a 18% increses! So no more snacks for him, I want to keep him around 17 pounds max. Does not look any heaver, I still wonder if the scale is right.
Went to a new park (still growing grass) and took Sparkie for a nice walk. Sparkie saw found some deer tracks and enjoyed smelling and tracking them. I did look out for Deer Poop.
I am doing the first BBQ in say 5 months. Looking foward to something not Mircowaved (spell check) for a change! Sure is time for a new grill! This one is the second Char Brol grill, this is the second one. Both lasted around 15 years, and this one is done for. I think I have replaced 3 to 4 burners, grill top, riged the top hidges with dry wall screws, made new basket hanges and the list goes on.
Ulrich can you post me a track plan and the sizes of the layout? Sure looks bigger than the N scale setup.
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OK, I'm back. We had quite the series of storms here. I shut down here almost immediately after my 4:16pm post. Power went out about thirty minutes later. I was in back watching 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' at the time. The outage caught VGER in mid sentence or shall I say mid-threat (give me what I want or I'll kill everything on the Earth) so it was no bad thing. I put on my headlight and went around and turned on the emergency lights. They're in the bedroom, bathroom, train/computer room. Then I sat back, picked up a book (After Worlds Collide) and picked up where I left off during the last power outage. I'd read for ten minutes, let my eyes rest for about five minutes then read for ten minutes, rest the eyes for five minutes and just kept repeating the cycle. I stopped and marked my page (about eleven pages farther on from where I started) when the power came back on a little after 7:30. I had stopped at a few points to get something to eat and drink and make a visit to the throne room. I know now that the window in the west wall of the bedroom (under where the tree landed) leaks. I've got to fix that. Also have to get that roof fixed! Those damaged steel sheets are still up there and the over-roof frame hasn't been repaired. No way can I do it. I go up a ladder and I'll probably split the side of my foot open then my nurse and my family will probably kill me. I can't trust my nephew to do it. He'll be in a hurry to go to some party or go and see if he can get his truck and ATV's stuck in some mud hole and he'll botch the job in spades. All it is just sistering a good 2x4 to the busted one and replacing the two steel sheets. Those of course need to be cut to length, pre-drilled, put in place and screwed down. Nothing hard about it. It just takes time. Shoot, my father and I did the whole roof in half a day back in '06 and that included tarring the overlap of the sheets. Thirteen sheets in all.
Garry - Thanks. The wife & I have been having a great time. What keeps it interesting is that we almost always see something new or different each time we go out. I'm really lucky to live minutes away from NS & CSX main lines, and that the wife enjoys it as much as I do. We also enjoy going on little one day jaunts to small towns we have never been to before to see if there are any good spots to watch trains. And we are always running into other railfans, or people who just are curious what we are doing. Last summer, a semi truck driver sat with us for about an hour and was really interested in what the very freight cars hauled.
Ray - I have been meaning to ask you about the museum you volunteer at. Do they have any difficulty in getting people to participate on weekends or for work sessions? I wish there was a nice railroad museum close to where I live. I think it would be interesting to be active in something like that. The other question is personal, & if you don't want to address it, I understand, but I have been concerned as to how your sister was doing. I hope all is well.
After our usual busy Monday morning activities, my schedule didn't let up after we got home. Started a load of wash, and because they were calling for thunderstorms this afternoon and the next couple of days I figured I better get the grass cut. About 30 minutes after putting the lawnmower away, it started to rain pretty hard. All told, got 5 loads of laundry done too. But I'm sore this evening. Going up and down those cellar steps is a killer these days.
Tommorow's plans are to clean the foyer, living room, dining room and scrub the kitchen floor. But you never know, might go & watch trains instead.
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me.... No, no can't have any of that beautiful looking pie you have over there.... Have a blood test in the morning! I will be in for a big breakfast on the way home from that!
I got about 2/3rds. of the lawn done today. Ran out of battery about the same time I ran out of energy myself... I did some weeding in the asperagus/herb garden. Cut a nice batch of the asperagus which I took over to my next door neighbor. I have a huge amount in the house and I don't want to risk my uric acid going haywire right before my blood work.... Went down to the local collage to pick up a DVD data disc of photos from the MLK Service last January. There are close to 750 fuill res photos on the disc... I need to find about 30 to use in a slide show at the Scholarship Dinner! Ask and thou shalt recieve!
Jeffrey, If I was anywhere near where you live, I would come over and help you for a day. I think I could still do what you are needing to get done on the trailer. I feel your frustration with the nephew! Every family has at least one of those. Too bad you don't have some better ones right where you are.
I have a back ache from the weeding today, and I need to get up a bit early tomorrow. I shall call it a day and go get comfortable in bed. Prayers for all in need!
It's 72° here and very wet and windy. We have gusts up to 28mph. Looks like there's still a fair chance of more showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Great! Just what we need. More rain. It was coming down in buckets for a couple of hours and I heard what sounded like hail hitting the roof a few times.Well, it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Another dull and gray day. I could sure use some sunshine! At least it has stopped raining.
cudakenUlrich can you post me a track plan and the sizes of the layout? Sure looks bigger than the N scale setup.
Here you go, Ken!
The layout has about the same length as my "old" N scale layout, but it is 19" deep instead of those 6" the N scale modules have. In addition, there is this "leg" down the middle, which is detachable and can be rolled away, if need be. The staging, which I have not yet started to build, is just a simple board and put in place only when I operate the layout.
It took lengthy negotiations with my government until I was alloted the necessary real estate, but finally Petra bought in to the idea. The room has lost the function of a guest room, but, as we hardly have guests staying over night, that´s not a big loss.
Incidentally, this is the biggest layout I ever built!
No real plans for the day - I think I´ll continue to fill the gaps between the levels and maybe start covering the foam with plaster. I have yet to figure out how to make the abutments for the bridge on the right side.
-frances Wessel
I once fell in love with a blondBut found that she wasn't so fondOf my pet turtle named Odle,whom I'd taught how to YodelSo she dumped him outside in the pond
-lilly
Good morning, all. Yesterday was in the high 80s in Massachusetts, but today we'll be lucky to hit 60. I put seed and starter fertilizer down last Thursday, so I'm trying to keep it all slightly damp. Not easy when I'm at work 5 days a week.
Yesterday was my turn to go to the doctor. Just a physical, but the blood work showed my blood sugar is too high, so now I'll be on a pill for that, too. I'm not a sweets-and-desserts guy, and I only put sugar in my coffee on weekends, but the Doc said it's genetic, not dietary, and it wouldn't make any difference if I ate nothing but bran cereal - I'd still be like this. Actually, that's kind of a relief, because I really don't want to be on any kind of highly-restrictive diet that makes me suffer to look at all the yummy things I can't have. Blood pressure and cholesterol are fine, so those pills are working and one more won't hurt.
Morning all, I'll just have an egg. I've got to get my asthma meds today and boy is that expensive. I'm also probably going to spend the rest of the day before work (I wish I was working the 10-5 shift instead of the 3-9, but Iam not complaining about the work-I like it) working on perfecting Layla on Guitar-I've already got Clapton's sound and effects figured out, now I just need to get the intro lick perfected and work on the timing/ Not sure if I am going to do any railfanning/model railroading today.
Zoe, coffee, please - and something to munch on. A sweet muffin? That´ll be great!
I am struggling to fill the gap at the far right of my layout. I made a mistake while cutting the board - didn´t think of the bridge that will cross there. Thank goodness Styrofoam is such a good material to work with, so I managed to get one side of the shoreline straightened out.
There only 8 inches left to fill, but I am calling it quits for the day, as I feel a headche getting the grips on me. Must be the foam glue I am using. It really stinks - despite the room being properly ventilated.
Off for a snooze!
Good Morning Dinners and Ulrich!
Flo, Diet Dew and English Muffin please.
Weather finally caught to us, it a cool nasty rainny day. Means no yard work and both front and rear yards are getting close to needing to be cut.
Ulrich, while I am more of a loop guy that is a good looking track plan. Glad Petra let you have the needed spaces.
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cudakenGlad Petra let you have the needed spaces.
Well, seeing it on a plan is very much different from reality. I got a little bit more than just a few frowns from her when I put up the benchwork. Peace has come back, though.
Instead of taking that snooze, I finished the right part. I didn´t want to start again, sniffing this crazy glue. We have the windows wide open and hopefully, this smell will soon be forgotten. All I nhave to do now is to wait for about an hour, then do a little sanding and a lot of clean-up work. Tomorrow will be plaster day!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I got two 3-point track gauges in today´s mail. They will help me to lay the track on the piers and the bridge and also check the gauge on the entire layout
Ulrich: The layout is looking good. I like that that track plan although like Ken I'm a roundy-rounder type.
Good morning. It's 68° with 94% humidity. The high will be 82° and very cloudy with a high chance of sowers and thunderstorms. with Looks like more rain today. At least there's no reports of wind like we had yesterday. I'd intended to come back online last night after my sign-off but the cable internet service was down. It was still down when I got up this morning. It didn't come back on until about 8am.No plans today except of course to stay dry.
Zoe, just a refill on the coffee please.
I got up a bit earlier than normal to have my blood draw this morning. Gave Blackie his med about a half hour early and headed over to the lab. Got there and there was only one other person in the waiting room.... Don't think that has ever happened before. So I didn't have to wait very long to see the vampire. She seemed very nice but couldn't find any working viens in either arm.... Done used up 6 needles before she decided to use a vein on the back of my hand. She asked if I had ever had blood drawn from there before? I said, "no but I have had an IV installed there a few times". She said it was the same... She did finally manage to get the job done and I left with several bandages on my arms and hand... Stopped in at the Pharmacy there to get a refill of Blackies medicine, then headed out to Water St. Cafe to be very bad for breakfast! I figured I deserved to eat some stuff that is not normally on my diet after that!!! Yep, had the #2 Special, over easy eggs, bacon, homefries and a double order of sourdough toast washed down by several cups of coffee!
Cloudy day outside and I will soon be out finishing the lawn I didn't get done yesterday. Currently 74°F with a high of 81 this afternoon with a few thunderboomers as well.
Ulrich, your layout is looking very good sir! Remember it isn't how big a layout is, it is how much fun you have that is important...
I best get to w*rk. Catch you all later!
jeffrey-wimberlyUlrich: The layout is looking good. I like that that track plan although like Ken I'm a roundy-rounder type.
Jeff, Ken - I am a roundy-rounder as well, but I just don´t have the space for it. If I were to go into Z scale - well, that would work, but my eyesight is not the best, my hands are a little shaky and, foremost, that Z scale stuff is so darn expensive I could afford only something that would not satisfy my wants in a layout. Going into bigger scale was the answer for me, instead.
Ray - how true! The size of a layout is totally irrelevant - it´s the fun dreaming it (which I have done a lot in recent years, planning it (done that quite a few times as well), building it, owning it and operating it.
Latest pics of the now completely filled right part of the layout:
When I was just finished with this job, I thought it would be nice to have a little island, so I messed the place up again
Tomorrow´s plastering job will put an end to the really messy w*rk on the layout!
No call yet from the contract/installer for the stove. The second half of a business day has now gone by. If I don't hear from them by tonight, I will call tomorrow and register a complaint and HIGHLY suggest they inform their salesmen at Lowe's to inform their potential customers that it can take 6 businees days to get a call to even schedule installation!
Even IF they can't get to it right away, A call on the first day so the customer knows what is going on doesn't seem to untoward to me?. I am left wondering WHO it is, WHERE they are, and WHEN they will get a hold of me!
I might have bought from HD if they offered faster service!
Ah well,
I shredded 7 paper grocery bags of documnets that were no longer needed!
That and 2 bags of catalogs, odds and ends and *GASP* 2 1/2 years of MR magazine, Trains Mag, and a few odd ones like Garden RWs *GASP*. They went out to recycle too!
Then I went to the "stash all" cupboard in the kitchen and cleaned out some of the reusable plastic containers that filled it to a pt. where when you open the door stuff falls out all over the floor. SO MOH has been nagging me to do it. So today I did it!
Watch out! I am in that "recycle and throw away" mood again! If you are in my way and sit still too long, you might find yourself in the recycle bin or garbage can!
There is a whole curbside load of stuff, as MOH also gave the porch a quick cleaning too! Most of it is all recyclable! that is good for the environment! There are boxes, bags of paper, plastic/glass containers, cans of all sorts all kinds of plastic containers, etc out there. We have 2 large recycle bins but they are ful...so I used other cardboard boxes to fill with recycles. WE do recycle about 70% of our garbage here.
well, I stood on my feet too much SUnday and yesterday. After all that cooking i did yesterday, last night MOH says" I don't feel like moving the stove now"...GGGGRRR!!!! Maybe later this afternoon I will try by myself, I can take the door off, and remove the drawer of pans to lighten the load.
SO, I have been busy busy busy! I haven't gotten to my shower yet, either, tried to get the recycle done BEFORE they come-which is about NOW.
So now I go shower and throw the towels/bathmat in the washer.
Need to eat something too..don't know what though?
well, have a great day and don' get into anymore trouble than I would!
Sir MadogJeff, Ken - I am a roundy-rounder as well, but I just don´t have the space for it. If I were to go into Z scale - well, that would work, but my eyesight is not the best, my hands are a little shaky and, foremost, that Z scale stuff is so darn expensive I could afford only something that would not satisfy my wants in a layout. Going into bigger scale was the answer for me, instead.
howmus ...So I didn't have to wait very long to see the vampire. She seemed very nice but couldn't find any working viens in either arm.... Done used up 6 needles before she decided to use a vein on the back of my hand. She asked if I had ever had blood drawn from there before? I said, "no but I have had an IV installed there a few times". She said it was the same... She did finally manage to get the job done and I left with several bandages on my arms and hand... Stopped in at the Pharmacy there to get a refill of Blackies medicine, then headed out to Water St. Cafe to be very bad for breakfast! I figured I deserved to eat some stuff that is not normally on my diet after that!!! Yep, had the #2 Special, over easy eggs, bacon, homefries and a double order of sourdough toast washed down by several cups of coffee!
...So I didn't have to wait very long to see the vampire. She seemed very nice but couldn't find any working viens in either arm.... Done used up 6 needles before she decided to use a vein on the back of my hand. She asked if I had ever had blood drawn from there before? I said, "no but I have had an IV installed there a few times". She said it was the same... She did finally manage to get the job done and I left with several bandages on my arms and hand... Stopped in at the Pharmacy there to get a refill of Blackies medicine, then headed out to Water St. Cafe to be very bad for breakfast! I figured I deserved to eat some stuff that is not normally on my diet after that!!! Yep, had the #2 Special, over easy eggs, bacon, homefries and a double order of sourdough toast washed down by several cups of coffee!
Ray, With all my illnesses and hospitalizations, I have had enough IVs and blood draws that have scarred my veins badly.
I warn all vampires that "you won't get it out of my elbow. Try the back of hand with a butterfly needle". WHY oh WHY do they NEVER listen to the patient???? They Insists "oh, I have been doing this umpteen times a day for umpteen years, I can get it" I tell them "IF you don't succeed by the second try, then I will refuse you any more because I already told you you won't get it in the elbow"{you have the right by law after 3 failed tries to refuse and request a new vampire}. GUESS what happens??? THEY NEVER GET it in the ELBOW! EIther one! They Have to either find another vein somewhere in the arm, Or *TA DA* go to the back of myhand with a butterfly needle!
The last time I was in hte hospital for a stay, they failed 5 times in the ER between the nurse AND the DR {who thought she "knew what she was doing"} adn were really doing nothing but stabbing me in the muscles! I complianed LOUDLY several tiems, and MOH stepped in and Oredered them to stop, well tehy were going to call secutrity on MOH! SO MOH stepped ou t of the ER before they did. I grabbed the DRs hand and Said LOUDLY... "I am the patient! I am telling you the nurse has used her three tries and you have used two. I am telling you NO MORE, hwich I have the right by law!" The Dr. said "well, there is that.". They came back with a guy who said he "guareantee to get it". Well, I siad "ONE TRY, that is it" He got it in, guess where? The bloody ELBOW.
I the first 5 days I was there, I had been stuck 14 times over the IV. 6 in the ER, and the reast while on the floor. Naturally it blew out of the elbow {bad place any way, you bend your elbow and it kinks the line OR pops it out}. I otld them the last time the line blew out "to get someone who can get it in and MAKE IT STICK, because I am NOT going to continue to be your PIN CUSHION!" They got a nurse for ICU to come. She said she could "gaurantee success". I pointed out MOST of her patients are not coherent enough to know what is going on when they stick them, but I was very much awake and aware. While she did it, i asked what made her a "specialist"? She said her patients were the sickest in the hospital,and when you are sick your veins tend to shrink and be smaller and narrower, so hard to find/get into.{I did not know that}. SHe found it in the middle of the right forearm easy enough.
They then decided to keep saline drip going on very slow because when they stopped regular fluids and capped of the IV for the day until the next caustic IV antibiotic went in because the veins were shutting down and closing off the IV so they would blow out again and fail. Keeping fluids running would solve that problem!
I always tell them NOT in the ELBOW! DO they listen? NO!
Grr.
I heard a truck..it was either garbage or recycle! Best go see and bring in whatever containers!
Just had a call from Lowes. Should have heard from the installer by now!
SO he siad he'd email and fax the order to the installer again, and I should "hear from him immediately". Why oh why do I have a feeling I won't? Only 1.25 hours left in "buisiness day"..I could still hear, i guess...
Lets hope this is not a fanagled mishap mixup!
Harumph! I have better things to do than be tied to a phone waiting for a call that so far is not forthcoming!
dinner will be the balance of the liver, with onions, red peppers and some bacon...delicious!
French Roast coffee in an Undecorated mug, please.
Wish I could have gone with O-scale, but really would almost need a barn to do a lot with it. HO is the smallest I care to work with now, like others here, because of eye sight issues. I still keep some N-scale and would like to have a small coffee table sized layout (perhaps under glass) one day for the library. Just wouldn't seem right to part with all of the n-scale when that is what got me started in model trains as a young lad.
Good Evening Dinners and Ulrich.
Flo, Beer for my self and a Diet Dog Treat for Rocket Dog.
Well, it is still ranning so Sparkie does not get a walk around the block. I am still worried about him getting fat, so I want to walk him around the block 3 times a week. Do us both some good now that my toe is healed.
Pretty boring day, today. Laied on the couch for a few hours and watched the History cannel. Did a little running and that was pretty much my day. Sat in the garage a few hours and stared at U Tube. I am a big fan of Jay Leno's Garage. He is a real car guy with crazy money and has some great cars! Plus, he does not sound like a rich guy talking down to you. Here is a video if you care to watch. It is about is 1918 Cadillac that is all orginal, never redone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XnfX9tTc8c
Ulrich, I know what you mean about wifes and spaces. When I bought this house I told her that she could do anything she wanted excpet the Garage and Family room, rest was her's. I now have a Pink Living Room, Pink Dinning Room and Pink Bedroom?
Now with her having all that, I still got a look of dismay when I built the 8.5 X 5 foot K-10 section of the layout in the garage! I have no clue why, she never parked in the garage because, well I don't know?
By the way Ulrich, wht have you know gone DCC? I was a hold out for years. Is it mainly the cost, or you just don't want to mess with it?
Galaxy, let us know what happens with the stove. Mine died I am guessing 5 years ago. Bunners still work and Sue seldoms cook's much less bakes anything. Sharon and I bought her a god sizes toaster oven for Christamss in 2012 and she is happy with that.
Running the PCM Y-6b at speed step 3, just crawing around the layout dragging 46 coal cars. Boy it sounds good!
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Had a little bit of a mystery a little while ago. I picked up the keyboard of my HP computer to type in a reply on another forum an lo and behold nothing happened. I've always had the keyboard plugged into one of the two front USB ports alnog with an 8gb flash drive. Well neither device worked so it was preyyu obvious the front USB ports are dead. So I plugged the keyboard into one of the USB ports on the back and it's working again. Everything else on the front still works.Nothing else to report so I'll be calling it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Morning!
I am a little gruffy this morning. I did not sleep much and the little sleep I got was not relaxing at all. I will have to talk to my doc about my sleep issue, next time I see him.
As soon as Petra is back from the Wednesday grocery run, I´ll have to get some plaster and CA. The CA I will use to glue down the rails on the dock, prior to spiking them down. I will need that extra bond, because the planks on the dock are only 3 mm thick - not enough for a distance hold. I´ll use the 3-point track gauges I got for a little more than nothing to ensure the track will be in gauge.
cudakenBy the way Ulrich, wht have you not gone DCC?
Ken - it´s purely a matter of cost. My options were either to buy a second loco or a DCC set. Now with only one loco you don´t really need DCC, so my choice was option # 2. Both of my locos are DCC equipped and it would be nice to have one of those Bachmann Dynamis infrared sets, but this is simply not in the budget. I still have the Kato power pack I used for the N scale layout - that will have to do the job. I still have no idea where to locate it, though. In any case, there will be a lot of walking around, when I operate the layout. Walkaround control gets a different meaning
Later in this year, Kato will bring out an analog sound system called Soundbox, which hitches up to the power pack. It has a built-in speaker and let´s you attach two more, somewhere underneath the layout. If the cost of this system is not prohibitive, I might go down that route.
had to wait for to move through...will make it SHORT:
There once was a lady named EllenAnd she so detested watermelon.She said, "This is crap!"And she gave it slap
And so into the garbage it fell in.—Lilly & Ellen
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism. -Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1898-1978)
Good morning. It's currently drizzling here, but we are supposed to get thunderstorms tonight. Off today, so I have no idea what I am going to do today-maybe cut the grass if it ever stops being wet outside before the temps go up to 90 again.
Good morning. Penny comes home tonight, at the inconvenient hour of 6 PM. The hour isn't so bad, but getting to the airport in Boston could be awkward. I decided just to stay at work until it's time to go to the airport, because otherwise I'd just drive home and turn around and drive back.
Still trying to get the grass to grow. Today is day 7 since seeding. I've kept it moist pretty well between rain and sprinklers, so I'm cautiously optimistic. Last night was hockey, so I'm pretty tired and I'll be ready to go to bed by the time we get home.
I feel strange, somewhat dizzy. I am not sure I will get around adding the plaster to the scenery on the right side of the layout. I did manage to get the tracks on to the dock. It was a tricky job getting the glue underneath the rail while holding the track in gauge with the track gauges. I painted the rail once it was securely fastened.
Just a few shots from today´s w*rk:
Flo, Diet Dew pleases, and a BLT pleases.
Well it is back to work today. Funny, when I did not have a job I missed going to work. Now that I have a job, well I rather stay home?
Only bill I have left this month is the Cable/ Phone / Internet and it is the highest at $155.00. That will be covred by this check. Next will be paying for Sues Tooth being pulled, $125.00 and Sparkie shoots with dog tags $75.00. Rest goes into savings.
Ulrich, what do you know about the decoders in your Bachmann engines? Only Bachmann decoder I have is in HO and low speed is not good.
Got to run, see you all after work.
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cudakenUlrich, what do you know about the decoders in your Bachmann engines?
Ken - just the factory installed, plain vanilla Bachmann decoders.
Pulled myself together and did plaster a little over a foot right now, I have to wait for about 1 1/2 hrs. to pull the tin foil off and see the results of my w*rk. Maybe I´ll watch a movie in the meantime.
Zoe, coffee to go! I have a meeting downtown in about 20 minutes with the old pack and crew I am commissioner for to rearrange $$$ and close one of the bank accounts.
If you have seen the news here in upstate NY, Yates County (right to the South of where I live) and the Village of Penn Yan are under a state of emergency due to some horrendous thunderstorms storms that came through here over night. I am fine about 10 miles North of where the main blast hit. Roads are washed out, bridges damaged, trees down and power out to a lot of homes and businesses. Penn Yan High School is being used as an Emergency Shelter... Penn Yan Schools are closed for the day (no ****).
I have more later!
Good morning. It's 54° with 100% humidity. The high will be 68°, very cloudy with a fair chance of showers and thunderstorms. with Waiting on the call from the Home Health nurse. Otherwise no plans. The front USB ports on the HP are working again. It seems that somehow the driver for the host controller of those ports got dropped. Windows couldn't detect that the driver was missing. So I uninstalled that particular host controller. On the next full restart Windows reinstalled the host controller and the driver. It was probably Windows that dropped the driver in the first place. Who remembers Windows 95 Version A and it's infamous habit of dropping drivers? Install a sound board and suddenly you have no mouse control?Click image to play video.
I'm Baaaaaccckkkk!
Meeting was only a preliminary... The couple from the old pack and the crew have to go get the signature of the old Treasurer at the rehab hospital where he is a patient and then we will go back down to the banck and take care of the rest of the paperwork this afternoon.
According to the Weather Channel we got .15 inches of rain last night. According to the wheelbarrow in my back lawn, we got between 1.5 and 2" of rain as it has about 3 inches of water in it. according to all the local news we got that much and will be getting much more in the next few days with flash flooding warning and wtches for most of central and western, NY. My basement is very wet today and the siphon has once again been started...... The Rochester News are also showing that Shortsville NY got nailed last night as well as Penn Yan. Most of the severe damage was on a short street next to what used to be the LV Yard in Shortsville. I have a very close friend from Scouts who lives on the street. They are are saying lots of home and property damage but no known injures reported. A barn, among other things blew down in the area. You can see a bit of it here. Some photos and a story about what happened in Penn yan as well.
I want to get the lawn rolled this afternoon if I can. Have to finish sorting the photos I have of the MLK Service last January. Then get the laptop up and running to start making the Slide show for the Scholarship Dinner next week... Getting verty tight on tme!
Ray: sorry to hear that, but in the middle of the night when i got up, the TWC weather radar channel showed some nasty going on up that way, so I am not surprised!
Herr Ulrich: and anyone else who is interested! Here is a video of the small Widbey house that you like so much,and that I'd like to modify to make a bit more room. It is the video to go with the pictures we have previously seen, the video does it more justice:
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I done spent $350 already today! the grocery bill was a bit higher than I usually spend. I also went to wally world and found a new vacuum I might acutally be able to use. It weighs only 9.6 pounds so is lightweight compared to the 24 lb other vacuum. I should have an easier time pushing it around for my back. It also is 'no reduced suction" and washable filters. The neatest feature {I hope} is the power upholstery/stair brush. It has adjustable height for bare florsand carpets, the old one doesn't and the belts burn out quickly on the old one. I shall see soon.
MOH must have "heard" me looking at the vacuum because I came home and MOH had half way vacuumed the house..I hadn't gotten to it yet, but with that old heavy machine, I avoid it at all possible costs too!
i shall find out soon enough!
Galaxy - when can I move in? Me wants!
Weather may be turning nasty in my neighborhood-just hope I don't get blown away to Oz with the Pittsburgh area probably going to be under a tornado watch. Otherwise, I am working on weathering a tichy trains flatcar deck, and a boxcar, will share some photos later.
Sir Madog Galaxy - when can I move in? Me wants!
The weathering powders that Micromark sells really works wonders huh? Yeah, not under the Tornado watch yet, but it is so darn muggy here and the skies are getting ugly as well.
Did I overdo this one?
Calling it a day now - it´s 10.20pm in my neck of the woods, time to hit the hay!
CU all tomorrow!
1} on the new vacuum: it works great! It practically moves along itself! It has adjustable floor heights so that make it work better, and even though MOH had just vacuumed the LR, I did it again with the new vacuum and guess what? it pulled another 3" {in the dirt cup about 6-7 inches across} in of dirt out of the rug! MOH was surprised! It was only $69 too, so that is a decent price. It also seemed to not lose suction {the old one lies about that}
2} still no call from the Lowes installer! I am out tomorrow afternoon with 2 mental health appts, one with the psychiatrist and one wiht the therapist. MOH will be at work. want to GUESS when he/she will call????? I am nto getting happy by the day here. I owuld have sought out HD's timeline for installing things, OR bought the electric stove which would have been delivered yesterday!
3}Naturally MOH is blaming the delivery problem on me. ANd my choice of gas over electric. MOH said "I walked away and let you choose. You were hemming and hawing over which one, I said I wanted the gas, though, but YOU made the final choice!" SO now it is MY fault. BUT I keep reminding my dear OH, If I had chosen electric, I NEVER would have heard the end of it!
4} WHen MOH went to mow the lawn Sunday, came in with a large piece of roof sealer and asked if it was ours. I siad if it was in our yard, probably. It was aobut a 1/4" thick. MOH had insisted {and was the onlyone who could fit in FIL's skinny waders in he waist-deep snow so as to avoid getting stuck or wet} on going out with the roof rake to rake off some of the excess snow. I hollered out to MOH NOT to Bang the roof with it! GO gentel! Well, NOW guess what? the seal coating is coming off! Doe sMOH ever listen to me??? i MAY have to take over the arduous chore of mowing as MOH won't have much time for it. It takes me so long as my asthma gives me fits and walking/pushing the mower is not good on my back. BUt I may have to struggle and just take a lot of breaks.
5} train nut friend stopped by. His interest in MRR ing has faded, much like mine, though. They have their own financial mess as he is disabled and the wife works 2 jobs too, like our household. Only difference is I pay hte bills on time everytime, and they never do. Then they wonder why they are paying 25% interest on their car loan for one car and 18% on the other. They/he can't really afford MRRing on ANY level, Except to have the one el cheapo trainset he has and to build with cereal boxes nad dirt from the back yard or driveway. He can't even afford the layout base! he sets up/tears down on the Dining room table, until the wife throws a hissy fit.
Jimmy Braum: you have a good start on the weathering of the PRR box car. There really is no "right or wrong" with weathering. Two identical cars of the same type in service for the same amount of time in the same conditions will weather differently! what I can suggest is that you need more "rust flows" down the sides and maybe more "Dirt" along the bottom of the sides. I f you do a search for "Robby P." or "Robby Putnam" on the forum here, you should uncover some of his weathering examples. He could remarkably take a pic of a 1:1 rr car and take a model just like it and weather it and make it so you almost could NOT tell which pic was which!
ULRICH:Sweet dreams of the little house of your dreams!
dinner will be parmasan breaded boneless pork chops fried in olivio oil, green beans and flavored rice.
Chocolate Buttercream frosted cake for dessert...I can do without it, but the price was so great I could not pass it up and MOH will thoroughly enjoy it {favorite}.
Good Evening Dinners and Ulrich
Flo, you know what I want!
Mix day at work. Had a Be Back of Davies in today, normally that is a good sign! Spent 2.5 hours with her, and she did not buy anything! Well, I think she will be back but not holding my breath. Last customer of the day came in at 4:18 PM, she said she was looking for a twin for a guest room. That normally means I waant some dirt cheap! Talk to her for a while and she asked me if we sold Temper Pedic and told he we uses to but we dropped them. Told her while I worked at Mattress Giant we offred them and I hated them, which I did and why! I showed her one of ours and I will be darned, she bought one in a queen! What I thought was going to be a us less effort paid off with a $140.00 commission!
Todd Yep it does sound like your grill is in better shape than mine! Burned the meat some due the burnner not burning evenaly (spell check) due to rust holes in it. It will cost me around $50.00 to fix again. Saw a sweet Stainless Steel Char Broil at Sears for $350.00, but being poor more than likely it will stay a dream.
Ulrich will try my darnest to get to K-10 Thursday after work and pick up your spikes. Mailing them, that depends on when I am off next week. So, if you had the money you would like to try DCC? I still have the old Bachmann E Z Command. It is as bare bones as it gets, but it works.
Got to run, Ken
Todd, this picture is sort of amid at you, notices anything formulair?
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Janie, just a decaf for me right now...
I managed to get a lot of things done today that absolutely had to get done today. Spent much of the day helping get the funds straightened around for the Venture Crew I am Commissioner for. The same people were running a pack that went poof! Not going to blame the leadership, but the lack of more depth of leadership did have a negative effect. I am in the process of trying to help a new bunch of Scouters get the defunct pack back up and running... Time will tell. Anyway I came home with three checks for various groups from the dispersal of funds from the old Pack. I also got my lawn rolled. Had enough rain last night to soften up the ground quite a bit (at least 2 inches). And finished picking the photos for the slide show for the Scholarship Dinner. I also tried out a Data CD with a movie on it (about bullying and respect) produced by kids from the local Boys and Girls Club on the old laptop. I have had the CD for several weeks and have run the movie without problems on my iMac. Of course the movie is in WMV format. I have a little reader program on the iMac that can read the Windoz files without any problem. I don't have that little app on my old, old laptop... Can't put it on my laptop either as the laptop is OS 10.4 and the reader (Flip4Mac) needs OS 10.7 or higher. So.... need to figure out what the best solution is before next Wednesday!!! I am hoping the guy at the Boys and Girls club can just save it as an mp4 file. That I know I can run on the old laptop.
Guess Penn Yan is a real mess! The Finger Lakes Times ran a front page article http://www.fltimes.com/ showing several photos of the damage. They say Yates county got between 5 and 9 inches of rain last night! My son talked to a friend who lives in Penn Yan and he was told that on one street all the driveways are just slabs of concrete and blacktop with nothing underneath them now. He doesn't know whether he will be working tomorrow or not as they are without electric throughout most of the village. (He works in Penn Yan.) I got an email from the property committee chairman form Boy Scout Camp. Camp didn't fair well as the same line of storms came across Seneca Lake and hit camp. He wrote, "Just to let you know Camp did not emerge unscathed by the recent flooding that has been reported in the news that affected Penn Yan. The Boathouse has suffered minor flood damage (mostly washed out stone), the boathouse lean-to (on the other side of the creek) is gone. The bridge at rifle was over topped and suffered some damage along with the main road from rifle to the small pond. Additionally many smaller culverts were blown out around camp along with additional road damage throughout camp. Good news is that Pooler's pond is now full as it is higher than the metal dock the OA put in two years ago (it is adjustable so that will be an easy fix). Conrad and Patricia are ok." People mentioned are the Camp Ranger and his wife. Looks like there will be a few more work days out there before opening for the season...
I called a good Scouting Friend of mine who lives in another town nailed by the line of storms. His street was mentioned as sustaining the worst damage in that town. It is a short street so I was worried about him. He and his wife (and there house) are fine, but a few houses down from him a huge tree came down doing some damage to property.
My son came over and we loaded the roller and the tractor into my trailer so he can get it home. I need to run the old rottotiller one last time to loosen the soil by the fence hoping my sister will seperate a bunch of hostas and give me a bunch. Then I am giving the rottotiller to my son with the understanding I can borrow it if needed. They are planning on putting in a garden this year.
I guess I have run on long enough. Stay safe out there!
Nothing much happened today. Got the wound vac dressing changed this morning, did some minor work on two locos. used a can of Flex-Seal to spray a seal over the seams around the outside of the window in the west wall of my bedroom, did a little work on one of my //e's. I also did some looking around online. I found a used but good DVD set of season one of Star Trek: Voyager for $14 (costs about $70 new) so I grabbed it. Good a time as any to start my 'Star Trek: Voyager' collection. Six more seasons to go. I already have all three seasons of the original series, the animated series, all four seasons of Enterprise, all the movies including those of the new alternate reality of Star Trek ('Star Trek' and 'Into Darkness'). When I have all seven seasons of Star Trek Voyager I guess I start on the seven seasons of Deep Space Nine. The Next Generation will likely be last as it's my least favorite of the Star Trek spinoffs.Well I have an appointment with the heart doctor in the morning. Just a followup from my leg amputation surgery last year.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Ray: I've seen the pics of Penn Yan, NOT good!
We may be in for it on Friday...we are expecing up to 5" of rain ourselves...what is now dumping on the SE states, including the FL panhandle again..just recently devastated!
They are now announcing flash flood watches for Friday for us down here...Naturally that could change to warnings!
IF, I say IF, you don't hear from me for awhile, you can assume it is because we DON't have power as once again our electric substation is under water! You'd think after 3 major times within 6 years {'05;'06;'11} , they would DO something about it...but NO, that would cost to much money!
Not looking forward to it!
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Morning all, I am not sure what I want for breakfast so surprise me lol. Not sure what Iam going to do today since the grass is still wet,and it is supposed to rain today. I work later today so yeah I cannot get into anything serious. Then again, I may plan out a diorama to take photos of my equipment with. I'm glad the storms missed here,but we got the rain.
Bear: Thanksfor the link, that's some impressive work.
Good morning!
No, it's not. The Bruins lost, and are now out of the playoffs. I will say, though, that Montreal was the better team and deserved to win.
I picked up Penny at the airport yesterday. I decided to just stay at work late and then drive into Boston to pick her up. If I'd gone home, I would just have had to re-trace my steps, but going in the bad-traffic direction. My company is very strict about working your 40 hours, no more, no less, so I'll take off an hour early tomorrow to make up for it.
