Bob I was referring to the topless man. It's just that my reply got bumped onto the next page.
Geez
S.J.
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Howdy All.
Just dropping in with a special request. One of the wife's best friends of well over 40yrs lost her husband yesterday morning. He suffered a major heart attack late Sunday night and passed early Monday morning. Please include Rick & Arlene in your prayers.
Thanks
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I decided to take the rest of the week off from work so I can catch up with the family and also acclimate to the time difference. It will take about that long to fully adjust and return to a normal sleep pattern. The weather here is still a bit warm for October; the highs are in the mid-80s and the sun is shining. However, the leaves are falling so I will have some raking to do this week.
John F. – Oh, there was a cost, but presenting logic was not an option. We were told to return home and we followed orders.
dougdagrump – I will pray for Rick and Arlene.
RT – I’m glad you’re not in jail.
Sayonara,
Joe
Home from Louisville, KY. Great trip to see the new bridge on I-65 across the Ohio River. For all you snowbirds from Chicago, your trip will be easier in 2016. The cost for the new bridge and approaches, (please sit down) $300,000,000. Of course the new bridge that is to built on I-75 through Cincinnati is estimated, (hold on tight) $2.73 Billion. I don't know why Kentucky originally skimped on both of these bridges in the '60s, but there are major deficiencies in both. Of course, as you know this money is peanuts when compared to the yearly budget of Roseyville.
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Good evening all,
I have seen "my" soccer lose sectional games in many different ways, but none like this one. Up 2-1 with 10 minutes to go, and having bottled up the other team's start player the entire game, it all fell apart in 3 minutes as said star player ripped off 2 goals and ended the scoring with a 3-2 win for the other team. I have never seen a team fail to put away their opponents like this one did repeatedly all year long. Work was quiet today. Boys will play tomorrow.
Mike C. from Indiana
dougdagrump Howdy All. Just dropping in with a special request. One of the wife's best friends of well over 40yrs lost her husband yesterday morning. He suffered a major heart attack late Sunday night and passed early Monday morning. Please include Rick & Arlene in your prayers. Thanks
You got them from us as well.
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Good Morning from Blueberryhill.............
It is a cold 42 degrees. Going up to 72 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have an errand to run and some chores to do. I'll be busy until lunchtime. Then a nice nap.
Dining car has Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Chuck
Another beautiful day in Ohio. Clear blue skies and crisp. Just like autumn is supposed to be. This type of weather helps Chuck prime the snow cannon for a hit on Roseyville.
Hope to work on my last piece of track on my layout tonight. It is a special siding that is insulated from the continuous power where my conventionally powered locomotives can be stored with out running down the track uncontrolled.
Doug.....prayers for Rick. I can't imagine how crushing his passing is for his wife, Arlene. Nor how difficult this is for your wife. JACK.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Morning, cloudy, rainy and fall like [but not freezing like some in Yankeeland]. Not much on the menu today. Help tonight with Church Wed. night meal. May go pickup up tucks for wedding Sat. Thursday is HS football game. Friday will be a zoo [walk with Rolesville Elementary School kids, rush to Dr's for blood work and then off with animals to the house across the street from wedding place. Daughter rented a house with fenced back yard so animals can stay. Wifey's whole family [Sisters, Nieces, Nephews and all their kids staying in same house with there dogs]. Dad use to day, "Grin and bare it."
Doug, prayers for Rick and family.
Bought all the items to wire the pole to plug in the camper at the farm.
Have a good one.
Later
Doug - prayers are raised. Trying to find out when a couple items are slated to ship from Lionel off the Christmas Catalog... unfortunately it appears, as usual, they aren't adding them to the shipping schedule till the actually produce the items. This is really frustrating because a couple items I want people have pre-ordered for me as gifts, now we're back to the 'will it actually be made' waiting game. Oh well.Dealing with the ramifications of a company redesigning their backend database and dropping fields that we use... UGH!!!
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Aloha. Another beauty of a Fall day. Went out for chicken wings for supper because... it was Tuesday. Nice TARDIS ride last night with the guys. Looks like a busy day today. Prayers for Doug's friends.Buckeye, I travel those bridges in Cincy and Louisville regularly. Glad to know they're being fixed up. The one in the 'ville has seemingly been under construction for a long time. Love the old RR bridge that is still next to it.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
lion88roar Doug - prayers are raised. Trying to find out when a couple items are slated to ship from Lionel off the Christmas Catalog... unfortunately it appears, as usual, they aren't adding them to the shipping schedule till the actually produce the items. This is really frustrating because a couple items I want people have pre-ordered for me as gifts, now we're back to the 'will it actually be made' waiting game. Oh well.Dealing with the ramifications of a company redesigning their backend database and dropping fields that we use... UGH!!!
