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Re: COFFEE POT #11 [September], for all to take a drink and chat. Welcome all posters. 4 yrs old and still going.

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Posted by LawsonFarmsRR on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 9:26 AM

 Wow! Pot #11 is one day old and is on page 3.Thumbs Up

I like the suit Chief. Have you worn it to a school board meeting yet. It would fit right in with those Fat Cats.

Jon - We only have a crawl space under the farm house. I had to have a separate building for the trains. But that has worked out fine.Big Smile

Don - Your life is never dull. I'll bet you don't get bored.

Have a great one. Brutus, I am ready and waiting!

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Posted by Blueberryhill RR on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:53 AM

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a sunny 60 degrees. Going up to 80 today, with lots of sunshine.

Today is a busy day. I have a bunch of errands to run. Then some quality time, later, relaxing.  Not much else new, here.

Dining car arrived from "Points West", and we had the usual for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

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Posted by sir james I on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:35 AM

Good Morning

We have sunshine and 70s for the week.

I am sore and congested, me thinks I have a cold. So  right now no plans for the day. Enjoy your Wednesday...S.J.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:23 AM
Aloha all. Beautiful fall day here. Going to return an extra set-top box to ATT now that one of our TVs died - quite the process to return it but since they charge $7 a month for it, I can't get rid of it fast enough. I'm also looking into going canoeing down the Fox River sometime this weekend with the middle boy. Soccer practice tonight with the youngest. Oh yeah, and work too.

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Posted by kpolak on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:13 AM

Morning all!

Steve:  Best of luck with the job search.

Brutus:  Prayers for your Bride.

Park with the girls today.  Finished chores yesterday, so I can goof off today!

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:00 AM

Chief - That's like asking if they still play basketball in North Carolina, somewhere...

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:52 AM

Morning all.  Glad Shake and Bake is back in the game.  Speaking of games, Wes, does Ohio have a football team??? Laugh  Rat suit!  That is a perfect "fit" for Mr. Buckeye.  Might fit for the over the hill horn blower in Ioway.  No, a donkey's [can't use the real name on this forum] suit as all he does is eat CORN.  Now that I have taken care of all of my "friends". Evil Laugh

Sure is nice and cool in NC.  Can tell fall is around the corner.  Well, coffee time.  Chat later.

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Posted by fifedog on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:43 AM

Mornin' boys.  Sunny & pleasant her ein the Mid-Atlantic region.  Still on my "working" vacation.  Perhaps go out on the bay after dinner to watch the Wednesday night sailboat races.  We'll see.

88 - I'm kinda in the same boat for YORK.  More likely to be there on Saturday, but will have to play things by ear.

Wes - I can't wait to see the 12 foot ring of dead earth under our pool...Disapprove

Buckeye - Ponder this --- if Robin Meade had been around in 1849, there would have been no gold rush...Tongue

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:15 AM

Mornin' Fellas.

Wes - I will definitely make it up for dinner. I am hoping to be able to at least make it up for the afternoon on Friday. Since the sunroom project has been going on I haven't had much time to get into the train room so all those projects down there are still waiting to get started - and many of them I already have the materials to complete them... Banged Head

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Posted by Wes Whitmore on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:06 AM

Good one Jon...

Took down our 10' inflatable pool yesterday.  It's all drying out and getting ready to be put away for the year.  Those things work pretty well for as cheap as they are.

3 more days until college football season starts.  It makes it more fun to run my MTH Buckeye Express...

Brent, you gotta go to York...at least drive up for dinner if nothing else.

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Posted by cheapclassics on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:58 AM

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps again in the 70s.  Ideal weather here.  Practiced with "my" soccer girls last night.  Some of the kids were either sick or nursing various ailments so when it came time to scrimmage, I was playing right fullback.  The sweeper (who runs the defense) asked me as I trotted onto the field if I could take orders from a woman and I said she forgot I was married :-)   After that was over, I went to the YMCA and did weights (no need for track work).  Watched some of "America's Got Talent".  I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast before sending it to "Points East".  Beacon is lit.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by jonadel on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:34 AM

After reading of Buckeye's plight yesterday I thought for sure he was working in Roseyville, silly me, they don't have seweres in Roseyville Tongue

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Posted by laz 57 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:08 AM

HI GYZ,

  48 here this morning and another great day only to get to 76.  Ran and did weights after school.  Felt good.

BOB yes MTH makes that docksider, back in about 2001.  I found mine on Ebay for 70 bucks.  Nice engine great smoker NO SOUND.

Stay frosty.

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Posted by submmbob on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:01 AM

 Took the weekend off from the computer and had to catch up on like 10 pages! Back here at the telescope again for another 4 days. So far so good. Still having some of my "phases", but overall seem to be doing better. Really seems like the acid reflux thing now. Studying up for the diabetic education class. I can now eat two pieces of bread (an actual sandwich) w/o the numbers going too high.

Fife - Mars is up in the morning in Gemini. It is coming into opposition (getting closer) in January. Had to look that one up after taking most of the summer off:)

Laz - awesome summer! MTH makes a docksider? Is it an 0-4-0?

RT - glad to hear they found something out w/ the sleep study. Hope they get you set up.

Brutus - more good news! When I hear the news of the successful operation I'm going to spin the telescope 360. 

Looks like replacement bearings are available. The subflector project may be game on. This close to start up it could be interesting. Should be a fun month and a half or so.  Fellow telescope operator got a bid accepted for a house, a first for him. I was talking to him tonight and he was pretty excited. Wish the van was running so I could help him move. MG first, MG first...

 Hope everyone is having a good week

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Posted by dbaker48 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 12:33 AM

Evening Everyone !!

Major accomplishment (for me), finally got the computer system working here.  Came home Saturday night, and no internet, no phone, but the cable TV was working.  Started working the phone issue, reset the modem to the house, no luck.  Spent a good 2 hours on phone with technical support.  (Cell phone, until the battery died, during the call.)  There solution was to send some one out on Wednesday. (tomorrow).  Didn't confirm the appointment, and havn't heard anything from them since.  Anyway, I continued working with the phones, disconnected them 1 by 1.  Until get to Chris' phone.  I couldn't find it.  So disconnected the base, WHALA !!  The phones start working again.  (His phone was under his bed, with a box on it, holding the line open. Banged Head

So Sunday night trying to get Net up and running.  Another hour with technical support, they start walking me through 1 step at a time.  Disconnect all the computers in the house (4), then they do a reset from the office on the modem, and manage to get 1 computer to work on the modem.  Then say thank you very much, and if you have any problem, don't call us.  Now the Router is disconnected and nothing else works.  Go to their TS, another 1 hour +, and do a router reset.  No go, finally decide to call it a day until Monday.  Monday, same thing, only this time they want me to download a firmware upgrade, and install it on the disconnected modem.  Obviously, that didn't work.  Tonight got a good tech guy, (girl actually), first question she asked was what is the version of firmware on the router.  She shows me how to find it, then says That's the Problem.  So we upgrade the firmare, reboot, and everything is back!!   I don't understand how the firmware can just become out of date, overnight.  It was working fine Friday, then dead on Saturday.  Unless the ISP, did a blind upgrade or something.  Just doesn't make sense.

The fire situation seems to have improved somewhat, had a much cooler day, and some humidity today, which helped.  They still don't expect to have containment until Sept 15 or so.  Going to be a LOT of smoke until then!

Question: Since Chief has that real neat Kitty Kat costume, and Buckeye is crawling around in sewers, when will we see the Rat Costume??

Also, make the Tardis approach from the Southwest, (go out around Catalina, and back in) won't have a problem.  Will be able to pick up Ray and shoot right down to DDG's place.

Oh yeah, the guy I was trying to help with the layout, has a bad TIU for DCS.  (He bought a used one from a LHS, very early version).  So he picked up a new one and its all working.

Later

(Buckeye I will see if I can find a Mouse Suit, there should be one out here somewhere.)

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Posted by MichRR714 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 12:20 AM

Missed chat with the guys tonite. Looked for them..but the radar screen was blank.

SJ- I took another look at those Challengers at WB's on my way home from the office.  Very Nice!

Completed some scenery work on the layout....however my sister has taken my camera hostage to film the arrival of my niece....suppose that is a good reason Smile

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:25 PM

Buckeye Riveter

In forty years of working in constuction, today was a first.  We dug up 60' of a lateral sewer that was laid backwards.  Yep, they were trying to get the water to flow uphill.  What a mess!

Mowed the lawn tonight.  This is the first year in 20 that we have not had to water the lawn.  We have had rain and cool weather all summer.



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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:41 PM

Howdy folks!  Well, today we had a little going away luncheon for a co-worker.  His wife works as a civilian for the Army and got a job in Germany, so Tom is going to be living there for 5 years!  How cool!  I would love to do something like that! 

Talked early with RT and SJ.  Tardis is ready, so let's get the fun rolling, lol!

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Posted by dwiemer on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:19 PM

Good evening everyone!  Hope everyone is doing well.  Long day at work as had a number of cases and an emergency that added a bit of excitement.  Also, went out for sushi with the team and one of the manufacturer reps.  Some new equipment we are looking at to make things a little better.  Our numbers are at the top of the list for the country, but it is important to be on top of things.

Ray, the C-Pap is for folks with sleep apnea.  Essentially, it blows the air down the airway.  While numbers vary from study to study, they all seem to indicate that sleep apnea (cessation of breathing while asleep), is directly linked with several cardiac related diseases and sudden death.  Not to scare anyone, just if you have a history of apnea, it is worth getting a sleep study done.  I failed mine, so now I too wear a mask and had to have a second study done to verify the workings of the mask.  I had over 300 times where I stopped breathing in the first study.  This also leads to very restless sleep, so for some folks who always wake up tired, this could also be an issue.

