Morning.  Fifey, thought I would have a news link to show you one.*  Seems there were four people murdered in Fayetteville and the truck suddenly packed up and headed south to cover that story [four people in a nice neighborhood and not a home invasion. Police not saying much including names].  Story ran last night was a very short one and did not even cover the topic DOT was meeting with us about.  I'll try and find a diagram.

Sunny and warm.  Had frosted some but sun has warmed fast.  Its a pretty day in the neighborhood.

Got one meeting at noon.  Hair cut and "suck" up leaves in the yard.

BRENT!!!!!  You always call Dennis W. for the sleep meds before starting surgery.  Hey, you are not suppose to operate on your self with a skill saw.  YANKEES!!!!  Glad you are not hurt any more that you are.  Could have been a bad thing cutting close to arteries and etc.  I have some hydrocodone if you need it.

Jim, I have a lazer level [I have two] if you need to use one to straighten up your house.

PaPaD, I had the privilege of riding the NS Operation Lifesaver train in NC the other week.  Great ride.

More coffee and donuts.

Later. 

*Fife, this mornings news story is different from last night's.  Watch the link.  Super streets is shown.  You come to intersection, stop, turn right got up the street and merge left.  There is a left turn lane in the median.  You do a U turn to go left or U turn and merge right to turn right.  No straight through traffic.  Saves time and accidents instead of traffic signals.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/6334567/

Chief - Median Turn-Around.  We have some of those (EASERN SHORE), especially where 2 rural state routes intersect.  Same idea- take away from misjudging oncoming traffic during a left turn.  BTW, looks like a house-divided at the Jones' place...

OH, one more thing...why all the YANKEE reporters.  I expexted to hear Southern Belles with honey-drippin' dialects.  Dissappointed...

Good Morning

30s early, sun now but going to leave us soon.

Brent glad you are ok, any pictures of the action you can post :)

Chief the barber cut the longest one, next time it will be the other.

Diesel maybe see you at Wild Bills sometime, although I go there in the AM.

Going out to vote now, then a stop at Kroger....S.J.

 Brent - Glad you got out of that with as little damage as you did !!

Regarding the Super Streets, http://www.ncdot.org/doh/preconstruct/tpb/SHC/facility/Superstreet/navigate/ , 

Looks like it takes the point of impact out of the intersection and moves it about 800 feet away.  Sure looks challenging, can't imagine anything like that here.  "Were heading east, but need to go north, so take the south off ramp west"  Got it !!

Buckeye, You need to take a trip south and discuss the concept of elevation.  IF, more of the people understood an overpass, maybe they wouldn't need the Super Street.   Or, is this the redefinition of a Obama Bridge?

What would happen at a rail crossing?

CA Nut, takes less property and cheaper than interchange.  OH, that's right.  You live in the land of plenty of $$$$ and desert where land is nothing but to be used as highways.     Highways don't burn too well [they BAKE] but will crack when they SHAKE.

Brent, At least you didn't get the same response from the nursing staff I got on my last trip to the ER after a close encounter with the table saw. Her comment "Power tools, right?"

Mornin' all!

Brent, you were lucky - I'm glad that you didn't do more damage to yourself.  And that you knew what to do after it happened.  Take care of yourself.

Knee's getting a bit better day by day.  I can get around, but the whole leg is very stiff when I first get up. Lots of pain in various areas, but nothing I'm too worried about.  Heard from the radiologist yesterday: they concurred with the doctor's diagnosis of no tears or cartilage damage.

Didn't think of taking a picture of Linda's Halloween display until this morning - gotta try and do that tonight to show you guys.

Brent,

         Wow. Glad you are okay.

Jim,

       Prayers on the way.

Chief,

          I am with Fife regarding the reporters.

Not much else to report. I continued working on the 302 last night, and I've never seen as much grease in one place like this. Everything is covered. It doesn't help matters that the grease that Gilbert used looks like earwax. I can't do anything else until the smoke unit parts get here.

Fifey, I hooked up the MTH scale semaphore signal per the instructions that came with it.  There are three terminals. One is for common (Black wire) and the other two are for normally open and normally closed.  They are the red and green wires.  I forget which goes where without looking at it but I just followed the instructions and hooked it all up to a MTH ITAD.  I'm just using the track power option.  You can use fixed voltage if you want to.  There is a switch on the side of the ITAD to select which source of power you want.

Re 1218, wish I had been able to see that one run too.  I had a chance to ride an excursion with it from Lexington Kentucky to Chattanooga one time but declined.  I never had another chance after that as it was pulled out of service before I could go again.

Brent, that was scary!  My God!, you could have cut your leg off.  Get well soon and stay away from power saws for a while.

Ray

 Another nice day here in the Ol' Pueblo. Just finished breakfast w/ an old friend from school. He and his wife bought a house recently in the same neighborhood. I may be "leaning" on them a bit depending on how quick I can get around after this foot thing. Pre-op visit w/ the Podiatrist today.

Jack - wish I did know where this came from in my foot. Would have be worth it to keep someone away from Jim's car. 

Jim S. - thoughts and prayers for your daughter

Doug - glad to hear the test went ok. Not sure if I'd rather do the treadmill test or not, but the chemicals were somethin' weird. And I thought the Navy gave me some crazy stuff, but they never made me radioactive!

Brent - glad your "event" wasn't as bad as it could be. Even after being trained as a carpenter in the Navy, I have a healthy respect for saws of any kind. 

Brutus - Sounds like good news! Hopefully next year will be better for everyone. BTW, I once saw a professional electrician who didn't twist his wires first. Was putting everything back in after the inspection and several nuts just fell off w/ slight movement. Sounds like you are doing just fine.

Well off to try and get some other stuff done.

Bob

dbaker48:

Buckeye, You need to take a trip south and discuss the concept of elevation.  IF, more of the people understood an overpass, maybe they wouldn't need the Super Street.   Or, is this the redefinition of a Obama Bridge?

Don.....For someone living in California, you need to see the latest and greatest intersection heading your way.  http://www.abmb.com/cfi-testdrive.html  Needless to say, they just built one of these things is in the SOUTH.  Us Northerners thought this intersection up to control the population in the South. We figure that this will put an end to Billy Bob getting in his truck and driving over to see Peggy Sue. 

Brent.....Good miss!!!

Buckeye Riveter:

Don.....For someone living in California, you need to see the latest and greatest intersection heading your way.  http://www.abmb.com/cfi-testdrive.html  Needless to say, they just built one of these things is in the SOUTH.  Us Northerners thought this intersection up to control the population in the South. We figure that this will put an end to Billy Bob getting in his truck and driving over to see Peggy Sue.

Buckeye, One of the simpler interchanges, two freeways with car pool lanes.  The second roadway from the lower left, is elevated for a distance of 2 miles.

dbaker48:

Buckeye Riveter:

Don.....For someone living in California, you need to see the latest and greatest intersection heading your way.  http://www.abmb.com/cfi-testdrive.html  Needless to say, they just built one of these things is in the SOUTH.  Us Northerners thought this intersection up to control the population in the South. We figure that this will put an end to Billy Bob getting in his truck and driving over to see Peggy Sue.

 

Buckeye, One of the simpler interchanges, two freeways with car pool lanes.  The second roadway from the lower left, is elevated for a distance of 2 miles.

 

I think there is one worse than that near the Dallas/FT. Worth airport as you head to Ft. Worth.  You know those Texicans.  Always want the biggest.