Evening all from rainy Phoenix/Mesa AZ. They get about 8 in of rain a year here and they are getting 4 in of it this week. So much for a sunny diversion from weather at home - which BTW is nice, sunny, and 70 degrees while I am out this week.
Take care all!
Regards, Roy
Good Morning all
It has been quiet but busy around here. Finally all the Christmas decor is down, now just to put it away. Weather is wet and foggy. Not to get bad till later in the week when some black ice may show up.
Jim F - Great news, I will continue to keep your bride in my prayers.
May God bless
Jim
Hi GUYZ,
32 and ok here today. last 2 days o semester. or 91 more days till summer vaction.
ANJDEVIL, BIG CONGA on the ASSISTANT CHIEF THING. Maybe you could be the CHIEFs assistant?
SF,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold 28 degrees. Going up to 36 today, with cloudy skies.
Today is a busy day. I have an errand to run this morning and then a few things to do around the house. Later, I will spend some time in the train room. Not much else new. Feeling pretty good.
Dining car is here for the usual breakfast.
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Chuck
Mornin' fellas.Congrats to Rich on being handed earning the Assistant Chief... watch out Buckeye you're title is waning!
Been having problems with the desktop at home. I built it 4 years ago and never had any problems with it other than having to replace the video card. Well I tried to upgrade XP to Vista and it couldn't read the setup.exe on the DVD. So I bought a new 500Gb SATA 7200rpm harddrive, went home, moved all critical files off the old main drive onto a secondary drive, removed the old EIDE drives, installed the new SATA drive, removed the 1.44" floppy drive, the floppy drive cable and the old EIDE ribbon cable. You would NOT believe the amount of gained air flow through the case! Anyhow, I started the Vista install and could not locate the Product Key! So called Microsoft and stumbled through their **** poor phone system... only to speak to a technician who told me I had to call the Events Registration Line because I received this version of Vista from a launch event... ok... get transferred... speak to a guy who told me I needed to call the 'Invalid Product Key Line', but he couldn't transfer me. So I call this other line... and it is the same system as the first call after 5 tries I can't get anyone on the phone... well after 30 minutes I FINALLY got to speak with a guy who understood what I needed, gave me a new product key, and I was on my way. Well got it to install without issues... then the video card reports an error to the OS and will only recognize as a standard VGA card now... so new video card is on order... then go to download McAfee from Comcast and keep getting errors. So I chat with support... and realize I was using my gmail email account and not my comcast.net account ... downloaded the install, installed McAfee and went to bed... now I am not done yet... need to install a new HD in Susan's laptop and then install Windows7... not looking forward to that at all!
Good morning all,
It is cold and wet in SE Indiana, but at least the roads were clear. Good workout at YMCA (one 14 touch, several nines). Tonight is indoor soccer scrimmage with high school kids. To all the newcomers here, there is a subgroup of Corvair fans on the pot, and from time to time the subject does come up. Long day at work yesterday (some people are never happy with what you do). Wife rested yesterday and both of us got some sleep last night. Started writing again. Hope to have a few articles to send to CTT sometime. May work on some soccer stories as well. Anyone from Snohio going to the TCA meet in Cincy this Sunday? If so, perhaps we can meet up. Maybe the "saucy wench" will come along as well. I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East". TBIL and some one else will have to drive after the soccer scrimmage. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Morning
A nice january morning with sun, going to the 30s. To bad winter here could not be like this all the time. I think those blind people in DC are in for a bigger suprise come Nov. They just don't get it do they. I shall say no more for the pots sake.
A great chat with the guys last nite as Doug rode home on the train. I think we mixed in a little of everything but settled nothing.LOL....No plans for the day so maybe some train time.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
hello guys i think that it is figured out between my dr and nurse now. i just have to calm down now and get my nhigh blood pressure treated. it is cold here, about 25 and ice storm is expected tommorrow, great as lasy one we had a 14.5 hour power failure. we almost froze to death. stupid engineering, we have two fire places in our house and they are designed to use an electric updraft, so when there is a power failure(all electric house) nothing works. wife cant even get car out of the garage. i am buying a new cd player from a guy on ebay for our stereo system, and he did not send his street address. i only pay with money order, so i cant send it to him until i hear from him. i hope he answers my emails. i am not sending a hundred plus money order to a town in tn without a street address. i am glad the gentleman got the shay. i bet it looks neat running. anyone have any experience with the on30 bachmann one? they are cool little trains and it would be nice to have a back-woodsey lumber or mining railroad interchange with a standard gauge rr. take care guys navyjack
p.s. i do not have a layout to run my trains on i have not seen them run. lame huh?