Have a great night everyone.
God Bless,
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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:43 PM

In forty years of working in constuction, today was a first.  We dug up 60' of a lateral sewer that was laid backwards.  Yep, they were trying to get the water to flow uphill.  What a mess!

Mowed the lawn tonight.  This is the first year in 20 that we have not had to water the lawn.  We have had rain and cool weather all summer.

Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:41 PM

Evenin' boys.  Evenin' Yosemite.  Almost too tired to post after painting all day...almost...

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Posted by 8ntruck on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:37 PM

Sunny and high 70's here today.  Took a stroll behind the lawn mower.

Brutus, Steve - great news!

Chief - I suppose all that will be left of you in your next picutre will be a smile.

I'm planning on spending a little while on my friend's Marx.  I'll clean it up, run it a bit, then send it back to its home. Think I'll put one of my Lionel tenders behind it so I can give it some proper exercise too.

The one of my presses was just going into changeover into one of the new part numbers.  Fourth or fifth time in the press.  I've babysat enough set ups to know it will probably be OK.  Time to let afternoon shift figure that out for themselves.  So far, so good.  The phone has not rung.........

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Posted by jefelectric on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 7:32 PM

Hello September pot.  I had to go back to the August pot to find out what the fat cat suit was all about.  Looks good Chief.

It was a beautiful day here, 49 degrees on the back porch this morning.

Had a nice chat with Don B. last evening.    I think we solved most of the countries problems, except the fact that Pennsylvania is still without a budget!  Banged Head

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 7:28 PM

Good Evening

70s today

Just had a chat with Brutus and RT all is well.

Banilla and root beer ready for the Tardis ride..S.J.

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 6:45 PM

RT, is the breathing machine for a sleeping disorder or something else?  I use oxygen at night only and have an oxygen concentrator machine but mine is for COPD.  I only use it at night and I can go without oxygen in the daytime or when I'm awake.  So far no problem.  Hope you resolve your situation too.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 5:50 PM

Evening all not a lot happening here today Did goto work and worked a full day but thats about it. Just taking it easy tonight as still getting very sleepy as haven't gotten the breathing machine yet I hope when I goto the doctor on the 8th I get it. Was awake quite a few times last night that I remember so not sure how many total.

hope all are doing great.

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:33 AM

Nice outfit Chief!  all you needed was one of those cat in the hat, hats like Scott Smith wears to York.  Have a good trip to Gettysburg but watch out for the Yankees.  The first time I went there, I innocently asked the docent at the cemetery if there were any confederate solders buried there too. He seemed highly indignant and said No!, they were the enemy.  I thought that was a strange thing to say in this day and age.  They were also Americans,  I found the whole Gettysburg visit a very moving experience.  Would love to do it again if I could.  I was there one year on the anniversary of the battle, July 1,2, and 3rd. and got to see some reenactors in costume from both sides camped out in the woods next to the battlefield. One of the soldiers let me hold his muzzle loading rifle. Those things were heavy!  I also got to see a confederate band with period costumes and instruments give a concert in the local high school that week.  Most moving experience was walking the route of Pickett's charge from where they started to the angle on the Union side.  Made me realize what it must have been like being under fire over that vast distance.  It was suicide. It's a wonder that any of them survived that charge.  This was where the Union got even for Fredericksburg.

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Posted by laz 57 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:17 AM

MIKE C, keep at the running, I get about 6 miles in 50 minutes slow and steady.  From laz CAMP.

STEVE, good luck with job hunt. 

LEE, yepper Pioneer Tunnel up in ASHLAND.  You missed Pioneer Day, 3rd Saturday in August. Great time ate lots of BELINIES ( potatoe Cakes).

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:53 AM

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 Chief:  I would like to see you on your John Deere in that Outfit. LOL.

Lew.

Now that would have been a good one.  Still envy where you live.  Bet you see some NS all the time.   Take some photos and share.  Good September to you too.  

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:37 AM

Mornin Fellas.

Hard to believe it is September already!

Finally have the pictures taken for SPF, should have them posted tonight. Then have to ship cars to JohnF.

Haven't decided what to do about York. October could be very hectic for me and I'm just not sure I'll be able to make it. Probably send in the registration and that way if I can go I'll have my badge.

Just ordered the new shocks, struts, springs and install hardware for my Bimmer... UGH! Gonna take a couple months just to pay that off... then had to order new driver side mirror glass, new driver headlight lens and headlight gasket... have to get tires and an alignment too... not looking forward to this bill, especially now that we are armpit deep into the sunroom/screened porch project... there goes the vacation. Sad

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