Yippee my parts that Hudson John worked on for me are out for delivery today. So I can get back at the twin motor ALCO B-unit!!!
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good morning as always gray out there. 24 going to 36.
My friend Mark's daughter is a meteorologist and she said you can't trust any Forecast more than 3 days out...
And now we know why Healthcare cost so much!!!!
You just can't make this stuff up.
So Brent if they are out of network then you on the hook for 50% now???? That is the way it would be for us. That is the way it was when I went to Mayo Clinic and why I had to pay. But on the other hand Mayo found out in four days what the network never figured out in six months. I was born with Hemangioma on the bone and liver and it may of looked like cancer in the MRI but was not.
Mornin' FellasThe twists and turns in this saga are as plenty as in a grand prix race! Apparently the company TheQ's company used for insurance isn't the company processes claims, so you call company 1 to find out if the provider is in network and if the service will be covered, then the provider places the claim with company 1 - who then forwards it to company 2 to have the claim processed. Company 1 has multiple departments, one is responsible for picking up the mail, another to input the claim, another to review the claim, another to approve the claim, and yet another to process the claim and forward to company 2... What The......????? It took some leg work by a very nice and even more helpful lady at company 1 to get this all figured out. The claim will be paid, but no one really knows when, 'probably in the next week or two'.Then I come to fing out that the provider (who I was told was in network last November) isn't in network... this is one of the things that has got to change. I don't give two rats' rearends if they are in network or not - every doctor should be 'in network'........Snow has been melting quite quickly here, esp along the roads (guess the Sun heats up the road surface and that helps melt the snow along the edges)... woke up this morning to a frozen stream from the top of my driveway down to the street. Pretty neat as you can see the 'flow'. Some ramblings that we could get another dose this weekend... guess I better check the weather forecasts...
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Morning all. Been up for a while had breakfast now just surfing the net and playing some games. about time to go watch tv some see whats on in there. Nothing new here.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good evening all,
Quiet day at home. Went to watch niece's husband to be put on a Christian rock concert (now there is a contradiction in terms at some level) with the band he is in. It was high energy for sure. The drummer was fun to watch. I do have some really really good news. I am sure some of the long timers here recall my tales of my Norwegian soccer friend. She and her longtime GF finally got engaged! I am so happy that she has found someone. No date is set but sometime in 2017 is the plan. Tomorrow we go to Bloomington to see the younger daughter and her son. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all!
Hit 70 today and will be 70's for the weekend. Sweet!
DougnottaG - have fun at the museum!
Regards, Roy
It was bit warmer again today and we had a few raindrops. There was a possiblity for snow overnight but I don't see it happening. Had a long, but productive day. Tomorrow will be another busy Friday for me.
Jim - Photobucket does run slow on my PC and it is probably due to all the ads and everything else it runs. The study is based on the book The Exemplary Husband.
BOC - Glad the shakes went away.
Good night,
Joe
Good evening all.
Yesterday morning when I left for my walk, 6:30am, I saw some marks on the sidewalk and I thought no that's not what it looks like. I walk on up the street and there were all kinds of piles of road apples so yes the sidewalk marks were definitely from horse shoes. They were all over the place, both sides of the street and the sidestreets as well. Ran into one of my neighbors who always walks her dogs about the same time and she confirmed it. She said her dogs were going nuts barking about 3:30am so she goes out on her balconey and there were 6 or 7 horses just wondereing around so she calls 911. The police come out and more or less just follow them, traffic control I guess, around the neighborhood for awhile til they go back to there pasture. One of them must have preferred to stay out as the police had to come back a little after 5 to wrangle the stragler. "Head'em up move'em out, Rawhide" And here we slept thru it all.
Museum day tomorrow, all packed and staged in the garage to load-n-go before 6 am. Gotta leave early to beat the cr***y traffic..
Gotta finish fixin supper.
Later all.
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Good Evening.
Gee, what a dull day we had here. Got to 36F here but now we are only going to 28F tomorrow...in the snow.
So, everything seems to be non-tremoring now. Kinda wonder what brought that on this morning
Anyhow...got some layout work to get tonight ...so have good evening!!!
Buckeye: I agree with Ray on that deal!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Buckeye, Wow! Such a deal! I think the original price was around $60.
