Hello......
I'll have a SRP w/RBF please.....
PC...Congrats on the BS. We knew all along you had it in you.
Ray ... "PHD", LOL.
Toot-a-loo, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
A decaf and some of that pecan pie please.
Been having a rough week... Mom's voice is still on the home answering machine, on old voicemail on my cellphone..., selling Mom's car, Mom's belongings, Mothers Day is this Sunday (Mom was the strong one in our family) .... Hard to believe that Dad died only 10 days before Mom. The feelings are like the tide, it comes strong, leaves gentle.... them comes on strong again..........
Barry... and Jeff.... I wish I had gone the Archaeology/Anthropology route. More interesting and (at least at my school) there is no research seminar. It's the same as doing a Masters Thesis, but for a Bachelors degree. Working full time makes it a bit hard doing all the reading and research required..... I'll give it another shot this fall... I had to drop it this semester because of my folks....
It seems some of our lives are matching the weather, dark and depressing....
Vince - Sorry about your dog, I can't add much more than has already been said. Death seems to visit us at the most inopportune time....anytime.
Jim - I agree with your quote marks in regards to the beings in charge... been there myself and it's hard to keep a sane thought in one's head.
The sun came out for about 35 minutes today.... then it disappeared again. More rain for the next 2 days. That's the one problem living on the coast. It doesn't matter if Jeff, or Rob, or Jim sends it... the weather always winds up here... on the Atlantic Coast.
Which finally brings me to......
Jeff - Nice units, the GE and EMD. I too am a bit surprised to see the UP in your area. Hey, it's your road, I'd do the same thing. Saw your question on the forum about the 'discs', they do look odd. I like the flying saucer comments that were made.. you have previous government experience????
Rob - I deleted a comment on the foam.... drywall compound probably needs to be thickened a bit for making rockfaces. Looks promising.
Corey!!! I may have already said this.... Incredible!!!! The bushes look fine by the way. Your attention to recreating the details in the photos is amazing. And you were worried!!!!
Ah well, enough of this. I've been writing onand off for 50 mminuts now.
Good Night, God Bless..... If I wake in the morning, I've beat the devil another day...
rtraincollectorI wish we could do that for humans so they could stop suffering.
I was going to say that too.... I didn't want to cause any trouble amongst friends.
ewl01Jeff - Nice units, the GE and EMD. I too am a bit surprised to see the UP in your area. Hey, it's your road, I'd do the same thing. Saw your question on the forum about the 'discs', they do look odd. I like the flying saucer comments that were made.. you have previous government experience????
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ewl01Been having a rough week... Mom's voice is still on the home answering machine, on old voicemail on my cellphone..., selling Mom's car, Mom's belongings, Mothers Day is this Sunday (Mom was the strong one in our family) .... Hard to believe that Dad died only 10 days before Mom. The feelings are like the tide, it comes strong, leaves gentle.... them comes on strong again..........
Know the feelings all too well....... Been there, done that. Only it was my wife instead of my parents. They came much later but still were hard to lose. Be sure to save those sound bytes as they will become a comfort over time. I so wish I had anything with my wife's voice on it. It would be great to play for my granddaughters when they are a bit older. I have a doll that my wife made several years before she died that will go to my oldest granddaughter, and there is another one that an old friend has made by my wife that will go to my second granddaughter. The hand crocheted Christmas tree ornaments have already been passed on to our sons. I will keep you in my prayers this Sunday! May you be blessed with the very best of memories of both your parents!
Ooooo, Oooooo! I almost forgot to tell you. My youngest son called tonight to say that he has accepted the Argonne Lab job. He is now officially Director of Communications for them (there is more to the title, but I can't remember it right at the moment). He may be able to put me in a "high class" nursing home in a few years.............
Just got off the phone with the mother of one of our Scholarship winners. She is one of my students from many years ago and was a great kid and is now a wonderful lady. This is the third one of her children (that's 3 out of 3) to receive the MLK Scholarship! She works at Head Start in Geneva and has done a lot for many, many kids! We had a great conversation.
Hope all of you have a great night. I'll sit in the front window booth for a while and watch the rain falling outside. May get a half inch of rain tonight here in the Finger lakes!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusewl01Been having a rough week... Mom's voice is still on the home answering machine, on old voicemail on my cellphone..., selling Mom's car, Mom's belongings, Mothers Day is this Sunday (Mom was the strong one in our family) .... Hard to believe that Dad died only 10 days before Mom. The feelings are like the tide, it comes strong, leaves gentle.... them comes on strong again..........
