Hello, (RANT ALERT)
I'm practically seeing red today. Premier Gordon Campbell is making budget cuts to the public libraries. I'm an employee of one of the libraries and I'm really angry. Budget shortfall for the library that I work for is expected to be half a million dollars. Right now I'm unsure about my job, but hopefully I don't lose it. The weather isn't helping either: +30 degrees Celcius!
(rant end)
However, there is one thing that can be done. A website has been set up with a petition. Link:
www.stopbclibrarybudgetcuts.ca
Thanks for letting me vent. I'll have a large bucket of ice so I can get off the and cool off in the corner.
Kevin
[EDIT: looks like I'm paying. Order up everybody!]
That sucks Kevin. I'll pick up the tab man.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Packers#1 That sucks Kevin. I'll pick up the tab man.
Nah, It's okay. I'll still take the tab.
On the plus side, having a massive rant makes one feel better.
Lemon water, please.
***J.P., which road name is that EMD SD70ACe? A Kato UP Flag version perhaps? Which mine, too? Let me know.
Wife spent the evening at the hospital. Her father was taken there after another seizure, but this one was in the gathering room where they reside, so there was no waiting it out until my wife arrived. He was fine after getting a particular med he had forgot to take for two days. All is fine now.
Have a good night all. Rob
Good Morning
We're seeing sun/cloud mix with those showers thrown in for good measure. Supposed to get to 26C today with the low going to 16C ---
I'm heading off to work a little earlier to get some things done a little quicker and a few more details need done at the office---
Chloe, I'll have a large coffee and a muffin to go please-----
Have a good one ----
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Good morning.It's 77 and clear. The high will be in the mid 90's and there's a chance of thunderstorms.Yesterday I was having a real problem getting online. No sooner did I get online than the internet signal went down. This went on and on throughout the day. I watched the LED's on the modem to see what kind of activity there was and noted that the signal went offline more than 10 times in a minute! Later in the day it was more stable and actually stayed on for about 3 hours. At 8 pm the signal went down again and stayed down until after midnight sometime. I bet the folks answering the phones in Tyler were wearing fireproof hairpieces to keep from being scorched by the flames coming out of the phones. I tried calling in several times but couldn't get through.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/29/2009Heat Index: 83°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 75°FSo Far TodayHigh: 79°FLow: 77°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph NNEToday High: 92 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.Tonight Low: 75 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Good morning. Well a thunderstorm woke me up. I honestly didn't know it was suppose to rain.
I have a interview this morning, and maybe later work on a boxcar. Thats pretty much the plan for the day.
I will pop back in later, and hope everybody has a good morning.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Mornin all, Rhubarb Custard pie please. And a cup of coffee. What? That's what I want for breakfast.
Got about 8/10 inch of rain yesterday afternoon and evening. At 4:00pm it started out pretty hard then petered off to a nice gentle rain til around oh, I'd say 10 ish. Today? Partly sunny high of 81F with a 20% chance of rain. I'm supposed to pick up Mom today and take her home. Unless she changes her mind and stays another two days.
Went in to the restaurant yesterday to get set up and the owner was there with her kids. Yup Disney channel on the bar TV and LOUD. Oh my was that thing loud. Here's an obnoxious one for you fellow grandfathers and fathers of young children, "The Secret Life" They seem to do nothing but yell on that show and stuuuupiiiid, oh is that show annoying.
Football teams GO HOUSTON!!!! Hello?.....Helloo, oh?
Looks like the dog wants her tummy scratched sooooo,
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.
CPRail modelerPackers#1 That sucks Kevin. I'll pick up the tab man. Nah, It's okay. I'll still take the tab. On the plus side, having a massive rant makes one feel better.
true, it does.
... no, the tab is on me! Good afternoon, everybody!
Hi, Zoe, that´ll be an RBF for me - I am at the RC.
I have been doodling around with my layout idea - got nothin´ else to do. Took out a couple of unnecessary turnouts and gave the buildings I have planned a second look at. All of them will have to be scratchbuilt/kitbashed. I am again pondering to hand-lay the track, providing that my hand improves.
Here is the track plan - up to be torn apart by the buddies in here!
If I could find a way to make that carfloat detachable and thus exchangable, I could use it for staging, i.e. simulating RR barge traffic to Whittier. Any ideas?
Good morning All...It partly cloudy and 70 here still posta rain..I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please...thank you..Grand daughters are posta go home today..I havn't done anything with trains all week..My power chair is to be fixed monday so I hope to pull yards out and work on next week..I have one more ground switch throw to put in and have some back drop work I want to do....Jeff is your railroad getting free workers from the county jail? Are those guys in orange suits inmates?..LOL..I look forward to your photos every day..keep them coming!...You all have a good day...Jerry
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, how busy is that section of track being worked on? I was wondering when the next train is scheduled to come through there and how fast can those wee folk can move?
Rob
Good afternoon everybody,
I'll take a large bucket of RBF and settle-in at the Rivet Counter...post-lawn mowing rehab.
ULRICH: Buddy, you keep providing me with all sorts of good ideers for my future layout. I thank you heartily!
SAWYER: Sorry to hear of your latest woman troubles... or on the flip-side...congratulations if indicated?? Let me know if you need the "break-up tunes" list again. Looks like you need a little suplemental artifical light for your pics. Maybe it's my screen setting, but I got a bunch of silhouettes (sp.). Lighting can be a tricky thing. I took some shots a few years back in my RR room, with natural window light. The background looked black like a severe Iowa thunderstorm, instead of the carefully chosen "sky blue" it really is.
RAY: Looks like the campers are having a blast... and the others are having fun too!
JERRY: Did they ever get your lift chair fixed? Glad to hear the power chair is finally scheduled for w**k.
JEFF: I too wondered if that was a w**k gang on-loan from the County lock-up. Didn't see anybody with shotguns though.
*sigh* Gotta look through, edit down, "clean up" (crop & adjust in Photoshop), and format pics from the Johnson County Fair yesterday. Then, I "should" get a little farther on a story I've got simmering on the back burner about an assisted living complex, THAT got fined by the state, and now has dropped the program. Assisted living residents can stay, but have to hire their own "in-home" health services. I gotta talk to the state, the city of North Liberty muckety-mucks, even NLPD to see if there is a story there or not. Also "should" get more info on Purple Martins for a human interest story out of Solon.
Anybody here know anything about Purple Martins???
Have a good-un,
Chris
EDIT: Here's a little something to give everybody a nice little headache looking at:
Hey ROBBY P: Give this a try, and see what the "experts" in the weathering forum have to say...
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Chris, puked my guts out, I'm good. And that's actually what I wanted, it's like catching a train at the grade crossing early in the morning, which you might say is what I did.
Packers#1Chris, puked my guts out, I'm good.
I could make a wide variety of comments about THAT...but between Vinnie, and Selector...I'd just get myself into a heap of trouble.
So...will just say...glad things are working out for ya!
EDIT: Whoops! Top. Order up gents... Lucky's got it, thanks to the open expense account with THAT editor...
AmanaMedicPackers#1Chris, puked my guts out, I'm good. I could make a wide variety of comments about THAT...but between Vinnie, and Selector...I'd just get myself into a heap of trouble. So...will just say...glad things are working out for ya! Chris
LMAO!!!!! Thanks man. eh, she told me she's going to hate herself, but she still wants to be good friends.
Chris.......I don't post to many pictures in the "pro" website. If I want a really nice car, I might then. Other than that, its very little posting. I can say the last few cars I posted, they really liked. With little to say.
Sawyer........Been in your shoes a good bit, when I was younger (I'm almost 30, and I'm talking like I'm old as dirt). You will know when "shes" the right one.
