Today's quotes:
{for Galaxy:}:
-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.
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.
OK. I have no idea why it made the rest of my post link to photobucket, but it did. No need to click on it.
Good morning. Thought I'd drop by on my way to the train show. Sunny and it should get into the 50s today. I hope so, because I've got to drain the garden hoses and roll them up for the winter. They had some ice in them yesterday.
V8Vega My old XP does everything I want except for a while now it freezes up about every other day and I have to turn it off and back on. Is there a way to fix this? I only allow myself a certain amount of time on the computer before I go to bed or have to go someplace and then if it freezes up I am NOT pleased to say the least.
My old XP does everything I want except for a while now it freezes up about every other day and I have to turn it off and back on. Is there a way to fix this? I only allow myself a certain amount of time on the computer before I go to bed or have to go someplace and then if it freezes up I am NOT pleased to say the least.
What's the nature of the problem? Does it just stop dead, with stuff still on the screen, or does it give you the "Blue Screen of Death" with a bunch of cryptic numbers on it? And, is there anything in particular that you're doing when this happens?
I've had both of those over the past year. The Blue Screen was a malicious virus that had damaged, of all things, the USB driver software. It would crash the computer every time I plugged in the digital camera to download pictures. I was able to find a copy of the driver online from the board manufacturer, and that solved that one.
The other problem was just a straight lock-up - it just stopped with whatever happened to be on the screen. I had just straightened up my office, and put the side cover back on the computer. I found a little utility to display CPU temperature, and sure enough, it was hotter than it should be. So, I took the side cover back off, and jiggled the wires of the fan and cooling pump. So far, so good.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Cinnamon Spice Oatmeal and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to keep my R&GV RR mug filled for a while.
Missing church today. Yesterday I started having a sharp pain in my right hip every time I was bending over or climbing stairs. Do hope it cures itself... I will be spending most of tyhe day trying to put together information for the Region Publication. Moving to "Plan B" so to speak.
Did get a bit more stuff dome on the Dairy yesterday. Added two sets of stairs outside. Need to do some touch up painting on the stonework foundation and I think I will put a wood deck on top of the loading dock to bring the height up to the doorsills.
Next will be the driveway and parking lots at the Dairy.
Galaxy, just remember.... "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep." - W. C. Fields
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W. C. Fields
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray, quote; "I started having a sharp pain in my right hip every time I was bending over or climbing stairs."
I had the same thing last month. I'd be saying .. 'it will pass'.. but it didn't. My wife said it was my computer chair..(since I also model at my computer desk) and said it was a simple matter of getting a new chair. A nice one she bought.. and you know what? The pain went away. Just my two cents.. hope you're feeling better.
Keith
TMarsh OK. I have no idea why it made the rest of my post link to photobucket, but it did. No need to click on it.
Hello Todd. The newer software for the forum is a bit complicated for posting photos now. Of course , there are no instructions for users' reference.
While posting, click on the little icon with a mountain and a sun above the posting body where you type. Then you copy the code from Photobucket. In my Photobucket, the code is second of four codes offered instead of the last of four codes offered.
if that sounds complicated, that is because it is.
Ken ... I was very impressed you restored a car that was moments away from being completely destroyed in the scrap yard.
Ray . I hope your pain is a minor situation.
Model railroad progress. Working on the jinxed 2-10-2 again. The long story continues, but I will skip the details because I don't want to spend time typing them. This is Mr. Murphy's 2-10-2.
Happy model railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon!!
Flo, I'll just have the huge quadruple cheeseburger plate and a barrel of coffee thank you
I went to an 8.1 system here. On an 8 core system with 32 GB of DDR3 ram.
Now I can do all my recording literally In The Box as it were...
So far the train room is separate from my recording studio. I said...so far
Tomorrow is another day of MRI/cat scan and what all else. The doctors think I have something in me...
And it better not be something I don't need...
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/
Barry-sized burgers are back !
Heartland Division CB&Q Barry-sized burgers are back !
Dang right they are!!
Bring them on!!!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer and give that Buick guy a as well. Well I did like the GSX stage 4.
Gary Only reason I saved my Charger was because everything was there! All the center cap, trim rings, onginal spare, jack, AM/FM radio, seats, door panels, number matching trans and BB! Only thing missing was the Body! R/T on this Charger stood for Rusted / Trash! It finally broke in half from rust!
http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Real%20Cars/rustedframe4.jpg.html] Yep, that is the back of the Charger sitting in my driveway, well what was left of it. Douglas I sure hope you type faster than me! I read the PM. What do you think of the Dell 3400 as a whole not just that one? I will not being buying off EPC E Bay store but in person. Company I work for in St Charles store is only 4 miles if that from EPC local store. We buy from them often and more than likely I will get a better price. I will not be buying off E Stupid. Would you mind explaing Dual Core CP vs single core? Here is what I think I know. With a dual core it is like having two CP's in one. My CP is rated at 2.80 GHz a dual core rated at say 2.5 GHz is around 4.8 GHz. Can you give me a % to go by? I know 2.5 GHz does not equael a single core 5.0 GHz. Can you load a driffrent opreation system on a computer that has a newer opreation system all ready installed? I have been told no, it cannot be done. Even if I install a new hard drive? I have found a XP Pro that is 64 bit, so that is why I ask. On a side note, today I ran SpyBot on system start up setting. Boy that took all most 2 hours but it killed a lot of bugs! I had 5 Male Ware (spell check) things going and a bunch of ad ware things. Computer is running some what better. Train Front. Found a old Walthers Rio Grande Waffle Side Box Car I bought 6 years ago. I have no clue why I did not build it. It may hit the rails yet tonight. Stange how many of us buy stuff we never use? Anyone hear from Jeffery or Ulrich? Starting to worry about them. Later, Cuda Ken
Yep, that is the back of the Charger sitting in my driveway, well what was left of it.
Douglas I sure hope you type faster than me! I read the PM. What do you think of the Dell 3400 as a whole not just that one? I will not being buying off EPC E Bay store but in person. Company I work for in St Charles store is only 4 miles if that from EPC local store. We buy from them often and more than likely I will get a better price. I will not be buying off E Stupid.
Would you mind explaing Dual Core CP vs single core? Here is what I think I know. With a dual core it is like having two CP's in one. My CP is rated at 2.80 GHz a dual core rated at say 2.5 GHz is around 4.8 GHz. Can you give me a % to go by? I know 2.5 GHz does not equael a single core 5.0 GHz.
Can you load a driffrent opreation system on a computer that has a newer opreation system all ready installed? I have been told no, it cannot be done. Even if I install a new hard drive? I have found a XP Pro that is 64 bit, so that is why I ask.
On a side note, today I ran SpyBot on system start up setting. Boy that took all most 2 hours but it killed a lot of bugs! I had 5 Male Ware (spell check) things going and a bunch of ad ware things. Computer is running some what better.
Train Front. Found a old Walthers Rio Grande Waffle Side Box Car I bought 6 years ago. I have no clue why I did not build it. It may hit the rails yet tonight. Stange how many of us buy stuff we never use?
Anyone hear from Jeffery or Ulrich? Starting to worry about them.
Later, Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
V8Vega Santa Anna Winds are blowing and the wind is cold. I don;t think it reaches these tempatures the TV just posted. Mon. 78 Tue. 87 Wed. 85 You guys with long posts do you type properly or are you like me who has to look at the keys and with two fingers?
Santa Anna Winds are blowing and the wind is cold. I don;t think it reaches these tempatures the TV just posted. Mon. 78 Tue. 87 Wed. 85
You guys with long posts do you type properly or are you like me who has to look at the keys and with two fingers?
Depends ... with me and three cats it is always a gamble whether it becomes two finger hunt and peck or my special deluxe 4 finger pecking, lol!!
Good evening everyone and all! Please gather round it looks as if weve alot to talk about! Flo dollin, round of drinks for us gearheads and hoggers alike!
The niceties: today was sunny here and made it up to 60. See i told you this place is dismal for those of us who love bad weather. It is still warm out but it drissley wet with a paltry attempt at raining. I have got to get to Michigan!!!! you folks up north gonna ship that stuff my way any time soon??
