howmusJeffrey is the Fax machine for you or your parents? I musta missed something I guess..... Glad your foot continues to heal up well.
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Evenin' folks!
Zoe I'll have the roast chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, and a cup of decafe if you please. Oh yes for desert another slice of the cake Ulrich brought in this morning. What, gone already!?! Well then a hot fudge sundae for dessert would be a good substitute then.
Jeffrey is the Fax machine for you or your parents? I musta missed something I guess..... Glad your foot continues to heal up well.
Got an email from my SIL late this afternoon. My Brother in Law who lost his foot and the lower part of his lower leg a couple weeks ago, developed cellulitis in the stump (still hospitalized, BTW). Major rounds of antibiotics haven't helped, so they will be taking more of the leg off above the knee this time. She says he looks thin, old, and tired. Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning (so he can think about it all night). Those of you who are praying type, please keep him in your prayers. I sure will be, and I have started my churches prayer chain, and announcement in the Sunday Services, etc.
OK, break is over, everybody back on your heads! (Someday I'll tell you THAT one.......)
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Smoked Turkey with veggie stew, please.
***Keith, so did you try flying a kite yesterday? Seriously though, that sounded like a heck of a storm coming through there.
With my wife having Hashimotos Thyroiditis, she started the on the first part of the MP treatment 36 hours ago. Same thing I will start next week after getting cleared by the cardio doc. Hers is a TH1 disease, just like sarc, lupus, and so many others.
Nothing new to report in the arena of trains.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Rob
Trainman SamTodd- the pile of wood out back is what remains of ALL the catapults I had hidden in and around the diner… Dismantled them to prevent “Pies of Mass Destruction 2” Lol
We could use some o' that for kindling----
Have a little 'Spring' curled up between my arms---so I be typing single finger hunt and peck
Chloe, I'll have a 48oz Porter House Steak smothered in Portobello mushroom sause, grilled eggplant and red peppers and a baked potato with herbed sour cream and for desert I'll have herbed cream cheese pie( since some nice person had the entire Apple cake Petra made up---sheeesh) please---oh, and a coffee as well please. I'll be at the corner booth here---
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/
JimRCGMOJeff, is your foot that the vaccuum's on going to be stronger once you get to take it off? Or are you keeping some weight on the other foot to keep things balanced?
I went down to my parent's place this morning to wait on the Home Health nurse. She came and did what she had to with foot and the wound vac then my parents and I went to local computer store and picked up a new fax machine and it turned into another all day affair from there. We went Ryan's in DeRidder for dinner then headed back home. I then went into town and got gas for my car then went by the library to turn in some model railroad books then headed back home. By then it was after 5:30. I was just looking up some info on the MagicJack website concerning using the Magicjack with a fax machine. It says it's possible but the fax has to be set to it's slowest speed initially then dialed in until it works right.
RANT_ Lay off the spanish ,please. Left Miami because it is now the OFFICIAL language of Dade County. You don't speak it- you don't work. rant over. Sorry! Flip
Anyway, had to see dean of boys at least 3 times in High school because of Algebra. Could look at the problem and solve it in my head. Had to take senior finals in seperate classroom and when finished before anyone else, teacher accused me of stealing the finals. Could have popped her in face.[ No guts] Down to see the dean. And to top it off, she was a Cuban and this was 1954 ,before the rest of them got here.
Ah, train thing. If you have a table for your layout, by using bridge piers, you can get up to a shelf nicely. My shelfs are from leftover flooring and rest[screwed]onto l brackets attached to the wall. 8 feet long and 7 1/2 inches wide. 4 H.O. tracks and safe space.
Welcome to the new AUSSIE.
Prayers for all and wish y'all "Enough"
Flip
ns3010Packers#1lol, I can understand that except for the fuy partWhoops, meant to write "fue," not "fuy." Fue is preterite (past) for ser (is). I'm assuming you're in Spanish 1, and IDK if you guys got to preterite yet.
