I'll have a coffee and pancakes with bacon please.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Morning guys,
finally got 3 loads of laundry done yesterday. AND the sleepy factor fo the muscle relaxe Seems to be decreasing some. Need to ge tthe kitchen cleaned and dishwasher run today that is my goal.
It's not that I've been putting off chores, but when I take the muscle relaxer 3 times a day and sleep for 4 hours afterwards each dose....
MOH was getting itchy about the chores I was {not} neglecting. It is my job to keep house, as MOH works outside the home. I actually often have the higher income on my SSD, but it is my job to keep house. MOH understands my medical problems and bad back issues, and the reaction to the muscle relaxer, but hates to come home from work and have to do chores to. so I have to stay one step ahead and try to keep up.
The only thing I do that isn't a chore is check here and a few other forums for about an hour a day. and some chores, like runing laundry or the dishwasher after laoded, I can be free to be on here for awhile.
WEll I am sure i have bored those who actually read these things...
BTW curious.....WHo all reads all the posts on this thread, or do you skip and read only "friends threads?" I try to read them all, but the longer winded they are, I tend to start skimming and see what I may want to comment to. Otherswise it's just interesting to see what is going on in others lives, good or bad or indifferent.
Well, ahve a great day.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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.
Good morning. We went from 50 degrees to low 30's. I guess old man winter is back.
Not much planned today. Watch some football, and maybe later work on a train car. Not a very busy day for me.
Have a good morning everybody.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Ken: The system I have here is rather small compared to yours. We have a pair of home built monos with 300B tubes...all of 100 watts...using EPI 100 watt monitor speakers...they be plenty loud enough for this house...At one time I had a MacIntosh amp running a pair of Klipsch corner speakers...
BTW...did you do the open header thing in a metal driveshed? I love the Impulse Responses that gives...
Ray: According to one fellow on a music forum I'm part of he had something quite similar done using his younger bros lego blocks...it sounded quite good There is one guy up here is making one using cedar plank...
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Good Morning..
We got some dull dull dull with snowflurries this morning...with our high at 20F ---slight change from...oh...56F yesterday...
We are all up and getting some things picked up for the church pantry this morning...a bunch of stores donated some food stuffs and other essentials...pet food anyone?...to the church...we'll be out and about this morning...
Later on today I'll be in the trainroom getting some stuff together to see if i can overcome my fuzziness pictures...and actually get something up by next weekend...
Flo, I'll have some coffee and a breakfast bagel please...I'll be at the RC for awhile 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/
Morning California, where's the Suffer Girls!
Flo, bowl of corn flakes and coffee please.
Sometimes I am amazed at other interest we have in common besides trains! More than a few of us here have old HP cars, play guitar and now fellow Audiophile to boot.
Ray The reason I have the Monon Blocks amps is because of the speakers I run. They are Dahlquist DQ 10's. They are very hard to drive, the mid range and tweeters are free standing, no enclosure. Only the woofer is encased. They spend a lot of time in the 2 ohm range and with only 200 watts a side they sound good. At 600 watts it sound like the band is in the garage, but no where as loud as you would think.
There strong suite is sound stage. When placed right (which they are not now with the railroad) you can pick out where the instruments are placed on the sound stage.
Amps them self are Adcom GFA-555 bridge mono block to get the 600 watts. Preamp is a Carver 4000 T, sub is a NTH SA-1with it own free standing amp, Adcom GCD-575 CD player, Adcom GFT-1A tuner and a Yamaha K-700 tape deck. I was going to go RTR till I got the Yamaha tape deck, there is no hiss at all!
Here is a picture of one of the amps and DQ 10 speaker.
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The system is all so my computer speakers as well. Real fun when playing computer games.
Far as my hearing, open headers did that in more than the stereo, might be one of the reasons I like the music as loud as I do.
Train Front Planning to going to K-10 Model Trains today with Simon and his boys. It is a great layout, but I rather watch the trains than run one. To much work chasing my train around the layout.
