I start each day of model railroading here on this forum, looking at the topics I either have initiated or are following. When I have either responded or lurked, I plan the next few days of work I plan to do on my pike.
By rights, the next thing I need to do is to lay my mainline. What's holding me up is that I need to make a bunch of turnouts, which I am doing with Fastrack jigs. I was planning to do all the wiring first, but I am waiting on some parts that are on a slow boat from China. But there is no reason why I can't lay the mainline while I'm waiting, which brings us back to the turnouts. I could go ahead and start the turnouts, but I will soon run out of PC ties, and I need to order them. And while I am waiting for them, I can work a freight house model I have decided to scratch out instead. It's a project, I started pretty much on a whim while I was waiting for the parts from China. I figure I can keep working on it while I wait for the PC ties.
So what I need to do is count the number of PC ties I have, so I know how many I need to order. So I go out to the garage to count the PC ties and see the freight house project that's in the condition where I left it the day before and start thinking about what needs to be done next.
As I am sitting there contemplating. I notice that things are pretty silent. I always work with an audiobook. So I get up to go get my audiobook and as I am returning to the house, I make mental note of what I'm going to need from my house: the audiobook, of course; my cell phone; the bluetooth speaker--you know, so I don't forget anything.
By this time I'm back in the house and I notice my water bottle. I should take my water bottle, too. It's empty, so I need to fil it. As I approach the fridge, the thought of water reminds me that I need to go to the bathroom, but before I go, I round up all the above items to take to the garage and set them on the counter next to the fridge so I don't forget them.
When I come back from the bathroom, I pick up the water bottle and fill it then head back to the garage. I sit down and start looking for the tools I need to continue working on my building. I notice that it is silent, so I laugh at myself and go back into the house and bring out the rest of the stuff I set out in the kitchen.
I get back to the workbench, turn on the audiobook and continue working on the freight house.
Now it's the next day and I haven't ordered the PC ties so I can build the turnouts. Same as it has been for the past four days. I seem to be in a pattern. If I don't order those danged PC ties, I'll never get my mainline run.
Right now I'm sitting here about to go out and count my PC ties. When I get there, I hope I remember what I'm Hereafter.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
"In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple."Isaiah 6;1, King James Version
Disclaimer: This post may contain humor, sarcasm, and/or flatulence.
Michael Mornard
Bringing the North Woods to South Dakota!
Chip, I have the same problem. I want to put up a picture. I find a screw or the picture mounting kit (with all the little hooks, wires, and nails in brass), go out to the garage to get a driver, see the cordless driver battery charger has done its job (five days ago already...!!!), remove the battery, go find the implement, put the battery on it, look for the impact driver (it's a pair of Makitas in the set), remove it's battery and place it on the charger. Okay, where was I again?
Oh, the windshield washer fluid...right. I get it, leave the garage, go fill the reservoir, and as I'm walking past the garden I see a clump of hairy bittercress. Darn!!! I reach down and carefully extract it from the soil so as not to induce it to shotgun out all its seeds. I walk it over to the back garden gate and throw it well clear. As I turn and leave the gate, I pick up a hose and water the fast-growing Sweet Millions we love so much. As I water the tomatoes, I remember that my wife wanted some rhubarb so she can make a crisp for dessert. I yank off several fat stalks and use my pocket knife to slice off the nub at the base and the leaves. This reminds me that I haven't sharpened the kitchen knives for some time. As I enter the house, I could sure use a fresh coffee. I ask Barb if she'd like a cup. No, thanks....did I get the rhubarb? Whew, yes!
I live in a fog of chores that I encounter in a never-ending loop.
That's pretty much my day, Chip. Missing tractor parts I know I put on the bench, multiple trips to the basement train room for tools I also use in the garage, back again to bring up a battery I had in winter storage, oops, thats right, I need to go to the hardware store, forgot to grab my wallet, what did I need at the harware store?, oh ya, got it. On and on it goes.
Working on the layout in the winter can get to be the same.
The good news, according to the fit bit the kids got me, I rack up around 5 miles or more, so it's not all bad, chasing down the Hereafter.
Mike.
My You Tube
Wow!
Have you guys ever heard of the concept of "FOCUS"?
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
The doctors have a name for that. They call it "Attention Deficit Disorder" or, in short, ADD.
I call it age.
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Then I've been old for most of my life.
Ed
Skip counting the ties and just build the turnout without the PC ties. No waiting. Problem solved.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
BruntonHave you guys ever heard of the concept of "FOCUS"?
Yea, I've heard of that Mark, only it's not a concept any more, they are on the road as we speak, matter of fact my daughter bought a new last year.
What were we talking about again?
Paul
SpaceMouseI hope I remember what I'm Hereafter
thanks. a pleasant read
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Start building turnouts with the ties you have.
When you run out, you'll know you have 0.
Problem solved! ;)
Eric
Eric WhiteStart building turnouts with the ties you have. When you run out, you'll know you have 0. Problem solved! ;) Eric
I have been 2 days looking for the chimney I set aside for the building I am working on. I know I had assembled it then put it somewhere so I would not lose it in the mess on my workbench
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G PaineI have been 2 days looking for the chimney I set aside for the building I am working on. I know I had assembled it then put it somewhere so I would not lose it
That seems to be 25% of the time spent looking for all that stuff that is somewhere safe.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley