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Last post 12-31-2009 7:24 AM by tree68. 324 replies.
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tree68
Joined on
12-25-2001
Northern New York
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
 CShaveRR:But we can't go without remembering that tomorrow is Larry Girard's birthday. If I remember correctly, it's not a nice round number, but if his impending retirement is based on his birthday, it's every bit as important. So have a great one, "Tree", and may your weather du jour be a bit better than ours!
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The weather is looking pretty good, and I'll be out doing something I enjoy - presenting fire prevention to the kids at the local elementary school.
Thanks. Have a safe trip, Carl.
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Mookie
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US
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
"59 Larry Girard's birthday"
Another of my "little brothers".....for an only child - I seem to have lots of little brothers! 
Mook
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Willy2
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01-22-2002
Omaha, Nebraska
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Today, if I'm not mistaken, is Carl's birthday. Sooo... Happy Birthday, Carl!!  Any big plans?
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Hi, Willy! And thanks!
No big plans today--we're up in Michigan (this is my sister's computer), about to attend a memorial service for my last surviving aunt.
Of course, my sisters have reminded me about how old I now am, something that my wife has only been able to demonstrate by experience. The big six-oh.
Surprisingly, the fall colors up north here are behind ours at home. I think it's probably our proximity to the lake and the river here that's holding them back a little.
Met up with a train last night on CSX rails; it was probably a Michigan Shore local (too short for a CSX coal train), but it was too dark for me to see anything but the headlight and ditch lights. It should be daylight for most of our trip home, so I'm hoping that some busy trackage in Indiana will yield some results.
Larry, I hope your birthday is going well! You still haven't caught up with me!
One guy at work is actively urging me to retire now (I think he wants my job!). I'm old enough now, but too young and too scared. It takes days like yesterday (when I stayed calm and cool under extreme conditions) to show that I'm not losing it, and still belong up there.
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Mookie
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US
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Happy B'day BC.
Too bad it isn't under happier circumstances.
My favorite mother-in-law was buried on my birthday. Kind of puts a damper on the whole day!
But I will be having a steak dinner tonite to celebrate your special occasion.
And you still haven't caught up with me, either.
Hugs
SJ
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spokyone
Joined on
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Aledo IL
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Happy Birthday Carl, from all the good folks in Aledo.
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blhanel
Joined on
01-02-2002
Cedar Rapids, IA
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Both you and Larry on the same day? Wow, I didn't know that. Happy Birthday!
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bubbajustin
Joined on
01-28-2009
Down Yunder' by the Norfolk Southern
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Carl, and Larry,
Happy birthday! Car, did you take the day off work? Any special plans?
Well, I sure am glad that this week is over. Can’t wait for the cold, and rainy weekend.
As I’m writing this sentence a CSXT TV commercial is playing on the television. (R-A-N-D-O-M)
Well, peering over my Rail-Driver, I wish you all a good evening, and Carl, and Larry a happy birthday. Everyone have a good weekend.
Justin
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tree68
Joined on
12-25-2001
Northern New York
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
blhanel:
Both you and Larry on the same day? Wow, I didn't know that. Happy Birthday!
It seems to be a popular day - one of my co-workers and one of the firefighters in my fire department also share the day.
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CShaveRR
Joined on
06-27-2001
Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Thanks, all!
Justin, I did take the day off from work--not because it was my birthday, but because of an unfortunate but pleasant encounter with many relatives in Michigan.
The trains didn't cooperate with me on the way home. I thought we were going to see an NS freight in Porter when we went through there, but it stopped at the holding spot just east of downtown Chesterton, and stayed there. Of course, nothing showed up on CSX for as long as we were along those tracks.
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CNW 6000
Joined on
12-19-2005
MP 175.1 CN Neenah Sub
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
tree68:
blhanel:
Both you and Larry on the same day? Wow, I didn't know that. Happy Birthday!
It seems to be a popular day - one of my co-workers and one of the firefighters in my fire department also share the day.
LOL as one of my grandparents would have said...must've been a heckuva snowstorm 9 months ago...
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Paul_D_North_Jr
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Allentown, PA
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Don't know if this is true or not, but: Someplace I read that statistically, out of a group of about 30 people at random, the odds are that there will be 1 that has the same birthday as you - e.g., Oct. 16th, not just the 16th of any month (though that is about what I would expect from a group of 30 people randomly distributed among the 30 or so days each month), nor the exact same date and year (so that they would be the same age).
Does anyone know if that's true or not ? The coincidence of Carl and Larry in this little group, and Larry and someone from each of his other 2 groups - each of which I presume to be something between 20 and 100 in number - seems to support that theory.
- Paul North.
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Deggesty
Joined on
08-22-2005
Near the Crossroads of the West
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Happy birthday, Larry and Carl. DId you have to share one cake, or was there one for each of you?
Paul_D_North_Jr:
Don't know if this is true or not, but: Someplace I read that statistically, out of a group of about 30 people at random, the odds are that there will be 1 that has the same birthday as you - e.g., Oct. 16th, not just the 16th of any month (though that is about what I would expect from a group of 30 people randomly distributed among the 30 or so days each month), nor the exact same date and year (so that they would be the same age).
Does anyone know if that's true or not ? The coincidence of Carl and Larry in this little group, and Larry and someone from each of his other 2 groups - each of which I presume to be something between 20 and 100 in number - seems to support that theory.
- Paul North.
I had never seen any statistics on the matter, but I have known two people with the same birthdate as mine. One was a boy in the town where I grew up, and the other was the Assistant Librarian at Seminary. As I recall, she commented that we had the same date of the month, but she did not say what year. She did, however, comment that she was born on a Friday--so I knew from her apparent age that she had to be born the same year as I was. I'm not sure, but I think that one of our younger contributors also celebrates the same day that I do (perhaps with vivacity greater than mine).
Johnny
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tree68
Joined on
12-25-2001
Northern New York
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
Coincidentally, I was born on my parent's wedding anniversary, which was also my mother's parent's wedding anniversary...
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spokyone
Joined on
07-13-2006
Aledo IL
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Re: Trackside Lounge: Sep.-Dec. 2009 Edition
August 5. I have a sister that rushed into marriage. She and the groom found out at the court house that they shared their birthday. Their son was born on their birthday that same year.
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