Think I am going to tie into my PK 2000 E-7 with sound today. With the sound down I hear a whining sound that sounds like the motor needs oiling. Bad part is the motor is fully encased with weights. Will pretty much have to strip it to a bare frame.
See you all later.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good second morning of 2011,
Ken, when you figure that out you will have unraveled the greatest mystery of the universe.
My girlfriend and I celebrated the New Year with a bottle of cheer and watched the ball drop on the TV in my living room. Nothing fancy, but fairly safe.
I finally installed a drawbar and new couplers on my Proto 2000 F3 AB unit and did some switching on the layout. I might break out the 70 tonner and work in the yard today cleaning track and moving cars.
I tried to figure out what went wrong on the mainline cross over turnouts but still nothing has come to mind on how to fix it…
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Evenin' folks!
Just a decaf for me Flo.
Went over to my son's house tonight. His MIL made an "out of this World" Roast Pork Tenderloin dinner for the whole family..... That would be the 5 of them, her Brother and his girlfriend, and her two other kids and their families..... Crowded table. Then we sat down to a very long game of dominoes with dessert served when we took a time out from the game. I won BTW..... Didn't get home until about an hour ago.... Dealt with a couple important emails, and now just unwinding before bed.
Barry, the guitar should handle and play just fine. I think it was Les Paul that once made a working guitar out of a pine 2x4....
Ken, 1200 watts of stereo???? 3/4 the way open and your wife complains? if I lived in your neighborhood I would called the cops by 3/4 the way open...... Oh yeah, My little system I used for sound reinforcement for groups was a JBL Pro series, top of the line tri-amped sweetheart of a system. 3200w at 4Ω.... And it was small compared to what some are using. Have you had your hearing checked lately? Huh? What? Can't hear you! I'm down to about 20% of normal hearing in both ears. On one of my Mackie Mixers, in the manual warns that the level produced is very hot in the headphone jacks..... Then they tell you, "Deaf Sound Techs have short careers!" My studio Near Field Monitor system is all of 100w and can blow me out of the house... Speakers are Alesis Monitor One MK2s. I was using a pair of Tannoy Near Field Monitors for several years. They will someday see duty down stairs in the train room.
Galaxy, I hope that the removal of the other tumor will help the pain. It may......
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Spent much of the day down at my parents place. After the new years meal my sister and niece tied into the kitchen to clear the clutter out while my mother sat and watched it happen. Anytime you can get free help take advantage of it. They were finding stuff in there that I hadn't seen in many years! One example is a pressure cooker that's older than I am. Still has all the parts. Here's another example. A Dazey Seal-A-Meal vacuum packager Model SAM 1, complete, still in the box. Bought new when Jimmy Carter was president. They pulled out cast iron cookware that collectors would happily kill for. The cabinets are so deep that when just two of them were cleared out the kitchen looked like two rows in a warehouse! After four hours they got a sixth of the cabinets cleared and haven't EVEN hit the big stuff yet. That kitchen is huge! I could park my trailer in it and you could get around it.
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hon30critter Galaxy: Been there, done that, and I am happy to report that my back is much, much better than before. I hope it goes as well for you! Dave
Galaxy:
Been there, done that, and I am happy to report that my back is much, much better than before. I hope it goes as well for you!
Dave
Problem is there were two tumors one on the right side, one on the left. The right side one came out last Oct. Left side will come out this new month and year. Problem is right side tumor removal showed no improvemnt, so I'm not holding out much hope on the left side either.
Evening all.
Hope you all had a great first day of 2011.
I was at my great aunt's house for New Year's today. I got some money for late Christmas presents, so I'm gonna go ask my parents if we can stop by the LHS on our way back home tomorrow.
to The Diner, other Joe!
Well, I should start working my way back into my regular routine since school starts back up on Monday, so I'm gonna head out for tonight. I'll catch you guys tomorrow.
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Good Evening All,
A belated Happy New Year to all and welcome to our new diners. Easy couple of days and nice weather today to top it off. Went to South Norwalk and the Maritime Aquarium with the CFO just for a break from the routine today. Saw the penguins and sharks had a nice lunch around the corner from the aquarium and got home with time to get back after the basement. Got the back wall studded and foamed so I can start on sheet rock tomorrow with any luck. Still have the inner walls to do along with a ceiling but this is a great step forward to actually having a train room. It's just over a year now since we got back into the house and though it's still not finished we've gotten a lot done to complete it.