I can vouch for that as well. Memories end up everywhere. We'll pray for you as well---take care,Eric.
Ray-Congrats to your son getting that little gem of a job!!----
Now, I've got a few things that fell on to the floor to get swallowed up by some errant black hole----on to the great search!!
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good Evening, Chloe - I'll have a hot fudge sundae (with some Spanish peanuts on top), please, with a cup of coffee. Thanks!
First off, thank you to everyone for the prayers, encouragement and the emails. That's one of the great things about this Diner. Oh, and I very rarely beat myself up (particularly if there was little or nothing I can think of that I would've done differently. When I mess(TM) up, I mostly am aware of what I did. But beat myself up, almost never!
Vincent - sorry to hear about you losing Duke. He looks like he was a fun and energetic dog. Never a good time to lose one of our furry friends...
I'll apologize to anyone I missed while I was pouting in the back booth yesterday. I feel somewhat better today, and I'd decided I would minimize contact with certain persons unless needed, and not badmouth anyone to others. I did notice one thing when I came in this morning - you Diners know how the network login for XP is? Name and computer or network name? Well, I had found out in the past that if someone else uses the computer when you're away and then logs out, when you come back and restart the computer (next day, or whenever), the name that by default appears (and the computer or network name) in the login window will be whoever used it last. So this morning when I start up my computer, I see that my login window has 'Administrator' as the name, and (my specific computer, with some 4-digit #, maybe their inventory number for the 'puter) in the place where the network I usually log into would be. (The network name was there as another choice - in the pulldown menu for the network/computer choice). It might just be that the IT/MIS guys - in preparation for their moving the tail end of this week to the other building the company had bought (along with our billing dept. and the treasurer - just installed stuff so they could troubleshoot from the other building. Or would I be getting paranoid....? Heck, they wouldn't find anything in my computer directories but a chess game (for the slow, end of the day, times).
Not a bad day - misting rain in the morning, and it moved on out by some time in the afternoon. Kinda cool, though, by quitting time. Now, if we could get some more days of sunshine together in a row...
Corey, LOVE your bridges - I agree with Jeff, that'll be a knockout piece for your layout when you finish them up. Makes you wonder what one of the bridge designers (either the auto or the train one, whichever came second) were thinking when they built the second bridge of the two.
Barry - big mouth? Unless I was talking about your appetite, I don't recall that one.
Garry, that is one strange thing, all right! At first, I was thinking: "Makeshift engine sheds? Somebody bought them at surplus and is making their own trailer park?....?"
Rob, I usually just wanna go hide in my cave (as John Gray might describe it) a while and lean on the Big Boss a while. It often helps me let go of things more easily. How's that riverbed coming along? Oh, that PacificCoastAirlineRR site is a good one!
BridgeTom, I saw on the news this morning that California was already having their first hillside fire of the 'season'. Sheesh - you folks need a little break out there on your weather! Oh, I'd looked up the other day about Cinco de Mayo and saw pretty much what you wrote - that it isn't celebrated much except NOTB (in the USA). I find it very politician-ey that our Prez decided to celebrate it a day early - what is up with that? Hey, I'm a traditionalist about my holidays and celebrations - I consider May 30th as the TRUE Memorial Day, for example. Nice shot of UffDah! By the way, Tom - is that going to be your 'job interview' over those beers?
I have been wondering about our SOTB neighbor, Ed. And as Johnboy mentioned, some others have been MIA for a while. Now, Fergie may be off putting suntan lotion on a few polar bears who are adjusting to 'climate change'....
Galaxy, will be keeping your doctor's visit in the morning in my prayers - hey, maybe all they need is to strap a 9v. battery and some leads on the back of your hand? We could hope! Hope your car stuff gets figured out and fixed at minimal cost and time for you.
Robby, one unfortunate thing currently is, for one of the two workers for crisis and walk-in services (I'm one, Jason's the other), it means the other one gets to cover it all by himself. Having been that way for several months before they added Ryan, I'm reluctant to stick him with that for several days (except for the one or two times a week that I take one whole week off - between Christmas and New Year's usually). I am supposed to be taking a Monday off next month (I think), just because. We crisis workers tend to stick together (and help out each other) a lot. Hey, good night of it at the casion! Now, if you could do that every time you went....maybe you'd be able to retire a bit sooner!
