jeffrey-wimberly cudaken Galaxy Sure glad you found your way back to the dinner! Hope all goes well with your current problems. He can always do what I do. Think positive and look at the bright side. It could be worse. I've been so far down the scale I was in my car at one point. To put it in the local vernacular, it don't get much worse den dat!
cudaken Galaxy Sure glad you found your way back to the dinner! Hope all goes well with your current problems.
He can always do what I do. Think positive and look at the bright side. It could be worse. I've been so far down the scale I was in my car at one point. To put it in the local vernacular, it don't get much worse den dat!
Being Bipolar, with bouts of serious clinical depression, between my willpower, and my mental health therapist and psychiatrist, and medications, I HAVE, indeed, drastically changed my "outlook" and changed to more positive thinking, or at least pretend to, and it can at least "rub off" if i pretend.
I have had problems since childhood, only my mother ignored it and never let me get help for it. My teen years were mostly spent in depression with occasional manic outbursts. My mother didn't want any one to "think there was something wrong with me" and I was simply labled as "hyperactive" when manic. and often told me to "snap out of it" when I was depressed. SHe also denied the fact that I kept telling her I couldn't see the blackboard, sat as close as I could and came out of school with school with headaches every day. She didn't want the "sigma" of me wearing glasses! finally on my own by age 22 when I got so I really couldnt see much clearly beyond my arms length, I went and got glasses on my own! I was suprised at how MUCH I could finally actually see! SHe was shocked when I came home with them one christmas following getting them. I TOLD her "I kept telling you i couldn't see" all my child hood long! She thought since I 'passed the stupid eyetest they give at school" once in like first grade, I wasn't in need of glasses! nad since I could pass the drivers test "good enough" I MUST be able to see.
Why do you think my morning greetings were so bright, colorfull and tried to include positve or inspirational quotes for the day, or the limericks to make one laugh {hopefully}. {I have run out of finding clean limericks, though, and I am sure you all know about the man from Nantucket}.
Being in the hospital psych ward on lockdown suicide watch for attempting and sliting your wrists, or overdosing on meds combined with alcohol is no fun. Last attempt was only 5 years ago. I don't like to talk about it. Obviously. At least I am lucky to have a hospital with a serious psych ward here "in town" and don't have to seek help far away in, say, Syracuse.
I try to keep at least outward appearances on the positive side, as I said, it tends to "rub off" on me,at least bettering my condition. And untill they got a good working med in me, I was on a constant roller coaster of emotions. The problem is after about 4 years I develop a tolerance to a med and it starts to react with my sytem, so they have to go searching for a new one. One thta works, that is. My bipolar anti-depressant script is nearly $1k/month!
The bigger problem now is not so much the depression, but the opposite side of bipolar, I have been on manic tears of late for two and a half years, and not CONstructive ones {such as cleaning}, but DEstructive ones. Though with the car accident, it has dumped me into a depression. We are now searching for a new anti-mania med to help with that part, as I think the depression from the car accident is getting over. Now I have to double watch on the manic tears. I wonder what it costs? I have ben forwarned it can add weight, serious weight, so I have to be real carefull. If I gain too much {i am heavy enough already} i will have to change off it, even if it means going back to plain old less than effective lithium. I took it for one month but combined woith the heavy duty muscle relaxer for the car accident, i slept 20 hours out of the day, and was drowsy for the other 4. So The psychiatrist said to stop taking it while I am on the heavy duty muscle relaxer,and during that one month I gained 14 lbs, and I hardly ate as I had zero appetite, just ate at breakfast lunch and dinner as it was "time to eat', not because I was hungry and I didn't eat much when I did eat!
So hear I sit, all broken hearted, but trying to "put a face on" as I have to see the psychiatrist today!
So today's plan is the Psychiarist, then the insurance agent to get forms, then to my father's for a visit, then home for company in the afternoon, and then dinner alone as MOH's client is a night client tonight,and bed time.
Well, gotta start getting ready to face the day!
[color=red]MAKE it a great day![color]
-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.
Happy Friday, and welcome back Galaxy!
We will be going camping this weekend, up in Maine. We haven't done this for a couple of years, so I hope all goes well. It's going to be too hot, and I'm probably going to have to put up a tent I'm unfamiliar with in the dark. But, if all else fails, we will be within a few miles of L.L. Bean, the big Mother Ship store that is open 24 hours a day.
We got an email yesterday from the president of our part of this big company, telling us of the importance of "investing in the business." It sounded like the prelude to bad news. Later, we got the nickel-dime email from some bean counter about eliminating free lunches at noon meetings. I'm hoping this means we will have another voluntary layoff. I'm ready this time, and it will be a going-away present, a severance package when I would otherwise be retiring anyway.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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.
.... and I love your little stories, Todd! They are a day´s highlight!
Good Afternoon!
Just woke up from a midday nap! I am tired today, the nap brought some relief.
Have you folks seen the thread about the "Cliffhanger" layout? What a fantastice modeling job. Unfortunately, the builder seems to have a somewhat strange sense of humor, which does not strike everyone´s (or anybody´s?) liking.
I am up to nothing today - maybe give my HOn3 layout some more thoughts. I am wondering if that concept I used to build those N scale mini-modules could be applied to an HOn3 layout. I don´t like building complex benchwork, but I thoroughly enjoyed building those small and simple modules. In HOn3, they won´t be mini-modules anymore ...
Galaxy - good you found your way back to this place!
Have a happy day!
Good morning. It's 77° with 92% humidity. The high will be 92°, cloudy with a fair chance of rain. with This morning I'm waiting on my Home Health nurse to call. After she's done her thing I'll head to the Veteran's Plaza in Leesville and set up for my photo shoot. Sure hope the cops don't say anything about shooting in a public park. I'll make sure to take along a copy of 'The Photographers Rights'. It's public property so there shouldn't be a problem. Hope I don't get rained out. If everything goes right I'll have a bunch of photos to add to my albums.
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Hi Guys
Havent been in for a few. Still not feeling great. Jeff, look forward to seeing those pics.
Talk to you guys tonight
Jeremy - you should go and see a doctor asap!
The hot & humid weather has come back and I feel miserable. Must be the polar bear blood in me. I think I should move to Iceland.
I´ll better stop thinking of an HOn3 layout for the time being. My thoughts don´t lead to anything useful, other than frustration. I don´t have the space to incorporate continuous running and I don´t have the funds to do something proper. Yes, I know, I have been there before, but any attempt to get out of that rut ended in some kind of disaster. Seems as if I am trying to square a circle.
As I am typing this, I keep on looking at that T-12. It´s really a charming little loco, which I would dearly like to see run. Oh, rats!
Morn....... Hmmmmm... Ahem! Afternoob folks!
Chloe just a refill for my dark roast coffee. Lunch? Not yet, had a big breakfast this morning.
Ulrich, hang onto those thoughts. Somehow you will find a way to make it happen. I know you will!
Sun is out today so far here in the Finger Lakes. Going to be a hot one they say. Currently 85°F with a high of 92°F later this afternoon. May have some "Isolated" thunderstorms overnight.
Will be spending today cleaning the house! Have a couple quick errands I need to do, but mostly clean house. Guests coming tomorrow for a bit and I don't want to completely gross them out....
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Morning gang,
I slept in today and I am not feeling well. On top of everything else, I think the harvest time allergies have cut in. I have an eye socket that is really sore, stuffed up head and nose, and extra bad in the throat area.. AH, the golden years................
Chloe bring me a Double Denver and a double Root Beer float. If only I could.
My wife and I are going to an awards banquet tonight (which I won't be able to eat) as I receive my 12 year service award on my second career.
Sure hope all get feeling better, and have as good a day as you can make it. We never stop trying.
No Railroading in the last few days to report on, except I miss it .. I know how Ulrich feels, but he will solve his problem as he always has. Just takes some thought and planning and he is great at both.
Johnboy out.................................now to get ready for work .
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Went on my photo shoot this afternoon. It was almost too hot out there for me. But I got photos of everything including the POW/MIA monument of which I have no connection to. The photos are uploading at this time. There weren't any problems unless I count the two hayseeds telling what I could and couldn't photograph. I simply told them that if they didn't leave me alone there was going to be ... trouble. The choice was theirs and they made the wise one. Now I'll get some rest and as usual the gun will be just under the pillow.
Jeffrey, here is a link to an article and downloadable pdf on the rights of photographers. It also tells the best course of action if you are stopped and told you cannot photograph something: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Basically, if you are on public property you have the right to photograph anything you want. Period! If a company or the government does not want you to photograph something they would have to somehow block the image of it from public property. I carry a copy of this document in the glove compartment of my car.
howmus Jeffrey, here is a link to an article and downloadable pdf on the rights of photographers. It also tells the best course of action if you are stopped and told you cannot photograph something: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Basically, if you are on public property you have the right to photograph anything you want. Period! If a company or the government does not want you to photograph something they would have to somehow block the image of it from public property. I carry a copy of this document in the glove compartment of my car.
