Just plain old winter weather. Nothing overly exciting on todays agenda.
Everyone have a great day all.
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TGIF
Lake is frozen. Snow is drifting and it is cold.
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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Aloha. -11 so far today but the sun is out. With the current wind, it is - 27. And as Kev says, we're supposed to get even colder next week. Wow! And up to 10 inches of snow Sunday into Monday. Well, that's winter here - I wish it was 63 like in NC! And I have quite a lot of errands and outside things to do this weekend. Well, the weather is sure a good excuse to not do some of them!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Morning from a beautiful clear 24°F Southern Ohio,
Going to be a fairly busy day. There is a funeral at 11 am, Mass at the High School at 1:30 pm swim meet at 4 pm and basketball game at 6 pm that is an hour drive away. I’ll watch the first race of the swim meet that the youngest is in and leave.
It is really pretty out but windy and cold. All the critters are fed and watered and doing OK.
Spank – I hear you about draining week. Yesterday I made one of those statements to your boss that needed to be said but nobody says. He was pressuring me to hurry and get a steam system ready for a repair and I was completing the necessary steps, and finally said, all your rushing me will not make me short cut the protocalls and procedures to make the system safe to work on.
Banks – Time flyes when you’re having fun!
Time to go and get things ready
May God bless you and your families
Jim
Good evening all,
Extremely busy day at work. Ok weather for walking today, but we go into the deep freezet tonight. Put a couple pieces of insulation over the crawl space entrance to try and keep the house warmer and pipes from freezing. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all!
Quick check in. Long day and relaxing with an adult beverage.
Banks - B of B is a great watch! Enjoy!
Regards, Roy
If this is true,,,,,,,I don't like it!! Next Wed, -6 for a high -19 for a low.
Next week looks like it may be the coldest temps in 25 years since 1994. We had -22 then and that was when the new house in Plainfield got filled with NG because the main line under the street broke and the gas came up through the crawl space. We could of all been killed that night! Got to do some prep for sh!t like what is coming if they are right!
Had the worst lunch I have had for years today at an Arby's in Morris,, YUCK!
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
I don't mind waiting. Lionel has been doing ok for most of their offerings lately. There are exceptions. I'm pretty confident me getting the new J. I already have the 606 from the late 90s early 00s.
Morning. Rainy. 63 degrees. Had Human Services Board this AM. Town thing this afternoon.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
17 heading down to -7 tonight. If they are right next week Wed-Fri it won't get above 0.
Your right about that SJ, still waiting on the set That I ordered last Feb 2nd and now they pushed it to May 16th.
I did our taxes yesterday and got them sent out to the gov so that is over.
Wife has a dentist apt at 11:00 so I will take her to it. The back roads are real bad out here. Frozen roads with rain = slick as heck!! while she is there I will go to Menards and look around then we will do lunch someplace.
Best get!
RT it is not unusual for cataloged items to take a year OR more. And never depend on posted delivery dates. They seldom happen.
Cloudy and 28 this morning will probably be the warmest of many days to come. Yesterday's 40 melted most of our Saturday snowfall.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Marty From what I can see you have plenty time to decide, like maybe a year.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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40 degress this AM, teens tonight. Full range of precipitation.
Still asorbing the catalog. Interesting that the LC+2.0 LM Big Boy is almost $300 more than it's Legacy predecessor. Seems like a big jump. Really like the content though. Still mulling over a J.
Hope everyone has a safe day. Try to stay dry and warm.
Hello there,
weather here was lousy all day. Freezing rain for a while then warm just enough to melt it. Next thing it's freezing again. Was still freezing when the dogs had last call.
Watched Band Of Brothers through part 4 so far. Also working on some Mom stuff.
Dentist had a cancellation so I got my broken tooth fixed today along with s warning if it happens again it'll need a crown.
Found a buyer for the Blazer 1K as is. Coulda probably got more with it inspected but it would've cost a couple hundred to get it done.
8N ......best wishes for the Mrs and good luck with the robot team.
Phish......I remember you getting ordained a deacon and getting your grandkids shortly after I joined the Pot. Don't seem that long.
Best get to sleep.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Wet weather today. Fairly ok day at work. Busy. Watched 2 Hill Street Blues episodes tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Sunshine today! Didn't help the temperature much, though. Got into the low 20's. Thankfully, the ice forecast for last night did not happen.
The various design groups on the robotics team got together today to discuss where the robot design is at. They realized that several of their designs for the various systems on the robot are planning on using the same volumes on the robot - compromises and re-design are needed.
I saw the situation developing several days ago and reccomended that they get together and discuss. I figure that leaving the students to self discover the problem is a lesson that will stick better than me telling and showing them the problem. Yes, they need to concentrate on their own sub-system, but they still need to be aware of the overall project.
I canceled one of the items I had on order form Charles Ro today, and put an order in for a Polar Express conductor gateman.
About all for now.
Aloha. Cold, grey and snowy-sleety. Glad Mrs 8ntruck is home safe. Praying for the rest of you recovering. I had a different sort of day today - driving the bride to a training session that is usually an hour away - that in this weather was more like 2 hours. I am hanging out in a Starbucks-in-a-Target until she is done at the end of the day. She has three days of this and hours of homework before she is able to do vision tests on her students. Then she starts training to do the hearing tests. Yeesh. But at least the weather should clear - besides becoming ridiculously cold- I saw 20 below air temps forecast for Friday. Ah well. And it is good weather to play inside.
Good Morning from a balmy 49°F Southern Ohio,
Driving home last night from work a stiff wind out of the South was raising the temps all evening. The predictors are calling for a lot of rain coming and maybe snow.
I took off everything off one side of the layout last night and placed the ¾” foam over the OSB. I’ll glue it down and do the other side later today. I’m taking ½ day vacation to be home when the kids get off school since my bride is taking her mom to Columbus to the doctor, so I may have the time.
As far as grandkids go, my bride and I are in a slightly different position. We’ve been raising them for the past 10 ½ years, the twins are 16 and the youngest is 15, so they are more like “our” kids, than the typical grandparent role of spoil them then send them home. I must say that even with the challenges they have brought, my bride and I feel truly blessed to have them with us. In four years they will all be out of high school and the dynamic changes significantly, so we are cherishing “almost” every moment we have with them.
Roy, Mike C, Marty, Spank, & Banks, - I’ll continue prayers of healing for you guys
Break is over and need to check on the guys.
Good morning from a very BRISK 27 at 8:20 am in Nawth Texess...Was under the weather yesterday so stayed home and worked on the CTI programming for that layout we built the complicated control system early in 2018. The customer has some issues to address so I spent time reacquainting myself with the code. And I was able to add to the CTC control panel animation. I had occupied tracks go from green to red. Was able to add a feature where switches on the diagram show which route they are aligned for. Also added some signals and text. Interesting.May stay home again today to work on the program some more and to keep on the up an' up!
MikeC - software wonks do not use their own work...
8ntruck - Best wishes for the Mrs.
DJSpanky Mornin' all! Once again this damn shoulder is interrupting my sleep - aching like hell around 3'ish, so got up, popped an Aleve and did some shoulder exercises. Really need to get back regular to the gym so I can start stressing all the supporting muscles around it. Have a good one!
Mornin' all!
Once again this damn shoulder is interrupting my sleep - aching like hell around 3'ish, so got up, popped an Aleve and did some shoulder exercises. Really need to get back regular to the gym so I can start stressing all the supporting muscles around it.
Have a good one!
My shoulder has been bothering me for about 6 months. If it's the same as my right shoulder issue a few years back, it's called an inpinchment. It eventually went away on the right one, hoping for the same on the left. It's probably not helping that I continue to lift, although lighter weights. Hope you can get it feeling better. I often wake up and have to readjust my position to avoid pain.
Morning. Had a real busy day and night yesterday. Out early today. Earlier tomorrow.
Warming here too. Rain coming tomorrow.
Have a good one.
Catalog Day!
Warming up for the day. Looks like snow by tomorrow morning.
Will be listening to the Dave and Ryan show to she what the thoughts are on the catalog. I've already seen a copy at the store so I won't be surprised. Curious to see what others think.
Anyways folks have a safe day.
Went to Kansas City last night for my wife's 5:30am appointment. Her outpatient procedure went well and we got back home around 3pm. She spent the afternoon sleeping off the aftereffects of the knockout juce they used this morning and is sounding much better this evening. Hopefully this solves the extended adventure we've had to find out why and get fixed the cause for her wheezing.
High about 40 today, rained on and off most of the day. Temperature is currently dropping towards freezing. Probably have to deal with some ice tomorrow morning.
All for now.
Weather ok. Very frustrating day at work. I just wish the people who supplied us with software would actually check to make sure it worked......nah! Feeling lousy on top of it did not help. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good afternoon,
Just above freezing and a light rain on very frozen streets. Don't get much worse than that. Bout fell three times going to the shed. They are calling for 1/10" to 1/4" of ice by nightfall. The auto body shops will have a hay day.
Checked the GP20 smoke unit operation and it is still fine so in a day or two I will let Mario know if I am going to send it back or not.
Rich, Grandparents don't get much say in when they become grandparents.
Quick Fly by - working from home today, and just as busy.
Glad Banks is home.....
Fife - had to laugh - ritual offerings? very nice......
KRM, et al - I'm sure grandkids are great but, I'll wait til the Princess is ready and I'm not pushing her.
Got delayed on the table from the FD, they changed the door and the locks so I'll need to grab it Thursday. If I can bear to go to drill....the drama from Installation Dinner still hangs heavy at the FD......and it is ALL politics from the top white hat.
But the good news is that the one table has foam and will need to glue it down, and I have 2 more shelves to install in the attic "foyer" and I'm pretty proud of that.
Check back when I can, got another Toyota to scan....(hate dem things....)
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
Hello There,
Back on restrictions. This morning I watched while son loaded a beef for the butcher. Then drove Mrs to work.
Plan for ther rest of the day is watching Band of Brothers. Caught bits and pieces over the years, never the whole thing. Got the DVDs on the bay a few years ago and never watched.
Best get to it
Aloha - grey and cold - supposed to sleet later today. I am glad to have gotten logged in. We had almost 10 inches of snow on Saturday - fortunately it was light enough to snow-blow away. Now it looks to be bitter cold for the foreseeable future. Ah well. Good excuses to run trains. i am trying to work with my clockwork Hornby train - settting up their weird track and getting the loco to pull its wagons.
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