BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning All,
I see PC's been in with his wake up call. Can I have a hand to help peel the wait staff off the ceiling? Sheesh not so loud this early Phillip!
I'll have a regular and an english muffin please.
Vincent - sounds like you have a mismatch somewhere in the electronics. When you swapped in the larger throttle body, did all the pins line up and is there maybe another circuit active that wasn't before? Of course it could also be the usual suspects - bad O2 sensor or temp sensor. A vacuum leak would run lean so that's probably not it. The no code thing is a puzzlement though. It's almost never as simple as a fuel filter and that would show up more in the upper gears where you need higher sustained fuel flow.
Lee - keep me posted on progress please with the decoder install. Do you plan to camoflage the speaker in the cab roof or just let it hang? What about a speaker baffle - any chance there?
Ulrich - Are there any construction projects near you? If so could you maybe go pester them for scraps and cast off bits (which will be plentiful if they are anything like most of our construction guys here). Here that is also a great source for the extruded polystyrene sheet insulation we all know and love. If you're on a budget, you can do a lot with a little creativity and the joy of the cheap and happy acquisition can be great.
Rob - one word - hovercraft - preferably a nice size one man unit. Just stay away from the thorn bushes.
Well - gotta run lots to catch up with in the shop what with the power out all day yesterday (came back on at 8pm). CUL, J.R.
Ah - I see Barry has been in while I was typing and had the same idea for Rob. Yes indeed Barry - great minds think similarly. Will we see progresspics of the layout at some point or have I blindly missed a link to same?
Good Morning--
Only one day in and we're already on page 4. OK. We'll be looking for a switcher by next week!
The weather here is just plain ol' dull with those little tiny snowflurries. Enough to hide the ice so we can slip and slide our way to the car. Or step into an ice covered puddle or----
Apparently we're supposed to see little tiny snowflurries pretty well into the weekend so we're gonna stay dull and cold----by Wednesday the low that night will be at -16C and Thursday's high will be -9C.
Rob: A hovercraft of some sort might be a good idea at this rate. I know my backyard ooozes water wherever I step now
I set out some orders for some more PECO turnouts so I can build up the Williston Terminal yard. This yard is going to service a series of "off-site" industries plus be used for storage of--"What am I going to do with these"-- locomotives. No LHS that I went to seemed to have quite the ones that I was looking for. Another thing I ordered was a bunch of EL kits for some signs I'm mucking around with. See whether I can get something a little more realistic than the stuff I put in recently-----and I'm getting somewhat near the point of being able to get a photo close up without the furriness---so maybe---
Chloe, I'll have a 3 egg breakfast platter with home fries and ham please--as well as a coffee. I'm going to sit in the corner booth and check those MR mags out
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/
Mornin' All!
Good morning. It's 36 and clear. The high will be 67 and sunny.Not much happening today with the exception of the weekly doctors appointment. Maybe today I'll find out how much longer I'll be stuck with this vacuum unit. Results came back on my lab work. All good. No need to change anything. I had an issue with a loco not wanting to program on the program track yesterday. Turns out the program track doesn't have enough power so I programmed it on the main. Worked fine then. All I was doing was changing the address. I can read the CV's just fine while on the program track, just when it comes to changing any it has to be on the main. Not sure about the type of decoder but it's the only one I have that exhibits this behavior. I think I picked it up as a freebie in a trade. Nice things about having a layout set up for DC operation is I can turn off all the blocks but the one I'm using to program the loco on, so no need to remove the others from the track.
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Good Morning Everyone,
it´s been the coldest night in our region since they started to record temperatures in the 18th century! A temperature of -18 C makes seem a freezer warm! Spend about 15 minutes to de-ice my car -
SHIIVERRRRR!
Janie, hot tea, please, and a French toast - I´ll be in the corner booth, trying to warm up!
Packer - I talked to Vinnie - it was one of his bright moments - about trebuchets, ballistas and onagers. He clearly told me, that no dang furriners are allowed in the Diner. The same goes for that dogapult, Sam - Vinnie seems to have a zero tolerance policy established.
