Hey guys
My father let me borrow the dremel from his job. I was able to get some work done on some loco frames. I'm definentaly gonna get my own.
The 6 Walthers PS2 I got off the bay showed up today. The BN, CNW, UP, and Continental are all in perfect shape. the Pillsbury and Cargill are okay, just the previous owner wanted to have a hatch rainbow (all 4 hatches different colored) and the Pillsbury car doesn't have the pillsbury logo plates. Anyone know anybody that can print a sticker or decal of one so I can add the plate to my car?
Ray, from before they don't really let me go 110 anywhere. Doesn't mean I haven't done it before though (running from an ex-GFs parents, I was 17 at the time; lol).
Christmas season comes earlier and earlier, eh? I don't really care for it coming early, I don't even get my stuff up until the second week in december and it's down my new years. Although christmas sales aren't always a bad thing since my local Wally-world occasionally has athearn trainsets. Of course it's mainly to get cars (they come with a random genesis fright car too) and a loco and caboose I could repaint and re-use. Track and controller not really sure on.
John, that building is coming along nicely
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.
Good evening Diners: Did a bit of scratch building today. I've been wanting a dust collector to add visual interest to my mill/bakery complex. I was playing around the other day with an old silica gel capsule from (probably) a vitamin bottle. I've used one of these as a tank at my fish oil plant. It's the single mid-sized one in this shot from years ago. For the dust collector I needed a cone, and the cap of a test solution for a blood sugar meter provided one of about the same diameter as the gel thing. So, I had glued one to t'other and put in on a roof of the mill. I noticed in the photo of the arches wall that it was still sitting there! So, today I cut up some styrene sheet to make a frame and legs, and dug into my odd bits box for parts for a vent. The inlet duct is heat shrink tubing, and the exit pipe below the cone a bit of plastic rod that started life as a shoe brace in a new pair of shoes! Here it is in place, with all its parts showing, and now, with a base coat of grey. The slight sheen on the top of the collector is wet paint - this is breaking news folks!
Rob: I had been waiting to see how I'd do that collector before tackling the feed bin project. Now, I think I could have a shot at that. So, please email me the photos again (I lost the originals when I lost my hard drive) The bottom cones may be a challenge, but perhaps stiff paper will do. I do have some paper-thin styrene sheet, we'll see.
JR:
If you get a chance get the carb top off and see if there is "stuff" on the needle and seat and in the float chamber. Happens a lot when the things just sit.
A rain day today - which is good, we need it. Meant I had to use the treadmill after dinner rather than get a walk. Not nearly as pleasant, or as effective - but there it is.
Looks like bed time again. Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort, prosperity and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evening guys, nothing new here.
Just finished dinner with the family, so nothing for me thanks. My parents just got off of their soapboxes about healthcare and car repair.
Oh, and before I forget, am I glad I live out in the country. For me, Halloween means harvesting, and I hate Halloween anyway. Don't ask me why, I just do.
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If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Evening guys!
Other half got called into work so I eat alone.
Meatloaf dinner please. The Lean Cuisine model, please.
howmus Went to BJ's Wholesale yesterday to pick up a few items I needed. BJ's is the only "Big Box" store THAT I will even walk into. Walked into the main part of the store and the first display........... Complete with flashing lights, plastic tress, and a Santa....... Yep Christmas sales!!! I stopped, looked around, saw a couple guys with their carts not far away in the main isle, and shout at the top of my lungs, "Holy $*%%, is it Halloween already!!!! Sixteenth of SEPTEMBER??????? The two guys laughed, shook their heads and said they agreed 100% with me. Well, I now have crossed THAT store off my list of places I will shop. If I can't get it somewhere else, I don't need it! Oh, oh here comes the OK, I'll be quiet...
Went to BJ's Wholesale yesterday to pick up a few items I needed. BJ's is the only "Big Box" store THAT I will even walk into. Walked into the main part of the store and the first display........... Complete with flashing lights, plastic tress, and a Santa....... Yep Christmas sales!!! I stopped, looked around, saw a couple guys with their carts not far away in the main isle, and shout at the top of my lungs, "Holy $*%%, is it Halloween already!!!! Sixteenth of SEPTEMBER??????? The two guys laughed, shook their heads and said they agreed 100% with me. Well, I now have crossed THAT store off my list of places I will shop. If I can't get it somewhere else, I don't need it! Oh, oh here comes the OK, I'll be quiet...
Well your BJ's must be behind my Sams Club who already had Xmas stuff out already a month ago! And Halloween stuff started appearing in mid-August around here when back to school supplies were out! The idea is that they have all this seasonal stuff to unload and want to unload it at as near to regular prices as they can. They don't wnat a bunch of leftover xmas stuff to unload at fire sale prices after xmas. The earlier they can sell it at full price, the better their profit margins are. The retailers over-ordered for xmas, banking the economy would turn around the second half of this year. It hasn't so there may be all kinds of deals this year. On everything.
I already got my other half a present...an Nscale GG1 in Tuscan Red that was desired. It is the only real present, maybe besides a few warm clothing items I will give this year. I will get a SHark steam mop as an early xmas present and that, besides maybe a few warm clothing items is all I will get this year. We just can't afford it this year, unless there pops up some super buys the Day aFter Thanksgiving that are REAL bargains on something we can really use! Like a new snow blower!
GMTRacing Well Ray, soon the stores will be like your neighbors who never take their lights down. Just leave the display up year round no one will really notice. And what about the Christmas Tree Shop or whatever it is?
Well Ray, soon the stores will be like your neighbors who never take their lights down. Just leave the display up year round no one will really notice. And what about the Christmas Tree Shop or whatever it is?
WEll GMT...quick lesson in that... Christmas Tree Shops started on Cape Cod in MA. as-you guessed it a Christmas merchandising store in Yarmouth MA. The people who bought it many years ago, the Bilezekians, found they could as well buy and sell closeouts and import other goods cheaply as well as sell Christmas Stuff year round. SO they opened several more stores on the Cape and offered lots of merchandise of other household uses...cheaply. MAny people went to the Cape just to shop at Christams Tree SHops and they also built a few stores off the Cape in MA and RI. It became "destination Shopping" for many tourists who went to the cape just to shop at one of the 8 stores on the Cape. Each store was architecturally different from the others, including the Sagamore Store which had a real Full English Thatched Roof and a Windmill wheel. Enter Bed Bath & Beyond, who a few years ago found out about it and the "destination shopping" and shall we say made an offer to buy the Christmas Tree SHops and its importing company, Nantucket Distributing, that couldn't be beat. B,B&B has expanded Christmas Tree Shops around the NE US as a larger chain selling all seasonal merchandise as well as continuing the importing and closeouts of household usefull goods sold cheaply. So while the title has Christmas in it, it is NOT just Chrismas Stuff, though it started out that way. People still will flock to the stores across the NE as "destination shopping" still, and others just find good things cheaply at their Neighborhood Christmas Tree Shops store. {I used to work there when I lived on the Cape, that's how I know}
Well, maybe we get to test the furnace tonight and see if it works right now after yesterday's repair job. It wasn;t that cold in the house today so it didn't need to run but tonight is supposed to be about 45* so amybe it will ahve to run to toasty up the house a bit. Not that I am by any means looking to burn nat gas for heat anytime soon!
It supposed to cool down all over the country a bit, so I hope everyone stays warm!
TTY'ALLL8r
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Evening folks, Flo guess I am having Chile Dog's and a baked potato and mug of
Jeffery Seems you are having your own Lawnmower wars. When I took back my new POS I asked wht there was no choke or throttle control's. Seems the EPA think we are to stupid to understand how they work. They where taken away so we don't run them to fast or with the choke on. Thanks EPA!
Todd Did not need to know you post with no pants on! There somethings we should keep to our self's!
Ray Thanks for the kind words about the dead DT 400. Do you have a DT 402? Reason I ask is while mine is in for repairs I was wondering if it was worth up grading?
GMT Have not seen you at the dinner for some time now. Wanted to thank you for your advices in the Floor War's. Besides the staples, I all so used glue and screws. I don't think the Luna is going any where soon! Today I moved into the hall way and getting the old track strips up from the old carpet has been a pain! I had for gotten there use to be a hallway closet when I bought the house. We turned the third bedroom into a dinning room. When we did that (while we where moving in) they had to take the bedroom and hall closet out. In the hallway they dry walled over the the metal track strip. It took 45 minutes to get it out with out damaging the drywall.
