Good morning.
Well the game last night was a JOKE. The Steelers should've just shined up the trophy and gave it to the Packers. If it wasn't for the 21 pints on the turnovers, the Pack had no chance.
Got some running around to do, and get some stuff done around the house.
Have a good morning.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Morning...
After watching that game last night I discovered that Puppy Bowl was on on Animal Planet...would have been more interesting...
I've got a few things to do today for the house and my wallet...ergo banking, getting some things to repair the chimney...dang mortar ..then off to micheals to pick some stuff up there
...then I have evening classes to attend to..even if this dang cold is still around...
Flo, I'll have a bowl of oat cheerios and a coffee as well please...I'll be at the RC for a bit grumbling into my beard...dang half time show...yuck...grumble grouch...mumblemumble
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Hey,
I'll agree with Robby. Last night they should of had Slash maybe AC/DC. Not Slash, the Black Eyed Peas and that Other hip hop moron. Slash has more talent in his guitar pick then they all do. (Did I mention that I hate hip hop with a passion?)
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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
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Good Morning!! Coffee and a cinnamon roll please. Thanks
Today: A chance of flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 27. North northwest wind between 9 and 11 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. ( I was going to put a zero after the 16 so I could be like Ulrich, but I figured I’d jinx myself and it’d cost me a house.)
Didn’t watch the, apparently Not So, Super Bowl so I know nothing about the National Anthem nor the half time show.
What I did do, was go into the train room and lay one half of roadbed about a foot long. Yup, that’s it. See when I got that laid, I drilled my hole then started to squooze out some caulk, when I remembered the switch. This is at a point where two parallel tracks connect so, I must make sure the switch is straight and the connecting track must/should go in at the same time so everything lines up as with the test fit. But, then I remember my other item I needed to complete this. My multi meter so I can check the continuity across the frog. This will determine whether I’ll need a feeder or not on that short piece of connecting track. I cannot remember whether they do or not, it’s been so long since I last worked on it. Something tells me they do IIRC. So I was on my way upstairs to the garage when I noticed an episode of Law and Order SVU I hadn’t seen, so I sat down and that was all she wrote. A Marathon. Need I say more.
I did cruise around a few internet sites yesterday with the new monitor. I’ve determined that the web browser page is full screen but the webpage is scaled to fit. There is no fading of the sides. I think the ends of the banner atop this page are faded or blurred anyway and I never noticed until I was “looking” for it and assumed it was this fad or blend or something like that. Still don’t know what they meant, I’ll go back and read someday. Maybe. At any rate I did notice space between the actual webpage ond the browser window edge I know was not there on a site or two. Which means what? Th goofwads at Best Buy strike out again.
Anyway, my sister is suppose to meet me at Mom’s apartment today at 9am. Of course they wre suppose to meet me there yesterday too. We’ll see. I’m anxious to dump this apartment but it’s up to her to get her stuff out.
I do recall from time to time at various and frequent football games the announcer would inevitably say, "if it hadn't been for that one guy, he'd have gone all the way." To which I respond, (yes to the TV) "and if it hadn't been for that other team......, they'd have won."
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
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.
Hi again,
Zoe, I am in for an early afternoon snack - how about that piece of apple crumble pie, topped with vanilla ice cream and a coffee? Thank you.
Just heard on our local news that Ms Aguilera botched the national anthem - what a shame. We had that when one of our ill-talented song birds sang our anthem on the occasion of the opening ceremony for the World Soccer Championship in 2006. How daft can one get?
Made it into the top 100 contributors league right now. Gosh, I must be a chatty one!
TTFN
Sir Madog Made it into the top 100 contributors league right now. Gosh, I must be a chatty one!