Packers#1lol, I can understand that except for the fuy part
Spanish2, and yep, we've gotten through the preterite. hopefully I'll remember it come Spanish3; gotta at least PASS that class to get into Clemson.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Evening all. Zoe, I'll take a RBF, thanks.
Had Chem and Theo today. Theo was ok, Chem was so easy! Even easier than Spanish!Tomorrow are the last two, English and US History. English, meh, history should be cake.
Well, I've got a lot of catching up to do, so mightaswell do that now.
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ns3010Afternoon all. Chloe, I'll take a RBF, thanks. Had my Algebra exam today, and dang, was it hard! I didn't finish, but hopefully she'll go somewhat easy on me.Spanish on the other hand was way easier. ¡Muy facil!¡El examen de Espanol fuy muy facil, no es dificil! <--- That's epic, right there! Didn't even need a translator to do that Well, I gotta go study for Theology and Chem, but I'll be back soon.
Afternoon all. Chloe, I'll take a RBF, thanks.
Had my Algebra exam today, and dang, was it hard! I didn't finish, but hopefully she'll go somewhat easy on me.Spanish on the other hand was way easier. ¡Muy facil!¡El examen de Espanol fuy muy facil, no es dificil! <--- That's epic, right there! Didn't even need a translator to do that
Well, I gotta go study for Theology and Chem, but I'll be back soon.
* Door blows open and slams with a gust of wind. "Not a fit day out for man or beast~!" "Coffee please~"
Jerry..~ rain eh? Yeah~ we got that too.. pouring rain. Today is on/off rain. If it isn't raining, the wind is blowing. You can tell when it starts raining again, the house gets this blast of cold air.. then the rain comes.
Yesterday was worse, 90mile an hour gale force winds.. category 2 hurricane levels. And the rain..~ pouring rain.. 'monsoon' levels.. of Biblical proportions.. my son actually was getting scared. He asked is so many words.. "How long can this go on before we start flooding?" I replied.. "Not long.. an hour.. tops?" Monsoon rains.. wow... lol. As far as my layout.. well.. "I don't want to talk about it~"
Phillip.. glad to see everything is working out nice for your wife. It always amazes me.. getting well in hospitals.. well.. you only are allowed .. to get well enough.. so you can go home.. and Get Well.
Keith
afternoon ya'll
Haven't dona a whole lot of anything but sleeping lately. Still sleepy. Then again, there isn't a whole lot to do when it's raining, like say, fix the e-brake light in my car...
I noticed something when digging through my parts box today. The bachmann offset coupla caboose that have slanted couplas match some of the ex-CB&Q cabooses BN had. I had one, but I cut it up trying to make a plow out of it... I ould get by with one by cutting the roofwalk and ladders off.Wonder where I could find some more, and some friction-bearing caboose trucks to put under them?
Danny, welcome to the diner.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Chris- I was referring to the largest of the elevators… but that seems to be a mute point! Back to the grind stone! Lol
Ulrich- If you want, you could send your “druthers” and such my way… I’d like to take a shot at designing something for you. No pressure… and a great price, FREE (or a couple slices of Petra’s pie!!! )
Der- I had to have my wife help me with the French spelling, I am going to learn that gorgeous language one of these days…
Todd- the pile of wood out back is what remains of ALL the catapults I had hidden in and around the diner… Dismantled them to prevent “Pies of Mass Destruction 2” Lol
About the first sketch… The top of the sketch is New Hope, which the two stub end tracks actually pass through the engine/maintenance facility. I will be “fibbing on history” and having it where the Freight House is still in service and NOT being used as a gift shop. The passenger station is operational, as it is currently, and I am going to say that the tracks beyond the station do not just “end” in the woods, but a connection was made to the rails across the Delaware River! This will allow the NH&I to flourish as a necessary connection between Conrail and the “other” carrier… The CRC Chemicals is an actual customer on the NH&I currently (also their largest freight customer to date) I was considering using the spur to the left of the off layout connection to represent one of the quarries that the NH&I served (I don’t believe any are currently shipping anything off property, only one or two of them are providing stones for use as ballast on the railroad itself.) Should be interesting…
Here it is again, so that if anyone missed it...