Train Front, I am up and Rolling! Hooked up the Bachmann E-Z and I am sure glad I did not sell it off! Changed a few address with Decoder Pro and I am up and running. I did sell off the booster I had for it, but don't sell it short. With only 1 amp power I am running 3 trains with around 80 cars and 5 engines. While I do miss the speed control the DT 400 has but other than that, I am fine with it.
Time to build a Athearn Rio Grand Hopper and watch some NCIS on the computer.
Ken
I hate Rust
Hello everyone ....
Any prime ribs this evening?
LSWrr Garry, I would worry about the new bridges more than the old ones. In my area there are 2 spiral stone RR bridges being hammered by 70 trains/day. These were built form local stones and laid in a spiral pattern by mason’s pre civil war. They still pass all the safety/load/stress tests. None of the stones have required replacement. The approach stones are 3’ thick marble pavers and workers hand dug the foundations all the way down to bedrock. Now everybody is more concerned about workers hours and materials costs.
Garry, I would worry about the new bridges more than the old ones. In my area there are 2 spiral stone RR bridges being hammered by 70 trains/day. These were built form local stones and laid in a spiral pattern by mason’s pre civil war. They still pass all the safety/load/stress tests. None of the stones have required replacement. The approach stones are 3’ thick marble pavers and workers hand dug the foundations all the way down to bedrock. Now everybody is more concerned about workers hours and materials costs.
Lee ...... Feel free to post pix of them. Also, there were a lot of very poorly made bridges in the 1800's. Ashtabula comes to mind. .... Part of my RR career was budgeting. Like any business, costs must be optimized. Much of my time was before deregulation and ICC was a pain back then. .... Here the highway bridges over water are old and falling apart. A big accident waiting to happen.
Where are the MIA's? Seems quiet. I look in briefly earlier when I posted in WPF a photo of a GN passenger train..
Cheers.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Time to head on out. FWIW Rob, a bad battery can present as a bad starter (hard to start, clicking, solenoid kick-out, etc) and a load tester will usually point it out. I also have had bad batteries mess up the starter solenoid so there you go. All depends on how busy Mr. Murphy is today. J.R.
Italian Roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Turns out now the pickup truck battery will no longer take a good charge. Hmmmm, wonder if a bad starter could have killed it or if it's just a coincidence??? Will go ahead and replace that first, but I'm pretty sure the starter is still dead.
Have a good day y'all.
Rob
Yes indeed - the same commitee that designed the camel most likely. I was tongue in cheek with the old bit as I did read your post and did figure that the older tractor is the preferred weapon. The advice on the Mystery Oil still holds though and I'm afraid I don't know enough else about the "electronic " carb to offer any really useful advice though I'm sure someone here can. Be tempting to adjust it with a ball peen though after a couple of those episodes. J.R.
GMTRacing Jeff - sounds like the float is sticking a bit on the old tractor. If you get a chance get the carb top off and see if there is "stuff" on the needle and seat and in the float chamber. Happens a lot when the things just sit.
Jeff - sounds like the float is sticking a bit on the old tractor. If you get a chance get the carb top off and see if there is "stuff" on the needle and seat and in the float chamber. Happens a lot when the things just sit.
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Ray: My sister told me that the stuff for Hallowe'en is out in the retail display stores by Valentines Day and Xmas day stuff is out at Easter. Most craft stores will have their Xmas craft stuff out by August.
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Well Ray, soon the stores will be like your neighbors who never take their lights down. Just leave the display up year round no one will really notice. And what about the Christmas Tree Shop or whatever it is? J.R. (not yet out the door, just idling at the counter while the staff finds the travel mug he misplaced again.) Serves me right too - I get top of the page for lounging around - now where's Ryan when you need a menu doing - anyone for pizza today?
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakes and a side order of bacon, a glass of OJ, and a constant supply of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR Mug.