Here is a link which may be of interest!
Sawyer - take care of your bones. Rugby ain´t no game for sissies, no, Sir!
JR - not a bad idea! I actually inquired about getting an engineer´s licence, but they told me I´d be to old for that - (expletive deleted), grumble, rant!
Tom - mind if I add a little to your geography knowledge? Schwarzwald is not Bavaria - it is a little west of that state of Lederhosen and beer! The really beautiful Schwarzwald region is in the state of Wuerttemberg and people there have a dialect of their own - actually very close to the Swiss dialect. If you like hiking and enjoy good food - this is the place to go. From Hamburg, it is about 500 miles or 6 hours to go there. Remember, we still have no general speed limit on our Autobahns!
Germany is not even the size of Texas, but it enjoys the luxury (and the cost) of 16 federal states, each state with its own parliament. If you just add up the number of representatives and include the federal parliament, we have over 1,500 elected representatives! Ridiculous! You can cross all of Germany in a day by car and still have time left to visit some of the country´s neighbors.Any attempt to streamline our legislature has failed so far.
Chris - seems as if That ain´t that bad afterall!
Track planning is supposed to be fun - but why do things always turn out differently than I thought they´d be. It is either too much track for the space or too little space for the tracks I need. Changing scale is no solution to the issue, either. Must be one of Murphy´s laws... I am still not sure which way I should head, but as my CFO still has objections to my funding proposals, I will remain in the planning phase for a little more time.
The DIY cheque goes to some gear that we need to install in our bathroom - so no lumber to start building my layout! That´s a
Have a good day!
blownout cylinder BamaCSX83Rob, I know what you mean about wet....its getting pretty sloppy down here, starting to make me rethink my not wanting a vehicle with 4WD...., or getting another boat... I'm thinking getting another boat might be a good idea here. It actually rained long into the evening. In spite of it being -2C now---which means freezing rain---ain't it just plain ol' yucck! out here?
BamaCSX83Rob, I know what you mean about wet....its getting pretty sloppy down here, starting to make me rethink my not wanting a vehicle with 4WD...., or getting another boat...
I'm thinking getting another boat might be a good idea here. It actually rained long into the evening. In spite of it being -2C now---which means freezing rain---ain't it just plain ol' yucck! out here?
***Wonder how a hydrofoil would work over muddy pastures? I don't know how I'm going to put hay out in a day or two considering the ground just oozes more and more water. My wife said she is ready for another drought. I cautioned her not to wish for that to hard. I still prefer having water to not.
Have a good night y'all.
Rob ps: typing from wife's puter after getting the wireless to work. Nice big screen I can see, too.
Good evening. Two words for you. One is snow, the other would be full of **** if I tried to write it. It's gonna get cold again also. Another two words the software wouldn't let me write comes to mind.
Sam- Yep, the written word has no voice inflection nor does it have any kind of inclination as to how it is really meant. THAT is why I must emphasize occasionally, NEVER do I mean to be gruff, mad at someone or do I intend for anything I say to be rude, mean spirited or snobbish and I definitely will not say something that I mean to be insulting or hurtful. If you have a doubt about what I mean, trust me, It's how I say it that is causing the confusion. I have in my head what I mean and how I mean it and for some reason it doesn't always read to someone else like it does to me. Similar to the first and last letters of a word being correct and the rest being wrong and still being able to understand. Well, maybe not. If I mean something to be mean, you'll really know it. I do not get upset easily and most times it's just me trying for someone to know I didn't mean it differently. Usually I am just kidding when I do say something not exactly right, and with a somewhat dry sense of humor I must admit I am sometimes mis-taken. Totally confused? I am. I think I just talked myself dizzy.
Sawyer- If you've every heard the old Bobby Bare song "The Winner" (check it out on the YouTube as I really doubt a man of your youth has heard it) you must admit the man could have been a Rugby player instead of a brawler.
Tom- (chuckle) there have been a few times when I've been confused over Twhite and Tstage myself. (what was the name of the thread by the way).
