Good afternoon all, this has been an expensive day so far. Went in for just an oil change this morning and by the time the dealer got through with me I needed $1800 worth of repairs on my 96 Honda Accord. I guess that's not too bad when you consider I haven't had a car payment in 10 years. I keep em until they drop, then I resurect them and run them into the ground. My Buick Century is still going and it is 23 yrs old now.
I talked to the local hobby shop this afternoon about my MTH Proto 1 problem. They said it sounded like a top board gone bad which controls the sound amoung other things. Cost about $100 for a new one. I think I would be happier if they could just gut the thing and make it conventional. I don't need that sound system anyway on an F3.
Weather is still too hot here to get much train time in the garage except early morning. Did get my Z4000 transformer back from MTH and it is working again.
Oldest son and his family are vacationing at Lake Tahoe. They were suppose to go rafting yesterday on the Truckee River but son said he felt sick and spent the whole day in bed at motel while his wife and son did the raft trip without him. He is better today though and says they will stop off at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento on the way home. We are baby sittting their pet cockateel while they are gone. He has been out of the cage most of the day today and is happy.
Banks, congratulations on that big crop of oats.
NavyJack, are you mobile enough to do varmit shooting? Just wondered after reading your post about the 30-30 rifle. Is that the famous lever action rifle you see in all the Western movies?
Next door neighbor has been cleaning out leftovers from house up for sale and I have been dumpster diving for things they put on the street for free. So far got some post hole diggers, a shovel, a ladder and a step stool. All in good condition but today they put out a nice rocking chair. Only problem was the seat was spit in two right down the middle and the arms had some issues too. Took a pass on that one. Don't know what I will do with the post hole diggers but If I ever want to dig myself a hole, I've got something to do it with now. Might build a new fence sooner or later. Could use it for that.
Car dealer gave me a rental to use today while mine is in the shop. It is a new Nissan and is a nice little car. It is quick like a rabbit. You have to be careful on the brake and accelerator. They both have quick responses. I'm used to really tromping on my old car.
later,
Ray
SPMan
green97probe The original was good until 187K. Another reason not to buy from Advance.
Thats my experince with Advance also, you buy a part, dont last you got to change it out. Sure its still under warrenty sometimes but its the idea of doing it again. They keep u coming back that way.
On to the trains, not much as far as running them goes but trying to FIX what seems to be impossible. Replace the mother board the Remote Control Board and the board that runs the dc motor.put it on tracks...lights work and thats it. but u run dc power straight to the motor bypassing all the electronics stuff it runs like a top....i dunno...seems to me there is a loose connection in there..somewhere...finding it is the problem
--Black Diamond-- One thing about a train, it doesnt matter where it's going, You just have to decide to get on... Woo Wooo.....
Dennis,We are well aware that the fingerprints, and law enforcement certifications, have a 1 year effectiveness. That means we WILL have to get ALL of our certifications and fingerprints redone, possibly twice. That means another $500 - $1000. In the grand scheme of things, that is nothing when you compare that to the overall cost.
Evening all
Crazy busy but blessed all the same. Got another circus billboard whistle and got it working. Just a good cleaning and oiling. Gotta love Gilbert American Flyer
Got a dumpster delivered to the house to load up the roof and framing from the garage tear off. I stopped by on the way home and loaded for about an hour then home to make supper for my bride, she working in the ER tonight. The kids went to the other grandparents for he evening and I expect them any time now. It is quiet so I should be working on this weekend's homily! Rough draft done.
Jim - I missed the 650's you showed me but they are re-listed so maybe this time?
NavyJack - Try the website cheaper than dirt for the ammo. Really low prices especially in bulk.
Every one be careful in the heat. May God bless
Jim
The Treaty of Trent! I'm sorry...what page are we on
A command decision has been made on the Mid-Atalntic Coffee Pot symposium: Saturday August 21 @ 3:00 PM. (As in PM me if you are interested )
Sun and 85
I decided to cut grass tomorrow its suppose to stay in the 70s. We are running out of summer real fast and i'm not happybut the clock doesn't stop does it. Banilla is ready and the beacon is humming so Brutus come on by with the thingy....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Jack, I hear you on all counts. This issue has actually been fought for over 12 years that I know of. I am sure you are aware of the issues if a claim is kicked back from Medicare and for any reason, it is the fault of the provider, it is denied, or highly reduced. And of course, it is tough to get and keep good coding agents without paying them high enough to keep them without breaking the bank. A really good code person could make out well doing contract billing/claims.
Brent, hope things go through with little issues. One problem a lot of folks in waiting for China have is that the finger prints expire! Go figure....didn't know that could happen. Have a great one.
Chief, you are retired, not the dog....besides, he's too young for that. With regard to the Air Conditioner...ours finally got fixed. Amana made a new lot number of coils that were tested twice before shipping. Our HVAC folks jumped right on it and had things going by the time we got home tonight.
Tonight, we have to take the kids to school for orientation with the teachers. Tomorrow is the first day of school. We have to bring a bunch of supplies as well.
Check in later. God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
88,
I won't comment on programmers after what I went through earning my degree. I hate C with a passion... Good luck with the adoption.
Not much going on right now. I drove the PGT to work yesterday and the day before without incident. The only exciting thing that happened was that the alternator began to act up, but at least I got there and back. I'll have to change it again (so much fun considering where Mazda put it), and I only put 2000 miles on this one. The original was good until 187K. Another reason not to buy from Advance.
Not much better news on the re-finance today, NACA told me let them know what is happening with the new mortgage company turn-over. Seems like mortgage companies can get out of a contract by turning you over to another lender. Maybe it's attorney time? Have tax bill due in september.
The rats that get major jail time down here hold political office, a.k.a. county commissioners.
Haven't done much with my trains lately as I don't know wether to leave them up or take them down in case of moving. Train show coming up on Aug. 21 in Lake Worth FL @ the Polish American club on Lake Worth Road & Military Trail.
Lee F.
hey jack do you know i was looking for a doctor for the wife in the rockford, illinois area, see she is not old enough to get social security so we only have tricare, which was an earned benefit of making a career out of the service and there is only one doctor in thje rockford area who accepts tricare. i feel like telling the nazi office girls that they are disobeying federal law by not accepting this insurance. it sounds like you are really up on this. do you think i have got a leg to stand on?(so to speak) as i cant walk. thanks navyjack
RockIsland52 I'm still with you. :-) Jack
Jack
Good morning all,
Pretty pleasant morning today due to the early morning shower. I'm sure the humidity will go way up as the day progresses. Hopefully it will be cool enough for my 7y/o son to get some batting practice in tonight. He is moving up to the pitching machine division and has no experience with it. He is excited and has been taught solid batting fundamentals so I'm confident he will do well.
At work now and have to drive to OK City for some work this afternoon. I may squeeze in a hobby shop run while I'm there if time permits.
Joe
dwiemer Jack, I don't want to be overly critical of the insurance companies...plenty of blame to go around. Absolutely true, but criticism is warranted. I worked on the carrier side of this business and saw countless opportunities for claims processing "process" improvements, inside my building and inside the providers' shops. Rather than throw armies of people at fixing issues after the fact on all four sides (patient, provider, employer, and carrier), where the end result is that the valid claim is paid anyway, as it was initially intended, why not fix the freakin' process? I call that throughput, ideally defined here as: the approved procedure is performed, the claim is submitted/billed correctly, and the claim is paid correctly........ with minimal or no human intervention. Everyone goes home happy while administrative costs are reduced across the board. Now you might observe I have just stated the obvious. The reality is that the reduction of administrative overhead (people.....for billing claims, processing claims, paying claims, and researching/fixing unpaid claims), while significantly reduced over the past two decades, is still one of the the low lying fruits toward controlling health care costs. Another way of putting it: why should 9% of our health care costs be tied up in administrative overhead? Why can't process improvement knock that administrative expense number down to, say, 7%, with the savings going toward the actual delivery of health care while helping keep premiums in check? What's a 2% improvement/reduction in administrative overhead? Multiply .02 times the total claim dollars paid out by an insurance carrier in a typical year........the potential savings for everyone are HUGE. Even with the for profit companies, the major insurance industry works on about a 2% profit margin...not a lot. For many if not most of the non-profit medical insurance carriers, breaking even on the bottom line for a fiscal year can be a victory. However, I have seen where claims were denied because someone didn't understand part of a procedure. Eventually, after things are properly explained, it gets worked out, but some folks don't know to call and ask questions. That goes both ways. By all means, call the Dr.'s office, hospital, etc to ask for a itemized explanation. Also, ask the Insurance company why something was denied. In most cases, it gets worked out. In some cases, some measure of influence helps. As an aside, the proper term for the artery that runs down the anterior chest wall is the "Internal Thoracic Artery". They (you have one on each side), are well documented as providing a higher level of patency in revascularization. Insurance and Medicare will give a slightly higher reimbursement rate for folks using this method for the Left Anterior Descending artery bypass, as opposed to a saphenous vein graft (vein from the leg) that is used for the other bypasses. However, the STS database, which is now being used to document the cases and as a avenue for reimbursement, calls the the Internal Thoracic Artery the "Internal Mammary Artery". If a surgeon documents in the medical record using the proper name for the procedure, it isn't recorded, and the reimbursement is less, as well as the "Health Score" for the facility is lessened. Why is this kabooki dance necessary in the first place? For the most part, it isn't. In your example there is a fixable process glitch and an education gap in the process. The Medicare claims processing carrier hasn't addressed either adequately. I'd have your Billing Director call the Medical Director and Medicare Claims Processing Director (at the carrier processing the Medicare claims) and have her/him ask: "Why is your/our process still broken? Do we really need to chat and to go through all of this effort in your building and in mine every time we do a Left Anterior Descending artery bypass? Me, you, the medical staff, everyone else performing the procedure and whose claims are processed in your building? And what about the patient whom we serve?" Someone" at the contracted Medicare carrier/processing center typed in the word "Mammary" into the procedure description field next to the procedure code in their (Medicare) claims processing system. This contracted provider, for example, might be BCBS. Was the incorrect terminology "Medicare-mandated," or was it not? If it was, does Medicare truly care that the terminology be altered/corrected in the Medicare claims processing system? Are all of the possible additional sub-procedures ("part of the procedure") all CPT coded in as well, sub procedures Medicare already finds acceptable and reimburseable? Bet no one at the Medicare claims processing entity ever even tried to correct the terminology, acquire and load the sub-procedures codes, or to call a decision-maker at Medicare to get authorization to change the terminology to the correct medical term "Thoracic." Conseqeuntly, reimbursement is delayed, too many folks get involved to get the claims paid, the reimbursement is incorrectly underpaid, and your hospital's "Health Score" goes down. Broken from start to finish and everyone loses, including the patient who is getting her/his EOBs which show that the claims remain unpaid, starting a whole new round of phone calls and complaints. I'd call the Medical Director at BCBS (or the medical insurance carrier processing the Medicare claims for this procedure) and ask him/her to explain what the folks in his building are doing to rectify this and to simplify the process. Now you might observe your example is not a common medical procedure. But I will maintain that this same kabooki dance happens every time a Medicare patient somewhere in that Medical Director's assigned region, and everywhere else in the country, has the procedure. Why? No one took the time at the carrier(s) to fix the process. And I'll bet my Lionel Rock Island 2031 there are hundreds if not thousands of similar process snafus being unnecessarily repeated every minute of every day, across all medical specialties. My query to my own BCBS staff was this: "How can we improve our service to our provider partners and to our insured customers/patients AND simultaneously reduce administrative expenses to boot? By making it easier to do business with us. How is it we are so overworked? How is it we always seem to have the time to fix unnecessary mistakes on the back end of the process, but we seem to have absolutely no time fix the process up front, to do it right on the first pass, and to educate our partners and customers going forward?" Just an example and I have also probably put a number of you to sleep. God Bless,Dennis I'm still with you. :-) Jack
Jack, I don't want to be overly critical of the insurance companies...plenty of blame to go around.
Absolutely true, but criticism is warranted.
I worked on the carrier side of this business and saw countless opportunities for claims processing "process" improvements, inside my building and inside the providers' shops. Rather than throw armies of people at fixing issues after the fact on all four sides (patient, provider, employer, and carrier), where the end result is that the valid claim is paid anyway, as it was initially intended, why not fix the freakin' process? I call that throughput, ideally defined here as: the approved procedure is performed, the claim is submitted/billed correctly, and the claim is paid correctly........ with minimal or no human intervention. Everyone goes home happy while administrative costs are reduced across the board.
Now you might observe I have just stated the obvious. The reality is that the reduction of administrative overhead (people.....for billing claims, processing claims, paying claims, and researching/fixing unpaid claims), while significantly reduced over the past two decades, is still one of the the low lying fruits toward controlling health care costs.
Another way of putting it: why should 9% of our health care costs be tied up in administrative overhead? Why can't process improvement knock that administrative expense number down to, say, 7%, with the savings going toward the actual delivery of health care while helping keep premiums in check? What's a 2% improvement/reduction in administrative overhead? Multiply .02 times the total claim dollars paid out by an insurance carrier in a typical year........the potential savings for everyone are HUGE.
Even with the for profit companies, the major insurance industry works on about a 2% profit margin...not a lot.
For many if not most of the non-profit medical insurance carriers, breaking even on the bottom line for a fiscal year can be a victory.
However, I have seen where claims were denied because someone didn't understand part of a procedure. Eventually, after things are properly explained, it gets worked out, but some folks don't know to call and ask questions. That goes both ways. By all means, call the Dr.'s office, hospital, etc to ask for a itemized explanation. Also, ask the Insurance company why something was denied. In most cases, it gets worked out. In some cases, some measure of influence helps.
As an aside, the proper term for the artery that runs down the anterior chest wall is the "Internal Thoracic Artery". They (you have one on each side), are well documented as providing a higher level of patency in revascularization. Insurance and Medicare will give a slightly higher reimbursement rate for folks using this method for the Left Anterior Descending artery bypass, as opposed to a saphenous vein graft (vein from the leg) that is used for the other bypasses. However, the STS database, which is now being used to document the cases and as a avenue for reimbursement, calls the the Internal Thoracic Artery the "Internal Mammary Artery". If a surgeon documents in the medical record using the proper name for the procedure, it isn't recorded, and the reimbursement is less, as well as the "Health Score" for the facility is lessened.
Why is this kabooki dance necessary in the first place? For the most part, it isn't. In your example there is a fixable process glitch and an education gap in the process. The Medicare claims processing carrier hasn't addressed either adequately. I'd have your Billing Director call the Medical Director and Medicare Claims Processing Director (at the carrier processing the Medicare claims) and have her/him ask: "Why is your/our process still broken? Do we really need to chat and to go through all of this effort in your building and in mine every time we do a Left Anterior Descending artery bypass? Me, you, the medical staff, everyone else performing the procedure and whose claims are processed in your building? And what about the patient whom we serve?"
Someone" at the contracted Medicare carrier/processing center typed in the word "Mammary" into the procedure description field next to the procedure code in their (Medicare) claims processing system. This contracted provider, for example, might be BCBS. Was the incorrect terminology "Medicare-mandated," or was it not? If it was, does Medicare truly care that the terminology be altered/corrected in the Medicare claims processing system? Are all of the possible additional sub-procedures ("part of the procedure") all CPT coded in as well, sub procedures Medicare already finds acceptable and reimburseable?
Bet no one at the Medicare claims processing entity ever even tried to correct the terminology, acquire and load the sub-procedures codes, or to call a decision-maker at Medicare to get authorization to change the terminology to the correct medical term "Thoracic." Conseqeuntly, reimbursement is delayed, too many folks get involved to get the claims paid, the reimbursement is incorrectly underpaid, and your hospital's "Health Score" goes down. Broken from start to finish and everyone loses, including the patient who is getting her/his EOBs which show that the claims remain unpaid, starting a whole new round of phone calls and complaints.
I'd call the Medical Director at BCBS (or the medical insurance carrier processing the Medicare claims for this procedure) and ask him/her to explain what the folks in his building are doing to rectify this and to simplify the process. Now you might observe your example is not a common medical procedure. But I will maintain that this same kabooki dance happens every time a Medicare patient somewhere in that Medical Director's assigned region, and everywhere else in the country, has the procedure. Why? No one took the time at the carrier(s) to fix the process.
And I'll bet my Lionel Rock Island 2031 there are hundreds if not thousands of similar process snafus being unnecessarily repeated every minute of every day, across all medical specialties.