Well fellas it looks like it is time for another hiatis from the forum... ttyl.
RockIsland52Buckeye....I was relieved to hear you managed your escape from the South and avoided Pat's torture techniques. He had made careful preparations for the ultimate in torture. It is copied after waterboarding but uses cow urine instead. With Scott Brown now casting the deciding vote on the National Health Care Bill, expect the President to now delay the vote and start working on compromises. Jack
With Scott Brown now casting the deciding vote on the National Health Care Bill, expect the President to now delay the vote and start working on compromises.
Jack
Cows never run out of urine. Stay tuned for "The Rest of the Story".
I am concerned that Scott Brown will not get the chance to vote on the Health Care Bill. I hear the Dems. are working on a way to delay seating him in the senate to allow a passing vote by the current senators.
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
Good Morning!
Got the last of the Coffee Pot Interchange cars off yesterday! (Ioway Jon). Enjoyed the entire event and had the opportunity of having a lot of neat items coming through here! Great Job, Fifey !! Thanks !
Today IS the day! The worst day of storms, we'll see! My brother lives in Sacramento area and drives an oil reclamation truck up there. The companys HQ is down here. He is suppose to drive down and exchange trucks today/tomorrow. Told him don't do it! This is the suppose to be the worst day for weather in 30 years, wait a day or two. But he has always marched to his own drum. Maybe he will listen, told him to bring a warm sleeping bag with him, cause if he gets over the Grapevine, he certainly will not on his return trip tomorrow am.
West Coast Submillimeter Telescope Weather Report: (1.20.10) Patchy light this morning, clouds blocking the sunlight. Temperatures cool, should be getting warmer (a little) throughout warning. Air quality is excellant, no particulate matter measured. (Exception in Huntington Beach/Costa Mesa area, roof tiles and palm frawns flying around.)
(Bob, Since your up there on that hill, keep a casual eye this direction. If you see a guy floating by holding on to a Cab Forward and Big Boy engine, toss me line.)
Cautionary Warning -- All Easterly Points -- As the entire West Coast is being drenched this stuff IS headed EAST, take available time and begin to prepare! Could get nasty
(A lot of responsibility for being an Official Submillimeter Telescope Weather Reporter, might have to relinquish position, cant get the report out everyday. Need help from Glendale and San Diego Areas!)
Don
Good night on the chat with SJ - Charlie - CNW = Doug - Brutus last night .. Caught RT earlier for over an hour before that .... was a great evening ! Shopping for log cars for the shay ...
Navyjack ... you don't need a layout to run your engines .... just throw down a loop and have fun . All I have is a test track ... never started my layout ... ... keep changing my mind on it ... lol . Have bucu track and all kinds of items packed though .. the guys here in my area keep me too darn busy helping them with theirs ... maybe when I get old ..... I'll take the time .... yea like I'm not ancient now ... ....
Brent/Lionroar .... welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft .... I'm still waiting on my free tech t-shirt from over 8 years ago they promised me for testing windows and direct X.... I guesss they can't afford it .... oh and that promise Windows 7 does'nt have any bugs in it .... ..... love that one .... off to Ebay ... and that second cup of coffee .... Adios ----
We are above the clouds and it is nice and sunny. We got a few more inches of snow and a lot of winds. The plows are cleaning up know. At least we have good weather to get the shift change and one of the engineers up here today. The receiver is warm and we'll be opening it up later today.
Doug M - was going to make some comment about Linux, but you beat me to it w/ the Mac. We run the entire telescope on Linux.
Brutus - continued thoughts and prayers coming your way.
Don - No worries on the weather forecast. Take a break for the week, as I'm heading down today anyway. I actually thought about becoming a spotter for the NWS, especially w/ the job location up here. And they like people who are amateur radio operators. If I can ever find the time to take the test that is...
They made the rear suspension upgrade to the Corvair cars in '65. What really killed the Corvair? Ralph Nader didn't help, but cheap gasoline and cheap horsepower at the time pretty much did it in. Too bad, 'cause the next attempt at making an inexpensive and efficient car was the Pinto and the Vega!
Well a couple of projects I need to attend to w/ one of the other operators and then off for home. Should have a new trolley waiting for me as the result of a gift card from Christmas
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Ole Timer oh and that promise Windows 7 does'nt have any bugs in it .... ..... love that one ....
oh and that promise Windows 7 does'nt have any bugs in it .... ..... love that one ....
Ole Timer, just remember what Bill Gates always says ... It's not a bug, it's a "Feature".
edw Ole Timer oh and that promise Windows 7 does'nt have any bugs in it .... ..... love that one .... Ole Timer, just remember what Bill Gates always says ... It's not a bug, it's a "Feature".
How about Windows Vista? The program that keeps trying to find updates, gotta love that one!
Ever have a cat steal a piece of pepperoni from your slice of pizza? My wife did yesterday, our cat Chilley did that. A few days before that one of our other cats, Harley, stole a piece of fish from the cooking tray after coming out of the oven. Is there a cure for cat thieves? My cure is to put the cats in the other room a few minutes before we eat!!
Trying to sell stuff on Craigslist is very difficult for me or maybe it is the item I am selling.
Lee F.
Buckeye RiveterIt was a horrible ordeal. I believe the back of my neck is sunburned. I can’t believe people actually choose to live where it is that warm in the winter. One positive item of note, no one offered me grits for breakfast. I didn’t drink a drop of the sweet tea stuff either. My lesson in alligator wrestling went smoothly until I had to get into the cage. I almost bought a real flamingo for Fifedog, but I did not have an airlines approved flamingo carry on bag for its transport. During my reconnaissance along the river, I have came to the conclusion that the South has bigger boats than the North, however, their ports were often foreign.
It was a horrible ordeal. I believe the back of my neck is sunburned. I can’t believe people actually choose to live where it is that warm in the winter. One positive item of note, no one offered me grits for breakfast. I didn’t drink a drop of the sweet tea stuff either. My lesson in alligator wrestling went smoothly until I had to get into the cage. I almost bought a real flamingo for Fifedog, but I did not have an airlines approved flamingo carry on bag for its transport. During my reconnaissance along the river, I have came to the conclusion that the South has bigger boats than the North, however, their ports were often foreign.
THE REST OF THE STORY
What Buckeye says is true, but he didn't tell the whole story. He was "detained" until he agreed to make the following:
After he was released and across the Mason/Dixon line this happened:
Not sure how he was able to set the charge undetected, but bribery by Grits is suspected.
Disclaimer: The Chief was not involved in this. I take full responsibility. We do have the pictures as proof it did happen.
On the run between meetings. It amazes me that people will get in a meeting and out and out LIE. Well, Yankee engineers that have moved South. Then wanted to argue with me that I did not know where a sewer line was in my town. I witnessed the installation and knew all the easments. Got to go to another meeting back in Raleigh. Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good Afternoon. One case this morning and then I had to deal with a sales rep for equipment. Have to take the kids to violin practice tonight in just a short while. Was so foggy out this morning, I had to do 25mph below the speed limit just to be safe. Glad the trip is not that far.
Jack, I think many folks have dropped party affiliations and are voting by the individual. I don't think either party can take for granted that people will vote for them just because they have a D or R after their name. Regardless, it is good to see the process work.
Rich, congrats on Asst. Chief. I only made it to Lt., but a career change made me turn my bars in for better lifestyle. Still, the FD memories are strong and the friendships from there are stronger. Of course most of the guys I worked with are either retired, or upper level officers. Some have even begun to move south for retirement. Taxes are more kind to the elderly here.
Brutus, yeah, I have read about those types of squibs, but I will also need impact scenes on vehicles, etc. There are several ways to do it and I think we will employ a few for different scene requirements. Certainly will want to not put explosives on an actor. I will most likely share some of what we do here as I am sure some here will find it neat.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
LawsonFarmsRR Buckeye Riveter It was a horrible ordeal. I believe the back of my neck is sunburned. I can’t believe people actually choose to live where it is that warm in the winter. One positive item of note, no one offered me grits for breakfast. I didn’t drink a drop of the sweet tea stuff either. My lesson in alligator wrestling went smoothly until I had to get into the cage. I almost bought a real flamingo for Fifedog, but I did not have an airlines approved flamingo carry on bag for its transport. During my reconnaissance along the river, I have came to the conclusion that the South has bigger boats than the North, however, their ports were often foreign. THE REST OF THE STORY What Buckeye says is true, but he didn't tell the whole story. He was "detained" until he agreed to make the following: After he was released and across the Mason/Dixon line this happened: Not sure how he was able to set the charge undetected, but bribery by Grits is suspected. Disclaimer: The Chief was not involved in this. I take full responsibility. We do have the pictures as proof it did happen.Pat
Buckeye Riveter It was a horrible ordeal. I believe the back of my neck is sunburned. I can’t believe people actually choose to live where it is that warm in the winter. One positive item of note, no one offered me grits for breakfast. I didn’t drink a drop of the sweet tea stuff either. My lesson in alligator wrestling went smoothly until I had to get into the cage. I almost bought a real flamingo for Fifedog, but I did not have an airlines approved flamingo carry on bag for its transport. During my reconnaissance along the river, I have came to the conclusion that the South has bigger boats than the North, however, their ports were often foreign.