Obviously, the store didn't know what they had.
Ray
SPMan
lion88roar Kev - I did... they received the claim in 1/8/2016 (I have the certified letter return receipt), but they did nothing with it. Called Dr and they faxed it to med ins yesterday, gotta call them today to ensure they received it... this really should not be this difficult!!!!!
Kev - I did... they received the claim in 1/8/2016 (I have the certified letter return receipt), but they did nothing with it. Called Dr and they faxed it to med ins yesterday, gotta call them today to ensure they received it... this really should not be this difficult!!!!!
Yes Brent, I think it is just by design on the INS companies part. They just hope you will break down and pay. I had the same problems before the ACA so I can’t blame that. I ended up going to Mayo Clinic on my own dime back in 2008 when I was mis-diagnosed with bone cancer. The INS company UHC was a joke. It is a shame they take advantage of you when you need them the most. It should not be this difficult!!!!!
Waiting for my parts for the twin motor ALCO B unit to get here.
Good Morning
Weather here be dull dull dull and coolish...only 34 for a high today.
Man, my handds are shaking bad today...I have to use a straw with my decaf today, lol. And typing is interesting,. Every other wordd gets doubled uppp letters, lol!!!
Intentional tremors are so much fun.
Oh...here comes Lucy, up for a cuddle sesssion..
Trainroom has been cleaned again of clutter....and, into the other little shed it goes.
CYLTR!!!!
Morning Guys,33 with something they call the sun. Heading to 40. No plans.Got my awg 22 wire connectors yesterday from Mouser that I will use on the ALCO project, They are nice and small and black to boot, Should work out great.
JimPhish, The thing about Menards is they don’t stock most of the train stuff in the store. It seems to be a seasonal thing for the stores. I was at Menards on Sunday and they had two sections of curve track a handful of cars and buildings next to some flower pots. I think your better ordering off line for stuff this time of year.Buckeye, glad you are doing better. I am much better but still not where I need to be. Still fighting the post nasal glue.
Jim,
Yes, I'm getting my stamina back, but when I hit the hotel rooms I fall asleep fast. Still have some soreness in the kidney area but it is minor.
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 cool (28F) Southern Ohio,
Wrapping up night shift, start dayshift Friday.
Doug-There is a Menards about 50 miles north of where I live. A lot of guys here at work go by the store and would pick up some track if I asked. I may do that.
Mike-Sounds like the leg is doing better!
Buckeye- Glad you're getting out and felling better
Joe-What is the name of the Bible Study?
Messed around some with the Photobucket yesterday. The program starts and loads then the screen goes blank. When I open the program with my bride's brand new MAC it runs fine. Maybe I need to do an upgrade with the old MAC I use. I've heard that since there are so many ads it uses alot of capacity to run.
Have a good day, and may God bless
Jim
Buckeye when you go into to a shop for one thing and come out with another is always a win win usually in your favor.
Good evening,
It's just about bedtime but I have time for a quick post. Had a decent day at work and then a nice dinner out with the wife. I have an early start tomorrow but it is for a good reason. I will meet with some other neighborhood men to work through a Bible study on becoming better husbands. I am looking forward to it, and to getting to meet some new men in my neighborhood.
Buckeye - That is a great find. I hope the trip went well.
Deal of the Day............ Brand new w/o box, $7.50 The couplers still had the protective packing. I stopped at an antique store along I-76 east of Akron and found ten or more cars prices at $7.50.
Second best deal of the day. Slighty used, shelf queen.....$7.50
Incidently I was looking for a 1960's eras Boy Scout Canteen and not trains.
Had a very good day. Got all my work that had to be done this week so I am taking both Thursday and Friday off. Going to see other grandson Friday now. Played soccer with the high school kids. My side won 10-7 and I had a good walk at noon today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good morning,Like Doug said,27 going to 35 and gray. I am ready for winter to take a hike.Shuffled trains around on the layout last night and ran them for about an hour. That 0-8-0 USRA #123 I got from Bob sure is a good smoker and has wonderful gear drive action. John has sent my ALCO back that he pulled the wheels and replaced the pinion gears on so maybe in a few days I can get back on the twin motor 200 series ALCO B-unit. Deer have cleaned us out on feed corn so a trip to Farm & Fleet is on the to do today.Still trying to figure out how I want to go on a grapple for the John Deere The get by option will be about $700 the what I want option is $1,500. Not much cost price value in either since I will not be using it every day but it will sure take the back out of the work if I do get one. Dennis, behave!! RT get checked out! Brent, I am finding it is best to get everything pre-approved before you let the doctors order or do anything. I just got a EOB on some blood work the Dr. did with a big NO Won't pay from BCBS, ( lack of medical necessity ) SO I guess the INS co. knows more than the doctors. Now I am out $913.00 for something I guess I did not need or even know why it was ordered. And to boot it came out negitive anyway.
Mornin' fellas
SJ - Thank you for the correction. That would explain why my 671 has magnatraction, because it is actually a 681. Got my dental appliance this morning. Hopefully some good, sound, sleep nights are in my future!Have to call the medical insurance people... this should be fun and interesting... lol
Aloha. Grey and cold downtown. Quiet night. Catching up on some reading. Nothing new at work today - Jim, you'd love perusing the train section in Menards - it's like a hobby store; I think their track looks great and is priced well - the accessories are very nice and they sell 'sheets' of flats and all sorts of other cars.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Little bit of snow overnight...crashes galore.
Going up to 32F later on in a mix of cloud/sun. Right now it is 28F.
Got a bunch of runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff to do...honey buy stuff, don't you know...
Jim that is one of my concerns because of the tenderness along the left side of it.
Morning all up and moving need to be heading out the door in about 1 1/2 hrs take me about 5 minutes her well we won't go there. :)
Took am pills now time to make something to eat make something lite as she will want something before we get there
You all have a good day
Morning all from the unpredictable weather of Chicago!
Many thanks to all for the steam ideas KRM, lion88roar, rtraincollector, and fifedog - I'm doing some deep dives into each of them and will start shopping once I get my next consulting gig.
In the interim I did buy a couple of AC relays and circuit breakers from Automation Direct, which has a a really good web site - reasonable prices, lots of detailed information, and the products are intelligently organized to make finding the right thing pretty easy. If you haven't been there, might be worth a visit.
I'm also not much of a commemorative car sort of guy, but with the new release this week Menards is continuing to do some really interesting things. Kudos to them for their continuing commitment!
IT consultant by day, 3rd generation Lionel guy (raising a 3YO 4th generation Lionel Lil' Man) by night in the suburbs of the greatest city in the world - Chicago. Home of the ever-changing Illinois Concretus Ry.
Good evening from 35F Southern Ohio,
Going to drop into the mid 20's tonight. I got up a little early and messed with the Photobucket
Doug/Joe- I did the drag and drop from the desktop to the photobucket and it worked great, thanks! I'll check on the app for the phone. As it turned out my bride when setting up her new computer changed the passcode on my phone too somehow and I was using the wrong passcode and wore out my welcome with too many attemptes to sign on.
I ran the portable generator for a while today and used the garage circuits for a load, all worked well
The Menards train really does look nice, at that price they must be selling almost at cost I'd think. Is their price on track reasonable? I need to pick up some, forgive me AC Gilbert, 3 rail track.
Fife-I like the way you think; check out the work ethic and stick to it drive.
RT- could the new leads be infected?
Roy-70 degrees! wow.
Good night and may God bless
Good day at work. Had a nice surprise visit from Lucas and his fiance'. They even bought pizza, and took more stuff home with them. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hola Dudes & Dudettes.
Finally got the batteries recharged.
Fife, Should have warned you to wear some shades so the glare from the baldies wouldn't hurt the eyes. . The ball cap guy was running the Texas Special, earlier he had his old steamer on(fotgot the #).
RT, I seem to have a bit of discomfort with mine, thing is big, when I sleep to long on my left side. They tell me not to but unless I am in restraints there is no way to keep from rolling onto my left side. Between the defib and the c-pap it is extremely difficult to find a really comfortable position.
It's a couple days late but I've got a few photos to post on the Photo Fun thread from last weekend.
BOC, That is one cute kitty, amazing eyes.
Good Evening
Spent the evening relaying some track here and seeing to it that Lucy got fed and cuddled...she is now cuddledd beside on my other chair.
Got to go to [zzzz]...have a good night.
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