It looks like we've got about a week of wet weather on the horizon, so hopefully I'll get that depot finished soon.
As it's been raining here all morning, and they are calling for severe thunderstorms later, I suppose any outside chores will be on hold. So it looks like the living room, dining room & foyer will get cleaned. I should try to get the kitchen floor scrubbed as well. I was hoping to wash the car & get a coat of wax on it this week, but that will depend on the weather as well. They say the weekend should be dry though. That's good, as the plans are for more railfanning Saturday & Sunday. Have a good one...
well
my FIL, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to take a trip by car {meaning DRIVING-not exactly his strong suit right now} to the mid-atlantic states and then on to FL to visit some relatives he "may not see again".
Now, this is the man, mind you, who needs a GPS directional to go anywhere and can get lost going to get the mail, and his mail is delivered through a slot in his front door!
He literally uses the GPS to get around our city/area and he's lived here for what, now, 47 years, half his life???
Now he called up yesterday and wnated "travel sites"...so I gave him the names of expedia.com and trivago.com, to name a few...that was one too many for him.
WHat he DID NOT say, was thst what he really wanted was MAPS for TRAVELLING SOUTH. I would have sent him to mapquest.com and google maps,then IF he had told me what he really wanted to know!
I don't think he has any idea what he is in for with travel on interstate high rise fly-overs around, say Baltimore or DC area. They were just starting them or working on them-we could see them- when MOH and I went to FL to Disney World in 2003. MAYBE they made it easier for him to drive the highways or not. "Dun't no" as Ricky Ricardo would say.
WE don't think it safe for him to do this, but he wants to go and so no talking him out of it. He also thinks he can get to FL in less than 2 days. MOH last did it in 2 days and we ourselves were younger then than we are now. and with 2 drivers!
My father, on the other hand is contemplating one last trip to the mid-west for the smae reason, only a trip made in a very long day many years ago now takes him at least 2 days, and in reality he knows he really needs 3 days to get there. and then of course 3 days to get back home. He is more realistic than the FIL. My father knows he is good for about 6 hours max of driving then needs a break. He doesn't yet know if he will do it or not. I will ask today whne I see him.
well, NO CALL yet from the installer. Now watch, while i am at Mental Health and MOH is at work, they will call! IF NOT, tomorrow morning, first thing, I have a few miscelany items to return to Lowes, and will give the store manager a strong piece of my mind! We bought it on Snday and 4 business days have gone by without even a single call from the installer??? and we PAID extra $119 for installation?? Maybe I am due to get a return break on the stove or the installation charge. Only the guy from Lowes has called for followups on the installation, but if they guy they have hired to work as an installer for them CAN'T do what..a 10 minute connection job? and an hour for driving here and delivery? then they need somone else! I don't know what Lowe's pays him out of that fee they charged me, but even at $50, for an hours worth of work ,ain't bad potatoes! Probably not as profitable as flipping houses and making $100's or even $1000's per hour!
I would be more happy if we had heard from him and he couldn't get to us until mid-next-week,than to not hear yet from him at all!!!
ah well, we will see what today will bring!
I must get ready as soon i will leave for MH.
havea grand day all you folks!
Good morning. It's 53° with 79% humidity. The high will be 75° and it'll be sunny.I had a doctors appointment this morning but had to call in and reschedule it for a week from now. Couldn't get the van to start. Seems like the coil is having some kind of a fit as I can hear it pop or crack once in a while and it gets hot quick. I'll put the spare coil on it later and see what happens. I bet it'll start then. Right now I'm not getting my hands anywhere near that hot thing. I did that once already and had some nasty blisters to show for it. That was one time that I was glad I couldn't feel anything.Being as my plan for the morning has been knocked into a cocked hat I now have no plans except to change the aforementioned coil later. Maybe I can watch some TV or a movie or I could tear down a loco and put it back together and see if I end up with any parts left over. A friend will be bringing me an Apple IIc to fix but that probably won't be until next week as he has a pretty ugly work schedule. Well(deep subject), I could pull an old Canadian made Apple II Plus compatible out of the closet and work on it for a while.That's all for now. Be back later.
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a side of sausage links, and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee to keep my R&GV RR mug filled for a while.
Galaxy, I think Fetridge's Law will likely come into play here... The law reads, "Nothing ever happens unless it is no longer favorable for it to happen." I bet you breakfast tomorrow morning in the diner that the installer calls while you are gone! I would certainly have a "Friendly Chat" with the dept manager at Lowes... I only buy major appliances at a store downtown. Locally owned and operated business (Discount Appliances). They are a bit more expensive than the "Big Box" places, but installation is included in the price and they show up within a couple days as agreed upon and hook up and haul away the old at no extra cost, making them the same as or less expensive in the long run as the "Big Box" ripoff stores. And... The profit they make stays here in town rather than going to the pockets of some Billionairs!
According to the weather guessers it is cloudy outside this morning which doesn't explain the definite shadows that the trees and stuff are making... I like shadowy days as it means the roof is paying for itself.... Currently74°F outside with a high of 80°F later this afternoon.
I have to get the photos resized to use in the slide show today, and at least get started putting the slide show together.
Catch all of you later!
howmusI would certainly have a "Friendly Chat" with the dept manager at Lowes.
French Roast coffee in a Burlington Northern mug, please.
Have a great day all.
Evening Gang!
I have been quite busy all day long. Petra´s back is still hurting quite a lot, so I had to take over all household chores today. Two full loads of laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning the bathroom - you name it, I did it.
I still found the time to finish off the plaster w*rk on my layout. No more big mess, only little ones
Galaxy - I am with Ray on the issue of your new stove. I´d have a few choice words with the manager of this place. Tell him the restaurant bill will be on him if the stove is not delivered and installed by tomorrow 17.00 hrs. When we moved into our firts house, Petra being close to giving birth to Christian, the kitchen was delayed by two weeks, they told me. Believe me, it was delayed by only one day and even that day cost them a fortune! Report them to the BBB!
Y´all have a great time!
Edit: I just saw, this is post # 6,500! Whatever you chowhounds are going to have - all the food and the drinks are on me!
Well I was right! Changed out the coil on the van, cranked the engine, it turned over twice and fired right up.Nothing else going on.
jeffrey accurately stated: If he/she is like the dept manager at the Lowe's here any and all complaints go on a fast track to the other ear and bypass the brain completely.
If he/she is like the dept manager at the Lowe's here any and all complaints go on a fast track to the other ear and bypass the brain completely.
My Mom bought herself a set of earrings. The left one said "IN" and the right one said "OUT." She had a great sense of humor.
Galaxy, does your FIL have AAA? If you know anyone who's got it, they will give you a great set of marked-up maps for any driving route you'd like, absolutely free. It's also good security for someone who is not mechanically-inclined when they're out of town. I wouldn't buy it myself, but we have it for my wife and daughter, neither of whom could tell a carburetor from a pretzle-bending machine.
RAY and Jeffrey {and ME}: we were a hair's breadth of being sooooooo right. I had literally walked in the door, greeted the anxious cat with one hand, and picked up the phone in the other to read the Caller ID to see who might be the flashing message on the machine when the phone lit up and came alive in my hand! It was the installer! Had I been 30 seconds later in arriving home, I would have missed his call! He will be here about 2PM tomorrow to install the stove, FINALLY. I asked if he needed directions, he siad no, he knew where it was. Yeah, we'll see!
{the message caller was FIL}
Now, Not 20 minutes later Lowes called to verify we were having delivery...see Lowes itself was not the problem, the subcontracted installer is! ANyway I verified it was set up for 2 pm tomorrow, and then Lowes said they would call Saturday to make sure it is working all right. I said... yeah, IF we don't have flooding that knocks out the power! {the gas stvoe has electric 110 for the elcetronic oven controls and electronic igniters}. The Lowes guy said "yeah i guess we are getting about 3 "? I said yeah, and if it floods out our substation again, it will be 5 days before I can tell them it works!.
Saw the psychiatrist and agreed the old clinic is only treating half my issues, but he wants full blood work and to consult my GP before a med. It will finally treat the manic part of my bipolar issues. currently and for years they have concentrated on the depression part, ignoring the mania. They have to now catch up because the mania is getting out of hand now. Maybe yo'all have noticed me almost blog-positng here several times a day..IF you even read them. That woudl be a current Mania issue!
It also seems the old clinic is apparently going to be de-funded so that is why they tried pawning me off on my GP, but he only knows a little about everything, and not a lot of specifics. The Psychiatrist went over some meds, past and present and allergies, and I told him that is WHY I want a psychiatrist on my case.
Jeffrey: he {the psych.} also said something disturbing that may directly affect you too, but won't directly affect me. YET. Give me till tomorrow to PM you about it!
well, MOH is now home too and we are both beat, so bed will come early.
later, or rather til tomorrow morning!
Janioe, just a quick cup of decaf...
Will be shutting down the computers very soon. Looks like tonight will be another gully washer for the Finger Lakes area. Thubnderboomers are starting up soon and will continue all night. The strom is moving in from the South and will just keep moving up through this area. Just what Penn Yan needs after yesterday's flooding! A local news blog from the Yates County area did a photo shoot on the damage there.
Galaxy, even without eklectricity you should be able to light the burners of the stove using a match or other such thing. At least mine will. One nice thing about a gas stove. The oven won't work but you should be able to use the burners. Gald you finally heard from the installer!
I'll check in , hopefully tomorrow morning!
Stay safe and dry out there.
Howdy everybody.
We've been busy with out of town guests. Catch up with you later.
Happy Model Railroading
howmus Galaxy, even without eklectricity you should be able to light the burners of the stove using a match or other such thing. At least mine will. One nice thing about a gas stove. The oven won't work but you should be able to use the burners. Gald you finally heard from the installer!
RAY: The new ones have safety systems that won't allow it to burn if the electronic ignition hasn't been tripped. SO using it while the power is out is moot point now.
We have an old piloted water heater, so we have hot water when the power is out as long as the town's generator keeps the well pump pumping.
Our neighbor has a new{er} gas stove and I said the same thing you did "well at least you can cook"...she showed/told me NOPE. It WILL light with a match, but it shuts it off very quickly if the electronic ignition didn't start that flame.
{they have an electric H2O heatrer, so they have NO hot water and NO stove to cook with either...at least we have HOT water!}
{of course after 24 hours we have to BOIL said water because the well may be contaminated by flood waters, and/or the treatment system does not running on the generator too.}We will find out soon enough!!!
Hopefully WE DON't get what others have gotten out of these storms!
well, all, I am going to bed here in 10 minutes.
FOr those of you into the "saga of the gas stove"...part nine will commence tomorrow when I will hopefully have something good to report!
It will be interesting to see how it will change the NYSEG bill {New York State Electric and Gas}, The gas stove should save us money on usage over the {supposed} higher cost of electric cooking, but gas can get expensive too. We will now have Nat gas for:heat, hot water, coooking, and ELectric for Lights and A/C only.
Now we could do what RAY did, and get SOLAR to offset/eliminate the A/C nad lihgting costs, we might be sitting pretty, though I MIGHT be tempted then to go ALL ELECTRIC!
have a good nihgt...
Weather tonight is cool and clear. Temp is 48° with a 5mph southwest breeze. Changed the coil out on the van. Watched some TV. Did some minor work on a few computers, took all of thirty minutes. Cleaned up a couple of locos whether they needed it or not. That's all I did today.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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Some how I eeked out a good day at work, did not have my first customer till 2:00 PM. The bought and I made a extra $21.00. Next customer came in around 5:18 and was looking for a Memory Foam Mattress which the wife (Kathy) will be sleeping on? See was a little confused, thought a Memory Foam Mattress Coils where made with Memory Foam? Got that straighten out and she started trying mattress.
Here is the problem with Working With A Idiot Even When They Are Not Even There! When we order Sheet Sets and Futon Covers we can not order colors, the manafactour picks what colors they have to send. Now Idiot Dave has been told this and he has been there 5 years! Yet, I heard him this last weekend tell a customer he would order a ceritian futon cover color for her? So she comes into pick up her Futon Frame, Mattress and Cover while I was with the above people! Wel you can take it from there, she was and I was catching the blunt of it!
While this was going on I had yet another coustmer come in that wanted a cheap twin. By now I had total lost control of the first set of customer where I could make some commission! Guy bought his cheap twin, mad Lady will be back Saturday to give a some of her mind and the couple looking for the Memory Foam Mattress say thanks and where heading toward the door while I was loading the twin mattress. As luck would have it, they tried one last bed as I was getting done with the twin.
Got them talking again and got control back! Had to discout a little more than I wanted to, but got the sale and made a extra $80.00! With the first sell, this one and the one from Wednesday I have around $251.00 in comission this coming check. Thank goodness I need the funds so I can get Sue back to the denist next week!
Ulrich my friend, I made it to K-10 tonight after work. Hard to believe there is 1000 rail spikes in this small of a bag. Did you see my question about if you like to have my old Bachmann E Z Command?
See you all Friday, Ken
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Ken: I hate to tell you this, while you may not carry it, but there IS a memory foam mattress made that DOES have memory foam made into support coils for the upper layers of memory foam mattress topping.
They call it something-or-other{the name elludes me now}, but the theme is that it is the only memory foam mattress that stays cool, while other regular mattresses heat up by absobing and reflecting body heat.
Each coil is made of strong cooling "gel-like" cooling memory foam coiled lattice affair "to support and cushion you while you sleep". The top {and bottom} layer is about 2" thick of the new "cooling memory foam".
It has an "open cell construction to dissipate heat".
I am SURE they are VERy expensive.
WE won't do a memory foam again. We have a memory foam pilllow topped mattress, the first thing to break down was the memory foam topper! Then we DO buy slipppers lined wih memory foam, it too, breaks down within a week or so. ANYthing "memory foam" we have had, breaks down sooner or later.The memory foam MAY have been made for the astronauts to sleep on in space, and it may "maintain its shape" out there in space, but here,on Earth, gravity does a number on it! Oh, nad BTW, the mattress is now just 10 years old adn out of lifetime warantee, so we are in search of a new one, but the memory foam pillow top had degraded so much by the 5 year mark it is terrible!! and naturally, the company we bought it from went out of business!!!! Gee, I wonder why???
Zoe, a submarine sandwich and an RBF, please!
Afternoon Folks,
no MRRing this morning. We went to see Petra´s aunt in the nursing home and are right back from that trip. We are the only close-by relatives and also the only ones who go frequently to see after her. This time, we brought her some clothing. Seeing her eyes smile makes us happy.
Ken - you got me there! Your offer is really tempting and I had to give it more than one thought. Basically, the layout is a 1 loco affair, it has been designed for that and DC operation. DCC would be fine, but I would have to redo the basic wiring of my Peco Electrofrogs switches to cope with DCC. That would be some job! If I were to go the DCC route, I´d have to equip my locos with a sound decoder, which I cannot afford. I am planning on getting Kato´s analog sound sytem once it´s in the market, providing it does not exceed, say, $ 80, street price. If you are not mad at me, I´d say no to DCC.
Petra is calling for lunch - CUL!
Good morning. It's 57° with 91% humidity. The high will be 82°. A few clouds, lots of sun.Not much planned today. I'm waiting on the call from the Home Health nurse. Other than that my day is open.Video of my Athearn SW1500 undergoing testing.
Good morning. .... Sunny and cool this morning.
Meanwhile, back at the 2-10-2. I've been running it with a non-sound decoder to work the bugs out. I think the electrical problems are solved, and it will not have short circuits again. Oddly, the tender is now derailing for no apparent reason, and I am working to solve that. Eventually I will re-install the Tsusami decoder which has been returned from its third trip to the factory. Sountraxx has been good about fixing it each time I sent it to them.
Happy model railroading
I had to run to the bank and CU.
I was raining not cats and dogs, but cows and horses! there was a lot of ponding going on.
I think {there I go again} that we will escape major flooding, though.
Penn Yan, Yates County, that Ray posted links to is really getting hammered though again!
It seems to be moving off to the north and east, WHICH STILL could leave us with flooding IF the waters that flow down our way don't behave!
It had all but stopped by the tiem I got back home, W of wherre I had to go today.
All to do now is to wait for the STOVE!!!
ANd we'll be dog gone if we didn't find a covered over outlet behind the stove! I will see it teh guy can install an outlet for the 110 use IF it is 110. It is a 2 gang box with what looks like one set going IN and one set going out. I can't imagine it to be more than a pass-through plug, BUT since it is a 2 gang box, I wonder if it might be a 220 outlet with 2 110's feeding into it?
"Dun't no" as Ricky Ricardo would say.
Mornin'.....
Zoe, just a bowl of Maple Pecan organic cereal to go along with a cup of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee for me this morning.
Gee, bet you'll never guess what today holds for us here in the Finger Lakes? Oh, Galaxy already gave it away.... We got over an inch of rain over night and still have a light rain going at the moment. Just restarted the siphon down cellar. Water is all over the floor down there and it is just pouring in by the back steps. It is all of 49°F at the moment with a high today of 52 this afternoon. Overnight tonight will go to 39°F. A cold front is moving in with this band of storms. Just turned the heat back on and the air conditioner off here at home.
I have a meeting with the Chartered Partner Representative from a unit we are trying to get back up and running later this morning. I also have a check for them to fund the startup of the Pack. That is from the now closed account that was for the old pack. We will be meeting at a new Gift and Lounge place here in town. I haven't been in there so I will enjoy seeing and patronizing a new local business.
I have to do laundry today and start printing all the needed materials for the Scholarship dinner as well.
Catch you all later (if I don't float away).
Good afternoon. I received the contract the other day for some window replacements. They are also going to change out 6 interior door as well. I decided to take the signed contract and the deposit back to their office this morning, as I had made 2 minor changes to the contract and wanted to be sure to point them out. We decided to stop for breakfast as it was on the way. As luck would have it, I got an e-mail with a coupon last night. Buy one breakfast & get the second free. Had another coupon last Monday too. Hope they keep sending them.
It's been very cloudy all day, nasty looking really, but no rain. Now I cut the grass on Monday, but I swear it grew 3 inches since then. So I just finished cutting it again. Had to use the bag on the mower as it was too tall to mulch cut.
So far our plans are to get a little railfanning in on Saturday & Sunday. In fact, the wife is making chicken & stuffing for our lunch tomorrow. Will stop & get a couple of burgers Sunday. Hope everyone has a good wekend and stays safe.
Guess what? The STOVE is HERE! And installed and now buring off!
Oh, the Joy! the rapture! almost like getting a new loco!
The guy arrived with it in his SUV of all things about 2:38 pm. SO not too far from the 2:00 timeline, so we didn't complain. Much. Not really. But had 3 bells come we were gonna call Lowes and complain.
Tom: we need to have some replacement windows done in the back MBR. There is a 5'x7'3 window bay window that is unsupported and is sagging right off the trailer. SO MOH wants a whole new bay, but I think just 3 or 4 double hungs mullioned together will be fine. No need for the "shelf" really. The AC is very crooked to the window frame and next year the budget MUST include fixing that. BUt our windows...are/have to be special double hungs surface mounted to the outside wall of the trailer. They make them special for trailers.
this year We have : bought a new dryer, new stove, will be replacing the water heater, sealcoating the roof, replacing the heat tape. Then we have to get a few new pannels of the clear corrugated plastic for the poorch. So, that is about all our finances can bear, so NEXT year -assuming the bay holds together that long- that will be done, and the skirting too, and finish the porch. the trailer is 31 yesrs old so have to expect some maintenace!
well, I have boiled a pot'o'water for a spot'o'tea, now to bake a meatloaf for dinner!
see yas
Calling for frost here tonight so will have to go cover the newly planted flowers with newpaper to keep any frost off them. Figures too as we havent had frost for about three weeks now. hopefully the newpaper works, or it stays a little windy so we dont get any at all.
Hi Diners, how ya' all doing ?
Chloe, it is getting close to the supper hour, but I think I can still handle a bacon & tomato on toasted rye and an RBF. to chase. Thanks much.
Today to report on MRRing, the only thing that is new right now is that I ordered a Bachmann Consoladation from F.D.T. in W.P. Scheme My main focus is of the 70s&80s but I do have a couple of other steamers, a 0-8-0 and aa GS-4 , so that occasionally when I want to drag around a selection of Billboard Reefers that I have and like, I can do it aporpriately. Good price for it on their flyer and I had admired them since they first came out in about 2002. So the time had come.
I sure have benn admiring the photos here lately, there sure is some fine work being done and fast too. Makes me feel ashamed, I've been off work for almost six months and I have hardly made a dent, but it is only lately that I have felt strong enough to ddo a few things and here the other day I guess I over did it as my lower back has been screaming at me. Just not used to it.
Ulrich, you are quite a craftsman, I am enjoying watching the Keg Harbour come to life.
Brent, very nice layout room. Will be a joy to be in.
Garry, I have to agree with others that your ability to tie the backgrounds in to the layout is amazing. I love the look and feel of your whhole layout.
Jeff, glad your health seems to be stablizing. Continue to improve Ol' buddy.
Haven't seen Terry from Wisconcin or Paul from Nevada for quite a spell, hope they are fine..
My health has improved, but not my swallowing. I still can't get anything down and I'm really starting to hate it. BBQ season is upon us and the smells outside are really getting to me. I can do all the exercises but they just haven't helped me anyway. Guess it's just a waiting game. I have to take solace that I am lucky to be alive I guess.
Sure hope all you folks enduring the rain get some sun to dry you out.
Galaxy, hope you enjoy the new stove. My Wife has always wanted to have a gas stove, but I would need at least 60 feet of gas line to make a connection.
Prayers and Blessings to all standing in need at this time. My thoughts are with you.
Johnboy out...........................for now
last mountain & eastern hogger Galaxy, hope you enjoy the new stove. My Wife has always wanted to have a gas stove, but I would need at least 60 feet of gas line to make a connection. Prayers and Blessings to all standing in need at this time. My thoughts are with you. Johnboy out...........................for now
Johnboy! GREAT to see you again!
Sounds like you are feeling some better???
On the stove: here is the deal: NYSEG {NY State Electric and GAS} came through the trailer park and said they'd pay the costs to convert to Nat gas and if they got enough converts, they'd do it.
Well, this was in 1997, 3 years before I came along, BUT MOH said "OK", and MADE them run the gas line the 45 or so feet to the kitchen for a future gas stove. NYSEG balked as they were only offering to convert hot water and heating systems, but MOH pushed it!
MOH has since been dying for that electic stove to die!
As I said in an earlier post as I said to the salesman when MOH walked away to "let me make the decision"...if I don't convert to gas NOW, I will never hear the end of it! It cost nearly twice as much as the electric model i was gonna buy, so it was a major choice to go gas!
Now MOH likes to bake, and claims doesn't like the electric so doesn't do it often. AND that gas heats "more evenly"! HA HA HA. I have PROOF it doesn't! The stove is perfectly level mind you, and I just baked off rolls. The ones in the left rear of the oven came out a nice "perfect" golden brown. The ones front right came out barely browned at all! {on same 1/2 sheet pan, middle of oven} SO even? I don't think so, and technically, you really should NOT have to rotate them, but that would have helped.
well, i baked a meatloaf, roasted a slab of beef, baked said rolls and cooked pots on top for smashed pots, adn cooked off carrots. I had meatloaf and pots, carrots and roll for dinner. The slab of beef for another dinner tomorrow or SUnday. I had to test run it, and I DO like it, but could have enjoyed the electric all as well. I DO like that the oven light comes on automatically when the door is open.
What I DON't like is it sticks out further from the cabinets than the old one,and the knobs for the burners are in the front at waist level, so I sideswipe them as I walk by, and when I grab the oven handle I jam the burner knobs with the oven mitt/hand!
well, have a great night!
Johnboy- We are both survivors. We prove Cancer can be beat. Just hang tight and do what the Doc's say. Not sure how old you are but I'm six weeks short of my 78th birthday. He has His plans for me.
Tomorrow is Armed Forces Day. It is also my/our 33rd wedding anniversary. In sickness or in health. Health is a heck of a lot better.
Thanks to all for your continued prayers for us in need.
Prayers and Blessings from Deb and me.
Phil aka-Flip
Flip - Glad you mentioned tomorrow being Armed Forces Day. I missed it on my calandar. I'll be sure to put the flag up in the morning.
V8VegaOne time I had a cardboard box sitting on top of my gas stove and bumped the burner control without my realsing it and the box caught on fire.
Evening Dinners, Und Guten Abend Herr Ulrich.
Flo, Bier gefällt
Ulrich, I can understand why you don't want to go to DCC. Sometimes I wished I had not! But now that it is working fine I will not go back. Far as having to rewire your turnouts, I have read that before but I never did mine and they work fine. I have about 15 Peaco turnouts that power is controled by the way they are throwen and have not been a problem. With you running just one engine at a time, that I understand.
What drew me to DCC was sound, but yet most on my fleet is still none sound. Now sound for a Steam Engine, that is now a must! If you ever decide you want the E Z, let me know. By the way, wit some luck the rail spikes should be heading your way Monday or Tuesday.
Galaxy, I pretty much guessed that was what she was talking about. My self, I think it is just another spin job so they can sale there wares as something new and improved! If you happen to know where I can find out more about this Mattress let me know pleases.
I am off Monday and Tuesday and there is no rain in the forecast!
Wir sehen uns Freitag, Ken
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Good evening. 71° and mostly clear here. Looks like weekend will be a little cloudy and no rain.I was without phone service for a little while today. My Magicjack crashed and was down for the count. I had to uninstall it, restart the computer and reinstall the Magicjack. It works OK now.The van ran good today. It was just a couple of short trips. The first was this morning when I went to my fathers place to meet the Home Health nurse. The second was this afternoon when I went to get my mail.Had some trouble with the front USB ports on the HP again. If the other USB ports start acting I'll have the main board that I salvaged from my old computer and put it into this one and install the drivers for it. If Windows 8 decides it doesn't like the 32 bit drivers it can be replaced with another version of Windows.Gotta see about getting a big box to the post office tomorrow morning. It's supposedly open for a couple of hours on Saturday. If not I'll take it next week at my earliest convenience.Did a little programming on the //e this evening. Nothing major, just bending a program to my will.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Janie I could sure a cup of decaf right now... Thank you Ma'am!'
The local news is full of stuff on the storms that came our way over the last several days... Even in Pittsford, NY the Erie Canal oveflowed and has mandated the evacuation of several homes. Monroe County picked up over 2" of rain in the last 24 hours causing some problems there. We are still under a flooding warning around most of the area. I should mow the lawn again tomorrow but I know that on the West side of my lot there will be standing water. The basement still has water flowing in at a pretty good rate. I will go down and start the siphon one more time before I heasd to bed shortly.
I spent most of the day finishing odds and ends for the MLK Scholarship Dinner next Wednesday. Still have some changes to make in the program before printing. I printed the tickets for the meals tonight as well as all but one of the Scholarship Certificates. Got the laundry done and made a run to the grocery store for some supplies....
It will be the end of next week before I can even think of doing any hobby stuff again...
Have a good night everyone!
Morning´ Everyone!
Woke up in the wee hours of the day with my heart trying to win the Capetown Races. It´s running stable now, but I feel exhausted.
Petra´s back is still giving her problems, so the household chores are on me again. Got to do the shopping for the weekend, dusting, vacuuming and laundry, but no cooking. She feels up to doing this - good, as I don´t like the food I cook. I am a professional eater, and not a professional cook!
I won´t be able to do much on the layout today. I have run out of supplies and have only pennies left in my budget for this month. I could finish the "water" as I still have plenty of that smelly paint, but I am not sure whether I want to do this. We will see...
Johnboy - good to see you again. Good to hear that you are improving. I do hope that you´ll soon be able to swallow properly to enjoy the upcoming BBQ season! Petra´s and my prayers for that!
Got to get going - CUL & have a good one!
fec153Johnboy- We are both survivors. We prove Cancer can be beat. Just hang tight and do what the Doc's say. Not sure how old you are but I'm six weeks short of my 78th birthday. He has His plans for me.
Well FLIP,
You have me beaten by a few years. I'll be 74 in November.
Johnboy out.............and off to bed.
last mountain & eastern hogger fec153 Johnboy- We are both survivors. We prove Cancer can be beat. Just hang tight and do what the Doc's say. Not sure how old you are but I'm six weeks short of my 78th birthday. He has His plans for me. Well FLIP, You have me beaten by a few years. I'll be 74 in November. Johnboy out.............and off to bed.
fec153 Johnboy- We are both survivors. We prove Cancer can be beat. Just hang tight and do what the Doc's say. Not sure how old you are but I'm six weeks short of my 78th birthday. He has His plans for me.
My father has survived prostate cancer for the last 20 years. He chose a "cryosurgery option"-that is they super-quick-froze the prostate tissues. The idea is it damages the tissues of the prostate so that the cancer has "nothing to feed on".
He ocassionally has errant PSA results, but has lived the last 20 years without much trouble. I think there was some disappointment of one front{I think you can figure that out}, but at age age 60, he had to adjust his "expectations "downward anyway.
Since his father managed to liove to age 92, but eventually died from prostate cancer complications, and my father has it, and I currently have benign issues, as my father says of me, it is only a matter of time before I get, and not really a Q of IF I get it.
I DO have a urologist who looks after me, so we hopefully will catch any changes form benign to ?? sooner than later.
I am a skin cancer "survivor" {basal cell carncinomas }and have the major scars on my forehead to prove it.
I also have had 2 bening tumors removed form my back. We were all counting on the removal of those tumors would help my back, but not so.
Johnboy: naturally I wish the best at beating it!
Around the Pole Star in his tail swingsThe 12 constellations in grand rings.This looking at bears(If anyone cares)Is why we say "getting our bearings".—Written by Israel "Izzy" Cohen
There was a young fellow who thought,
Very little, but thought it a lot.
Then at long last he knew
What he wanted to do,
But before he could start, he forgot.
Good morning. It's 65° with 89% humidity. The high will be 82° with a few clouds.I may make it into town this morning to try and get a large package to the post office. Supposedly they're open for a few hours on Saturday. Failing that I'll have to take it sometime during the week.No other plans for today so I'll just take it as it comes.
Guten Morgan
Good Mornign
I have already been to Wally Wor.d and then to the grocery store {again}. I spent some money like we had it.
I had to go to Wally Wolrd to try to get those HD Night Vision Wrap around glasses. I got a pair to try as my night vision is just bad, I cannot distinguish the various shades of gray and such, and so I thought I'd try them. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM TO YOU ALL!!! I got a pair for MOH and MOH showed my FIL, who naturally wanted a pair! ANd then I thought I should get my Father a pair.....so off I went to where I got the other 2 pr....Wally WOrld, but naturally they were OUt of them. Then I remembered thinking I saw them at the grocery store so I went there. Naturally that is not the only thing I bought! They had some good beef markdowns so i picked up. and then they had the flavored H20's 6 pks for 10 for $10 so I bought more of those! Spent $125 there.
I also could not get out of wally world for less than $136, either, and I didn't even get what I went there for! The most expensive thing was an electric knife sharpener...it was $29-- because our knives are so dull you can't cut hot butter with them. those cheapo ceraminc ones don't work well, so I bit the bullet and bought the electric one. The next most expensives were2 moisture-wicking T shirts,,,, they work well so I picked up a couple more for me..they were about $10, then summer cutoff socks $7.50 pk of 3 x 2...so there blew about $70 right there! That was half the money I spent. Oh well, we need stuff and I had bought nothing but food and TP all winter long. Nothing really was Want, it was pretty much all needs.
well, you all have a great afternnon...we may be going to a nearby "Chocolate adn Wine Festival"..weird combo, I know...
depend on how the OH feels when home form the grocery store job.
Zoe, I'll have a sgort stack of buttermilk Pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and lots of Dark Roast Coffee in my R&GV RR mug...
I am about ready to venture out and try to mow some lawn. It is getting high and I know there are places still under water. Just came up from the basement which has water over most of the floor in the workshop. Got the siphon back up and running. Will need to check it several times today.
Still have way too many ??? on items for the MLK Scholarship Dinner. Will be doing some printing this afternoon and tonight I am sure.
I finally did get around doing some w*rk on my layout. First, I embossed a stone texture into the dock and bridge abutments - right into the foam. W*rked out nicely, so I can spare me the chore of engraving the modelling clay. Then I painted the "sea floor" and when that was dry, gave it a coat of that smelly, gloss paint. I will leave the windows open overnight, so that should take care of the smell. No piccies yet, everything has to dry up nicely first.
Slowly, the layout is taking shape. Next week, I will start on that backdrop ...
galaxy I had to go to Wally Wolrd to try to get those HD Night Vision Wrap around glasses. I got a pair to try as my night vision is just bad, I cannot distinguish the various shades of gray and such, and so I thought I'd try them. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM TO YOU ALL!!! I got a pair for MOH and MOH showed my FIL, who naturally wanted a pair! ANd then I thought I should get my Father a pair.....so off I went to where I got the other 2 pr....Wally WOrld, but naturally they were OUt of them. Then I remembered thinking I saw them at the grocery store so I went there.
I had to go to Wally Wolrd to try to get those HD Night Vision Wrap around glasses. I got a pair to try as my night vision is just bad, I cannot distinguish the various shades of gray and such, and so I thought I'd try them. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM TO YOU ALL!!! I got a pair for MOH and MOH showed my FIL, who naturally wanted a pair! ANd then I thought I should get my Father a pair.....so off I went to where I got the other 2 pr....Wally WOrld, but naturally they were OUt of them. Then I remembered thinking I saw them at the grocery store so I went there.
Are those glasses the ones with the amber lenses? I have a pair of those for night driving and they work great. They are supposed to reduce the glare from oncoming headlights and improve contrast and they do just that very well. They don't reduce the amount of light coming through the lenses but they do turn white lights yellowish. Great glasses.
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
Seamonster galaxy I had to go to Wally Wolrd to try to get those HD Night Vision Wrap around glasses. I got a pair to try as my night vision is just bad, I cannot distinguish the various shades of gray and such, and so I thought I'd try them. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEM TO YOU ALL!!! I got a pair for MOH and MOH showed my FIL, who naturally wanted a pair! ANd then I thought I should get my Father a pair.....so off I went to where I got the other 2 pr....Wally WOrld, but naturally they were OUt of them. Then I remembered thinking I saw them at the grocery store so I went there. Are those glasses the ones with the amber lenses? I have a pair of those for night driving and they work great. They are supposed to reduce the glare from oncoming headlights and improve contrast and they do just that very well. They don't reduce the amount of light coming through the lenses but they do turn white lights yellowish. Great glasses.
Them's the ones! Put them on on a cloudy dull rainy day, or at dusk, and it is literally like someone "turned the lights on". It is AMAZING how they "magnify the light" {NOT magnify the image, mind you}.
They can be worn OVER glasses.
Howdy .
JohnBoy .... Good to see you. Thanks for the compliment regarding my layout.
Flip .... Glad you are here. You're actually getting younger; right?
Bob Seamonster. .... Good to see you again. Hope you can visit the Diner more often.
Karl ... Are you looking in? .... I paid attention to your recent advice about replacement decoders from NCE. I just sent them 5 damaged decoders along with the small charge for replacing them.
Happy Model Railroading.
Abendessen und Guten Abend, Herr Ulrich!
Flo, Bier gefällt.
Today was pretty much a waste at work, slow and I did not sale one thing. Dave was all so having a bad day, when I left he had not sold a thing either. I should have got off at 6:00 PM but blew the Fire Trap at 4:30. Luckilt I had some good sales this week.
Stopped at the Shop and Save on the way home to buy some food. Spent around $43.00 and got suffecent food say for 5 to 6 days.
Flo, soap box pleases. With Sue being disabled and my lack of good income the we get $241.00 in food stamps a month. In Illinois it is called a SNAP card. With Sue being the disabled person, the card is in her name. Today is the 17th and she has spent $231.00 and only have 2 days worth of food left!
She buys silly junk food crap! Chips, Corn Dog's, Ice Cream, Mircowavable Chesse Bugers, Cool Wip, Pies and so forth! I cannot think of a single item that she bought that has to be cooked! But what can I do, the SNAP card is in her name! I sure cannot take it away from her, there would be heck to pay if I tried. About the only thing I can do is not give her gas money so she can not go to the store! Again there would be heck.
I know, I need to have a talk with her, but I swear it will just cause a fight and griff.
