Galaxy: When they did the operation on me to put the ICD in they did basically the same thing without the general anaesthetic ...man, the feeling of someone poking and prodding in my upper chest to make room for the ICD was something else!! I can see how that must feel to have that going on there!!!
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Good Evening - Quack!
Are we down to the ducks now? Well, here is one of my favorite:
A somewhat boring afternoon which I tried to fill searching the web fo more ideas. I found a page on building a modular N scale layout. The guy is a genius! He found a very efficient way of building small modules to be arranged to a bigger layout. Just take a look here
It is all in Japanese, but, although a little tedious, clicking through is worthwhile!
TTFN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RjuC9YeXg
So there....
Sure could of done with out the Disco Duck.
Welcome back galaxy!
Been dead today so far at work. Not a soul has came in other than me so far but the day is still young!
Ken
I hate Rust
Disco duck.
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"Schools out for summer"......No wait, I'm getting ahead of myself . Plus that song is a few generations away from my generation.
Good to see Galaxy is doing good. I have a headache so I guess it shows I was listening in school. Got some homework but not much. Gotta study for a few tests thou. Maybe later I can get some done.
Have a good evening guys!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Galaxy .. Thanks for informing us. Prayers continue that you weel heel completely from teh surgery and this will be the end of back pain for you.
Ducks. ... I prefer Donald Duck over the other cartoon ducks.
GARRY
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Heartland Division CB&Q Ducks. ... I prefer Donald Duck over the other cartoon ducks.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
That's despicable
Well I got the stakes on the work caboose. That doesn't sound hard right? I had to file the end of each one so they would fit. The next step will be to cut and mount the wooden slats. Doesn't sound hard right? I don't have any scale lumber so I'll have to cut my own. Doesn't sound hard? I don't have the tools for that so each piece will have to be carefully cut from a craft stick and filed down until it's at least near scale thickness. That's gonna take some time.
Coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Jeffrey, at least You can figure out how to do those details. Do you use a magnifier or is your eyesight still good?
Wife approved of the latest work done on her (HO) layout. Made me run her train, too. First with a log load, then a few circus box cars. Track still has a couple bad spots, both being switches. Added some "junk" around the Sons Of Anarchy building.
Daffy gets my vote!
Cheers! Rob
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey, at least You can figure out how to do those details. Do you use a magnifier or is your eyesight still good?
My internet service is making like it's part of a military academy. It keeps falling out.Progress photos on the work caboose.
Good Lord, I go on a train trip and when I come back to the Diner, Ducks all over the Diner, I even slipped on the steps going into the Diner.
No Sciatica pain for 3 months now thank the good Lord, of course the "rack" that they put me on for many sessions brought me from a reduced 5'-8 1/2" to nearly my once adult height of 5- 10". Now my pants fit better too LOL.
I am about to get back to trains again now that the holidays are over and the wife's misc jobs are all done ( gee , I wonder for how long , hmmmmmm , I had better hide ).
I hope you guys have all been well, I see some of the old gang here tonight, I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. I sure remember the years when Duke, Ed and Fergie would dance on the table tops here until 5 in the morning, and poor John would just shake his head.
I received an HH660 for Christmas, this was the first Diesel that ran on the old Boston and Albany main line out of Worcester, it was used mostly for yard duty back in 1939, the year I was born, wow that was a long time ago wasn't it ? It is undecorated so I plan to paint it the original color and B&A markings.
Weatherwise , we have clobbered here lately, two Blizzard's and 4 more inches today, now ice, then more snow on Friday, another big one with over 6". I don't know where we will put the snow, I have the snow blower shooting as high as it will go now. If it is heavy wet snow on Friday, I am screwed, it won't throw it that high with the banks so high now.
Well, that's it for now, good to see you guys again,
Bon Soir mais amis
blownout cylinder Galaxy: When they did the operation on me to put the ICD in they did basically the same thing without the general anaesthetic ...man, the feeling of someone poking and prodding in my upper chest to make room for the ICD was something else!! I can see how that must feel to have that going on there!!!
I didn't mind so much being awake as much as I did feeling the PAIN I was feeling while he was cutting me open, excising the tumor and cutting it out and the needles going in to stitch me up in two layers- one degradeable and one to be removed next week. The tuging and pulling wasn't so bad, but the stabbing pains - well not so much liking it.
I just wish someone had told me I WAS GOING TO AWAKE durning the proceedure too!
ALSO...after we did some errands today {allowed} I had MOH do a quick look-see at it and MOH said it had some ooze and was puffy {due for the ice pack anyway at the time}, so I hope that cures up quick. If it doesn't stop by tomorrow or so or gets worse, i will have to go have it looked at, as it shouldn't be doing that.
The pain of having the surgery still superceeds any idea of feeling of any accomplishment towards easing my overall chronic back pain. TO early yet to tell, but I don't hold hope as doing The right side didn't accomplish a thing towards that.
