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.
Mornin' everyone!
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!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
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.
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
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)
-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 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.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
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
I hate Rust
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.
(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_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
Good Afternoon!
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