hscsltbLawsonFarmsRR Buckeye Riveter It was a horrible ordeal. I believe the back of my neck is sunburned. I can’t believe people actually choose to live where it is that warm in the winter. One positive item of note, no one offered me grits for breakfast. I didn’t drink a drop of the sweet tea stuff either. My lesson in alligator wrestling went smoothly until I had to get into the cage. I almost bought a real flamingo for Fifedog, but I did not have an airlines approved flamingo carry on bag for its transport. During my reconnaissance along the river, I have came to the conclusion that the South has bigger boats than the North, however, their ports were often foreign. THE REST OF THE STORY What Buckeye says is true, but he didn't tell the whole story. He was "detained" until he agreed to make the following: After he was released and across the Mason/Dixon line this happened: Not sure how he was able to set the charge undetected, but bribery by Grits is suspected. Disclaimer: The Chief was not involved in this. I take full responsibility. We do have the pictures as proof it did happen.Pat Lesson learned...NEVER underestimate believe or trust a northerner
Good evening all, been so busy today that this is the first chance I have had to get on the coffee pot.
Don, I hope this is the worst day for the rain. Sounds like a lot more coming Thursday and Friday. So far my pumps are keeping everything above water. Pumped some more water out of pool tonight getting ready for overnight downpour. Had a lot of wind with the rain around 4:30 PM. Wind was forcing some water under the crack below my front room window. Never saw that happen in the 34 years we have lived here.
No word on my neighbor today. I guess the bad weather is keeping everyone indoors so have'nt seen the daughter outside. I was gone all morning with my wife who had to have a CT scan at the local hospital as part of precaution to monitor a small growth in the abdomen.I'm not sure I am describing her condition correctly but she has to get it checked about every 6 months per her oncologist. It has not changed any in the last year or so and that is good news.
It has rained all day here. It sounds like it has just stopped for the first time today. I noticed a gap on the radar but we will get more later tonight.
I'll check back with you guys in the morning.
Navy Jack, that was a good suggestion someone made about putting a loop on the floor. Use Lionel Fastrack and it works good on carpets with built in roadbed. I started with an HO floor layout about 45 years ago before they had sectional track. I put three foot sections together on plywood pieces that were 4 inches wide by three ft. long. Hooked it all together with bolts and wingnuts and it ran all the way around my living room at the time in an apartment. It would be a lot easier today with Fastrack in O gauge.
Later,
Ray
SPMan
Good Evening
30 degrees today and no snow expected, I'll take it.
A lazy day here so I will grab some banilla and wait for the Tardis.
I'm not going to get into a long discussion about PCs vs MACs or Win98/XP/Vista/Win7 but I will say this. IF Apple had the market saturation that Windows has I can GUARANTEE there would be issues with viruses and the such that there are with Windows. It comes with the teritory of being the BMoC. I was running XP for over 4 years with ZERO issues caused by the OS. ALL of the issues I had we caused by criminals building software that caused problems. BTW, the PC I have that is connected to the home network that I don't use for surfing the web has NEVER had any issues running XP since XP was released.As for Windows7... 3 months on this laptop ZERO issues. When I build/upgrade a PC I do not install OS upgrades they are clean installs. If you like MACs stick with MAC, if you like Linux stick with Linux. Unfortunately I can't afford a Unix Server so that isn't an option for me. Due to the nature of my work I need a PC, and quite frankly I wouldn't trade my PC for anything else.
BTW - I have had more problems with DirecTV than I have had with Microsoft.
