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.
(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).
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.
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
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.
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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!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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.
morning...
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After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
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!
Good Afternoon!
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!
Have a good one!
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.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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"
Mornin' everyone!
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!
Later!
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!
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.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
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....................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
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.
Evenin' folks!
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.
Ken
I hate Rust
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!