Afternoon folks.
My Legacy arrived to Lionel yesterday and was signed by "Howe". I never received a email that they got it. I thought about waiting until today to say something to yall, but today again I havnt recieved a confirmation. Has any body else received their confrimation yet and did it take over 2 days?
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Afternoon all!
Date night tonight! Probably out to dinner sans kids, for a change.
Still weathering and decking the freight platform...there's a lot to this weathering stuff...trial and error, mostly ink washes, and some acrylic paints and washes. Hopefully complete tomorrow.
Bride said Wall-E was 'cute'. When asked to elaborate, she said you couldn't say that about Monsters Inc., or Ratatouille.
I'll be back late, but I'll make the tardis trip. Careful it rained here the last 2-days straight.
Kurt
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Man, what a great trip last night - it will be hard to beat it! Don, was that a full moon in CA last night? [;-)] I'll take off in a little while. So far, everyone is out doing stuff tonight. I'm laying low as my wife apparently forgot she wanted me to put up those shelves tonight and I don't feel like it. Shhhhhhhhh!
Trainz shipped 3 of my preorder items yesterday, including the Halloween Trolley, ghost car and Halloween People Pack!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
dougdagrump wrote:What in the **** is with people these days, short handed at the museum so I go in today. This was one of the worst days that I can recall for dealing with obnoxious and ill-behaved children. What has happened to teaching manners and courtesy, their parents definitely did not because they would stand there and ignore/not care what the brats do. Now to figure out what to fix for supper.
What in the **** is with people these days, short handed at the museum so I go in today. This was one of the worst days that I can recall for dealing with obnoxious and ill-behaved children. What has happened to teaching manners and courtesy, their parents definitely did not because they would stand there and ignore/not care what the brats do.
Now to figure out what to fix for supper.
Doug, Welcome to the 21st Century. A lot of parents develope selective hearing and sight when it comes to their little darlings. One of my pet peeves. At times I would like to slap them upside the head, parents, not the kids.
EVENING ALL
Just returned from the church picnic, good attendance and lots of food. I did a whole heap of walking but doubt if I burned off what I took in. I tried to be good, but its the deserts that get ya. A beautiful day in the low 80s and not a cloud in the sky. No train repairs today but I did fuss with them a bit. Wild Bills made a buy today for you Flyer guys, A silver comet set, a K4 set, and the old timer set, sorry forgot the name,knew it a minute ago. All in mint L/N condition. he had not decided on the prices yet. OK Brutus, where ever you are, come on over....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Brutus wrote:Man, what a great trip last night - it will be hard to beat it! Don, was that a full moon in CA last night? [;-)]
Man, what a great trip last night - it will be hard to beat it! Don, was that a full moon in CA last night? [;-)]
Aahh, Aahhh, Aahhhhh, Yea
Butt, not anymore ! Thermocouple in and the water is cooking !!!!
Don
Good evening all,
It started off rainy in SE Indiana but turned out to be IIABSDISEI with temps and humidity dropping into the 70s. We got Lucas registered for his first semester classes. His schedule should be doable, but he is going to have it hard from the get-go. On the way home, my wife dropped me off at the soccer game. Lucas wanted to see his girlfriend so he skipped the game (where did I go wrong with that boy :-)?). We played well against a good team and only lost 2-1. I had a little extra on the dining car this morning for breakfast. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all from Beautiful Southern Ohio
Rains have came and gone and it is to cool off and humidity drop for the next couple of days.
Doug- Now we would not want to damage those little one's self esteem now would we, bleh! I've got to agree with John. The whole Dr. Spock thing IMHO is hogwash, and has been a detriment to future generations. Responsibility, hard work, and ethical moral values are slipping in general, and I hope and pray for a turnaround.
SJ-Sounds like you tapped into a find. The Old Timer is probably a Franklin 21088 (green and red) or Washington 21089 (blue and gold). Nice sets
Don- Glad you are back in hot water, no, that's not what I mean, you know!
Mike- I know what you mean. I remember when I had more hormone activity than brain activity, and I did some bonehead things too. Just hold on. Like Doug and Fife, raising teens today is a challenge. My scars still ache and mine are 25 and 27 now. I pray for you guys.
All take care and may God bless ( especially you parents!)
Jim
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a sunny 62 degrees. Going up to 82 today, with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have a lot of errands to run and then, I will probably be mowing grass. Need the backyard cut. Rains have made the grass grow quickly. No time for rains today. Darn.
Dining car is here and it's time for breakfast. Then, it's rolling again to "points west".
Y'all have a great day.
Chuck
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 75 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Still on nightwork.
Dougnottagrump - Any chance were those women and brats the same ones that SOUTHWEST dumped off in Phoenix...?
lionroar88 wrote:Mornin' Fellas.Brutus - Sounds like we're going to need to expand the Tardis... getting a bit crowded on the nightly excursions!
That is one of the tardis's features it is larger inside than on the outside
Hi GIZ,
60 and beauty of a day here today. Did just a 2.3 miler today felt great! Better then yesterdays humidity. Yesterday with it being 77 and humid with rain on the way I took out 5 of the forsythia bushes. I have 3 more to do. Took me just 3hrs. to dig them out. Great workout, didn't have to lift weights yesterday. the nice part was the rain coming down for about 20 minutes felt great. After I was done with the 5 bushes took garden hose and had sort a garden shower by hosing off first sneakers then sox then shirt then me. I got my shower for the week.
Train related, sent out LEGACY last Tuesday got it back yesterday. Came back with 2 chips for the unit and a 1.2 version manual. Thanks LIONEL for the fast action.
Today going to take out 1 forsythia bush then take all the roots to our recycling center where they chip it all up for mulch. Its free here in the township.
Later today going to see if I can win one in GOLF against BRO?
B GOOD or B GONE,
laz57
GOOD MORNING ALL
Yes Phish it was the Franklin set. Darn I just could not remember. Went to bed tired, slept good. Sunny and 69 right now, we are good till Fri night when they tossed storms back into the game. I have no big train plans for the day, had the train store in mind but I think now it will be Mon. after Dr. appointment. Have a great day and I am going to look around awhile....S.J.
Morning all [almost gone]. Slept late, got up and drank coffee and watched TV. Cooked breakfast and watched TV. Hey, this might be like retirement. No Town calls!!!!! Now I will run some errands. Did get an overnighted pay check from Pro Mariner [after I compalined to the VP]. Looks like rain. Nice to be lazy. Will go to Town Hall this afternoon. OH, won a Lionel NS box car on Choochoo for $21.
Later
Mornin' All.
Temps are down a bit but the humidity has been up a bit. Some areas of the state are really having a ruff time of it, if it ain't burning it just feels like it due to heat. A couple of tough losses, two firefighters have lost their lives so far. A volunteer fireman from Cal and a firefighter from Oregon.
On a lighter note, now that the 4th of July train has been dis-mantled it is time to start planning the halloween train . Need some suggesstions for a possible car to use, I got one of the dept 56 characters, the raggedy, skeletol conductor with a lantern and watch. Unfortunately his battery box, two C cells, is two big for the work caboose I wanted to use so now I need to revise my plans, thought it mite fit inside the caboose body. Does anybody have a transfer caboose ? If you do, what are the the length and width of the platforms on either end of the car?
Fife, What happened with Southwest and Phoenix? Must've missed something on the news, eh.
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Dougsnotagrump: Here's a link for some SP transfer caboose: http://espee.railfan.net/cabooses_transfer.html It seems these are made from all types of cars, so the deck size varies.
Took the girls to the Zoo today, and managed to get grass cut before the rains. I can hear thunder in the distance.
Evening all. Couldn't get on all day. Fixed the mailbox. Got broken window pane replaced. Took training wheels off the youngest's bike -- raining most all day. Ran trains - rehung Harold the Helo and my new Bleriot monoplane!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Hi, Ya'll,
I needed to take a mental health break and decided to drop in.
Spent 2 hours helping the wife with a work-related write up she sent to me unannounced by email at 9am tagged urgent. I was left with strict written instructions about it's importance, why I had to r&r it, why I had to turn it around fast (by 1 pm), why it had to be perfect, etc. The good news is that I got it done in time. The bad news is when I went to save it, I ran into all sorts of password protection roadblocks she had set up on the document level and couldn't save it to my pc. Don't ask how I could open it and revise it but not save it. I don't know.
Took about an hour to get around that issue, but when I went to attach the revised document to an email and send it back to my wife, the file for her work stuff that I put it in was there, but no document. Title search. No luck. It was nowhere to be found.
Panicking up against HER deadline, I tried to get ahold of her. She didn't respond to my call to her cell. She didn't respond to my call to her work extension. She didn't respond to my email. The pony express as a communication technology was faster and less frustrating.
It took me another frustrating hour to find the sucker. That's when I discovered that she has 3 separate sets of "Pam Work Stuff" document files scattered on the hard drive, with the exact same sub file names, and no rhyme or reason to what she put in each. Not organized by month, year, recipient, the weather, nothing. You have to go to 3 separate files to find everything for one project, and to access each file you have to take different paths to get to them. Some files are password protected, some not. Finally found my document revision, then shot it off to her and waited for her revised revisions. Nothing. Back to the phone routine.
Finally got to her by having the receptionist walk over to her office and tell her to call me. Sounded calm and sweet as can be. "Hi sweetie, having a nice day?" "Where have you been? Why didn't you return my calls? Did you get my emails? What did you think of the write up? Why do you have the MS Word files on the same topic and subtopic buried in 3 places on the pc? What's with all the document and file password protection.....are we the CIA here at home?" Response: "I didn't get to it yet, and I tightened your deadline to make sure you got it done today." "Today? You said life and death by 1!!!!"
If she walks in the door tonight and complains that I didn't dig out the dead rhododendrons (sp?) today...........AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH !!!!!! What happened to the expletive smilie?
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
cnw1995 wrote: Evening all. Couldn't get on all day. Fixed the mailbox. Got broken window pane replaced. Took training wheels off the youngest's bike -- raining most all day. Ran trains - rehung Harold the Helo and my new Bleriot monoplane!
Doug, have you thought of getting your rifle with scope, crawling up on the roof, turnning out all the lights, having all the vehicles leave and take out the one[s] doing this???? Which reminds me. Neighbor says BIG groundhog under his shed. For me to get rid of him.
No weather alert all day. First time since Sunday afternoon. Still looks like rain. Cloudy and temps in the 80's with 69 dewpoint.
TV time. Later.
BTW: Railroad expert Jerry Knott [from Miss Edna's] says it is a switch lantern [not car lantern]. The oil pot is missing and so are the rings and lenses. Thinks Miss Edna might have some.
Oh my. Boy, it is hard to type when the O key keeps breaking. Like my new photo? It was brought to my attention that my previous photo was coming up on 10 years old...
Anyone know anything about AT&T's version of cable tv called u-verse - it's coming out in this market. I wonder if its worth a look compared to Comcast. But they're still pushing their sat tv too...
Chief Mayor Frank
My uncle, a Brakeman/Switchman on the P&LE called them "Switchstand Lanterns" as did Frank Curtis who made and sold o gauge turnouts and the little 1/4 scale lanterns. Frank's were constantly lit and mechanically turned from red to green by 'throwing" the switch throwbar.
Dewey
Good Evening
We just had a small storm move through here, looks like we are in the clear for awhile now. I guess I'll check on the one Doug had and find out which way its going. No big news today, goofed off and took my evening walk, got back and sat on the porch, got stuck with the neighbor lady talking for an hour. the storm saved me. she's nice just had things I wanted to do. Ok Brutus fire up the thing I am ready with banilla..S.J.
HEY, DEWEY dropped by. Glad to see you here. Hope all is well.
The Man Who Saved Christmas was on LMN. Story of A C Gilbert and his toy making. The Govt wanted everyone to cancel Chirstmas for the WW I effort. They almost did it. He turned it around.
Good night all.
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