Gentlemen and four legged friends, it's late for me and what I'm typing is getting more and more difficult as I'm having to correct way to many typos.
Prayers for those in need.
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.
Ray:
Actually, I left the thread before all that took place, LOL! But you got my curiosity up, so I went back to it and read the discussed post. It wasn't aimed at me, but TStage. Good thing it wasn't, otherwise they'd have heard my laughter all the way to Ontario (he said with an Evil Chuckle).
If I'd gone to an Instructor just to learn notes and technique, I'd be one of those 'Put A Nickel In And He Plays' type of musicians, which I definitely am NOT! At least not to all the singers and choruses I've accompanied over and over--and OVER--again during my career.
Oh well, different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
But my, that was one TESTY little thread while it lasted.
I'm with you, though. I'm still laughing about my Tenor, today. Ah, students, God Love 'Em. They keep me young (and definitely still with a sense of humor).
JR: The rain IS falling on us, buddy. It must have taken a left turn at Amhearst or somewhere like that, LOL! Just saw the same dog on the raft float by again--in the OPPOSITE direction.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Uhh, Vinnie, I think you have inhaled to many fumes. Four legged 'gators with many teeth and a long tail versus a member of the Seminole Indian tribe. lol
JR- L-O-F Lack of funds means NO Speeder.
Flip
I guess the only good thing is the rain we're getting is not falling on Tom or Mark. J.R.
PackerBarry, are trebuchets, ballistas and onagers still allowed?
Vinnie just read this and says---NNOOOOO!!!
Now he's just stomped off-----
Hey ya'll, had to catch up with the new diner.
Not much doing with the MR. The car is being more cantankerous than ever.
My car still runs rich, the oxygen sensor and spark plugs also indicate rich. I noticed the Oxygen sensor that was on the car was loose (I never messed with it before) so I tightened it and still no change. To top that off the something is wrong with the EEC since I can't get any codes. The last codes I wrote down pointed to running lean, but it was (and still is) running rich. It also pops and hesitates during acceleration in first and second gears. Fuel filter perhaps? I never changed that, and if that's the case, then it's hopefully a free fix. I saved the tank from my 1997 (father wants it for his 86 LTD wagon or LTD LX, which ever one he decides to part with) and I had a new (less than a month old) fuel filter in it.
Barry, are trebuchets, ballistas and onagers still allowed?
Flip, up here you can add the georgia and alabama colleges to the mix-up. That really gets fun given I'm the only Bager's fan for miles.
Ray and Tom, I should have bet money on that thread. I was willing to wager on the mods closing it up before everyone got tired of it.
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.
Gee Flip all those automotive roots and no speeder? And yes, the Noles and Gators do seem to spend a fair amount of time rasslin though one might confuse it with footbal
With the skill Ulrich shows shunting the diner up and down the tracks, perhaps he should petition the Gulag to be allowed to apply for a second career as an engineer
Isn't the phrase supposed to refer to the regulator mechanism of steam locomotives Tom? I thought the governor was a rotating shaft with two spheres 180 apart and a pressure operated linkage that allowed the orbs to move apart as RPM increased. this either opened a relief valve or closed a feed that controlled boiler pressure and led to the term b....s out. Or is it all myth? To the wall besides being a favorite phrase of heavy metal bands would also refer to the spheres being in close proximity to the retaining cage or containment wall.
Might be right in there with "more tea vicker"?
J.R.
Danny- Yes Virginia there is a -Whoops, sorry about that Dan. But, yes , there are 'Gator farms. I know that in the Dade county area,Miami, the Seminole tribe has a farm where they wrestle with the gators. One on one. Just a couple years ago,one of the wrestlers got severely hurt.
I hope you guys realize I almost got a hernia trying to catch up to the diner on a hand car. I sure did grow two handfuls of calluses..
Prayers for all.
Evenin' Folks,
Zoe just a decafe for me. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter for a bit.
twhiteRay: You might get a kick out of this--I took a recording of "Carmina Burana" into class today to show the choir what they're expected to do. They just sat there and went "WOW", and after that, one of my tenors piped up and said, "How high do we go, Doc?" I said, "A's and B-flats, and full bore." He thought about that for a moment and said, "That's really B-lls to the Walls, isn't it?"
ROFLMAO Typical HS Boy! Gotta love 'em. Oh to be young again. I see the thread you left yesterday has gotten itself locked. Personally I would have done it a few pages back........... The "Opera Coach" telling you about Vocal Teaching wasn't quite right. According to Anna Kaskas, former Metropolitan Lead Contralto and member of the Metropolitan Broadcast Quartet back in the 1930's and of whom I studied voice for 2 years at Eastman (Before transferring to John Malloy formerly a lead Tenor at La Scala), Vocal Coaches were just people who were paid to listen to you sing after you had established your technique. They rarely even said much. Many would grunt now and then, open a can of beer and belch loudly now an then. For this they received quite high hourly remittance.......... Before you establish your vocal technique, the voice teacher (of which I have been one) works with you on both technique and interpretation. OTOH, I bet THAT guy probably sang a convincing Iago!
Been cold in the house all day. High outside made to 54°F. Since it has now gone back down to 30°F, I think I'll fire up the wood stove and get some warmth in here.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
twhiteSawyer: I keep remembering a student of mine from two years ago who was on our Jesuit Rugby team. GREAT guy, fabulous student. He would come into my office and give me graphic descriptions of the scrimmages. I looked at him once and said, "Are you sure you can SURVIVE this?" He'd just grin. "Hey, Doc, it's FUN!" Got an e-mail from him last week. He got accepted on the Rugby team at Boston College (which I understand is just KILLER!). I hope the next time I see him that he has his nose (and certain other parts of his body) intact, LOL. That's a great sport, but I don't mind telling you that watching scrimmages makes me wince and my jaw drop. Go for it, but BE CAREFUL! The way it's going, it might just give Soccer a run for its money here in the States as an 'imported' sport.
Sawyer: I keep remembering a student of mine from two years ago who was on our Jesuit Rugby team. GREAT guy, fabulous student. He would come into my office and give me graphic descriptions of the scrimmages. I looked at him once and said, "Are you sure you can SURVIVE this?" He'd just grin. "Hey, Doc, it's FUN!" Got an e-mail from him last week. He got accepted on the Rugby team at Boston College (which I understand is just KILLER!). I hope the next time I see him that he has his nose (and certain other parts of his body) intact, LOL. That's a great sport, but I don't mind telling you that watching scrimmages makes me wince and my jaw drop. Go for it, but BE CAREFUL! The way it's going, it might just give Soccer a run for its money here in the States as an 'imported' sport.
Believe me Tom, it'll catch on quick when football players start getting wind of it. I absolutely LOVE it. BC boy eh? My dad ain't a huge fan of them, and neither am I. Clemson through and through for me, lol. and believe me, when you've got the contact sport mentality, rugby is the best sport in the world.
speaking of soccer, I heard on Saturday somebody (I forget who) say "Soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans and rugby is a hooligans sport played by gentleman." you would not believe the brothership of rugby. you absolutely hate the other team for the amount of time you're on the pitch, but you're best friends the rest of the time, haha. and you dnt try to seriously harm people; it just comes with the game. you help each other up on the pitch etc.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
GMTRacingif you are losing lots of headlights through burnouts try having a look at the grounds for the lights.
Thanks JR! We'll have to give that a try... Seems to be a pretty common complaint among BUG owners. I've considered convincing Kit (Loving Wife) to tell the nice police officer "yes Officer, of course I know the headlight is out...it's a BUG afterall." Then, she could ask the officer if he'd be so kind as to put it in for her...
Yep, met with THAT and Mr. BOSS... situation resolved, life is "good." And yes, I think they wanna keep me around for awhile yet, so wasn't any point in having me risk life, limb, and truck for what probably would've been a very short meeting. So.....I'll just pull what I can from the minutes, make a follow-up call or two, and knock THAT together for her instead.
