fifedog Dougnotta - The mere statement that you are prepping for tomorrow, made my day a little bridghter.
Dougnotta - The mere statement that you are prepping for tomorrow, made my day a little bridghter.
Ditto from me!
fife dog Roy - Naaaahhh... I reach up and pull the red handle thingie.
Roy - Naaaahhh... I reach up and pull the red handle thingie.
Awwwwww fife...where's the fun!
36 right now and 60 again today.
The other plumber came by, waiting on a quote...tap, tap, tap....
Banks - yes on freezing. Pex does not break (normally), but a frozen line means no water. So the line will be wrapped, laid on top of the ceiling joists, and covered with bats...not the flying kind hopefully...
Regards, Roy
Morning. Yesterday was shirt sleeve weather. Today, coats and hats.
Tomorrow at eating time, stress level here will drop. This is now Grandmother's house. All come here.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
A very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving to all.
Agreed traindaddy and Chief!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Things will get busy here today and tomorrow!
Good morning, Grandkids have been here since yesterday 7:00am when I picked them up. Been running our heads off trying to just keep up. SS payday today so went on-line to do some things and tried to open my Excel spreadsheet and nothing. Then tried Word and the same. Got looking and Microsoft office was no where to be found in programs. It worked just fine yesterday. So called MS and was on the phone to India for two hours with someone I could not hardly understand. Had to send pictures of my receipt and key code and then was told they had to elevate it because there was no account showing I ever paid for the program. Just happy I had them. I wonder how many people they do this to, hoping they will give up and pay again? Everything I do is in Office.
Is there any good free alternatives for Word and Excel??
Roy, as I understand Pex can freeze up to 10 times and still be safe.
Well anyway wishing all of you a good Thanksgiving. Best move on.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Happy Thanksgiving.......
Quick pass through as I have a short lull in the scan action today.....
The assistant secretary for the County Fireman's Association last week, stopped by in dress uniform to pay my respects, way too young at 74....such a kind giving person Dottie was.....
Picked up my LionChief + Blue Comet....and I am VERY pleased. Not sold on the Bluetooth as it dropped out a couple of times, but the engine is magic and the smoke is prodigious even on low. I'm just needing a K-4s and the PRR T-1 and I can die a happy man....lol. I haven't unpacked the cars, but I can tell you, they will match up just fine. I just need that SuperHeater on the front and I'm working on that and the placque for the front.....
Making progress on the layout, finally, the bracing is going up and will have the back part of the layout up by end of the weekend.
Bottom is dropping out tomorrow with a high in the 20s low 30s....I'll be inside cooking....
Fife - Have your Princess take pictures...I'd love to see the Man in Red....
Lionel Train Day Dec 8th, will be picking up last years car and ordering this years, plus hope to get a model of MY house lit up in all it's Christmas Time lightning (Refer to MTH Row House in Cream and Green shutters).
Back to it, getting late in the day and I just want to get outta here...lol
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
Hola Y'all !
Been on the go since EARLY this morning. Made the Maple Brine for tomorrow's bird, while that cooled took the truck in for smog check. It passed ! Now the bird is soaking in the fridge awaiting tomorrow morning. Will be doing a traditional sage & onion stuffing although this one sounded interesting:
Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy the day with friends and family.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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KRM Good morning, Grandkids have been here since yesterday 7:00am when I picked them up. Been running our heads off trying to just keep up. SS payday today so went on-line to do some things and tried to open my Excel spreadsheet and nothing. Then tried Word and the same. Got looking and Microsoft office was no where to be found in programs. It worked just fine yesterday. So called MS and was on the phone to India for two hours with someone I could not hardly understand. Had to send pictures of my receipt and key code and then was told they had to elevate it because there was no account showing I ever paid for the program. Just happy I had them. I wonder how many people they do this to, hoping they will give up and pay again? Everything I do is in Office. Is there any good free alternatives for Word and Excel?? Roy, as I understand Pex can freeze up to 10 times and still be safe. Well anyway wishing all of you a good Thanksgiving. Best move on.
Kevin I use
https://www.wps.com/en-US/office-free
and as it says, it is free. they have spreadsheet, writer, and Presentation, all for free. been using it for years. They will ask you to sign-in which cost but you don't have to. it actual saves the files to your computer. And will ask you do you want to save changes should you and forget to, when you go to close. It's basically just like Word
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good afternoon all, made my oyster stew for Thanksgiving holidays yesterday. Ate the whole thing myself. Yum yum. Going out for Thanksgiving dinner with my son and DIL tomorrow. So far we are blessed with no fires in my area.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Ray
SPMan
Plop plop fizz fizz, stay safe and enjoy.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Good evening all,
Busier and more complicated day at work than expected, but got things to a more manageable level for Monday when I left. Good weather for a walk. Took it easy tonight. Will be busy tomorrow. I wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
wanted to wish everyone Happy Thanksgiving while I have a chance. Glad to have you all as friends.
Thanksgiving prep continued today. Kids and grandkids all due here tomorrow evening.
. Mrs and I watched GRUMPY OLD MEN this evening. We saw more of ourselves than we did in '93.
Brrrrr somebody up north left the door open.. Predicted hi in the low 20s tomorrow.
Kev......I've been using https://www.openoffice.org
at home the last couple of years. Pretty much the same as Word the shortcut keys vary but all there. I did have a problem with some of my more complex formulas when converted to their spreadsheet.
Time to sleep.
Prayers for those in need t
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Happy Thanksgivings Day all
Quiet Thanksgiving this year. Just my wife, me and the dog. Walked a little more than 3 miles with the dog this morning, then put the 1/2 turkey in the oven. Ought to be done soon.
Doug notta - the 20 acres we got is near Bowling Green, just out of town on the northwest side.
Roy - The engineering department I worked got a 3D printer a couple of years before I retired.
All 3D printers work by deopsiting thin layers of material. The resulting surface, if vertical is realitively smooth. However as the slope of the surface decreases, so does the quality of the surface finish because the width of the 'steps' gets longer. To get a 'class A' finish, some finishing operations will need to be done on the completed print.
Happy Thanksgiving
Quiet day at sister's today. Traffic on the road was heavy. I hope everyone has a good day.
Mornin folks!
Cloudy, gray, breezy, and headed to 70 today, 77 tomorrow, and a cold front Sat night.Had a fun day yesterday with the family on the wife's side at our niece's house near Denton TX. Good crowd, including a college buddy of a nephew. The young man is from Croatia, and turned 21 yesterday, so we had a bday cake in addition to pies I made (apple and pumpkin) - burp! Our nephew is a pitcher for his college team and blew us away with all the science they are applying to pitching. He is currently 205 lbs and needs to get to 210 so he can benefit from more 'ground force'. One of the relatives replied, so I haven't been getting fat, I am gaining more 'ground force'!
Good evening,
Thanksgiving went good all but for having to put up with a Microsoft support idiot in the morning that just passed me off again. TODAY,,,,What a screwed up day and BTW Microsoft SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the people at Microsoft told me I closed my MS account and that is why I lost Office. I said if I did it is news to me. All I did was try to comply with their request to up-date my password, add a Pin number and I changed the e-mail account at the same time.........That was "two" years ago and all have been working good till 3 days ago. In short they think I am some scum ball trying to get them to give me Office for free.
So even with my proof of purchase, the card and key number pictures as well as my old e-mail address they still have to send it to God I guess before they will give me what I paid for already.
So the guy gave me a two month free trial of what I already paid for while it runs through the BS red tape. I told him if I got $10.00 an hour for my time on the phone with them on this I could of bought it twice already with the amount of "MY" time they wasted. I downloaded Libre to get by and for free it works just fine. I even like it better than Office 2016.
And now check this out Roy,,, Tue & Wed next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tue 17 for a high and 12 for the low, then Wed 16 for the high and 5 for the low!!!!!!!
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The FORCE must be strong with me...
To hit 75 today and front tonight takes us back to 50's tomorrow.
Started work on the pipe reroute myself. Figure I will go until the point I have to have a plumber. I hate soldering plumbing....especially old copper...I contributed to the $4B spent yesterday on black Fri...$200 in plumbing parts....flo, flo, flo!
Kev - Dude, that's cold! - agree about MS and their support. Hope you get it resolved!
Fife - yes, ground force increased across the country yesterday!
Morning All!
I hope you all are enjoying the Thanksgiving weekend. High 30s and rainy here right now.
Got my pot of chili simmering to ready for the big Michigan - Ohio State game at noon. Go Blue!! Heading to my brother-in-laws for a big tailgate party to watch the game.
We're likely going to get the decorations out and set up tomorrow. I'm trying to decide how I want to do the tree layout this year since I have the CP Holiday Train now along with The Polar Express.
I've been interested in the 3D printing as well. Our local library has a "tech" room the public can use that includes a 3D printer, laser cutter and some other machines. I thought it would be handy to replicate some of my missing locomotive detail parts I can't source from MTH.
Kev - I feel your frustration. The higher ups recently decide to "upgrade" us all to Office 365 and One Drive at work and it's been a PITA for sure. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!
Roy - I think I'll be applying "the Force" as well over the next 4-5 weeks!! Just saw your plumbing post. From personal use as well as selling them, have you looked at Shark Bite fittings? They are easy to use, won't leak and you don't need a plumber! They are slick.
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
Rob, yes I am using SharkBite stuff/pex. I plan to use the stainless steel crimp bands vs the push on. Still have to add sweat fittings for the pex crimps to the copper. Plus some of the copper is not perfectly round (and corroded) for the push ons. Forgot to post earlier the guy helping me get the pex down at HD had an 'incident' - https://youtu.be/uCdResMwZDo
Raining. Hunted yesterday.
Roy, thought you had house fixed. You are famous in Rolesville. Your problem is the reason we are not allowing slabs in Rolesville.
Have a good.
wrmcclellan Forgot to post earlier the guy helping me get the pex down at HD had an 'incident' - https://youtu.be/uCdResMwZDo
Forgot to post earlier the guy helping me get the pex down at HD had an 'incident' - https://youtu.be/uCdResMwZDo
Yup - that warehouse footage is frightening. It is also a good demonstration of the buckling mode of failure. Those shelves must have been loaded at or near capacity for a slight tweak to take them down.
Nice warm day today. Enjoyed a nice long walk with the dog. The rest of the day wend downhill with technology issues. Our printer ran out of ink, so I bought morn ($80!), installed it, then fired the printer up - got a set of flashing lights which were not covered by the on line troubleshooting guide. Guess I'll have to take it to the computer repair place Monday.
Fired up one of the laptops only to have the screen go wonkey. This appears to depend on the angle of the screen/keyboard hinge - another item to go to the computer shop on Monday.
I also tried to ressurect an old flatbed scanner we've had for a long time. Turns out that the manufacturer did not bother to write a set of drivers for Windows 10. Now, we've got a perfectly good scanner that is apparrently obsoleted by software.
I finally found out how to download quad topo maps from the USGS sight. Can't print them with the printer being busted, though.
Started packing some of my train collection yesterday. Looking at the pile of orange boxes, I had the idle thought that I had a reasonable stock for a small hobby shop train department, or a swap meet table. Amazing what what we accumulate in this hobby over the years.
About all for now.
Good day to get some Christmas shopping done. Stores were not that crowded. I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning all!
Cloudy, 50's as predicted. Looks like 50's for the upcoming week.
Makin progress on the plumbing albeit slow progress.
8n - like you I probably spend too much time resurecting old computer h/w and peripherals...I had to recycle several laptops and desktops due to inability to upgrade them.
Morning. Sunny and 53 now. Sunday School. A book introduction this afternoon. 10 year old girl in Rolesville wrote and illustrated it. Now published.
Have a good week ahead.
Who has the snow cannon pointeted west? it's really started to come down around here Weather guessers say we are due for 1" to 3", with 6" to 8" in Kansas City.
Looks like the printer won't need to go to the repair shop. I plugged it into one of our older laptops that is running Windows 7. Downloaded the proper driver, and all is well - almost. While I was trying to print one of the quad maps, something tripped the printer into ASCII (or something) mode - instead of mpas, it started spitting out pages full of goblitygook. Took a hard reset to get it back to normal.
I'll try the flatbed scanner with that computer tonight.
We were going to a Celtic Thunder concert this evening. Got canceled, as the group was in Denver last night - the snow cannon messed their travel up too. At least we found out that the concert was canceled before we started on the 2 hour drive to the city.
Good weather today. Mulched leaves again. Chopped down all the honey suckle I could find (only plant still with green leaves). Did some online shopping today. Getting the list whittled down. I hope everyone has a good day.
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