Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI and it is hot with temps near 100 today. Busy day at work. I took it easy last night as well. I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East". TBIL and I can drive again tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a stormy 70 degrees. Big thunderstorms all night. Still going on. Looks like another hour, at least. Going up to 80 with lots of humidity.
Today is a busy day. I have some chores to do and then, I will spend some time at the FC (fitness center). I hope it stops raining, by then. We did need the rain.
Dining car is here and the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Chuck
Chuck....We were beat up all night with those same thunderstorms. We watched the 10 pm weather and they never said a word about storms. Also, the weather radio did not beep with a warning.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Good Morning from the Jersey Shore, 75 going to 87, VERY HUMID, 87%, you can cut it with a knife, 40% chance of thunderstorms.
Yesterday I installed the new all in one sump pump w/ battery back up. Nice unit and it fit nice in the pit. After that I serviced my GMC pickup. Over 112,000 miles trouble free. It has the original tires that I am replacing when I get back from Colorado. Today I am planning on cutting the grass, hopefully beating the rain. After cutting the grass I will install a new water pressure gauge for the outboard on the 18' Center Console. First I think I will make a run to the town recycling center. We are going to miss the pickup next week. And my wife told me to do nothing but relax.
Dennis, Central a/c has been around for over 50 years. You would think that they would make a more dependable longer lasting unit for the price that we pay. I have BC/BS Horizon HMO. EVERYTIME my wife goes to a specialist, they deny the claim stating that she had no referal or authorization. I have to call and raise a stink everytime. That includes surgery and hospital stay. What I do to avoid any hassles, I call our Company's benefits Department and get a 3 way conversation with BC/BS. It gets resolved in minutes. I also have copies of all the paperwork and fax it as needed.
Chief, Good Luck with the Insurance. I share the same views on the Military.
RI Jack, I am going to almost hate to retire (what a lie). I have 38 years with the Company and I get 6 weeks vacation that I turn into 7. I take 4 weeks in the summer and the last 3 weeks off in December. My manager started the same day and he asked me again how I turn 6 weeks into 7. I told him easy: I take every other week off in the summer starting with the week with the 4th of July. 1 extra day. Then I take Christmas and New Year's weeks. 2 more extra days. Then I add my 2 floating Holidays and presto, 7 weeks.
Brent, Definitely install the moisture barrier. The house that my daughter bought had some work done on it before she bought it. The neglected to install it on the outside of her closet and she had ice in the closet that winter.
Sub Bob, Glad that you are coming along.
Joe, I am glad that the baby and wife are doing fine.
Spanky, Happy belated Birthday to your Son. Hang in there with the knee.
8ntruck, Speedy recovery for your wife and father in law.
Mke C, I sent the dining car back to Chuck and SJ.
Thoughts and Prayers to all in need.
John
fifedog Evenin' boys. ..............88 - 'tis good to read that your love life is nearing 100% again.
Evenin' boys.
..............88 - 'tis good to read that your love life is nearing 100% again.
Fife......... So subtle. That one made my day and I am sure Brent appreciates it.
When Brent was laying in a hospital last November (sawed off part of his leg) and then again earlier this year (took a swan dive off a ladder), he was worrying about his predicament and a long recuperative period, with house projects unfinished amidst family planning in high gear. Little did he know that these things would pass and the sun would someday shine upon him once again. And little did he know that the one thing he had to fear most was......well, us.
So to Brent I say, we all admire you for hanging in there through your darkest hours and....... if you are having difficulty, switch hands.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Aloha all from a rainy Chicago where my feet got wet again on the long walk to work. Nothing louder than a thunder clap between skyscrapers. Woke me up! What a way to begin the day. LOL. Great ride with Brutus, Sir J and Charlie home last night after class. Didn't see any aurora borealis last eve due to the solar storm. Happy belated birthday to Corey. . Glad his dad continues to recover. Good news about Char, Brutus! John, I try to work a similar way with my vacation days. Anyone seen James May's Toy Stories on BBC America? The latest episode featured 10 miles of HO track lain alongside a bike path made from the old Atlantic Coast Express route of the (original) Southern Railway. They ran a series of trains but only made it 7 miles. LOL.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning
Sun, humid, and 90s today.
Happy birthday to Corey, got to watch the spelling as we have a Cory. Grass needs cutting again, usuall this time of year its brown but the storms have kept it green and growing. The weeds love it. Had a great ride via messanger as Doug M rode home on the train. Also had Brutus and Charlie along....Have a great day......S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Buckeye Riveter Chuck....We were beat up all night with those same thunderstorms. We watched the 10 pm weather and they never said a word about storms. Also, the weather radio did not beep with a warning.
Why no weather allerts? Wasn't Thunderstorms. Was Reb cannons letting yuz giz know the war is not over.
Running late. Slept till 8:30. Wifey went to work late and kept Finn busy so I did not get the "wakeup" from Lucy and Finn around 7 AM. Got to hit the road down east to do some "legal" stuff.
Thanks again for all the cards. Some from way up North to the deep South and even way out West.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Morning all. Watching Trains and Locomotives on DVR from RFD. This one is on the UP's 8444 and the Daylight. Both cool!
Chief, have to agree with you. It seems that talk in the rank and file is that they will begin a draw down of force though. Most political types are reactive, not proactive.
Joe, glad momma and baby are home safe. Going to be lots of "fun" for the next few months! Also, glad 8N's bride is home...may want to place a couple of good size books, or perhaps a brick under the foot board of the bed. Keep her legs slightly elevated (provided she doesn't have any congestive heart failure).
NavyJack, I have a couple of Winchester 30/30s that are great guns, but not the best for varmint. I would suggest either the Hornady 17 or perhaps a 222. You want something flat shooting that will reach out to about 200 yards. The best combination would be a one with a good 10X scope and mod to heavy barrel. One thing you may also like to have is a canvas sack, such as a coin bag from the bank. Fill it with kitty litter and tie it off. You can use this as a rest on either a window sill or you can lay it on a branch or anything else and rest the rifle on it to give the most still platform to shoot from.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Good Mornin Ya'll From Hazy Taxachusetts,
We are back into the heat and humidity, low 90s for the next three days. July was the warmest here measured in average temperature since 1955. The bad news was that the electric bill arrived, reflecting the heavy A/C usage, measured in kilowatt hours The good news is that the bill in $ was lower than July 09. How is that possible? Son moved out (again) and there is no one left in the house to march through every room, turn everything on, and then leave. So the actual KWH used went down! Second, the State of Taxachusetts had legislated choice in the selection of one's power company, regardless of whose lines, generation, and transmission infrastructure delivers the electricity. My power company dropped my charge per KWH 25% with a phone call pointing out to them that they were the high priced spread. They caved in the blink of an eye and dropped my rate.
Re the problems folks have been posting about the medical insurance carriers and rejected claims. I worked for BCBS for a bunch of years and somehow was informally elected to research and rectify all nastgrams sent to the president regarding rejected claims. What did I find when I researched the rejected claims and the validity of them? By and large the claims were processed correctly and were computer-rejected correctly because:
(A) The claim was miscoded by the Doc billing staff/hospital billing staff/provider billing staff when it was submitted to the medical insurance carrier for payment. (i.e., Dr. RockIsland52 is cardiologist and the claim (code) is for a gastroenterologist procedure.
(B) The required specialist referral authorization, according to the policy requirement, both in network and out of network, had not been secured by either the patient or the attending Doc prior to services being rendered.
(C) The procedure/visit was not a covered service in accordance with the policy and level of coverage that was selected by the policy source (i.e., employer).
Regarding (A): Billing errors made by the provider on claims submission (computer input, no paper) for the services rendered are as common as toilet paper. At BCBS each provider has a provider services rep available to them to help them with rejected claims and to educate them to avoid claims rejections in the future. Your Doc or the hospital won't tell you (the patient) they miscoded the claim and that is why it didn't get paid and wound up in your lap. Too often in their conversation with you they will blame the medical insurance carrier and will simply keep automatically rebilling it multiple times, just as incorrectly as the very first one, hoping one of the multiple billings for the exact same service on the exact same date will stick and get paid. Without provider research and an accurate billing submission, it won't get paid.
