jeffhergert "Perfumery Products." The info says to "Avoid breathing the vapors. Keep upwind. Avoid bodily contact with the material. Wear appropriate chemical protective gloves, boots and goggles. In case of contact with material, immediately flush skin or eyes with running water for at least 20 minutes." And I used to buy this stuff for my wife on her birthday and at Christmas! Well, I won't do that again. Jeff
And I used to buy this stuff for my wife on her birthday and at Christmas! Well, I won't do that again.
Jeff
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Yes, Sam, I used to wonder somewhat about the folks who left their lights up year-round. I never went way up, except to hang a star on the front of the upper story, and that involved placing the ladder in one spot.
However, a year ago, when Katie was putting lights up along the eaves of the house that we bought soon after Christmas two years ago, she forbade me to do the high work. From the east end of the house to just past the front stoop, there is practically no slope--but west of the stoop the slope is such that when you get to the end of the huse, it is almost level as you go around to the back yard, and then go into my door in the step-father apartment. The lights have not been taken down--but many of them have been blown into the gutter and need to be brought out. Because of the slope Katie needed outside help to get the lights up west of the stoop (my ladder's legs are both the same length) --maybe she will be able to lift them out by herself; I don't think that she plans to get on the roof, which is shingled.
Johnny
jeffhergert wrote: [snipped]"...And I used to buy this stuff for my wife on her birthday and at Christmas! Well, I won't do that again.
(Reminds me of the side effect warnings on prescription drugs. It will cure you if it doesn't kill you first.).."
Jeff:
Some of that stuff will scare you, when you start reading about the Haz-Mat precautions and literature... One of my first experiences was with a load of Scope Mouth Wash...from Mississippi to Minnesota...Placcarded as 'Flamable'; had to stop at every scale house for' show and tell'. Stuff you never seem to consider as dengerous...Then you go up to a Wal*Mart, and see the MSDS warning diamond on the outside of the building.
Murphy Siding: Merry Christmas! and welcome to one of the most dangerous job times of the year! Working on those Christmas decorating 'Honey-Dos'! Working to put up decorations on places that it hard to reach with ladders, and hanging lights on gutters and eaves, all kinds of traps there ! Slips and falls can be ruinous to the holidays.
I am beginning to feel a certain level of empathy for those folks who decorate with their lights once, and never take them down after the holiday.
As to medical properties, I was told that when my twin brothers were quite young, they would play that they were doctors. One was "Dr. Faver, Life Saver" (his middle name was Faver, after our family doctor, H.M. Faver, who brought all of us children into the world); the other was "Dr. Dunn, Kill All, Cure None."
And, this reminds me of a story about a miser, in my French book. The miser's wife was sick, and needed a doctor. The doctor was reluctant to come, knowing the miser, until the miser promised to pay whether the doctor cured or killed his wife. However, the wife died, despite the ministrations of the doctor. When he pressed the miser for payment, he was asked, "Did you cure her?" The doctor said, "No." Then the question, "Did you kill her?" "Oh, No!" The result--no payment.
As to typewriters, I had a good one (and I, at the moment, do not remember the maker) that had an extra-wide carriage that I used in cutting the stencils for church bulletins (no cut and paste needed to make a two page-wide bulletin stencil). I had not used it for several years, yet still did not want to let it go, but I knew that when I moved last year I would have no room for it. I hope somebody pounced upon it when he saw it.
I still have a couple of typewriters. One is a Royal and the other is a portable, the name of which I can't remember. I still use the portable, the Royal is missing a piece that locks the ribbon spool in place, down in the basement. I use it to type train orders for my model RR. Ribbons can be found on the internet, havent been able to find them local for a long time.
I got to recrew a long pool stack train because of a derailment yesterday. (Loaded ethanol train derailed a wheel and drug it over concrete ties for a mile or so on the single track Blair Subdiv is what we heard.) I was looking through the emergency response info, all 20 pages of it. One of the info was for "Perfumery Products." The info says to "Avoid breathing the vapors. Keep upwind. Avoid bodily contact with the material. Wear appropriate chemical protective gloves, boots and goggles. In case of contact with material, immediately flush skin or eyes with running water for at least 20 minutes."
(Reminds me of the side effect warnings on prescription drugs. It will cure you if it doesn't kill you first.)
We put up our Christmas tree Sunday but haven't had time to decorate it yet. I guess I should say we installed it. The darned thing is so heavy, that it took 2 grown men to heave-ho it into the house. My wife brought it home tied to the top of her Prius. I wonder if it made the car squat on the springs? If you have a 2 ton Christmas tree that's almost three feet accross when it's cold and tied up, you will have a 6 foot diameter tree when it it warms up and the branches drop. Picture the big plant in Little Shop of Horrors. "Feed me Seymore!". We may have to decorate with garlands and steel support cables, as it's starting to twist away from the corner it's sitting in.
Those IBM Selectrics turned out a page that looked like it had been printed rather than typed. Each letter had it's own unique spacing; quite something back then.
Norm
BaltACD edblysard My wife Aimee writes in Palmer Script, nice, beautiful flowing letters perfectly spaced and uniform in height, anyone can read it…she is the product of a country/rural school system that still made its students learn that. I on the other hand, have a hard time printing, much less cursive. I was so glad when I inherited my Dad’s old Underwood, and my teachers were too, now they could read my homework! Want to find out how bad a typist you have become? Fire up the Underwood!
edblysard My wife Aimee writes in Palmer Script, nice, beautiful flowing letters perfectly spaced and uniform in height, anyone can read it…she is the product of a country/rural school system that still made its students learn that. I on the other hand, have a hard time printing, much less cursive. I was so glad when I inherited my Dad’s old Underwood, and my teachers were too, now they could read my homework!
