Toy train operating and collecting

Good Afternoon, Ya'll,

JimSP......continued prayers for your eldest and for your family.  I think I will take a moment to give thanks for the current lull in my own life with my children and grandchildren. 

Brutus......your good news on your wife was a long time in coming.  Frustration city.  And prayers that the road gets smoother from here.  BTW, Jim, when my staircase tilts like that I know it is time to either drink more beer or less. 

Rich...... does that cast mean your Mom won't be borrowing your Harley for a while?

Today is baby day for Charlie.  Prayers that Mom and the newest addition are doing well.

DougM.......did your treadmill have a cupholder?  And did you put it to good use?

LAZ.......you did it.  I sprayed coffee all over my monitor with your advice to Brutus on the dangers of overtightening nuts.

One of you guys was complaining that you had too few Trick or Treaters and consequently you had 3 bowls of candy left over.  If you looked at the "glass as half full", you would have concluded that it was a windfall and you would be well stocked for the next month or so.  You did buy the good stuff, right?  I did. 

Brent, oh Brent......now you've done it.  This is a major setback to Susan's "honey do" list.  Did she place you on IR, the 15 day DL,  or are you listed as day-to-day? My guess is that she will have you back on the field in short order, exhorting you on with something like "Real men play through their injuries."  BTW,  if it makes you feel any better, the carpenter that built my deck took off two fingers with one of those saws, and he was a professional.  My wife uses a Dremmel tool to grind the dog's nails rather than clip them.  I am forever telling her to put on safety glasses, to tie her hair back, or to stuff all of her hair under a baseball cap.  That sucker at the rpm it turns would tear out both hair and scalp in a flash. 

To all......I loved all the traffic mitigation pictures and diagrams.  At the end of the day you simply can't engineer driver stupidity out of the equation.  All I see with all of those left turn concepts are a bunch of t-bone accidents waiting to happen, especially with the diagonal lefts where the travel distance and time crossing over in front of oncoming traffic is extended.   MA. drivers are particularly skilled at finding ways to enter our highways and divided roads going the wrong way.  Then they drive for miles clueless that there is anything amiss.  One might attribute the number of instances to DUI, but the fact is that most of the drivers who do this are clean.  Cell phones and texting?  Sleep deprivation?  You be the judge. 

Pam on her phone:   Chief, where are you?  I am watching the news and there is some crazed  knucklehead driving the wrong way on Roseyville highway!  Are you ok?

Chief in his car:   Pam, the news reports are wrong!  There isn't one knucklehead driving the wrong way on Roseyville highway.  There are hundreds of them!  They must be Yanks!

Later, gang

Jack 

A New Yank Has Arrived,and soon to be railfan.

MichRR714-Charlie, has asked me to announce the arrival of:

Jack Henry

At 2:15 PM

8 lbs.

20 inch's, and is reporting all is well.....S.J.

Congas to Charlie & the Family!!!

for Jim Phish & his daughter - sorry I missed the post before....

Jack - ah, yeah, Mom's not gonna be riding any time soon....  Dad's doing yeomans work keeping up with her trying help her around the abode.  She's actually running the polls in NJ this day.  A little injury don't stop Mom.

 Evenin' Fellas.

Post surgery follow-up is tomorrow morning so I should have all the gorey details... number of stitches... can I get an Over/Under on this one? I've got 70 as my target. Been laying around doing nothing today... driving me nuts. FiL came over to monitor me, we watched Bedtime Stories and Happy Gilmore then SusieQ came home, her boss sent her home. Then my Mom came down from Pittsburgh... lots of people to take care of me...

Jack - I have been put on the 'idiot' list. She asked me to get rid of the circular saw.

Fife - No peg legs for me thank you!

sir james I:

A New Yank Has Arrived,and soon to be railfan.

MichRR714-Charlie, has asked me to announce the arrival of:

Jack Henry

At 2:15 PM

8 lbs.

20 inch's, and is reporting all is well.....S.J.

Congratulations........He will be needing a train.

Chuck

Okay don't know which to do first so will start here Congrats Charlie and family whoo HOO another engineer.

Brent If you remember about 3 or 4 years ago I tried to make 2 thumbs out of one with a table saw. So mine may not have been as what yours sound but take care and remember Tool safety first ( by the way I no longer own a table saw lol)

Brutus glad to hear the news on your wife.

I red some where about a daughter and I think Phish getting so want to send them on as I missed what happened sorry.

I'm doing Okay but still getting light headed so guess need to make appointment with my own doctor and try to figure whats going on.

Was told today by another departments department head wish he had an opening so I could apply and he could hire me as he said I was a hard worker. Blew my mind. I would love to work that department its easy job

Hope all had a good day

don't remember seeing pat in yet maybe I just over looked it

BIG CONGA!!!!

CHARLIE!!!

laz57

JACK,

  Hope that coffee was just black?  Cream and sugar leaves a stain.

laz57

RockIsland52:

Pam on her phone:   Chief, where are you?  I am watching the news and there is some crazed  knucklehead driving the wrong way on Roseyville highway!  Are you ok?

Chief in his car:   Pam, the news reports are wrong!  There isn't one knucklehead driving the wrong way on Roseyville highway.  There are hundreds of them!  They must be Yanks!

Later, gang

Jack 

AMEN [in REB gray]

Congrats Charlie.  Kid is half grown already. 

Excellent news Charlie,wishing you all the best.

Charlie,

             Congratulations.

Brent,

           I think I smell a conspiracy here. Fife probably rigged the saw so he could recruit a crew member for the sailboat. All kidding aside, I hope that heals quickly for you. If that happened to me, I wouldn't be able to keep my cool. I'd bleed out while screaming.

RT,

      I remember what happened to you with the table saw. I thought about that every time I made a cut. I just made sure that my work area was clean and I never, ever took my eyes off the blade.

lionroar88:

Post surgery follow-up is tomorrow morning so I should have all the gorey details... number of stitches... can I get an Over/Under on this one? I've got 70 as my target.

I'll take the under (<70).

laz 57:

BIG CONGA!!!!

CHARLIE!!!

laz57

Great NEWS !!!

Congratulations Charlie!!! 

Used BRIO can be found everywhere!!!!

Thanks guys! 

Charlie - BIG CONGRATULATIONS BIG GUY!

JimSP - sorry, I missed it too, prayers are out there for you and yours.  Prayers for all of us and ours.  This has been a tough year on everyone I think.

88 - Remember to read and understand the manuals that came with your power tools, and to always wear these - safety glasses   Heal up fast, or the list will keep growing - that's what I think!

RT - I sure remember your tablesaw fun too!  Makes me a little extra cautious!

Don, Chief, etc - they just put in one of these around here somewhere, but it involved turns that went under and around etc to avoid t-bones I guess. 

Tardis is ready and I think Doug just popped up on the screen, so gotta run - banilla!