Regarding B: I'm not sure why referral issues pop up except to say in my experience the referral was not requested and the referral Doc/ service approved prior to the referral Doc visit by the patient. When my primary care physician (PCP) dishes me off to a specialist, my PCP's staff generates the referral authorization request to my carrier and sets up the referral visit appointment with the "referred to" doctor for me, for an "in-network" specialist. Some specialists, however, are so good they don't (need to/want to) contract with medical insurance carriers and accept a lower reimbursement rate as a result. Getting your medical insurance carrier to approve a specialist of choice may take some doing. Some referral Docs are "out of (your) network" because they practice elsewhere but are so good they get the tough stuff, but these HAVE contracted with some of the medical insurance carriers and these can be approved as the referral specialist, in advance.
Remember, when you pick your coverage (or level of coverage ) when you sign up each year, you make some trade-offs to get both the best level of coverage for you and your family, a pallatable premium if there is such a thing (your portion, rest paid for by employer) and your freedom of choice. You make these choices from what your employer has selected as your choices. Your medical insurance carrier has little to do with it except to lay out choices and options and cost to the employer. Once the employer has made those choices, that is what is plunked down in front of you by Human Resources a month or so prior to your annual re-enrollment deadline.
Regarding C: What you and I don't know is what your/our employers, unions, state or local government entity, or other source of coverage has selected and told the medical insurance carrier what is to be covered or what should not be covered. It is all in the contract your employer signed with your medical insurance carrier. A BCBS person then enters the contract into the claims processing system telling it what your employer has selected.
So when your and my claim gets rejected...... even when your neighbor's claim does not, with the exact same medical insurance carrier and the exact same product and the exact same provider service with the exact same Doc, it may simply mean that your employer/source excluded or restricted your service so THEY could to get the quoted premiums lower, for them and hence for you.
And when you go to your inside medical insurance Plan administrator or Human Resources person, they don't tell you what was de-selected by them during the contracting process. The best example I can use is bypassing towing insurance, or bypassing loaner/rental car insurance for when your car is in the shop.
BCBS is a non-profit entity as are many others, while some medical insurance carriers are for-profit. BCBS has no stockholders or profit motive. Break even is the order of the day. Unlike automobile insurance where risk is spread out over the masses, where you and your good driving record subsidize those who would otherwise be uninsurable, medical insurance is quoted based on your (employer or group's) actual medical risk and medical claims history, not the masses.
A contracting entity like your employer can select a premium-based plan where the employer and employee premiums remained fixed for the entire contracted year, no matter how many claims and claim dollars are paid out. The contracting entity can alternatively select to be self-insured, whereby your company funds its own actual employee claims payments. Or the contracting entity can choose to be self-insured with an additional stop-loss premium, to mitigate the entity's maximum claims exposure in the event of "more than anticipated/projected" claims, such as in the case of "catastrophic" claims events.
The most extreme example I can relate to you was an issue that was plunked on my desk by the President's executive assistant. A doctor had recommended a bone marrow transplant for a sick little boy. At the time, the medical establishment and research community considered the procedure for the little boy's condition experimental, with mixed results, and a last resort approach.
Coverage was denied by BCBS for the procedure due to the policy restrictions set by the self-insured employer, which excluded this procedure. The parents went to their employer. The employer blamed the heartless, money-grubbing insurance carrier (BCBS) when all the while the rejection was due to the employer's coverage choices..... which they could have overriden and could have simply told us "approve, process, and pay it. And we pay you, BCBS."
The self-insured employer was trying to avoid a catastrophic claim on their immediate dime and to avoid the negative claims history for their future medical insurance cost considerations.
Desperate, the parents of the little boy did what you, I and we all would do. They went to the press with their dire predicament and at the same time sent off a plea to BCBS' President. Whom they should have been pleading with? Their employer, because it was the employer's choices that determined if the claims would be paid or would be rejected by BCBS.
Jack gets the "drop whatever you are doing and tell me TODAY what is going on and tell me how do we fix it TODAY" call. I wound up confirming the up-front coverage choices made by the employer, the employer's exclusions selection, their cowardly decision to say nothing to the parents, and their equally cowardly decision to blame BCBS. I told the Pres all this stuff and got his green light to call the employer to "suggest" THEY override THEIR decisions and to give us the green light to "approve" (their approval, not ours) the procedure and the related expenses.
One five minute phone call from me to the decision-maker at the employer was all it took. "YOU are both the source of this impasse and YOU are the solution. BCBS can't approve and process these claims without your expressed approval since you picked the coverage, you picked the exclusions, and you are ultimately paying for all of it. And by the way, BCBS takes a very dim view of your hanging us out to dry in the process..... with the parents of this little boy, with your employees, with the press, and with the general public. Something has to give here, and that would be you."
The employer caved, approved everything, the little boy got his procedure, it worked, and everyone lived happily ever after. Except that BCBS went down in everyone's eye as the bad guy in all of this. BCBS maintained the employer's image, privacy, and their culpability. No follow-up vindication. No page 19 press correction of the sequence of events. Just a black eye going forward for BCBS.
Folks just assume it is the medical insurance carrier that is always at fault with this stuff when the carrier is most often doing what it has been instructed to do, what it has been contracted to do, quietly and confidentially, by the employers. I am NOT saying medical insurance carriers are perfect. I am NOT saying mistakes are not made. I am NOT saying the carriers' claims staffs are perfect.
Now that I have put you all to sleep without your reclinerizing and popcorn......
Later gang.
Good morning from the Golden State,
Had omelets for breakfast using Julia Child Video for how to make them right. She just shakes the pan and rolls them up. I'm not that good. I still use the spatula to turn them. Her secret is hot pan and plenty of butter or margerine so they won't stick.
Pet cockateel is still with us. He is happy as long as we leave him out of his cage. Makes a lot of racket if he does not want to get back in the cage.
I have given up on trying to figure out the problem with my MTH Proto 1 F unit. The horn will not stop blowing above 8 volts. Don't think this is a battery issue. I have a fully charge BCR battery replacement capacitor in it. Bell rings a lot too and you have to shut it off. Took shell off and can't see any obvious wire problems. The engine will still reverse OK and all the lights are working. Only problem is horn blowing. I will probably have to take it some where for diagnosis. If it was a bad chip problem, I don't think the engine would run.
Ran some of my other trains this morning with my newly repaired Z4000 transformer. All went well.
House next door is in escrow now and will close in about a week. Getting new neighbors soon. They seem like nice folks. Husband works for the fire department. Don't know if wife works or not. Two small children. Dad says he would like them to see my trains sometimes.
One of my Thursday night train buddies has a daughter getting married this week.
Have a good day,
Ray
SPMan
Navyjack,
Indeed our 0 gauge stuff can be costly. A 4 wheel shunter/switcher tank loco can cost £450.00 A Grsley A4 Pacific can be as much as £1,000.00 or more. A 4 wheel frieght car will be around £15.00 and a passenger car about £30.00. I used to take the 'Model Railroader' magazine and I remember ads. from US importers of European trains in various gauges. The US prices were often less than we have to pay (bearing in mind that everything here carries a whacking great 20% tax on it).
I have some Lionel 0 gauge and the cost after adding shipping and UK taxes is generally 125% more than the price on the dealers list. (for a $100.00 item, I have to pay $225.00). Due to having to bail out the bankers and maintain their sickening bonuses, my trainset will remain in the box for some time.
John Baker
Evenin' boys. Evenin' English. Hazy-hot-humid here in the Mid-Atlantic region.
8ntruck - It's kinda standard with the NCIC checks. The DC SNIPERS were actually stopped a couple times befire they were captured, and I believe Tim McVey was snagged that way. I used to have a fly-by-night motel on my old post, and would randomly check out-of-state tags for desperados. Thus are the times we live in.
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
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.
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.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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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
Good Evening from the Jersey Shore,
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.
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.
Joe
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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".
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.
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.
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
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
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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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.
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