Good morning. It's 41° and cloudy. The high should be 48° and cloudy. It will be clearing later. Tonight will be clear and 26°.Didn't watch the Super Bowl game last night for the simple reason that I don't get the channel it was on. From what I understand though I didn't miss much. My schedule for today is rather simple. Go to see the foot doc this morning then come home. After that my schedule is pretty much open. Layout work is off the list as I don't have the supplies I need for the scenery work and probably won't have them for several months. Sometimes I find myself thinking about just tearing it down and putting everything into storage or selling it off and using the space for something else. Not much point in having a layout if I can't use it or work on it. Then I wouldn't need the internet anymore as I only use it to go to model railroad forums to see what others are doing on their layouts. That would save me almost $50 a month. I could always go back to my other hobby of building computers.
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Morning
We missed the Super bowl as MOH didn't get out of work and home until 5:45, then we bee-lined it to the hospital.
MIL is looking good, was awake and conscious, but we didn't stay long. Dr. talking about sending her home tomorrow again. BUT FIL told Dr. she has a good day one day followed by a very bad day the next, so he doesn't think she's ready to go home yet. WE will see. SHe does have thoughts and things to say, but sometimes can't get teh words to come out of her mouth, or come out right when they do. MUst be sheer hell to have a head full of things to say and not able to get them out consistantly. My mother was aphasic {sp?} for the last 4 years of her life, so I know it's a dificult proposition.
The train Nut's wife is OK, but still in pain. She is 4 doors down from the MIL! She will hopefully go home tuesday? But they still havent; taken the drain tube out of her nose and stomach yet, nor is she on food yet, so she has a long way to go. NEXT tuesday may be more lke it. She has to be able to eat solid food, keep it down, and poop it out before they let her go. ANd she isn't allowed to eat yet, hasn't eaten since last Sunday.
CUDA KEN- Thanks for asking about my back. I still have a lot of pain, but do have a smidgeon of relief from the continuous pain I had. I get about 5 mins occasional breaks taht are relatively pain free IF I change what I am doing. Will possibly have injections again later this month to see if they work now that the 2 tumors are out of the way. Still have trouble/pain accomplishing basic household chores, though. PAin sets in and I have to stop and sit.
WEll, I saw on the news about the slaughtered National Anthem. I realize it can be nerve-racking, but com'mon, to forget words? ANd I've seen the poular and nto so popular commercials on the NAt. news and on AOL startup News page. SO I didn't really need to see the SUper Bowl anyway. LIke going to bed at 9:30 on New Years eve, I don't need to see the lousy ball drop again, and being at the hospital was a mite bit more important than watching the Super Bowl. WE went out to eat afterward also.
If MIL is still there, we go to see her in the hospital again tonight.
WEll, I've written enough,
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.
Good Morning All,
39F and cloudy with more snow coming tonight though they can't make their mnds up how much. Watched parts of the super bowl yesterday - thought it was a good game though Pittsburgh gave it away. Shame they couldn't have done that two weeks ago, I'd have liked to see the Jets there if the Giants couldn't be. Guess they didn't practice the national anthem much on the Mickey Mouse Club. It's tough when you have to learn a set of lyrics instead of just knowing them by heart and then sing a'capella in front of all those people. But then that's why they get the big bucks, right? I know playing out we used to make up lyrics all the time, but that was in bar bands. "No sir we don't do that song but this one has a lot of the same words in it."
Got half the ceiling done and the lighting rebuilt and installed in the train room. The lights are 4' flourscents recycled from the old layout. I left the wiring exposed with plug in extensions to a box on the ceiling because I see playing with different lighting setups once the layout is in and I wanted to be able to unplug fixtures as needed and plug in others. I just need to wait a few years for the price of LED's to come down to earth. If I can get the kids to help, I'm not sure I won't sheet rock the rest of the ceiling. I like the ceiling tile cause it's quieter, but the price of sheet rock is a fraction of the tiles. We'll see.
Back to the shop and the projects. We leave for the first weekend in 12 days and it's back to back with the next. CUL, J.R.
Good Morning All..Its partly cloudy and cold here..I'll have coffee and a sweet roll please..Thank You...I havn't been in for awhile...spent a few days in hospital with blood clot in lungs and heart beat problems but I am feeling much better..
Been workin alittle on the I&S..Got a couple of caboose rebuilds that I am working on..My brother in law gave me a new comuter its about 7 years old but is much faster than my old one.. it has windows XP on it which I like much better than the old windows 98 that I had on old comuter..
You all have a good one...Jerry
Lunch!!
Went to take Jessica a movie for her classroom, and riding beside me was a Union Pacific pulling a lease engine. Of course it was pulling coal. Just when I don't have my camera .
I also made by the LHS to get a couple of switches , and some flex track. The track has gone up to $4.25 each!!!!!! Got three and that's good enough!!
Now I can get into the basement and get some more layout stuff done.
Jerry..........Glad to hear your ding better.
Lunch time eh? I'll have a couple of those brats hidden back behind the liver in the fridge, some slaw and an RC. Dessert? Why a Moon Pie of course. Good to see Jerry stop in and that he's doing better. That blood clot in the lungs stuff is serious - the DIL had it and is on meds for life now. Temps all the way up to 40 now but I just can't get warm. Hope I'm not coming down with anything.
Robby - what flavor flex track do you use? I surrendered and finally got a bulk order for reasonable money from Trainworld. It was Atlas code 100 flex but it came in at half what my "friendly" price was at the LHS.
Here's the porder - I'll be outside on the veranda. J.R.
Good afternoon Diners: I'm hiding in here to put off a bunch of things that I should be doing downstairs. Kris is at a job interview for the Census, then going to the gym, then calling in at a neighbour's on the way home.......
Ulrich:
John, standard height of a module is just 10 cm or about 4 ", unless you build up a "mountain". That´s not much, but sufficient to build a plausible scenery in N scale, I think.
Barry:
Todd:
" To which I respond, (yes to the TV)
Jeff:
Layout work is off the list as I don't have the supplies I need for the scenery work and probably won't have them for several months. Sometimes I find myself thinking about just tearing it down and putting everything into storage or selling it off and using the space for something else. Not much point in having a layout if I can't use it or work on it. Then I wouldn't need the internet anymore as I only use it to go to model railroad forums to see what others are doing on their layouts. That would save me almost $50 a month. I could always go back to my other hobby of building computers.
Jerry: Great to see you back again. Good to hear that the lung clot thing is improving. My friend Ken W. in St. Albert, Alberta is having to take a year "reduced activity" to get rid of persistent lung clots. Yup, the "new" computer should warm things up a bunch for you.
Chores can be avoided no longer, TTFN
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
der5997 so, is all your TV commercial free? Publicly funded? From a TV tax like in the UK?
so, is all your TV commercial free? Publicly funded? From a TV tax like in the UK?
We have a few publicly funded stations with hardly any commercials (none past 8 pm, though) and a number of private ones, most of them with the usual crap shows that Petra and certainly don´t watch.
Btw, interesting pic - I guess folks will have to sort their desks when this train rumbles by ...
grumble grumble grumble "good" afternoon...I guess.........
I'll admit it. At times last night, I drifted over to the corner of the North Liberty Community Center where the "Puppy Bowl" was being shown. The puppies were cute, and the "game" better than what was being shown on the walls on the opposite side of the room.
*sigh*
Life goes on...there's always next year.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
I wonder how many are dining on crow today.
Afternoon folks!
Flo just a cup of hot cocoa for me at the moment.
Is Jeffrey actually going to eat THAT thing? Oh, it's for the guys on the other side of the diner.... I see.
Never got in here this morning as i got tied up with the treasurers report for the MLK Committee. What should have taken about a half hour to type up and check figures ended up being about 3 hours of frustration. I hadn't made all the entries of the transactions for the last month in all the right places, and had to track down several things from receipts and bank statements..... I hate it when I do things in a "Half Vast" way!!!
The rest of the day so far has been occupied doing items for the NMRA Division. Have a meeting tonight and have to get thrash put out to the curb too. Maybe I will turn on the heat down in the train room with the expectation of spending a few minutes staring at a project or two.
Lter!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Strong coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Der, cool pic of the train heading through town. That's almost as close to those buildings as the trains which went by my old apt in WA state. I loved the drone of the locos and the vibrations sent through the apt.