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu163/Wee_Ply_34/Layout%20Ideas/NHI5x10Idea0001.jpg
Danny- Hey, don’t be alarmed! We are definitely on the opposite side of the fence from “Sanity”, but I dare you to find a group of people that are more welcoming or supportive than this “Tribe of Misfits” LOL
You just couldn’t ASK for better friends!!! Lol
Sam
May He bless you, guide you, and keep you safe on your journey through life!
I Model the New Hope & Ivyland RR (Bucks County, PA)
Afternoon all...Its cloudy and rain here temp is 34 had some ice this morning..I'll have a coffee and sweet roll please..I been working on a scratch build yard office this am kinda "figity" work..can't see as well as I used to..You all have a good one...Jerry
Ray - You could fix the problem as I did, just turn the monitor upside down J.R.
Afternoon folks!
Zoe I think I am ready to have a Dr. Pepper and a slice of that delicious Apple Cake the Petra made for us. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter for a few minutes.
Well I have in half a day accomplished what I needed to get done in half a day...... So that is good. Scanned in all the first place poetry entries, and photographed all the 1st. place Art entries. They are now in a bag ready to be taken down to the Finger Lakes Crimes Times. Still have to get a check in the mail with a thank you letter to the Speaker we had yesterday. I also plotted out what I am going to do at Scouts tomorrow night. Just need to put together a PowerPoint presentation for a couple of things.
TMarshRay- See? If you had a PC instead of a MAC, the program would turn Danny's posts right side up for you.
LOL You know I could just tell the computer to rotate the image 180°..... Only problem THAT would make all our posts upside down... I know I'll have the image rotate 90° Clockwise and lean my head to the right for ours and to the left for Danny's.......
OK, back to w*rk. Later!
Good afternoon. I will take a sweet tea to go.
I worked on the layout most of the morning. Worked on my shipping company most of the morning, and tried to figure out where to put it on the layout.
Jim....I will have to get the"employee" website from the supervisor tomorrow. Just see how much we get off, and then call Dell. I looked at Dells website, and they were saying......It would be a 15% restocking fee, and I would have to mail the computer back . So if I get 10% off, I would have to pay 15% to give it back. Its not worth doing. I guess just keep the computer, and move it down stairs this weekend.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a BLT, some cheesey fries (and the bottle of ketchup), a dill pickle slice, bowl of chili and a RBF, please. Thanks - I figured I might as well have some toast, since that appears to be the rage lately in here.
Chris, that sounds like a good idea on that city, since you have access to city plans. Just change it to somewhere in the CNW's territory! Sounds like Mr. Murphy had it in for your BBQ grill outside of the ER...
Jeff, is your foot that the vaccuum's on going to be stronger once you get to take it off? Or are you keeping some weight on the other foot to keep things balanced?
Ulrich, that looks yummy! What tasty ingredients are in it (forget any nutritional stuff, 'cause I don't want that to spoil my appetite...)? Just remind yourself - "Spring is coming, spring is coming..." Ah, I see you answered - heck, if it has apples in it, plus the Calvados, as well - definitely okay with me!
TBDanny - we have had a couple of Aussie Diners before, though it's been so long ago that I forgot what part of your fine country they were living in. One guy modeling Australian RR operations, and I'm not sure what setting/RR our teen Aussie modelled. But as I said last night, you made an excellent choice on your RR and setting. We may be conferring on layout stuff, since we're modeling the same region of the USA (mine is freelanced/fictional, set in the Four Corners area - AZ, CO, NM, UT). Look forward to seeing your layout plans/photos.
DerJohn, hope you were able to drag a bit more wood into the house today. I guess since it's sn*wing there, all you can get done is MRR'ing, eh? Hey, life is tough sometimes.
Robby - best wishes on your getting the wireless glitch figured out with the Dell folks. Will they discount what they charged you since you w**k for FedEx?