In the meantime, I'm gonna listen to the wind howl, follow the on-going road mishaps on the scanner...and w**k a bit more on the roundhouse.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Ahah, we're at our new location--and I FOUND it!
Greetings from AgainStormyCal. I just saw one of the neighborhood dogs go floating down the street on a raft with a sign that says: "TELL MY OWNER I'LL BE BACK AS SOON AS I FIND LAND!"
Um. Gonna be one of THOSE weeks. Supposed to last through Wednesday, then they're FINALLY offering us some break in these storms. Can't get Spooky or Uff-Dah out of the windows, they keep saying, "Wow, Daddy, isn't this COOL?"
My next cat is going to be an Abyssinian, I swear! I mean, they're from the SUDAN in Africa. Where it's DRY!
My sweet little Mallet is still sitting on the kitchen table in that awful paint-job. She's sighing. "I'm supposed to look a lot PRETTIER than this, Dad."
It will come to pass. I SWEAR it.
Ulrich: That Cherry Torte has me drooling. I almost said, "What, no Schwartzwald Kirshetorte?" then I remembered: "Idiot, he's not from BAVARIA, LOL!" Little problem I have, my family's from that area and I think EVERYONE is. It looks absolutely mouth-watering.
Ray: You might get a kick out of this--I took a recording of "Carmina Burana" into class today to show the choir what they're expected to do. They just sat there and went "WOW", and after that, one of my tenors piped up and said, "How high do we go, Doc?" I said, "A's and B-flats, and full bore." He thought about that for a moment and said, "That's really B-lls to the Walls, isn't it?"
I'm still recuperating from THAT one! High-school teenage boys. OBOY!
Well, that's about it from StillSoggyCal. Just waiting for the Next Wave to roll in and flood the streets.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
GMTRacingOk Sawyer - you now are officially certifiable. Just remember the best defense is a good offense.
Ok Sawyer - you now are officially certifiable. Just remember the best defense is a good offense.
thank you very much, haha :D very wise words there; and defense wins championships.
Good Evening All,
Been an interesting day. Never logged on from the shop as the net went down before I could. A bit later we lost one leg of our three phase power and it was still down when I left at 5pm. Lots of rain and wind all day but no trees down yet this time. Got home and had a little water here and there around the edges of the basement but nothing bad. The backyard however is under water in the low area down by the park.
Chris - if you are losing lots of headlights through burnouts try having a look at the grounds for the lights. Frequently the clever folks at VW put the grounds together in one area and run a bolt into the chassis there. If that area also gets corroded from the close proximity of the battery you get a weak ground and bulbs that burn out to soon. And see, THAT boss does care enough not to order you out in bad conditions. Did you ever have your expectations meeting?
Keith - Looking for DC advise on a DCC only website is probably going to get confusing. Try searching here or in some of the magazine articles for the care and feeding of turnouts. The PECO turnouts are power routing and will shut off the line not used. The electrofrog turnouts also turn off the route not used. If you have gotten electrofrog turnouts that's fine, the difference is the electro frog uses a powered (electrified) frog, the insulfrog uses an insulated (unelectrified) frog. This electrified frog is helpful for very short power units with few pickups on the wheels (040 and the like). Trouble shooting circuits is an exercise in logic and patience. turning all the blocks off (you do have blocks right?) and checking them one at a time is recommended . Do you have any areas where the locomotive can turn and head back from whence it came? Those areas need special care and isolation from the rest of the track. The Atlas layout books or the Kalmbach how to wire your layout books are good resources as well as the forum here. Hope that helps some.
Lee - let me know how the sound decoder works out on the 44tonner. I have 3 now (plus two brass kits) and can't see how to fit sound in them. I do have two 1amp NCE N decoders in two of them (hard wired) that work well but it was a struggle to fit even them.
Sam - sounds like you had quite the memorable first day. If that's all the hazing you get while you break in it'll be pretty good. At least you weren't directed to a unit going the wrong way. Learning the ropes is gonna be fun, eh? Reminds me of learning to drive a semi-truck........
Ray - hopefully you caught the leak before it did too much damage.
Jim - good luck with your new acquaintance. Not sure I'd be comfy with that online stuff. I met my wife at night machine shop class on a bet from one of my coworkers. We were just starting and my friend asked was the wierd kid in the bib overalls, flannel shirt, boots and pony tail sticking out of a knit cap a dude or a chick to which i replied of course it's a chick (my eyesight was much better back then). At any rate a challange was issued and I walked over to this person who was finishing up from a retraining program and said hi. The reply would get us all banned from here, but I perservered and after several meetings at class she agreed to meet me outside class. The rest as they say is history,
Well I think I'll get some tacos and a glass of wine and hang for a while. CUL, J.R.
JimRCGMOGood Afternoon, Zoe - How's the new place and location shaping up - what? Before the switcher got there, Vinnie shipped all the pieces of the pie-a-paults in a container heading back across the Pacific pond? Boy, that'll take a lonnnnnnngggg while for (ahem!...) certain parties to find and get back set up here. (Now I do recall one Diner who said something about he had lots of them, but I'm not sure what Vinnie's thoughts on that might be)
Vinnie keeps muttering that no matter how many that certain person has they will ALL be rendered sawdust----
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Just spent some time cleaning out my desk and found my trip charts from last summer. We did a little over 3,100 miles in the last summer doing the photo stuff. It looks like we may be seeing about the same considering the roadtrips planned this coming summer
Evening all. Glad to see that the diner was moved to its new track without trouble. Thanks Ulrich.
Rob, I know what you mean about wet....its getting pretty sloppy down here, starting to make me rethink my not wanting a vehicle with 4WD...., or getting another boat...
Well today was a day off from w**k and I spent it doing practically nothing, had to go and retrieve the front porch swing as the high winds blew it off today, also did some laundry and my monthly bug spraying. Other than that I did absolutely nothing, took a good, long nap! And for tonight I'm going to continue to do nothing, although I did make dinner tonight for Amy and the girls. I'll be sure to bring the left over spaghetti, salad, and garlic cheese bread in afterwards.
Welp, that's about it for me, guess I'll get going, I'm getting "the look" (the look that means "please, please, please get off the computer and do SOMETHING!"), so I'll be off, probably be on here later.
Good Afternoon, Zoe - How's the new place and location shaping up - what? Before the switcher got there, Vinnie shipped all the pieces of the pie-a-paults in a container heading back across the Pacific pond? Boy, that'll take a lonnnnnnngggg while for (ahem!...) certain parties to find and get back set up here. (Now I do recall one Diner who said something about he had lots of them, but I'm not sure what Vinnie's thoughts on that might be)
Zoe, I'll have a Santa Fe mug and a slice of that delicious thing that Ulrich brought in from Petra's kitchen (I hope she's sharing her recipes with our cook in here), please. Thanks!
Somewhat breezy cool in Cape Girardeau today. Never did see the 'sn*w showers' that the weather prognosticators were talking about this morning, but I'm okay with that. Hoping they will be wrong on this Thursday's forecast also.
One nice thing about having Diners from 'Oz' to Germany is, when we need to move the Diner to a new location, there's always somebody who's likely to be up, no matter what time of the day or night it is. Thanks, Ulrich!
Sheesh, from looking at Sam's, Rob's and Ray's posts, this has NOT been a good day for some of you Diners! Hope tomorrow goes MUCH better for you guys (and the rest of you, too).
And I hope you get better to where you can get your 'Diner' installed on your layout, Jeff!
A bit busy today at w**k, but THAT is not unusual for a Monday. Six clients in walk-in, plus a few phone calls. Thus, the late stop by the Diner...
Was going to backup my iTunes music folder to an external drive (with a bit less than 38GB on it). Found out THAT ain't enough room... I did get an answer on my question about a newer, bigger backup drive, though. And since I sent off my federal tax return (for refund) over the weekend, I should have enough for THAT - and some MRR'ing stuff left over besides!
MRR'ing will be tonight - club meeting tonight, and I'll see if my order is in yet (or not). Haven't heard from the club member/LHS owner, so it might be still be sitting on Walthers' loading dock.
Have yourself a hearty dinner tonight, Diners, but leave some room for that tasty dessert Ulrich brought in.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evening all. Chloe, I'll take a RBF, thanks.
I see we've moved again; thanks Ulrich for handling that.
I can't hang, sorry. It seems like every day, I have less and less time to spend on the forums...=(
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AmanaMedicPackers#1And then in the scrum their 8 man picked it up and pretty much palm-punched our scrum half's nose (probably broke it; blood was spurting out apparently or something, and he had blood in his mouth etc.) and it just devolved from there. Sounds like a T-shirt I saw once, it said: "Give blood, play rugby." Yer a brave lad...probably a bit "touched in the head,", but a brave lad nonetheless SAWYER.
Packers#1And then in the scrum their 8 man picked it up and pretty much palm-punched our scrum half's nose (probably broke it; blood was spurting out apparently or something, and he had blood in his mouth etc.) and it just devolved from there.
Sounds like a T-shirt I saw once, it said: "Give blood, play rugby."
Yer a brave lad...probably a bit "touched in the head,", but a brave lad nonetheless SAWYER.
yeah, our coach has a bumper sticker that says that and believe me, I'll get one and put it on my car, lol
haha, thank you very much sir. I'm crazy and I'm PROUD lol
Good afternoon.... I just checked with THAT about staying home tonight (not going to Oxford for the board meeting). She looked out the window in Solon and said "oh my God, I didn't realize how bad out it is...yes, PLEASE, stay home!"
Well yes Ma'am!
Now, I get to worry about Loving Wife as she makes her way home. It isn't the snow (only about an inch), it's the 30 mph winds making white-outs, and freezing the snow as it blows across the road THAT's making things downright IDLH out there.
THAT's: Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health...for the non-OSHA among us.
On the RR front, I did a little trackplanning yesterday...stretching and relocating parts of the MR trackplan to fit my space. It mostly w**ks...needs a little "tweak" here and there. I'm not happy with the CCP yard, and haven't come up with anything I like for Quaker Oats yet. On paper, it looks like a lot of track, a lot of yard track...and in N-sane scale, it'd be great. In HO (which the plan is), it's a lot of track, but not a whole lot of capacity. But, the original plan was designed for 40' cars. I'm gonna have 39' single-bay Airslides, lots of 50-52' boxcars, 50-55' hoppers, and 40-50' tank cars; so I'm already compromising the capacity with longer stuff.
Fun. Really...lots and lots of fun.
I got a little farther/further on the roundhouse today in-between weather/road updates. The goofy "cement" ramp on the front of the Atlas structure had vexed me. Originally, I dropped weathered sections of track in, and burried them to the tops of the rusted rails in dirt/gravel. Looked OK...but just kept bugging me. So...I dug out THAT crap, and put in DAP Bondex Patching Plaster. Looks much, much, much better!
Another "why didn't I do THAT the first time?" moment...
Chloe? Bucket of coffee please...yep, at the RC
Well, can't remember if I told y'all about the scrimmage yesterday, so anyways, I'll tell it again (pretty positive I didn't).
The first scrimmage was agaisnt Lexington, and we fared pretty well. I learned a lot and got some more experience. and then we scrimmaged Gilbert. That was called before the first half was over b/c it was abt to get real ugly and probably have a fight. It started when one Gilbert guy was getting smacked out of bounds b/c the try line (out of bounds line) was, well, pretty much invisible. And then in the scrum their 8 man picked it up and pretty much palm-punched our scrum half's nose (probably broke it; blood was spurting out apparently or something, and he had blood in his mouth etc.) and it just devolved from there. We'll see both those teams later in the season when we've got much more playing experience; lexington's scrum half is from Belgium and Gilbert was #1 int he state the past three years.