Brent,
Isn't working in IT great? I see it all the time too with updates/upgrades getting pushed out with no prior testing only to cause hospital-wide issues. Just last night I had to deal with a complication of switching from a physical server to a virtual server that handles background jobs.
Then, there are the users that have little knowledge of the applications and even the PC that they use. Some of the calls that I get really make me question things.
I didn't think an IT position could be that stressful.
Jim
Good morning all,
Doug, prayers and condolences for your wife's friend.
A little drizzle this morning but so far no real rain. Cloudy and cool for now.
Doctor appointment at 11:00 this morning. Afraid I am going to get a bad report on tryglycerides and weight gain. Think I have put on maybe 5 lbs lately. Too much ice cream. I like seafood. I eat everything I see.
Sounds like Chief is hooking up the hunting lodge to the power grid. Next will be the installation of the spa and stage for the dancing girls.
later,
Ray
SPMan
RedfireS197 lion88roar Doug - prayers are raised. Trying to find out when a couple items are slated to ship from Lionel off the Christmas Catalog... unfortunately it appears, as usual, they aren't adding them to the shipping schedule till the actually produce the items. This is really frustrating because a couple items I want people have pre-ordered for me as gifts, now we're back to the 'will it actually be made' waiting game. Oh well.Dealing with the ramifications of a company redesigning their backend database and dropping fields that we use... UGH!!! Brent,Isn't working in IT great? I see it all the time too with updates/upgrades getting pushed out with no prior testing only to cause hospital-wide issues. Just last night I had to deal with a complication of switching from a physical server to a virtual server that handles background jobs. Then, there are the users that have little knowledge of the applications and even the PC that they use. Some of the calls that I get really make me question things. I didn't think an IT position could be that stressful.
Brent,Isn't working in IT great? I see it all the time too with updates/upgrades getting pushed out with no prior testing only to cause hospital-wide issues. Just last night I had to deal with a complication of switching from a physical server to a virtual server that handles background jobs.
Some days I feel good like yesterday and some days I'm tired all day, are other retirement age men the same?
Dennis -- I can relate to how you feel, I think it's just part of the aging program. I do know that once I get to the Y and start working out I feel ten times better. The problem is finding the motivation to get to the Y -- it's not the work out that's the problem it's me getting there. Now, if we were like ol' Slick and his harem we might feel differently but I'm not about to try that route
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Sunny and low 70's today. It was real hard to go back into the office after lunch.
DJ - I had my own round with 'improved' software today - didn't win, either. I now have an I.T. work ticket open. Good thing it was only reference material that I was trying to get, and the matter can wait a couple of days.
Won a partial track cleaning car on e-bay tonight. It has a good gear train in it, which will supply needed parts that have not been re-popped that I need.
About all for now.
Today’s weather is warm but a little cloudy as well. I had a quick three-mile run this morning before enjoying some morning coffee with the wife. Yesterday afternoon we took the kids to a neat park located about 20 minutes from the base. It had a decently sized roller slide and some zip lines for the kids. It was free and the kids loved it. Of course, I enjoyed it as well. I may get an early start on those leaves today as there are quite a few out there.
I hope you are all having a great day.
Last year about this "my" soccer boys were starting a run to semi-state. This year it did not even get to a walk as they were eliminated in the first round 4-0. The game was not even that close as our kids were totally outmatched tonight. Going to watch grandkids tomorrow. Work was quiet.
lion88roar RedfireS197 lion88roar Doug - prayers are raised. Trying to find out when a couple items are slated to ship from Lionel off the Christmas Catalog... unfortunately it appears, as usual, they aren't adding them to the shipping schedule till the actually produce the items. This is really frustrating because a couple items I want people have pre-ordered for me as gifts, now we're back to the 'will it actually be made' waiting game. Oh well.Dealing with the ramifications of a company redesigning their backend database and dropping fields that we use... UGH!!! Brent,Isn't working in IT great? I see it all the time too with updates/upgrades getting pushed out with no prior testing only to cause hospital-wide issues. Just last night I had to deal with a complication of switching from a physical server to a virtual server that handles background jobs. Then, there are the users that have little knowledge of the applications and even the PC that they use. Some of the calls that I get really make me question things. I didn't think an IT position could be that stressful. The problem we run into is that people try to 'help' the system. If they would just leave things alone and follow the process everything would be fine, but NOOOOOO they have to change things because they THINK they are doing it correctly. And when they 'help' the system all they are doing is causing my team 1+ day of work to fix their screwup... IMHO if you can't RTFM you don't belong here.I also love when I'm told "Well you need to think out-side-the-box and anticipate that someone is going to do something and you need to code to handle it" I'm sorry, but I can't just check my brain at the door!