Oh well, what is done is done and i suppose I little worse for the wear.
The big errand today was to pick up the Grand Caravan for a tranny repair at Firestone costing about $675 dollars. I got in the mail last week a coupon for what I THOUGHT was 20% off work done, but was only 20 DOLLARS off. I was so disappointed that it was only $20 off, not 20%. Then I get home and get in the mail today a coupon for 15% off up to $75 of repairs from Firestone. I called back to the store to provide the humorous note that I got it, and he said bring it tomorrow maybe the manager can do something with it. I hope so! That will drop the repair to about $600.00 even. I could use that $75.00 and I DO spend a lot at Firestone on repairs/maintenance/inspections/etc for both vehicles. The Kia is due for inspection in March adn I need a lifetime frontend alignment done on teh Kia as the Kia dealer found the tires out of whac after only 4K miles by a realatively high amount for brand new tires. I'm not sure a frontend alignment has ever been done ont he Kia. It is becoming evident that a lot of things were nto done on the Kia. Apparently the previous owner bought it figured to drive it 4 years for as little maintenance as possible and trade her in.
Speaking of the Kia Sedona minivan, it goes in THursday for motor mount replacements as the existing ones ahve deteriorated. It only took them 4 months to get them and all the parts necessary to do the job in to the repair shop. It will take a good half day's solid work to replace tehm, but it covered under warrantee. Yippee.
WEll, I have bored you all enough already, ahve a great evening!
TTYALLL8R
-G .
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HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Evening all.
Haven't been in in a week. Extremely busy.
Hockey every other day, and then studying for exams. Was supposed to have the first two (theology and physics) today, but the snow kept us out of school. So we'll be having those two tomorrow.
No time to stay and talk and/or catch up, so I'll see you guys later.
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Here is my favorite Duck. A Mallard at that!
Galaxy Glad you are back and hope you heal up quackly going with the Duck Theme.
Not going to get rich with days like today! Had one customer today but they did buy a $300.00 queen set. All most hate to say it, but it is a good mattress set with a 10 year warranty.
Guess I am fighting with the Idiots on my day off! Called unemployment 3 times today and no one returned my phone calls. Plus I got a letter today telling me the new phone interview is on 01-31-2011! My last check was before Christmas, how do they think people can live on nothing for over 30 days? Thank God I am working and going full time next week!
mmmm...stepping over 2 ducks and almost sitting on one....
Maybe I should ask about turduken....
oh good...they left quickly...
blownout cylinder Maybe I should ask about turduken....
jeffrey-wimberly blownout cylinder: Maybe I should ask about turduken.... Don't even think about it brother!
blownout cylinder: Maybe I should ask about turduken....
Don't even think about it brother!
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Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me if you would please.
Well.......... (deep subject) Today has been a lot of wasted time at least where the hobby is concerned. I spent most of the day getting caught up with all the bookwork for the MLK Service and Art an Poetry Contest. Emailed information over to the schools and asked fo9r them to please check spelling of the winners names. Two buildings got back to me within minutes with several changes. Haven't heard a thing from the other 4.... they will wait until i send the list into the local paper and it gets published wrong... Then they will send me a nasty email telling me I screwed up.... This happens every year. I then send them an email asking why they never got back to me with the corrections.
Then I started getting several emails from the Deacons who have self declared themselves as creating a dinner party before the next meeting to say goodbye to our associate Pastor who is leaving to take a parish in NJ... There were things like, "I could call the church secretary to set up the times..." 5 minutes later and before the Moderator can get back and say yes or no, he emails back saying all set! They hadn't actually decided the schedule yet. So I emailed back and asked if some others were taking over. she was starting to get annoyed and didn't know quite what to do. Several conference emails followed. she took my advise, and everything appears to be back as they should. One of the things i told her to do was to start handing out assignments to these people. I later sent an emailk to all of them raising a point of order that 4 members and 2 non current mambers of the board were making decisions that should rightfully be made by consensus of the entire board, not by 4 people. Dead silence for a couple hours. Then I get an email from one saying, As always, Ray, you make a correct call. We do need to get the vote of the entire board. When I got home tonight there was an email from the Moderator who said, I agree, that's why i like having you around for a mentor. Thanks!
Oh, I was at a meeting of my High School Class Reunion ad hoc committee tonight. Class of 1964. We are planning our 50th. reunion! Have no idea who most of the old pharts were that were there or the elderly Frumpy ladies were either. Supposedly I went to high School with them. Was enjoyable to see so many of them again. Had about 20 people there. Two others and myself were given the credit for getting this going. We never had a 40th. Sad to see the list of classmates who have passed away. 33 of them. Several were close friends in high school that I had lost track of.
OK, I have rambled on long enough. Hope you all have a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Made some more progress.