Got some grey and occasional rainy today, the weatherguesser this morning said we got almost 3/4" (couple of cms.), and are supposed to get more tonight. Just misting for now, I guess the biggest portion is over our Indiana, Ohio and Ontario folks - sorry 'bout that! It's 57 F (14 C) for now, supposed to go up a degree (C) or two (F) by this afternoon, then drop to 50 F /10 C tonight. More rain tomorrow, and Friday it'll hold off a day, then resume on Sat./Sun. (when I'll be off w**k..).
I'll have a slice of Petra's yummy apple thingee please, Zoe. Will finish my lunch and that before I head in to see two clients today, then on-call tonight. Hope everyone gets a chance for some MRR'ing today/tonight.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Good morning,
We've got ICE... Weather speculationists raised the level of alarm from a "freezing rain advisory" (Ok...we were "advised") to a "Ice Storm Warning." The college closed, so Loving Wife gets to stay home, which makes Rerun very happy (oh, and me too). My school board meeting for tonight has been postponed to Monday night, which makes me happy....THAT won't be, she may have a hole to fill now for content. I had an interview lined-up for tomorrow evening...THAT just fell-through, so Mr. Boss may be a bit unhappy. The message I got said "...the owners want to reschedule..." so....kinda out of my hands, ya know?
ULRICH: "Analysis paralysis." Good term, I think THAT's part of my problem, well THAT and the financial aspects of it all. Hang in there Pal, sooner or later we'll have our empires. THAT apple cake looks really really tasty, by the way.
Welp, lunchtime, then it'll be time to...do something productive for THAT.
Have a good, SAFE afternoon,
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good Morning. Happy January 20th, nasty out there. By the way what's the pile of wood for out back? We building a layout? Frozen fog and freezing rain this morning, it‘s gonna be.....WOW!!!! What is that wonderful smell!!!! What ho! I‘ll take a piece of Petra‘s delicious, uh, er...., whatever that is. Ah! Apple cake. Mmmmmmmm!
Was going in to see Mom but I believe I'll wait until after noon. Let some of the yuckies get off the road. No, I don't mean the ice and slush slick yuckies, I mean the other nut bomb pea brained driver yuckies.
Trudgeing away at the track adaption/renovation. I'll like this better. I won't have the diagonal through town, I'll like that the best. Of course that means the passenger station will return to it's original location. The approach for the meat packers will come in from the other side and off the main. I've also decided that where the passenger station was, I'll still use the corner grass with the old cart on a pad decoration thing. I can keep this corner by leaving one section of track at that location and put an old caboose there as a historical building for the town. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Williamsville has a couple of GM&O boxcars placed side by side and attached they use as a Williamsville Historical Museum. Pretty neat. I'll just use a caboose.
I tell you what, I used to sit and wonder why everyone takes so long to decide on a track plan. I'm kinda like Keith, I need to see progress or I go a bit nutso, when I want a train I want one now, not in 6 mo to a year. But now I see why..... Now I see why.
Sam- I liked the first sketch the best. I'm not a big switcher, but I do like to have things to do.
Philip- A belated congrats to your better half. I'm sure she also is breathing a sigh of relief. Now we'll pray she heals well and the procedure works. By the way, we also have a hospital with great food, Memorial Medical Center has great food. I wouldn't call it Chef Ryan great, but it's as good as any restaurant. Now the other "horsepiddle" , now THAT'S a horse of a different color. (or colour for our buddies to the north). I don't know how they expect you to get well when they are constantly trying to kill you with the food.
Jim- Sorry, I talk confusing if I don't have some sort of example. I'll make a rough draft of the revised edition # 3,489 and post it soon. I might could use a few suggestions.
tbdanny- Welcome to the diner! I'm Todd, Todd the Rambler. I ramble on. Feel free to skim through my posts, no hard feelings I understand. White chocolate cheesecake and Orange juice..... Yup you got the hang of it. No combination of sweets and acids will give you a pucker here. Nor is anything fattening or "Not on my diet". Layouts are built, torn down and dreamed about. No arguments, put downs or "critiques" of railroads . Just laughs, concerns and suggestions based on our opinions. No right or wrong for you as I see it. This IS the grass on the other side of the fence, and it IS greener. Oh I see you've already noticed. I think you will enjoy it here.
Jeff- Hey, at least you don't have to sport a bag of maggots on the ole hoof. Don't know how that'd do for healng, but it'd sure keep the wound clean. Still.........creepy. I know what you mean on the cell phones. The last one I got, a Razor which was supposed to be junk but has functioned flawlessly for oh, I don't know since shortly after they came out, the book was thicker than my dictionary and full of stuff I couldn't care less about. Had to weed through a lot of crap to find the couple things I wanted. All I wanted was a phone that I didn't have to push a button to talk on and wasn't so small it would get lost in my pocket. That's what I was left with at the time.
Lee- I was thinking more of grinding/filing the motor shaft a flat spot and drilling a corresponding tapped hole in the tube.Use a tiny screw as a set screw and El Segundo! (since we're speaking Spanish) And easily separated too, should the need arise.
Ray- See? If you had a PC instead of a MAC, the program would turn Danny's posts right side up for you.
Well, I must get a move on if I want to see the train room before I head out.
Anybody heard from Inch? Haven't seen him since I made the crack about the jewelry. Hope he didn't think I was serious. Wife got her stuff and it looked great. It's just I hate to see the mini tribe of the same cacklers trading houses to get their free or discounted party "thanks you's ". I must say it was better than this last "get rich quick so I can quit my job and do this forever at my leisure" scheme one of them has with Tupperware.
Have a Great Day!!!
EDIT: WAIT!!!! No! I have nothing against Tupperware or the fine folks who sell it. Just this bunch. Brenda doesn't try to sell stuff she just books parties to help her friends get started in there latest sure fire thing. Then the rest of the circle does the same. Unfortunately, they never seem to extend past the Great Circle of Cacklers, they get disgusted because they make not the promised fortune and ultimately quit, and move on to the next item. Bizarre.
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.
Big chuckle
John - believe it or not, that apple cake is called "Cape Breton Apple Cake" - Petra adds a shot of Calvados to the recipe, just to honor the French ancestry! It does taste heavenly, especially when paired up with a glass of Calvados and a coffee!
Mornin' Everyone!
Flo I'll have a big bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar, and a cup of dark roast coffee in a R&GV Mug. Oh, and maybe a small slice of what Ulrich brought in this morning..... Maybe a large slice instead.....
Lee Empire Northern has the Zepher for $149. Tim is also a great guy to do business with and only charges his cost for shipping. (Disclaimer I am only a satisfied customer of Empire Northern. I receive no commission or fee from him. I did teach music to his sister and his younger brother though........)
TBDanny! Be sure to send photos of your layout to us. We can always turn them right side up............ You'll find we are a great bunch of loonies here and are a lot of fun to hang around with, so sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee with us.
I have way to much things that need to get done here today. I have a session with Troop 1 (Handicapped Boy Scout Troop) to wo*k on the Railroading Merit Badge tomorrow night and I have no idea what I am going to do with them yet. So THAT is the priority for today. I also have to get the first place Art and Poetry scanned, photographed, and down to the local paper this afternoon. Maybe I will even walk through the layout rooms on my way to finishing some laundry. Who knows?
Philip sounds like your wife is recovering nicely. Prayers to you and yours!
Later!
Goodmorning Diners. Started this yesterday afternoon (instead of getting in more firewood - a mistake as it's snowing and blowing today!) but ran out of day anyway - I'll have a JR Regular and an oatmeal cookie please Zoe, over at the RC..
Trying to find out why a brand new Digitrax decoder won't even turn on the lights in a loco. There's continuity from the wheels to where the power is meant to be picked up by the decoder - but nothing happens. So, I'm finally building a test rig to check decoders. I know I have an old HO loco motor, but don't know if all the N decoders I want to be able to test will run it. So...long hunt in the electronics box yielded two N motors one of which should do. I've got to figure out lights for testing hardwire decoders, but have that nailed (I hope) with these Atlas GP lightboards I'll have to solder them together so there's a common terminal for "Blue" wires and separate terminals for "White" and "Yellow". I've DC tested and mounted the N motor on a hinge, so I can get at the brush caps to solder on terminals for the "Orange" and "Grey" wire jumpers from the decoders (or their equivalent on drop-ins), or do other service as may be needed. I've also a mess of old Radio Shack alligator clip leads of questionable continuity to re-solder, probably shorten some for this project, while I'm at it.
CapeJim:
Chris - thanks for the photos of the 'boneyard'. From the photo of the town, I'm guessing that Flush, Kansas (sounds like an Ohio Chamber of Commerce comment...chuckle.. ) isn't out in the great flatland of Kansas - they even have a small ridge outside of town! As for locating the cemetery across from the church, the one idea I had for where the church could be located, has across the road from it... the aisle! Think it might be hard to fit the cemetery there, unless I widened that section (which is about two feet as is). The widest part of my layout (guessing on the 11' X 11' size) will be about 3' (and that'll be where the turntable, roundhouse and main yard will be located). I'll keep fiddlin' with the plans for now.
"Teffy's rule"
Hey, guys - I guess the season is over, since Lee took his lights down!
PC: Good to hear that the surgery went well. Here's praying for a "no complications" recovery, and that this does what your wife wants it to.
OK, HOSPITAL FOOD FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!
Sam:
Spanish on the other hand was way easier. ¡Muy facil!¡El examen de Espanol fuy muy facil, no es dificil! <--- That's epic, right there! Didn't even need a translator to do that
Adieu, a domain!
Tbdanny: to the Diner. My Qlock tells me you first posted about mid-afternoon your time Wednesday 20th. Am I close? Not Aussie railways then? N Scale has a dedicated if miss-understood following in the Diner, as I expect you've gathered. CapeJim somewhat over-rates my building abilities - I've never even thought about scratch building a working loco, for instance, especially in N!
BTW, is your Sci-fi "hardcore science" - such as Star Trek might be classified, or more into the fantasy thing? Just curious as our daughter writes SF a bit aimed at the young adult market, and it tends more to a mixture - spacecraft / empires; but with dragon under or over tones, if you get my drift. Hasn't brought any project to a fully edited for state for publication...we'll see.
Lee:
Now I need to figure out how to attach the turntable motor to the turntable. The turntable has a brass tube and the motor has a small diameter steel shaft.
Ulrich: That pie thing looks some good! What is it?
Better get going, things to do, as well as building that test bench. TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Wow! Ulrich, thanks to Petra! Yes, I'll have a piece of her scrumptious goody!
Barry ... I had my piece before you arrive and ate the rest of it!
TBDANNY ....... Welcome... !!!!
JimCG .... Regarding the St. Louis Museum. Yes, I saw plent of steam there. There were many steam locos. I remember the Sana Fe 2-10-4, the NYC 4-8-2, and the UP Big Boy. You can see a small part of the Big Boy's tender if you look above the nose of the Aerotrain loco in the photo.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon,
Flo, make that coffee and buttered toast for me - too early in the day for a bigger meal. Thank you - I´ll be at the RC.
A big to Down Under, TBDanny! We now span the world - great to have you with us! Tell us a little about your model railroading interests, not that I am overly curious
Phillip - I am glad that all went well with the Missus - my for a speedy recovery!
Jeff - sorry for mistaking your memorial for a tombstone - maybe it is just my dark thoughts...
Not much going on on my side of the Big Pond - the weather is just awful, the ugly side of winter. I am suffering from a bad case of analysis paralysis on my layout plans - need to go more into operation than just looks. Paul from Holland is giving me a lot of help in this, but maybe I have now too many good ideas - the darn thing gets bigger and bigger, at least in my dreams. I guess I should either take a break from planning or just find a way to start building it - a little difficult, as my CFO has not yet appropriated the funding of this venue.
