Good Evening, Diners! Janie, I'll have a CAW mug of hot cocoa, please, and a couple of those cookies that DerJohn brought in. Thanks!
fireman216
Forgive my error folks...I got everyones breakfast today!!
Uh,
Tim,
I'd be careful there about offering to cover breakfasts, if you're
having trouble with the math - might temp an otherwise honest Diner to
try to slip a brass loco in there (
what's a couple of zeros extra on the total?...)
But as I said earlier, I'd agree that I am NOT parting with my older MR issues. Nosireeee!!
AmanaMedic
I hate our environmentally friendly/socially
conscious/saving the planet one weak flush at a time toilet (I want
something with the power to suck down a small animal...)
ROTFLMAO!
Chris,
I'd probably agree with you about THAT toilet - my apartment building
was built about the 1970's, while at church, when I use the sit-down
one, it's done flushing before I hardly notice that it started!
But it doesn't leave 'floaters', at least... As for the windows at my
apartment, the front one can't be propped open, because it will tend to
fall out (well, actually it would fall _in_, but you catch my drift -
it ain't too secure. Luckily, THAT window is on the front (toward the
street) and my place is on the second floor.
Garry,
the rules changes aren't the big problems, it's the extra w**k hours
and job stuff they shovel on ya that get to me (ever heard of the
"Mushroom" theory of management?...) On your DCC SD's, is it possible that a pair of wires (pickups or something) are hooked up backwards? Otherwise, (not that I know diddley-squat about DCC) I'd try to find out what CV setting controls direction of the loco...
Ulrich - no, it doesn't sound unreasonable to want to find everything in your flat still there when you come back (and not that everything of value was cleared out by some thieves)... I'd agree with Chris, and see if the landlord will maybe give you some credit against the rent for any repairs/upgrades you do on the place. Point out to him that you have made the place look better, and that will translate to him being more likely to rent the place out soon again when you and Petra make the jump across the pond (just don't mention that last until you give him notice). If the landlord won't fix the door, you might talk with a friend who's a carpenter about what's needed to firm up the door frame and jamb. And get a better lock on the door as soon as is affordable. In the meantime, a large bureau or such moved across the door might slow any unwanted types down long enough to wake you and Petra up (and get your ball bat or other weapon ready)...
All right, on behalf of Sue and the other NP lovers here in the Diner, a moment of silence...........
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This afternoon, I got started redoing the paint job on that NP SW900/1200 loco with PollyS's Engine Black - the 'Northern Pacific', the tao logo, the loco numbers are all gone. I think I may be gonna use some of the SP Tiger stripe or the Rio Grande stripe decals (and if so, I'll be painting over the gold stripes on the lower edge of the walkway, too). Progress has its costs, Sue - sorry! Photos tomorrow, maybe, depending on how much more I have done on it by then.
I also checked (and resoldered some) the feeder wires on the layout (after I got the rest of the layout vacuumed). Yep, will need to add more feeders - who was it, Garry or Todd? - that suggested the more feeders, the merrier?
Sawyer, your teams there are kicking this year!
Randy - that was a neat find on your traveling - maybe someone got that moved in not long ago, and hasn't had time to 'un-neaten' it yet? Or a retired conductor who got a bargain deal on it for his retirement home? I've heard good things on the Micro Engineeering code 55 track, but will let those who really know chime in on where to get the turnouts you need.
DerJohn, another EXCELLENT job on that tar trailer! And I am impressed that you even have that handy-dandy jar opener tool on your w**kbench.
Jeff, I'll chime in with Todd about your "Shut up and drive" comments (come to think of it, I heard Click and Clack on the radio this morning for a while...). And as for sister's Not-so-Great Dane: OUCH!! "Bad dog, no biscuit!!"
Oh, and Todd? - on that repaint over that SW900/1200 (formerly known as NP), I used Polly S Engine black, and I'll check again when I get back home and it's dried, but it looked like it was covering the yellow okay. If it doesn't, I may leave it sorta showing through as a testimony to the frugalness of the CAW's paint shop foreman... (okay, the cheapness of CAW's management)
I looked at some of my covered hopper kits (Bowser and Kato), but talked myself out of that much w**k today. Guess I could w**k my way up to them by putting together an Athearn or Accurail kit. I also renewed my MR subscription online (saved the best of the offers they sent me and used that web address, and it still gave me the special (Well, I may not get the free track plan booklet, but hey, I have a lot of layout plan books around anyway!).
I'll sit at the window booth a bit and just relax (but not enough to snore - might wake Duke up...) before I head for home.
Blessings and prayers for those in need (that being most all of us),
Jim in Cape Girardeau