Ken, sorry to hear the DT-400 is fried. Hopefully Digitrax will fix it and get it back to you soon. I have an old DT-400 THAT has started doing some weird things also. It seems to w*rk fine after the system if up and running, but if it is plugged in when I fire up the system, nothing will work. I think it had to do with the times I knocked it on the floor while reaching for something else....... Since i have 3 other throttles, I don't use THAT one unless I have to (when guests come over to run trains....)
Currently 55°F outside the door here in the Finger Lakes. The high will get up to 61°F...... Maybe. I need to get a potato salad made for a picnic tomorrow, drive my son to the repair shop THAT is w*rking on his wife's car (should be done), and then load my truck with items to be taken to the hazardous waste recycling day at the county landfill. THAT should eat up most of today.
Oh thanks, Zoe, I do need a refill on the coffee.... Wait a minute, this is tea! Hmmmmm. Did someone order me a "Cup of Hemlock?" Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!
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!
Time to load up the excursion and head off to the blasters. A set of wheels to blast to bare and our neighbors truck light bar plus some bits and pieces. I'll pick up a finished engine out that way as well but first a stop at the not so LHS.
Jeff - sounds like the float is sticking a bit on the old tractor. If you get a chance get the carb top off and see if there is "stuff" on the needle and seat and in the float chamber. Happens a lot when the things just sit. A little ATF or some Marvel mystery Oil in the fuel will keep it from gumming up especially with the new fuels that lack everything in additives (except the alcohol). We even add fuel stabilizer to the race car fuel when they are going to sit for more than a month.
Todd I feel your pain. Tomorrow is laundry day with the remainder carrying over to Sunday. Oh well, off to bring more joy throughout the world. J.R.
Just got off the phone with Dave at Digitrax. Looks like my one and only throttle is fried. Told him what it was doing, and it was doing some really odd stuff and he never heard of the problem's before.
What the heck am I going to do not being able to run trains for 2 weeks?
Hum, well I still have the E-Z command. Luckily I use decoder pro so I can change the address.
One of the things I was hopping to find at the swap meets was a spare throttle.
Good morning.
I cancelled dentist as the partial seems adjusted for now. I wear it half the day and let the tissues rest the other half.
My other half got called in for 8 hours of w**k today extra. It won't be overtime but will mean extra needed money as we had a furnace diagnostic bill to pay yesterday that resulted in a declaration taht the induced draft exhaust blower was short circuiting and staying on all the time. A simple reconnect of the ground seemed to solve that problem. Last night was not as chilly so the furnace wasn't needed this AM SO tonight {45*} may tell us if furnace is fixed.
Robby P. Yeah the "placement test" is primarily to determine if you need to take any "oh-ninety" courses to update you to the college entrance standards. the "090" courses are precursors to the "100" starter college courses. Not a big sweat test. It will tell you what you need to do to get caught up. You will do well to know where you stand.
WEll, I have some chores such a s laundry, dishwasher and cleaning to see how much I can get done.
Leaves are turning and falling here, but not as bad as the "north country" of NYS.
TTY'ALLL8R
Jeff- I would assume Roundup works on it. Problem is, most of it grows in the waterways and along the roads and such. When the fields are spryed with Roundup, the truck turns the spray off as it goes through the waterways because, as we all know, Roundup is not selective as to what it kills and grass is desirable in the waterways and along the roads to aaid in lessening erosion. ( that sounded almost as if I know what I'm talking about. )The waterways are usually mowed with a drag mower behingd the tractor so no problems there. But along the places thetractor won't fi, it's weedeater time. Now that is a splattery mess. The thing has hollow stems and a somewhat fiberous, I guess is a good way to describe it, and juicy. It splatters everywhere and a large amount splats all over the operator. I usually look like I sat in the front row of a Gallagher show without the plastic for the Sledge-O-Matic routine.
Welp, britches are dry so off I go........
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good morning. Not much going on here today. I'm just trying to get over yesterday. I was using my father's little Yardman rider mower to pull the trailer the weeds were loaded into. What a piece of crap! I've never seen this behavior from a Kohler engine before. It runs OK for work like mowing where it's running all the time but on jobs where it will be shut down between runs it sucks. It seems to have a penchant for flooding out. When that happens, the spark plug has to be removed and dried. The crank then has to be turned several times to expel the excess gas then the spark plug can be reinstalled. Only then will it crank again. It didn't take but a couple of times of that for me to break out the old tractor.
TMarshTHIS is the weed I tear down in the waterways and along the ditches and along the fence rows. I don't think it's irritating to skin, but people are different. I myself am not allergic to Poison Ivy. Neither was my Grandfather on my Mom's side. My son can't even see the stuff without breaking out. That may be why I don't break out too. Then again, my buddy doesn't break out, I don't think, and he's allergic to Poison Ivy. Here's a better picture . Stuff gets pretty tall.
Good Morning! Coffee. Lot's of coffee please. Tossed and turned until 2 am last night. Up at 6. Plenty to do today and I've just been tasked with one trip to town by my perfect wife.Must figure how to sew it into my shhhhedu-all. Big Fall Festival is tomorrow. I hope the rain stays away, Brenda has worked so hard to get this thing going again. No rain was forecast until yesterday morn with a 30% chance of scattered T-storms and showers. Or Showers and T-storms. Today, it's just a 10% chance of showers. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed for good weather.
Ken- THIS is the weed I tear down in the waterways and along the ditches and along the fence rows. I don't think it's irritating to skin, but people are different. I myself am not allergic to Poison Ivy. Neither was my Grandfather on my Mom's side. My son can't even see the stuff without breaking out. That may be why I don't break out too. Then again, my buddy doesn't break out, I don't think, and he's allergic to Poison Ivy. Here's a better picture . Stuff gets pretty tall.
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Well it's 8 already and I sould be outta here. Still have a few minutes on the dryer to get my britches out.
Ya'll have a Great Day now ya hear?!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
GMTRacing Jeff - are you sure those aren't sunflowers you're describbing?
Jeff - are you sure those aren't sunflowers you're describbing?
Mourning Flo, may I have a English Muffing with butter and a Dew Please?
der 5997 Thanks for posting pictures of your layout, I enjoyed looking at them.
Todd What does poison hemlock look like? If you touch it, will it cause you to break out? Reason I ask, there is something in my yard that cause's me to break out when I am cutting down brush and trees. I know what poison ivy looks like, have some growing on the house behind rose bushes where I can't get to it. Last week I cut down some trees so I could get the lawnmower in the shed with out fighting the trees. Now I have a rash on my arms.
Ulrich Don't feel alone (I know that is of no help) but I am in the same boat except I still have the house. I had been doing OK financially till this month. Bank took me out of forbearance and raised the house payment from $481.00 to the original $925.00.
Floor Wars Just a few more tiles and the kitchen will be done. Got more tiles yesterday so I can do the hallway. It should go pretty easy with there being no sub floor problems. Funny thing about it, sort of sad it is all most done. Gave me something to look forward to.
Train Front Had a nice secession last night and got another Swap Meet car in services.
Today is a different story! This mourning when I fired up the Empire Builder it is acting all sorts of Goofy! When the SEP is at rest the DT 400 should say Idle on the read out. Not today, it says Kdng? When the system is fully power up I cannot control the trains. I hope I just pushed the wrong button while the DT 400 was laying on the desk and I was working on the coal car.
I will be on the phone with Digitrax as soon as they open this mourning.
Wish me luck folks.
Good morning. It rained pretty much of the day yesterday, but I did see NY got slammed. We got lucky with the storms.
Yesterday went and bought another air-brush gun. One will be used for enamel paint, and the other for acrylic paint. I'm getting things lined up for the show. Monday I will mail out my form for the show, and start to get some cars lined up to weather.
Today, not much planned. Maybe clean the house and just take it easy.
Chris.......The student loan part will be used for the one semester (I hope). I was to late on filing for a grant. The wife has student loans, and they are up to $48,000 +. I don't want anything like that!! Something as simple as a student loan really effects your credit !!!! That's one reason our house re-fi fell through.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning, We had some strong storms last night; the town of Wooster was hit by a tornado. All is well on my side of town.GMT, the steel mill in East Chicago transports the molten steel across the river and the mill in Cleveland did it once upon a time. Cleveland still has a finishing/rolling mill on the opposite riverbank and a power plant but the only remaining BOF is near the blast furnace. The power plant runs off the gases given off when making iron in the blast furnace.Chris, sorry you had to go to a funeral, but it sounds like he had a good full life with several friends. Good weather is always a plus. Again sorry for the departments and your Loss.Garry, I would worry about the new bridges more than the old ones. In my area there are 2 spiral stone RR bridges being hammered by 70 trains/day. These were built form local stones and laid in a spiral pattern by mason’s pre civil war. They still pass all the safety/load/stress tests. None of the stones have required replacement. The approach stones are 3’ thick marble pavers and workers hand dug the foundations all the way down to bedrock. Now everybody is more concerned about workers hours and materials costs.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning All,
64F and drizzly here this morning. We were spared the extreme winds that hit NYC last evening and got just the rain instead. I for one am not complaining, last time we had big winds we had a large branch clobber the roof of a customers enclosed trailer. Instant sunroof!
No MRR progress yet, but I did get more of the Focus interior assembled last night. I have a plastic gauge panel to add and it was the wrong color so I used Krylon Fusion as a base coat and then matched it as best I could. The paint seems to have adheered well so we'll see if it holds up without peeling or flaking. That's always been an issue for plastic interior stuff. Might be a good thing on plastic buildings as well. The carrier still attacks extruded foam so a prime coat is still needed there. I didn't like the latex spray I got - too lumpy and it gets bubbles on the surface as well. Does go right over the styrofoam without attacking it though.
Time to get back in the shop and get to it.
Jeff - are you sure those aren't sunflowers you're describbing? CUL, J.R.
Good Day Folks!
Big ol' cup of coffee please.
Had some some storms roll through last night, tornado sirens were going off. It missed my location, but the power was out for about 3 hours. I hope to finish up the C&NW diorama this weekend, I have not worked on it for a few weeks. Hope everyone has a great day!
Steven
Good Morning everyone-
Welb, I got the colonoscopy done yesterday so today is hurry up and get those other dang things done before I go to the nuclear medicine people next week for the heart wall exam--that is to assess whether or not my heart will be able to take the defib or not.
First off my hd list thing includes more laundry as well as some minor housecleaning--such as gets done in here Then it is off to get the shopping done for the weekend seminar stuff as well as my on-call stuff This may take awhile though as we have to go to three separate stores to get the dang stuff
Chloe, I'll have the giant bucket o' caffeine and a couple of eggs--sunny side up--as well as a platter of pancakes with good ol' maple syrup as well please---I'll be at the window booth to watch the sun rise--
Good Morning Everyone,
Petra is off to her day at the GULAG, so I am all alone with a mile-long HD list. Laundry, cleaning house - all those fun and entertaining things. Thought I´d better drop by and get a good breakfast before I start on all of this.
Zoe, darling, coffee (lots of it) and two fried eggs, sunny-side up, bacon, a stack of pancakes/maple syrup and a tall glass of apple juice - thank you.
Chris - from what my grandfather told me, your statement of "Hogan´s Heroes" is quite right. POW camp guards were usually elderly men, who had absolutely no interest to play hero. Commanding officers were usually worn-out battle horses from WW I, who also had no interest to play it rough. Of course, there was the odd young and eager whipper-snapper, but that used to be the exception. Allied, non-Russian POW´s were treated fairly well, especially when the US Army started to pull into Germany at the end of 1944. Close to my father´s home town, there was a POW camp. One day, all "men" aged 15+, were commanded to search for a GI who had escaped from there. All of my father´s class had to join the hunt, only he was rejected as being "politically unreliable". That was good for him and the refugee, because he found him, took him home and gave shelter until they had to flee from the Red Army. Quite a risky thing, it meant instant death when giving shelter to a POW. Unfortunately, they have lost contact since, and my father never got to know, whether the bloke made it home safely.
On my "home front", there is no improvement in sight. Things are getting worse, as our government will be introducing cuts in welfare spendings, meaning that, with the beginning of next year, we will have a week´s worth of food less to spend. At the same time, they are discussing tax breaks... No, I won´t continue on this, as it would blow the rules of this forum.
Petra and I need a miracle to happen, if we want to stay alive. $ 600 a month (make that $ 450 on the basis of US prices) for food, clothing, communication and electricity does not carry you far. "Too little to live, too much to die"
You all have a good day!
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Morning, sedation please...
Well, another round of content has been created for THAT Editor, she'll be pleased as usual.
Later this morning, I'll be at the POW/MIA Day ceremony at the Solon High School. I'll be meeting WW2 vets who suffered and perservered in captivity. I'll be meeting history. Last year, the guys who were "guests" of the Germans told of stuff straight out of "Hogan's Heroes." The "guests" of the Japanese told of giving the guards chocolate X-Lax bars (while they ate Hershey's bars) THAT they had received at the end of hostilities via air-drop.
Needless to say, this is one assignment I am honored to be covering!
After being in the company of heroes, I'll return to the office for "facetime" with THAT. I'm sure she'll have another batch of assignments for me on top of football later tonight, and a car show on Saturday to cover. THAT will be "take your wife to w**k day" as she'll go along. Odds are, the BIL will take his...Kalimar GT to it, so I'll be mixing business with pleasure.
ULRICH: I hope you were able to get some sleep last night, a very good, good morning to you, and here's hoping things start looking at least a little better for you.
ROBBY P: Don't sweat THAT "pre-test," I think most people "bomb" it, to be honest with you. What chaffs my schmeckle is when kids straight out of high school "bomb" it, or need extensive remediation in the very subjects their brand new, ink still drying diploma attests THAT they have met proficiency standards in... For what its worth, more and more of Kit's duties are web graphics, or otherwise designing for the web. The college is doing more and more stuff online. She's also getting farther and farther into "social media." Personally, I still say "social media" is what one gets when they stick their "bits" someplace they shouldn't have... "I'm sorry Mr. Schlebotnik, but you seem to have 'social media' about your bits! Here's some penicillin, should wipe it out." I've noticed you keep saying people have suggested you go into something artistic, based on your weathering and MRR stuff. The bottom line is, what do YOU want to do?? Heck, I'm 41 years old (going on 14 most days), and I STILL don't know what I want to be "when I grow up." I'm just saying, if you're going to rack up student loan debt...it might be a good idea to have a pretty firm path to follow. Also, be careful. I ended up taking the maximum amount offered...as I was more or less living off of it AND trying to take care of a woman and her three kids. I'm still paying for THAT mistake... Actually, I'm in foreberance for the second consecutive time... Eventually, I'll be resuming payments on THAT loan... But, by doing so, it took something THAT could've been easily paid off in a few years, and turned it into a 10-year plus anvil hanging over my head.
As the cops say: use extreme caution...
Not sure if this will qualify for the soapbox or not... but yesterday a brand new jacket I ordered arrived. It is the exact same style as was worn in the 1970s on the TV show "EMERGENCY!" I first got one in '04 or '05 factory direct from Transcon Mfg., who happened to be the uniform provider for LACoFD then as well as LA City, and others. Now THAT I've...expanded...since then, it (the first one) fits fine unless I go to zip it. So, went to order a new one, a bit larger. Now, the company has been bought out by another firm. While they still have the jacket (Transcon was threatening to discontinue it then, and made it "special order"), they only sell through dealers. So, I found a shop in New Jersey THAT carries it. Turns out, when I ordered it, they then had to order it from the new company. Fine...took about the same amount of time to arrive, no biggee. What got me, was THAT instead of being made in downtown Los Angeles like it used to be, it is now a "product of Mexico."
Geesh, can't even get a fireman's jacket Made in the USA anymore...
A happy Yom Kippur to those of the Jewish faith.
Please honor our POW/MIA today, "you are not forgotten."
Chris
"We salute our armed forces, police officers, firefighters, and emergency personnel" - Mark Levin
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
A bowl of the House Stew, please.
Got the manure spreader back together with some replacement parts and it's ready for action. Next up is to finish work on the Polaris Ranger so I can pull the spreader with it. Next week I'll start on the pickup truck...ugh!
Will squeeze in some train time over the weekend. My goal is to finish the wife's (HO) town in the next couple weeks and then take a break from it all to work on some easel projects.
Have a good night y'all.
Cheers! Rob