I finished up the "Ann Arbor" car. I bought another one to weather up. I like the look of these cars. The pictures aren't the best, and its been raining all day. I had to take them inside. Maybe tomorrow I can get better shots.
Back again - nothin´ on tv, not in the mood for a talk with wife, so better to come here, sit with the chaps and quaff a few...
Robby P. - I just adore your work and your photography - I store all those pics on my PC as a reference for future weathering projects!
Sawyer - women can give you a hard time, but somehow we can´t do without them, can we? Splitting up is tough, but better early than late or too late. Is there a receipe for a good partnership? Yes, there is - next to really loving each other, you need TFT - trust, faith, tolerance and RESPECT. My parents are married nearly 60 years now and that´s what kept them together!
Cheer up ,mate!
Janie, whatever the bloke is having, put it on my tab! (and can I pay next month, please - I am out of money for the moment)
lol, Robby, old is dirt nowadays seems to be 105.
Ulrich, I'm jsut delaing with it right now. I'll ge tover it and be friends with her soon, but you know how it is.
Rob: It's a crossover track from the passing siding of the outside loop to the main of the inside loop and sees limited traffic.
AmanaMedicJEFF: I too wondered if that was a w**k gang on-loan from the County lock-up. Didn't see anybody with shotguns though.
Got the parents yard mowed this morning before it got too hot. Afterward my mother and I went to town for lunch. We decided on El Giro's and went there. For our drinks I ordered a diet Dr Pepper and she ordered unsweet tea. She ripped open a package of sweet and low to dump into the tea and dumped it in the salsa instead.
Cederstrand Lemon water, please. ***J.P., which road name is that EMD SD70ACe? A Kato UP Flag version perhaps? Which mine, too? Let me know. Have a good night all. Rob
Yes Rob... Julie read me the numbers off the box when she got it Saturday and I was on Walther's site doing research on it when I found that it's the UP one w/ the Flag.
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Internet problems continue to rule supreme today! This is seriously ticking me off!
I guess I will take a sweet tea to go.
The Ann Arbor car I just posted sold!! In just two hours. Its going to Norway, so hopefully its not to much $$$$$$$$.
Jeff.......I've been in the same boat. When the internet starts to act up, the wife resets everything before I blow a "gasket" . DANG technology .
Good evening, 3H weather continues here in central New England, the whole northeast for that matter! And, we are zeroeing in on the ALL TIME record rainfall for July. Yes...what a nice record isn't it!!%$$#$ We have more rain tonight, tomorrow and Friday with TS's and downpours, so the record WILL fall.
Right now at 7:12pm EDST, it is 73F (~23C), the RH is 95% ( saturated air), and the Dew Point is 72F ( fog will be forming soon ), and this is at 72 degrees north latitude, not Jeff''s back yard where this is normal for July !!! Right Jeff ? And no end in sight for at least the next 7 days.
Why do we have this strange weather this season all over the place? Two reasons, a block in the atmosphere in the western Atlantic, and, an El Nino in the eastern to mid Pacific.
ANIMALS HERE IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY: Eastern Coyote, a few wolves, Fox, Fisher Cats, Lynx, Cougars (rare, but here), plenty of white tail deer, and a large black bear count, one in the next town recently, and Moose ( one darted in the city just last week ).
ULRICH: 1st, Congratulations on reaching 25 years of marriage, GREAT JOB !!
2nd, I know of several MRR guys that have been married many years, but I don't have the numbers, hopefully they will add them here. My wife and I have been married for 49.2 years, 4 kids, 9 grandkids.
JEFF: How fast were you backing up when you slammed into that old lady's car? LOL LOL
RAY: Your having too much fun, I can tell !!! Don't forget to teach them about " leaves of 3 " !!!!
DUKE: OK, the meal is on me tonight to celebrate you joining the ROF club !!
JERRY: I hear you cleaned out the root beer with all your double floats, now we can't have any until Friday delivery!!! Tsk, tsk.
J.R. Are you up in Der John's neck of the woods???? I thought I read your note about Halifax!
CN CHARLIE: Ahhhh, I see that Summer has arrived for you, lets hope we don't have an early Winter, August begins this Saturday, where the h.. did Summer go? Or was it ever here for long?
J.P. : That is indeed good news, you will soon be a family man, so get ready for the HD jar list..LOL
DER JOHN: No let up in sight, but at least you are making some nice progress on your layout, just think, Fall may be beginning in a few weeks. I know, that was not very funny....
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grayfox1119JEFF: How fast were you backing up when you slammed into that old lady's car? LOL LOL
Robby P. Jeff.......I've been in the same boat. When the internet starts to act up, the wife resets everything before I blow a "gasket" . DANG technology .
grayfox1119 Good evening, 3H weather continues here in central New England, the whole northeast for that matter! And, we are zeroeing in on the ALL TIME record rainfall for July. Yes...what a nice record isn't it!!%$$#$ We have more rain tonight, tomorrow and Friday with TS's and downpours, so the record WILL fall. Right now at 7:12pm EDST, it is 73F (~23C), the RH is 95% ( saturated air), and the Dew Point is 72F ( fog will be forming soon ), and this is at 72 degrees north latitude, not Jeff''s back yard where this is normal for July !!! Right Jeff ? And no end in sight for at least the next 7 days.
Isn't it wonderful?----NOT!! We're going for a couple of weeks up to the cottage country in August and if this is all we're going to see then it is going to be bring the books season instead The Muskokas can be rainy enough on its own due to the Georgian Bay/Lake Huron rainshadow effect but come on now---do we really need this on top? Not that it has been all that great here--we're not into record breaking terretory yet but we've had a LOT OF DULL DULL DULL around here--We'll get some t'underin'miniboomlets and then we'll get 2-4 days of dribbling showers with monsoons and then MORE DULL DULL and DULL------anyway off my
Chris: That hopper looked like someone tried to redo a perceived mistake on the stencilling but messed it up even more----makes me wonder what the other side was like---
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I got back from the office and was surprised by a pair of Gold Finches on our front porch---singing away and me with no camera--- Oh well. I go in---'Spring' was clicking away----in pure hunt mode-----
I'm goin' in for one more day this week then I get 4 day weekend as we're getting a semi sorta kinda pseudo holiday Monday this weekend Then I got one more week and then OFF FOR A WHOLE 4 weeks!!
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a New York Cherry Cheescake please---I'll be at the RC--
Good evening, Chloe? A burger 'n fries please and thankya...yepper, with a Coke.
Yeah, I always kinda wondered the 'how and why' of it...at first I thought it was repainted/relettered...and the newer paint washed off, fell off, whatever, but the lettering held tight. You'd think somebody would get fired doing a job like THAT. I didn't get to see the other side, it was rolling west on an empty grain train through Beverly Yard (Cedar Rapids) in '96. I barely had time to grab the shot I got. I'm about tempted, sometime when I've got a few extra bucks... to grab an Accurail UP hopper, some Microscale decals...and see if I can't duplicate it. It's been "calling to me" ever since I shot it.
Here's why I kinda thought a paint job had washed off:
As you can see, the "Zito" yellow has all but removed itself from the good lead-based "English Stagecoach Yellow" which CNW applied in '81 when they got her from the remains of The ROCK. The bits of primer gray add an interesting touch too. Zito faded big-time, darn-near to white...but this is the only unit I've seen where it just totally came off.
Hey, another one to torment the "experts" in that weathering forum.
Maybe something like this would get an "expert's" knickers in a twist:
I'll take my seat at the Rivet Counter now...
grayfox1119Right now at 7:12pm EDST, it is 73F (~23C), the RH is 95% ( saturated air), and the Dew Point is 72F ( fog will be forming soon ), and this is at 72 degrees north latitude, not Jeff''s back yard where this is normal for July !!! Right Jeff ? And no end in sight for at least the next 7 days.