My query to my own BCBS staff was this: "How can we improve our service to our provider partners and to our insured customers/patients AND simultaneously reduce administrative expenses to boot? By making it easier to do business with us. How is it we are so overworked? How is it we always seem to have the time to fix unnecessary mistakes on the back end of the process, but we seem to have absolutely no time fix the process up front, to do it right on the first pass, and to educate our partners and customers going forward?"
Just an example and I have also probably put a number of you to sleep.
God Bless,Dennis
I'm still with you. :-)
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Good Morning
Sunny and 80 today.
78 for tomorrow, good grass cutting weather. I'm leaning towards tomorrow but maybe today.
Granny Pat got a thumbs up from her eye doctor this morning, no glasses needed at this time. Have a great day....S.J.
navyjackjohn sorry you are having trouble with the illinois nazi's. now you know how i feel. i have to light someone up(low grade a-s chewing) everytime i need to get a self important person here to do anything. hope everyone gets through the heat. p.s. thanks for the advice about the calibre rifle i should get for varmints. i decided upon 30-30, even though it kicks like a mule. see the varmints are big here in illinois. wes you are cool guy. thought of you yesterday as i ordered a henry. need to get plenty of ammo now(that is in case price goes up). still trying to get 12 wheel crane car. chief enjoy your retirement. pat how far can you whip a mater? navyjack
john sorry you are having trouble with the illinois nazi's. now you know how i feel. i have to light someone up(low grade a-s chewing) everytime i need to get a self important person here to do anything. hope everyone gets through the heat. p.s. thanks for the advice about the calibre rifle i should get for varmints. i decided upon 30-30, even though it kicks like a mule. see the varmints are big here in illinois. wes you are cool guy. thought of you yesterday as i ordered a henry. need to get plenty of ammo now(that is in case price goes up). still trying to get 12 wheel crane car. chief enjoy your retirement. pat how far can you whip a mater? navyjack
Nor far, but don't need to go far. The buzzards I am "grenading" with the maters hang on the fence (or deck) within 20". Can't use the 30-06, against federal law. ??
Pat
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Aloha all from a sunny and humid Crystal Lake. Boy, what a wet hot summer here in Chicago. Rain every day just like in the tropics. Everything green running rampart. Lotsa skeeters IN the house. This is my first day working at home in a long time, so I'm noticing everything that needs to be done. Just have to remind myself it'll all get done eventually. Glad you're settling in, Rich. Chief, I must've missed what you are doing in eastern NC. Son has a job interview for ah hourly job at a new city marina and beach. We'll see. I think they're interviewing everyone - and we don't know anyone on the inside. Regardless, it'll be a good experience for him. One of our training officers in town agreed to sit with him to talk about what it's like on the force - reinforce the schooling, etc.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
cheapclassics Good morning all, I had the regular fare on the dining car this morning and sent out an "extra" to handle the increased business at "Points East". Keep on training, Mike C. from Indiana
I had the regular fare on the dining car this morning and sent out an "extra" to handle the increased business at "Points East".
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Stopped at the border and loaded with GRITS.
Morning all. Tstorm came through about midnight and we got our weather alert warning. Off to the lake house in a few. Taking Finn and Lucy. Suppose to be real hot for the next few days. If so, Finn will lay over the A/C vent in the kitchen most of the time. Problem is, that is the sunny end of the house and he blocks one of the two vents. This causes the kitchen to be warmer than the rest of the house. Hear he sleeps in the master bathroom on the cool tile floor in front of the vent [which is in the baseboard and not the floor like the lake house]. Even though he is groomed, he has real thick curly hair. Enjoy the rest of the work days for all you that are not retired.
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 Morning from the Jersey Shore, 78, going to 94, very humid, cloudy, thunderstorms on the way.
I got up at 4:30, to go fishing. Got everything ready last night, hooked the trailer to the truck, I went outside this morning, felt that breeze before the storm and decided to call it off. The wind is starting to crank up now.
Time to do some work in the garden before it rains.
Dining Car is here. Pancakes and sausage this morning.
Thoughts and Prayers for those in need.
Have a great day.
John
A quick shower is passing thru SE Indiana. Could use the rain and hopefully it will cool things off for a while. Did some shopping for wife last night. She comes home today from daughter's and then we are on the road to this side of heaven this weekend (Mid-Ohio). Should be good weather for that. I had the regular fare on the dining car this morning and sent out an "extra" to handle the increased business at "Points East". TBIL any time tonight. I hope everyone (especially AJ's team and SFR have a good day and weekend).
Sunny and in the 90's again today. Line of thundershowers and a weak cold front moving through tonight. Hopefully a little cooler tomorrow.
We are developing more of a routine with my wife today. Even took a walk in the park. A couple more furniture adjustments to do tomorrow.
Fifi - SOP for today's times. That's about what I thought.
DDG - Noted that Cracker Barrel has their Halloween items out already.
My Legacy 1.3 upgrade arrived today. Have not installed it, but read the manual. The 'engine queue' sounds useful.
All for now.
Good evening everyone. Chief, hope you can get everything settled with as little trouble as possible.
Jack, I don't want to be overly critical of the insurance companies...plenty of blame to go around. Even with the for profit companies, the major insurance industry works on about a 2% profit margin...not a lot. However, I have seen where claims were denied because someone didn't understand part of a procedure. Eventually, after things are properly explained, it gets worked out, but some folks don't know to call and ask questions. That goes both ways. By all means, call the Dr.'s office, hospital, etc to ask for a itemized explanation. Also, ask the Insurance company why something was denied. In most cases, it gets worked out. In some cases, some measure of influence helps. As an aside, the proper term for the artery that runs down the anterior chest wall is the "Internal Thoracic Artery". They (you have one on each side), are well documented as providing a higher level of patency in revascularization. Insurance and Medicare will give a slightly higher reimbursement rate for folks using this method for the Left Anterior Descending artery bypass, as opposed to a saphenous vein graft (vein from the leg) that is used for the other bypasses. However, the STS database, which is now being used to document the cases and as a avenue for reimbursement, calls the the Internal Thoracic Artery the "Internal Mammary Artery". If a surgeon documents in the medical record using the proper name for the procedure, it isn't recorded and the reimbursement is less as well as the "Health Score" for the facility is lessened. Just an example and I have also probably put a number of you to sleep.
Rich, Ah, the gold eagle holding the shield....how sweet! I still have my old one with the back of the helmet curled down from lots of use and portions of the paint blistered from a few "close calls". The gold eagle on mine is slightly bent over from where I caught a beam across the noggin...helmet did it's job. They aren't going to make you wear one of those proby shields are they? Do you still have your old helmet? Or, is it like mine and OSHA says you can't wear that one. If anyone gives you any grief, offer to give theirs a nice wash and polish!
A zillion degrees in Saint Louis again (ugh). Had to renew my Gold membership on xbox, so slaughtered a few thousand zombies tonight. Nice chats with RT, Jeffrey, SJ and Charlie tonight too.
Prayers for a job for your son, Banks! Prayers for 8nT's family and the rest of course.
Tardis is ready - could use some more brownies!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Hudson#685 Good Evening from the Jersey Shore, The best is when I told the rep from benefits to take their time because I am on OT now because I already worked 9 hours call out time. John
Good Evening from the Jersey Shore,
The best is when I told the rep from benefits to take their time because I am on OT now because I already worked 9 hours call out time.
Love you John. More SS.
anjdevil2 Even got one of those ever sooo coool leather helmets with the Gold metal eagle I've lusted for...Dennis, you know the ones...
Even got one of those ever sooo coool leather helmets with the Gold metal eagle I've lusted for...Dennis, you know the ones...
We are everywhere.
What a day. Took twice as long to do all that I got done. Eastern NC is sloooooow. Folks are rally nice though. Only got Edgecombe Co. done [actually not done but started to the point I have to wait niney days]. Now Wilson Co. but not as much to do there.
Off to the lake house tomorrow AM. Popcorn time now.
Banks, good farming. Nothing better than farming. Wish it paid enough for me but tobacco is 100 acres or more to make $$$$$$$$. Need to live in Ioway and raise corn.
Chat later.
Good evening all,
Only post for me today as it was a busy one at work. Another hot day as well. The temp was something over 100 so I stopped paying attention to it. There may be a couple of days of relief Friday and Saturday, but the relief will not last long.
SPMan - My wife has been formally trained in cooking and she showed me that way of making omelets some time back. Once you figure it out it becomes easy. Julia's methods are pretty sound, just be careful not to overcook the eggs.
Rich - Glad you made it there safely.
That's it for tonight, I need to catch up on some sleep. No comments Fife.
Busy around the house today. Cut the grass and trimed and weeded the garden. After that i worked on my 18' Center Console.
Jack, I know what you are saying but BC/BS go out of their way to make me prove that my wife really needed and was approved for the care that she got. I resubmitted what the Doctor's already did. It is a good thing that I do it on Company time. The best is when I told the rep from benefits to take their time because I am on OT now because I already worked 9 hours call out time. I found out that they are in Illinois and then I told him that he is busting me because he is an Illinois Nazi and he wants to work for Excelon who tried to take us over. Boy that went over like a lead balloon and it was resolved fast.
Rich, Are you a Probey in th Fire Department again? You are a NEW MEMBER. An out of Stater. You had to resign because you moved out of State. A lot of hose washing and packing ahead. Just Kidding. Just in case make sure that you scrub the Pumper's wheel wells. Let me know if you want to go to Fife's together.
SJ, Smart move with the grass. It will be there tommorrow.
Banks, We postponed the trip for a future date.
Thoughts and Prayers for all in Need.
Hello all,
Hotter then h*** here. Storms predicted put it looks like they are going to miss us on the weather radar. We need rain BAD. Hay field cut last month looks like it was cut last week. Sold 9000 lb of oats to local feed mill. That'll be a big help with expenses.
Son has a pretty solid job prospect. A prayer would be greatly appreciated.
Probe, at Toy Town I got an operating Lionel HO dump car, a Gilbert gondola, a Gilbert Tie-jector, a Varney PRR gondola and a HO Plasticville house. All for less than I've seen the Lionel car sell for recently.
Fife, gonna have to pass on the get together. To many Irons in the fire. Mrs is getting ready to go back to school (She's a Classroom Assistant). The 13th-15th will be spent working Festival at Church. (One of our major fundraisers)
Hudson, when are you thinking of heading this way? They close many of the things I mentioned for the winter.
Think I'm going to head for bed early tonight. extra tired for some reason
Prayers for all those who may need them.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Afternoon All.
Rich, Sounds like things are moving forward.
DJ, to your munchkin !
Yesterday was even crazier than last saturday. The head count between 11am and 2:30 was at 4100+ visitors with another hour and a half til closing.
Anybody coming in on friday will be in for a heck of a surprise. A magazine, don't know which one yet, will be in for a photo shoot and story about "old guys who play with toy trains". The edition will be coming out as a Christmas issue so guess what will be running this friday.
I heard that some of the stores have put out their halloween wares as well as bringing out the Christmas goodies.
Sympathies for all you Easties with this wacky weather, out here in SD the month of July was in the top 5 for the coolest since records have been kept.
Later all.
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Good Evening All
A few clouds around and spotty showers, none here though. Too stuffy to cut grass and it is 90. I'll wait for a more comfortable day. Got banilla, butter Pcon, or strawberry for the thingy ride so Brutus swing on by...S.J.
Good Afternoon, Guys! The NEW Jersey guy here...
Made it in ok, stuff is in storage and was deputized Monday night back into my Fire Dept. Even got one of those ever sooo coool leather helmets with the Gold metal eagle I've lusted for...Dennis, you know the ones...
Last nights National Night Out was cool, FD and PD were there and re-fired up some old friendships and made some
new ones. AHHHHH, life in a small town. I've missed it.
No calls yet, but soon, I think, probably right when I'm in the middle of sleeping or something (don't go there Fife!!! )
I call my Princess every night to make sure she is good. I miss her terribly.
Every day is bike day for now, no car yet, my wagon is still in Florida, may pick it up in October and truck some of the last stuff back here at that time. SHould make for some fun times....like I need more...
It was good to talk to Fife Saturday night, sorry we couldn't hook up, but, I DO have to be in Towson @ 3PM 28 August for my Probationary FireFighters Test, Baltimore City. Do you think B'more can handle us BOTH, Fife? Station 49, Anyone?
I'll check back when I can, computer access is limited, cuz, it ain't MINE!!! But I'll be kickin' around...
for everyone
for those I've missed...I have to get back up to speed soon...
Check ya later!
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
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