Lazy day! Voted by mail earlier, so didn't have that to do today. 60's and sunny - not too much wind. Perfect fall day - seems like I always mess up and stay in on the good days and trek out on the the not so good days.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
rain here in Nw Ohio.Ns still has a frieght in the siding.The local was uptown collecting cars as well.Need to check Matt's homework and do chores.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
I did my civic duty. I held my nose and voted for the least objectionable, mud-slinging scumdog. Which comedian was it who said "If the good Lord had wanted me to vote, surely, he would have given me candidates worth voting for"?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
I voted mid-morning and was all of #50 at my precinct.
Some interesting outcomes so far, although all the precincts haven't reported in yet. Unfortunately, where statewide races are concerned, our votes up here in the north woods matter little, as "the city" pretty well overwhelms us.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Remember when you had to wait for the morning and sometimes the evening paper to see the results locally and nationwide. Sometimes even spread over several days if the state was a big one.
Now one second after the poll closes, they are ready to tell you the projected winner. How long before the voters are extinct and they just let the latest electronic devices pick the winners. Anyone see a difference between that and now?
Mookie Remember when you had to wait for the morning and sometimes the evening paper to see the results locally and nationwide. Sometimes even spread over several days if the state was a big one. Now one second after the poll closes, they are ready to tell you the projected winner. How long before the voters are extinct and they just let the latest electronic devices pick the winners. Anyone see a difference between that and now?
Rudyard Kipling was apparently not a fan of democracy. He said that it was based on the premise that ignorance multipied by great numbers resulted in wisdom.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
Things picking up at work. Ns still has a frieght in the siding.An oil train is waiting to go east.There were empties up town as well.time for Matt's confirmation class.
In Colorado, at least two major populated counties had their final tallies delayed because nobody ran for county surveyor, causing write-in voting on a mass scale. (No surveyor ran because of too much professional liability exposure at $5000/ year for the post)
mudchicken In Colorado, at least two major populated counties had their final tallies delayed because nobody ran for county surveyor, causing write-in voting on a mass scale. (No surveyor ran because of too much professional liability exposure at $5000/ year for the post)
Which begs the question, why would county surveyor be a elected position?
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Direct election of virtually every conceivable public official is an outgrowth of various reforms in the aftermath of the Gilded Age and during the Progressive Era. It was probably an attempt to limit nepotism, cronyism, insider deals, etc.
(CSSH - Like Lake County, IN in your backyard is going through?)
mudchicken (CSSH - Like Lake County, IN in your backyard is going through?)
Somewhat. There's more of it in Illinois since we have an incredible number of special districts (school districts, park districts, sanitary districts, mosquito abatement districts, etc.) due to debt restrictions written into the 1870 state constitution. We have a newer constitution but the special districts still exist.
afternoon
cool and damp today.NS had a local moving cars in town.Going to parent teacher conferences shortly.
joe
Raining.
But I did get all the bookkeeping done for the fire department for this month, in preparation for the meeting tonight.
Tree - you had kind of a nasty accident around Syracuse? Isn't that in your area?
Mookie Tree - you had kind of a nasty accident around Syracuse? Isn't that in your area?
Not quite 100 miles south of me (Syracuse is just over 70 miles). Been down that route many times. Accident laid to an intoxicated driver who left his vehicle blocking a lane (he'd gotten out and was walking away).
Fortunately, there were no fatalities, although the tour group on the bus had their trip rather messed up. They were headed from Toronto to NYC.
evening
Ns had a train in the siding plus one going west when I left work.Went into town to finish up yardwork.CSX ran 4 westbounds and 1 eastbound.Ma Nature is going to open the fridge a little more.Finally got Matt's school pictures.They get a little more excited when you give them the check # and it had cleared the bank last month.Talked with Matt's teachers.Things are going good.Going to tune in the radio to see if Tinora can continue on in the football playoffs.
Snow.
Just "spitting," but snow.
Mookie- watch for my hat. It blew off my head about a half hour ago. I firure with the 400 m.p.h. north wind blowing, it should be headed past your house right about now.
Murphy Siding Mookie- watch for my hat. It blew off my head about a half hour ago. I firure with the 400 m.p.h. north wind blowing, it should be headed past your house right about now.
Husker corncob? Is that the local version of a cheese head?
Murphy Siding Husker corncob? Is that the local version of a cheese head?
out doing errands today.Saw a switcher working at GM.The ND&W took another train west across FC.Csx came by with whatever they had at FC.Nice to be inside and warm tonight.
The snow stuck overnight in Thendara, but not here at the house (two hours away).
Got a lot of work done on the freight house, which is our "new" maintenance headquarters. Mostly routine maintenance stuff, along with some housecleaning/decluttering, and taking out a "temporary" wall that had been there for 20 years...
Think I'll run off to another train show Sunday. It's a good group that's running it, and I like to support them.
Some snow here this morning but it didn't stick. It must have been too hot from the horseradish root I ground yesterday. Whew! That stuff is hot.
Norm
Some concern over traffic jams and not enough cars for freight on railroads: I think I may have a hint. They are hiding them in Nebraska! We saw 7 engines on the head end of a grain train headed west. Bet they are going to hide in the sandhills.
Then we saw what seemed to be an exceptionally long grain/freight and finally mixed freight. And...an oil train. Soybean oil. It was a whole unit train for ADM! Haven't seen that one before. They also returned everyone's auto rack cars. Pretty nifty Sunday trackside!
Plus the weather was tolerable at just past dark 30. Oh - an Amtrak whistled its way thru town @ a little past 5 am. Johnny - were you heading east? I waved just in case!
No, Mookie, I was at home in my bed. I have no plans to travel again until next spring; I'll let you know in time.
Warm here (65 degrees at one this afternoon).
Johnny
Went to the train show, saw some friends and some nice layouts. Ironically, I bought a beat up Matchbox fire truck (planning to "rehab" it) and a Code 3 commemorative pumper (from a friend who also collects fire trucks.
Nobody was selling N Scale people, so I didn't get any.
On the way home I stopped at the home improvement store and picked up the materials for a shelf I've been planning for the garage. It's really to create space to store the lawn mower or snowblower as appropriate, but they tend to get buried, so the shelf may help reduce that. Or I could just hoe out all the junk....
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to wait until tomorrown to finish putting things back together again... So my poor truck will have to spend the night outdoors...
nice afternoon.cut some firewood before it got dark.Ns had cars for uptown when I left work.Need to check on Matt's homework.
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