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Good Morning All: Well it's a good thing for the storm to have passed and everyone to survive. I don't like the track, so far, on Ivan as it's going to be another mainland storm. In 60 years I don't ever remember three of them this close together. I remember several times that two of them got so close that they merged into one. Last night I got some of the Tortises hooked up to their terminal blocks, now I need to go buy some DPDT switches so I wont have to throw them by hand. I can't make up my mind weather I want to use regulat or mini switches. I hate to buy one size and then not use them, as john said "I canna abide waste". Ed: I don't know if I can keep up with that pace of laying two feet of track every couple of days. That works out to be about a foot a day and that is one heck of a strain for us old people. Noah could do that in ten minutes but look at how young he is. I looked at your loco pictures and was impressed, but I do agree with one of the posts over there "don't drop it or you'll lose it in the carpet." I can see how we get the eyes in better shape (optiviser) but what about those big fingers. They just get bigger when I put my optiviser on. Granted tweesers help but sometimes they just hurl a piece out into space. Talking about dropping a small item on the floor. If is a smooth floor like the lanoleum (SP) in the train room just lay a flashlight on the floor and the beam will make a long shadow, it makes it easier to find. If it's carpet use the vacuum cleaner and throw it away, if you don't, you're going to find it with your bare foot in the middle of the night and it's going to hurt. John: I enjoyed talking to you last night. When my dad died my mother gave me his optiviser and now I have two of them one with a 4 lense and one with a 10 lense. The 10 is not used very much because of the short focal length, about 10 inches. That makes the work to close to my face and I'm breathing on the work. I used one the other day with a 7 lense and it was just about right. I am looking forward to seeing your "timesaver". Every once in a while I worry about big things and go into deep thought; 1) does Normal scale save as much time as Horriably Oversized scale does; 2) when you run a fast time clock do you do it at 12 times the speed of a regular clock; and 3) since you can't see your trains - how do you know they are running?[:D][:-^] So much for the deep thoughts. When does Fergie get back off his tour of duty? Tom: You've been very quite. Is the bedroom finished yet? We are going to mount the toilet in the bathroom that we've been referbing today. All I have to do now is come up with the money to buy a new cabinet for the sink. It probably wont be purchased until we get back. Lupo: It's hard to believe that you got that letter that quick, I mailed it on Thursday and you received it on Monday. I can barely get a letter to Houston that fast. I transulated it into Dutch and then did like you said and transulated it back into English and it wasn't anywhere near the same. Just received an e-mail from Fergie: He said to give his regards to the "coffee house crowd". When he gets back we'll have to congradulate him on this hitch as he was the captian this time. He said that he hasn't scraped any paint off the hull yet. Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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