See you all Sunday, Ken
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cudaken Stopped at the Shop and Save on the way home to buy some food. Spent around $43.00 and got suffecent food say for 5 to 6 days. Flo, soap box pleases. With Sue being disabled and my lack of good income the we get $241.00 in food stamps a month. In Illinois it is called a SNAP card. With Sue being the disabled person, the card is in her name. Today is the 17th and she has spent $231.00 and only have 2 days worth of food left! She buys silly junk food crap! Chips, Corn Dog's, Ice Cream, Mircowavable Chesse Bugers, Cool Wip, Pies and so forth! I cannot think of a single item that she bought that has to be cooked! But what can I do, the SNAP card is in her name! I sure cannot take it away from her, there would be heck to pay if I tried. About the only thing I can do is not give her gas money so she can not go to the store! Again there would be heck. I know, I need to have a talk with her, but I swear it will just cause a fight and griff.
Ken: FIRst, SNAP is a FEDERAL program all over the USA. With you having an income of ANY type, good bad, low high, be GLAD you GET $241 in SNAP benefits!!!! We got no where near that when MOH was UNEMPLOYED and we only had my disability!
What we DID get, I still spent by the 15th, and I did NOT buy the items you mentioned! I stuck to only meats, potatoes and fruit/ veggies! I could still spend the food stamps in about one trip! I SITLL had to charge card the balance of food needs the rest of the month...something we are still paying off still on a 0% balance transfer card that we have until Dec. to pay off. We had about $15k in bills charged on my charge cards that I could not cover with my SSD to get us through until MOH was working again, as the company MOH worked for and got fired from, hires a company specifically to contest unenjoyment claims. MOH lost the appeal. SO all Unenjoyment checks {not much anyway} stopped!
So:
A} be Glad you get what you get, I think Jeffrey can tell you all about it too! He may be single, but then that should mean he should get 1/2 what you two get, but it Ain't so! i DON't Know how he does it without using church pantries for help.
B} It doens't matter what she buys you are liable to run out of food stamps as think about it...you get $241month: that is only $55/week {based on a 4.33 week month,what they go by since 5 months have 5 weeks in them} or only $7.95/DAY to feed two of you 3 meals a day! that works out to just $2.65 PER MEAL for TWO of you or $1.33 per meal for you alone...can You tell me, please, please, JUST WHERE can you eat a whole meal for just $1.33???? That ISN'T on a "dollar menu"??? And even WITH the $1 menu,, a $1.33 does NOT give you more than one item! Even if you "pool your $1.33-ses", at $2.65 you can't get 2 burgers and a single small fry! and pay tax too!!
C} Beef is now running at $4.29 and UP per pound for HAMBURGER. Even a whole roaster chicken can run $6-7 bucks! Deli meats are now running at $10/lb! Seafood is average of about $5-6/lb except for tilapia {YUCK!} and should you want shrimp?? forgetabodit!
D} veggies/fruit have gone up an average of 13% accoridng to the news, and I feel it in the produce section! The drouhgts out in California are NOT helping to keep cpsts down. Neither is the fact that foreign countries we rely on for fresh produce are also experiencing droughts adn floodings, adn jackin up prices on us, then there is the cost to get it to our markets. FOr us in NY that means a long 5 day trip by train {"the old fruit growers express"}. It may be cheaper than that where you are.
it a matter of being aware. $55/week for two of you for food is NOT ENOUGH!
Because we DON'T eat the el cheapo crappy microwavable meals {or the expensive ones either}, and we have have "balanced home cooked meals", Our food bill is more likely to be $100-$125 a week on sale items, with special markdowns on beef and meats, fresh fruits/veggies, and do not include the cost of bottled waters in there either....I cannot drink the crappy chlorine-flouride-laden city-fied water that comes out of the tap here without vomiting!
I hate to say it, but you need to cut SUE some slack! OR take over the whole shopping by yourself. stuff may be cheaper where you live as you are halfway across the country closer to the W coast than we are. SEe how far it goes! Not far!
Dinner here was CHurch sponsored BBQ chicken meal...It was $8.50 per. Expensive, but it supports the church and is in line with the for-profit Chicken BBQ open fire pit place down the road. SO since it supports the church we go for it, even i it costs us $17 for the meals {usually we get 2 sittings out of it anyway} Our twice a year {once in spring, once in fall} charitable contribution to churches.
Then there is the contributions to Disabled AM. VEts, and Paralized Am vets, and to the local mobile food pantry {we have used them before and may have to again}. We donate extra food canned/boxed goods to the Postman's drive for local CHOW pantry too. That is our philanthropical deeds. We feel forutante to do so now, not alwys much, but it sure helps them out! We consider it "paying it forward".
Have a great night, see you in the morning!!!
My father and step mother made it back today so I went down and visited with them for a little while. Came back home and found a freind had just gotten here. He brought Snow White, his Apple IIc computer with him so I could repair it. Took about ten minutes to find the problem and about an hour to fix it. It has sixteen RAM chips in it and the fifth one in line was the problem. My problem is that they're all soldered in so getting that chip out took a little while. It has sixteen legs on it and I had to melt the solder off one leg at a time. I don't have a solder wick or anything like that but I have an attachment for my little Shop-Vac that has a 1/4" opening. It sucked the solder up like nobody's business. Getting the new chip in was dead simple by comparison. I used a little battery powered soldering iron for that. It's absolute junk on most everything else but it's the cat's meow for making tiny pinpoint solder joints and doesn't get hot enough to damage the chip. Anyhow the computer works now. There's a photo of it below and a photo of the test screen. I also did a RAM check but all it says is 'OK' and 'OK'. You can see from the photo why he calls it Snow White. Only thing wrong with the case is where his son engraved it years ago.
Janie just a cup of decaf for me right now... Thanks!
Been a busy day of getting a lot of odds and ends done. Got the reserved table signs made for the Scholarship Dinner alomng with the last of the Certificates for the recipients. Mowed about 2/3rd. of the lawn. Decided not to finish it today as the front yard is a swamp where the water from the basement ends up. Definate mud hole and I decided not to make it worse by walking through it. I'll redo that whole side on Monday if I get time. I found a second computer to use to play the video which will be the "Entertainment" at the dinner. A very nicely done song showing artwork and photos of the kids at the Boys and Girls Club in town. A former student of mine and professional musician who lives in town did the creation of the video. he told me he should be able to put it into a format I can use on my old Laptop. We shall see.
Tomorrow I work Train Crew again out at the Museum. May not get in here before I have to leave.
Have a great night! Prayers for all on sick call in any way, shape, and manner.
Well everything of note that I did today has been listed already so all that's left is to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Morning Everyone!
Our apartment stinks! There is this pungent stench of solvent-based paint all over! Fortunately, the weather is quite nice, so we can keep the windows wide open. I am glad that this won´t happen anymore, I am done with that. Unfortunately, this is also the room where the computer is, so I will be able to spend only little time at the PC today.
The paint has not yet fully dried, so there will be no more MRRing today. I am in no rush, so I´ll take a break. Time to think a few things over!
Zoe, it´s Sunday, so I´ll have my big, fat, greasy and unhealthy breakfast of crisp-fried bacon, eggs, buttered toast & jams, a glass of OJ and plenty of strong coffee, thank you!
howmus Evenin' folks! Janie just a cup of decaf for me right now... Thanks! Been a busy day of getting a lot of odds and ends done. Got the reserved table signs made for the Scholarship Dinner alomng with the last of the Certificates for the recipients. Mowed about 2/3rd. of the lawn. Decided not to finish it today as the front yard is a swamp where the water from the basement ends up. Definate mud hole and I decided not to make it worse by walking through it. I'll redo that whole side on Monday if I get time. I found a second computer to use to play the video which will be the "Entertainment" at the dinner. A very nicely done song showing artwork and photos of the kids at the Boys and Girls Club in town. A former student of mine and professional musician who lives in town did the creation of the video. he told me he should be able to put it into a format I can use on my old Laptop. We shall see. Tomorrow I work Train Crew again out at the Museum. May not get in here before I have to leave. Have a great night! Prayers for all on sick call in any way, shape, and manner. 73
howmus Evenin' folks! Janie just a cup of decaf for me right now... Thanks! Got the reserved table signs made for the Scholarship Dinner alomng with the last of the Certificates for the recipients.
Got the reserved table signs made for the Scholarship Dinner alomng with the last of the Certificates for the recipients.
Ray: I think I may hav asked you htis before, but I can do all kinds of Calligraphic work, do you do it too, or do you just computer print thier name, or print it in there??
I once Calligraphed the Entire Declaration of Independence into the shape of the {current} U.S.A....on a large 30"x40" matt board. Very Pleased with how it turned out! EVERy last word and all 56 named signatures. Took 32 hours to do!
Send Me a PM...please...
V8Vega Sat. 87 Sun. 79 Mon. 75I have a old propane BBQ with a lid that holds in the heat and volcanic rocks that get hot. I've been to two parties lately with new BBQ's, no rocks and no lid. They don't get near as hot and take much longer to cook. And they have to use a lot more propane.
Sat. 87 Sun. 79 Mon. 75I have a old propane BBQ with a lid that holds in the heat and volcanic rocks that get hot. I've been to two parties lately with new BBQ's, no rocks and no lid. They don't get near as hot and take much longer to cook. And they have to use a lot more propane.
Yeah< I noticed that too.They used to sell cheap bags of volcanic rocks, so when my new grill came without them, I thought I'll just go buy another bag! NOPE! Not ANY MORE!
it also means grease getting down in there and DRIPS out any holes! OR catches fire inside the grill!
At least with the rocks, it woudl "safely" burn off the drips and grease!
GRR...probably ranout of cheap volcanic rock in China OR theynow keep the rocks to themslves!
GRR
morning coffee.....in the diner...
There once was a musical hoboWho strung four strings on his oboe.Said he, "With these strings,This thing really sings!I both blow and bow on my oboe."—Written by Dave Reckoning
There once was a maid from MadrasWho possessed a magnificent Ass.Neither round or pink,As some might think, and boy it did stink!
It was gray, had long ears,a tail and ate grass.—Written by R. Avakian
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Yoohoo! Anyone around?
3 1/2 hrs. without a face to be seen in here!
Just a few shots of the left part of my layout:
The HO car frame you see in the picture is what I use to test the quality of my track. It really rolls freely - a little shove is all it needs to roll over the entire layout, without derailing. The track seems to be OK, but let´s wait and see waht my locos do...
A-yuh. Lookin' good, Ulrich. You've captured the coastal look of Maine very well. I like the way you've blended the natural rock with the cut stone wall.
We got a sad phone call yesterday. Our nephew, who has been a troubled kid since he was a teen, was found dead in his apartment on Friday. No cause of death yet, but he has fought a running battle with drugs for the last 15 years. There are frequent stories here about overdoses from "bad heroin" on the streets, and I suspect that's what happened to him. To those who say "stop the war on drugs and just legalize them," well, remember, there are consequences.
Sorry for the morning bummer. For those of you who still have influence over young people, please let them know that street drugs are never the answer to anything.
Good morning ...
Ulrch .... You are doing a great job with the layout!
Galaxy .... Funny limericks from you. I like the hobo one in particular.
Ray ... I bet you are already at the museum being a train crew member.
Mr. B. ... That is very bad news. I fully agree with you regarding drug laws and enforcemnt of them...... Countless lives have been ruined with that stuff. Just about everybody knows sad stories of people who have become addicted to bad stuff with tragic consequences. We must speek out to our government on this matter. In addition, we can be pro-active supporting programs which help people with these kinds of problems,
Mr. B. - that´s bad morning news! I have never understood why anyone would take drugs, have never seen the need to take them. My sympathy is with his parents and my prayer for his soul.
I am in the process of ordering the ballast, but I am not sure which one. Here are my choices:
#1
#2
#3
My favorite is #3, but I have no idea, which one would be appropriate for a coastal line in Maine...
The ballast I see around here is all gray. The primary rock of New England is granite. Geologically, it's some of the oldest rock on the surface of the Earth.
Would that be more like #1 or closer to #3?
Good Morning,
A cool, cloudy day here but that seems normal this year. We have a flowering grabapple tree in our backyard that is usually covered in pink blossoms by Mother's Day but this year the leaves are barely buds. We are about a month behind. We did make it up to 70F yesterday and it did seem like summer. The tulips are just starting to poke through.
Ulrich, your layout is looking great. I really admire you for the amount of work you get done and done well. I have a N scale service station sitting on my work bench that is painted but for the past 2 weeks it has just been sitting there. As far as ballast goes I don't know what was used in New England but in Canada most ballast is now crushed granite which is dark grey. It wasn't always that way as colour photos and video I have that was shot in the late '50s shows a lot of light coloured rock that is largely limestone plus my memory is that of light coloured rock. Perhaps you can find some colour photos taken in your era to get an idea.
Johnboy, glad you are feeling better and you do have my sympathy about not being able to swallow. I expect it is one of those thinks that comes with time but just not soon enough.
Seamonster Bob, we should get together for a coffee sometime. Send me a PM with your phone number if you are interested. Now that I'm retired I do have time.
Well I guess I had better get going here, where I'm not yet sure. Tonight is our marathon TV night starting at 5:30 courtesy of Detroit PBS. Between PBS and TCM I think those 2 channels account for 75% of our TV viewing.
Good morning. It's 72° with 78% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds.Didn't get much sleep last night so I'm feeling tired and stiff this morning. Maybe I can get some nap time later.I'm trying to convince my friend to upgrade his Apple IIc. It's an original '255' ROM version with all the bugs that were inherent to that model. He has some software and a few devices that were made to be used on later versions and he'd like to be able to use them. A ROM upgrade won't fix the serial timing problems inherent in the original IIc but it will enable him to use the devices and software he has. I've shown him a couple of ROM 3 and ROM 4 upgrade kits online that are available at a very low price. However soldering is required. He can't solder and I really don't like doing pinpoint soldering anymore because of my eyesight and nerve problems. Replacing that RAM chip yesterday had me cross-eyed for a while.My father is supposed to be making hamburgers for lunch today and I'm invited. I'll have to limit myself to just one.Other than that I have no plans for today. But I'm sure something will come up.
Ulrich, I would definitely go with #3 for your ballast. Also remember that you're running steam, and it will get even darker from the soot.
Mr. B: I lighted an extra candle for your nephew's passing to show him the positive way.
The legallization or non-legalization of drugs COULD be a hot topic leading to a flame war here, so we need to tread carefully here as there are those who are for leagalizing illegal drugs. Though if they ARE for it, most likely it would hint that they are users of them and not a favorable impression they would want to put out there, especially to prospective employers, I would guess.Could be wrong. I would not hire a drug user if I owned/ran a business. Many today REQUIRE drug testing to GEt a job.
It's just to bad he got a raw deal on it and was hooked, hat is all i will say.
ULRICH: #3 the gray one is the one to use. It is what I have seen here in NY, PA and in Mass. {when I lived there}. Vermont/New Hampshire have lots of gray granite rock {many quaries for it too}, so it would be the stone I would use, without a doubt! I WOULD use a mixture of "light gray" and "dark gray" though to get a more realistic mixture {at least I think so and did}, if you don't want the trouble or expense of two types, then go with the "Medium gray" or just go "dark gray" ballast. It would be darker in the center too during steam time, as noted, so mixing in some "black cinders" to represent lost oils, dirt, grime and coal droppings would be nice. just like a 5-10% black cinders into the bunch in the center of the rails, not much just a hint. Just a suggestion, not "law"!
Jeffrey: I DO hope you get some sleep, I know how it is. night before last I woke up evert45 mins to an hour and did not get much sleep, last night I slept well for about 5 hours, but it wasn't enough, and now am physically tired, I think a nap is in order! MAybe you cna ask your Dr. for a sleep inducer???
I went to Wally WOrld and took bac the stove liners that didn't fit, I spent an additional $36 too.
Then I went to Harbor Frieght, and to buy jsut a ladder- one of those fancy mutli-positional ladders for $124, walked out paying for $175 worth of stuff including the ladder AND all that was WITH 20% off total order coupon!!! It could have cost me another $100 more, and for what really, I don't know!
The I went to Lowes to return $18 worth of stuff, but spent an additional $98 there!!! so about $80 to teh poorer!
I gotta stop going into stores for ANYTHING!
It was all stuff needed/usable. so nothing really as a want. The ladder is needed as the kid next door will need it to get up on the roof, {well, to me he's a kid, but he is an adult with an 8 or 9 year oldest child}erm...THE YOUNG man next door is going to do the roof...I gotta outlay another $150 for roffing materials..the stuff csots $65/4.75 gallon container! That and another gallon of tar sealer at like $15, plus two spreader brushes, adds up! AND I still have to pay him! He does his all the time, and I can scarcely climb a ladder with my cane, and MOH cannot/won't do it either and finding someone who will do a trailer roof is rediculous here...so...
well, I shall go lie down as my back, after all the concrete floors I was on, is KILLING me.
First I gota eat something!
We are about to wrap up another nice weeked here. A little cool & very cloudy, but no rain. Good enough for me. Had a good day railfanning on Saturday. Watched 10 trains in anout 2½ hours. 4 intermodals, 4 mixed freights, 1 grain & 1 coal train. The 1st train spotted was an intermodal with Norfolk Southern's Southern & Wabash heritage units. We have seen both of these units before. But not long after, we also were lucky when the Norfolk Southern heritage unit showed up on another intermodal. Haven't seen that one before. That just leaves 3 heritage units that we haven't seen yet.
Today was sort of slow. We started out on CSX, but only caught an intermodal, an auto rack, and a track inspector in 1½ hours. The track inspector in his pick-up truck was interesting, as he got off the rails at the crossing almost directly in front of us. It's the 1st time I've actually seen a high railer either get on or off the tracks. Pretty simple, actually. Left there, had lunch, & then headed for NS again. Slow there too. Only 5 trains in 2 hours. 1 empty crude oil, 1 coal, 1 mixed freight & 2 intermodals. Still, it's better than what a lot of folks have available for their railfanning pleasure.
Also had a nice dinner this evening. A Delmonico roast, baked potato, & pickled sliced red beets. All washed down with a bottle of Reisling from Ray's neighborhood. Think I'll be in bed early tonight. Tomorrow is breakfast, grocery shopping, the library, and a couple of other stores the wife would like to wander through. Hope your weekend was great, and this week even better.
Went to my fathers place for a late lunch. He makes great hamburgers. I had said I was going to have just one and I was determined to lock my desire down to that, but my appetite quickly picked the locks. I had two. Later when I went to go home my vans engine turned over twice then stopped. I pressed the starter button several times but nothing happened. The battery had a good charge on it so I surmised it must be something wrong with the starter button. Well way back when I originally ran the wires for this starter button setup I had stripped a tiny bit of insulation off the two wires that went to it for just such an eventuality. I popped the hood, turned the key on, went out and raised the hood then grabbed those two wires and pressed the two bare spots against each other. The engine kicked over, I dropped the hood and drove home. Once there I removed the starter button from the dash and looked at it. The problem was very simple. One of the wires had come loose. I put it back on and tightened the screws down good then tested it. The engine started on the first try so I put the button back in the dash. It would be nice if all my problems were that simple.
Janie, I could sure use a cup of hot decaf coffee right now. Got home a little over an hour ago from the museum...
Had better ridership today at the Museum than we did opening day. We just covered the crew and had to send out an email begging to get someone to show up and open the museum itself. The "you know what" will be hitting the fan this week to our membership... Already had several emails from the trustees that weren't happy about one person having to work alone out there and no one else signing up... The good news is 3 different people talked to me on the train about what is involved in becoming a volunteer at the museum. I headed them all in the right direction.
About our 4th. run of the day, I am waiting by the steps of Erie C-254, look up and my best friend from the years I spent at the Middle School and his family are walking down to the train.... I haven't seen him in almost two years as they now live in Canandaigua. We all went nuts of course. He was there with his wife, and her brother and his wife, along with another relative who just happened to be one of my students way back when... They decided they would ride in my caboose, and I asked them if they might want a ride in the Locomotive cab? They went nuts! I wish I had a camera to catch the grins and wide open eyes on the two guys! Ended up getting the two guys and the former student in the cab on the way back North... My old teacher friend has always loved trains (in fact the two of us tried to start a Model Railroad club at the Middle School at one point - lost the space we were going to use and that took care of that) so he is very interested in becoming a member and volunteering. He would bring some great skills to the museum. He was a technology teacher and before that taught metal shop and is a fantastic woodworker. I will be in touch with him!
Galaxy, yes I do remember you saying a while back that you do caligraphy... My sister (the Artist) is a very skilled caligraphist. I highly admire those who can do that well! What I am doing is just printed out from the computer using various typfaces (I have about 300 on my iMac) that gets the job done quick and easy. The tickets are just generic ones that just state which of the dinners the person will get and each different dinner choice is printed in it's own color. No names or anything like that on them. The Reserved Table Signs are just printed to have the name of the group reserving the table on them.... pretty plain actually. I don't know who they are until just a few days before the dinner, but can print them fast (have the template on the computer). All I have left to print out are the actual programs for the dinner. One of our members who acts as my proofreader was just here and will let me know what stupid things I did on it that need to be changed and I will start printing them...
Mr. B. So sorry to hear of your nephew's passing. Always sad to hear about these things! The bad stuff has been around the Rochester area and has already taken several peoples lives. At least a few have been college kids.... I will keep all of you in my prayers for healing during this time!
Need to read more emails that just showed up in the in box... Later!
Evening Dinners and Good evening Ulrich!
Flo, I would Love a Beer!
Work Front, I was there, Dave was there and we had 4 customers all day! I sold a $700.00 Futon, Dave got a layaway and that covers that.
Mr B, I am soory as well for your lost.
Ulrich, layout is starting to look out standing! I as well vote for number 3! On on 30 scale right? is that HO scale track and O scale sizes body?
Galaxy, I think you miss what my was about. I do not excpet the $241.00 to last all month. Last year when Sue was real sick and could not do the shopping I strached the SNAP benafits for a soild 3 weeks not 15 days. Yes I am very thankful we get what we do.
See you all Monday, Ken
Evening all. Today WAS a good day, but turned to junk later.
It was nice seeing scenic express's warehouse and I even got a free same of their new leaves (every member got a free sample bag of it). I also bought a welder set there as well (HO scale). I then got home and had a decently cooked hamburger. Then I lost my car key(Thank goodness I still have the second key),but am not looking forward to getting a new spare key (2006 car so yeah, I would end up having to get the more expensive one)...sigh, amazing how a good day could turn so bad so fast....
Spent some time today putting the IIc computer back together and thought a few photos of the inside would be appropriate.The motherboard laid bare. The red arrow at right points to the chip I replaced. Yeah, the gray one.And there's the label I put in every computer I work on.Here's everything back in place before I closed it up.Besides the above I had hamburgers at my fathers place and I worked on the van a bit. Sometime tomorrow morning I'll be heading to the post office. I'm shipping a computer off to New York.Well that's it for tonight. See y'all tomorrow.
Morning, All - Guten Morgen, Ken!
Our place still smells, although we left the windows in the train room open all night long. Never again I will use solvent-based paint!
Mixed weather today, partly sunny, partly cloudy with a chance of ra*ny spells in between. Petra´s back seems to be getting better, that means some extra MRRing time for me today. Later in the morning, I will get some more stripwood to start on the platform/dock thing at the depot´s side. Thought I will make it in two levels with stairs connecting them. That should add some more visual interest and lets me use up material I already have, saving a few $$ I can use for other things. I have already dug deep into next month´s budget
cudakenOn on 30 scale right? is that HO scale track and O scale sizes body?
Ken - On30 is O scale on HO gauge track, you are right there. The track, however is not HO track, but bespoke On30 track from Peco. On30 locos and rolling stock look silly on HO track, the ties are too thin and too short, and tie spacing is too narrow. I´ll be using Peco HO track I already have ( a gift from a friend) only in the staging area.
Got to get going - CUL!
Have a great day!
Morgen, Herr Ulrich!
Morning coffee in the diner...
Use your fingers and rotate the cobGet some butter, a generous globEat across or around,But one thing that I've found,Corn is best when you eat like a slob
There once was a girl named Sam
Who did not eat roast beef and ham
She ate a green apple
Then drank some Snapple
Some say she eats like a lamb.
Quotable Quotes:
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. -Bill Bryson, author (b. 1951)
Use your fingers and rotate the cob, eh?
As soon as I saw that, I smiled. Yesterday was our first corn-on-the-cob of the season. It started showing up at the grocery store over the weekend. Butter-and-sugar variety, and really very tasty. It used to be we had to wait until the end of the summer to get it locally, and then the season was over in a few short weeks. I guess that's one thing to be said for the 21st century. We had ours with grilled burgers and a few beers.
Well
I have a few things to do today
Since the cable company put me off so long to get the ACTUAL bill OWED now with the new deal we have, I have to take it into the office, stand in line for goodness knows how long, complain about the lack of "in service" channels and pay the stooopid bill in person.
Then I have to find out from DMV exactly HOW to get the lein release off my title to the Sedona. I have only done that once before in my life, all other vehicles, new and used have been paid for in cash when bought them.
Then mail off another bill
then i think I will have something else to do, just can't remember what...
So I will have a SHORT but busy day IF I don't wait for eons in the cable office.
Then I will see what other trouble I can get into!
Have agreat one!
Ulrich
Which scale is this N ? Isnt that the scale you model ? Were the rails painted gold ? Incredible detail ! How in the world did they get the rail ties to look so realistic or did you do that ?
Good morning .
YGW .... Good to see you here. Hope you are doing well. I think Ulrich's photos of ballast are manufacturer samples, but I'll let him say for sure.
My agenda today includes a visit by a friend of mine who attended high school with me. Back then we were interested in model trains and real trains. We grew up near Chicago on the Bulington main line. After getting our drivers licences, we traveled around northern Illinois railfanning. We also road some of the famous CB&Q steam excursion trains. We'll do layout tours of my layout, Gus's layout, and Dan's layout.
Thanks Garry. I have popped in a time or two and read a few post but have been overly busy with w**k, raising kids and remodeling my GF house ( 14 years of maintenance negelect ! ) and church . Finally will have GF house major items finished in a week or two and then I will have a bit of time until the new w**k project starts then I will be hanging on for dear life again. I have 49 houses to build near George Mason University with an overall project value of around 49 million in total sales. Also my GF and I plan to get married in August. So there is a lot to do.
Glad to see you here and a bunch of the others. I hope to be back in here more often.
Prayers to all in need and Hi again to all.
YGW
Afternoon Folks!
Taking a break, enjoying a cup of coffee and a slice of that apple pie , which tells me "Eat me!"
I´ve been cutting stripwood for endless hours, starting right after lunch. Now there are all sorted and weathered. Better to do that before assembly! Guess how I learned that?
All these parts will finally end up as the ship´s landing opposite of the depot. A few parts are missing - I will make them as soon as I can get the correct measurements, i.e. after installing most of it.
yougottawantaUlrich Which scale is this N ? Isn´t that the scale you model ? Were the rails painted gold ? Incredible detail ! How in the world did they get the rail ties to look so realistic or did you do that ?
YGW - good to see you back in here. The ballast pics are manufacturer´s photos of O scale track (German prototype), handlaid on wooden ties. The rail has been painted golden, for whatever reason. Maybe to show the detail better.
I have switched scales, from N to On30, as my eyes are not getting younger. On30 is ideal for me. You get the heft of O scale, yet the space you need is only a little more than HO scale. On30 is really a scratchbuilder´s scale - due to the bigger size of structures, they are easy to make, using el cheapo materials - suits me fine, as my budget is very limited.
I´ll stay here at the RC for while, watching the yard goat doing some fine switching.
Strong coffee TO GO, please.
***Ulrich, I definitely prefer #3 to the others. Your layout is coming along nicely.
Herr Ulrich- Very fine work you're doing.
Garry- I have a GN DoodleBug that I hooked up a 60 ft. passenger car to and the Walthers novelty passenger cars as a consist. Sure did look different going around on my pike. I think I sent a picture of it to Cape Jim. Can't remember.if did or not. Heck it was fun watching it.
Just a quick update on the shoreline - right part of the layout:
Good afternoon. It's 78° with 52% humidity. The high will be 85° with some clouds.Not much going on today. Went into town to ship a computer off to New York City then went to Wal-Mart to get some things I needed. Got back home to find that a package with my Star Trek Voyager Season One DVD set had arrived. Looks like I have something new to watch this week. Now I'm just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call. Nothing else planned.
Went to the PO to get off a bill that needed to go and it went out early pickup, so it is probably on its way to, if not already in, Syracuse. Used to be our sorting center here took care of such things, but due to cut backs, they now sort in Syracuse only. It gets it out early enouhg to make up for not neing in the mail on Saturday. I have seen a few news programs about how mail can "nysteriously get delayed" if mailed on a Fri, Sat. It can often get 'shoved aside' til Tues or Wed before it goes off, SO best to wait to Monday when all postal workers are working for the week again. I know, some of you htink I should go email payments, I don't think so that risks the compromisations I HATE.
So, next was DMV, I can get a clean title for an exorbitant amount of money to simply reprint it with "no lienholder found" on it, OR just keep the lien release letter with the title for later use. I guess i will just keep my money. It will be years before I sell/trade it in anyway. Although, there is a nice Dodge GR caravan, no frills model wiht spare tire that I can get IF I get what I want for a trade in, add a little cash and voila have a brand new one for a few dollars over the old payment. IF I want to saddle us with another payment!
Then off to the cable office...40 minutes wAIT! The new payment is correct, and they siad I'd have to bring the bloody box to get the "dopped channels" or "missing channels" {"XXX channel is not available, please try again"} FIXED. We are thinking of back-charging THEM for the droppoed/missing/not avaailable channels ass we spent 20 minutes last night trying to get some! Take a WILD guess who I saw a the cable office? {besides some college boppers turning in their equip {or parents doing it for their kids} My FIL! He ws busy talking to a young india kid who drove a Mercedes, who was probably studying to be a Dr. or scientist or somehjting. No doubt my FIL was "imparting some 86 years of wisdom" to the young man, who appeared to take it well. He doesn't have to routinely listen to FIL's chatter!
Then to BB&B. OT get the new curved shower curtain rod. It will give us a shade more room in the 2' wide narrow, 4' long shower we have. It says it will fit down to 48", it had beter, but looks very LONG in the box! I will put up later.Also picked a clearance set of Queen sheets for a song and a dance. Actually 2 songs and a dance. Then I ran across a clearance pillow for $5 I picked up for me at nigth time..I use it replace a well-worn pillow I call my 'snuggle pillow" you can figure it out form there.....
tehn home to meet my Ohter Half and off for a nap we went. My back has a SHOOITNG PAIN spasm that has been there since standing on the hard tile floor at Cable so long! It started there, I thought it would decrease/go away when I sat down, but it appears NOT,
Now for dinner will cook off some beef for dinner, bought some marked down specials on saturday to cook today must be cooked today or frozen. Don't knwo yet how it will be cooked...
well, have a great night...
good afternoon folks. Let me pick up a round for all of you,as it's been "forever"since I've been in. I'm glad to see the lights are still on.
trolleyboyI'm glad to see the lights are still on. Smile, Wink & Grin
Time to call it a night here. see y'all tomorrow.
Trolleyboy Very long time no see.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
We were painting the church steeple gray.When the wind blew our brushes away.We said to the pastor."Oh what a disaster!"But he simply replied, "Let us... spray!"
A man, while drinking Light Bud,Crashed his car with a sickening thud,The car that he hit,Had a warlock in it,now he lives as a frog in the mud.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
having computer troubles, think we have a virus. It need to go in for a "cleaning" anyway. SO, If you'all don't see me here for a while, it may be because i am computerless!
Dealt with all the remaining bills for the month of MAY yesterday! good to know they are all done! Only one straggler will come either the end of MAy or first of June {It is never consistant}, then all the regular bills all come in about the 8th-20th. SO FINI!
Now, have a great day!
It´s already past lunchtime, so I´ll just settle for a cup of coffee, served right here at the RC. Thanks, Janie!
Been busy glueing the parts I made yesterday into something resembling a jetty. I must have miscalculated the number of parts I need, so I am now short of a few pieces. I´ll have to make them, but I need to go to get some stripwood first - just a length f 3x5mm and a length of 5x5mm. I won´t go today, because that glue gave me a headache... The older I get, the more sensitive to fumes I appear to be
Y´all have a great one!
P.S. Where is Todd? Have not seen him around her for a while...
Good morning...... Coffee and a doughnut, please.
Duke and Trolleyboy ........ Good to see you. Feel free to tell us what you have been up to.
Flip .... Glad to hear about your dooglebug operations. Presently, I operate my doodlebug with a trailer, a short branchline baggage/RPO car.
Yesterday, my old friend I knew in high school was here. We remember good times being young railfans. After getting our drivers licenses we chased trains in Illionis. Burlington and Santa Fe were our favorites, but we chased trains of several other railorads. Now, of course, the old Santa Fe Chiefs and the old Burlington Zephyrs are memorise to be re-created on model railorads.
Jeff
Good morning. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
Good morning to all. Breakfast and coffe is on me this morning. Eat up !
Guten Morgen Fellow Dinners und Herr Ulrich
Flo, Rührei und eine Seite in der Bacon gefällt.
Got the front and rear yard cut yesterday so that over with. Went and made another payment to the Vet for Shaddys last visit, I now only owe $58.00. Went to the store and bought a few things and all so a few flowers, bucket and Mircale Grow.
I all so BBQ last night, with the grill being so messed up I had to sit outside and watch it. Did not want to burn up the meat. I had bought 2 steaks and I like my rare, all so cooked some pork steaks. Tonight, my wife wants me to cook some ribs.
Boy, my grill has to go! I have to turn the rear burnner on high, and the front one on low to get close to the same flame level.
Ulrich, ich kam gar nicht auf den Post gestern, und ich hasse es zu sagen, haben nicht das nötige Geld für die Schiene. Ich werde sie nächste Woche. Layout is looking great! I think I have a section of On 30 track that came in a lot I won off E Bay.
Got to run, lot of things to do before I go to the VA Hosptial.
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yougottawantaJeff. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
Good morning. It's 73° with 85% humidity. The high will be 88° and it'll be somewhat cloudy.Didn't get much sleep last night as my right knee was hurting and prevented me from getting comfortable. As a result I'm not in the best of moods. I think I'll just lay back and relax today.
It´s past 5pm here, so I call it a day - I only w*rk 9 till 5 on my layout
Here is what happened today, aside from sticky fingers being covered with glue:
I am not yet happy with the weathering of the lumber - I think I´ll give it another wash...
Ken - I did not know you are fluent in German Take it easy on the spikes - no need to rush things. The pace of w*rk on my layout is set by the funds I have. Right now I have overspent my budget already, meaning very few, if none, purchases for it next month. I will have to get some stripwood tomorrow, so I can finish today´s job, but that´s to the tune of $ 2. I am glad I still have plenty of leftover material from past projects, so construction will not come to a halt.
I am trying to figure out how to do the railing on the upper part and the stairs. Maybe I use toothpicks as posts ...
Thanks Jeff. Several more questions if you dont mind. Are you mixing the alchol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
I am sorry you are hurting with your knee. How is your layout coming ? Did you get the rest of the track laid ?
yougottawantaThanks Jeff. Several more questions if you don't mind. Are you mixing the alcohol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
The layout is at a standstill. I have to keep off my feet as much as possible and much of the work that needs to be done requires that I be on my feet. The track is down so a train could make a complete trip around the layout if there wasn't stuff piled all over it. Right now I can't even see the track in many places.
Zoe, just a a cup of my dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts to dunk... Thank you Ma'am!
Currently 68°F here in the Finger Lakes with a predicted high of 72°F later this afternoon. Have a couple windows open at the moment to let some fresh air in.
I have a Doctor's Appt. early this afternoon... This is my 6 month recheck, hope there are no problems found and I can just keep on keeping on. My knee still hurts from when I twisted it last Sunday, but it is better today.
Been getting everything all set for the MLK Scholarship Dinner tomorrow. Have to pick up the "Educator's Award from the trophy shop this afternoon, and then early tomorrow afternoon meet with the guy from the AV dept. at the colleges to set up sound and AV equipment we will need for the evening. I always feel a major bit of relief after the dinner is done and everything went well! Oh, School Budget Vote is today, so I need to go do my civic duty also.
Best get myself moving! Later...
Afternoon all. Spicy chicken and french fries. Thanks
I have today off, so I am just enjoying it today, and relaxing. I am listening to some Eric Church and my scanner(Interstate heritage unit is supposed to be leading a train north today through my town,and I have yet to see it leading a train yet). W@rk was interesting last night. 7 WIC checks, and one woman had 4 different checks. Then the other non-express lane cashier went on break and I got slammed with 15 people at once with at least 70 items each. It got so bad, they opened up the express lane for them as well as my lane. Strangely enough, only one offered to help bag their stuff-everyone else was ticked that I was not able to bag their 70 items each within a minute. So yeah, it was a stressful night last night.
No Model railroading stuff today,but maybe some railfanning. NS is doing track work on the rails through here, so the one that is not being worked on has a speed restriction on it, so that should make some photography options. Have a good day everyone else.
9pm and nearly time to say Good Night, well not yet, but soon. Nothing interesting in the idiot box, so I gave the dock? jetty? pier? another wash of black water - looks much improved. Petra is listening to Rod Stewart singing some old song - I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music, having w*rked for sony Classical more than 20 years ago...
For me, Rod Stewart is a gifted model railroader, with a voice sounding like he had to much booze, but decent songs I can listen to as background music.
Good Night Folks! See you all tomorrow!
I cannot finish the 2 remaining loads of laundry.
I cannot finish up the dishes left from today or re-wash the stove drawer pans before putting htem away.
I cannot take my afternoon-i-am-sweaty-shower.
I cannot empty/fill the pond.
WHY? You Ask? Because we have no water!
Shortly afte MOH arrived home, I went to turn on the water...NO WATER I said, MOh Replied hat it was probably a Water Main break that was the puddle in the middle of an otherwise dry as a bone road just down the street....so calling the water works dept. confirmed a 12" main had done sprung itself a leak! Or was it an 18" main? Anyway it was a bigg'un.
So here I sit.
Oh well,gives me a break as I have ben spend ing too much time on my feet lately and my back is lettting me know it!
Now watch, i won't stay off my feet and find something else to do on my feet...like run my new lightweight vacuum!
Oh got rid of {finally} the 29 gallon tall aquarium. Today was garbage day so out it went. we tried selling ti, giving it away nobody wanted it. So out to the garbage man it went.
Now there is a NICE "table" I had to have a 1/2 plywood slab cut to fit in the recess where the tank was on top the knotty-pine wood base cabinet.
BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!!
I'm just saying!
Tempting..tempting..
MOH would KILL me as It was "my salt water tank",so it was "my" job to get rid of it....and MOh has wanted it gone for quite a while now!
Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
I will have to wisper that in my OH's ear at night and see if that changes my OH's mind!
Sir MadogI have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music
I like classic rock myself. 50's, 60's, 70's and some 80's. I also like a number of the Big Band classics. I like listening to bagpipes sometimes too but only the songs I think are good. Some of those bagpipe numbers could scare the hair off a bear in full charge.
galaxyBOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
Jimmy_Braum I have today off, so I am just enjoying it today, and relaxing. I am listening to some Eric Church and my scanner(Interstate heritage unit is supposed to be leading a train north today through my town,and I have yet to see it leading a train yet). W@rk was interesting last night. 7 WIC checks, and one woman had 4 different checks. Then the other non-express lane cashier went on break and I got slammed with 15 people at once with at least 70 items each. It got so bad, they opened up the express lane for them as well as my lane. Strangely enough, only one offered to help bag their stuff-everyone else was ticked that I was not able to bag their 70 items each within a minute. So yeah, it was a stressful night last night.
Jimmy: Welcome to the grocery store business! Or any cashiering job that is!
1} there are many who get more than one WIC check....get used to it, and the checks are often for several different items each and the customer will expect YOU to sort out which ites gfo with which check!
2} whenever there are cashiers takign breaks is when the customers must ALL come to get in line..and ALL must "be somewhere soon, can you hurry it up"? Iff'en you don't have the tiem to shop and pay, then WHY do you come when under pressure?
3} the "express line" means nothing to people...they will come with 50 or 60 item cart fulls and expect to get through as they "have just a few items more than {10} {15} {20} {whatever the number is}. The limit number means nothing to them, it "never applies to me"
4}There is an argument ongoing about bagging...due to handicap, I have to ask for carry-outs so I usually get my stuff bagged, and the store chain {remember MOH works for them} is TRYING to change to "customer bags their own" system. BUT as I said to MOH, until the they put in those whirly tables with multiple bag racks on it like they have a Wally World, customers WON't get it that they should be bagging thier own! Or at elast CARTING their own. This chain is NOt the first in the area to try to go to customer self-bagging or self-carting bagged stuff.
5} and YeS you should be able to "bag 70 items in jsut 1.2654 minutes!!!! OR LESS!!! DIdn't they tell you that in the manual or training video????? {}
Enjoy the fact that you have a job!
Just wait til the prices start skyrocketing again as they are supposed to {more than now} and THEN you'll see: listen to customer WHINING about the cost of food! OVer and OVER! Your heart willl just BLEED for them, meanwhile you will try to figure out how, on your minimum wages, you are supposed to fill up your gas tank at the HIGH summer gas prices so you can get to work for your next shift!!!!
Ta Da! Welome to "The Real WOrld"!!
Have a good night and be glad your shift is over...for now...
jeffrey-wimberly Sir Madog I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music I like classic rock myself. 50's, 60's, 70's and some 80's. I also like a number of the Big Band classics. I like listening to bagpipes sometimes too but only the songs I think are good. Some of those bagpipe numbers could scare the hair off a bear in full charge.
Sir Madog I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music
I personally love the oldies Rock and roll-most modern popular stuff is junk in my opinion of course. Then again, I have become a fan of Kings of Leon, a lot of the underground bands, Mumford and Sons, and some of the modern country singers.
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE How's your eyesight? I dabbled in Z Scale at one time and the operative word for everything about it is TINY. The only production scale I've seen that's smaller is T Scale.
galaxy BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
How's your eyesight? I dabbled in Z Scale at one time and the operative word for everything about it is TINY. The only production scale I've seen that's smaller is T Scale.
Jeffrey: my eyesight is very good !
I am quite nearsidesd and can real the tiniest of print without my glasses...its far away I have trouble with.
Both MOH adn I are nearsided and can read the tiniest of print on the prescription bottles, say for example...and some lines are about point 2!
Now hand co-ordination and "fine" motor skills to GET the tiny thing ON the tracks, well, THAT I may be lacking! Especially when painting or weathering something fo it!
Ps the table is only 1 foot, 2" wide, but I can get a top for it wide enough for a single or 2-track mainline around it!
PSS : I can count the "Who's" Horton hears - siting on the head of a pin!
Jimmy_Braum I personally love the oldies Rock and roll-most modern popular stuff is junk in my opinion of course. Then again, I have become a fan of Kings of Leon, a lot of the underground bands, Mumford and Sons, and some of the modern country singers.
Give me CCR anytime.
I,m with you Jeff, Credance Clearwater revival was the best....................
Johnboy out......................
Car Front. That is the bad part of the day. Sunday, the sun roof switch went bad it was the only opening window the old Town Car had. Year before last the heater core went bad, so I tried stop leak over and over, guess what? Did not work! By passed the heater core and got by till winter. Heater core is replaced and I was happy this last winter. Now that the temps are in the 80’s car runs warm, there is a shocker. On the way to the VA Hospital I was able to run the A/C till I got on the side streets. Then it ran warm. OK, I am thinking and hoping it only gets hot around town! Wrong! On the way home it ran warm with out the A/C I got 2 bars over normal. Had to turn the heat up to 85 degrees to keep the either 1 bar over normal or normal. It was back and forth most of the way home.
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"Ooooooo, I heard it through the Grapevine...."
Hey! could yuh turn it down just a tad??? Oh, thanks! I thought I would have to shut off my hearing aids for a while....
What, Oh I love CCR and a whole lot of other groups from back then... My Favorite of course, was BS&T as I went to College with the lead trumpeter (Lou Soloff). Actually I really have much of the same taste as Ulrich. I tend more to the Rennaisance and Baroque periods. Especially all the great German Composers. You know, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Tellaman, Shott, Shien, Fop, Fux, J. S. Bach and his sons CPE, JC and PDQ. You know, all those guys....
Doctor's Appt. went well today... Everything is within OK Ranges. had the lowest Cholesterol I have ever had.... 126! HDL - 36 and the LDL, 61. the ratio puts me below average risk for heart problems... My AC1 was 5.9. Has stayed basically the same for 4 years now. Talked to him about the Taste/Smell problem and he agreed it maqy be due to the CPAP, the backaches, he agrees are from sitting to long at the computer with my belt too tight... No kidding! He did a complete exam and said he wishes all his patients my age were in as good shape!
One of the TV stations in Rochester reported on their web page that my sister's favorite restuarant in Canandaigua, Rio Tomatlan, caught fire last night. Three alarm fire, no one was injured. They are the busiest place in Canandaigua and have become packed all the time. I do hope they will be back in business soon. No word on the cause and how much damage they sustained. My sister must be devistated! She has several paintings hanging down there for sale!
Back to w*rk! I have most everythings finished and ready for the dinner tomorrow... Finally!
Good job on your numbers Ray. Wish I could say the same. Unfortunately, all mine have been going in the wrong directions. My problem is a lack of will power. But I know I have to start and buckle down on my diet & exercise.
Been busy today. Ran a couple of errands this morning, did a couple loads of wash, & got the grass cut & trimmed in both the front & back yards. Also dug out the bird bath from the garage, & after a good cleaning, placed it in the flower bed. So it's all set for those little winged creatures. Funny though, it always got a real workout, but last year, we hardly ever saw any birds around it. Here's hoping they return because it's kind of fun watching them splash around in it.
They were calling for thunder storms this evening, and we may well get them. The sky has gotten very dark in the last 30 minutes, so it looks like something is headed this way. Stay safe & have a good one.
last mountain & eastern hogger Give me CCR anytime. I,m with you Jeff, Credance Clearwater revival was the best.................... Johnboy out......................
Who?
Have you ever seen the rain looking out my backdoor? As long as I can see the light someday never comes. Hey, tonight I put a spell on you proud mary who's down on the corner with suzie Q. The travelin' band had a bad moon rising over green river in lodi, again! I heard it through the grapevine there is a commotion about who'll stop the rain up around the bend for the forunate son if I put a spell on you making you run through the jungle with the sweet hitchhiker.
That about the covers the best I guess....
Of course, there's the Eagles flying overhead on a long Journey...
They just don't make music like they used to, do they, huh Bruce Springsteen?
Love all those bands/musicians. As Seger once said, Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time Rock and Roll. Yeah, I play a ton of classic rock as my guitar style-with a little country thrown in for good measure-you can't play a bar in Pittsburgh without knowing a Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/George Straight song.
Well, the Apple IIc is sick, again. The disk drive again. Before the azimuth alignments were off and had to be reset. It worked fine after that. Today I was testing it for the owner and the drive just quit working, period. I was wondering at this point if it was really the drive. It could be the motherboard. I unplugged the internal disk drive from the motherboard and plugged an external Apple A9M0107 5.25" floppy drive into the internal disk drive port. Whoa, I think I just heard a Apple II series user out there yelling 'You can't do that! It won't work! The cable end doesn't match the port!'. Well, actually you can make it work if you use an Apple Disk II ribbon cable. This requires removing the cover of the A9M0107 external floppy drive so the cables can be changed out, but it will work. And that's exactly what I did. The computer and drive got along great together. I thought about removing the A9M0107 drive from it's case and putting it into the IIc. Did that and test fit it and it's a bit too big. There's no way the IIc's case could be closed. So now I have to find an Apple IIc internal 5.25 floppy drive or an external model of same that I can rip the guts out of. That also requires that I wait until the end of the month when I'll have some $$ in the small budget I have for this hobby.Other than that I've been watching season one of Star Trek Voyager. Like meeting old friends again.That's it for today. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Janie, just a decaf please....
"Dang Me, Dang Me, They oughta take a rope an Hang Me......" Jimmy, at least you got some decent country in your repertire.
I called my sister tonight to ask her about the fire in Canandaigua... She had 3 paintings hanging down there. All got some damage, but she thinks at least 2 can be salvaged. She went down there today to get in the way of the cleanup I guess... I would say , "well the paper said..." or "how did they"... or, "what was".... and she would imediately interupt and tell me she knew more than I did about it after all she went down to see what was going on.... I never doubted that she did... I was trying to ask her a couple questions.... She never did answer any of the questions. I guess she is upset!
All the local School Budgets passed around here today. Our school system is losing about 8 teachers due to budget restictions.
Time for me to call it a day... Tomorrow will be a very long one!
Prayers for all in need...
Morning All!
Today is going to be a hot day - daytime high is expected to exceed 30°C. I went to town early in the morning to do some banking business and get the needed stripwood. At 10am, temps were up to 26°C already. Tnight, we will be in for some thunderboomers.
I am going to fire up my table saw this afternoon, to cut the missing pieces of timber. I am glad it´s not really messy, the saw dust stays within the casing of the saw, where I can vac it out pretty easily. Without this tool, I would not be able to build this layout!
The list of MIA´s is getting longer each day! Good to see Ken back as a frequent visitor, but how about Chris, DerJohn, Jerry, CapeJim?
Well, It´s my turn to prepare lunch, so CUL, Folks!
howmus Evenin' folks! Janie, just a decaf please.... "Dang Me, Dang Me, They oughta take a rope an Hang Me......" Jimmy, at least you got some decent country in your repertire. somehow, RAY -that reminded me of the "funny" song: "skip a rope, skip a rope, ain't it funny how the children play, skip a rope..ain't it funny what the children say, skip a rope." I called my sister tonight to ask her about the fire in Canandaigua... She had 3 paintings hanging down there. All got some damage, but she thinks at least 2 can be salvaged. She went down there today to get in the way of the cleanup I guess... I would say , "well the paper said..." or "how did they"... or, "what was".... and she would imediately interupt and tell me she knew more than I did about it after all she went down to see what was going on.... I never doubted that she did... I was trying to ask her a couple questions.... She never did answer any of the questions. I guess she is upset!
somehow, RAY -that reminded me of the "funny" song: "skip a rope, skip a rope, ain't it funny how the children play, skip a rope..ain't it funny what the children say, skip a rope."
Second RAy, you know how they can be, Jeff Dunham says, when asked "if a man is all alone in the forrest does he say something at all?" and His dummy Walter says " Yes, but he'd be WRONG!" {paraphrased}
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744)
Ah, Wednesday. After Tuesday Night Hockey, it's always a day of sore muscles and tired old bones. Not one of my better outings last night.
We've got a few grocery store chains here. The best is the local chain, Market Basket. They have the best prices and high quality. Every store has a lot of registers, and most are always manned when I'm there, with both a cashier and a bagger. I've seen the manager bagging many times. The whole store has a "can-do" attitude. Last week I wasn't satisfied with the selection of steaks in the cooler, so I asked for exactly what I wanted, and they went right out back and cut it for me. We've got the high-priced "organic" place, too, and then there's Stop and Shop. I can't figure out how that store stays in business. Their prices are high, and as a result you don't have to wait long to check out. They typically only have 1 or 2 registers, plus those annoying self checkout lanes that take forever because you are expected to look up the SKU numbers for the produce.
Old joke: A college kid shows up at the 10-item line in a supermarket in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a full cart. The cashier looks at him and says, "Are you from MIT and can't read, or Harvard and can't count?"
I'm al Oldies guy. Unfortunately, the radio around here thinks "Oldies" is Bon Jovi and Aerosmith. No. Oldies is the Transition Era - street corner doo-wop, Brenda Lee and the confluence of country, blues and R&B that became Rock 'n' Roll. There's one of those music channels on the TV cable for that, and it's my standard fare for working on the layout or running trains. What I would like to have, though, is a Big Band channel for when I'm running steam.
"Third boxcar, midnight train,Destination Bangor, Maine..."
Ulrich. ... You are doing beautiful modeling, and your are working at a fast pace.
YGW .... If you want more ideas about how to weather freught cars, I suggest you Google "wetharing model trains" and look for some You Tube demonstrations. I think each person has his own way of doing it, and it is good to try several techniques until you find one that works for you. Practice on some junkers.
Ray .... We had a good restaurant burn down here a couple of years ago. It still is a vacant lot. Hopr that is not the case with the restaurant you mentions.
PA Tom .... The CSX shot looks great. Good enough for publication.
Mr. B .... That's a funny "old joke".
Wednesday (today) is model railroader lunch day here. We'll have lunch at a local restaurant that has not burned down yet, and have a bull session.
Heartland Division CB&QUlrich. ... You are doing beautiful modeling, and your are working at a fast pace.
Garry - thanks for the kudos. I am enjoying this "labor of love", it really gives me a boost to see, how things turn out.
I have done only a few things today. Cut another 150+ planks for the dock and started on the foundation of the platform. I should start weathering the planks, but it is too hot inside and outside. I´ll take a break now - maybe a little later I´ll start on that job.
Sir MadogCut another 150+ planks for the dock and started on the foundation of the platform. I should start weathering the planks
Thanks Garry I will check out the site. I have seen severl weathering methods its just that I have never seen anything weathered like Jeffs car. It was unique to the methods I have witnessed before.
Last year I built a test track out of old brass track I had laying around ( first mistake ) I used a piece of 5 1/4 OG base that I ripped down to about 2" and made it about 30 " long. In the middle I instlled a section to run the wills back on the track , but it was one of those horn hook couple, uncouple pieces sections (second mistake ) . I will be building another one. Here are my thoughts. I wAnt it to be mobil, so again I will make it portable not fixed in place. I want to make it longer so I can get a better sense of the repaired locomative running ability. So maybe four or five feet? But I also want to use some type of track section that I can run a loco across and have it run the wheels back onto the track. It annoys me to fiddle with wheel track alignment. I think this should be installed near one end ? Then there is the eventual conversion to DCC. I am not sure how to set up a test track for that other than hooking wiring it to a dcc compatible system. Your thoughts guys ?
Music I tire of the old stuff and enjoy new groups. Unfortunately most of the new secular music has become so foul in the stuff they sing about it is X Rated and not of any soul cheering value. I like up lifting music. When I was a kid we had hero's now adays we have scum bags for heros who seem to delight in seeing how low they can go. Look at hollywood. It is a surprise to see an actor with some clothes on, or an actor who hasnt been married four times or is in some nasty new age type of relationship. Where are the guys in white hats who put down evil , rescue the down trodden, set the world right? I am soooo sick of the garbage on display these days passing itself off as entertainment. Sorry guys I will get off of my soap box.
TTYL
Good morning. It's 70° with 97% humidity. The high will be 88° with some clouds.No plans set in stone today. I may work on the IIc's disk drive later to see if I can get it working again. Since the motor drive works it has to be something on the control board that moves the read/write head back and forth. Yeah, the drive spins but the head doesn't move.Right now I'm just waiting for the Home Health nurse to call. Got a different one for a while as the other is on vacation. The wound vac therapy is working well. The wound has decreased in size by a third since I got out of the hospital.
YGW - the best test track is a loop, but if you don´t have enough room for it, try to make the test track as long as possible. Rerailers do make sense, but you need to have them minimum a loco´s length away from the end.
Test tracks don´t have to be just a plank with track. Why don´t you add some scenery? You can use it to display your prized locos on it...
well!
I have already gone to the grocery store. I spent $200! Some of it was "buy now to stock up for summer at [supposedly} cheap prices".
FOr example: MOH loves pasta salad, and while I can make my own, but Suddenly Salad, for instance, is easy and Quick, and is 10/$10 right now. Considering the regular price is N of $2, it is a bargain, but I doubt I will need to buy much more for the next few months.
McCormic's Grill Marinades also 10/$10. a great price and some of their marinades are really quite good! so naturally I picked up 10. Mayo at less than $2 is a good bargain, so ditto there. I picked up some discounted beef of course like I usually do.
I should have gone to Lowes, I bought a "flow restrictor" faucet aerator. It is a 89% restrictor. I didn't compute how that would work in real life! It is like a trickle! trying to rinse dishes of soap was about as impossible as trying to dig ones way out of a sinkhole! It would be alright for washing hands, but not for dishes! So there was one restricitng something like 56% , and that should work.
I am doing it to save water, not to save money. See, we here in the park as renters of the land must get water for free, like any other house/apt. renter. Now there is a limit on the "free water" a landlord must provide...they CAN charge for overages over a certain required amount, and that would include the park, as a whole, too. Plus we, as a country are running out of water. Just look at California's water use restrictions! So we are doing our part.. Have had a flow restrictor shower head for oh, about 20 years.
So, what would you do if you went into your bank to withdraw, oh, say $15,500 in cash, of your $50,000 bank account {assuming you had one}, and THEY REFUSED? Think about it for a minute.
Well, i have been on my feet so much that when I got up at 4:30 this morning, I could barely stand or walk! It does NOT behoove me to stay in bed too much longer, as it causes more pain than resting there relieves after several hours. So I had to get up nad take my meds. Sitting/standing/walking is painful enough, BUt I have to suffer it for awhile till the meds kick in. I should try to rest a lot today, but i have things to do! I can't just lay on the couch all day.
I think I will go for a nap, though , now as I am suddenly groggy and I had extra coffee this morning!
ULRICH:
well, I have to put the washer in the dryer then take a nap for the hour it will need drying. That will refresh me! Unless the dad-blamed phone rings!!!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special this morning. Over easy on the eggs, Bacon, Home Fries, and a double order of the Sour Dough Toast all to go along with a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please.
Todd, that is the version I have heard as well. My Late wife and my sister both subscribed to "It's too late to agree with me! I changed my mind..." I need to finishe mowing the lawn as well, but it ain't gonna happen today or tomorrow.
Forecast for today is showers by noon and some thunderboomers on occasion the rest of the day and night. I have a meeting with the AV guy at 1PM to set up all the needed equipment for the dinner tonight and make sure it works correctly. I have to be back in my Sunday Go TO Meeting duds by 5PM to set up rest of the stuff and make sure all is well. Sounds like I have a lot to do for it, but I actually do considerably less than I used to do as the whole Dinner reservations and arrangements are now done by a lady who used to work at the college and is thee go to person for a lot of things on the committee these days. One of her daughters was a Scholarship winner years ago.
Ulrich, your layout is looking good, my friend!
Thanks Ulrich for the feed back. I do not currently have teh room for a loop . I do agree tht would be better. Adding scenery will not work . Being mobil I need to be able to turn it in different directions depending on where I am working . In the basement at the kitchenette or the upstairs kitchen table.... BUT that is an excellent idea ! I have long been considering building a wall display shelf for my locomatives ( I think I have around 150 ) and that would look really neat . I can see it now. shelf aftet shelf framed with an ok or hickory and then a little scenery behind and in front of the locomatives. That would look GREAT !
oh my gosh I do not know who came up with the line in the post below about being a man in the woods and if he is talking and teh wifey is not around ...It is a good thing I am working from home today I actully lughed out LOUD !! That ws funny !
Afternoon all. I guess I have another thing to add to my MRR list of projects
Either a Wheeling and Lake Erie Diesel, or another NS unit. Could I justify a Wheeling unit with a Norfolk Southern unit? lol
Jimmy_BraumCould I justify a Wheeling unit with a Norfolk Southern unit?
jeffrey-wimberly Jimmy_Braum Could I justify a Wheeling unit with a Norfolk Southern unit? Maybe somebody found one locked up in an old engine house and put it back in service.
Jimmy_Braum Could I justify a Wheeling unit with a Norfolk Southern unit?
Maybe somebody found one locked up in an old engine house and put it back in service.
Jimmy_Braum I could always use the excuse that NS was short on motive power.
so much for staying off my feet.
I got a call my script was ready for pickup at the Drs office. WHile there, i remembered that I had to have blood work done for the new psychiatrist as he wants to start me on a mania med, and wants to follow bloodwork to see the baseline levels before the new meds level start to count.{really it is also to see if patients are compliant and taking it regularly.}. SO they looked at the orders and found he wants fasting CBC, lipids, A1c and the whole works! Naturally, since he never told me and I never studied the orders, I HAD NOT fasted! None of us there, and a well-placed phone call to the clinic didn't turn up results, so we delayed. Part of it, I think, is that they are back-up check-points for those who DON'T see or DON'T have a regular Dr. I do, and have specialists of all types to look after what doesn't work right on me.
SO THAT took a LOT of time, then of fto fill the script, and to retunr the bad 98% blocked water restrictor and get the 55%. WEll it comes with a GINORMOUS rubber washere that WON'T fit the faucet, of course!!! So It, TOO, has to go back! I am doomed to use LOTS of water in the kitchen.
Mr. Murphy!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!
Back home to finish the laundry I started. So SITLL on m,y feet but for a 45 min nap wiht MOH when MOH came home between clients.
so here I sit instead of lying down, but I have to now finish off the dishes and start dinner...
Surf &Turf tonight...Le Beuf and Mahi Mahi. YUM!
Hi Guys,
Looks like we may get a storm here tonight.
You know what really annoys me????
Having flower beds planted for only two days and squirrels digging them up already. Does anybdy know any tricks to keep them from digging everything up?
Just before noon today I had something happen that I got really excited about. I had a kitchen fire! That's right. I was cooking my lunch and my microwave caught fire. Lunch was burned to a crisp and there was thick smoke pouring out of every opening. I unplugged it then got the extinguisher (I keep two, one in the closet and one under the layout. I got the second one.) and put out what was left of my lunch then sprayed the powder in through the side vents to put out the fire inside. Near as I can tell the transformer/magnetron shorted out. I now have a brand new microwave to take it's place but I have to get the old one out of here first.
Some people scatter moth balls through their flower beds, I use a shotgun-end of problem. (also lunch)
JeremyB Hi Guys, Looks like we may get a storm here tonight. You know what really annoys me???? Having flower beds planted for only two days and squirrels digging them up already. Does anybdy know any tricks to keep them from digging everything up?
Here it is the Hassenpfeffer That do that, and they strip the plants before you can shake a stick at the moon and say "Harry Potter was a wizard if ever a wizard there was".
A good small fence will help, or the animal-away products available at any good garden shop may help. Poisons COULD be eaten by cats or dogs or other unintended animals...so I'd stay away from them.
AS mentioned, some people use moth balls, but those can be hard to find.
Shooting a shotgun, at least around here, within a residential area, is illegal. There is a forrested area behind us that makes for a gray area.
But, out in the country shooting either the rabbits for hasenpfeffer, or sqirrels for squirrel stew, Can provide one with a meal...assuming they are clean animals, and there are no laws against shooting/consuming that type of small game.
Also, Squirrels are one animal that "belongs to the State Of NY", so watch out what you do with them if your state has similar laws. I found that out when a supervisor/boss brought one that got hit and was injured to my house before work {I lived directly accross form work}. I wanted to find a vet who would "fix it" so it could be RETURNED to the wild whole, as did he, but none would touch it, stating that I could not keep it {I didn't want to, DUH!} and that "it belonged to the State of NY" and was "their problem". Made NO SENSE to me to let it die?
herrinchokerSome people scatter moth balls through their flower beds, I use a shotgun-end of problem. (also lunch)
galaxy, I have to deal with the Veterans Administration for my medical (no Obamacare). All the reports on the news are TRUE. We had 10" of snow on the ground here, on the day of my cardio appointment, and I knew it was coming, so I had rescheduled the appointment. I really wanted the appointment as I was totally out of medication, and could not get refills on-line. You guessed it, the rescheduled appointment was two months down the road, and that was after waiting two months previously. When I called to verify the appointment, and ask for refills, the African American on the phone accused me of a no show on my last appointment. All in all, I went five months without heart and diabetes medication. They are trying to sing a different song now. The whole administration is riddled with incompetence.
Good to see you here Steve. Take care of yourself.
Good evening ....
Steve..... Wow. I'm sorry to hear about that. If you don't mind my asking, where are you located? ... Hope you are okay.
Squirrels? ... I remembr growing with dogs, and they were effective at keeping squirrels away.
Spent parts of today trying to catch up with lots of stuff. Seems like I can't get enough done each day.
Gary, I'm about an hour north of St. Louis, longer if the traffic is bad. With that snow coming, I was more worried about getting stuck down there, than getting in to the city. Got all my meds now, and they are treating me with kid gloves after all the media attention. Life is good.
Thanks Jeffrey. Appreciate it.
Been working on some kits. I'm having an issue with a Walthers GSC flatcar. The main floor doesn't want to lay down right. I'm thinking tomorrow I may take an inline sander to the bottom of the main floor and both sides of the weight.
Anyways i have to get to bed. I'll try to pop in tomorrow.
There used to be (when my Dad & Mom were living and had problems with their local squirrels (PETA folks, skip over this post...) what was loosely called "Blue peanuts"... I think they were laced with something very, very unfriendly to a squirrel's health.
Jim in Cape G.
Today's activities have got me worn out. I have a doc appointment (follow-up) to go to in the morning.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Folks and Good Evening Ulrich!
Flo Pleases
Work Front, I was there along with 2 customers and one crazy pregrent lady. If the crazy lady was not with a sane guy I would have called the Polices. At one point he told me "she is late for her meds" so I let it slide.
Steve, sounds like you are in my neck of the woods. I live 15 miles sort of north of St Louis in Maryville ILL. I have had my fair share of problems with the VA Medical System! Went over a year with out a A1C test and boy did it turn out high! As a whole the VA Medical team has done a good job for me! But my PA, well here is its picture!
http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Real%20Trains/PA2_602_sumare_zago_abril1995.jpg.html] Ray, I wish my A1C was still that low! At one time my was down to 5.7 but with no test strips and no A1C test it hit 8.5. In a month I got it down to 8.2 and hope it will be lower yet. I have stopped eating bread and try to avoid strach food as much as I can! Urich Was kann ich sagen: Neben der hervorragenden Arbeit! Nachdem sie es getan haben, wie lange werden sie vor haben Sie eine andere Vision? Wenn Sie wie ich sind, die Quest ist der Teil, der richtig Spaß macht! Sie können die Fotos noch leichter oder ist, dass die richtige Farbe? Soweit meine flunte Deutsch, ich muss leise wie ein Betrunkener Matrose auf einem 48 Stunden! Gute Nacht, Cuda-Ken
Ray, I wish my A1C was still that low! At one time my was down to 5.7 but with no test strips and no A1C test it hit 8.5. In a month I got it down to 8.2 and hope it will be lower yet. I have stopped eating bread and try to avoid strach food as much as I can!
Urich Was kann ich sagen: Neben der hervorragenden Arbeit! Nachdem sie es getan haben, wie lange werden sie vor haben Sie eine andere Vision? Wenn Sie wie ich sind, die Quest ist der Teil, der richtig Spaß macht! Sie können die Fotos noch leichter oder ist, dass die richtige Farbe?
Soweit meine flunte Deutsch, ich muss leise wie ein Betrunkener Matrose auf einem 48 Stunden!
Gute Nacht, Cuda-Ken
Good Night, Jeff!
Morning Everone!
I woke up at 4.20am, quite early, but I got 6 hours of sleep in a row -wow! I haven´t had this for years!
The idiot box stayed silent last night, as we were not interested in watching the umpteenth rerun of some soap story. I don´t have cable TV, which would cost a fortune, so we are limited to 40 channels on digital terrestrial broadcasting. It´s free, so I can´t complain. Instead of waisting my time by watching stupid soaps, I continued w*rk on my layout, installing the planks on the dock. Guess what? I am short of a few pieces! Mr. Murphy seems to have moved into my place. I have to get out the table saw and cut the missing pieces - a 2 minute job, but 20 minutes of cleaning
Jim - good to see you!
Steve - that´s an awful story! I don´t understand why the world´s most powerful nation sports a health system worthy of a poor third world country. OK, Vinnie - I stop it now.
It´s going to be a hot day again. Yesterday´s thunderboomers were moved to today and the weather guesssers tell us we will be in for some fun tonight and tomorrow. Parts of the country are under a tornado warning ...
Janie..... Oh thank you! A cup of decaf... How did you know?
MLK Scholarship Dinner went very, very well! The slide show and the Boys and Girls Club Video was great. Several of the kids who made the video were brought to the dinner by the Boys and Girls Club. They were all Middle Schoolers. They were busy playing with the microphone on the podium after the dinner was over... I went over and acused them of being middle schoolers... Then told them I could tell because I taught Middle Sholl Music here in town for 19 years and in fact I was Pablos teacher (the guy who he;ped them make the movie. They thought that was really cool!
This years group of scholarship winners are the classiest bunch of kids I have seen in a long, long time! We keep hearing about the kids today who are out of control and no good... Well I can tell you there are a lot more kids who are fine human beings out there. Maybe we should notice them more! I also really enjoy these events as I get to see once again some very special former students and find out what they have done so far with their lives.
I need to be at church early tomorrow so I think I will call it a night! Be Blessed!
Evening, Chloe - just a hot fudge sundae and a decaf in a Santa Fe mug, please 'n' thank you!
I heard that Ulrich and the crew in here were considering sending the bloodhounds to find me, so I guessed I'd better poke my nose in for now. Not a lot new just yet - still awaiting the return of the guy at w**k for whom I've been covering (leaving the section where I usually am, short-handed). He's supposedly to be back a week from this Friday (on the 29th of May). Can't be too soon!
Not much progress on the MRR stuff/projects at all. Had some stuff on the 'puter to fiddle with, but have both the laptop & desktop up & running okay again.
We're having some warmer weather here - in the 80's (F) this week, and through the weekend.
Speaking of the weekend, a woman who I've been emailing to/from, and I are to meet on Saturday (30-40 miles up the road, which is close to halfway between where she is and Cape G.). We'll see how we like each other in real life.
Some nice MRR progress from several of you other Diners, though. Ulrich, you are doing well on your layout (but then again, you have excellent design skills, as well as a craftsman's eye, IMHO)!
Well, about time for me to head for home. I will see if I can find a MRR project that I could make some progress on (so I could post a pic or two over the weekend).
May everyone keep yourself healthy (with or without the VA/government's help). Prayers for safe travelling if any of you will be on the road over the weekend (like to visit family or friends), as well as for health/healing, good night's sleep for those who've been missing some of that lately.
Blessings and prayers,
Gute Nacht, Ken!
You are right there, Ken! The dreming, planning and building phase is more than half the fun for me as well. However, this layout is definitevely for keeps. Although progrees is seemingly rapid, it will take a lot of time to reach a status when it is nearly complete. Building the structures and deatiling the layout will keep me busy for years. I can´t keep up the pace I am walking in at the moment - financially and physically. And - I still have an option to grow this layout (don´t tell Petra)!
The pictures don´t show the colors of the dock correctly. Somehow, using a flash distorts them. The timber has a silvery grey color - just lik well-seasoned timber should look like.
Have a good rest!
Fouled Anchor Gary, I'm about an hour north of St. Louis, longer if the traffic is bad. With that snow coming, I was more worried about getting stuck down there, than getting in to the city. Got all my meds now, and they are treating me with kid gloves after all the media attention. Life is good. Steve
Steve .... Are you close to Hannibal, MO? ... My father grew up in St. Louis, and I recall visiting there many times when I was a kid. ... TV had more VA horror stoires this evening.
Jim CG ! ..... Great to see you in the Diner!
Ulrich ..... Perhaps you are sleeping better now that you have a layout to build.
JimRCGMO There used to be (when my Dad & Mom were living and had problems with their local squirrels (PETA folks, skip over this post...) what was loosely called "Blue peanuts"... I think they were laced with something very, very unfriendly to a squirrel's health. Jim in Cape G.
GOOD TO SEE You JIM!
But, they can also be very VERY unfriendly to the health of other animals who get into the stuff too!
Not all animals are the target of his anxiety!
Sir Madog Good Night, Jeff! The idiot box stayed silent last night, as we were not interested in watching the umpteenth rerun of some soap story. I don´t have cable TV, which would cost a fortune, so we are limited to 40 channels on digital terrestrial broadcasting. It´s free, so I can´t complain. Steve - that´s an awful story! I don´t understand why the world´s most powerful nation sports a health system worthy of a poor third world country. OK, Vinnie - I stop it now.
The idiot box stayed silent last night, as we were not interested in watching the umpteenth rerun of some soap story. I don´t have cable TV, which would cost a fortune, so we are limited to 40 channels on digital terrestrial broadcasting. It´s free, so I can´t complain.
Ulrich..at least you GET 40 terrestrial Air channels!
I am limited to just 10% of that...4 channels air broadcast only! I'd/We'd die to have a choice of 40 channels FREE!
There WOULD really be nights there is NOTHING on, then!
It is between seasons here, so even with 240 cable channels, there is nothing on worth watching, anyway.
Ulrich, herzlichen Glückwunsch immer einen guten Schlafa! Ich wusste gar nicht gut schlafen ...die schläft mit mir, Fell überall!