Good evening. Cup o decaf please. Uh oh, somebody step on a duck? G! - Good to see you made it! Though with all the prayers I figured you would. Now the prayers are shifting to healing, tumor being benign, and of course, it alleviating some of the pain. Sorry about the surgery but I can sort of identify. Had a surgery done on my big piggies maaany years ago. In office but the Doc said I’d need the pain killers after I got home more than during. Thoughtful of him tho I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Nor the wire cutters and pliers it felt like he was using. I, um (ahem) lived through Disco. (whips into the classic John Travolta white suit pose). We disco’d down at my Proms. (does a very complicated move that is impossible to describe but you all are extremely impressed whether you realize it now or not.) Yup, even us “country boys” did a little Disco in our day. Dick- Welcome back! It still gets a bit out of control in here form time to time, though the New Years Eve parties have calmed quite a bit. Haven't had to repaint because of THAT in a while. And, in case you haven't noticed, the chandelier is gone. Jim's getting a bit older now and we figured it'd be best for him if nothing to hang/swing from.
Good evening. Cup o decaf please.
Uh oh, somebody step on a duck?
G! - Good to see you made it! Though with all the prayers I figured you would. Now the prayers are shifting to healing, tumor being benign, and of course, it alleviating some of the pain. Sorry about the surgery but I can sort of identify. Had a surgery done on my big piggies maaany years ago. In office but the Doc said I’d need the pain killers after I got home more than during. Thoughtful of him tho I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Nor the wire cutters and pliers it felt like he was using.
I, um (ahem) lived through Disco. (whips into the classic John Travolta white suit pose). We disco’d down at my Proms. (does a very complicated move that is impossible to describe but you all are extremely impressed whether you realize it now or not.) Yup, even us “country boys” did a little Disco in our day.
Dick- Welcome back! It still gets a bit out of control in here form time to time, though the New Years Eve parties have calmed quite a bit. Haven't had to repaint because of THAT in a while. And, in case you haven't noticed, the chandelier is gone. Jim's getting a bit older now and we figured it'd be best for him if nothing to hang/swing from.
Ken- Ya beat me too it! NCIS fans think alike.
My favorite duck I musty say is Daffy. Hi-lar-ee-us.
Time to hit the hay. PFTIN
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.
This place is quacking up. Time to fowl out! (So to "beak")
Dick .... Good to see you in the diner. Winter is nor over yet; is it? Sounds like you received a great Christmas present.
This evening, Gus, Dan and I went to Hopkinsville. A guy there has a great layout of the L&N and Clinchfield. Plenty of coal hauling. It has workingm realistic signals, too.
Good late evening/early morning all.
Galaxy glad to hear that you got out of your operation just fine, but continued prayers for a speedy recovery and the like.
Not much happening this rainy, cool, Alabama evening, we got rain falling on the roof and fog rolling in, going to be a overall nice night for sleeping. Although not sure if I will get much sleep tonight since Mikayla (my 1 year old) has an ear infection and isn't sleeping too much herself.
Found out some interesting news about my wife today, apparently she's been looking into getting me a MRR subscription so that I can stop buying it off the newsstand and possibly missing a month. Not complaining at all, and of course when the first issue arrives in the mail I'll be extremely happy, but I dunno, wish that perhaps she'd told me.... Oh well.
And on the duck front, my vote would most certainly have to go with Daffy! He's the greatest. Kinda quacks me up, you know....
Welp, that's it for me, time to go and inspect my eyelids for light leaks.
Later Taters!
Good Morning Everyone!
Seems as if winter is coming back to our neck of the woods. No snow yet, but the weather guessers predict a drastic drop in the temperature as well as a lot of precipitation, which usually means snow. Not really a comforting thought for the folks in the flooded areas. I am glad that we are "high and dry" at an elevation of 100 ft. above sea level.
Barry - roasted duck, yummy! Add dumplings and red cabbage and you have a good old fashioned German meal.
Ken - how´s that for a Mallard:
This loco is said to hold the world speed record at a little over 125 mph. 3 of them are still in working order and can be seen heading steam specials throughout the year in UK.
Bama - hey, that´s really nice of your wife! I can see nothing wrong in her surprising you with a subscription of MR. Mine will be running out with the April copy and I still will not be able to renew it. It is an either/or situation - either subscribe to MR, or go back to active MRRing. No question which way I will go, but I know I will miss my monthly "MR has arrived" day.
Galaxy - I have been through a similar experience, a surgery with local anesthesia. Man, I felt every single cut and scrape and nearly jumped off the table. Never again, I say!
Nothing much planned for the day - we did the weekly grocery run yesterday, so I will stay inside and maybe do a little tweaking of my layout plan(s).
Janie, just a mug of coffee and a bowl of muesli for me, please.
Y´ all have a good day!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...