Ulrich:
I swent you a email under seperate cover!
Enjoy!
-g
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer and some salt pills.
My Lights are on, but I am not home. Felt so so when I got up. Played on the computer some then took a nap around 9:30. Ate some scrambled eggs around 11:00 then came out to the garage and played on the computer a little more. Then took another nap. Did my running and by 4:30 PM I was gone, in other words went brain dead! I am not sure if it was because of the heat, low sodium and messed up blood sugar!
All most left the stuff I bought at the store, luicky the cleark got me before I left. Forgot to turn in all my books due back at the libary. Got home and started to run the trains, ran a mixed freight into the back of a slow big coal train at wide open!
Ken
I hate Rust
Here's some photos for the hungry photo appetites out there. The wall with my fathers name.The wall with my name. obviously someone out there is going pipe up that I don't deserve to be on THAT wall. These walls are for the dead AND the living. Prove to me they're not.Here's the POW/MIA wall of which I have no connection whatsoever.Now that that is out of the way here's some more photos.Before I got to these bricks the weather had become too uncomfortable to stay there much longer. Here are some of the bricks. By this time I was unable to read them anymore.There's one in particular that I was looking for. It reads something like 'Elbert and Leigh Wimbery, Vietnam veterans.More photos tomorrow. I must go back when it's cooler to find my parents brick. It's important to me.
Good evening. It's 80° with 92% humidity and 20% chance of rain. 40% for tomorrow.I take it the photos were well received today.The heat gave me some problems so I had to rush it.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf, please.
Spent almost all day cleaning.... So far I have almost finished the kitchen and have done the bathroom floor. Hope to get most of the office/dinning room area done before the company gets here. I may actually have a chance to run the vacume in the living room. The layout will be an awful mess, but they will not be running trains anyway.... The folks that are coming is my counterpart from a Division of the NMRA in Canada and his wife. He is dropping off some materials for the Convention and the dedicated convention laptop with all the info on it that will be needed for registration and such.
I'm heading to bed... My back is talking back to me real bad right now. Hope I can move tomorrow to finish up some of the (Badly) needed cleaning around here. I should have company come more often. The house wouldn't get quite as bad before I clean it.
Have a great night!
It´s hot & humid again, making me feel dizzy. I won´t be able to get anything accomplished today.
Keg Harbor is history now. I just sold it to someone in southern Germany. He will be picking it up in October. The price I got is OK, the loss is not too big, so there will be some funds available for a small start. If I knew only what to do - sigh!
Have a happy weekend!
Morning guys,
Had some really powerful storms move through last night,lots of lightining. I work from 10-6:30 today and then am off for a couple days. Tomorrow is going to be sunny and dry so will get out and cut the grass. I think are flowers are just about done for, I might pull them. It wont be long until a frost anyway. They were great flowers this year, nice and full looking.
More photos
Aftyernoon folks...
Janie, I'll have a cinnimon raison bagel with creme cheese and a refil on my coffee for lunch...
Just taking a break before I get back to cleaning before the company arrives. Amazing how filthy my house had gotten. Been a while since I really cleaned it. Will have to take time this fall to really give it good scrubbing. What I am doing now is just shoveling out the worse of the dirt and grime.
I also have to write my article as Superintendent for the Division Newsletter and get it to the editor sometime tonight. If the rain holds off I may try to get the yard mowed this evening after company leaves. Been very dark, gloomy and cloudy so far today. Yesterday the high was 89°F. Today it won't even reach 70°.
Jeffrey, good to see Leesville honors those who served! Hope you find all the bricks and such you are looking for.
Back to w*rk! Later...
howmus Jeffrey, good to see Leesville honors those who served! Hope you find all the bricks and such you are looking for.
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Evening all,
Got up yesterday & decided that I just didn't feel like doing any chores, house cleaning, laundry, etc. So we decided to go on a little field trip & do some railfanning. I had seen a photo taken about an hour's drive north of Pittsburgh, & it looked like a nice spot. So off we went. I knew going in that we probably wouldn't see much as it's on CSX. We did see 1 mixed freight, but after about an hour, we were chased off. Not by the police or anybody else, but by gnats. Man, they started to swarm around the car so bad you couldn't even get out if another train did show up. We then drove over to New Castle & had breakfast at a Bob Evans before returning home. Something different, & we will probably go bach when the weather gets a little too cool for the bugs.
Today we spent 3 hours at our usual spot on Norfolk Southern, & caught 12 trains. 4 mixed freights, 4 intermodals, 1 road railer, 1 crude oil, 1 slab train (empty) and the Amtrak Capitol Limited on its way from Chicago to Washington DC. This is 2 weeks in a row we have seen the Capitol Limited, but I don't know if that's due to a schedule change or it was just running late. I would like to get a video of it, but it showed up so fast I didn't have time to set the camera up for that.
The only foreign power today was a Canadian Pacific C4400CW. But one of the mixed freights had some interesting locomotives on it. Here's a photo of the 2 trailing units:
615 is a RP-M4C slug. Although it is a slug, it's also designed so that it can lead a consist. 4658 is a GP59E. Apparently, EMD only built 36 GP59s, & Norfolk Southern has them all & rebuilt them into GP59Es. This one happens to be painted for "Operation Lifesaver". Some think railfanning NS is boring, and maybe it is if your only looking at color scheme, but their rebuild programs sure produce a lot of interesting variations of standard locomotives.
Other than that, not much else is happening around here. We will probable be back out tomorrow, & hopefully see even more trains. Just can't get enough it seems.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Hey! Guess who? Yah, I know that I'm sort of one of the missing this summer. It's just been way too great a summer for curzing in the convertible with the roof down and in the process taking 100's of pictures for two photo journals I'm working on.
Today is 75 F and not a cloud in the sky. That's about 15 F above normal for this time of the year in the great white north but we'd best enjoy it because come Monday, or high will be 38 F for the day with rain and sn*w in the forcast. That is one four letter word at this time of the year.
Tuesday brings eye surgery for yours truly. Not looking forward to it but if it improves my failing eysight it will be worth it. Right now, I don't dare drive after dark but hopefully the surgery will fix that. I'm more than a little worried about that.
Nothing done this summer in the way of model RR ing, nothing other than spending money on stuff I'll need once winter sets in.
That's about it for now
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Flo Pleases.
All most did not go into work today, but talked my self into it. Pretty much a waste of time excpet for the houly wage. I worked with Cary today and in some ways I was glad. We only had 5 customers and did not sale a thing. While I like Cary the down sizes is He could talk paint off the wall so it could get away from him. Guy knows everybody and knows just about everything. Half of the day my eyes just glazed over while he was talking.
Time to walk Sparkie The Rocket Dog.
Got thunderstorms rolling in so I'm backing out. Here it's 77° with 88% humidity. A 30% chance of rain tonight and a 99% chance of noise. Hopefully there won't be any nearby lightning strikes.time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Dennis: I heard some parts of Alberat got snow the other day. We in Ontario had out warmest day of the year. It was close to 44c around 3pm. Everybody knew we were going to get hit with powerful storms and around 8:45 they rolled through with the biggest lightning show I have ever seen. We are back to seasonal temps today and by the end of the week it will be only around 15c.
Tomorrow it will be cleaning up the lawn and watching football
Janie, just a refill for my decaf please...
Company came and left... It was mostly a delivery of tickets for the Region Raffles at the Conventions, the convention laptop, and a CD with all the data they collected from last years conventions. I also gave them a tour of the SLOW while they were here. They are making a weekend of it here state side and will be crossing back over the border Sunday evening. He is looking forward to coming to next years convention and I hope we put on a great one for everyone! I checked out the Data CD and the new PC's are actuially playing nice with the Mac and using the extra 4 bytes of space to make the CD universally compatable..... 'Bout time! I downloaded all the data files to my computer this evening.
Also spent a few minutes doing more on the fill for the bridge scene, doing some measurments and seeing how the scene can be accomplished. Even though I planned the scene out using Empire Express for Mac, I am changing my mind as I go along on a few things. It should work out well in the end though there will be some close tolerances... one other thing that got done was my article for the division newsltter and a page for the upcoming Fall Meet.
Jeremy!!! No, no no!!! There will be no using the word SN°W in the diner in September!!! No! No! No!
We had cloudy, gray, and dull, all day long here. The solar panels churned out a whopping not quite 4 kWh today.... Enough to charge the car with a kWh left over. Whoopie! Yesterday it was 21 kWh just to show the difference. Tomorrow should be sunny. I will be taking the day off from the museum. Most likely will mow some lawn. It needs it!