Todd, actually, I'd heard the 'how to start your day' thing before, and I used it today with one (maybe two) of my outpatient clients, too. Thanks!
HEY, PC - let's have a gradjeration party for you! YEAH!!! And I'd bet that your degree must be from a church-related college, if they have a dual major in Leadership & Ministry, coupled with Business Ethics - that's almost an oxymoron (in the business world, anyway)...
Aw, Jeff, you beat me to it! So, when will the party be, Diners?
Jerry - that looks like a good test track - is that the Kadee test thingee?
Ray, I got a copy of the write-up, which will go with my previous annual assessments and other stuff (just in case). I also this morning sent an email to our most helpful IT/MIS guy, asking him about the 'Administrator' login thing - and CC'ed a copy to my 'home' email. If anyone was 'watching', I wanted them to know I am forwarding copies any pertinent issues offsite... I hear you on the Ph.D's and how some act about them - one of my favorite profs in college didn't get his Ph.D. because he had a heart attack (maybe stress-induced), and decided to lighten up some. He actually made psychology statistics a fun course! And congratulations to your high-placed son!
Eric, hang in there yourself. For me, it's been years since I celebrated Mothers' Day, since Mom died in 1977, one Grandma years before that, and my other Grandma a few years after Mom. I do have something I wrote a while back that l'll be sending you. Hopefully it may resonate some for you.
About time for me to head home - tomorrow is (ta da....)
$$ P A Y D A Y ! ! $$
- which will be nice. Now, so long as I have some LHS/MRR money left over after the bills...
Prayers for health, for comfort and for healing for you Diners and loved ones (two or four-legged).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evening All....Just stopped in for a RBF and a slice of Pecan pie and what the heck a scoop of Ice Cream...You all have a good nite...Jerry
Good evening everybody, Chloe...a burger and 7-Up please and thankyou...
JimRCGMOSo this morning when I start up my computer, I see that my login window has 'Administrator' as the name, and (my specific computer, with some 4-digit #, maybe their inventory number for the 'puter) in the place where the network I usually log into would be. (The network name was there as another choice - in the pulldown menu for the network/computer choice). It might just be that the IT/MIS guys - in preparation for their moving the tail end of this week to the other building the company had bought (along with our billing dept. and the treasurer - just installed stuff so they could troubleshoot from the other building. Or would I be getting paranoid....? Heck, they wouldn't find anything in my computer directories but a chess game (for the slow, end of the day, times).
JIM: First, keep in mind that I am a 100% certified pessimist. I firmly believe in Murphy's Law. I also expect all things to go sour at any moment. I'm always looking for the crap sandwich. So, to me, that sure sounds like a "fishing trip." A buddy had his entire company e-mail looked at after he left the job. The idiot "Director" apparently wanted to find out what his former employee had been saying about him. I don't think he liked what he read...
The chess game, believe it or not, could be an issue for you. The third and final time I hired-on at the community college as the "temporary campus paramedic," I was advised strongly to NOT go on-line or download ANYTHING. I was catching heat for a lot of things left behind by the various work-study students which had been on the 'pooter for the previous 2-3 years. The only things I had "installed," was a political screensaver during the 2004 election cycle, and a screen shot from "EMERGENCY!" which I used as the wallpaper under MY log-in. My guess is my politics differed from the "boss." As for websites: fire, EMS, eBay, weather radar, Walthers, and Trains.com were it for the times (most of the time) when I was literally sitting there just twiddling my thumbs.
But, it just takes the right p'-er head at the wrong time to see "something" and make a federal case out of it.
Good luck to ya.
Chris
BTW: the p'-er head who was my "boss" in Campus Health used to like to park his admissions dept. car in the Campus Health Nurse/Paramedic parking spot. This often meant I had to park much, much farther away from the office. Not good if an emergency response was required (and not within walking/jogging distance). After several times of politely and professionally asking him to NOT park there, and reminding him of how critical even seconds of delay can be in a true emergency... I finally told him flat-out that if he parked there again, I would urinate on his car. I said this with a half-smile...leaving him wondering if I was joking or serious.
Must've worked, he finally quit parking there.
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good evening, I made it to the LHS today, picked up a few items: A wood coaling tower kit, ME Steel Viaduct Standard bridge, a Bowser GS Gondola, A Centralia Car Shops B&M Caboose, an Accurail panel side Hopper kit, a 1955 Ford F100 pickup truck, a 1955 Ford F100 Panel truck. and a great new book " The Coming of the Train" Volume 1 1870 to 1910 which covers the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington and Deerfield River Railroads in MA.
We had a great Buffett lunch at the Steaming Tender in Palmer, Ma, very quiet day for Railfanning however, the Recession has really cut the rail traffic badly here. There was only one train on the mainline in the 2 1/2 hours we were there, a doubleheaded GP40-2.
JERRY: Hope your leg is on the mend, be careful , your not a Spring chicken you know. :)
JIM: These days, in particular, one must be extremely careful at work. Having worked in industry for 53 years, I have seen just about everything. Great bosses, real bad bosses, and every kind in-between. There are times that you absolutely must "zip it" even if you feel you are right.The truth will eventually come out anyways, so learn from these experiences as any wise person does. A very wise person once told me when I was about 24, arguing with irrational people make it very hard for those observing to tell who is the real idiot; it made a lot of sense to me then and still does today. The three "R's : Respect for God, Respect for Others, and Respect for Yourself. Hang in there Jim, prayers for you buddy.
VINCENT: Sorry to hear about DUKE, been there 5 times, and never is any easier, they become like family for sure.
Heavy rains and possible TS's due here tonight and tomorrow, so it finally looks like I can get back to the layout. HOWEVER, tonight as I was just finishing some work with the old Wheel Horse lawn tractor, something failed in the manual transmission. It was locked up and killed the engine. I finally was able to get the xmission into Neutral and pushed it all the way into the garage. So now I have another problem to fix. BORED in Retirement? Are people NUTS !%$$#$$$# ????
See you guys tomorrow,
Thanks for all the great suggestions. That website looks particularily promising, too.
Played around with some joint compound with a wee bit more success than the tile adhesive, but still not at all satisfied with results. On my own (N) layout, I plan on carving the canyons directly from all the blue and pink foam. The wife's canyon, because it's mostly that soft blown insulation, it doesn't carve, rather it tears away in chuncks. So if you're wondering, that's why I'm needing another approach for hers.
Thunder-Booming outside now, time to shut down the puter.
Good Night all. Rob
After months (year) of going into the shops and being "oh look I need a 72' centerbeam flat car," despite not actually needing or planning on needing one, I decided enough of that. Flush with more tax return dollars than sense, I made purchase of a precut 2'x4' plywood sheet (2'x3 13/16' so close there Lowe's better luck next time) and glued some foam down on it. Oddly, somehow I'd managed to mangle up a 4'x8' of foam into enough odd pieces from stillborn diorama or module ideas that I didn't have a piece quite large enough to be transformed into a 2'x4' sheet. Not sure how thats even possible. More oddly, my thirst/lust to someday have under the table motors for the hands off switching action drove me to acquire half inch foam (quarter inch wood, half inch foam, 3/16ths cork = less than one inch). Which apparently is extremely hard to find in spring. As fellow northerners know, foam comes in quite the variety much to the consternation of our southern brothers who lament the lack of any foamboard. We can get three quarter inch foam, one and a half inch, whatever! This is the tradeoff we get for living in the Rust Belt, I guess.
Nevertheless, track has been pinned down, lines of roads drawn on, the foam core board mockups placed. The hill hasn't been built yet. That's tomorrow's day off fun. But in my eagerness to get doing SOMETHING rather than nothing, I began my career first kitbash ever. Now, this is only the third anything I've assembled in the last 10 years. So my first such effort and my first attempt ever at working with sheet and strip styrene has made me quickly realize I'm 1) lacking several important skills and 2) several important tools. #2 can be rectified at an alarming rate, with infusions of cash. Working within three miles of two hobby shops is beneficial, living within easy driving distance of two more (one is largely N, but things like paint do have a tendancy to be multi-scale material) does come in handy. A little square would be nice right now, as well as something to make sure my measurements are, you know, accurate and correct. Oh and one of those metal sheet deals with the magnets, that would be hot. A NWSL Chopper would be fun, as well as something like a wee table saw for sheets. No, a CNC one that even a chimp could use that would be nicer. Anything to help me square up these foundations. Although that CNC thing would probably cost too much and then I'd just stare at it, lacking the monies to buy anything to cut up with it.
One of the sides, that will not be visible because its next to a building, was the sacrificial lamb in an effort to use Squadron putty. The green one. In the future, I will only use the stuff outside, because that smell while clearing up the stuffy allergy nose, may be what is fueling this increasingly verbose treatise on what I did tonight. In my youth, I rarely attempted to putty seams. Large quantities of paint often were employed in this manner. That Testors gloss enamel could be used to bind broken bones, when used in that many coats. I'd used the white putty that Testors puts out (do they still make that) and occasionally it worked but it did shrink fiercely. The green stuff I tested tonight was less than satisfactory. I will attempt another coating of it tomorrow, outdoors, and paint it. So far not that pleased and will seek other means to fill seams. And there are many that need it, through no fault of my own, I'm convinced. Any suggestions? I'm going to bend the ear of my brother tomorrow. He is an armor modeler and undoubtedly has knowledge I wish to gain. His work is quite good. (He's not all bad; he's got a pre-war K-4 and seven or eight passenger cars on a very long shelf)
The more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
Now I understand why you people have this thread. Someone to yammer about this stuff to.
Holy cow this ended up really long. I don't want to cut it down, out of the novelty of its length.
Good morning--After getting OOPS'ed out last night and considering that I had to be up to go to work early this morning I went to sleep---only to get a headbutting--MMM-MMeh?-Meh?-from 'Spring'. Someone tried our backdoor again---Yeeesh!!--I go around our house and find lady down the crescent apiece doing the same thing. A few other people show up with a couple of police officers---they caught the bugger----same idiot who was released "ON BAIL" for doing the same dang thing not too long ago.
Weather here is going to be a bit moist. Everyday with chance of rain/t'underboomers with a bit of sun mixed within. Temperatures will be anywhere from 20C to 14C---by Sunday---6C? For a high?
NittanyLion More oddly, my thirst/lust to someday have under the table motors for the hands off switching action drove me to acquire half inch foam (quarter inch wood, half inch foam, 3/16ths cork = less than one inch). Which apparently is extremely hard to find in spring. As fellow northerners know, foam comes in quite the variety much to the consternation of our southern brothers who lament the lack of any foamboard. We can get three quarter inch foam, one and a half inch, whatever! This is the tradeoff we get for living in the Rust Belt, I guess
You're right about THAT one. I love the stuff--especially since the thicknesses do ---in N scale, anyway-equal enough height differences to make shaping very easy. A couple of 1/2" slabs will make for a decent sized hill and dale scene.
NittanyLion The more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
Dioramas are just as necessary as anything else---they become part of the learning curve---and if you have a building --scene--or what have you--that doesn't quite fit where else to put it but on but a diorama?
Chloe, I'll have the breakfast special with the eggs up and multigrain for the toast please and a bucket of raw caffeine as well---I'll be by the corner booth.
NittanyLionThe more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning. It's 74 and cloudy. The high should be in the upper 80's and it will be partly cloudy. Yesterday I worked on getting the SD24 and U30C ready for the installation of their decoders. I have one decoder coming in the mail and I have another (Bachmann) around here somewhere. The SD24 will get the DZ125. Had a derailment on the inside loop. Naturally it's at the back behind some structures. This means lifting out the park so I can use the access hole to get to it. Haven't fixed the car yet as the ditch is still too wet. I hope to have that done before Monday.
TOP honors! Order up. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 5/7/2009 Heat Index: 78°F Humidity: 94% Dew Point: 72°F So Far Today High: 75°F Low: 73°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 7mph SSW Today High: 88 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 70 Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Good Morning All,
It was 67F when I stepped out the door this morning, still raining but at least it isn't freezing cold. I'll have a regular coffee and a Danish please.
No MRR stuff again but I have been catching up on my reading. One of the bennies at the museum is the library discard bin that has occasionally had such goodies as Mainline Modeler and Fine Scale etc. Not that I have the skill of those folks but the ideas are great and thinking things through should help once I can start up again. To that end we have another meeting ith the insurance adjustor today and I have another doctor appt to see if I can finally ditch my "moon boot" and get back into work boots. The foot feels good, the toes are all knit back up so wish me luck.
Jim - It isn't paranoia when you find your 'puter messed with in the morning - just prudence. For sure reporting the startup anomoly to the IT folks is prudent anyway in case someone was hacking on your work position, no? Either way you need to keep alert and as they say in the old country "Illegitimus non-carborundum".
Corey - belatedly - the bridges are going to be gorgeous. I don't think you have too much vegatation on the embankment though the photos show a trimmer bank. For trees you can also look into the armatures Bachman just released - looks like a lot of trees with the wire coated trunk for not a lot of money. With some ground foam, lichen, etc. You should be able to get a good variety.
As usual gotta run. No sooner sit down than the questions/issues start in the shop. Catch y'all later. J.R.
Good morning folks. Sorry for the continuing talk about the trestle. I am so excited to share it with someone other than my wife!
J.R. ,
One problem I'm running into is I know how the area looked one hundred years ago, and how it looks right now. What I don't know is how it looked in the late 1940's. The vegetation is quite grown around this area now. I don't have my own picture, but this one is off of a Trail website.
This is my own picture taken from what was the old bridge abutment in late fall.
Pretty soon here I can take my own pictures of the time of year I want to model.
JimRCGMO......And I'd bet that your degree must be from a church-related college......
A place called Crossroads Bible College. Maybe someday I'll make it to a bigger school, like Southern Seminary or Dallas Theological Seminary, but for now, this works! As for a party.....it's not necessary. I'm just doing what I'm called to do......but I appreciate the thought.
Well good morning everybody. Its sunny/rainy today. I need to cut some grass, but its to wet.
The plan for today. Wire up the lights over my dock, and maybe start to weather up a CSX boxcar I have. I had another 40' boxcar, but someone forgot to put the bottom (part for the wheels/couplers) in the box. Its a old Athearn kit. I got it at the hobby store. Oh well, I guess it can just sit.
Not much planned other than that.
Jim, that would be nice.
Everybody have a good one.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Mornin folks, biscuits and butter with fresh Rhubarb... cooked down.... sauce.... like.. stuff. I don' know what you call it, it was just what mom made and perfect wife does too please. Oh yes, coffee too thanks.
Mom grocery day today, so not much will get done today "round hyar". A friend of mine who owns the "lounge", (our town can't have a "bar"), is bowling on Wednesday nights. He usually waits on the tables by himself and tends bar Sunday thru Thursday because they are busy, but not so busy that one person can't do it. Fridays and Saturdays they have 2 waitresses. They get packed. Thursdays have been picking up and I usually tend bar for him thru the rush, and now I'm, filling in on Wednesday's so he can bowl. I get tips when waiting tables, I do when I tend bar, but in Williamsville, the bar clients are slim, even on weekends sometimes. Most is served to the eating customers. Bar patrons are usually just his friends who sit and chat for hours and only have a couple of beers. Not too profitable. Any Hoo, with the tip money I have a bit more for Toddland (of which I'm king) and since it's Momday, and I'll be in the area anyway.......FLHS here I come!
PC:I got the Majors, Leadership & Ministry and Business & Ethics, but ya lost me on the Minors!
Rob: I think you'll like the joint compound.
Jim: Yep, Badmouthing, even if it is not necessarily badmouthing but just explaining your side of the event to co-workers, usually gets reported back to the "supervisor" in a twisted not exactly accurate version. Best to keep quiet like you said, lick the wounds and let it pass. No I don't think you're paranoid. It wouldn't surprise me if your assumption is correct. However being as how there is nothing in the computer, you can laugh at the wild goose chase this guys on. As soon as his ego heals he'll move on. (assuming, of course, it is your "supervisor" and not some innocent event like you described)
I had never heard of the start your day thing until I overheard a friend telling someone in response to a "how do you do it" type of question. I tried it a few years ago and by golly it works! No, doesn't take every problem away but it sure helps deal with many things that I recall used to upset me a lot more and I seem to generally happier. Now if only it worked for the phone.....
And why do we celebrate Cinco de Mayo? We have more need to celebrate Texas Independence day. Tex-Mex is better than Mexican food, in my opinion, and the beer is better. Soooo...... New national celebration!!! Mark your calenders folks because soon, a day off. Now to get the government involved and a few equality groups to see when we will celebrate to make it convenient and profitable.
Nittany: Odd how a simple statement turns out so long isn't it. I have that same problem.
Barry: Sounds like your crimals and judiciary system is just like ours. You may want to suggest a different approach.
jeffrey-wimberly.....I'm not in this to build a masterpiece but rather to have fun.
Amen to that!
Well best get a move on. Have a Great Day!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Well, it isn't the dashes that make the post do that thing, the colon does the same thing. Except for reply to Rob
Good morning!
Since Jeffrey is kindly buying, I will have the short stack pancakes and some coffee. Been having a hankering for pancakes, but fattening.
jeffrey-wimberly ... The only thing I have in common with the government now is a check.
... The only thing I have in common with the government now is a check.
Yes, Jeffrey, I, too, and am very thankful that for folks like us on disability it is there, and I hope it continues to be there!
JimRCGMO Galaxy, will be keeping your doctor's visit in the morning in my prayers - hey, maybe all they need is to strap a 9v. battery and some leads on the back of your hand? We could hope! Hope your car stuff gets figured out and fixed at minimal cost and time for you.
Thanks for the prayers Jim. Will post after I see Dr. this afternoon. I hope he has the results of last friday's tests to talk about along with my blood work/cholesterol.
Well, got the van partially done. The a/c/heater blower was only $112 fix. Far cheaper than it could have been at $500. I had the tires rebalanced for another $40.00. BUT the brake rotor is warped and I will definitely need 4 new tires SOON. One has a slipped belt in it they say. Shoulda had them change out the spare {nows a time to think of that. I got out of the a/c/heater blower on the cheap side, but new brakes and tires YIKES!
I see some folks here are gettin' themselves that thar fancy thang called an "ed-u-ma-kay-shun". Contrats to those who have endured the years of study. Since I have a total of about half a college "ed-u-ma-kay-shun" I can say for a fact that I am an educated idiot. I have some education, but perhaps was an idiot to quit!? Wouldn't do me any much good now, anyhow.
Well, I had better go now.
{Whew}
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
I've added all the extra little details that came with the SD24. The endrails, ladders, horns and visors.
Cory,
What bridge is that again?
Lee
TMarsh PC:I got the Majors, Leadership & Ministry and Business & Ethics, but ya lost me on the Minors!
PC:
Put simply, Systematic Theology is just a systematic breakdown of the study of God. It's breaking down various aspects of God and studying them individually. Cosmogony is the study of the origins of all that we know and see.
Afternoon everyone!
Home for lunch between rehearsals of the choruses. Tonight is the concert. Should be fun. The fun involves the fact that there will not be a reahearsal with all the instruments so I am guessing that the placement of the choral mics will work for the concert........ Microphones have trouble knowing which sound is the chorus and which sound is the trumpet player..... Very frustrating to turn up the choral mics and have the band get louder instead. Ah the fun of being the soundman.
BTW, Philip I don't think I added my congratulations on the BS degree. So Congratulations sir!
Damp, cool rather icky day here in the Finger Lakes but we do need the rain. It has been misting all morning...... little tiny droplets of water that isn't really rain and not really sprinkling either. Just enough to have to run the windshield wipers every couple of minutes or so. Currently 56°F with a high today of 62°F later. Tomorrow is calling for some thunder showers at times. I am going to have to find a time to start mowing the lawn between showers as it is getting high again.
Hope you all have fine day!
Afternoon All...Its cloudy and 62 here but not raining anyway....I'll have a pork burger,onion rings and a diet Coke please...Thank You...Spent most of morning Cleaning train storage out..Found some stuff I thought I lost..LOL..Visiting nurse came says leg looks good..be glad to get the staples out..You all have a good one..Jerry
The GE now has visors!
Cederstrand***Sawyer, just remember school, soccer, and girlfriends are fleeting, while model RR'ing lasts a lifetime. (but do enjoy those other things while you can)
***Sawyer, just remember school, soccer, and girlfriends are fleeting, while model RR'ing lasts a lifetime. (but do enjoy those other things while you can)
Well, school sticks with you a while because how well you do in school can set the tone of your life (what job you get, etc.). Good advice though
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout