Good morning from Buckeyeland!
Did you see who won the Big Ten Basketball Championships? Yes, both the men and the women's teams won the conference. Now just a little hint to those of you who are going to be in the NCAA men's office pool, OSU will not make it to the final four.
Chief, I hope you are feeling better today. A good cure for your ailing body would be a trip to Buffalo. The cold and the snow would flush out all that sweet tea and grits. Some ice fishing on the Niagara River would also help your situation.
I am keeping my fingers crossed, but it looks like the kidney stone was blasted successfully and I have not needed to call the squad for a ride to the hospital. Five years ago, after a lithotripcy, and at 2 am, I awoke to shap pains. We headed to the hospital where I collapsed in the lobby. They picked me up and somehow got me on a gurney. I ended up with a stint where the sun does not even think about shinning. Did you know that when they take the stint out they don't knock you out!
Chuck, have you decided what color to paint the bridge?
Drinking decafe this morning and it feels so good.
See ya down the tracks,
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
TCA 09-64284
Brent, Sounds like you had a great weekend. Was it a big show?
Grandkids are wonderful.
By the time I was dressed and looked out the door, the drive was cleared and my papers were laying on the kitchen counter. 2 hour delays are great too.
Breakfast was a bowl of yellow corn grits, bacon, fruit and coffee. How does that sound Chief? BTW, what did you think of my load of John Deeres on Sunday Photo Fun?
Now for the bad news, I'm about to start working on taxes.
Take care,
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: I am keeping my fingers crossed, but it looks like the kidney stone was blasted successfully and I have not needed to call the squad for a ride to the hospital. Five years ago, after a lithotripcy, and at 2 am, I awoke to shap pains. We headed to the hospital where I collapsed in the lobby. They picked me up and somehow got me on a gurney. I ended up with a stint where the sun does not even think about shinning. Did you know that when they take the stint out they don't knock you out! Chuck, have you decided what color to paint the bridge?
Buckeye, Nice to hear you are on the mend. One of the things they say causes kidney stones is to much iced tea. If that is the case, Chief should be getting them, not you.
I thought Chuck said it was going to be Blueberry color for the bridge.
A little of everything overnight. Carol swiped my 4x S10 & I get to clean the driveway & car.Actually, I took this picture to razz her in August when she complains if it's hot & humid.We just picked this used beauty up on Saturday, her 97 Cougar had gone berserk the last month after 5 years of 0 troubles. She drove that thing in all kinds of weather & hates frontwheel drive cars. So this suits her fine.
Paul
HI GIZ,
Got a 2 hr. delay here with snow and ice. YEA went and took advantage of it, slept for an extra hour.
DOUG, where have you been? Also,
I got it from GELLER TRAINs here's the address,
http://gellertoytrains.com/mcart/index.cgi?ID=MZBZDC&task=show&cat=MILITARY+TRAINS&pgidx=10
He's a real good guy nice to deal with, I buy ior two things from him down at YORK. He only has a few of the PRIEST vehicles left, give him a call.
All have agood one.
laz57
Good Morning from Iowa where it's absolutely drop dead gorgeous this a.m. if you like bright blue skies and a winter scene. It couldn't be any prettier unless it was June 1 Luckily the storm's hit Saturday night with plenty of warning, typically this is when we get our worst storms of the winter season but the good news is that it doesn't stay around long. Sadly, they are predicting a possible repeat Thursday............
Doug--purchasing tickets is just out of control, we are at their mercy. I bought Harry Connick tickets last week on line and the add on prices totaled $14.75 per ticket, UNBELIEVABLE I hate ticket%^#&*@ and we literally have no choice, even when I drive to a venue and buy the tickets they add on a processing fee plus the building maintenance fee (which I don't mind because it's $2.50 and the arts get very little local support).
Talked to the Chief yesterday and that was enjoyable, thanks! Sure wish we could visit NC again and actually have cup of coffee together. We spent about 5 days in Wilmington two years ago for a wedding and enjoyed every minute, almost as nice as Iowa
Have a good one!
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Chief,Wife has been on me to do the oil change for 2 months... the Solara has over 100,000 miles so I started putting Fully Synthetic in it 3 changes ago... it should last at least 10,000 miles... she tells me at 3,500 that it needs to be changed! Well I drain the oil (7,900 miles) and it looks nearly brand new!!!! Bimmers are to go 15,000 miles per change, but I do them at 10,000... keeps the engines happy. Not sure I would want to drain the oil while going down the highway... something tells me the engine wouldn't like that too much! John,Show was very nice! They had the entire floor covered with vendors and had some nice layouts... Forgot to ask the one club what they used for their sub roadbed because it was darn near silent! They also had some vendors along the outter rim. In all I would say close to 80 - 100 vendors. I saw far too much stuff that I wanted... The C&O BUDD car, B&O Beep, B&O and C&O steamers... all at really good prices... and lots and lots of rolling stock. One thing I can't figure out is here the shows don't appear to have much cheap rolling stock ($5.00 bargain bins), when I was in Pittsburgh almost all the vendors had a few cheapy bins, was nice to get some rolling stock in need of repair so you could do custom paint jobs, or make crash scenes, or maintenance scenes... hopefully York will be different. Did you get the email?Frank53 - they had a 736 pulling some PW stock on tubular track.
And of course Brent forgot to take the camera again!
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Buckeye & John ( jefelectric )......I have decided to paint the bridge a very deep metallic blue. ( Blueberry Blue ).
Chuck
RTCOLLECTOR, I'll send one tonite here at school they block out any pics that come in.
First day at work went cool and easy. Used killdisk to write over deleted files out of 14 pc 4 would not boot from the CD leaving me with 10 good units. These computers were donated to an agency that helps mentaly ill and substance dependant clients get ready to be a part of the work force again. The IT department was looking for an assistant to work about 40hours over a 4 week period and maybe more if need be. It will do till I can find a more permant job. I work from 10:00 am till 2:00pm Monday, Wendsday and Friday.
On the MR forum there is a good thread about diebetes and how it affects you enjoyment of the hobby. Most are in their 60's I am 37 but have had diebetes for 3 years now.
Good Evening Everyone !! Seemed fairly warm today, my first day back to work !!
Jim : glad Julia is getting better !! I know she will be glad too !!
Sounds like Buckeye is coming along nicely, too !! That's good !!
Glad The Chief's hand is healing !!
John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?
CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe.
Chuck : see if they have CSX BLUEBERRY PAINT !! Chief will love it !!
Hope all have a nice evening !!
Thanks, John
csxt30 wrote: CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe.
I had fun playing with the pc's today and have learned a bit about how to realy get rid of a file on a pc delete and then write over it. I guess I have always knew that but never done it myself before. Wensday I get to load Operating system and check out monitors keyboards and mice I have built industrial computers before and set up Windows NT 3.51 or something like that it has been a few years. Talk about a bone yard their basement is full of old pc and giant monitors I forgot how much space an old monitor takes up , I switched to lcd flat panels on my two working(hooked up and using) pcs at home. I have 5 pc's an Ti994a and an Apple IIc. I have been computing since middle school and still have a lot to learn.
lionroar88 wrote: And of course Brent forgot to take the camera again!
Probably got confused and thought you were going to YORK!
CSX Sorry to hear that you have diabetes. However, if you take good care of yourself, keep your weight and blood sugar under good control - chances are good you can live a long and active life. Learn all you can about the disease and follow your doctor's orders. Hope you are seeing one who specializes in diabetes - they can make a difference! Best of luck to you!
Lisa
Lisa-n-NC wrote: CSX Sorry to hear that you have diabetes. However, if you take good care of yourself, keep your weight and blood sugar under good control - chances are good you can live a long and active life. Learn all you can about the disease and follow your doctor's orders. Hope you are seeing one who specializes in diabetes - they can make a difference! Best of luck to you! Lisa
Thanks for the concern and advice, The MR thread is amazing about how many of us model railroaders have the same hobby and affliction. I have been told that if I lose enough wait and eat a healthy diet I will not need the medicine maybe, this not the case for most though.
csxt30 wrote: John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe.