There is a nice smell coming from the kitchen - Petra has just made this:
Thought I share it with the chow hounds in here ...
You all have a good day!
Good morning. Its going to be a nice sunny day.
Got my new computer yesterday, and I might have to return it. It won't use my wireless internet. The computer came with windows 7, and the internet is only made for windows XP. Plus I forgot FedEx gives a discount for Dell. The internet will work if its plug right into the computer thou. The problem with that is, that the internet is down stairs. So I will have to call Dell and see what I need to do.
Worked on the layot some yesterday. Hopefulyy I can some more later this morning.
Phillip....I ment to say something yesterday. I'm glad everything went well.
Danny!!!
Good Morning All,
27F and on our way to a high in the 40's. Lots of black ice on the drive in as well this morning as it drizzled a bit last night. Hopefully the sun will make an appearance today.
Museum last night and we were so inspired by Jeffs' ferro equine archeology that we cleaned and sorted under the HO and N layouts. Getting ready for the Big E train show the end of the month (Dick - Young Building table 99 is where we'll be based if you attend).
In the boxes of donated stuff we had tons of box cars that need work so I snagged them to see what can be done. I have a bunch of cheap stuff with reasonable paint but lousy undercarraiges (light weight plastic trucks and wheels, talgo horn hooks, etc). It looks like the best way to make some of them usable will be to replace the entire floor, frame and running gear so i will embark on a search for cast metal 40 and 50 foot floors with frames. If i can find those it'll be easy to upgrade the rest. If I can't find cast metal frames it might be feasible to make a mold and cast my own but I'm not sure I'm that ambitious. Any ideas out there or am I tilting with windmills again?
PC - glad mrs. PC is doing well and no I didn't stop by for a bite - hospital gourmet sounds a lot like government intelligence agency or not, I think I'll take my meals here.
Welcome TBD (actually how would you prefer to be addressed?) Besides Der we also have Keith, Sawyer and Rob who is conflicted and doing both iNvisible and Horribly Oversized scales. I volunteer at the Danbury Railway Museum and end up doing N HO O and G stuff as we have all those displays so I'm totally confused most of the time
Well, time to get back at it here. More bits to make for the Theodore, then on to the wiring jobs. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning---
We actually will see a strange yellowish orb in the sky today. It will be about 0C for our high as well
Got some more paperwork to shovel into the 'pooter today. I might even get some time to scan a couple of photo albums worth of old pix of downtown scenes into the 'pooter!
DANNY!!!
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and toast with jam please---I'll be at the RC checking out these old MRR mags
Good morning. It's 61 and cloudy. The high will be about 70 with a 50% chance of thunderstorms.Despite yesterdays mad running around from doctor to doctor (maybe I should start charging for mileage) I still got a little work done on clearing the layout. Actually I had just started on clearing a section when my father called (from work). He wanted me to go down and unload groceries from my mothers car. I went over, got the tractor and trailer out, drove it over to the car and loaded up then drove the groceries over to the house. That sure cut down on the amount of walking I'd have to do. The long trips between the house and car had been eliminated so it was just a few very short trips between the front door and the kitchen. She got a cell phone also. It's one of those slide open affairs so the keypad is covered when not in use. We both went through the manual cover to cover to find out how to set up the voicemail on it. There was plenty about how to access voicemail messages but there was nothing on how to make a greeting message or how to activate the voicemail. Then, down at the bottom of the last page was a notice in tiny print saying that the voicemail function had to be activated by the supplier. They could have put that in the voicemail section. The Home Health nurse should be coming around today to reattach the wound vacuum. The doc says I only have to use it for another couple of weeks.
I see in all the hustle and bustle yesterday I missed a newcommer......
Danny!
I think you'll find that most of us are just some nice, regular folks. .......Once you get to know us.........
Jeff, I can't imagine wearing that device for more than a few days. Good to hear it's going away.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes