Its about time

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:43 PM

I always thought I was 6'1
Until I measured myself a few days ago.
Turns out i'm 6'3. [:0][:0] And I'm 16 yrs old. I hope this makes you feel better.

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Kathi Kube

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Posted by Kathi Kube on Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:23 PM

Hey, tree! You and my daddy have a bit in common. He's also 6'5" and was a volunteer firefighter in our hometown (Germantown, Wis.) for 20 years. He retired from the department some years ago, but served as EMT, fire inspector and rescue director for many of those years. I, happily, quit growing when I hit 5'11", but my 17-year-old daughter has recently stopped at 6'1". (An evil laugh ensues![:p]) My 13-year-old is still in the middle of her last big growth spurt and I'm interested to see where she'll end up.

I've always been very proud of the work my father did with the fire department. Firefighters rock, and so do you. Keep your eyes open, your head down, and your mask clear.

Take care!
Kathi

dharmon

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Posted by dharmon on Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:53 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Ah yes time

NOw you could all be like me (lazy ***) , and go to Radio shack and update all your clocks around the house to Radio Controlled clocks, therfore you never have to change anything!

they update themselves. usually at 12 AM, 2AM and 6AM and the clock coincide exactly to the train scheduales (for up here)

Ahh you fail again young Jedi...............

By having all of you clocks adjust themselves automatically, you remove the opportunity to blame the time change for tardiness or just downright forgetting things like work, or class or anniversaries. It's all about plausable deniability (a concept developed by the CIA in the 60s and continued to be refined by many politicians when 60 Minutes greets them at thier doorstep).

You should never give up options for good excuses. [:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:57 AM

Alex [:p] [}:)] [;)]

You can have all of my snow tooooooooooo, unless you want to share some of it with Mitchell. But he would probally like to share some with you. [:D]

I like Kevs idea about the clocks, just as long as they are not made in china (doesn't deserve a capital c).

I wonder if the railroads use these radio controled clocks? We all know the railroads would love to have radio controlled people.

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JoeKoh

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:58 AM

Alex
yep this Sunday it comes to an end and you can have all the snow this winter!
[:D][8D][:)][}:)][;)]
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").

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:39 AM

Actually, its gonna be brighter in the morning than it was before. And you wake up an hour later as they say. Daylight saving time ENDS this sunday, right?

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coalminer3

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Posted by coalminer3 on Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:26 AM

Time change - oh boy

Now we get to go to work when it's dark, work where it's dark and return home when it's dark. But look on the bright side - the grass has quit growing and I don't have to mow - now if I can remember where I stored the snow shovel.

work safe

Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:19 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Hi
This is just a freindly reminder to set your clocks back 1 hour this Saturday.(unless you live in Indiana and Arizonia I believe).Time changes effected our schedule where I used to work how about for you Railroad guys and gals?I will need the extra hour of sleep because I'm watching my nephew get suckered[:D]oops married.
stay safe[8D]
Joe

Joe-

I still get the same 1 1/2 hour call and it's almost always dark when I go to work, so it really makes no difference to me...[yawn]

LC

There you are - I wondered where you had wandered off to......You have been way to quiet lately! Been picture shopping? [}:)]

Mookie

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:37 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Hi
This is just a freindly reminder to set your clocks back 1 hour this Saturday.(unless you live in Indiana and Arizonia I believe).Time changes effected our schedule where I used to work how about for you Railroad guys and gals?I will need the extra hour of sleep because I'm watching my nephew get suckered[:D]oops married.
stay safe[8D]
Joe

Joe-

I still get the same 1 1/2 hour call and it's almost always dark when I go to work, so it really makes no difference to me...[yawn]

LC

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:19 PM

Ah yes time

NOw you could all be like me (lazy ***) , and go to Radio shack and update all your clocks around the house to Radio Controlled clocks, therfore you never have to change anything!

they update themselves. usually at 12 AM, 2AM and 6AM and the clock coincide exactly to the train scheduales (for up here)

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JoeKoh

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:16 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Nora
are you settled in?if not the pictures can wait.
stay safe[:)]
Joe

Not yet -- still visiting the library twice a week. They're saying two more weeks -- but they've been saying that since we first moved in three weeks ago! I'll let you know...

--Nora

counting 1[:(!] 2[:(!] 3[V] 4[|)] 5[B)] 6[:0] 7[B)] 8 [:0] 9[:p] 10[:)] Been there done that with some contractors and other people.stay cool
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").

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Posted by Nora on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:01 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

Nora
are you settled in?if not the pictures can wait.
stay safe[:)]
Joe

Not yet -- still visiting the library twice a week. They're saying two more weeks -- but they've been saying that since we first moved in three weeks ago! I'll let you know...

--Nora

Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:54 PM

He was in communications but based out of Germany. I think he was there after you in'98

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dharmon

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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:32 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Scottydog

Hey Mr Harmon, my son was also in Sarajevo, I wonder if you ran into him Specialist Marc Robinson?

I don't recall the name, but it does not mean I didn't. I was there off and on through 96 and 97. Where did he work?

Dan

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:18 PM

Hey Mr Harmon, my son was also in Sarajevo, I wonder if you ran into him Specialist Marc Robinson?

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tree68

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:46 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie
AHHHH - you didn't use the 12 gauge did you!!!!!!! I will let you in on a little secret - if you get Mookie up a tree, you will have to use more than a 12 gauge to get her out! Not even chocolate cake will work - course, the trick is getting her in there to begin with!

Moo

Actually that's urban legend. I've never actually heard of someone doing it. Besides, once you pulled it out, the owner would decide to let the cat come down by itself. [:p]

Hmmm - I've heard of a partridge in a pear tree... Chocolate Cake in a Maple Tree?!?! [;)]

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Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:48 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

AHHHH - you didn't use the 12 gauge did you!!!!!!! I will let you in on a little secret - if you get Mookie up a tree, you will have to use more than a 12 gauge to get her out! Not even chocolate cake will work - course, the trick is getting her in there to begin with!

Moo

Silly rabbit....12GA is for kids.....everyone knows you use a 10GA goose cannon for cats in trees.
Mookie don't got no feathers! Use that one on mudchix!

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dharmon

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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:34 PM

Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:23 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

Choose one time and stick to it...

I'm sorry but the concept of "daylight savings time" is obsolete to me.

I beleive it was instituted to allow farmers extra daylight but now its obsolete.
Sure I get at wake up an hour later but I have to go to bed an hour earlier and it always takes me two months to adjust.

How do we get this stupid anachronistic practice relegated to the slag heap of history?

I agree - It is just a waste of good time! Let's go back to real time year round. You can't get a tan after 5 pm anyway - and everything else has lights - so what's the problem....

Madame La Moo

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Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:21 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

AND an important message from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, your local fire department, me (a fire chief), and the Eveready Bunny: When you change your clocks (and even if you don't), change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It's a change you can live with.

No smoke detectors? Shame!
Tree! Been watching your name - and wondering about it - now I know - you work for the Fire Department and cats go up trees - now I know why it was so intriguing!

Mookie has to spend the better part of an afternoon - changing clocks and batteries - 3 smoke detectors and only 812 square feet! (3 floors!) And a really nice 2 truck fire department - just across the street! [8)]

Mook

Actually it's because I'm 6'5" - Was bestowed on me in high school (originally as a sort of insult) and I'm still using it many years later.

We don't get many calls for cats in trees after we arrived one day and pulled out the 12 guage. [:D] Besides - when was last time you saw a dead cat in a tree?

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dharmon

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Posted by dharmon on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:58 AM

A few years ago, I was sitting in Sarajevo as part of IFOR, which came in following the UN debacle to keep the Serbians, Muslims and Croats from continuing their little rampage against each other. Bosnia had been largely divided among ethnic lines and was still in the process of developing its post war government. The Serbians were still fairly upset about the NATO intervention and all things european, so when the time change was to come about they refused to cooperate. So for a week or so, clocks in Serbian zones were one hour ahead of clocks in the rest of the country, which created quite a local stir, since NATO was trying to get local services like...umm the railroads back on line. So everyone else had to switch back to original time, then Bosnia was off from the rest of Europe until everyone could agree to make the switch...

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:52 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

AND an important message from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, your local fire department, me (a fire chief), and the Eveready Bunny: When you change your clocks (and even if you don't), change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It's a change you can live with.

No smoke detectors? Shame!
Tree! Been watching your name - and wondering about it - now I know - you work for the Fire Department and cats go up trees - now I know why it was so intriguing!

Mookie has to spend the better part of an afternoon - changing clocks and batteries - 3 smoke detectors and only 812 square feet! (3 floors!) And a really nice 2 truck fire department - just across the street! [8)]

Mook

Actually it's because I'm 6'5" - Was bestowed on me in high school (originally as a sort of insult) and I'm still using it many years later.

We don't get many calls for cats in trees after we arrived one day and pulled out the 12 guage. [:D] Besides - when was last time you saw a dead cat in a tree?

vsmith

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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:42 AM

Choose one time and stick to it...

I'm sorry but the concept of "daylight savings time" is obsolete to me.

I beleive it was instituted to allow farmers extra daylight but now its obsolete.
Sure I get at wake up an hour later but I have to go to bed an hour earlier and it always takes me two months to adjust.

How do we get this stupid anachronistic practice relegated to the slag heap of history?

Have fun with your trains

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:42 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by louisnash

Alaskaman

You said that it gets dark at 5:00. HOw long is your night hours there this time of year?

All I know about the time, is that it is the perfect time of the year for photos of abandoned railroad right-of-ways.

Brian (KY)

I tell ya- its weird. We go from a lot of daylight (19 hrs min) to little daylight (4hrs 30min) In the winter sun sets at 3 :40.
All the way up north they either have no sun, or sun all day.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:20 AM

Interesting tidbits.........Benjamin Franklin came up with Daylight Savings time..........and......a railroader came up with Time Zones......Sir Stanford Flemming (might have the name mispelt) worked for the Canadian Pacific.....he wanted to make things easier for them. At one time, every town and city kept its own time (sometimes it would shift five minutes when you went to a neighboring town), and every railroad had a clock for each town......stations served by more than one would have several clocks, and heaven help the poor soul who checked the wrong clock and missed the train!

~Ra'akone

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Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:25 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

AND an important message from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, your local fire department, me (a fire chief), and the Eveready Bunny: When you change your clocks (and even if you don't), change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It's a change you can live with.

No smoke detectors? Shame!

Tree! Been watching your name - and wondering about it - now I know - you work for the Fire Department and cats go up trees - now I know why it was so intriguing!

Mookie has to spend the better part of an afternoon - changing clocks and batteries - 3 smoke detectors and only 812 square feet! (3 floors!) And a really nice 2 truck fire department - just across the street! [8)]

Mook

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tree68

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:14 AM

AND an important message from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, your local fire department, me (a fire chief), and the Eveready Bunny: When you change your clocks (and even if you don't), change the batteries in your smoke detectors. It's a change you can live with.

No smoke detectors? Shame!

Mookie

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Posted by Mookie on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:09 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by nance69

Joe and Scottydog: I cannot believe you two fine fellows are badmouthing the wonderful institution of marriage!!! My Bob is husband no. 3 and the best of the group. Maybe one just has to keep trying! LOL
Nance 69

As we get older we get smarter, don't we! [8D]

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Posted by louisnash on Monday, October 20, 2003 11:50 PM

Alaskaman

You said that it gets dark at 5:00. HOw long is your night hours there this time of year?

All I know about the time, is that it is the perfect time of the year for photos of abandoned railroad right-of-ways.

Brian (KY)