Want to find out how bad a typist you have become? Fire up the Underwood!
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looks like ns has an empty well car train in the siding.work is very busy.Need to get a shower.
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 deal with a woman who appears to write (in cursive) using a ruler as her base.
Kinda cool, actually. And really retro.
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...
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
CShaveRR We learned cursive in second grade. True story: after trying very hard to work with me on cursive, the teacher told my mother to just get me a typewriter! It doesn't stay legible for very long when I'm writing. My granddaughters have both learned cursive (and couldn't wait to do it!). I don't know how much they actually use it.
We learned cursive in second grade. True story: after trying very hard to work with me on cursive, the teacher told my mother to just get me a typewriter! It doesn't stay legible for very long when I'm writing. My granddaughters have both learned cursive (and couldn't wait to do it!). I don't know how much they actually use it.
2nd grade here as well. Then we were required to write only cursive in 3rd - 5th grade. In 6th grade it was our choice, so naturally being kids, we almost all chose to write in print again.
If I write something down real quick, it resembles a mix of cursive and print. And it is barely legible.
I mainly stick to print.
(yes, despite what some here may think - I can actually write more than my own name).
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
My handwriting has never been great either. Nowdays, my signature is somewhat of a scribble but the bank passes my checks. That's all that counts.
I gave up on cursive by junior high school. Only had one teacher ever challenge me on not using it.
I just don't have the hand for it. I can't paint like Da Vinci, either. My signature isn't exactly legible, either.
I know of folks who have beautiful cursive handwriting. I envy them, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
On the other hand, look at some old train orders - many were written in an almost flowery script.
As Carl notes, if I'm writing something of any length, it'll be on the computer (my accuracy isn't all that good on a typewriter, either - thank goodness for the backspace key).
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
With my scrawl, even somebody who can read cursive writing is going to have problems.
mudchicken Watched several kids try to read cursive notes lately (wasn't even doctor's scrawl). They all wound up asking for an "adult" to translate for them. I fell out of my chair in disbelief.
Watched several kids try to read cursive notes lately (wasn't even doctor's scrawl). They all wound up asking for an "adult" to translate for them. I fell out of my chair in disbelief.
People have complained about my handwriting for many years.
Mookie Bruce: no one listens today. There is no comprehension a lot of the time. I have a quote here on my puter screen: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply" Ergo - newspapers wrong, fast food orders wrong; prescriptions wrong; grocery orders wrong; even tv crawls - wrong & misspelled!
Bruce: no one listens today. There is no comprehension a lot of the time. I have a quote here on my puter screen: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply"
Ergo - newspapers wrong, fast food orders wrong; prescriptions wrong; grocery orders wrong; even tv crawls - wrong & misspelled!
There. I'm all trained up to "spot" winter weather for NWS. I got the summer part done a year or so ago.
Full schedule tomorrow. Guess I won't get any decorations up until Wednesday.
congrats grandpa Tree.work is busy.Local is waiting for a crew to pull empties out.Need to get cleaned up.
Bafflegab - reminds me of the "bafflegab thesaurus." Three columns of "fancy" words. Just pick one from each column and you end up with a high-fallutin' phrase that means virtually nothing. "Functional Monitored Mobility" anyone?
Not a bad weekend on the railroad. Ran the Polar Express on Friday night, the last trip to Thendara on Saturday (an all-day event - and 100 mile round-trip by rail, to boot), and Polar Express again on Sunday. Plenty of "seat time."
It wasn't my weekend for keys, though. I'd misplaced my truck key - but I knew it was around the house, as the truck was in the garage when I discovered it missing. Fortunately, I had the spare set. Friday night I lost my ring of railroad keys. This morning when I got the the post office, the keys I usually carry on my belt weren't there, although they were when I got dressed.
Found the truck key behind the seat in the truck. I apparently dropped the railroad keys at the hotel - they were at the front desk. And the other keys were right were I got dressed. So all ended well, key-wise. Kinda nerve wracking, though. The truck key would have cost over $100 to replace/reprogram, the railroad keys might not have cost as much, but would still be a real pain to replace. At least the postmistress gave me my mail out of my box...
Daughter and family have now officially announced their pending arrival (previously mentioned). Daughter posted a video on FB of grandson opening a preset with an "I'm a big brother" Tee and a book about being a big brother. He was excited, once he figured it all out, although he was somewhat disappointed that the gift wasn't a Transformer...
Time to get started on the Christmas decorations, then off to a Skywarn class.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
For the life of me I can't understand why the media insists on doing this. Someone had to have told the reporters what actually happened. Why couldn't they just report what they heard. If the reporters thought there would be confusion they could have expanded the term to track switch, or siding junction.
Five cars off the track, but still standing, would normally not have caught the media's attention, but the railway could not have picked a more conspicuous location for this to have happened. Right in the Lake Louise townsite, on a Saturday, at the start of the new ski season. There was just no way people weren't going to notice!
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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AgentKid MEDIA BAFFLEGAB. New heights were reached in this area earlier today. I had thought calling a locomotive a Power Car might have been as far as they could go, but wait for it. . . There was a minor derailment up at Lake Louise, AB earlier today as the train went over a switch. The media referred to the switch as a TRANSFER STATION. That is all. Thank you. Bruce
MEDIA BAFFLEGAB.
New heights were reached in this area earlier today. I had thought calling a locomotive a Power Car might have been as far as they could go, but wait for it. . .
There was a minor derailment up at Lake Louise, AB earlier today as the train went over a switch. The media referred to the switch as a TRANSFER STATION.
That is all.
Thank you.
Lacking something....
Oh wow!
Lunch......
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