John, I got a few at Walmart (all they had at the time) and the rest at a LHS. They are Athern, 1/50 scale, Model B John Deeres. I think that is close to the right era for my 50s setting. The tie downs, my wife found at AC Moore craft store. It is Elite Better Beads elastic line. They use it to make bracelets. It has enough stretch to hold the tractors in place. I laced it though the stake pockets in one continuous piece. If you look close in the closeup you can see it going between pockets under the deck. Not very noticable. At the ends I crimped the barrel from a small wire terminal on to keep it from pulling through the stake pocket. I guess a knot would also work.
CSXect, That sounds like a fun job. I like to fool around with computer in addition to trains. Have built quite a few over the years & also did the IT at my company until the technology passed me by. When we went to new server running MS server 2003, I gave up.
Well the snow that fell yesterday and last night is mostly gone, we still have what was on the ground which is mostly ice mixed with snow.
On a sad note, our associate pastor's home caught fire last evening and the whole kitchen was destroyed. She lives in Strasburg (of RR fame) with her husband who is the pastor of the Methodist Church there. They have moved in with friends across the street until repairs can be made to the parsonage.
About time to wrap up this book.
BILL, sent you an Email.
BILL my computer says your e mail address does not exist? Send me an email at
georgelazar@comcast.net
jefelectric wrote: csxt30 wrote: John : (jefelectric) I noticed your John Deere tractors too, on that flat car !! Looks great & want to know what you used for tie downs ? !! Where did you get all the tractors ? !?CSXect : glad you're working, sounds tempoary though, hope you persue getting on the RR !! Good benefits & retirement. Check the web-sites, maybe. John, I got a few at Walmart (all they had at the time) and the rest at a LHS. They are Athern, 1/50 scale, Model B John Deeres. I think that is close to the right era for my 50s setting. The tie downs, my wife found at AC Moore craft store. It is Elite Better Beads elastic line. They use it to make bracelets. It has enough stretch to hold the tractors in place. I laced it though the stake pockets in one continuous piece. If you look close in the closeup you can see it going between pockets under the deck. Not very noticable. At the ends I crimped the barrel from a small wire terminal on to keep it from pulling through the stake pocket. I guess a knot would also work.CSXect, That sounds like a fun job. I like to fool around with computer in addition to trains. Have built quite a few over the years & also did the IT at my company until the technology passed me by. When we went to new server running MS server 2003, I gave up.Well the snow that fell yesterday and last night is mostly gone, we still have what was on the ground which is mostly ice mixed with snow.On a sad note, our associate pastor's home caught fire last evening and the whole kitchen was destroyed. She lives in Strasburg (of RR fame) with her husband who is the pastor of the Methodist Church there. They have moved in with friends across the street until repairs can be made to the parsonage.About time to wrap up this book.
So far it is fun, my last job for 5 years was at XEROX working on network capable office copiers which had PC's built in to them and I installed memory network cards and fax boards also did repiars on these big 30k and 40k dollar systems they cost as much as my Transam w/ramair. I had to quit because of my health which slowed me down a bit. The big deal about a digital copier is that it has a harddrive that temp. holds an image so that all your copys are the same where as an old copier each time you make a copy it is progessively degraded from the original.On a digital copier you only have to scan the original once.
You are the third Methodist person I have talked to on this forum there are two pastors. I am not Methodist but my parents volenteer at the Methodist Free store here in Columbus. The free store has put a few thrift stores out of business but it helps a lot of people. I have 3 Churches that I visit when I am feeling up to it. Two are Church of Christ and one is a Baptist(I go there to listen to Bluegrass and eat a free meal)
I hope they can repair the house real soon.
Evening all,
Got back from my meeting and venture to Chattanooga. I ended up getting a Atlas P&LE box car and a Southern 52.6 foot gondola. Also picked up the last copy of Finescale Railroading, it is the final edition. While CTT is my main mag, I also like to check out others and this one has had some great detailing issues. Dave Vergun would really like it as it has some homemade projects along his line.
Chief, got your message. I am interested and will try to call. We are a bit swamped right now trying to get unpacked and back to our routine. For anyone who left a message pertaining to me, sorry, just too many pages to catch up on.
I hope everyone has a great week. I need to catch up with the Sunday Photo Fun and head to bed.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
laz 57 wrote: BILL my computer says your e mail address does not exist? Send me an email at laz57
Sent you an email to the address you gave included pics and dementions also I believe these are heavy weights
CSXect wrote:I had fun playing with the pc's today and have learned a bit about how to realy get rid of a file on a pc delete and then write over it. I guess I have always knew that but never done it myself before. Wensday I get to load Operating system and check out monitors keyboards and mice I have built industrial computers before and set up Windows NT 3.51 or something like that it has been a few years. Talk about a bone yard their basement is full of old pc and giant monitors I forgot how much space an old monitor takes up , I switched to lcd flat panels on my two working(hooked up and using) pcs at home. I have 5 pc's an Ti994a and an Apple IIc. I have been computing since middle school and still have a lot to learn.
Hey - my first computer was a Ti99-4/a. Neat little computer and the first version of BASIC I ever learned. I then had an Apple IIe with the dual drive. Sold it and bought a Bentley Turbo XT (?) that ran at 10 Mhz! WOW! It had a 40 Megabyte HDD!!!! That was a few PC's ago.
Good luck the the diabetes mellitus. My dad was diagnosed about 25 years ago and he's doing pretty well so far, but has some complications. I keep getting checkups to make sure that if it shows up, I'll know very early on.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Jim Fortner wrote: CSXect wrote:I had fun playing with the pc's today and have learned a bit about how to realy get rid of a file on a pc delete and then write over it. I guess I have always knew that but never done it myself before. Wensday I get to load Operating system and check out monitors keyboards and mice I have built industrial computers before and set up Windows NT 3.51 or something like that it has been a few years. Talk about a bone yard their basement is full of old pc and giant monitors I forgot how much space an old monitor takes up , I switched to lcd flat panels on my two working(hooked up and using) pcs at home. I have 5 pc's an Ti994a and an Apple IIc. I have been computing since middle school and still have a lot to learn.Hey - my first computer was a Ti99-4/a. Neat little computer and the first version of BASIC I ever learned. I then had an Apple IIe with the dual drive. Sold it and bought a Bentley Turbo XT (?) that ran at 10 Mhz! WOW! It had a 40 Megabyte HDD!!!! That was a few PC's ago.
Did you save files on casset tape or did you have thr floppy drive? I got mine for $50 at a zetler hardwarestore...that store is long gone but still have the Ti99/4a and the box it came in. I have a voice synthisizer for it but it takes cartridges to make it work. Got to love hunt the wampus game. I learned basic on the TI99/4a and the apples at home and school. Once I got a 486 pc I took up C programing then got too busy with the rest of life to get very deep into it. I have 3 pentiums an AMD and a 486 all work except one which has a bad harddrive. Aklso had an xt but trashed it and its cga monitor. Just too show how much of a nerd I was I have a few books of circuit cellar I made a 50 baud modem for the fun of it using these books.
Jim Fortner wrote:you remember XTree? That was before windows, worked great.
When I switched over to pc Win. 3.1.1?? was out. If I ever buy another computer I will give Macintosh a try. Most people I know started out with a trs-80, comadore 64 or an amiga system. Computer and game systems technology has advanced so far and fast it makes your head spin. I got into computers for the "play value" and to program my own games(well translate them from books on basic anyways.) Now I mostly check e-mail and talk trains.
Count me in on the TRS-80 crowd. I earned the money for my first computer (a TRS-80 model 1 with 4K or RAM) with a paper route. I upgraded it to a whopping 16K! Floppy drives? That was a luxury. The computer used to cause lines across the family TV when I fired it up.
Chris
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