Think good thoughts, do good deeds!
Buckeye Riveter Taxes back from CPA. They tell me I owe a bunch of $$$$$$$ because some guy in North Carolina is to get a huge refund. Somehow, there was a big math error and they need everyone to help pay this tar heeler.
Taxes back from CPA. They tell me I owe a bunch of $$$$$$$ because some guy in North Carolina is to get a huge refund. Somehow, there was a big math error and they need everyone to help pay this tar heeler.
"Antae" up my buds. Pay now so my refund check comes by April 1 as promised. Got to pay for that M14 rifle. Double payments from all in Ohio.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Aloha. See the sun peeking through the clouds, but cold! Last week of mid-week services serving as video director tonight. Nice long write-up in the Chicago Tribune on railfans - made us not sound crazy... Jack and SJ, my condolences on your losses. It is hard... Drove the bride to get her license renewed. Big prep for her new license photo - she had to be perfect. I think it's a gender thing. LOL. When it was my turn, I just took off my hat. . Drove around Woodstock's square - where Groundhog Day was filmed. Back home, I took an old book off the shelf to recycle - ended up getting sucked into cleaning out all our bookshelves. Got all my stuff organized.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Thanks Doug M, my sisters death was not recent it was 1998. Her 3 daughters still have problems accepting her death..Jim
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Jack -- it truly is a sad day for everyone, I can totally empathize with you -- our neighbor lost her significant other 18 months ago, hit and run. Two illegals sped away leaving a gas station without paying and hit him head on on his motorcycle coming home from work. He never knew what hit him, the driver got 10 years and his brother (passenger) had been deemed incompetent to stand trial. These two were also involved in a police shoot out 5 years ago and it never went to trial -- DA is in deep doo doo on that one.
Makes our daily travails seem petty. Hope he can get some professional guidance.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
John & Dood,
When I have a lot of "catching-up to do" I use a trick that I believe came from RI Jack. If your system will do it, I open CTT in two windows. One for reading and the other for posting. Unfortunately, sometimes I forget to open the second window.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Good evening
33 today. Where's the global warming?
Well I thumbed Jan.CTT today, looks like some good articles, may take awhile to get through it. Brutus the real keys to the Thingy are on the sun visor, banilla will be ready...S.J.
Found 'em last night, while I was cleaning up after the trip, thanks SJ
Wife got some new medicine for this recurrent CDIF stuff. This is vancomycin and cost us $40 for 56 pills. It cost the insurance over 1700! I sure hope this works! They did't do the count right, so she had to go back and the pharmacist redid it. In the end, she was right and got all her medicine.
Went to my daughter's concert at school tonight - she was good and besides singing with the group, she also played drums behind some soloists. I wish they would do more songs that people know versus all the songs from other countries. I guess the teachers get bored with the same old stuff, but come on....
Chief - you are filling up that gun safe! You'll need another one pretty soon
Nice chats with RT, SJ and Joe tonight. About ready to get going, but only banilla for me tonight as I already had a piece of leftover cake
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
traindood Hey Chief: Oh yea, I forgot the AR 15, my bad, must be slippin', wouldn't of happend five years ago. I lose millions of brains cells every day!! Now where was I? That's right, I was puttin' my bib on! later.
AR15 is OK but I am not an AR fan. My new one is a M14. I carried that until issued a M16. Then later issued a 1911 [.45 semi-auto pistol]. Then later issued another M14.
Tomorrow is only one meeting. Lucy and Finn go to groomers early. Saturday is a family fishing derby. I am to "host it" and hand out prises. Calling for rain [which we need]. We did have .8 last night.
Sleep tight.
Good evening all,
I just finished watching Duke lose against Arizona. I guess Duke forgot that basketball games consist of two halves since they went into halftime with a lead. Arizona crushed them in the second half and Duke fell apart.
I had brief, but good chats with Brutus, RT, and SJ tonight. I couldn't chat long as they had major world issues to resolve.
Brutus - I hope your wife's new medication works well. to your daughter.
Good night,
Joe
Good morning all,
And it is a good morning in SE Indiana as Butler won again last night, and the weather will be cloudy with some precip in the forecast as well and temps in the 30s and 40s. Good day at work yesterday. Good night at home as well. Will be a busy weekend as well with a train show and possibly some soccer games to ref and Indycar on Sunday along with a visit from the grandkids. I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast before sending it to "Points East". TBIL anytime and I can drive (I DO have a copy of the real keys). I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hi GUYZ,
22 and cold here, awaiting more SNO HI O for Sunday.
CHUCK and BUCKEYE, TGIF!!!!
Stay frosty,
laz57
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cold 22 degrees. Going up to 34 today with some sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I have some paperwork to do and the usual chores. Later, I can relax in the train room. Need to dust again.
Buckeye & LAZ....TGIF
Dining car is here with the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Good morning all!
Been busy the last couple of days. Have to work hard and save up for York! Intead of sending money to the Chief - I claim my trains as dependents - big deductions!
Beautiful here - low 80's and low humidity, but the low humidity is coming to an end today. The bad news is we are already 4 inches behind on rain this year and this month so far is the driest on record and onlt one day of possible rain in sight for next week.
Jack - so sorry for your friend and your grief in this time. I agree with you.
Got up extra early today due to conference call with European office and forgot they do not go to daylight savings time until this weekend - so I got up an hour earlier for no reason......
I think the new car show comes to town this weekend. Have to go check out the new Camaro convertible.
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
Good Mornin' Ya'll From Chilly Taxachusetts,
SJ and Jon got it right. To me, law enforcement does its best, too often at the risk of their own lives. The revolving door......there is something seriously wrong with our judicial system which hands down a sentence where clearly that sentence does not fit the crime, either on its own merits or on a comparative basis as SJ suggests. SJ lost a sister, Jon a neighbor's significant other, and I a friend. They are gone. What is the value of their lives? Apparently not much.....for the victim, their families, and their friends.
In my friend's scenario the defense attorney hammered away at the accident reconstruction officer whose credentials and experience were beyond reproach. It was that officer's due diligence and caring for doing the best possible analysis and evidence delivery that sealed the defendant's fate.
Since there were no eye witnesses in this case to the actual impact, and a whole host of "possibilities and unknowns" open to scrutiny, that officer nonetheless took the facts and evidence, applied physics and science, took on the assaults of the defense to his analysis and conclusion, and delivered his message with a firm, objective demeanor, never once waivering and never once letting the defense get under his skin.
I was also stunned when the DA was allowed to introduce new evidence, not permitted during the trial phase, to support the presecution's sentencing recommendation. That evidence revealed a very troubled defendant who was clearly a ticking time bomb behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Tragedy was only a matter of time. Tragedy and loss of life was delivered. The defendant had prior "courtesies, benefit of the doubt, and leniency" that established a pattern of callousness and recklessness that should not have been afforded to him.
Hence my rants. Please accept my apologies for pontificating on this. On the road we are surrounded every day by drivers who should not even have a driver's license let alone be out on the road behind the wheel of a 4,000 pound weapon. Our driving experience, caution, and attentiveness to our driving, are our only defenses.
Enough said.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Morning all. Yankees, take your chilly weather back. Temps really dropped. Cloudy. Suppose to rain tomorrow and some Sunday. We need it even though we are having a family fishing derby tomorrow. Finn and Lucy at groomers. Now for more coffee and watch predator hunting on DVR. Then run errands.
Roy, forwarded your post to IRS. They seem very interested.
Snowhio in PA???? LAZ, when are you going to shoot that groundhog like I did.
I had to close up greenhouse and turn heat back on as some nights are to get into the high 30's.
Jack and others you have every right to be ranting about our so call legal systems as you all have said these officers and the DA office puts hours into bringing these folks to trial so some 2 bit lawyer ( defending) can get this loop hole or that loop hole to get it reduced to a slap on the hand compared to the victims fate or nothing at all. Its about time they look at some other countries not sure anymore but when I was in Italy back in the 70 we were told if a driver hits a pedestrian and cripples or kill him/her he is require to support there family for the rest of there natural life.
Now there's a law we could use to start with.
Morning all not a lot going on here. Off today and relaxing plan later to go get a few hairs cut on my head as there getting thin up there a little so don't want to many cut
hope to work on my self/ceiling layout some more. About time for breakfast so probably drop in later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Aloha. Winter here again but it's Friday! Our girls team heads off to play Duke in the next round of the tournament so we could wear blue today - as in jeans for me. LOL. Looks like the bride has packed full our weekend. Sigh.
