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Good evening all,
Quiet rainy day at work. Got to practice some with the soccer kids. Met the new coach for the boys. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Dennis you should enjoy that TV Got my wife a 60 for Christmas last year and put the 37" ( I think it is ) in our bedroom if you still have the 27" and it works it makes a great computer monitor lol I use a 32" for my desk top but have had my laptop plugged into it also a few times.
Evening all not much going on here today. did some running around paid my vehicle taxes so thats done ( $184.99) for the year.
Busy week at the end have to go down to the new place hore a home inspection on thursday and then friday have appointment at the V.A. at 2 P.M.
Hope all had a good monday talk to you all later.
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I am cleared to drive !!!!!!! First trip behind the wheel was to the gas station. How in the #### does gas go up $1 a gal in less than a week.
Actually went down to the museum last friday, the BetterHalf was my chauffeur. Was getting #### from everybody when I did something that I wasn't supposed to do. Ran out of gas about 2:30 so the BetterHalf took me home, after the other runners packed up my stuff and loaded it into the car. Great support group there. I slept great that nite.
Now to put up with the lght duty restriction til the end of this month.
Later all.
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Aloha. Back from taking time off to visit the ocean. Waved to RT on the way. Did not get eaten by sharks. Was welcomed back by a ferocious storm Kev mentioned that delayed my morning train for 90 minutes. Catching up at work today and lots to do at home too.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Again today, Woke up to a downpour, go figure?
Fife, for once I agree with Chief. Took me 6 months to learn to sleep in.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good morning all,
Went to TTOS meet yesterday in Arcadia. Lots of things for sale. Took a friend with me who is not really a collector but runs some trains at Christmas. He is too thrifty, er, cheap to buy anything good. He saw a nice Marx lithographed tunnel with asking price of $10 but tried to beat the seller down to $5. I think the next guy that saw it bought it so he got skunked when he came back later. I think he settled for some lights that Don was selling for two for a dollar. Big spender!
Don, nice to see you and Bob at the meet. Sorry I didn't spend more time with you but did not want to get in your way while you were selling.
On a sad note, learned yesterday that an old time train club member passed away recently from a massive heart attack. He was a retired Delta airlines pilot. I will miss him. He was a good guy.
We are baby sitting my son's pet cockateal bird this week while they are on a trip to Washington. The bird is spoiled because they leave him out of his cage a lot so he drives me nuts unless I let him out once in a while.
#2 son is spending time with his girl friend after work this week and coming home late. We won't see much of him for a while.
later,
Ray
SPMan
Sun and low 80s today
WOW internet was out most of Sunday, it hasn't worked right since they upgraded it. Does that sound fimiliar? What they need is a couple of kids from Middle School to keep it working for them.....S.J.
Chief - 30 years of gettin' up before the roosters is gonna take some time to adjust. Besides, I like the quiet time.
WabashCB Hello all, this is no doubt the wrong place to post this, but can't see how to start a new thread. What is the minimum radius for Williams 60' Madison passenger cars? Thanks guys.
Hello all, this is no doubt the wrong place to post this, but can't see how to start a new thread. What is the minimum radius for Williams 60' Madison passenger cars? Thanks guys.
You can ask anything you want here. Someone will be glad to help. A little slow during the summer.
Morning all. Shower came through. Showers has now delayed the famed bypass opening one day. Now Tues. night/Wed. morning.
Fifey, retired means sleep late. That is rule number 1. Rule number 2 is to not break rule number 1.
New kitchen appliances arrive this afternoon. Wifey stayed home from work. Good. Usually me stuck home to put up with delivery and install. More showers in the forecast for this evening late.
Hope all have a great week ahead.
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Mornin' boys. Overcast and 63 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Wifey and I slipped away to WV this weekend to work on next Fifedom (or more appropriate, wifedom). Things really stirring now. Gotta get more ambitious with the pitchin' and throwin', scrapin' and paintin'.
Nice to see a new poster, Wabash.
sirjames - Thanks for keeping the light on.
Quiet day. Rested a lot. Picked up limbs in yard. Listened to Indy car race. Foyt team salvaged a 14th and 17th for what could have been a really bad day. Newgarden and Ed were 5th and 10th. Pippa had a horrible day. I hope everyone has a good day.
rtraincollector Walbash If I remeber correctly all Williams will run on O-31 or larger now to me if you can do larger they look more realistic going around the curves don't have so much overhang but they will run on O-31 Lionel & MTH and some of the others you may have to check radius on Welcome to the coffee pot we talk about anything in here.
Walbash If I remeber correctly all Williams will run on O-31 or larger now to me if you can do larger they look more realistic going around the curves don't have so much overhang but they will run on O-31 Lionel & MTH and some of the others you may have to check radius on
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Morning. Hope all are OK. Had a busy past week. DOT had dropped the ball on a signal at the new bypass. Had a media fight with their spokesperson. He did not know what he was talking about. Then he had to back track to cover his comments. Guess you say I won. Lots of TV interviews on the subject. Time to rest.
Brent, smart son. Nothing runs like a Deere. Go GREEN!
Have a great week ahead.
Joe that is great news about your son. I hope he enjoys the experience. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Mowed the yard today. Took 2 two hours due to all the extra turning I have to do from the construction (in)activity. It did stay dry today, but more rain moving in this week. Also edged sidewalks and trimmed the fenced part of the yard. Watched some of the Indycar practice today online at Milwaukee. Sato was 3rd quick for AJ, which bodes well for tomorrow. Also watched Indy 11 win a home game over a team from North Carolina. I hope everyone has a good day.
RT, thank you. I am feeling better today and yesterday but my bod is sore from all that heaving. Still eating lightly though.
V8 and Roy, When I got a flat screen High Definition TV I could no longer record off of it on to my old VCR. However, I can still play back old recordings.
After a lot of appointment juggling, I was able to attend the funeral for the wife of one of church social group members yesterday. However, was unable to attend the reception after because I had to get the rental car turned in and pick up my Honda at the dealer. They fixed the air conditioner but had to order the part.
Our new light rail line is making great progress and they are testing trains near us. They are only a little over two months away from getting the line done. Then we can ride an electric car all the way to downtown L.A. and transfer to a lot of other places too.Good news. got the missing screws for my MTH engine. Bad news, they don't fit.
Raining here again. I did get the new igniter installed in the grill before it started. Not much left to do but head to the shed and drink some beer.
Where is Doug?
WAKE UP your missing a beautiful summer day.
Well at least it is here.
S.J.
Good evening,
Another busy day today as I had quite a bit of work to take care since I'll be on leave next week. Tomorrow, at 0500, the family and I will leave for Oklahoma and spend a week with the wife's family. It's about a 12-hour drive for us. I'm glad I was able to get a 4-mile run in this morning as I'll probably have little time for exercise while we're out of town. This afternoon, my older son, who has never played organized soccer, tried out and made a select soccer team (Mike C should be happy). He has played with his friends and is quite athletic so I'm not too surprised. I am not a soccer fan so this is new territory for me. However, he is happy and that is all that matters.
Good night,
Joe
An evening spent finishing watching the last of the regular Sherlock Holmes (jeremy Brett) shows. Still have to watch the "Hounds of Baskerville", but that is a long one. Very quiet day at work and made progress on some issues. I hope everyone has a good day.
Evening all!
Nice warm day today.
Lots of chores this weekend.
Hope all are doing well.
Have a great day tomorrow all!
Dennis. You will be able to play your VCR on a new flat screen, most if not all of them have analog inputs (i.e. RCA jacks for video/yellow, red/right audio, white/left audio), but once you get used to the HD on the flat screen, the VCR tapes that looked OK on the old TV will look pretty bad.
I hooked our new HD TVs to the old TV antenna in my attic (yes old TV antennas are fine as long as they originally received the old analog NTSC VHF and UHF channels) work just fine for new HD broadcast TV channels. TV antennas are tuned for frequency of operation and it does not matter how that signal is modulated (analog NTSC vs HD).
Regards, Roy
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CHUCK & BUCKEYE, TGIF!!!
Stay frosty my friends,
laz57
Hi all,
I had a busy day at work, but thankfully a quiet night at home with the family. It's late and I need to get to bed.
Congrats traindaddy!
I hope you feel better SP Ray.
Not much rain today but fields too soggy for practice. A good day at work with some issues resolved. I hope everyone has a good day.
traindaddy1 - Big CONGA on the little princess.
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