TMarsh - thanks for the welcomes, its nice to be here. Pleasure to meet you. I have to duplicate the same thing I told Ken too, "dang nice car!". Pardon me but i just dont know any other term to describe a car that catches your eye like that as other than 'sexy'.
Long sleek lines, nice livery, great shape.... makes you wanna hug the screen! Just something as simple as the half ring horn actuator on your steering wheel. Man I always thought that was sooooo coool of a way to do that. And hey, who in their right mind doesnt like "the good, the bad, and the ugly? huh!! Lets hear it for Clint Eastwood!!
Cant figure why you painted it white, she looks hot in the pics. Aint seen a CB radio in dogs years either! Your flashing me back - I feel a Bandit Trans Am moment comming on (my generation as opposed to a 1970)! Very shweet car TMarsh.
HowMus - First let me say I hope this isnt anything serious and wish you to feel better soonest. Health issues seem to be big issues these days.
First time i am seeing your dairy building. Thumbs up from here! Looks great! You could put umpteen zeros on that price of the concept one car you posted, wouldnt matter. I still want one!
Blown Cylinder - Holy cow you must be doing some serious recording. A friend of mine in the puter business has an 8 core w/16g and Im like "What in the world are you gonna do with that thing????" His reply.... "Anything I want!". I mean really, thats alot of horsies under the hood.
I just cant imagine how well that runs. Or what in the world you would have to run to bog that down! Can you imagine the bench tester program for such a beast? My god man - you trying to take over the world? All I have to say is just plain awesome .
Good luck with your scans tomarow. BTW, whats a barry burger?
V8Vega - well if portability isnt your cup, and you want to mostly just do media, the chrome book would be ok. It is most intended to be more of a browser openly than a desktop computer. So you would mostly be watching streamed video from websites. Ofcourse, that is if the chrome book has a screen width as big as you would like.
Thats one thing I didnt like about laptops. Im old school square monitor. This widescreen stuff is for the birds! Makes me feel like Im squinting the whole time, whats up with that? Did we forget how to use the upper and lower two inches of the screen? .
Tis why i got my first laptop reluctantly only 4 years ago. Im a dedicated tower user. Cant beat a tower! Did you know probably for the same $$$ your gonna spend on the chromebook, you could get a barebones PC, a decent video card, and plug it into your large screen tv for a REALLY NICE picture?
You can sit in your barko-louncher across the room controlling it with nothing more than a mouse instead of a remote with hundreds of buttons too small to even see. Watching something commercial free that YOU choose to watch. No more commercials or 1500 channels of dufus fluff. And if that isnt good enough you can always turn the tv source back over to its normal input and let the PC just sit on your desk.
Typing.... well it takes me about an hour to type the responses youve seen. I try to answer each that reply. It takes a bit flashing between screens reading here, writing reply there. Plus I never send what i originally type. I try to edit out extraneous stuff as much as i can a reword things so that they are clear.
Myself personally i can type as fast as you and I can talk. While my significant other uses a keyboard for 90% of her job duties, she gives me jabs that I can do that. I admit I can either look at or not look at the keyboard. I do make more mistakes not looking. Which takes more time. So You will see me looking at the keyboard more than not.
I also attribute my speed to 1) ive been typing since the 70's. 2) being a musician i decree the extra nimbleness and dexterity needed in playing instruments also aids my typing and vice versa. Lastly, I also reread my posts (most times) because alot of places use a spell checker or word guesser. And it changes my wording ALOT! Definately a good thing to re read especially when typing to significant other or your doctor!
All in all, for being fast at it, with all the redos, typos, rewrites, and re-reads.... Im really quite slow.
CudaKen - Hey man, DONT get me going on those 70 GSX Buicks. You folks think I am long winded now! HEH! we will go round for hours on that one! But then I could go 'days' on Staged Buick Turbo 6's now. You know you can get an all aluminum stage block for those things now. This is why my car is in the garage.... the cost of that block alone is half what you can find a GN for now. Worth every penny but that is just out of my league. Que Super Tramp's Dreamer please Flo?
Typing, lol you too? Let me put it this way, I wouldnt put my GN up against that monster of yours, but Id race you on the keyboard for sure! Now about the puter stuff. For the T3400 in general I would say yes. With this reservation. It is a yes because it is a good base to start with and use. For what you want to do you are still going to have to at the very minimum get a video card of some kind in it. From what you have told me, that seems to be the only thing really lacking here. 4gb is great for XP, especially on a dual core. I put the specs you should be trying to achieve in my pm to you. If you can meet those, you will have a system that meets your needs. Yes, T3400 is a good start of that.
What is a multi core? Well technically I could confuse you and alot of folks. Lets not. Lets just say your description of two in one is an accurate one. [in brevity following ] They run at the speed listed. 2.5 whether its one cpu or 8 (like Blown Cylinders Net Crusher above) cpu's it runs at one clock speed which is set by a chip on the motherboard [end brevity].
Essentially you can think of the CPU's running in parallel. They 'both' (for a dual core) run at 2.5 equally. To think of them at 5.0 is the same as saying they run in serial, or sequentially (which they dont). See it gets techy here! Just know that the speed listed is what you get. If its 2.5 dual core vs 2.5 quad core, they all run at same speed - all of them. Where the quad core would have the advantage is it has two more 'channels' to push the program data through giving it that much more 'crunched' data vs time vs dual core. th 8 core above would just chop data like it wasnt there! Thus, that computer is capable (he didnt list speed of it) of handling massively intense programs. Also capable of handling many more resources at once as channel data can be programmed. That part is getting a bit out of my field. I am an applications programmer, not a systems programmer ( i wish i knew that stuff!).
If using Windows products, you can install any operating system over and existing one, even if you do or dont change hard drives. Albeit it can be a bit of a process to go through. Going from Win7 down to Win98 lets say would require a total new format in a different file format, ie: NTFS to FAT. Can be done, and the formatting process would eliminate the Win7 operating system. For new drives, well how do they get loaded in the first place? Same way - format then install except no previous operating system.
The thing to consider here in your case is - is the system your loading it on capable of handling 64bit operating system? If so then you really have 3 options. Load 64bit over what you have, get a new drive and load 64bit on new one, or make your system a 'dual operating system' in which you can choose either or when your puter boots up. My preferrence would be in the order in which i listed them IF my system could do 64bit.
Depending on how much a person surfs, and/or the caliber of ads on said surfing sites, one should run some kind of anti-malware atleast twice a week these days.
Well told yall we had alot to talk about, you can wake up the others now. Flo, better get some coffee going, and put something extra in Kens. Myself, im off to maybe actually do something constructive. Hope my explanatins answered more ques than they posed! I will see yall tomarow. PEACE!!!!
PM Railfan
PM Railfan.
This system is pretty fast ... eight Xeon CPUs stacked. 16 GB ram, expandable to 32 if needed.
I spend a lot of time doing a lot of orchestral...or near orchestral things on it. Running Cubase 7.5 with all the doodads for it...done a 124 track 8:34 minutes long piece...and no audio popping or crackling...
As for train related ... got 6 of my FM units getting delivered. And, finished cleaning the tracks!!!!
Flo...I will have the 64 oz prime rib dinner with all the trimmings please...as well as the barrel of coffee. Thank you!!!
Only old Charger I've got:
Good Morning
Getting windy out with rain...later getting down to 35°F. Right now, off our back deck it is 55°F
Getting ready for the trip to the hospital to get MRI/cat scan done. Then off to see the gang at our favorite diner.
@PM Railfan...barry burgers are Garry's favorite super sized burgers.
Today's Quotable Quote:
The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
Hmm,
~Even though that last post was ALL supposed to be the SAME SIZE, it alternates the sizes on me.
~Also, it was supposed to be all in just TWO colors, NOT THREE.
~I would have been on early today if TW cable wasn't "out" at my house...been happening a lot lately.
~Also the cable box has been going out a lot on us too. That is as annoying as the 'net being out.
~Wonder if it has to do with the bad idea merger with comcast?
~Today I have to defrost the turkey and start the gravy prep for thursday. I do the gibblets gravy {I know, GROSS to some of you, but tasty to others}. I will boil off the gibblets, and then the tail, neck, wing tips, and celery, onions, and carrots till they are drained of flavor and dispose of the remains, keeping the stock. Comingled they will make a great gravy base. That will take a couple hours on lower heat to boil. But mmm, tasty. The stock wil full of flavor then...mmmm.
~I have a Doctors appt tomorrow with the GP. for "presurgery" doings. Basically he will give the "OK" for me to have the shoulder surgery. Easy APPt, but disrupts my "doings" to get the house/food ready for TG.
~BARRY:Hope your scans come out in the manner which they would like to see.
~RE: ULRICH:He is dealing with a serious medical issue, I assume he will join us when ready.
Well, Make today a great day for those of you who have to work in the USA. To those on vacation, ENJOY!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buckwheat pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup and a couple sausage links to go along with a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee for my R&GV RR mug, please.
"We're havin' a heat wave.... Tropical heat Wave..." Love that song and I figure we are somewhat a bunch of Grumpy Old Men anyway so I just had to sing it this morning. Actually the temperature outside the door here in the Finger Lakes is all the way up to 64°F with abundant sunshine so far. Good thing as the solar panels haven't done diddly over the past several days. Yesterday they produced 1.5 kWh... Whoppie! Just about enough to recharge the PiP after a couple short errands around town. We are under a high wind advisory here for the day with gusts up to 30mph at times.
I am still sitting at the computer trying to get a whole bunch of stuff done for a couple organizations. Have to do the Treasurers report for the MLK Committee tomorrow night and have a lot of info to get to the editor of the Refion Newsletter, etc., etc., etc.
Last night I got about 6 foot of rail painted in the area going up to the little bridge in the section I have been working on. That portion is now ready for ballast.
Todd, I remember CB's I had one in whatever I was driving back then for years. Helped me a good many times, it did! That's a big 10-4 Good Buddy! Your telling about the sound system in a car that the motor produces 140 dB idling reminds me of the Jeff Foxworthy line, "What's the sense of drinkin' if ya ain't gonna drahve..."
Galaxy, remember, “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”- W. C. Fields
Later!
73
Howmus,
You have been watching too much Hollywood TV for CB lingo...A good buddy in truckers lingo...I can't type here. LOL.
Take Care!
Frank
zstripe Howmus, You have been watching too much Hollywood TV for CB lingo...A good buddy in truckers lingo...I can't type here. LOL. Take Care! Frank
I was being a bit "Tongue in cheek..." Besides, I was referred to as one of those -------- 4 wheelers!
well
~Buddy? GOOD buddy? I've got a few, and I/we dumped the BAD buddies... I know that is not quite what Frank with the stripes was referring to...
~Ever watch "A Taste Of History"? The guy {Chef Staib} is a German dude who cooks in open firplace settings at histroical places and his own historical restaurant in Philly. He has a thick accetn. took us a while to finally figure it out:
I have my stock pot going with some celery, a couple of bay leaves and my "wood wedge tables". THAT is what he calls {or rather how he pronounces} "root vegetables". Or where my mother's family came from, the "rUt vegTAHbles".
~got the sink all scrubbed 3 times and sanitized the turkey will go in later to defrost. Then I get the stock broth going to town with the gibblets.
~Like Ray said, a heat wave...magically 71F on its own in here{simmering stock pot aside}, and 67F on the enclosed porch,so I guess about 60-65F outside. I'll find out when i got to get the mail in 2 hours.A Bit gusty but low gusts. Western NY getting wind warnings, not us.
~While the turkey thaws I will get the cranberry sauce done...whole berry/orange zest going too done the old fashioned way...
~Heard form the fabulous wedding party couple MOH did about a month ago. Happy as can be, but was really tryign to reach a DRs. office, and dialed us by mistake! Since I went to school with one of the party {she was a JR to my Sr.} and I knew her back then, though,somehwat.,{used to hang out in the same hang out spot} we have a few things to talk about in common.I said don't be a stranger and call once in awhile maybe we all go out for a bite to eat sometime.
~Once the turkey is thawed, the cranberries are made, both stocks are done, and the dressing made, that will take a tremendous load off. about 1/2 stock with 1/3 gibblets goes as the liquid for the dressing and the other half With the giblets diced for the gravy.The drippings also go to the gravy, naturally.
~DO you know the "official" difference between "dressing" and "stuffing"? Nothing really same stuff, just "stuffing" is the stuff stuffed into the bird, and"dressing" is baked outside the bird, and served alongside..that was on MR. FOod, but I coulda told you that.BTW stuffing the bird does NOT guarantee to kill off all the "nasties" that may occur by not cooking thoroughly. Dressing since cooked outside allows the bird to get cooked inside nice and hot too, since the cavity is empty. So Dressing is "safer" than stuffing...and I actually thinks it tastes better out than in. I like it a little "crispy".
FIl is going to try a dangerous trip about 8 hours south to relatives...what remain anyway. Doctor says he can't drive for more than 2 hours, but he will ignore the Dr! Thick sculled doesn't begin to name him....and I am "tolerated" less and less and only as a "general family member" not as a proper inlaw. He is geting crotchety in his older age. HE is manipulative too, and MOh are not so manipulated anymore. No matter what you do or dont' do, he has a complaint about it. I said the next time he's in the hospital I am NOT going to go get him again, then! He can take a cab home then. Here I thought I was earning points by doing the extra chores of ferrying him around, but guess not...Since MIL passed, he can "let his feeligns be known" without MIL "interfering".GRR.He wants his call every day, but only from MOH who is out early for work adn FIl doesn't wnat a call "to early", and NOT from ME, and then complains MOH doens't call enough. WOrk hours for MOH doesn't compute to FIL. GRR.
~SO, I guess we WON"T be having TG dinner for FIL. Takes one load off my mind...nwo down to 3 for dinner...and leftover turkey too..more than I anticipated
wel,, nap time
blownout cylinder Heartland Division CB&Q Barry-sized burgers are back ! Dang right they are!! Bring them on!!!
Heavy on the dill pickle slices, please
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder Heartland Division CB&Q Barry-sized burgers are back ! Dang right they are!! Bring them on!!! blownout cylinder Heartland Division CB&Q Barry-sized burgers are back ! Dang right they are!! Bring them on!!! Heavy on the dill pickle slices, please
You will need at least 5 extra large jars of them.
Flo. Can I have a double order of that with fried onions and mushrooms as well? Thanks!!
Good Afternoon.
Boy, are we getting winds today. Up to 65mph ... i'se be watching our trees now.
Yeb'm I also now have to do a biopsy as well now. Oh joy, oh bliss..
Catch y'all later....once I digest that piece of news...
blownout cylinderYeb'm I also now have to do a biopsy as well now. Oh joy, oh bliss..Tongue Tied
Well... Barry, that doesn't sound good at all! I will be keeping you in my prayers, my friend!!!
Got a banner made for the Lakeshores Division, NMRA today. I hit a sale at Staples and by the time I used a couple coupons (one that was close to expiring) the totsl cost was $0 to the Division.... I think the Treasurer (and the rest of us) can deal with that easily. I also heard that the long awaited info for the convention I have been waiting on is basically done! YES!!!! When I got home from shopping this afternoon we had been having a light rain storm... Got in the house and looked out the kitchen window and saw a gorgeous rainbow. And right now the Mailman is delivering me a package. A toy and some catnip for the boys... Gave them some of the catnip, and Manét is now high and rolling around on the floor.....
Hi Guys,
Havent been in for a week or so. I replaced the power suppply on PC as it was dying ( has been for a while now ) so have been just browsing on ipad.
Like Barry we are getting some very strong winds right now, I dont have any big trees around me but boy are those power lines swinging about. I turend the furnace up a bit just in case it does go out.
Talk to you guys later on, Is Jeff still in the hospital?
Power is out in different parts of the city. At the moment winds are gusting to 70mph. At least the driving rain has stopped. I better get the flashlights out now as darkness falls ( two LED maglites )