Does our Legal System have its problems? Yes. Is it the best on the planet - by far!Sorry if this steps on some toes. The reason for our Legal System being the way it is because of the rampant corruption in the past that plagued Police Departments. The Police used to have unfetted control and they could torture a person into a confession. We are supposed to be Innocent until proven Guilty, but that mentality does not hold true in Traffic Court. There the Officer's word is, in many cases, gospel. I couldn't tell you how many times an officer messed up my ticket (wrong car manufacturer, color, wrong address - even though they were given 2 of 3 pieces of identification with the correct address, etc) my account was different from the officer's yet because I had no witnesses the officer's word was taken over mine. I could go on and on.Our Legal System is designed in such a way that emotion is supposed to be checked at the door when it comes to weighting the facts, evidence, testimony, and applying that to the Law. It is very difficult for humans to do that. IMHO, the jury is put in a precarious position. Most of the time none of them will have any understanding of the Law, so they are being asked to apply their logic to the diliberation process. This can be good, or it can be bad. Our Judges are also asked to be lienient and have compassion, this is why many people get multiple chances to straighten out their life, some do, some don't. It is those that don't that continue to do harm that we hear about, not the ones who do straighten out their lives. Our Legal System also promotes the concept of 'rehabilitation', this is why parents who abuse their children are given chance after chance to stop.I would suggest that we go back to 'hard time' where prisoners actually WORK while they are in prison. Used to be that prisons grew crops, raised cattle, etc to feed the inmates and it was the inmates that tended to the crops and cattle. They also had to cook... clean up... etc. They also had jobs to do maintaining the State's vehicles, stamping license plates, repairing the prison, etc.
Mornin' boys. Chilly.
Where do judges come from? No need to comment further on that.
88 - Nice to see you posting again.
tgif
Traindood that is the problem prisons is to much luxury anymore like 88 said go back to where they were required to do work to pay for there stay I'm not saying ball n chain but lets get rid of the luxury of being in prison. and as you said I think I said enough for now.
Good Morning
Cold here. 23 and the robins are wearing sweaters. 35/50 is our normal for this time of year. We went out this morning for groceries, still don't feel like my old grumpy self. I really do want to go to York but something has to change for the better first. Nothing new at the train store so I shall say bye for now..S.J.
My son took a bus down to NJ to visit one of his long time friends. I had to have him down at the bus depot in Boston by 5:30AM. He left me with explicit instructions I had to remain "on call" to pick him up at the depot upon his return. Wasn't sure when (day, date, time) that would be. Have been patiently sitting by the phone ever since, waiting for his call.
Joe.....my track record on the NCAA tournament over the decades has been spot on and amazingly accurate. All you have to do is take my picks and then select the other team.
SJ.......I've got your weather. High 20s here this AM and it ain't gonna reach 40 for a few days. My last remnant snowpile will survive the weekend. I suppose it is nearly time to add some Stabil to the snowblower gas tank and let it idle out all of the remaining fuel in the gas tank. Was sorry to hear about your frustrations with the Docs' continued inability nail anything down for you. Hope you are feeling better.
Brutus........ prayers this new script nails it down for Char. I hope she is not discouraged. But if she is frustrated and irritable, tell her she has our permission to take it out on you. And on your daughter's musical talents. May we correctly assume she didn't genetically inherit those talents from you? Re Char's b-day gift of jewelry from you, I have to admit you are a wise man. It is really tough trying to pick out a birthday gift on one's own for a wife. Happy B-Day (belated) to your better half!!!
AFRay.........hope all went well with pup Sable's basal cell tumor removal yesterday and that she is resting comfortably. Prayers for a "benign" lab test as well. These are usually benign.
Fife......one of my buddies recently took retirement from the NH State Police force, but he is not out loafing around on his yatchet. Doesn't even have one. I think I should suck up to you because you do have one.
Chief and Traindood.........should the rest of us be a tad bit more cautiously respectful of you two now that your combat arsenel has been revealed?
Chief.......hope you and Pam are feeling better. She is wise to play it safe and let the doctors do their thing; and you should follow her good example. When the crud hangs on, one has a tendency to get irrational, delusional, and surly......not that we would notice any difference in you.
DougM......your wife and my wife must somehow be related. My wife's last DL photo bothered her so much she wrangled with the idea of having it retaken. Who cares about a freakin' DL photo? Does my wife think it will get her out of a traffic ticket or something? Speaking of the movie "Groundhog Day" filming near your abode, I graduated from high school with Bill Murray. Loyola Academy, Wilmette IL.
SubmmBob.....how are the pet skunks up the mountain doing, coming out of hibernation? If they try to hump your leg, don't move.
MikeC........a guy your age has to take it easier. This soccer stuff is hazzardous, and you aren't a spring chicken any more.
RT.......bet you are having a blast now that your carpet RR is up and running. I can picture you diving into a sea of train boxes, pulling a few things out, and then looking stumped. "When did I get this? Why did I get this?"
Northwoods.......my grandparents lived about 60 miles North of you. The winters were brutal, with the -30 below zero temps and impressive snowfalls. My father used to kid my grandfather that with all due respect, he lived where God lost His shoes.
Pat........it has been a while since you have posted another cow escape. I never knew cows could be trained like dogs. Maybe that diet of grits you have been feeding them has them too ill to escape.
JimSP......your inquiry about wood chippers/shredders reminded me about a TV investigative report I watched about a CT. man who used one to get rid of the remains his wife!!!!! Shot the remains off the edge of his property and into a river. He was arrested over a decade later and was convicted.