Turns out we had a total of nine servers go down last night during the 11-7 shift. All because someone that pushes papers all day saw a long term $$ saving by going to virtual machines.
Then there are some of the end users that are seemingly incapable of a simple task like logging into Windows. My favorites are the MDs that call screaming that their PC won't turn on. I've gone on several of these calls, and it's either someone else unplugged the PC, accidentally shut the power strip off, or simply wasn't smart enough to turn the monitor on...
The way I see it is simply this; their stupidity is my job security.
My thought is that if a job requires use of a PC, all employees should be A+ certified at a minimum. Even some common sense would go a long way in and of itself.
cnw1995 Buckeye, I travel those bridges in Cincy and Louisville regularly. Glad to know they're being fixed up. The one in the 'ville has seemingly been under construction for a long time. Love the old RR bridge that is still next to it.
Buckeye, I travel those bridges in Cincy and Louisville regularly. Glad to know they're being fixed up. The one in the 'ville has seemingly been under construction for a long time. Love the old RR bridge that is still next to it.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill..........
It is a sunny 44 degrees. Going up to 72 with sunshine.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores and a couple of phonecalls to make. Then, I can relax. Not much else new.
Dining car has the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Aloha from another beautiful day! Oh Buckeye, that is the very bridge! How cool. Nice TARDIS ridge last night. Oh, I love the IT stories. Today I had someone tell me - the database seemed to be running kind of slow so I went in and deleted all the empty tables I could find to speed it up. No soup for you! No more access to the database either. At least I had a pristine backup for once so no one noticed anything...
Several pictures of the "Big Four Bridge" here in Louisville, Ky. These were taken in April of this year on one of my "walking trips". I was back on it in June with my bicycle. As Buckeye said, there's no access right now from the Indiana side, that ramp is "supposed to be completed" by Nov. 2013.
The lines down the middle are supposed to simulate where the tracks once were.
I-65 bridge picture taken from the Big Four
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Morning. Rainy and chilly. Just finished 2+ miles. Off on a busy day before tomorrow evening and rehearsal dinner. Then gone until late Sat. night. I'm coming home with dogs and not staying for the IL's mass "over night" is a tiny house.
Jon, you can get inspired to workout real easy. Give me your Dr.'s contact info. I'll have him tell you to walk and diet or start taking pre-diabetic pills. That will get your butt moving.
Locomutt and Spanky --- Those are great pictures! Enjoyed seeing them.
Don
Cold, for here, this morning. 46 degrees following yesterday's rain.
Got a pretty good report from the doctor yesterday except for slight weight gain.
Dennis, I saw the Huel Howser show about travel town in Griffith Park with the Live Steamers. I first went there back in the 60's and I knew a guy back then that had an 0-4-0 switch engine that I rode behind. They have expanded their layout since the early days. Originally it was just an oval near where you come in. There is another live steam outfit in Riverside California at a Park which is a longer run I think than the one in L.A. but not as interesting. The L.A. club has a big meet every May and operators come from all over to run there. They also have moved a barn once owned by Walt Disney to the park. Walt used it as a shop for his Carolwood Pacific live steam backyard railroad. I would like to see that.
Buckeye, I rode a train over that Big Four Line back around 1962 between Chicago and Cincinati. We were on the New York Central on a train called The James Whitcomb Riley. I think the B&O also had trains on that line and maybe Illinois Central. Can't remember what the other one was.
Evening all!
Finally getting better. Went back to doc Tues evening and got a steroid shot to help my lungs heal up from the bronchitis. Still pretty tired but it worked. Looking forward to York next week but we are on a 6:45 am flight Wed (ugh). John (jefelec) sent me a note that it looks to be another rainy fall York. It's been several years since we had those famous NE sunny cool fall days for York.
We are scheduled to get some much needed rain this coming weekend.
Doug for your friend.
Have a great evening all!
Regards, Roy
Grandkids' team won tonight 6-0. Work was good today.
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