Fouled Anchor galaxy, I have to deal with the Veterans Administration for my medical (no Obamacare). All the reports on the news are TRUE. We had 10" of snow on the ground here, on the day of my cardio appointment, and I knew it was coming, so I had rescheduled the appointment. I really wanted the appointment as I was totally out of medication, and could not get refills on-line. You guessed it, the rescheduled appointment was two months down the road, and that was after waiting two months previously. When I called to verify the appointment, and ask for refills, the African American on the phone accused me of a no show on my last appointment. All in all, I went five months without heart and diabetes medication. They are trying to sing a different song now. The whole administration is riddled with incompetence. Steve
Unless you are agreeing with me{?}, then I didn't say they weren't true. Or not a problem.
I DO think they should treat veterans like any other "good insured" person!
Health care is a racket here, just like any other issue of something that costs money! I have just had to learn {the hard way often} that there ARE ways of getting health care at managed costs to get things done.
I did say I could not understand why the veterans would not go seek health support elsewhere, {even to a walk-in} regardless of cost options, and pointed out the Patient Financial Advocate at any hospital is there to HELP anyone with trouble financing health sutuations.
Gambling with health is not good. Some people are just dying to gamble!
Also, our local hospital with the Patient financial Aid program here allows couples up to, what about $55k in income a yea,r before they pay more than $0 for health care expenses incurred by the HOSPITAL visits! Even the ER{other fees for 'contracted entities' may ensue, though}
In my life I have had: good insurance, bad insurance, Medicaid only, No insurance.
Sometimes you get treated BETTER with NO insurance than you do with Medicaid! They can ASSUME they will "get more money out of you"-even at a huge discount- with self-pay {No insuranc} than to accept the paltry amount Medicaid pays!
Even GOOD insurance doesn't always mean much, anyway.
Now, with Affordable Care Act {wrongly called "obamacare'}, many people with GOOD insurance {Like My OH} have no choice but a HIGH deductible policies {$2600 for everything for my OH, then only 80% coverage}, which is still a stickler for the poorer low income people!
BUT it can be negotiated around. Especially with an emergency-related situation.
If you don't have a Dr. or specialist to refer back to, often the ER will give you one to contact. If the ER referred you, they will most likely take you, though payment will have to be negotiated. If they Are affiliated with the hospital, you can, if you have it, push the Patient Financial plan on them adn they will reduce/eliminate the charges, even when not affiliated directly with the hospital.
And last resort, if you have more than 10%, well here is the IRS statement:
you can deduct only the part of your medical and
dental expenses that exceed 10% of your adjusted gross
income (AGI) (7.5% if either you or your spouse was born
before January 2, 1949).
So, if you have more than 10% {which should be lowered OR allow you to deduct the WHOLE thing}, you can reduce taxes on any income you owe on,
IF you don't have taxable income, seek out the patient financial advocate in EVERY major health care organization.
I am now saddled with a 6 month "not covered for pre-existing conditons" SUPPLEMENTAL plan for the 20% medicare doesn't cover, but I am pushing for sliding fee scales, advocating for Financial assistance, or REDUCED charges where ever it applies! It IS often frustrating, but it gets things DONE.
Frustrating, I know!
Good Morning all. Lurker as I guess we are called checking in.
Fouled Anchor, Steve, I don't know what class Vet You are, so can't readily comment on what You are entitled to. There are many stories of VA problem's all over the country, guess you're stuck with a bad one. I have been going to and have been in and out of the VA Hines, IL. since 1968, years ago there were some problem's, but have been rectified. I personnally don't have any complaints, But I have on occasion, when there witnessed some people that seem to think the world spins around them and expect immediate attention, won't go there. I believe You should have asked to see a on-duty nurse in regards to your Meds, if anything they would have given You a two month supply, until you saw your doctor, if not go to the ER and tell them your problem. They MUST do that at Hines, again I don't know what class you are in. I am a DAV Vietnam Vet, Purple Heart since 1967, and really don't have any complaints. I also was a volunteer at that VA for three yrs, so I have seen and heard some stories, but have learned how to get things done. Also am a Cancer survivor from that same VA.
Good Luck To You!
Frank
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930)
There was an Old Man of Kilkenny
Who never had more than a penny
He spent all that money
On onions and honey
That wayward old man of Kilkenny.
Morning all. I've got a 7 hour work day today. Going to be a long day, but it will be nice to put some real money away again, and great to work again. I've got my eye on buying a consolidation for my shortline, eventually purchashing another diesel (perfer undecorated) to make a wheeling. It's supposed to be in the 70's here today, but at least it isn't going to rain. Oh, I saw part of my first warbonnet yesterday, as well as a Conrail caboose. I work another 7 hour shift tomorrow, and then get most of the weekend off so far-yay me.
Good morning from cloudy New England. We're supposed to get some more rain today. We don't really need it, but I'm trying to get the lawn to recover from the last two or three very dry years, and that means constant watering. I'm finally starting to see some new grass from the seed I put down 2 weeks ago, so having more water applied evenly and freely is always helpful.
Of course, it would be nice if the rain stops for the 3-day weekend. I'd like to get a couple of bicycle rides in. With skiing over for the season, I need more exercise. I've got to install a new set of bathroom sink hardware, too. So, I'll follow my cardinal rule: Don't start a plumbing project unless the hardware store will be open for at least another 4 hours.
Galaxy, I know it's your account and your money, but $15,000 is a lot of cash. I would call the bank the day before and tell them what you plan to do. That way, they will have the cash on hand and expect you. When we go to Europe, we always call them a week or so in advance and arrange to get some Euros or Pounds. That way it's easy for everyone. When we show up they have an envelope all ready for us, all neatly sorted in convenient denominations.
Now we're dealing with the other family crisis, The Wedding. This is the sister of the nephew who just passed away. I'm not going to get into the issue of having her 2-year-old daughter at the wedding - things are different now than they were when we were children. But, she has not invited her own father, my wife's brother. He's actually the stable, hard-working member of the family, but her mother is an alcoholic who has poisoned the waters. (Yes, The Divorce is also in the works.) We look at all this and are very thankful for our own daughter, who is still close to us and enjoys our company as a family.
Afternoon Gang!
Zoe, coffee and a slice of apple pie, topped with vanilla ice cream, please!
I had a couple o senior moments today. The mailman brought a letter from our customs authorities, that there is a parcel waiting which can´t be cleared due to the lack of an accompanying invoice. Invoice? What invoice? I had sent an email to Bachmann USA requesting delivery of some missing extra detail parts and I was expecting them to be shipped free of charge. Well, I had to drive to down ther to settle the matter - a 45 mile round trip for parts worth maybe $ 1.00! At the customs office, there was a surprisingly big parcel waiting for me. It took a while to explain to the customs officer, that this is a free of charge delivery, so no invoice . He did not follow my arguments - ! So I opened the parcel and found a complete body shell and an invoice! The invoice amount, however, was $ 0.00. The customs officer was happy, I was happy - until I was back home. The part that was missing was not included! I need that part to convert my 4-4-0 into a coal burner - it´s the "saddle" for the stack. When my BP was finally down, my brain started to w*rk again. Why the heck should Bachmann include another stack if you can´t put it on the loco. Looking closer at the stack assembly, I found out, that the part I thought to be one is in fact two parts - the missing saddle! After 5 miuntes, my loco is now a coal burner! I now have a second loco shell, which I did not need first place. A big thanks to Bachmann, but a to me!
After lunch, I started w*rk on the dock, lots of fiddly little things had to be processed. About an hour ago, the job was done and the railing which I had built, was installed. I don´t know what made me do this, but I ran my On30 caboose along the track, only to find out it would not clear the railing . I should have known, after having commented on that thread about the French trains being too wide! Fortunately, I was able to partly dismantle the railing and correct it - big sigh of relief!
Here is today´s achievement:
MisterBeasley Galaxy, I know it's your account and your money, but $15,000 is a lot of cash. I would call the bank the day before and tell them what you plan to do. That way, they will have the cash on hand and expect you. When we go to Europe, we always call them a week or so in advance and arrange to get some Euros or Pounds. That way it's easy for everyone. When we show up they have an envelope all ready for us, all neatly sorted in convenient denominations.
oh, MR B: That was a HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION!
I don't HAVE any $15k at all, let alone to withdraw and rub together or pile up and jump nekkid into !
THAT hypothetical Q was a start to the point where banks refuse ,and then the depositor gets panicky, spreads word, and then that starts a run on the bank{s}.
The banks are supposed to, at any given time, technically have enough cash on had for a few large withdrawals. They no longer do, so cash is disappearing from our society.
How far will you get bargaining for food in a disaster from the man who has it, but with shotguns in his hands, if all you have is a piece of plastic representing a 'NUMBER' of "dollars" he can't touch or bite to see if it is real???
ANd they think "Bitcoin" is a waste of time {I don't own any}!!! {Bit coin: definition form Wiki:
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system introduced as open source software in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto.[4] The payments in the system are recorded in a public ledger using its own unit of account,[5] which is also called bitcoin.[note 1] While not considered a true currency, bitcoin is commonly referred to as a digital currency, virtual currency, electronic money, or cryptocurrency. The bitcoin system is not controlled by a single entity, like a central bank, which has led the US Treasury to call bitcoin a decentralized currency.Because bitcoins can be transferred directly from one person to another they are sometimes described as digital cash.[9]
Bitcoins are created as a reward for payment processing work in which users offer their computing power to verify and record payments into the public ledger. Called mining, individuals or companies engage in this activity in exchange for transaction fees and newly created bitcoins.[10] Besides mining, bitcoins can be obtained in exchange for other currencies, products, and services.[11] Users can send and receive bitcoins electronically for an optional transaction fee[12] using wallet software on a personal computer, mobile device, or a web application.
Oh, WOw! tippy top for Mr. B's Explanation!
Well, I starved my self and went to the blood-letting to le tthe vampire do her work.
Now, when I get there, I tell her,a s I do all vampires that it probably WON'T be found in the elbow!!! Best bet is a butterfly in the back of my hand.
Oh, no, natutrally she has been doing this for years...she can get it in the elbow, easiest place to get it, etc etc,...
SO WHAT happens? She gets ONE SQUIRT out of the elbow, not enough to even "fill" the vial!
Then she starts digging around for the vein. At least SHE asked "if that hurt"? No I siasd, but you'll know it when It does!
Then she tries other {L} elbow! SHe gives up nad gets a buterfly needle and gets it near the L elbow.
NOW, I ask you, WHO knows my veins or lack thereof, BETTER than ANYONE ELSE...no natter HOW LONG they have been a "vampire" and "sucking blood"?????
WHY do I have to go through this for EVERY bloody {oh, how appropriate} blood draw and IV insertion?????
GRR, they never listen to the patient!
I came hime, had a nice breakfast and took a nice nap..some dead relatives visited in my dreams.
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Buttermilk Pancakes this morning with real NYS Maple Syrup... Huh? Nope no bacon today, I had a nioce big hunk of prime rib last night. So big I only ate a little over half of it. Have another (Leftover/unsold) Prime Rib Dinner for tonight as well.
I've already been down to church for a couple hours to watch the hanging of the new speaker in the main array. It is doing exactly what was predicted it would do and is not causing any new problems so far. Next step is a new Mixer Board which I am donating to the church. We will be going with a SoundCraft analog board to replace our old Mackie that is over 10 years old and has been fixed after a lightning strike hit the church a couple years ago. It is on it's last legs, so the time is right.
Ulrich, 40 channels? That is about 35 more than I would ever watch if I still had TV. Over here there isn't much worth watching on most of them so paying a lot of $$$ doesn't get you anything but bragging rights. I got rid of cable for my TV after figuring out I hadn't even turned the stupid Idiot Box on for over 6 years.... I'm happier without it!
Our cable TV lineup has channels from 1 to 999. They aren't all used, but most are. Of course, a lot are pay channels that we don't have any use for. There is a whole series of channels which are hi-def and lo-def copies of each other, too. But, I'd imagine that there are 4-500 unique channels that we can watch just by tuning in. So, why is it that it's so hard to find even one show I want to watch?
The only time I really enjoy watching TV is when my favorite train program is on, but that´s down to once a week since the beginning of this year.
Just a few more shots of my layout before I call it a day. I am doggone tired, 4.20 am was a tad early this morning.
My wood burner is now eating coal
...and a last shot of the new dock:
See you all tomorrow!
The dock is looking good.
Good afternoon. It's 83° with 47% humidity. The high will be 88° with some clouds.The appointment with the heart doc went well and I got a clean bill of health, at least for as healthy as a person with my problems can be. I got there at 10:17 and got out at 12:45. From there me, my father and step mother went to KFC for lunch. I limited myself to a small meal as their food tends to blow my blood sugar through the roof.Today is my nieces birthday. We'll be going to a local Mexican restaurant for the birthday dinner this evening. My father and step mother won't be in attendance as he has a 4:30 appointment with the same doctor I went to see this morning.On the computer front, I got the IIc's disk drive working again. The problem turned out to be a broken pin on the connector the ribbon cable connects to. A quick solder job and it was fixed. I left a post on my forum letting the owner know he can pick it up anytime.The trailer still stinks of smoke and charred wires after yesterdays fire. The only harm I got is a minor first degree burn on my right hand suffered when I opened the oven door to put out the fire inside. It was hot enough that the revolving glass tray shattered and the coating on the cooking compartment walls was melting and the walls looked like they were buckling. At least I got five years out of it. It sure did a number on my lunch. The only part that was recognizable was the corn and that's only because some of it popped. The new unit is working great so far though the only thing it's cooked thus far is a bag of popcorn.That's all for now.
Evening all. We have had some good news & some bad news over the last couple of days. On the good side, we got an e-mail from my oldest nephew that he has been promoted to Executive Vice President of the telecommunications company he works for. We are very proud of what he has accomplished with his life, He's also getting married in June, so we will be heading to South Carolina for the wedding. We will be seeing him & the bride to be this Saturday as my niece is having a bridal shower here for them. Lots of great things happening in his life.
On the down side, we just found out my cousin was having triple by-pass surgery this morning. It was apparently a must do now kind of thing, although he hadn't actually had a heart attack yet. We are still waiting to hear how things went.
My wife worked with a lady years ago, and they have kept in touch with each other over the years. Talking on the phone at least once a week. She is a great lady who lives in an apartment building & spent her days running errands like shopping, etc, for her neighbors. Anyway, my wife hasn't been able to reach her for a couple of weeks, so we suspected something had happened to her. She is in her early 80's. After making a ton of phone calls, we finally tracked her down. She was in a nursing home on the other side of town. So I took my wife to see her yesterday. It appears she had a stroke & has some serious after effects. Although she did recognize my wife & I. When we got there, she was going to physical therapy. So we accompanied her & spent about an hour visiting. It's really sad, as she kept saying she is hoping to return home soon, but that doesn't appear likely to happen. I understand the need for privacy, but this episode has me wondering if our society isn't carrying things too far. We just got lucky or we would still be searching for her.
Got the flower bed roto-tilled today after adding some mushroom manure & peat moss. Might take the wife to the nursery tomorrow to get her hanging baskets and a couple of flats of annuals. Probably merigolds. I'm getting a little concerned about the cannas I tried to carry over the winter. Don't see even a hint of growth after planting them 8 or 10 days ago. Not really a surprise I suppose, as last year was the only time in 4 or 5 attempts to carry them over in the attic.
Have a good one & stay safe...
Tom,
sorry to hear of the misfortunes.
I will add them to my healing thoughts, energies and prayers list!
I lighted a candle just for them for tonight.
Along with: Johnboy, Flip {where has he been lately???}, Ulrich, Jeffrey, and others!
Been on the move today and not much of a chance to do much. Doc appointment this morning went well, then lunch at KFC with my father and step mother, a little time at home then off to my nieces birthday dinner at Las Margiritas restaurant this evening. Got home not too long ago and I'm tired.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Eveing Dinners and Good Eveing Ulrich.
Flo, Beer Please.
Work Front, you can tell a hoilday is near! Afternoon I got a little busy, had 8 customers today but only 2 bought anything. Reason I don't like Hoildays? Because they all want to shop all the other sales! If you are the first store, 85% chances they will not buy. But, that was all so what the 2 people that bought from me said as well!
VA Care. I go to the VA Hosptial in St Louis, but I live in IL. Frank, I am a Vietnam era Vet but never saw country. I think my covrage is 90%, only thing not paid for is teeth. On big things, the VA as done great by me. Saved my foot / toe and paid for my hand surgery! But, it is the little stuff they drop the ball on! While I have all wise got my meds on time, they let me go (Junk PA In Belleville IL) a year with out a A1C test! Way past due to have my eyes checked!
Well I am bet or I have a few more things to say.
Huh? What? Ah, Hmmmmmm! I was not snoring! Oh Janie my coffee is cold, I specifically asked for hot decaf..... When? Oh, an hour ago?
Been a long but productive day around here. I did actually fall asleep sitting here staring at the computer screen for a few minutes.... Blackie woke me up wanting some attention (food actually). I got the lawn finished, trimmed around everything needing to be trimmed around, and did some weeding of the gardens. Have much more to do, but tomorrow I may go to the Menonite place and buy some "Moo Poo" for the raised beds. I put the plywood sections back in the car and covered everything with a plastic tarp in case some of the bags decide to leak.... I also got a bunch of computer stuff attended to.
Jeffrey, sounds like you had a busy day too.
I am heading for bed as I am very tired tonight. I think all the pressure of the last week has caught up to me. Hope you all have a great night and prayers to all in need!
Morning Folks!
I woke up at 3am this morning, as a terrible thunderstorm was right above us, followed by torrential ra*n. It is calm now, and it has cooled off considerably. At 6am, I was so tired that I took a nap on the sofa - I just woke up 1/2 hour ago. This is not going to be my day!
Chloe, although it is not Sunday yet, I need a hearty breakfast, so I hope you don´t mind serving my regular Sunday fare to me on a Friday - thank you!
Nobody told me, that the generator exhaust was fitted upside down - well, I corrected this in a moment. I like the railing on the tender the woodburning version sports, but it would not fit with the plastic coal load. A little sanding and clipping off some protruding thingies took care of that. Now it fits perfectly, but the plastic coal looks rather awkward. Bachmann provides a little bag of real coal to cover it, but I have a feeling that the coal lumps are too small for O scale. It´s more of a coal dust than lumps. I think I will give the coal load a coat of dull black to take awaqy the plastic shine before I attempt to glue the coal down. I also have no idea what type of glue to use - white glue gives it a shine I don´t want. Any idea?
morning all
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,For loan oft loses both itself and friend.""This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
As happens with quotations, some of his words have become simplified and sharpened with time, such as from the original "For the apparel oft proclaims the man." to "Clothes make the man."
-Polonius, Shakespeare
Polonius:-a courtier and the father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, known for his moralistic aphorisms. Earliest documented use: 1847.
As I recall, Galaxy, poor old Polonius didn't fare too well in the play. Of course, most of the main characters didn't do any better. I'm more of a Midsummer Night's Dream guy, though.
Listening to the weather, it's going to be "unsettled" over the weekend. Sometimes they use that word, but when they keep changing the forecast it means they are really only giving it a best guess. Last weekend was "mostly gorgeous" with a bit of "partly beautiful" mixed in, although the forecast as late as Friday was raining tabbies and Rotweilers. We could have either. I've got to replace a bathroom faucet in either case.
I had an absolutely delicious seafood chowder at the cafeteria here at work yesterday. It was made to order, with your choice of scallops, clams, shrimp, cod, onions, celery, potatoes and/or bacon in any combination. Chef Maria heated that all in a frying pan and then added the chowder (heavy cream and clam juice, mostly) to complete the dish. Cooking it that way kept all the individual tastes distinct.
I'll hopefully be putting the finishing touches on the Railway Express depot over the weekend, and starting on the scenery around it. There's only one small scene left before all the pink foam on my layout is covered. After that, it's on to Phase 3, a 3-foot bridge across a new aisle over to some benchwork on the other side of the room. Given my planned retirement and our subsequent plans to move, it's not clear how far along I'll get with this, but I will carry on regardless.
"What fools these mortals be."
Good morning. It's 68° with 100% humidity and fog. The high will be 88° with a few clouds.A stainless steel microwave looks nice when it's clean but keeping it clean is a job in itself. Everything shows up on it and you could drive yourself crazy trying to keep it looking nice. Good thing I didn't buy mine because of the way it looks. I bought it because of the low price and the brand name.No plans for today. Currently I'm waiting on the Home Health nurse to call (Monday-Wednesday-Friday) so the wound vac dressing can be changed. Anything else will be taken (or ignored) as it comes.
Good morning .... Oatmeal and OJ, please.
Tom ..... Sad to hear about your wife's friend. I like the photo of the HiRail truck. I recall driving one a short distance on branch line track one time years ago.
Ray ..... Sounds like you are being careful with the moo poo.
Jeff .... Perhaps you can name your stainless micro wave. How about the "Sundown Zephyr"?
Ken ... Hopefully, you are pleasantly surprised with some big dollar sales.
Ulrich..... Nothing like a loud storm to awaken you. Get some more tonight. I have used white glue to hold coal in tenders and it looks good. You may wish to practice on a scrap piece to test it. Sounds like you need bigger limps of coal, however.
Mr. B ... Your Railway Express depot sounds like a good project.
Galaxy .... A lot of wisom in the quotes.
Good morning everyone. If anyone wants a cup of Joe, donut steak and egg or what ever fill up the tab is on me. Vets to the front today though. Thanks guy for your sacrifice and keeping us safe !
Yesterday was a TOUGH day. On my way to w**k had to change direction from my intended destination and divert to another to address a controling, drama king, Professor who thinks WAY to highly of himself and likes to make mole hills out of ant hills. Just because one of my venders got a little paint on his grass . I have two years to put up with this guy. Keep me in prayer that I can respond to this jerk in a proffessional fashion. After dealing with this then I headed to the second and orginial destination. Amazingly while there the house sprung a water leak from, you guessed it, a sanitary line of all things - yuck - the pipe had been in a year ! The plumber primed the pipe and forgot to glue the stupid thing. Amazingly it didnt leak under test when it was first built !!! Then at home my oldest daughter had a melt down over the loss of her mom . She is in the anger stage now, the second stage of grief. She sobbed and sobbed. She said I am angry my left me right when I needed her the most. The thing that broke my heart is when she said " If only I had not gone to sleep that night I could have stayed awake and not let her fallen asleep and she would have lived just a little longer" the girls were hoping that their mom would be alive for the younger daughters birthday. She missed making it by just a little over a week. The funeral was about the same time as her birthday. I had to explain to her that she did all any little girl could and that the cancer had spread to the vital part of teh brain that controls breathing. It is tough for them especially being 5 and 8 at the time they losted their mom. I think this is going to be a long painful journey.
Ulrich - WOW that doc is amazing. Great job. What about if you ground up some balsa wood in a grinder and painted it black ? That might work for the coal ?
Jeff - what is that in your photo from yesterday a caboose work truck thingy ? Is that one of your faous kit bash jobs ?
Garry - I have a suggestion for teh Ole Vampire - bring a stake and hammer next time. I think they will get the picture !
Galaxy - Obama care has cost me a fortune . When that blood sucking thief implemented that system my insurance deductable went to 10k! per year. I can tell you I know a bunch of swindler who are dead beat and could work if they surgically removed their lazy bone . I burns my hide that they recieve better insurance at my expense and know I cannot afford to go because of the high deductible. My deductible has basically caused me and my family to not have insurance. A plague on "affordable health care " !
yougottawanta A plague on "affordable health care " !
A plague on "affordable health care " !
Be carefull what you wish for! It has a way of boomeranging back to you! SO, If you want "a plague" on you, then go for it!
Same with dealing with the guy!
P.S> It was me who mentioned trials/tribulations with the vampire trying to "suck the blood out of me"...!
I took a nice little nap after figuring out the finances for the time being. WIll do the CU on the way to the Dentist for a cleaning to finish up with the finances!
I have had a day yesterday of trying to keep awake, apparently not sleeping well has cought up with me!
I may go for another short nap before the dentist too.
yougottawantaWhat about if you ground up some balsa wood in a grinder and painted it black ? That might work for the coal ?
YGW - I would have to buy a grinder first. Buying a bag of scale coal will prove to be cheaper, I guess.
Did not do much on the layout today. I just finished the railing, now all I have to do to finish it, is to build the stairs and bollards. Ah, well, and to add the missing planks ...
... and here comes my wood burner turned into a coal burnert, this time with the correctly positioned generator exhaust:
yougottawantaJeff - what is that in your photo from yesterday a caboose work truck thingy ? Is that one of your faous kit bash jobs ?
yes, it is one of my kitbash jobs. A MoW train work caboose. It consists of a pair of Fox trucks, a Con-Cor 50' flatcar, a Bachmann widevision caboose body and some scratched stakes and slats.
YGW ....
Regarding the professor, my wife made a clssic comment to one of those self centered people while we were changing planes in a crouded airport. We were waiting in a counter at an over crowded restaurant for sandwiches we ordered for a flight which was about to depart in a few minutes. I big, obese woman oushed against everybody as she forced her way to the cashier as she grumble about people who she thought should stand elsewhere. .... Shelley said to the lady:" Oh. I remebr you. You're the one the wold revolves around." ...
Also, YGW .... Not sure what you mean about the vampire. ... ACA has already caused significant damge to the economy as it helps a small minority of people and hurts everybody else. The middle class is hurt the most. I don't beleive the numbers stated by the administration because they were completely untruthful when they were selling the ACA. However, let's not allow the conversation to go farter because politics should not be discussed here. ... Regarding your daughter dealing with grief, praying for peace for her. Let her know we Diners care.
Back to model railroading. Currently, I have two Zephyrs running on the layout which are now in WPF.
Happy Model Rairloading
LOL ! Jeff you are SO AMAZING ! Where did you come up with this idea ?
Garry - oops that was a Galxay post in reference to getting blood drawn. Those are his vampires , the nurses at the saw bones place that gets blood for test,
Agree about the UNAFFORDABLE care act.
The other day I stopped in again at the location of teh hobby shop where the owner was killed in a car accident . I bought more stuff from teh estate sale. This time I purchased -
IHC - Pacific - Great northern # 3380 still in the box never run
AHM - Diesal switche #5850 still in the box never run
8 pieces of rolling stock
Grease and a package of oil
qaurt bag of unpainted HO figures
and misc small items
Cost $140
Not top of the line stuff but cheap money for some RR fun.
Dark and gloomy here in the Finger Lakes Region today. Showers and Thunderboomers will be arriving this afternoon. Currently 55°F with a high of 61°F this afternoon.
As always I have a long list of items needing to get done today. Have to pick up an Rx at the Pharmacy, Deposit a fairly large amount of $$$ for the Martin Luther King Committee from the dinner, get my allergy shot, go grocery shopping, drive to the Menonite Place for the Moo Poo and do a lot more weeding. The last 2 will depend on the weather more than likely. I need to get the garden ready to plant next week!
Tonight I might actually go down to the train room and see what trouble I can get into down there.
yougottawanta LOL ! Jeff you are SO AMAZING ! Where did you come up with this idea ?
Well Jeff I had no idea . I like your version better. Especially the caboose top over hanging the sides. !
yougottawanta Well Jeff I had no idea . I like your version better. Especially the caboose top over hanging the sides. !
Hello all. I'm back from a rather busy two weeks of visiting, yard work, more visiting and more yard work. Got all the bedding plants planted today which is a task in and of itself. Can't beleive how the price has gone up over last year. Oh well we really enjoy having a park like yard and that comes at a cost.
Spent 4 days in northern alberta with MOH's sister. She married a farmer so she has quite a different perspective on life. Now lives in a small town because with her husband having Alizmiers and in long term care, she couldn't stay out on the farm . Poor lady has had a ton of change in her life in the last year but she's pretty pragmatic about life so she's dealing with it all.
We spent a couple of days visiting MOH's Mom who has bowel cancer and is in a long term care facility as well. Every time we see her, she's faded a little more. The waiting game is really hard on MOH and my SIL.
Sort of gotten used to the new car, although some of the gee whizz do dads still have me puzzled. Have to go to the dealer and get a refresher on some of the stuff. Love the fuel ecomomy though. It's getting twice as good of mileage as our old Envoy. All good.
Got an order in from Woodland Senics the other day. I can buy the usual stuff here because the gammers store carry most of the senic stuff, some being the operative word. The more RR oriented stuff I have to order direct which is an expensive proposition. I usually wait till I have a large order to save some on the shipping. The order that came in the other day ended up costing me $325 with shipping and duty + taxes for not all that much stuff. What are you gonna do though, ya need it so ya buy it.
I got our property tax bill in the mail today. Haven't looked but it will be up about 5% I think. We pay it monthly on an automatic withdrawal system so we don't get wacked with a 2K + bill all at once. Works better for budgeting that way.
Lets see, what else???? Nice day today, 25C calm and high cloud. Think I'll go take by Firebird for a run and maybe take some pictures now that the leaves are comming out finally.
Best regards to all
Heading for the hay, hoping for a much better sleep than in the past days (nights)!
Cool out today but are calling for a really nice weekend as temps will get into the high 20's ( celsius that is ). I kind of had the urge to work on the railroad in the last couple days but havent done anything aside from running a few trains, usually at this time of year I dont really work on the model railroad. I do have a few plans on some projects but I think I will put them off until Fall. My workshop gets a little warm in the summer even though I have central air and it is in the basement there is no air flow.
I usually just stick to playing strat o matic baseball in the summer as I can set up table under the air vent and get the cool air while playing and watching the ball game and then work on the railroad during the cold months which around here is October-April. Plus I like to get out on my bike in the mornings before it gets too hot.
Nothing much going on here today. The Home Health nurse didn't call until 2pm so that was a lot of the day wasted waiting on that call. I didn't want to start in on something only to have to stop a little while later. That really has me irritated.Got another commemorative coin today, the first in quite a while. It's an 1849 Liberty Head Double Eagle replica layered in 24k gold. All it cost me was less than $8 shipping. It looks nice next to my 1854 Liberty Head Double Eagle 24k gold layered proof.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Flo, Beer pleases
What a day, here I thought I would be busy, boy was I wrong! I had one whole customer in 10 hours! Luckly they bought and I made a extra $50.00, better than a stick in the eye!
Poor Sleep Front, mine that is. For the last 4 years I ahve been sleeping on the couch in the family room. Reason, I a lot. First few years, I slept OK. Last 2 years, gosh it has been awful! Sue as turned the extra bedroom into her personal junk room and it is filled to the brem! Bught some cheap mattress pads for the couch and they helped for maybe 2 months, then they where junk! I all so do not have room to sit up a twin bed with out throwing away a couch!
Today while I was bored silly, I had a idea! What about a Split Queen Memory Foam Mattress! A split queen mattress is used when a couple want a queen sizes Power Base (Lift Feet and Head) but each side moves seprately. Half of a split queen is 2.5 feet wide and 80 inches long, that should fit on the couch! Boy, it would be great to have a good night sleep again!
Ulrich, have you ran the layout yet? Just wondering how the engines track. How long did it take to make the peir and what did it cost you? Reason I ask, on E Bay I bet you could get $150.00 to $300.00 for something of that quality.
Boy I am bushed, see you all later.
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My sleep issue really eats me up! I always wake up after 3 to 4 hours and can´t get back to sleep, making me feel drowsy all day long!
Chloe, strong coffee and a cinnamon roll, please.
cudakenUlrich, have you ran the layout yet? Just wondering how the engines track. How long did it take to make the peir and what did it cost you?
Ken - the layout isn´t wired yet, so I still have to find out how the 4-4-0 tracks. The Forney is a nice performer - I have tested it on a test track. The Forney was a gift from Petra´s uncle, who lives in Oregon and the 4-4-0 was on sale at one of the few places where you can buy US prototype model railroading equipment. It was about $ 140 below MSRP, but I could not have afforded it without the translation money I earned. I hope there will be another translation job coming up soon - I need a few cars. There is a source in UK selling On30 car kits at about half the price of Bachmann RTR cars.
No plans for the day - I might try my hand at the stairs for the dock and some detail parts...
mornin'
The bride gave the answer: "I do!
he's lovable, handsome and true!"
Six girls in the pews
all yelled out "I do's"
and the flower girl cried: "I do too!"
A terrible grimace of doom
was there on the face of the groom
"I'm feeling quite miffed -
for my wedding gift
she gave me a mop and a broom!"
Good Morning all. Had visits to oncologist and surgeon. Vitals all good, even gained back some weight. Waiting for blood test results. Found out about a few problems since the op. Will just have to live with them and adjust my actions. When I told the surgeon about my activities, he couldn't believe it. He did the same op on a much younger man, an athlerte, and he is not doing half as well.
Look at the WPF thread and see Curts latest changes. Sure do admire what you artistic modelers can and do .
Had an invite to 60th high school reunion. Not going. No desire to spend a weekend in Miami ,[Cuba north] with a bunch of OLD folks.
Prayers and Blessings to all..
Good morning. It's 67° with 99% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 88° and cloudy.A Home Health nurse will be making a special trip out here this morning. The wound vac dressing that was done yesterday wasn't done well and was leaking inside of six hours. By 11pm it was falling apart like a $2 suitcase even after being reinforced with more adhesive film and when I ran out of that I used masking tape. I finally got the leaks sealed but it's not going to hold and must be replaced. So I already know part of my day is going to wasted waiting on the nurses phone call.No plans today. Maybe I can get something done after the wound vac dressing has been dealt with. Boy that gets me mad. If they're going to send a nurse to do something like that they should make sure she knows how to do it properly.
Morning all. Had a visitor at the club last night, from Suffolk England! Pretty cool to think our club is kind of known internationally. We also did some repair work on the layout yesterday-tons of dirty track,sparking wheels(locomotive needs cleaned), and such-then again, hasn't been run since the first weekend of January 2014. I've got a project decided on-a wheeling and lake Erie SD40-2 that I am going to detail,decal(undecorated model), and install a Decoder in it at some point.
went to Harabor Freight for some things, and left behind some of the flyers/coupons I wnated to use! I have to go back!!
One thing I got was an electric pressure washer. MOH wants it for the trailer, and I think for the new car! I'd rather, I think, have a gas one, but they are so much more expensive!
I cna go back after NOOn and use another freebie coupon or the 20% off one on a saw....then again, the saw is on sale so maybe NOT. They DO have good deals, but they make some of them hard to use.
The saw is a regular electic 71/4" circular saw WITH laser guide...for $39.99. Not to bad. I have given up on the battery operated ones as 1} they never last and bying new battery packs is impossible as they change the model styles 2} I can NEVER find the blades to replace with...seems as popular as they are, you'd think you could find the blades...3} cords are a pain,but I'd rather have one that won't "quit in the middle of acut on a project! 4} The two battery sets I have had I have spent a small fortune on in the set, and extra batteries and have to throw away "good stuff" when the batteries breathe their last!
Looks rain.
Maybe later I struggle to mow the lawn. it is HIGH. MOH won't be home till 2pm, and tierd at that,so maybe I struggele with it.
oh well, I think time for a nap...
Zoe, I'll have pot of dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream doghnuts.... The dunkers, not the glazed this morning.
Yesterday I was afraid I was going into a flare of Gout... Turns out, I was right. The right big toe and joint are sore as all get out at the moment and kept me awake most of the night. Of course tomorrow I have to lead tours of the museum all day.... That will be fun! If somebody else actually shows up to help, I plan to spend more time just sitting. We are running track cars, so attendence should be lighter than normal (I hope).
This afternoon I will at my sister's house in Canandaigua to get some hostas for planting along the fence I put in last year. After that we shall visit the garden center run by one of her former students on our way out to dinner. Not sure what I will have as most all protein is bad for the Gout. Memorial Day will be spent at my son's house with his family. Need to make one of my famous Potato Salads for that get together.
Last night I did get down stairs to the layout for a while. Managed to cut the 4 I beams I need to the RR overpass I am building. If I have all the raw materials in stock this should go together pretty quickly. Then over the summer I hope to have the rest of the reverse loop finished so I can actually start running operations on the SLOW.
Sun is shining here in the Finger Lakes every now and then today. Currently 57°F on it's way up to 72°F later this afternoon. Yesterday was a bummer for the electric here... Only produced 7.35 kWh. That would be an average day back in early January.... Hopefully today will be back up into the 20+ kWh range.
I have to head over to the store for a couple things I forgot yesterday and get some Advil as well....
After a slow start in the morning, I finally pulled myself together and got going. I build and installed the stairs on the passenger dock and also build some bollards to moor the ferry boat, which will eventually come at a later stage (and built on a separate board to be attached to the layout).
Here is how things look as of today:
I am slowly running out of material for further construction, just enough is left for a few smaller things. Next will be the backdrop, as I am tired of staring at the blank and not so nice anymore looking wall.
Ray - ouch! Take care!
Over 4 hours of no show?
I´ll be calling it a day in a few moments - the sleepless nights are taking their toll on me!
CU tomorrow!
I know all too well what sleepless nights are like. Hope you get some good sleep tonight.
After a day in the sun doing yard work it was time for me to come in. I got a little pink but not burned. My neighbour has been out all day and has a horrible sunburn, almost looks like to the point of blisters. He doesnt seem to care though. I know it has been a long hard winter and we are all wanting warm temps but no way am I getting burnt like that. Might go out tomorrow but stay in the shade or do outdoor stuff in the morning. Plus its a bog day of racing on tv with the Monaco GP,Indy 500 and the coke 600
Gary- [with one 'R' and an N modeler], HAPPY BIRTHDAY. May your skills improve and health and happiness be with you always.
Good Evening Dinners and Gute Nacht Herr Ulrich.
Frau Flo, ich brauche ein Bier schlecht, heute war blöd! !!
Work Front, Dave and I have sat a new record, 3 Saturdays in a row with No Sales! Does not look good for the store with Marven closing 2 this year! Plus he owens this one as well in it is in a prime area, bet the ground and building is worth $500,000.00.
Lack Of Health Front. I have to do something about the shape I am in. I use to lift weights 6 days a week doing 3 day splits. Work upper body 3 of the days and lower body 3 days. When I was in my 30's girls would look at my butt and not Laught went I walked by! I use to bench 275 pounds 30 times, preacher curle 125 pounds 30 times and max curle 180 pounds! Had 19 inch biecepts and forearms looked like cord wood!
Todd will understand this. At one point in my life I could pick a bare 440 block and lift it onto a 4 foot tall work table by my self and did not strain to do it. That is 300 pounds of dead weight.
I have been using the hand excies thing I got from the VA for olny 4 days now and forearms all ready look better. I have been thinking about working out some to get some strenght back into the upper body, I am so weak now it is imbassing! Being 6'3" and the sizes I am, you would not think I was so weak.
Last night I dug out a 25 pound dumb bell and dam near busted my gut doing so. Use to feel like nothing, now it feels like the 440 block? Guess I will be digging out some lighter weights to get started lifting again. Well you have to start some where! When I first started to lift, I think my max bench press was 120 and I was not old or fat then. Less than 1% of the worlds population and bench press there body weight.
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Janie, just a cup of decaf please....
Another busy day around here... Went to my sister's house this afternoon, I hooked up the charging cable (EVSE) and stole some electrons from her in return for helping her move some plants outside and start her lawn mower for her. I did get a bunch of Hostas and some other perenials for along the fence. We drove over to the Garden Center. She bought a bunch more potted plants and I got 10 everbearing strawberry plants to put in the rock garden in the front lawn. Got back to her house and I pluged in the PiP again to get a few more miles of EV before we headed out to Dinner.
I won't get a chance to plant anything until Tuesday as tomorrow I will be a Museum Guide at the R&GV RR Museum, and Monday will be spent at my son's house.
Ken, do be careful with the weights. You ain't as young as you were back then.... Working with the wieghts should help bring your Blood Sugar back down and make you feel beter generally! I used to do a bit of lifting in High School, College. and when I first was teaching. Even by the time I ended up here in town, the Middle Schoolers knew I wasn't someone to "mess" with. A couple times a student made a fist and acted like he was going to hit me. My standard reply was to very nicely say, "OK, but make the first one count because you aren't likely to get two..."
I'm going to head out to bed and see if my gouty foot will let me sleep tonight! It is doing better than it was last night but still sore... Living on Advil, I am...
Have a great night. Prayers for all in need!
Good evening. It's nice here with 68° and few clouds. Out here away from town you can see a lot of stars you can't see in town due to the light haze. Someday I may get a small telescope and take a better look.The Home Health nurse showed up just before noon. She did a fair job of replacing the wound vac dressing. However it's not a real good job. I'm having some minor problems with it. Had a couple of blockage warnings already and one low pressure warning. I'll keep it going as long as I can but when it fails it'll come apart like a $2 suitcase. It has to last til Monday morning.Watch some TV today and got a couple of locos off the display rack and repaired some minor damage that was done when the tree fell on my trailer. I fixed two handrails, replaced two horns and one coupler.I also made a photo record of my commemorative coin collection.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Howdy.
Ulrch .... I suppose the Memorial Day weekend in the USA is keepiong people busy and the Diner quiet.
CA Dennis .... Speaking of wolves, there is a very rare pair of red wolves (almost extinct) residing in the Nature Center of Land Between the Lakes near here. There are other pairs located in various facilities in the Southeast. The offspring are realased in an effort to repupulate the forest with red wolves. Unfortunately, they eventually mate with coyotes instead of red wolves, and the red wolves remain an endagered species.
BN24 Garry .... Happy Birthday!
Jeff ..... I like the Native American coin
Howdy everybody, thank you for the birthday wishes!
In MR related news I will hopefully be sending off 4 locomotives to get DCC. While I wait to replace an RS1 frame and TCS CN decoder so that will get DCC.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
- Gary!
Good Morning Folks!
Sunday again! Frau Flo, I´d like to have my usual Sunday breakfast and add Aspirine to it, please. I woke up with a headache
I´ll be taking a break from MRRing today. I don´t have sufficient material to start on the third dock and there are a few thinks I have to think over before starting on it.
Speaking of wolves, did I tell you folks we heard a wolf shortly after Christmas 2012? For a few years now, they keep on coming back from Russia and Poland. The population is growing steadily, but slowly.
"Just when you thought it was safe again to go hiking in the woods - Timber Wolf 2 - the new movie"!
Burlington Northern #24 Howdy everybody, thank you for the birthday wishes!
Hi Gary,
{I must have missed it even though I read everything, so if it is late, so forgive me!}
morning..
Paddy visited the doctor and received disturbing news.
“I’m sorry lad,” the doctor said. “I can’t be certain about the problem. It must be the wee bit'o the drink.”
“That’s ok Doc,” said Paddy. “I’ll come back when you’ve sobered up a wee bit.”
The phone rings and Father O’Reilly answers. An official voice on the other end of the line says:
“Is this Father O’Reilly?”
“It Is.”
“This is the Revenue Service. Will you please help us?”
“I'll try.”
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Good morning. It's 69° with 99% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 90° and cloudy.Morning: Afternoon: Didn't get much sleep last night. The wound vac dressing failed just as I predicted. There were a high number of blockage alerts, low pressure warnings and insufficient seal warnings. I stopped counting at forty-one. Finally at 6:38 I said the heck with it and peeled it off and replaced it with a standard dressing. The bad thing about this is the nurse that put it on has twenty years experience putting on wound vac dressings. I think she needs to take a refresher course.No plans for today. I'll probably play a game or two of Starfleet1 and watch some movies. I'll likely squeeze a nap in somewhere. Tired as I am I don't want to do anything that requires me to be alert.
Janie, coffee and cake, please! Chocolate cake with walnuts - fine with me, thank you!
Sort of a strange day today. It´s election day, and we are supposed to cast our vote for the European Parliament. Petra and I decided not to vote, as we don´t see any party or person actually representing our interests. We don´t believe in the EU, nor a single European currency, as it has brought economic downfall, impoverishment to millions and misery to Europe. Any past attempt to unify Europe has failed and ended in bloodshed, and we don´t want that to happen again. Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm II. and Hitler failed - Merkel will also fail. We want to be friends and good neighbors, not brothers.
I could go on, there are many more issues, but better to go back to model railroading. Just a lst word on it - I am so glad I am in a position to create my own little world. It keeps me from getting anxious over the way the world is heading.
I cleaned up the layout a little, but that´s all I will do today and, in fac, in the next days. My friend and I will attack the wiring next week, so I can run my locos on the layout!
The next big thing will be either the backdrop or ballasting. Does anyone have a clue how to calculate how much ballast I will need? I have always bought way too much in the past and I don´t want to waste money this time. The ballast I wnt to order is sold by weight. 2.2 lbs cost about $ 15. Would that be enough?
well, having the roof re-coated today.
The kid next door {well, now I am sounding like my grandmother as he is not really a kid..he is 35y/o!} is doing it. He does his frequently enough, and discovered while being up on ours that his is in bad need of repair...again, and ours, by comparison is doing rather well, but the coating is not supposed ot last more than 4-5 years they say-that was from the "professional" who did ours 5 years ago.
I told the kid next door {there I go again} that I'd rather throw the money his/their way than some stranger agian..he said it didn't hurt his feelings any!
Expensive stuff...though...at $66+ per tub! thy used 2 last time, the kid thinks he may need 3 because we are a bigger traielr by 1 BR than his? I can take it back, or maybe I'll give him whatever is left over so he can patch his bare spots! HE's got young children and they are having a harf time of it..and work is cutting hours on him, as is may places with Affrodable CAre Act.. no vinnie....no soapbox here.
well, We are waiting for the pressure washing to dry off now.
will check in later
Urich; I am not sure things are much better over here...
BUT, I have to tell you, MOH and I have a rule: "IFF'EN Yous DON'T VOTE, Yous can't complain about Nuttin' poly-tick-cal til yous next gets out and votes again!"
SO, you have no room to complain now or until the next time you vote!
My 4-4-0 now sports a cowcatcher!
Galaxy - wouldn´t I be accepting a system by voting for it? None of the parties running for European Parliament actually wants to introduce longtime necessary changes to this highly undemocratic and bureaucratic institution, because they earn good money for doing nothing there. I am not going to sanction this.
Ulrich: I won't debate Politics here as it is VERBOTEN!
But, I DID send you A PM!
Well, I can tell by the lack of noise on the roof he must be done...!
I will go seee!
galaxyUlrich: I won't debate Politics here as it is VERBOTEN!
I was just about to say the same!
TMarshWell it’s official I suppose. Brenda has accepted that she is type 2 Diabetic. Or whichever one it is that the pancreas works, just not right. Anyway, she’l be taking some pill it sounds. Me? Well, she decided I needed my blood sugar tested. 99. She wasn’t all that happy about it.
Here's hoping everyone is enjoying their weekend. We didn't get go railfanning yesterday, as the wife had a bridal shower to attend at 11:00 am, and another at 6:00 pm. So that wiped out doing anything else for the most part. The shower in the evening was a lot of fun, as it was for the girl my nephew is to wed next month. They live in South Carolina, so it was great to see them & my 2 great nieces by a previous marriage.
But we did get out for a couple of hours today. Caught 10 trains altogether. 3 were unit tank car trains of denatured alcohol. I don't recall seeing that many in 1 day before. Some nice foriegn power showed. A Kansas City Southern, a BNSF Warbonnet, & 2 Union Pacifics.
Tomorrow I'll put the flag up before we go for breakfast. Then grocery shopping and some errands. The wife want's to go to the Mall to find some new outfits for the weddings. I'm debating with myself if I should stop at the Apple store in the Mall and finally break down & buy an IPhone. I'm having as much trouble making up my mind about the phone as I did with the new camera. Speaking of the new camera, I seem to be having a problem with hitting the shutter a little sooner than I want. Take the KCS above as an example. A fraction longer & I would have had the entire locomotive. I told the wife I need a lot more practice so we should go out a couple of more days this week. That kind of earned a sideways glance and a little shake of the head. So time will tell on that proposal.
While watching a program about Memorial Day this afternoon, I got to thinking about those who served in my family. World War II saw my Dad, & 3 Uncles. Another Uncle was career Army & served in WWII, Korea & Viet Nam. In fact he was wounded in all 3. A Cousin served in the 50s, & 2 other Cousins & myself served in Viet Nam. But our family is really fortunate in that we never lost anyone. Especially when you think of so many families who lost more than 1. My prayer is that those who never returned to the world are resting in peace. Have a nice weekend.
the roof is re-overcoated. The neighbor kid did a good job. Now he has to re-do his!
Next will come the heat tape, which will be later in the summer once they are available and closer to weather where we can actually "test" it out.
At $25 a 2' panel, the porch is going to need the new ones. The front facing the street {short side} alone needs a buck and a quarter in pannels alone. SO will the back side. SO that is $250 there, and the long side wall will need about 12-14 I think. so another $300 there and then there are supports and screws etc., so figure about $650 plus time to actually DO it. {groan}
That and a new water heater, too! another $800.
And skirting will just have to wait. It is really bad behind the porch which no one sees. It has been screwed to the side of the trailer to keep it somewhat "organized" and "up".
TODD {of TODDLAND OF WHICH YOU ARE KING}:The faucet has 2 basic stops: one is trickle, and the other is ON-FULL-blast. The trickle is needed for the cold when we have to "drip the pipes" as I call it, to keep them from freezing. A constant battle in winters like this last one. So,while common sense would say "adjust the darn thing", it really isn't possible. I know, replace the faucet. I will when I have a plumber handy to plumb, as plumbing, gas, are NOT exactly my "forte". I am not so handy anymore like you!
well, another day has gone by.
An exhausting one for me, even though I did not do the "hard work"! My back had "had it" by noon, by 2 pm I seriously thought about taking my night pill early!! BUt I resisted.
MOH had a looooong discussion wiht the FIL who is now in a panic about "end of life affairs". Hwe really wants to buy a downsized single level house nad wants {guess who??} to move in with him! Really! NOT happening MOH says, and I agree. I's rather go visit/feed him 3 times a day and toilet him then than to be stuck at beck and call 24/7. he is also concerned about transferrance of assets to MOH/us. We have for years BEGGED him to set up a trust initially for MIL should he go first, and then for MOH/us, like my father did for me/us, but FIL thinks a Will is "enough"...he forgets about probate!MOH spent several hours with him, untill I called at dinner time and asked when I should be expecting to have dinner ready? That gave MOH a "bow out excuse" then to leave after, what 5 hours with FIL?
We will set up a trust {when we can} for us two, and with an "incapacity clause" for us.
Have a good night, y'all!
Well if watching movies and playing computer games is keeping busy then I've been busy. I made copies of a few hard to find program disks for the //e. Other than that there was nothing going on today. Kept dinner simple. Beef Rice-A-Roni.I didn't get much sleep last night so I'm calling it a night a bit early. See y'all tomorrow.
morning...
Never cut what you can untie. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Hope you all have a pleasent Memorial Day, I for one am at w..k. I can be in the shop and still remember those whose sacrifice made it possible for us to be here. Like TC we didn't directly lose any family members in war though one of my cousins died of blood disease he contracted in Laos. All in all we were lucky as campaigns included Nam, Korea, Guadalcanal, and Europe with Patton (uncles and cousins - all I had was a few cruises in the Gulf of Tonkin).
Still buried in catch up jobs with Lime Rock last Friday and Saturday and again this weekend then straight to Indy with 15 cars for the big Vintage meeting and so on for the next month. For now, I really must be going cause I'm late I'm late I'm late. J.R.
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Morning Folks
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Boy yesterday day was a waste at work, 1 Customer all Day!
Ray, don't worry about me hurting my self with the weights. (Famous Last Words) I am not going to get as strong as I was when I was in my 30's. My only real goal is to be able to lift 60 pounds with out turn bet red. Far as curles, I am going to start with 25 pounds (using both arms) for 10 reps and 3 sets. Then I will start adding some reps every few weeks. Just want to get toned up some what.
Todd, sorry to hear Brenda is Type 2. Do you think she is going to change her habits? It is hard to do.
Well, got to get ready for work. This will be my 6th day in a row. Guess I am working by my self today, if it is like the last 3 days won't be a problem.
Todd .... You said: "Brenda is a type 2 diabetic." Sorry to hear about that. Prayers for her.
Tom ... I like the photo of the KCS engine.
J R ... Thanks for taking time to visit the DIner.
Inch .... Good to see you. Yes, Memorial Day really does have an improtant meeting. I have been to the VIet Nam Memorial in Washington DC, and I can tell you it is emotional to find a friend's name on the wall..... Also, Inch, tell Jerry I miss seeing his posts here. I hope he is okay.
Speaking of stuff like that, I just learned one of my high school class mates passed away. We're not getting younger.
Have a good Memorial Day
Good morning. It's 73° with 93% humidity. The high will be 88° with some clouds.Just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call. Other than that I have no plans for today. I got some good sleep last night so I'm feeling better today.
I haven´t been doing much today. I am (again) not feeling really well, it may be just the oidd weather we are having right now. Or it is the sleep deficit I keep on accumulating ... .
Laid the track on the right part of the layout. I did not do it earlier, as I had to figure out how to build the bridge over the troubled water there. It was a little bit tricky, as I had to attach another length of flex track in a curve, but soldering the joints prior to bending the track helped to avoid kinks. You know how much I love soldering
In the afternoon, I cut the timber for the bridge and weathered it. I´ll be assembling the bridge tomorrow. It´s going to be a trestle-type bridge.
Wiring will be done some time this week - I am getting itchy to see my locos run over the layout.
Garry - sorry to hear about your classmates passing. Out of a class of 11, only three of us are left.
TMarshJeff- They aren’t talking insulin at least yet. Just a pill. The son is on insulin but they think Brenda’s can be ok’d with a pill. She has brought it down by 100 points just stopping Lipitor and going back to Crestor (not a plug or a putdown for either one, just what worked and it’s apparent effect on her. As you well know, each med affects each person different). She is in the mid to lower 200’s and once in a while gets a 300. Before the switch, she was pretty much in the 300-350’s. Before her heart attack and the switch to Lipitor, she had no blood sugar issues at all.
Mornin' folks,
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk Pancakes witb real NYS maple asyrup this morning... What, No, no bacon or other meat.... My gout is really bad this morning! I do want a pot of dark roast coffee to wash things done with... Thank you Ma'am!
I wish all of you a reflective day of Rememberance! I have again avoided going to any parades this year. I decided, way back in High School, I didn't find the parades doing much to remember those who served and lost their lives due to human greed and hatred (and protecting our lives), but rather a big platform for the Politicians..... My distaste for big "Celebrations" on this day doesn't go well around here since Waterloo, NY is recognized as the "official" birthplace of Memorial Day. http://www.waterloony.com/memday.html
After one day where my big toe felt pretty good, the Gout is back in full force! I can barely walk today. I shall spend the late afternoon/evening at my son's house sitting I think. Have a bunch of plants I need to get in the ground... I guess they will have to wait until tomorrow and hope I can hobble around to get the ground rototilled and items planted.
Garry, I is always difficult to hear of a classmate passing. I have lost several who were good friends in High School...
Todd & Ken, there is a good chance that they will never have to take insulin. They say that over 80% of people with type 2 diabetes can manage it for life with pills now. A lot of new stuff has come out now. Much of it is very, very expensive though, and will be until the cost of research is paid off and the ..... (I won't go there..). I take Janumet twice a day, and so far it is doing well for me. My Mother had insulin shots twice a day, and used to start yelping when the nurse wiped her arm with the alcohal swab. "Ah, Mom, she hasn't given you the shot yet...", "She hasn't? Are you sure? OOOOOOwwwwwwww!!!"
"Where have all the Flowers Gone.... Long Time Passing." That has been running through my head all morning. I dunno? When will we ever learn.... All humankiind that is!
Have a great one and remember what today represents!
TMarsh Galaxy- You need aNOTHER water heater? Didn’t you just get one a year or two ago? Maybe I’m corn-fusing that with the furnace and you just mentioned the future need for a water heater. As for the faucet, I was asking myself why you don’t just not turn the faucet on so much…., but you answered THAT question as if you read my mind. Ain’t it the….poopy, that everything seems to wear out at the same time? Almost makes you think renting is the way to go. Let the landlord fix the stuff. (as long as you have a good one that is.) Garry- Sorry to hear of your classmate’s passing.
Todd Of Toddland {of which you ARE King}: Let the LandLord fix it?....Land lord??? What landlord? I/We ARE the "landlord" of this here castle! WE DO rent the lot...but they=that landlord is ONLY responsible for the ground we sit atop-what is in/under it and: taxes on siad ground, snow removal on the common roads, the water, the sewer and the garbage collections! THAT is IT! WE are the responsible party for the dwelling on top of the ground we lease! Iff'en we don't pay up, they have the right to Pull the trailer off'en their land at our expense!!!! WE even get a surcharge for "the lights on the common roads, and for "excess water usage" park-wide!!
And YES, I have been mentioning the H2O heater for about 2 years now, it has held out that long at least! Then there is the porch repairs, the skirting, the...the...the...etc. etc, etc...something always needs money thrown at it!!!
GARRY: I too, am sorry to hear of the passing of classmates. I believe I am younger than you{?} and have not only had classmates of mine pass away, but the class under me, and a very good close friend from that class too, of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 40. I did lihgt an extra candle for your classmate!
Well, other news: Nice warm sunny day here, no mail and nohting to do. Good day to relax my back, though there are chores I could be doing. After yesterday, trying to keep up with the "kid" next door, I think rest is a good idea!
MOH has the day off,,,,near as we can figure!!! Got a jumbled mixed message from the supervisor...and really? the Q is DOES MOH HAVE THE DAY OFF with PAY? YES or NO answer. WE GET a message:: "well, you get 6 hours of holiday if you work a 30 hour week{Yes}, and iff'en you work for 1 hour on Monday, you will get 5 hours holiday pay.. iff'en you work 2 hours then you get 4 hours holiday pay, {and etc}...." REALLY? Is it PAID HOLIDAY OR NOT?
The previous "holiday's" have been "floating holidays", except GOOD FRiday, which MOH worked on and got no special treatment?? SO, MOH put in for today off as a holiday..I will certainly see in the next paycheck!!!
MOH is mowing the lawn now. We assume the day is off with pay. SO, indirectly, MOH is geting paid to mow the lawn!
So, I will chat with you all later!
Have a good holiday! for those celebrating!
galaxy I/We ARE the "landlord" of this here castle! WE DO rent the lot...but they=that landlord is ONLY responsible for the ground we sit atop-what is in/under it and: taxes on siad ground, snow removal on the common roads, the water, the sewer and the garbage collections!
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy I/We ARE the "landlord" of this here castle! WE DO rent the lot...but they=that landlord is ONLY responsible for the ground we sit atop-what is in/under it and: taxes on siad ground, snow removal on the common roads, the water, the sewer and the garbage collections! Same here. I own the trailer and lease the land. I can't complain though. The lease is only $1 a year.
Same here. I own the trailer and lease the land. I can't complain though. The lease is only $1 a year.
I wish. Ours is a nice "convenient" $350/m {up from $325/m} or a cool $4,200 a year!
That amount is about what the tax bill on many homes around here is.There are cheaper taxed homes ,but you know what they say...
Evening all- ham hock I can use as a punching bag. Utterly fustrated after today. Lawnmower wouldn't start, even with new oil and gasoline, and just general stuff. I think I may go work on scenery at the train club I belong to for a little while tonight to let off some steam.
I'm hoping everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend. We threw some hamburgers on the grill for the first time this year. Also threw on a couple of pieces of kielbasa. Add some potato salad and iced tea and you got a nice dinner.
I did make up my mind and stopped at the Apple Store today. Got an IPhone 5S. They helped me set it up, and gave me a very quick review of some features. But it wasn't enough. So I enrolled in a little class they will host on Wednesday evening for people like me. I'm headed for the bookstore in the morning to see if they have one of those books for Idiots. I need it. Wow, this is very confusing. I had to laugh though. They couldn't find a cable to transfer my phone numbers from my old flip phone because it was so old. They did suggest I try the AT&T store, but I don't have that many numbers on there that would preclude just entering them manually. I never dreamed it was going to be this complicated.
The wife couldn't find any outfits for the weddings today, so guess what I will probably be doing for the rest of the week. Oh well, I really don't mind.
Ray- Hope your gout clears up very soon. My brother-in-law has episodes with it and really suffers.
Garry - Glad you are enjoying the locomotive photos. I'm sure enjoying spotting them. Now that I think about it, as well as needing a class for the phone, I also need to find one for the new camera. See what happens when you get old and don't have any kids around to teach you about stuff like this. I wonder where it all passed me by.
I just had to post this low-quality photo of the very small scene I spent most of the weekend on.
One of those weekends for me, too. I'm down to my cell phone camera, because my venerable Sony had died, to the point where my computer pops up the Blue Screen of Death as soon as I connect the camera. My new car, which I picked up last September, now has a non-functioning driver's side window. I spent 6 hours on Saturday replacing the bathroom faucets. (I've never had to remove the counter top and take a hacksaw to the faucets to get them out before.)
It's dinner time. Time to make tacos. Off to see the Wizard....
I learned one of the first Decoration Day observances was held in Columbus Mississippi, April 25th. of 1866. Graves of the Confederates killed at Shiloh had flowers placed on them, and when the women noticed the Union graves had none,placed flowers on them as well.
The victor controlls history, he who controlls history, controlls the past.
herrinchoker
...and when the women noticed the Union graves had none,placed flowers on them as well.
But in the end, the goodness of the human spirit triumphs.
MisterBeasley ...and when the women noticed the Union graves had none,placed flowers on them as well. But in the end, the goodness of the human spirit triumphs.
Thankfully, it often does!
Evening Dinners and Good Evening Herr Ulrich.
Flo, I will take a and a 20 pound Dum Bell Pleases.
Work Front, don't want to go there! Covers that subject!
Good luck with the toning up. As we get older everything gets harder except our muscles.
Todd, never heard that one before. Think I will use it. I hope to have the engery to dig out the weights and not have a stroke while doing it!
This sucks, how do you change the Font sizes? Now I have a stupid line under everything I type!
What ever happen to customer services?
Got a E Mail from my car insurances the other day. My policy was just renewed and now They Want Me to pirint out the Insuraces card? They had been mailing them for 10 years now. OK, Not that big of deal, or is it?
Stupid line gone, thank goodness. Not If I can get the stock font? Anyway I opened the E Mail, but there is no ID Cards, but I have to log into there site? Never been on there site, but I did apply on line. So I should remember the pass word from 10 years ago. Going to call them Tuesday and rasie a little heck on to what I am sure will be deaf and none caring ears!
Gary, before I forget again,
See you all Tuesday!
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tcwright973I also need to find one for the new camera.
Tom, I have the same camera as you bought and have had it since last summer. I know what you mean about the learning curve. It was and still is pretty steep. The problem I'm having is that I learn how to do something and then when I go to use the knowledge, it's gone. Memory isn't what it used to be and it drives me around the bend.
Anyway just go to Youtube and do a search for Nikon 5300 DSLR and you'll find tons of "How to's" from the basics to the more complecated.
Those video's have been a lifesaver for me.
Im hoping all our neighbours to the south have been enjoying the memorial day weekend. Its it warm here today, cant believe I had to put the central air on. The temps were 32 c and the house was getting quite warm. I did alot of yard work this morning before it got too warm out. Its so nice to have the heat back, only reason I put the A/C on was to make it comfy to sleep.
Good evening. It's a pleasant 78° outside but it's clouding up. We have a small chance of rain tonight and it's looking like we may get soaked tomorrow.The Home Health nurse didn't show up til almost noon. She was one of the better ones and did a very good on the wound vac dressing. I only had to seal off one leak and that one wasn't her fault. It was mine.Been watching some old James Bond movies today. Never say never again, Moonraker, Live and let die, From Russia with love. I like the old ones better than the newer ones. Gonna watch some original Star Trek tonight.My friend came by and picked up the Apple IIc. I tested the unit for him so he could see it's working like it's supposed to then copied some diagnostic software and a DOS pack to run on it. I told him any time he wants to get rid of it he knows where I am. That's not likely to happen. It has a lot of sentimental value to him.
Janie, just a decaf please...
Spent much of the afternoon and evening at my son's house. We had a picnic supper. Nice to sit outside and enjoy the mild temperature and some sun. Got home to find the lady next door had planted some hostas and other plants on their side of the fence, but had also planted some small plant right at the end of the fence where I have a large flowering plant with bell like flowers ready to be planted..... I'll have a chat with her tomorrow night and we will see what ends up being planted there. Technically the fence is over a foot onto my property, but I like to keep the neighbors happy.
Today and tonight, my foot is throbbing!!! Toe is swollen and very sore. I am forcing water which is one of the few things to stop and help Gout they say. I have a lot of outside stuff to do and I really have to be careful with the foot until the swelling goes down. Not much fun to be working in the garden with it.
Time to call it a night I think. Prayers to all of you for a safe and healing night!
A genious who once did aspire To invent an aereal flyer When asked does it go, He replied "I ddon't know" "I'm waiting for some dumb fool to try her".
To invent an aereal flyer
When asked does it go,
He replied "I ddon't know"
"I'm waiting for some dumb fool to try her".
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. -Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
Good morning! It looks like another one of those "unsettled" days. But, it's a work day and a hockey night, so I won't be outside much. It's been almost 3 weeks since I put down grass seed, and I'm starting to see positive results. I know the rain and cool temperatures have been good for it.
I did get the bathroom faucets replaced. That was quite the chore. They were really corroded, and there was no way they were coming off the way they went on. Fortunately, my hacksaw made short work of them. I had the new ones all installed and they worked fine, but when I replaced the aerator, the final step, all of a sudden they leaked all over the place. I guess it was easy to get the aerator on wrong, and I suspect the gasket got twisted and blocked the opening. Once I got it right, it was fine.
I got in a bicycle ride Sunday. I'm trying to do more of that. My long, slow path to losing weight stalls out every summer, and I suspect that it's the lack of exercise. Hopefully, we won't get another brutally hot summer that keeps me inside. I don't deal well with heat.
MisterBeasley I did get the bathroom faucets replaced. That was quite the chore. They were really corroded, and there was no way they were coming off the way they went on. Fortunately, my hacksaw made short work of them. I had the new ones all installed and they worked fine, but when I replaced the aerator, the final step, all of a sudden they leaked all over the place. I guess it was easy to get the aerator on wrong, and I suspect the gasket got twisted and blocked the opening. Once I got it right, it was fine. ... Hopefully, we won't get another brutally hot summer that keeps me inside. I don't deal well with heat.
... Hopefully, we won't get another brutally hot summer that keeps me inside. I don't deal well with heat.
Hence, the reason I have NOT replaced the kitchen pesky faucet! And it is all metal, has to be to run the dishwasher off it.
... I don't deal well with heat either, it affectrs my asthma, and so A/C is a NEED for me rather than a want.
Of course, COLD is just as bad, especially cold damp wet-air days!
Well, I don't know what trouble I will get into today?
It is garbage day so I SHOULD get out to the shed to clean it out some most of my old stuff can go CURBSIDE! I don't even know what is out there, really! Maybe later after a nap..i have now been up and going at shredding/clenaing up paper documentations not needed any more for teh recycle. I have been up since 3:30, so now is 5 hours after, so a nap is in order! especially since I haven't been sleeping well!
Morning all, nothing for me I amnot hungry. Today consists of making my parts list for my Wheeling project, waiting for my model railroader mag to come in. and waiting on a call saying that the Erie heritage unit is heading my way. Hopefully it comes before it is supposed to rain. If it rains today, I may get around to doing puffball trees for the club layout instead. I hope everyone is well here.
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Oatmeal Crunch Cereal and alots od Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee please.
Sun is trying to shine outside at the moment. Currently 79°F on its way up to the low m80's later this afternoon. There may be a few thunderboomers this afternoon and this evening.
My big toe is feeling better this morning. Still swollen but not aching like it did yesterday. I hope to be able to get some of the plants I bought and the ones my sister gave me planted today... Time will tell.
Good morning. It's 73° with 100% humidity and rain. The high will be 78° and there's a major chance of rain and thunderstorms, happening now in fact.Nothing much happening here except trying to stay dry. Weather outside is getting considerably ugly and is bound to get worse. It looks like it's going to continue for a couple of days.I wouldn't be at all surprised if the power goes out before it's said and done. Until then I'll pass the time watching some movies. Yesterday I dropped Cinemax and picked up Blockbuster@home. It's cheaper ($10 vs $14) and has more movie channels than Cinemax. So that gives me HBO, EPIX and Blockbuster@home. If I can't find something to watch in all of that something's seriously wrong or I'm being way too picky. If the satellite dish gets blacked out (likely to happen) I have a bunch of movies and such stored on the DVR. And I can keep myself busy servicing locos or working on some freight cars. In the event of a power failure I'll have some light from the emergency lights and the two LED headlights I have and I can do a bit of reading to keep my mind occupied.
Good Afternoon Dinners
Flo, may I have a BLT and a Diet Dew Pleases.
Well I am off today and the wife has been a Bottom Less To Do Pit today! So far I have gone on a thrash run, gone to Post Offices, got gas, and went to St Louis. Next I have to take Sue and Sparkie to the Libary, then the Park so Sparkie can have something fun to do? I wounder if Sparkie really cares if he goes to the park? I think he be just as happy to walk around the block my self. Next, take Sparkie to the Vet for his shoots. This week check has just about had it.
Ulrich, you rail spikes are on the way! I have no idea when you will get them, I sent them the cheapest way I could. Sure get some funny looks when they read what is in the package.
Well, Sue just told me Sparkie is ready to go By By.
Well, I may have to put off the wheeling project until I get this tv bill sorted out...Comcast wants 200 dollars a month for their internet/phone/tv...when last month it was 176 total bill. They didn't even mention any rate hike or anything... It's starting to honestly look like I am going to be ditching comcast asap for something else. Then again, perhaps they had a mistake on my bill. Regardless, IF it stays at 200 dollars a month...hello somethign else.
Jimmy: If you read back a bit to the beginning of the month, I just fought with Time Warner Cable over TV/net/phone bill and the end of a 2 year contract we had. Now, mind you, this applies as if it is approved, Comcast and TWC will "merge". Yeah right. And our servcie will cost more and we will get less.
We now have a new "deal" for the next year for the same pacakage we had "at just a slight increase" of a "mere $18/month". I would NOT be surprised that your bill went up by the $25. WHat I don't get is we are NOW paying half what you have to pay, and unless you have pay channels, use ON DEMAND services {did You??? OR someone in your home??} OR WIFI or lots of units on your cabel connection, why are you paying so much??? Or are you "City-fied"?? whereby your rates are "city rates"?
Anyway.
I was going out to do some shed stuff, but then, just then, downpour happened! SO I went off to paln #2 and did the bedding. I didn't do it SUnday or monday as MOH was home we just "hung out together", something we rarely get to domuch, when either one of us is not running somewhere, or MOH isn't worn out tired nad sleeping!
Warning: FIL coming up!:
Well, The FIL is being a ROYAL pain. Again. Can't say the real thing as I'd get banned! See, 1st of all, he wants a call EVERY morning to "be sure he is alright". If he goes out, he leaves answering machine on. If he answers he's obviously OK. If the phone is busy It COULD be he has it off the hook, which the last time I drove over there after 2.5 hours of calling a busy phone, and found him OK with the phone off the hook, MOH read him the riot act and said we'd not come anymore if the phone was busy as w'ed assume he was on the phone. Even all day and all night long.
Well, now he DOES get slightly upset when it is ME calling all the time, but fails to understand that his desire for a phone call "between 8:30 AM and 10:00 AM" is when MOH is off to work or AT work already! SO I have to call then. I have told MOH "he wants to hear from his darling, not me"! So this morning FIL got snippy when I called , so MOH went over to see him and "clear the air". Well, MOH called and said I am not to call as FIL wants his little darling to call, and now "wants a call several times a Day!" NOT!
FIL is also on this kick about going to sell his big old 5 level home and get a smaller home with the idea WE WILL MOVE IN WITH HIM!!! OH, NO WE WON'T!!! MOH says SO! I REPEAT that sentiment! See, he says he "saw a show about elderly "alone people" and now I am scared" at 86 that is. Now, SINCE HE BOUGHT MOH the car, He NOW has the idea MOH {and me as a tag-a-long,but not really desired} that MOH should DO MORE for him and wait on him hand and foot!!!!
{MY father is SENSIBLE, and has already said he won't live with us and he didn't think living together he'd tolerate us! SMART MAN! I have told My fhater, I will do my best to keep him at home as long as possible, even if it menas coming over there several times a day to do things for him. He seems agreeable to that, but will only be 80 this year, FIL is 86 already and scared now??!!.}
Now, When MOH comes home form work, I will suggest we go out and get a new vehicle of OUR OWN and take the new car to FIL and sign title over to him! that gets MOH off the hook. Now to scrounge money for downpayment...
Meanwhile...FIL is concerned adn wnats to know HOW TO make sure everything transfers to MOH {only-not me, not as an "US"} upon his death....we have been telling him OVER AND OVER to set up a Trust! IT will do just that fine! He things a Will "is just fine".!!!
{ see I have never been "good enough" for his precious little only-child darling.}
MY father has a trust set up since 1995.
GRR. Double GRR. that is "Guh" with a Double "ERR"!!!
We Have no children to foist such things upon, but we'd not pull this on ours...I hope.
Over!
Grr
Galaxy, that sounds familiar. My own parents are long gone, but my in-laws are in their 90s. My wife goes and visits them in Florida a couple of times a year. They drive her nuts. (Actually, my MIL drives her nuts. My FIL, who is 97, is pretty reasonable. I also hear that my MIL drives my FIL nuts, too.) I don't get to go because the MIL is too "sensitive" and easily irritated. Fine with me. They have a small condo in Florida and won't leave, certainly not for the Frozen North, and we're not moving there, so at least those discusions don't happen.
Depending on the size of the estate, a will might suffice. Trusts have advantages for tax purposes, though. After our daughter came along, we set up a few trusts, purely to reduce tax exposure. I suspect, also, that trusts are a bit harder to contest if, for example, there was a neer-do-well son or a gold-digging sugar plum your FIL wanted to cut out completely.
At one time, they had a significant amount of money, but they've been around so long that they must be dipping into their assets pretty heavily by now. We are fortunate enough that we can still be comfortable with no inheritance, but my two brothers-in-law are counting on it, and doing very little to prepare for the eventuality if the financial windfall fall short of their needs for retirement. At one time, the parents were so upset with their sons that they made their will totally generation-skipping, cutting out their children and leaving it all to the grandchildren. I don't know what the will looks like now, and I'm not likely to find out.
Jimmy_BraumWell, I may have to put off the wheeling project until I get this tv bill sorted out...Comcast wants 200 dollars a month for their internet/phone/tv...when last month it was 176 total bill. They didn't even mention any rate hike or anything... It's starting to honestly look like I am going to be ditching comcast asap for something else. Then again, perhaps they had a mistake on my bill. Regardless, IF it stays at 200 dollars a month...hello somethign else.
Been a busy day! Just got back from the Park and Vet visit with Sparkie The Rocket Dog! Sparkie did enjoy the park, saw some Fish, Swans and got to meet some kids at play ground. What he like the best? Guy that was BBQ at the park!
Spent a lot of money today, but only over ran my budget by $10.00. That I can live with. Plus I did buy Sue and my self some steaks and some pork steaks so that where the budget got blowen.
Timme to BBQ my self.
See you all later. Ken
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Yeah, I have on demand but that is not mentioned on the bill (Free on demand except for pay shows and no one in the house has rented anything on demand or anything like that), I have my own wireless router (Bought it at walmart for 40 bucks), and no pay channels. Oh, I live in a small town where it is pretty much them and Directv, So I guess they are trying to play monoply with their "city rate" I got a deal once, person paying the bill at the time threatened to cancel our service, and they dropped our bill-maybe it's worth trying again, but yeah...Comcast is jacking up their prices and expected to start dropping channels (BBCAmerica,History Channel, AMC,etc). I saw Directv has a few good offers right now, a DVR included in installation, up to 4 rooms of DVR, A 1 year lock in at 60 dollars a month,etc. I cannot really afford to pay 200 dollars for maybe 25-30 channels a week and when the other 500 are nothing but junk. Maybe they have a promo or offer going on right now. But anyway, it poured down rain here, and boy, I love thunderstorms.
Been one of those sun for a while then rain for a while and then it does it all over again. Tends to be that way around these parts this time of the year. My lawn looks like a hay field but it never drys out enough between rain storms to let me cut it. It's a half hour job at best but the longer it gets the wetter it stays. Maybe a goat would be the answer.
Opened up a DPM power plant model today but after looking at it, decided to build a simpler kit as I haven't built a kit for years and need something easy to start on. The dpm will come later after I referbish my kit building skills a lot.
Other than watching the grass grow today, didn't do a heck of a lot today. It's all good.
Weather wise it's been pretty ugly here. We're under a flash flood watch until tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow is looking like another 100% chance of showers and thunderstorms then slacking off to 60% by Friday. I didn't see any water leaking in around the window in my bedroom so maybe I filled it in with the flexible rubber leak sealer. Played a game of Starfleet1 a little while ago. I did pretty good. Completed the mission in half the time allotted. Twenty-five Krellan ships and five cloaked Zaldron ships. Those suckers can be hard to find. Other than that I've been in the back watching some movies.
Sounds like we have more nasty weather coming in from Texas. Time for me to get out of here anyway. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me. Thank you Ma'am.
My toe is feeling pretty good today. Got half the lawn mowed. Did that much in two sessions in order to give the foot a rest and not have to limp too bad... Ran the rototiller along the fence. Started to loosen the pile of topsoil left from last year in the garden so I could add it to the now compacted raised gardens. Imediately it started to rain big heavy drops. So I shut it off and went in the house to have lunch. Imediately the rain stopped... Drove over to the Rock, Stone, Mulch, Gravel, Paving Block, Topsoil, and place that sells Moo Poo to get 5 bags for the gardens... Sure glad I put the plywood sections and an old tarp down in the back of the PiP. The bags were sitting outside and of course had a few holes in them, meaning they were all wet.... Came back home and planted all the hostas my Sister gave me. Had just enough to put a clump by each of the fence posts. Tomorrow I will go to a Menonite Gardening place and buy some annuals to plant between the Hostas.
Decided to do the laundry tonight and so got a bit more done on a small overpass bridge for the layout. Dryer is still running as I type. Got an email from the District Executive looking for someone to print flyers for the new pack I am helping to get back onlune here in town. I told him no problem. Since he lives a block over from me, he and his wife and dog walked over with a stack of half printed flyers (they are standard Cub Scout Flyer that can be customized for a unit). I told him I will deliver them to him at the District Meeting tomorrow night. Of course after doing one side of about 75 of them (we need 250) I ran out of one of the two Black Ink cartridges in the printer I am using. Guess which cartridge I don't have any more of in stock... The first two don't count. So now I will be driving over to Staples to buy the expensive package of the ink for the printer I am using for this project....
Time for me to call it a night! Prayers going out to all of you!
V8VegaMy Verizon bill is hard, actualy about impossible to compute and I only get phone and internet. There are all kinds of added on charges and then removed charges, so it makes it difficult to comprehend and my bill is only $45. Still I almost never use the phone so that seems expensive.
My grandma Rose Angela Hemans, Is disposed to delirium tremens. She contracted the habit Of eating Welsh Rarebit At midnight, and then she'd see demons
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Jimmy_Braum Yeah, I have on demand but that is not mentioned on the bill (Free on demand except for pay shows and no one in the house has rented anything on demand or anything like that), I have my own wireless router (Bought it at walmart for 40 bucks), and no pay channels. Oh, I live in a small town where it is pretty much them and Directv, So I guess they are trying to play monoply with their "city rate" I got a deal once, person paying the bill at the time threatened to cancel our service, and they dropped our bill-maybe it's worth trying again, but yeah...Comcast is jacking up their prices and expected to start dropping channels (BBCAmerica,History Channel, AMC,etc). I saw Directv has a few good offers right now, a DVR included in installation, up to 4 rooms of DVR, A 1 year lock in at 60 dollars a month,etc. I cannot really afford to pay 200 dollars for maybe 25-30 channels a week and when the other 500 are nothing but junk. Maybe they have a promo or offer going on right now.
Yeah, I have on demand but that is not mentioned on the bill (Free on demand except for pay shows and no one in the house has rented anything on demand or anything like that), I have my own wireless router (Bought it at walmart for 40 bucks), and no pay channels. Oh, I live in a small town where it is pretty much them and Directv, So I guess they are trying to play monoply with their "city rate" I got a deal once, person paying the bill at the time threatened to cancel our service, and they dropped our bill-maybe it's worth trying again, but yeah...Comcast is jacking up their prices and expected to start dropping channels (BBCAmerica,History Channel, AMC,etc). I saw Directv has a few good offers right now, a DVR included in installation, up to 4 rooms of DVR, A 1 year lock in at 60 dollars a month,etc. I cannot really afford to pay 200 dollars for maybe 25-30 channels a week and when the other 500 are nothing but junk. Maybe they have a promo or offer going on right now.
Jimmy: No one, except maybe Drs. and Lawyers and congressmen can afford $200/ m!!!
Time Warner and teh satellite are the only games in our town, too.
Everyone who has had Direct TV or other satellite service has gone back to Time Warner Cable as soon as their contract was up! It also does NOT {usually} give local channels for local news.
The fees abound and you cannot get away from them!
The reason I mentioned "city" if you were, say in New York City for example, that might just explain the higher costs. we don't live in but a small city {pop. about 65K}, but pay like it was NYC.
When Comcast comes along, we may seek "alternatives" to TV...The Rabbit, Hulu zulu, Amazon, TV Plus {or whatever its called}, The other computer-based TV stuff, the HD Antenna {only gives us 4 local channels here, but better'n nutin'} So TWC si NOt really the only way to get TV.
With all the alternatives, you'd think the cable companies would LOWER their rates, bt NO! to pay fat CEO salaries, they jack them up! And to protect the bottom line as people Flock AWAY form them, they make everybody pay more who stays with them!
After our one year at the reate we have, we may drop everything but internet!
We generally watch channels 2-180, and at least 3 sets of those are duplicate channels! WHy ohWHY should we pay for triplicated channels????
I have 11 months to find the alternatives!
Good Luck with yours!
over!
I am battling heart issues since yesterday. Not much power left, so no MRRing today, maybe for the rest of the we(e)ak. Might have to go for surgery again, but I hope not.
I am really surprized to see, how much internet and cable tv costs on your side of the Big Pond. There would be no way I could afford to pay those amounts. Internet and phone (nationwide flat rate) is about $ 50 a month, and if I had cable TV with 150+ channels, it´d cost $ 30 a month. Of course, you can have add-ons, bringing the total amount close to what you folks have to pay. I don´t think it´s worth it. Other than my favorite railroad show, I hardly watch any TV. Guess I have seen it all.
Going for a snooze now!
More rain. The lawn thanks the sky. Sounds very philosophical, until you realize it has to be mowed. Then it just becomes a chore.
I'm getting fed up with our cable bill, too. I think the real trick is to switch cable companies when the original contract runs out, and then switch back again when that contract runs out. That way, you always get the introductory rate and all the free stuff.
If Comcast drops BBC, AMC and the History Channel, I'll drop Comcast. The only shows I watch are on those 3 channels. My wife has notified all her friends that she's switching her email address to GMail, and I think I'll do the same. That will finally disconnect us from the provider and let us shop around. We'll be doing that after retirement anyway.
Speaking of that, I requested the retirement package at work yesterday. I'm not committed to anything, but it's the first step of the process. Still hoping for a voluntary layoff, but I don't think that's going to happen. The latest management fad is "open office space" with no cube walls, and I don't want to be around for that one.
Took a 2 hour nap and feel a little better.
As I hadn´t run my 4-4-0 yet, I just got my test track out and wired it to the power pack. I was in for a surprise! The 4-4-0 is an excellent performer - quiet, smooth and not a hitch or a lurch. The headlight (or backlight) comes on at about 3V, a fraction of a second after the loco starts. The performance is much better than the Forney´s - I think I will take out the decoder there as well.
I can hardly wait to see them both performing on my layout!
I did some searching on my own. Currently there is a deal for Direct here, 60 dollars a month for two years for the same deal I have now-tv wise. I need to find a price for the triple play offer they have. At this point, comcast is increasing fees for decreasing quality. On my channel list I get, two sets of every channel, a movie channel or two (cinemax,anda similar one), foreign channels (like Russian TV, Aljazeria tv,etc) and a whole bunch of others I do not watch. At this point on my Channel list, I really only watch The weather channel, the music radio channels, AMC, The local channels,FX,Fox Sports one, BBCAmerica, TNT, etc. So I really do not need a ton of channels. It's like that old Springsteen song "there's 57 channels and nothing on"
Zoe, just a cup of Dark roast and a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts please...
I got rid of the TV part of cable several years ago. I can get my fill of SpongeBob Funny Pants, America's Worst Disgusting Home Videos, and Ducky Cry Nasty whenever I go over to my son's house. Usually makes me feel very good about not having TV at my house... Still I have a faster than basic Speed on the Modem and my Telly Fone with Time Warner Crooks so I still pay over $100 a month for it.
I hope to finish mowing the lawn, get some ink, print the flyers for the Cub Pack, plant strawberries, and get to a BS District Committee meeting tonight... Not nessesarily in that order.
Best get moving if I want to get everything done!
Lost my car keys somewhere out on the farm. Have spent hours looking to no avail. If they fell out of my pocked and off the tractor while brush-cutting the pastures, finding them is going to be hopeless. Perhaps it is time to call a locksmith and have the car rekeyed. OUCH!
Don't know when I will get back in the train room. Need to find a new hired hand to finish building fences. It is more than I can do on top of everything else.
Gee, Ray: i get about 1/2 that faster than speed internet, which is fine for us, the telly phoney, AND I get 200+ channels for the same price you pay!
Jimmy:I DO hope you are happy with the Direct TV,as anyone here who has had it went back to cable as soon as possible! Oh, and if you are in the snow belt, be SURE to have them mount your dish where you can easily get to it to clean snow off, OR you won't get ANY channels!
Me: well, I have a routine appt. @ the Cardiologist today. make sure my ticker is still ticking!
Better get my "goin' out clothes" on!
Cederstrand ROb....
I have a lanyard {a loop of thin nettted or woven fabric or synthetic for around the neck} for my keys. I use that when I go away, to keep them safe under my shirt, along with other things.
http://www.lanyardstore.com/
like this here:
http://www.lanyardstore.com/catalog/product/view/id/2324/category/586/
Maybe that will keep you from losing your keys?
well, its an idea!
Where I am- it is either Directv or 200 dollars a month for comcrap.
Mr. Murphy has moved in with us ...
I performed a little surgery on the Forney, i.e. getting the decoder out. Unfortunately, I did not only unscrew those 4 screws holding the tender part of the shell, but also those of the cab. I shouldn´t have done that! Now the doors are out and in the attempt to get them in again, I must have nicked one of the handrails. Luckily I found it, but one of the stanchions was missing. After an hour of crawling on my knees, searching every square inch of the carpet, I found it. A dab of super glue attached it to the handrail, which is now back into its place. While placing the loco back on the rails, I found out, that I must have broken off one of the brake cylinders. Again, a close search of carpet resulted in a find, but glueing the brake cylinder back to its place was nerve shattering. The loco is now complete again, minus the doors. Ah, well, taking the decoder out resulted in only a slight improvement of the performance
As one fine day I will be getting that Backwoods Miniatures conversion kit, turning the Forney into a 2-4-0 with a four wheel tender, I don´t mind the doors being out... (so I tell myself).
Not really happy today...
Cederstrand Coffee in an Undecorated mug, please. Lost my car keys somewhere out on the farm. Have spent hours looking to no avail. If they fell out of my pocked and off the tractor while brush-cutting the pastures, finding them is going to be hopeless. Perhaps it is time to call a locksmith and have the car rekeyed. OUCH! Cheers! Rob Hi Rob, PM me your mailing address and I will send you a lanyard for your keys, as I have several of them. Johnboy out....................
Hi Rob,
PM me your mailing address and I will send you a lanyard for your keys, as I have several of them.
Johnboy out....................
Yeah I know what you mean about Murphy...perhaps that is why I am afraid to do surgery on a bachman that fried it's chip the second I tried to program it.
galaxyJimmy:I DO hope you are happy with the Direct TV,as anyone here who has had it went back to cable as soon as possible! Oh, and if you are in the snow belt, be SURE to have them mount your dish where you can easily get to it to clean snow off, OR you won't get ANY channels!
Jimmy_BraumYeah I know what you mean about Murphy...perhaps that is why I am afraid to do surgery on a bachman that fried it's chip the second I tried to program it.
Good afternoon. It's 72°F with 93% humidity and lots of rain. The high will be 78°F and wet. It's looking like rain through to the weekend.Not much going on today. Got the wound vac dressing changed this morning and did two bags of laundry. One pair of pants and a bunch of socks, T-shirts and underwear. The weather has let up for the time being but I expect it to bust loose again later this afternoon. It's really wet and muggy out there. We have a flash flood watch in effect through late tonight.No plans set in stone this afternoon. I don't want to get into something that's long and involved only to have the power go out in the middle of it. I have an old computer that needs some TLC so I'll work on that for now. It can be worked on by the light of one of my headlights if need be.Anything else that comes up will be given the level of attention it deserves.
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy Jimmy:I DO hope you are happy with the Direct TV,as anyone here who has had it went back to cable as soon as possible! Oh, and if you are in the snow belt, be SURE to have them mount your dish where you can easily get to it to clean snow off, OR you won't get ANY channels! For sure. Snow is bad enough but ice is worse. It changes the reflective area of the dish and plays heck with the signal. I've been throught it a couple of times thia past winter. I used alcohol to clear away the ice.
galaxy Jimmy:I DO hope you are happy with the Direct TV,as anyone here who has had it went back to cable as soon as possible! Oh, and if you are in the snow belt, be SURE to have them mount your dish where you can easily get to it to clean snow off, OR you won't get ANY channels!
For sure. Snow is bad enough but ice is worse. It changes the reflective area of the dish and plays heck with the signal. I've been throught it a couple of times thia past winter. I used alcohol to clear away the ice.
Yeha, we watched TV News video of a "stoopid" guy in Dallas texas out using a 5 gallon bucket of HOT water, pouring it down his windshield!!!
'I kid you not!
We laughed hysterically for about 20 mins.!
{HOT water actually FREEZES faster than cold water and is NOT the way you defrost a windshield OR, worse yet, a car door lock!!!}
Well, the cardiologist increased the BP med as mine was 170/95 and it was 190/110 at the dentist the other day, and 185/110at another Dr.. Now with it doubled, I will probably start to feel "cold" again!
he also said to double my lasix {fluid remover} as it is NOT removing the fluid in my lower legs at all now that summer is here!
He also said to reduce salt intake. How? I'd like to know? I DOn'T add salt, I don't cook with salt, and when dinner consists of a deck of cards sized slab of unslated meat, unsalted potatoes, and a can of veggies {ok salt is add there}. You CANNOT get away form the "natural sodium" these may have, but really??? Seriously? WHat will I eat? Even a salad instead has sodium to some degree.
so that was my last undertaking today.
Very little storm activity here since this morning. Hope it stays that way. The rain chance has been backed off to 70% so that's a plus. However radar is still showing activity to the west moving this way.Got the maintenance work done on the old computer. Only took about an hour. I spent some time afterward working on a loco that was damaged by the tree hit. Not much to it. One truck was jammed over against the frame and the motor had been dislodged. Can't do much about the busted hand rails.
Janie.... Oh, thank you Ma'am! This is decaf I.... It is? Wonderful!
This has turned out to be an interesting day.... I got the strawberries planted after running the little battery powered rototiller around the rocks in the rock garden, and hand weeding it after everything was loosened up. I found there is a very active ant nest in the rock gartden as the rototiller dug up both ants and ant eggs. Had a few thousand very upset little ants to dig around... Got stung by a few, but nothing really bad. I shall leave the nest there for the time being as it won't hurt the Strawberries. I finished printing the Flyers for the new pack this morning and took some around to several churches. I had a pastor of one of the local churches who was going to deliver some to a bunch of churches where he knows the pastors well and can get them to put up the flyers for us. Emailed him and just got an email back from him.... He is in Puerto Rico on family matters.... So, I have to find some others to get those flyers out. I also went over to the Menonite Garden plant place and bought two trays of petunias for along the fence. I asked the lady there how they were fixed for Broccoli... They are sold out already. Sold out? Not even the end of May and they are sold out? Well, I have to drive to Canandaigua next week to deposit some $$$ in the MLK Scholarship Account so I will stop at a couple places while I am there to see what they might have. Got to have Broccoli! Tonight was a District Committee meeting for Scouts that didn't want to end.... I did move to adjourn once we got through many discussions.
Dark, gloomy, and chilly all day here. I guess the temp did get all the way up tom 70°F for a few minutes, but a dark and heavy cloud cover was around all day. The Solar panels put out all of 10 kWh when this time of year on a sunny day it would be 30+ kWh. I will be down about 100 kWh for this month compared to last year. The next few days will have some sun though.
Not only did I not get any hobby time today, but I haven't even gone down cellar to bring up my clean clothes. Have to do that before bed or I will not have anything clean to wear tomorrow.... Tomorrow Blackie goes to the Vet for a blood sugar checjk. she wants to see what it is during the day without fasting... His fasting draws have been very high, but he is not showing any signs of diabetic changes.... We shall see.
Rob, the sooner you get the locksmith to change the locks in the car, the sooner you will find your old keys.... Garenteed!
Galaxy, hope you are successful in getting the blood pressure under control! Sounds like you are already doing the right things, hope the increased meds will bring it down for you.
Hope you all have a great night!
Good Evening Diinners!
Flo, Beer Pleases and a pices of Anniversary Cake Pleases.
Today was Sues and I 38th Anniversary. Only thing I have loved longer than her is my 68 Road Runner, I have her for 41 years now. With all the extra expenes this month could not do anything speical for her. But I did get her a nice card and a cake that she loves.
Ulrich, did you see where I posted that your rail spikes are on the way?
I am beat, see you later.
No further storm activity thus far. The last storm I saw passed south and east of here. Folks in DeRidder probably saw some rain but there was none here to speak of and I don't see much activity to the west. Looks like it'll be quiet tonight.I worked on a couple more damaged locos. Less damage than the one earlier. Straightened a bent hand rail, replaced a broken horn and re-attached a truck sideframe.Nothing else to report. It's time for me to call it a night so I'll see y'all tomorrow.
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy Jimmy:I DO hope you are happy with the Direct TV,as anyone here who has had it went back to cable as soon as possible! Oh, and if you are in the snow belt, be SURE to have them mount your dish where you can easily get to it to clean snow off, OR you won't get ANY channels! For sure. Snow is bad enough but ice is worse. It changes the reflective area of the dish and plays heck with the signal. I've been throught it a couple of times thia past winter. I used alcohol to clear away the ice. Jimmy_Braum Yeah I know what you mean about Murphy...perhaps that is why I am afraid to do surgery on a bachman that fried it's chip the second I tried to program it. What kind of loco is that?
Jimmy_Braum Yeah I know what you mean about Murphy...perhaps that is why I am afraid to do surgery on a bachman that fried it's chip the second I tried to program it.
What kind of loco is that?
Jimmy_Braum one of the parie 2-6-0 Alco's they were selling with sound/DCC onboard.
cudaken Good Evening Diinners! Flo, Beer Pleases and a pices of Anniversary Cake Pleases. Today was Sues and I 38th Anniversary. Only thing I have loved longer than her is my 68 Road Runner, I have her for 41 years now. With all the extra expenes this month could not do anything speical for her. But I did get her a nice card and a cake that she loves. Ulrich, did you see where I posted that your rail spikes are on the way? I am beat, see you later. Ken
KEN: *Happy Anniversary* to you and the *old gal*! SHe's a real beauty, no doubt about that, she has a GREAT body, smooth as silk, I'll bet she handles real well, and is a fast mover....
OH, I see, you meant your anniversary with SUE, your WIFE!
{By the time we are married 38 years I will be 74, and MOH will be 78!}
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Wondering about Ulrich!
There was a young person named Ned, Who dined, before going to bed. On lobster and ham And salad and jam. And when he awoke he was dead.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)
It´s Father´s Day here in Germany, as always coinciding with Ascension Day. The weather has turned bad for that day - as usual.
Those missing doors on my Forney really bugged me all night, so I decided to do some surgery this morning, trying to implant them again. The firts one really went in quick, but the second one nearly gave me a heart attack. When the door was just about to slide into the little holes holding it, the phone rang! It was my son, saying thank you for being my papa. That threw me back an hour. After a lot of fiddling around and re-glueing other parts which had fallen off during the process, both doors are now back in their place and the loco is complete again - big of relief!
As Mr. Murphy hasn´t yet moved out of this place, I won´t touch my layout today!
Ken - I must have read over it - sorry. Thanks for being such a big help Happy anniversary! Ours will be in a few weeks - not the 38th yet, but the first digit is also a 3...
Ulrich:
Now, NO more heart attacks!!! Hear me???
Good to see you are "up and about"!
I try never to take anythign apart that I can't get back together!
galaxyI try never to take anythign apart that I can't get back together!
G. - Bachmann locos are somehow like French cars - nice looking, but difficult to maintain. If I had known that half of the loco falls apart, I would have left the decoder where it was! It´d be nice, if Bachmann includes something like a service manual, not just an exploded view ( Bachmann actually violates European law).
My heart is giving me continuing issue, so I will have to slow down even more. I don´t like it, but that´s the way it is.
Good morning! Let's see, June in a couple of days and the temperature outside is...34 degrees F? Well, that's what weather dot com said. By the time I got on the road it was 43, and the online number was probably a bit old, but it's still awfully cold for this time of year. Had to break out the leather jacket to go to work.
Galaxy, which of the many blood pressure meds are you on? When I was first put on Lisinopril, I checked out the common side effects. Sure enough, after a few months I developed "the cough" that many users get. It's somehow a distinct cough, so recognizeable that I immediately noticed it in my mother-in-law and found out she'd been on the same stuff. Next, I tried one of those beta-blockers (Atenolol,) but that lowered my heart rate so much that they almost wouldn't give me a colonoscopy. 39 is too low for a heartrate, and I had no energy at all. I'm on Losartan now, and it seems OK. But, everyone is different, so tell your doc to let you know about side effects. It's up to you to watch for them.
My blood sugar is too high, too. I'm on a new med for that. I don't generally eat desserts or sweet snacks, but he said it was a genetic thing, and would have this problem even if I ate nothing but bran cereal. So, another pill. Sometimes I feel like I'm a science project, and I don't even have anything debilitating.
I've got an appointment for my new (since September) car. The driver's side window just stopped working. Fortunately, it's in the closed position. Saturday is supposed to be nice, so I'll put my bicycle in the car and drop it off in the morning, then pick it up later in the day. If it does happen to rain, I'll use the mountain bike, take the old railroad bed trail and "get muddy."
Mr. B:
I take none of those you mentioned. Here is what I take:
http://www.drugs.com/vasotec.html
The only side effect I see is that when I first started taking it, or when we doubled it to 2x a day, I had a chill going. MOH takes one of thsoe you mention and at first had a chill going to.
SO now that we are doubling the dose I now take, I probably will chill.
Now: I looked at the new bottle the pharmacy gave me: I WAS on 5 mg twice a day, NOW he prescribed 10mg ONCE a day!!! No difference, so I will have to call him! It should be 10mg TWICE a day!
Grr.!
MisterBeasley ...Sometimes I feel like I'm a science project, and I don't even have anything debilitating. ;...
...Sometimes I feel like I'm a science project, and I don't even have anything debilitating. ;...
I do have a couple of debilitating things wrong with me, and at 27 prescriptions, I sometimes feel like a "science experiment" too..or rather a "medication trial and errror guinea pig"!!
Unfortunately, There isn't a medication I can really do without! Once a year my Dr{s} and I go over what all I take and try to eliminate one or two. Usually it gets replaced with something else IF I find I can do without the one or two we eliminated!!!
What really bugs the heck out of me is every January I get a letter form my scripts insurance that they "no longer have this med on our formulary. We have provided you with one month's supply while you search for a new medication that is on our formulary, or seek alternatives" or some crap like that!
ANd what bugs me is that it is often NOT the most expensive one in the bunch! BUT it is usually mroe than I can realistically afford to take on a monthly basis!
Morning guys.
Spent the last two days outside ( washing car,yard work ) and have done about 35 miles the last couple days on the bike. I dont know if I want to sepnd another day today in the warm sun or stay in today. I might do a little outdoors or go for a walk. My face is a little on the pink side so dont want to get burned.
Good morning to all,
I did too much yesterday so I'm kind of stiff & sore all over today. Good excuse to take it easy I suppose. Spent most of the day running up & down from the cellar to do laundry. I also managed to get the grass cut yesterday morning. It was high again, and with all the rain we have been having, the lawn mower kept getting packed with wet grass. What a mess. Got lucky though, as no sooner did I finish & start putting things away, it started to rain. Then the company who is going to replace some windows came back to confirm some measurements that had done before.
I'm beginning to have informational overload with the new camera & IPhone. Fortunately Dennis reminded me about YouTube for the camera, & I have found a couple of good tips with a lot more to watch. Thanks Dennis. Last night I went to the Apple Store for a free workshop on the phone. Got very lucky as a the nice and well informed lady who helped set my phone up initially was conducting the workshop. Got lucky again as I was the only one to show up, so it was a one on one situation. Was just great. I will sign up for another workshop next week on the "ICloud". I kind of feel like I just wandered in from the wilderness. For someone who remembers having an "ice box" when I was a kid, this stuff really amazes me.
Guess I better try to get some of the chores done, so stay safe & have a great day.
Good morning every one. Been super busy at w**k Just conducted our preconstruction meeting yesterday ( boy that was a lot of effort getting to that stage ) went reasonably well . Wasnt feeling well over the holidy and spent Mondy at home clening up the engines . Actually got some of the old ones that I purchased cheap ($5 to $20 each ) and got them to run with some lube and cleaning. Took me all day to do that between periods of rest .
Ulrich I am surprised you have bachman after all of the rants on here about how bad they are , did you buy a Bachman plus ? What is Ascension day ? How did Bachman break the Euro laws with the Bachman ?
Tom - welcome to the web/cloud thingy
Jeremy - did you ride all in one location or to somewhere and then back ?
Galxy - hope you feel better , if you think the med situation is bad now, wait until Obam cre is fully implemented. You can get a snippet of wht it will be by looking at the VA and those poor souls who lost there life to Governement run health care there.
Jeff - nice looking shed. Love the sign : ), nice touch.
Well break is over gotta get back to w**k TTYL all
yougottawantaJeff - nice looking shed. Love the sign : ), nice touch.
Good morning. It's 68° with 98% humidity. The high will be 85° and cloudy. There's a fair chance for rain.Not much going on today. I think I'll just relax and try to get some rest. I've had some near sleepless nights and they're catching up with me. Heart rate was up a bit yesterday for some reason. It's usually 80-82 at rest. Yesterday it was 101-104 at rest. This morning it's back to 80-82. Later I may take apart a M0107 disk drive that needs some attention but only after I get some sleep.
yougottawantaUlrich I am surprised you have bachman after all of the rants on here about how bad they are , did you buy a Bachman plus ? What is Ascension day ? How did Bachman break the Euro laws with the Bachman ?
YGW - Bachmann is the sole supplier of (affordable) On30 locos and cars, so there is no other option for me. I think that the quality of Bachmann products is much better than their reputation. The locos are well detailed, and smooth performers at a fairly low price. Compared to the likes of Marklin, Roco and Fleischmann, they are a steal. I just have to learn how to live with a few oddities, like detail parts are not glued but only "clipped" in, or a loco shell is not held to the chassis with a single screw, but up to 20. The reason why Bachmann is violating EU law has nothing to do with the product itself, but the required paperwork around it. There is no CE conformity declaration nor a manual that´s worth to be called that. Interesting fact is, that the European brands of Bachmann, i.e. Graham Farish and Bachmann Branchlines in the UK, and Liliput in Austria, all are CE conform. Products which are not CE conform are supposed to be banned from the EU markets. Maybe that´s the reason why German dealers by them from Bachmann USA.
Ascension day is a catholic holiday - the day when Jesus ascended to heaven. It´s a national holiday in Germany, although we are predominantly of protestant belief.
Morning all! It's monsone season here. Been raining steady for the last 72 hours and forcast to continue till midnight tonight. At least it isn't a downpour sort of rain, just continuous and steady. I do hope that the weather folks are right about it stopping tonight.
Haven't been up to much the last two days, the dull grey cold weather starts to get to me after a while and I get feeling kind of blah. Joints hurt too so that doesn't help. Clinical Depression sucks even when it is ünder control". Meds kind of take all the joy out of life but what can ya do but live with it.
Went and bought a 45 lb bag of play sand at Home Depot for use on the layout. Tired of spending a fortune on fine ground cover from the hobby shop. My railroad is a mountain railroad after all so sand/small rock etc. fits right in. Pretty much the right color for lots of things as well.
Looks like Saturday will be lawn mowing day or perhaps I should say Haying day.
Well, need to go do some rock carving so best I get with it.
Cheers to all.
We are expecting a hot day here, at least for us, with a high of 85F. That will be good for a few thunderstorms later tonight.
Well gardening is in full swing in our back yard. We are about to head back to a nursery shortly as we are short some plants. The bill so far is close to $500 but it is something we budget each year. May is always a high expense month so I am not surprised.
Ken, congrats on the anniversary! I am referring to you and Sue, not Miss Lumpy.
Tom, I admire you going high tech. Personally I plan on sticking with my ancient flip phone which I rarely use anyway. I bought a new camera last year, a Lumix FZ200 which is a glorified point and shoot with a good zoom lens. When I read some of the manual for it my brain freezes over. I'm not sure why I need many of the features it has but that seems to be the way of a lot of technology in my opinion. Some programmer says I can add this or that just to show they can do it whether or not it is really useful.
Galaxy, take care of that BP! The levels you noted are very high. My wife had an elevated level in the winter of 140 and the doc said if it didn't come down then she would have to go on meds. She got it down with the Dash diet so no meds.
Well time to head out. No Model RR for some time now. I moved the Northern out of the yard, coupled it to a passenger train a couple of weeks ago but it hasn't left the station.
Afternoon all. I've got another viewing to go to- I am only 22, I shouldn't have to have gone to two funerals in 5 months already. I am off work until Saturday, and working on some of my stuff for friday night's open mic night. I also started working again on the bridge project. I finished up about four of these stone piers.
Yeah, come this weeks pay,I'll get in contact with bachman about getting the Alco repaired. I hope everyone here is doing okay.
Well Ulhrich that is fascinating. How did a day thatis a catholic Holiday become a German protestant holiday , bet there is one heck of story there ! What is also of interest is we celebrate in April. I wonder why the wide difference in time frames ? How much does a Euro approved Bachmann cost vs. A USA Bachmann ?
Jeff - I LOVE your weathering on the tanker , you are truly gifted.
chochowillieWent and bought a 45 lb bag of play sand at Home Depot for use on the layout. Tired of spending a fortune on fine ground cover from the hobby shop. My railroad is a mountain railroad after all so sand/small rock etc. fits right in. Pretty much the right color for lots of things as well.
I have been out and about, {or for our canadian friends as they say N of the border..."oot and A-boot, eh?" {I know, I know..."stupid american"...}}
And wore my self out! and its barely noon already!
Of course I managed only 2.5 hours of sleep last night!!
I went to B,B&B to return a shower stand, and buy a new one, also found a neat little solar deck light for by the porch door. Hope it works for where i want to put it to light the stairs. Probably shoulda bought 2 @ 4.99 e.
I went to Lowes to return $27 in roofing stuff not needed. Brand new not used, she had to ask "doesn't fit?" DUH! its not clothing or a window curtain...
a;sp gpt pressure washer soap for the trailer..got the "Krud Kutter for Vehicles and Boats", should work on the trailer, they pictured an RV trailer on the label..plus MOH wants to wash new car with it too.
So I am firmly BUSHED!!!
nap tiem is calling my name...
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll have hot turkey sandwitch, some french fries and a big slice of dill pickle for lunch along with a decaf, please...
Already did a days amout of w*rk this morning. Tried to finish the lawn. Got about 2/3rds of the front yard done, but my toe was starting to ache. I figured I best give it a rest. I have also been trying to find some folks to help me get flyers for the Pack out to churches. Have one lady from the MLK Committee who will get them to a few churches and I am waiting for another person to return my message. i also sent the DE (District Executive) an email telling him to drop some off at the local Parocial School. Thewy are an untapped resourse...
I have to take Blackie over for his Blood Work in an hour. Then back to w*rk on the lawn and some gardening before I have supper and head out to a Troop Meeting tonight. You know, I'm retired. Why am I so busy? Oh, I like life that way! Yep, your right...
[color=red]Galaxy[/color, Wash a new car?!? Trying to ruin it? Never wash a car.... That makes all the neighbors wash theirs and it wastes a lot of water! Seriously, think twice about using the pressure washer on the car... I know of some people who wrecked their paint job that way.... The old fashioned Armstrong method using a soft sponge works better. That is, unless your presure washer can be turned way, way down, take it to the car wash instead!
howmus Galaxy, Wash a new car?!? Trying to ruin it? never wash a car.... That makes all the neighbors wash theirs and it wastes a lot of water! Seriously, think twice about using the pressure washer on the car... I know of some people who wrecked their paint job that way.... The old fashioned Armstrong method using a soft sponge works better. That is unless your presure washer can be turned way, way down, take it to the car wash instead!
yougottawantaHow much does a Euro approved Bachmann cost vs. A USA Bachmann ?
About 40% more, half of that is due to VAT (=sales tax), which is 19% on top of all sales.
jeffrey-wimberly howmus Galaxy, Wash a new car?!? Trying to ruin it? never wash a car.... That makes all the neighbors wash theirs and it wastes a lot of water! Seriously, think twice about using the pressure washer on the car... I know of some people who wrecked their paint job that way.... The old fashioned Armstrong method using a soft sponge works better. That is unless your presure washer can be turned way, way down, take it to the car wash instead! Yeah, seriously, I've peeled paint off a car with a pressure washer. If the pressure can't be dialed down at least try keeping the nozzle at least a foot away from the car.
Yeah, seriously, I've peeled paint off a car with a pressure washer. If the pressure can't be dialed down at least try keeping the nozzle at least a foot away from the car.
THAT is what i tried to tell MOH!!! Several times, however, the pressure washer DOES has a "gentle cycle" adjustment.
19% sales tax !!! That not a tax , that is robbery with out a gun !
Ooooh, I'm so excited! I ordered my new camera last night, a Canon SX170 IS. I got a bunch of emails today from Amazon, and my toys are now all in "Track Your Package" land. For whatever reason, I really love watching the progress as they move across the country. Oddly, the camera doesn't come with a cable to connect it to the computer, so that's a separate package from a different dealer. And, when I order from Amazon, I collect cheaper items in my "cart" until I've got enough to qualify for free shipping, so I'll be getting a Kalmbach train book and a container of that Pearl Drops tooth pollish stuff that people recommend for quieting down gear noise in older Athearn locomotives.
Beasley, I have a similar model and it takes beautiful shots! very crisp and can compare to a SLR camera in my opinion.
yougottawanta 19% sales tax !!! That not a tax , that is robbery with out a gun !
It´ll go up by the end of the year - 22 to 25% are being discussed.
Calling it a day - CU all tomorrow!
I’ve had a very good day. A camera case & a t-shirt that I ordered off the internet were delivered today. And it wasn’t raining at the time so neither box got soaking wet for a change. Now for many of you, the following would not be a big deal, but for someone who is as technologically challenged as I am, it surely is. I was able to pair my new IPhone to my Honda CRV. Now I’m hands free. It was very simple & worked the first time I tried to connect them. I figure I’m using up all my good luck, so I’m not going to do anything else but have dinner & read a book. I’ll get back to my normal life tomorrow.
MR. B: I Know you said " SX170IS But all I saw was "SX 70" as in Polaroid SX70 Land Camera!!! I must be showing my age as I am sure there is one or two of those in museums! It was a stunner when MOH saw a photo of a School bus in the local "hoidy toidy" Museum that said "School Bus, Circa 1970"!!! WE RODE those busses!!! I wonder if your cannon camera's designation has anything remotely to do with the idea of the P.SX70?
Ulrich: there is that pesky "Politico" stuff again! Funny how that subject creeps up often in the Adult world.
I, too have been tracking packages across the country! One is the proper 2.5" kilt belt, and the other is, uh, um, er, ah, comfy moisture-wicking unmentionables. The Vest to go with the kilt is not shipped yet, though I am waiting patiently for IT, too. The belt and buckle should be here by Sat or Monday as shipped Wed. USPS "3rd day". It is currently in UTAH. IDO hope the vest gets here by June 25th or 26th and actually FITS my fat belly as is SHOULD....
BREAKING NEWS
It is a good thing I switched Psychiatrists, as the Clinic I used to go to is now Closing. But who knows how long the current county Mental Health clinic I now go to will stay open? All about Medicaid billing and tax{es} support!
TOM in Pittsburgh: That would be the way I woudl feel iff'en I got a fancy-schmancy new "smart phone" and could add it to my car's comunnications system! My new FLIP phone has about 6 pages of {de}structions {my bro always called them that instead of IN structions} on how to get the "blue tooth" to work form the phone wirelessly to the ear headpiece? I never DID figure that one out, and since i rarely use my flip phone, I let it go!
CN Charley; I am happy it is so warm for you there. Here we have a temp inversion going on and it is not even out of the 50sF!!!! I went to the mailbox in shorts nad t-shirt {fine for in here even without the AC going} and I turned around and came back for long legs and flannel shirt! Saves on the Electric bill not having AC going though!
and it has been CLOUDY for the past few days... WOnder just how much {little} electricity RAY is generating just N of me???
well, dinner tonight will be baked Pork-y chops. {oink oink} Not sure to go with what yet, but that is the meat {no salt added!}.
Howdy, Diners.
Not much model railroading to report. .... Just got back from Nashville where I went Tuesday. Went to the heart clinic at Vanderbilt University Hospital. I'll be okay, and it's time to get back to normal again.
Well I managed to get a couple hours of sleep today so I opened up an Apple A9M0107 5¼" floppy disk drive that needs some attention. The 19-pin cable that was connected to it was chewed up by a dog and isn't serviceable nor do I have a spare. So I was wondering if I could put a 20-pin flat ribbon cable in it's place and run the drive off an X104 controller like a Disk II drive. I never tried this before. I removed the damaged cable and studied the on-board connector. It has twenty pins, same as the Disk II connector and the electronics of the X104 and 0101 control cards is virtually identical so i couldn't see any reason why it shouldn't work. Nothing ventured nothing gained. At the most it could blow the computers mother board, at the least blow the control card or the control board in the drive. Any of these I can obtain and replace easily. So I connected the twenty pin ribbon cable to the drives control board and connected the other end to an X104 control card in my //e and turned it on. It worked! The drive booted the disk and the greeting program came up on the screen. That's great. The drawback of running it off an X104 controller is that I can't daisy chain a second drive from this one. But I can still run them as a set on the X104 controller if I convert the second drive too. So I guess one of my next online purchases will be a couple of long flat 20-pin ribbon cables from Bulgaria.
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy, Diners. Not much model railroading to report. .... Just got back from Nashville where I went Tuesday. Went to the heart clinic at Vanderbilt University Hospital. I'll be okay, and it's time to get back to normal again.
Glad to hear it.
Iam a "light" cardiac case, for now anyway, myself. If we get my BP under control again, it will reduce my heart rate, and with the 2 heart meds I take, I will be fine, too.
Like Jeffrey, I didn't sleep much last night, and so a long nap this afternoon helped,. Now if I can sleep tonight THROUGH the night, I will be OK for tomorrow.
Beautiful day out today and calling for nice weekend. Im sure the bike trails will be busy so will gte out early before others. Didnt really do a whole lot today. I might get in a game or two of strat baseball while watching the ball game and go to bed early so I can get out biking ealry, around 5:30am.
MisterBeasley: Have you ever changed out a chain on your bike? I know your also a avid cyclist.
Well earlier I did say we were going to a nursery but I stand to be corrected. Five hours and six garden centres/nurseries later we finally came home with a trunk and back seat full of plants. It made it to 33C here this afternoon which is around 90F I think. I am tired from the driving and heat.
Tonight the North Dakota PBS station runs 2 hours of Doc Martin so I think we will just go down to the basement room and chill out. Chill being the operative word as the A/C has been on all day so it will be rather cool down there. I expect my wife will insist that we put on the gas fire place as she will be too cold.
Garry
Glad you are back and relatively well .
CNCharlieIt made it to 33C here this afternoon which is around 90F I think.
Well, y'all already know what I was up to today with the exception of the movie I'm watching now, 'A Shot In The Dark', so there's no point in going over the other stuff again. It's looking like a 50/50 chance of thunderstorms tonight. I just hope it doesn't bring heavy rain.
Evening Folks
Flo, 2 , rope and a rafter pleases!
Not been on of my better days.
1 Work, well I was there. Second day in a row with no sales.
2 Pay Check short $25.00 from what I thought it would be.
3 ABS light came on in my driver. Normaly ABS will not effect the real brake system. On my it does? Car has nosed divied twices now when braking at a slow speed.
4 Sparkie hurt his leg in are front ditch acording to my wife because the grass is to tall.
5 Sparkie would not poop today, so I had to walk him around the block.
6 Wife and I got into a small fight because I was going to walk him with his hurt leg. But, it is the only way to get him to poop sometimes, don't want him to get impacted. Hum, he sure walked fine with out a limp when I walked him?
7 I have to pick up a certified letter from the post offices. I have never got good news in a Certified Letter! Till I get the heck out of this house or Bank Of Stupid Modifies the loan I Dread the mail!
I know many here have it rougher than I. But some times I feel like I have the world on my shoulders.
Charley and Galaxey and others, thanks for the congrats on the Anniversary! You know sometimes I like the Miss Lumpy (68 Road Runner) better than Sue! Does not get mad at me if I don't have time for her. Will sit and waite for me with out a complaint. Does not cost me money if I don't have it to spend. Never get mad if my friends come over on my days off. When she breaks, I can fix her. Does not complain if I have a few to many .
See you all later!
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Janie, just a decaf for me please.
Long day here... Galaxy, Yep solar output has been way down for the last couple days. Less than half what I should be getting on a decent day this time of year. I will be lucky to break 600 kWh this month. Last year May netted me 674 kWh. Dark and gloomy.
I got the front lawn mowed, planted one more strawberry plant that I had put in a different box to keep watered and forgot yesterday, dropped off a bunch of Cub Pack Flyers at the parocial School, and got over to the Troop Meeting for a while tonight. The lady who was going to take the flyers to a few churches didn't show up tonight. I checked and I never sent her a reply.... DUH! I sent her an email asking her to stop after work tomorrow and pick some up. Then I sat and stared at the computer for a while while running off some CD front inserts for Church. I forgot to get my old Large Diaphram Condenser mic taken down to church so they can use it in the service Sunday put on by the Sunday School. It is now sitting in my way so tomorrow I will remember to get it down there to them along with the CD inserts.
Oh, Blackie had his Blood draw this afternoon. He was a good boy and sat still for the doctor to poke his ear. She took the reading and immediatly showed me. It was 250! Last time after a 12 hour fast it was 360... She said that the high reading last time was likely due to him not being able to have food overnight and the length of time after his last pill, plus the stress of him then having to go to the Vets... He is not showing any sign of any damage from his diabetes and she said the reading is great for him having food before he came over. Looks like he will be around for a while (I hope). He is a sweet little guy!
Ken, is that a new shot of old Miss Lumpy or one from back when? I remember my BIL way back when blowing those things away from light to light on Main Street Canandagua... With his Jeep! Ahem.... The one with the Chevy 283 in it... In 4 wheel drive blowing blue smoke off all 4 wheels... Of course by the time it got to 50mph or so it was done, but it sure could get off the line in a hurry! Janie, get Ken another beerses pleaseses! Put it on my tab... Hope that certified letter is some good news from the Bank of Stupid for you!
Ulrich, take care of those heart issues! We want you around for a long time and want to see your new layout finished and in operation!
Time I headed to bed for the night! My blessings to each of you!
The holiday is over and the weather turned nice again. It´s sunny, but too cold for the end of May. Anyways, I like it that way. 16°C is a comfortable temperature for me, as I must have a polar bear in my line of forefathers.
No MRRing plans for today. I am pondering whether to run to our home improvement place to buy two sheets of hardboard for the backdrop. I am tired of looking at the wall with those holes in it.
I am still dreaming of that log cabin by a lake, with that red pick-up truck parked in the drive way (I have yet to figure out why the truck is red - I don´t like red cars).
Have a good day!
morning coffee...
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)
WEll, Like someone said here yesterday, I like to watch my packages get tracked across the country!
Though, admittedly it makes one anxious! {at least me anyway!}
The packages I am expecting are real close, and closer.
The Kilt belt and buckle is now in Rochester {or on its way here from there} to be delivered tomorrow.
The ohter package is in Martinsburg WV, so to is closer and expected delivery is Tuesday FedExSmartpost.
The Third package, The {Kilt} matching Vest hasn't even been shipped yet. If 2 weeks go by without it doing such, I will cancel it as I need it by the 25-26 of June at the latest. Maybe for Next year.
Mr. B:{and others}: You are not alone: I see the Early Baby Boomers are now retiring in droves...thanks to 5 straight years of stock market growth. They had put it off due to the "great Recession". Now , maybe some of hte later boomers {like MOH and I} and the young'uns can get some decent jobs, IF they don't "downsize the pay for it".
MOH is looking inot new job postings at a mass Job fair for the one job MOH already has.
Dunno!
Good morning! And a good morning it is. First of all, it's Friday. The weather is very nice, with dry air, sunshine and a high in the 60s predicted. And then, my new camera is Out For Delivery, and will show up today. I'm psyched.
No, it's not a classic Polaroid, although I remember those. We used to use them as "scope cameras" to take pictures of the traces on oscilloscopes at work for documentation. They were strictly analog scopes, so the only way to get an image of the screen was to take a picture. Besides, printers were those giant 132-character monsters with chain drives that printed on green-and-white striped paper.
Yes, Jeremy, I've done bike chains. I now carry a chain tool as part of my standard equipment. One day, I was riding with some friends and I actually broke my chain climbing a steep hill. They rode back to that town's bike shop and bought me a chain tool, which is why I now have two of them. I haven't used it on the road since. Back in the mid-80s, the "in" thing to do was to clean your chain and then dip it in liquid parafin, which provided lubrication and some measure of waterproofing. I had just met my future wife, and I parafinned her chain for her, for her birthday. Her friends thought that was very weird, but, well, here we are 28 years later.
It's a plain flip-phone for me. I make calls, answer calls and take a rare picture, but I have no need to go online to see how badly the Red Sox are losing. I have a nice big TV at home to watch movies on, so why watch them on a 3-inch screen? I don't need the distraction of a telephone in my car, even hands-free. A skiing friend of mine describes driving around Boston as "Black Diamond Driving," after the markings on expert slopes, and that should be sufficient warning to keep your eyes, and your mind, on the road around here.
And last but least, I had my follow-up appointment for my "sugar pills" yesterday. They are working, and my system is tolerating the medication well, so it's time to, as the doctor said, "start taking a man's dose." I'll be doubling up, which simply means a different pill. In theory, once my body is used to the lower blood sugar level, I'll actually feel better, not sluggish as I have since I started this stuff. He likened it to idling your car with your foot on the accelerator. I should have said, "No, it's actually like having the mixture too rich in your carburetor." Of course, nobody has a carburetor anymore.
8:20 AM here
and I've already been to Wally WOPrld for a few things..why does a few more things picked up there ALWAYS mean I spend more than $50??? Usually it is $100 so I should complain at about $75, I guess.
Someone mentioned May as an expensive month{and I haven't even bought flowers yet}, I have to AGREE with that! I have to order a few more items online, then MAY's expenses will be done. I will still be paying for MAy in June!
Today should be relatively suny and a high of just 70F! RAY should make some Juice!
Got a coupon for the local big & tall store and another one, so i should be going to buy a few items there, too. It won't really matter in May of June as it will all still come on the coming statement in JUne!
WEll, I still have to go to the CU and take something BACK to BB&B. The replacement one isn't good either! Both don't open til 9am.
I guess that is about it..should get ordering!
Galaxy noted: WEll, I still have to go to the CU and take something BACK to BB&B. The replacement one isn't good either! Both don't open til 9am.
I'm at work at about 7, but my eyes don't open until 9 AM, either.
Ken, I was at the packie on Saturday last week, and there was a '67 Charger (I think) in the lot, in spectacular condition. I met the owner inside and thanked him for keeping a nice car like that running. (Geographical note: A "packie" is a "package store," a uniquely Massachusetts term for a store where you can buy alcoholic beverages. The state does not allow even beer and wine to be bought in supermarkets, gas stations or the like, only in packies. This is supported by a system of "distributers" who are the middle men between brewers and the stores. Big beer companies are not allowed to deliver directly to the stores. Of course, this adds cost, making our beer more expensive, but it provides bribes in the form of "campaign contributions" so every time you pop a cold one, you're supporting an army of politicians.)
EDIT: Looks like I'm supporting an army of hungry train guys at the breakfast table...and the lunch table for Ulrich. Eat hearty.
I went to the home improvement place (the German word is "Baumarkt") and finally bought the boards for the backdrop. I wish I could have bought them in one piece, but that would not have gone into my car. The lttle Volkswagen is smaller than a Mini!
Mounting the boards was done in 15 minutes - the stick and peel fashion. I bought double-sided strong adhesive tape which took care of the job in no time. Unfortunately, the wall is not even, so there is a small gap, which I will fill with putty and then sand it to be as smooth as a baby´s butt.
Painting the backdrop is next ...
Good morning. It's72° with 90% humidity and what looks like unending clouds. The high will be 82°. There's a chance of isolated thunderstorms this morning then becoming more concentrated this afternoon with the possibility of heavy rain. with Just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call so no point of starting on any projects.Speaking of projects, I've decided to go ahead and convert the other A9M0107 5¼" floppy drive to be controlled from an X104 controller so I can run them as a pair. They won't be quite as fast but I'll be able to run them from one controller instead of two. It'll probably take about twenty minutes to make the conversion.Nothing planned in the area of layout work as of yet. Much of what needs to be done requires me to be on my feet extensively and right now that's a strict no-no. There's a lot of junk, mostly empty boxes of many sizes that have to be cleared out so I can get into the layout area much less see what's on it. That's going to have to wait until the wound on my foot is healed. Right now it's averaging about a millimeter a week and it's got a ways to go yet.Looks like today is bill paying day for me. That includes paying my father back for the nice shiny microwave he bought for me. That's on top of all my other bills. The June 'fun money' is gonna be way short.
Jeff ... Is 666 mising an axle in the front truck? ... I like thephoto, but I'm jus wondering.
Ulrich .... Glad you will have a backdrop. Looking forward to seeing more.
I missed several posts this week... However, I did see it was Ken and Sue's anniversary.
Ken & Sue ... Happy Anniversary (I found a brokwn heart SMiley available, but not an unbroken one)
Thanks for comments about my trip to doctors. Dealing with heart rythm, and it shoulb be okay now.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff ... Is 666 mising an axle in the front truck? ... I like thephoto, but I'm jus wondering.
Zoe, I could use a refill for my dark roast coffee...
As Galaxy has said, the big bright thing is out today in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. May make a bunch of kWh today... I have way too much stuff to get done as always. My son stopped in after getting a hair cut here in town. He will be back this afternoon to pick up the rototiller, so I need to finish loosening up the pile of topsoil in what used to be the garden out back. I will need it to add to the raised bed gardens if I ever get around to weeding them and getting some veggies put in.
Also need to drop off the large diaphram mic to church for use this Sunday, get more flyers around to churches, change out one of the garden hoses (it is leaking) with a new one, and the petunias planted. I still am battleing the Gout. Need to take an Advil...
I completed the rest of my errands today, though I think a few more will crop up before day is done.
Naturally the CU computer went down 30 seconds afterI walked in!
I have the never-ending chore going now. {laundry}
AS Jeffrey said {and he said it best}: June's fun money is gonna be way down! June IS our "fun month" but with the things I had to ordered, the bills will be over the next few months to pay off the ordering as the bills come in.
Got the conversion on the second M0107 floppy drive done this morning. My father told me that if I ever want to sell them I'll have to put the original type cables back in. I told him I have no intention of getting rid of them. I'll run them til they break, fix them and run them some more and keep that up til I can't fix them again.
MisterBeasley Good morning! And a good morning it is. First of all, it's Friday. The weather is very nice, with dry air, sunshine and a high in the 60s predicted. And then, my new camera is Out For Delivery, and will show up today. I'm psyched. No, it's not a classic Polaroid, although I remember those. We used to use them as "scope cameras" to take pictures of the traces on oscilloscopes at work for documentation. They were strictly analog scopes, so the only way to get an image of the screen was to take a picture. Besides, printers were those giant 132-character monsters with chain drives that printed on green-and-white striped paper. Yes, Jeremy, I've done bike chains. I now carry a chain tool as part of my standard equipment. One day, I was riding with some friends and I actually broke my chain climbing a steep hill. They rode back to that town's bike shop and bought me a chain tool, which is why I now have two of them. I haven't used it on the road since. Back in the mid-80s, the "in" thing to do was to clean your chain and then dip it in liquid parafin, which provided lubrication and some measure of waterproofing. I had just met my future wife, and I parafinned her chain for her, for her birthday. Her friends thought that was very weird, but, well, here we are 28 years later. It's a plain flip-phone for me. I make calls, answer calls and take a rare picture, but I have no need to go online to see how badly the Red Sox are losing. I have a nice big TV at home to watch movies on, so why watch them on a 3-inch screen? I don't need the distraction of a telephone in my car, even hands-free. A skiing friend of mine describes driving around Boston as "Black Diamond Driving," after the markings on expert slopes, and that should be sufficient warning to keep your eyes, and your mind, on the road around here. And last but least, I had my follow-up appointment for my "sugar pills" yesterday. They are working, and my system is tolerating the medication well, so it's time to, as the doctor said, "start taking a man's dose." I'll be doubling up, which simply means a different pill. In theory, once my body is used to the lower blood sugar level, I'll actually feel better, not sluggish as I have since I started this stuff. He likened it to idling your car with your foot on the accelerator. I should have said, "No, it's actually like having the mixture too rich in your carburetor." Of course, nobody has a carburetor anymore.
Thanks MisterBealey, have you ever replaced the chain due to it wearing out or just when you broke it? I think I am getting close to it wearing out. Use my chain cheker and am at 50% worn but not at 75% yet which is when I should get it replaced.
Added up all the bills this morning including what I owed my father for the new microwave and it left me with $78.83 for gas and groceries. Gas was $44 for 12.362 gallons ($3.559 x 12.36302332115763 = 44). Filled it up from half a tank. My gas gauge is Greek apparently. It waves all over so you never can tell how much gas there is. Well that left me with $34.83 + $30 food stamps makes $64.83. A lean amount for a months groceries. So my father gave me back the $36 for my car insurance. That brought it up to $100.83. That looks a lot better. No 'fun fund' for June.
Flo, 7 , gun, rope and a rafter pleases.
Yep, the foul mood goes on.
Took Sue to the Dentists this morning. All went well the wisdom tooth came out easy. That has been the highlite of my day.
1 Sparkie. I am just so confused? I am spending twices as much on dog food for him than when we had Wolfhounds? With the Wolfhounds we shoveled food in there bowl like a coal ogger did for a Big Boy! Sparkie gets only 2/3 of a cup a day. We feed Tiffy Americam Eskimo, Sonya and Shaddy Pedigree all there long lives! Pedigree cost $20.00 for 40 pounds. For some reason Sparkie has to eat food that cost $15.00 for 4 pounds? Not what the Vet said, what Sue says!
2 Certified Letter. That half way turned out to be a joke. Short version, State of ILL says I owe back taxes and I sort of do. Seems my ILL taxes was never recived when I filed with Turbo Tax. Finally dug up all of the W 2's for 2010 so I can refile. Certified Letter stated the are going to keep my Federal Tax check! That would have been fine with me! But, I all ready have the Federal Tax Check which I have not cashed so I could pay the fine anyway!
3 Bank Of Stupid. After all the worry about the Certified Letter, what do I find when I get home? Fed X letter from BoS! Going to start calling the Bank Of Dumb Mules! Same letter as last time stating they don't have all the paper work they need! Last Fed X letter was about 2 weeks ago stating the same thing. Called my Lawyer and she had talked to them, told them what page the information was on and they said OK, we have everything!
4 Work Front. I was to work at the Fairview Height store the rest of the week, week ends Sunday. Well Nancy (owners wife) decided she wants to work at my store and I have to go to St Charles instead! Reason I am is I plan my funds for the week and that determans what I spend! I have suffecent gas in my car to the end of the week. I spend $25.00 a week in gas when I work the Fairview Height store. Each round trip to St Charles is $10.00. She all so seems to decided to change things when I am broke! Have a whole $78.00 to last me till I get paid again.
Ray, that picture of Miss Lumpy was in her Glory Day's. This is her now.
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Pretty sad looking, one of theses days!
Mr Beasley, 66 and 67 Chargers are pretty rare. Few people like them, I am so so about them my self. 1966 there was around 20,000 made and 1967 9,000 or so. 1968 with the rebody they jumped to 95,000.
Ulrich, lay out is looking good. I tryed to lighten the photo up some but the glare was pretty bad.
Gary thank you for the well wishes on the anniversary!
Todd, do you think you will ever start working on your 70 Road Runner again? Any ideas how many miles are on the body and the 383? Sure your is in way better shape than mine with sitting in the garage all theses years! To bad we don't live close to each other!
See you all later.
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Been pretty hectic around here today. Of course that's how it always is when my father is off on the days I'm off (he's a taskmaster...)
My computer got a really nasty virus when on facebook last night. Avira picked it up and since it started to run really slow I decided to scan it. This was about 5 pm. My father left his on, so I looked up what the virus was (Boot/Cidox.b). It basically spams the computer with so many processes that it can barely function, but that's the tip of it. It also allows backdoor access for people trying to get in, shut down the firewall, and made the computer barely operable. I disconnected the infected computer from the internet so no one could get in through the "back door." When I woke up around 6am, it had only Avira scanned about 45%.
Since I fasted for about 14 hours (not as bad as I though), I went to the base hospital with my father to see the vampire, er, get some blood work/tests done. I hate doing blood tests, and I hate needles. Around the 3rd beaker my stomach started turning and burning, by the 5th I started to feel like I was gonna vomit, the 6th started making me a little lightheaded/dizzy. I was able to hold it together and tough it out for #7... I was supposed to get 9 samples taken, but the base hospital could only do 7 of the 9. That's probably for the better, since I don't think I could have made it to 9 beakers of blood (highly doubt I could ever give blood if 7 beakers is as far as I'm willing to go). My father asked if I wanted to go to the other hospital to get the other 2 done. I told him I can handle the fasting no problem(sometimes when I have to work I don't eat breakfast or lunch, usually get called in early and no lunch break) but I felt like I was gonna puke or pass out from the 7 samples I gave. SO head off to Denny's and had a big breakfast.
Come back around 9 and the scan isn't done. I laid down on the couch and took a nap while my father started getting stuff together to remodel the garage... Wake up around 1030 and the scan is finally done. So it took avira over 17 hours to scan while having the virus, and it's still there. My father decides to run Malwarebytes, and we proceed to dismantle the garage.. Fast foward to about 3 and half of the carpet, the counters, and racks in the garage are in a pile by the driveway, concrete is setting for a new step, etc. We went to go check on those cylinder heads I had been saving for. Turns out the helicoils for the rocker studs are busted. We know the guy who is selling them, so we took 1 to see how much it would cost for our go-to machine shop to fix, and he took the other to do the same.
Get home about 530 (him and my dad talked about their respective mustangs and my father's "cheater mustang" for a while) and clean up the mess in the garage. At dinner, then my brother got home from Ohio about 630. Unload his truck, and I finally get a chance to do something.
I haven't touched my trains in a while. I got some more kits in the mail. I'm starting to have a backlog.
I'll be catching up in the corner. Tomorrow's gonna be another busy day...
Had to shut down for a while. A string of thunder-boomers came through and in fact is still coming through. They're a bit distant at the moment but I'm keeping an eye on them via the radar. I have the emergency in the back room on just in case. It runs on house current til the power goes out then switches over to it's batteries. Eight 'D' cells or two six volt lantern batteries, whichever are available. One set of batteries lasts about twenty hours in continuous use. The other emergency lights are battery power only so they don't get turned on until after the power goes. Sounds a another set of thunder-boomers is close and the radar confirms it. I'm outta here for a while. See y'all later.
Janie, a cup of decaf sounds really good right now...
I spent a very busy day mostly doing gardening... Planted Petunias in between the Hostas by the fence. They should do well there as they get a bit of late afternoon sun but are usually in the shade. Also started to weed one of the raised bed boixes, drove over to the place where I got the Moo Poo and bought 5 bags of pine mulch for the area by the fence to try to keep the weeds at bay, switched out an old leaky hose with a new one for watering duties, drove down to church to drop off the large diaphram mic, and got a bunch of Scout related items done...
Little by little......
Wonder if we will be able to get in here in the morning? I see they are planing some "Routine Maintainance" for the weekend... Hope they turn the spell check back on and get the type size reasonable for the posting writing screen... Maybe we'll get lucky and they will turn the clock backwards to a version that actually worked right???
I am pooped tonight... the toe feels pretty good.... and bed is soundling like a good place to be. Good night all and have a safe and restful sleep!
Chamomile tea, please.
Wow, some of you have been busy, and not just on train stuff.
I'm still chipping away at farm stuff, looking for the next hired hand so I can one day get caught up.
Got pretty loud for a little while there. Some big thunderstorms went through and dropped a bunch of rain amidst a lot of thunder and lightning. Radar shows more on the way but for now we're between a couple of big ones. The radar is showing a bunch of yellow, orange and red over this area.As I reported earlier I finished converting both of the Apple A9M0107 Platinum 5¼" drives this morning. Later I went to town to make a payment on a loan then went to put gas in the van. Anybody who says a 318 is good on gas should be caught and tickled within an inch of their life. I've had six or seven vehicles with that size engine including the van I have now and none of them were good on gas. But back to the days activities. I dragged out an Apple A9M0108 Duodisk disk drive. That's two 5¼" drives in one case. This type was a thorn in Apple's side from the time it was introduced with the IIe in 1983 and this one is no exception. No matter how much I work on it it seems to have a problem that won't go away. Today it blew out a drive controller card. I'm about to the point where I may just strip everything out of the case and put two A9M0107 Platinum 5¼" drives in it and daisy-chain them together.
There was a young man named Timmerick
who loved to share a good limmerick.
He gave his gal Ange-lie-amond
a great big fat dia-mond
just for the heck of ick!!
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
The last day of May! This month has gone by quickly. It was also quite an expensive month. I have overspent my MRRing budget, digging deep onto July´s allowance. Until end of July, all I can afford is a bottle of white glue. Luckily, that´s all I need till then. I just bought the paint I need for the backdrop, a big bottle of white paint and a small bottle of blue paint. I´ll mx my own shades - makes things a lot cheaper. The paint was a whopping $ 10. The ballast is on order and already being paid for. I´d need some more stripwood to build the last dock, but that will have to wait until August.
There is a fair chance my friend will come over this afternoon and help me with the wiring. It´d be great to run a loco over the layout, which is kind of static as of now.
The next week will see my first attempts on the backdrop ...
Good morning. It's 71° with 100% humidity. Very cloudy with a high of 85° and decidedly wet with a fair chance of showers and thunderstorms. with No plans for today except of course to stay dry. I may get some freight cars out later and see what I can do to them regarding weathering.As I said yesterday the Duodisk disk drive blew out the 0101 controller I use to test M0104/M0107/M0108 disk drives. As I need to have one on hand for testing I had to get a replacement from one of the other IIe's that was so equipped. I'll have to get a replacement for that one in July or August.Last nights storms left behind quite a mess. I can hear the neighbors cleaning up their yards now before a new storm system comes through. Right now the radar doesn't show much but with the air coming up from the gulf that can quickly change. Hopefully I won't have to go anywhere today.
I am a little bit miffed, as my friend didn´t show up
At least he should have given me a ring. Spend a couple of hours just waiting.
Janie, coffee and aslice of that deliciously looking pie, please. Maybe that sweet stuff will help me get over this disappointment (in the true meaning of this word...)
Me again!
Everyone seems to be busy today - kind of lonely here in the Diner.
After watching a couple of H2 videos on backdrop painting, I decided to give it a go - to quench my frustration! I will be employing a mix of techniques, brush and sponge. In a first step, I roughly outlined the areas where clouds will be. Next, I painted the clouds in a light gray, not uniformly, but as the paint flowed from the brush. I will let it dry until tomorrow, before attacking the blue colors. I decided on three different shades of blue - avery. very light blue (near white) on the bottom, a light blue in the middle and a tad darker blue on the top. For the cloud texture, I will later employ a sponge to apply various shades of grey and "broken" white. Some highlights will be added with a grayish light yellow, where the sunlight strikes the clouds.
I have never been good at arts, so this is a really big challenge for me. I won´t post pictures before the backdrop is near completion, just in case I have to redo it again. I will take pictures along the process, though, and post them maybe in aseparate thread on painting my backdrop - if it turns out nicely.
I tried a little while ago and got "website not found"...so i assumed they were doing the maintenance thingy...maybe not, or the sure did it fast!
also people are busy outside if nice weather! I shoudl/woulda/coulda gotten out the front this morning and did something. maybe tomorow!
galaxyI tried a little while ago and got "website not found"...so i assumed they were doing the maintenance thingy...maybe not, or the sure did it fast!
Quoted from Steven Otte's posting. "Forums may experience sporadic page-not-found errors, inability to log in, and the like occasionally throughout that weekend."
Shame on me - I completely forgot about it.
So far, I had no issues accessing the forum, but that may change wile I sleep...
Calling it a day here at the ´ puter - CU all next month!
Got more thunderstorms going through. Right now it's a light rain but I can hear the thunder in the distance and where's there's thunder there's lightning and usually heavy rain. Radar shows that one cell has already passed through here and there's more heavy clouds down in south Louisiana heading this way with a good possibility of becoming more thunderstorms.Did a little weathering on an old Athearn tank car. A little dirt, a little rust, an accent here and there.
Sounds like you have had some good stomrs Jeff. We here have been dry for about two weeks now, we need some rain and they are calling for it Monday.
Did another 22 miles on the bike today ( that makes close to 45 in two days ) so I am taking tomorrow off for sure,lol. Spent the morning outsid and could feel my skin starting to burn and I was right as when I came in I was a bit pink. If I would have stayed out all day I can only imagine the pain I would be in right now. Knnes are a little sore so might just sit back and watch the Rays and Red sox game and maybe play a game of strat baseball.
Good Evening Folks and Herr Ulrich!
Flo, pleases and no need for the Rope and Rafter.
Work Front! Hee Hee Hee, I beat the heck out on Nancy today in Sales! Besides the extra drive time and gas used biggest reason I hate going to St Charles is I feel like it is Nancys way of saying I stink at sales and it is my fault the store is dong badly!
While I wish none of our stores do badly, I sure was hoping Fairview Heights would fall on it faces! By 2:00 PM Nancy called the store I was at and said "She is Derpressed how slow the store is and has had not a single sale yet". I on the other hand had a great day, made a extra $155.00 in Spiffs! On a Sad Note I out sold the whole company By My Self Today! While I had a good day it was not a Great Day with only $2600.00 in sales.
Other good thing today I was right, my pay check was $25.00 short like I thought. Got the $25.00 in cash. That sure with the gas today. By the way, if any one reads this and says so, there tap is on me all next month!
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I found out today that I have a house guest. A Carolina anole lizard also known as a chameleon because of it's ability to change from green to brown for camouflage. It should help put a little dent in the number of flies in here. But if I find it on any of my computers or trains it's getting evicted provided I can catch it. I used to be able to catch these things all day long with no problem but that was when I was twelve. I could move a lot faster then than I can now. When I saw the thing it was laying on top of the cable modem. Getting warm most likely. I keep it 70-75° in here year round. The modem belongs to the cable company so I'm not too concerned about it.Now wouldn't you know, we have another thunderstorm coming through. I can hear the rain hitting the roof now and the thunder is getting louder every minute. I'm gonna have to get off soon anyway so it's time I call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.Farmer Brown got lucky!
Evenin' Folks...
Janie just a decaf for me tonight.
Been another too busy day here in the Finger Lakes. Headed out to the grocery store before lunch and spent way too much money. I have accumulated 70¢ of per gallon for the next time I need to buy dinosaur juice for the car. That will be about Tuesday next week. I have just enough gas left in the Pip to make it our to the Museum and back tomorrow. RTight now I have gotten 93mpg on this tank of gas (Not including the kWs of electrons from the roof). That will go down about 10 mpg tomorrow due to the trip to the museum... Got the first of the 3 raised bed gardens rototilled, weeded, added Moo Poo, rototilled again, and gthen planted Squash (Zuchini yellow squash, and a few winter squash seeds. Went over to the hardware Value Store and got 3 hanging basket thingies and some hardware to to be able to hang 5 baskets. The hardware is installed on the fence, and there are now 5 hanging baskets decoating the fence on my side... That took most all of the day.
Todat was an excellent day for the solar panels netting me 28.45 kWh of power. I will end the month of May down about 50 kWh from last year though. Hopefully I will make that up in June and July which were not as good as they should have been last year (Lots of clouds and rain during those months last year. June and July should be the top producing months of the year!
I need to be up early tomorrow as I am working Train Crew (we are running diesel trains). ave a great night!
All aboard!
The May Diner is now closed and ready or the move to its new June 2014 location.
Thanks for your participation!