Time to get some shuteye. I'll catch y'all tomorrow. J.R.
Colorado Mac, and hon30critter.
I found someone did a lego guitar...
I'd like to know how well it will sustain......or would it just sound...er...blocky
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Happy New Year, y'all. Frozen here, so do they have hot coffee in this place? I was supposed to run trains and go to a party last night but below zero temps and icy roads kept us within 5 miles of the house.
Well, 2010 got me back into trains, but I've just been playing on my shelves and working at the club. 2011 is going to bring an actual layout into my home office - that's MY resolution.
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler
Bowl of chili, please.
***Ken, when you figure out all the ways of wives, write a book about it and become rich.
Had some fun thunder boomers this morning. Steady rain here now. Not much going on.
Cheers! Rob
Does anyone understand there wife's besides they are all wise right?
Flo a please.
Tonight I was on You Tube and came across this video and I was truly impressed by the guitar player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFJ44gPE3M&feature=fvst
I went and got my wife (Sue) so she could see the video. We started have a good time looking up videos of songs we like and guitar cords. (she started me playing)
Then she started reminding me about a small bar down the street that has life bands, you can smoke there (Todd don't tell the state!) and if I want a beer she would drive home.
Now here is where I became confused.
1 She won't drive at night period! OK the bar is only 2.1 miles from us so maybe she would.
2 While I have have a kick$1***$2audiophile system at 600 watts a side, it is nothing compared to a live band! She started complain that the musics was to loud at 3/4 of the way up?
3 Bar she want's to go even with it being against the law allows smoking. Yet as soon as I light up a cigarette she starts to complain?
So as a recap.
She hates loud music
Hates Smoke
Hates driving at night
She is mad because I won't go to a bar where
Smoking is allowed
Music will be loud
She have to drive at night.
I just don't understand it? Whole reason the mono blocked stereo system is in the garage in the first places is because I as not allowed to crank it in the house?
Just confused again, Cuda Ken
Good Evening
Well, after spending the afternoon in the trainroom I'm out here in the kitchen with the laptop being snugged up to by the little Spring...
It's been a quiet day up here..I ended up looking at some train sites for a few photos of main street prairie type towns to get a little more...er...prototypical looking town sites...heeheehee
Chloe, I'll have a pork sammich with a bottle of that reisling tc was talking about please...I'll be at the window booth for a bit...
Once again, Happy New Year everyone. Just finished our annual New Year's Day dinner of mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, pork roast and kielbasa. All accompanied with a bottle of riesling from Prejean's, a winery on Seneca Lake, just down the road from Ray's. There's just no better way to start the year off.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Just back from a nice and entertaining dinner with the folks I prepared the business plan for. We went to a Greek restaurant, so that´s where this odd smell is coming from.
Driving home was pretty bad - the roads are all iced up.
I see new faces here - a big from this end of the Big Pond!
Janie, I´ll have a hot chococcolate with some of the stuff Ray´s son has put into his eggnog, please.
Time to hit the hay!
Raining here in NC,been running the MTH SD70M2's today and changed out two tri levels for two bi levels and working some on thie new layout,so this year i hope to get me a walk around cause this new layout is a stand up RR compared to the old one i could just set down and run trains,so Happy New Year.
Russell
Well, good afternoon and a very Happy New Year to one and all.
Here's hoping 2011 works out a lot better than 2010 did for many, if not all of us.
CUDAKEN: Hey, congrats on the new job! Just keep in mind, in this economy, ANY "job" is better than no job. Even if it's a Just Obtaining Bucks "JOB."
Hello to UP Teen and JOE, welcome guys!
DER JOHN: I saw the other day where you were installing MU hoses on N-sane scale diesels. You never fail to make my brain tie itself into knots!!! You should've been a neurosurgeon!
JEFF: Here's a couple of ex-transfer cabooses in MOW service for you, since you're building one. I know I had a shot of one with a complete barbecue grill set-up on the deck...but of course, can't find it now.
Thanks to a Menard's gift card from the Wife, I was able to procure enough 1x4's yesterday to finish-out the base frame in the RR room. I "might" be in a position to start obtaining the necessary 1/2" plywood. I might end up at Home Despot or Lowe's for THAT, since they'll slice the 4x8 sheet in-store. I think Menard's does it with a rip saw in the "outdoor lumber yard." I know the Lowe's in Coralville has a fancy computer-driven cutter machine inside for such jobs.
Speaking of the Wife, she's been converting the former master bedroom into her new art studio. Thanks to a steamer I got her a few months ago, she's been on a rampage removing the previous owner's attempt at "wall covering," and has the walls down to bare 100+ year old plaster. I think she'll be patching holes, craters, and cracks in there yet today.
The Wife is happy, Rerun is happy, no comment was available from the Cat.
Have a good rest of the day!
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Afternoon all! Happy New Year to all. I did ring in the new year and like some others, got a smooch from the wifey at the appropo time. Other than that it started raining down here, so no fireworks, which was all right by me. Going to go up to my mom and dad's this evening for dinner, I was given a boston butt for doing some work on a guy's car, he paid me too, but gave me the boston butt for my troubles also. So tonight's menu will be BBQ sammiches, pork and beans, and who knows what else. Not going to do a whole lot on the MRR front today, wife informed me that we are going to deep clean the kitchen after I'm done with this so yeah....no MRR today. Tomorrrow, tomorrow, you're only a day away, and so will my continued work.
Welp y'all, guess I need to get my rear in gear.
Later taters!
Borax huh? Oughta be pretty clean around here.
Welp. New year is startin out with a bang. I won the Observation car. $5. Wellll, $5 plus $4.36 to get here. Didn't think I'd get it with such a low bid. Usually they go for about $20 or more. So I get the Alleged "new in the box Athearn Undecorated Rear Observation car" for under $10. We'll see when it gets here.
If all is as usual with my E-Bay purchases, I'll have no surprises and will be what I expect.
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.
mOrn-noon guys!
No hangover here etiher!
Did NOT ring inthe new year...was in bed by 10 pm. WE don't celebrate like that anymore.We're nto ath old but MOH had to be up early this Am, and we let teh "young folks and old fools" celebratet eh New Year, besides my muscle relaxer and nightime sleepy pill both put me out like a light.
SO, It's the 1st of January 2011, my, my. {looks around} DOesn't look much different than Dec. 31 of 2010.
Well I'm off and running while Im awake, the sleepy muscle relaxer is due and I'm trying to get SOME chores I've slept through doing done!
C"yall later.
howmus blownout cylinder: Welllll...we could have ended up in South Dakota.... South Dakota's nice this time of year....... Lots of skiing. 73
blownout cylinder: Welllll...we could have ended up in South Dakota....
Welllll...we could have ended up in South Dakota....
South Dakota's nice this time of year....... Lots of skiing.
I suppose so....
Although i was thinking Bradley S.D.....
blownout cylinder Welllll...we could have ended up in South Dakota....
I'm having a wonderful time with the little Spring here..try to type with a furball who comes up to you and starts headbunting you...mmmmffff!!!
Right now we have pea soup fog and rain at the same time...most of the snow out in some of the fields around us is now slush and gunk with huge lakes...rivers are getting a lot of run off now as well...
Flo, i'll have a refill of coffee and some fries as well please....I'm sitting at the window booth for a bit to see who else hows up...
Good Morning! (yawn) Dark Roast coffee, no make that Chicory and some egg casserole please. Good to see you guys, haven’t heard from or talked to you all year. Ok, I got my “ all year”/ “since last year” tired and over used yearly no longer funny but just have to say it comment made. Next. I decided to go ahead and stay up till the New Year anyway. Pretty much the same as anny other time I’ve been up past midnight ‘cept I got a smooch. Got one from the dog too. Not as well received as the one from my wife. But didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Ended up bolting out of bed at 4:15 to Mom hollering our names. Ran to the bathrom where she was. She was OK just had some…..problems that she required Brenda’s assistance. The whole ordeal lasted til about 7 and I didn’t want to go back to bed so I cruised the Bay and bid on a car. I’ll check the status here shortly. Once again I bid low so no real expectations of winning. Ulrich- It’s nice you have an invite for dinner. I hope the conditions allow you to safely travel. I’m sure you will enjoy it.
Good Morning! (yawn) Dark Roast coffee, no make that Chicory and some egg casserole please.
Good to see you guys, haven’t heard from or talked to you all year. Ok, I got my “ all year”/ “since last year” tired and over used yearly no longer funny but just have to say it comment made. Next.
I decided to go ahead and stay up till the New Year anyway. Pretty much the same as anny other time I’ve been up past midnight ‘cept I got a smooch. Got one from the dog too. Not as well received as the one from my wife. But didn’t want to hurt her feelings.
Ended up bolting out of bed at 4:15 to Mom hollering our names. Ran to the bathrom where she was. She was OK just had some…..problems that she required Brenda’s assistance. The whole ordeal lasted til about 7 and I didn’t want to go back to bed so I cruised the Bay and bid on a car. I’ll check the status here shortly. Once again I bid low so no real expectations of winning.
Ulrich- It’s nice you have an invite for dinner. I hope the conditions allow you to safely travel. I’m sure you will enjoy it.
Aboard Joe!
Ken- I know it's from last year but, (sorry. couldn't resist) I guess the easiest way maybe to thing of the tab is as you are looking down ofn the strings. I never realized what you said. Possibly that I read music long before Tabliture. Bottom is just naturally low so it was not a second thought that the low bar was the musicaly low string.
Larry- If I was close to you I'd find some reason to drop by around feeding time! Us, we''ll have who knows what, but surely it will involve Black eyed peas. Sometimes Tacos. Why? I have no idea.
Ray- Though I am not of the Guy Lombardo era, I do miss the big band music on New Years Eve. I remember that as a kid. That was what my parents had.
I think I will take today leisurely. Hopefully I will get some work done on the layout bench work. That’s my plan anyway. First day of the year and in the train room. Can’t get much better than that can it?
OK. I’ll start the New Years Resolutions off.
1. The ever present quit smoking.
2. More MRR time. This time around, slow down and if I need something, wait to get it instead of using something “close enough” that I’ll regret later.
3. If something on the layout doesn’t turn out right, start again. Don’t try and make do.
4. Pet the dog and give less treats. She’s too fat.
5. Work on finishing the projects, non-MRR, I’ve started.
And finally, finish any projects I start.
Number too seems to be the strongest possibility and the first half of 4 of course. But we’ll give it an honest shot.
Oh yeah. One more. Work on again trying to get the snow blower paid for with health insurance. Doctors orders. No shoveling snow. First step, and probably the main reason it didn’t fly last year, get the doctor to prescribe rather than “advise against:” Apparently a big difference. I think I’ve got a new angle on the “over the counter” part. So are Powered Chairs. Now, to work out the details.
Y’all have a Great Day now ya hear?!!!
Happy New Year!!
My wife and I just watched TV last night and had a glass of wine along with a few nibbles. Not very exciting but it was all we wanted. We were watching some episodes of a TV series that we hadn't seen yet that is amoung our favourites. It is called Ever Decreasing Circles, a BBC comedy from the late '80s. It is on You Tube so we had to watch it on the laptop.
I hope it turns out to be a good one for everyone in the Diner. I share Todd's sentiment as it would be great to meet my fellow diners. I must confess that I look up your towns to see what it is like in your part of the world and often think it would be nice to visit even though it is unlikely it will happen but notice that I don't say never as I have learned that sometimes things happen you never expect.
Keeping warm again today as we have no plans on going out. High today is supposed to be 2F with a high windchill of about -20F. Plan on running that new GP9 I got for Christmas and also we have more trip preparation to do.
See you later,
CN Charlie