Brent,
Thanks for the reply to my email. I now understand why the wireless card in my laptop seemed to fail after the upgrade. Apparently, it was just a driver issue. I bought a Belkin USB wireless adapter, so I am not concerned about the internal card. Another thing that I like about 7 is how it makes online courses easier!
I still haven't finished taking the Christmas layout down. Except for the 332AC, all the trains have either been stored or put back on the layout, so I am making some progress. Classes started again today. The only things that will be tough will be an Automatic Controls class and my group's senior project that involves building a system to assist with taking inventory.
Evening all, Day 3 survived. Emptied rain gauge on patio, it had an accumulated 5" since Sunday evening. That is the most I've ever dumped. Draining pool twice daily, morning and evening so far been keeping up on that. Water level in river chanel had white caps today, and got to top of street drain located on opposite bank. Currently quiet out, suppose to be for awhile. Could get 1 to 2 inches tonight, then suppose to be rather heavy tomorrow morning/early afternoon. Then more Thursday night, Friday morning. Clear on Sat, Sun, & Mon. Then showers on Tuesday. I think I'm begining to mold.
No damage or leaks in house or train room yet, did have a brief power failure, for about 45 minutes. Biggest problem I had was delivering some pkgs to USPS, and ended up in water up to my knees. Minor issue.
Hope Jon, Doug, SJ, Kurt, and all the rest in the midwest do OK, going to be a bit nasty I'm afraid. Never seen an El Nino have this much affect.
BTW, glad to see the breathern in Mass, had their act together. That is really a BOLD political statement !!! No disrespect meant but Teddy must be toss'n and turn'n !
Came home wife had huge pot of Stew, AND Chili made. We will be eating good for awhile.
Got some projects to work on, see you all later.
Doug, how you doin down their? There must be a lot of water surrounding the museum given the topography. Get some pictures if you can.
Ray, glad to see your holdin your own up there !
submil Bob, must be getting hit with a lot of the storms by now
Yeah, I am using a belkin wireless card in my laptop - works great.
Tomorrow is transplant day
Nice chat tonight and it's time for the Tardis, so let's get going!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good night all. Sat down after dinner and watched the end of the movie I had tried to watch for several nights. Then started another one I had seen the first part of earlier and [you guessed it] reclinerized. Tired. Been getting up at daylight - 30 and coming in late. Will sleep tomorrow AM and then drive east to Mom's. Visit her and then to court house to get taxes straight. Seems they have been over charging us on some of the farm land. I'm sure they will pay us back the money. If we owed them, they would expect it and interest.
Hope the CA folks stay above water. Brutus, best to your wife and she is always in my prayers. Rich, congrats. SirJ, glad you made it without snow. We did too. In the 60's today. Temps have dropped to the 40's and it has rained a little. Chilly tomorrow [high 40's to 50] with rain. Farther north into VA, rather chilly. Pat might get some frozen precept.
Sleep tight and God bless.
Back home finally after a fairly long day. Was actually fairly nice on the mountain today. Was able to work w/ one of the other operators to pulled the troublesome windbird off the VATT telescope. Didn't think we'd be able to do that w/ the weather. Actually, I think the project got easier. This other operator (Sean) is willing to help out w/ some of the maintenance. Originally I was going to transfer to his shift, but I think what we did today will work better. When he is on days (once a month), I'll hang out on Wed. to work w/ him. Nobody has to put in extra time but me then. Gives me a good excuse to push for hiring the mechanic. And only once a month I can handle.
Brutus - tomorrow!? Will go by the church and light a candle tomorrow. Godspeed.
Brent - well said. Computers are like cars, use what you like and works for you.
Don and Ray - glad to hear you guys are hanging in there. If it gets too bad the 'scope should be high enough to stay out of the water. We could make a heck-of-a loop around the carousel for the Big Boy and the cab forward. O-27. 27 foot radius.
Ran the new trolley after I dropped off the truck. Decent detail for the price and I like the colors. The interior lights w/ the silhouettes look nice. Will be neat to see the trolley on the inner loop and the FA Amtrak setup on the outer loop in the dark. I find watching the trains very relaxing, even w/ just the single loop. You're right Chuck, this is good therapy.
Van gets moved in the morning and then will meet the guy w/ the tranny.
'Night all
BrutusYeah, I am using a belkin wireless card in my laptop - works great. Tomorrow is transplant day Nice chat tonight and it's time for the Tardis, so let's get going!
Extra Prayers for you, Char and family, tonight and tomorrow !!
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