Jefelectric.......good to see you posting again. Were you in jail or something? If you can get your granddaughter to lay off the cell phone, let me know how you did it. I'm shooting blanks over here.
Brent....... happy belated birthday greetings to you. Apologies. My mind was elsewhere.. May we assume Susan didn't buy you any power tools this time around?
Jon........we are facing some rather expensive house projects here as well. I dreamed of getting my old Corvette back on the road, but the house keeps stepping in and devouring the money.
Buckeye.......just to be on the safe side, again. I figure we are now recognizing the event six times a year. The Federal Government should declare the date a National holiday and close down all of the federal and state offices for the day. Parades will be next. Re driving many miles for workand encounters with distracted drivers.......it could be worse. Add in a wife in the co-pilot seat of your car who is the consummate back seat driver.....like mine. Talk about distractions!!!!
Roy.......you must be over your crud. The cure must have been a few bowls of 4 alarm Texas chili.
DJ........happy belated B-day to your Tyler. 8............they grow up way too fast.
RaySP.......you have not mentioned it lately, so I hope your leg is back up to snuff and that there is no hair growing on your tongue from the meds. For me, Verizon had the lower cost bundled package including the FIOS, but Comcast had the longer initial price guarantee and a cap of $15 on the second year price increases. Bundled = local, local LD (unlimited), LD (unlimited), digital HD cable TV, and internet. No matter. I am saving about $80 per month overall. Comcast threw in 7 pay movie channels and (allegedly) increased my internet speed from 12 mps to 20. Re your furnace running all night and living in CA.......word of advice from an expert living up in Taxachusetts: close the window.
8N....... your wife's knee is coming along overall. Those replacements take months of painful R&R. I think you should take her shopping to take her mind off of it. Your wife will be in better physical shape than you by Halloween.
JimmyT.......I fell way behind on the POT. Prayers you are still in the running for that job. Been working with my son on his resume and some sample cover letters. He is in your boat. Something will eventually pop for you. Hope you are finding the time to stalk socialize with 36-24-36. When I was your age I had no money and always went for the women that did, so that they could wine and dine me. That was a lonely existence for me as I never found one.....to wine and dine me, let alone establish a relationship.
Rich.....we need an update on your MOPAR progress. Please post a pic. Been watching all of the different auto auctions on cable recently. A hemi Challenger went for $290K and a hemi Charger $115K.
DougDG.......with all of the train transport back and forth to/from the Museum, I hope you have a mini-van with the sliding side side doors, both sides.
LAZ..........hope all is going well with your new puppy dog Minnie. Which reminds me, I have to go on poo patrol in the yard today. Chief........why do you take your dogs to the groomers so often? If you would just bathe more than just Saturday nights the dogs and the house wouldn't smell so bad.
HudsonJohn.......you must be relieved that the Winter is behind you. I was watching a program about electric workers maintaining high voltage lines. Dangerous stuff, and some of the guys related some of their personal experience accidents. Re your request for prayers for your coworker's daughter Sarah, you've got them. Makes my problems pale by comparison.
Dennis........you are not on POT probation. You can resume posting at any time.
Again folks. Thank you for listening to my venting over the past few days. Your kind words and encouragement brought me back from the depths of cynicism.
Later, gang.
It is sunny and on its way to 75 today. Work is progressing well so far today and I should be able to leave work early. The 7y/o son and I need to get haircuts today, and he also has baseball practice this evening. I went for a run this morning and had oatmeal for breakfast.
RI Jack - I shredded my bracket this morning - Duke's loss last night did me in. I'll either cheer for Mike C's Butler or VCU.
Good day,
Good morning all, got FIOS installed yesterday. Got a headache this morning from information overload. Trying to digest all the new things and learn how to find things on the TV. Internet is suppose to be a lot faster but haven't done enough on it yet to find out. Thought I was going to get RFD channel but didn't. Have to find out what to do to get that. It has the railroad videos. Also turn in the old cable boxes from Time Warner. More rain overnight, tapering off today.
later, Ray
SPMan
Lunch Time,
28 this morning and not much warmer now. At least it is not snowing.
Fife, I will double check that video link. It hits home on driving and texting including a fatality caused by someone texting the victim.
Brutus, I wish the best for Char and congrats on your talented daughter.
RI Jack, We were featured in an episode of World's Toughest Fixes on the National Geographic Channel.
I will try to make the Tardis tonight.
Back to work,
John
Jack - No on the power tools! She bought me a new black suit, dark grey dress shirt, green dress shirt and a tie to go with the green shirt. Something about needing a new suit for interviews... I also got 1 dozen chocolate covered strawberries from Shari's Berries from The Q.
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