***Jerry, great to see you here and congrats on the puter upgrade.
Cheers! Rob
*Peeks in. Robby is nowhere to be seen for now*
GO PAC GO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHH that win was SOOOO awesome! Back in 96 I was, 2, I think. Sorry steelers fans, that was one heckuva game though, best of the playoffs.
Aaron Rodgers can now officially say "Brett WHO?"
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
jeffrey-wimberlyLayout work is off the list as I don't have the supplies I need for the scenery work and probably won't have them for several months. Sometimes I find myself thinking about just tearing it down and putting everything into storage or selling it off and using the space for something else. Not much point in having a layout if I can't use it or work on it.
JEFF: Repeat after me: Do not quit the hobby. Do not quit the hobby. Do not quit the hobby.
I like your layout and I want to see it when I move back there.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Pumpkin pie, please.
***Jeffrey, you have a cool layout. I'm surely not alone in saying I've learned much from watching you rebuild, transform and scenic elements of it. And most of us go through periods of re-thinking what we're doing and having to cut back do to a lack of funds. Been there often and taken a number of extended breaks, but have yet to give up.
Rob
Hey guys,
Sitting in class right now, waiting for the instructor to start (he's on the phone).
Sawyer, Heck, I was 6 the last time the Packers won a Super Bowl. It's been too long.
Jeff, What do you mean by "dining on crow"? BTW, I took my layout down a while ago and boxed the equimpent. I'm using the lack of a layout to detail and weather my equipment. Every now and then, I'll break out my EZ track and run some trains for a bit or speed match some locos. I may not have done much recently because of the new car, but a little bit at a time.
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.
Packer Jeff, What do you mean by "dining on crow"?
Jeff, What do you mean by "dining on crow"?
Gonna be on the cool side tonight (26°). I won't be on tomorrow morning as I have to be in Alexandria early. I have an appointment at the Abana Orthotics and Prosthesis center' to have a new brace made for my right leg. My old one is showing signs of wear and I can't walk without it so it has to be done. I'm not really looking forward to it.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening, I'll take some more of THAT crow if there's any left...with extra salt and ketchup...
Evening Folks!
Flo, pitcher of for everyone that wants one!
Even a blind squirrel can find a nut! Door swung my way Today! While the last two days where less than stellar, today sort of made up for it. Had 5 customers and 4 bought for a total of $5200.00. Boy if I could do that everyday!
"Layout work is off the list as I don't have the supplies I need for the scenery work and probably won't have them for several months. Sometimes I find myself thinking about just tearing it down and putting everything into storage or selling it off and using the space for something else. Not much point in having a layout if I can't use it or work on it."
Jeffery I know the feeling, but for a different reason. Hard to bring my self to do anything on the layout. I have supplies, just hard to work on something that I might lose.
Personally I would not believe me if I where you. But I finally remembered to gap the box with the train stuff I owe you and have it sitting by the front door. It still has the scanner in the box, but the other box I have should hold the crossing gates and platform. With some luck it will all fit and I will get it sent off Wednesday.
Galaxy I am glad you are getting a little relief from the pain, hope the shoots help now that the tumors are gone. Is your back pain more after you get up and moving, all the time or when you first get up in the morning? Sue is disabled due to back problems. I won a great mattress (I could never afford a $5,000.00 set) and it helped her a lot! While you don't have to buy anything nearly that expressive to get a good mattress. People due underrate what a mattress can do for there back problems. All so the Myth that a firm mattress is good for there back is just that, A Myth!
I am not trying to sale you a mattress, far as I know we cannot ship a mattress. But, if you would like to explore the possibility that a mattress set might help let me know.
See you all Tuesday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Whew!!
So. I got that all sorted out tonight...Now for tomorrow and runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff for w**k.....as I got stuck on their hiring committee now...
So, what's this Jeff ? ...about setting the layout up in storage? By the way...is that part of the 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie?
JohnDer: That 'streamliner is a rather odd thing..I guess it was a 'homemade' model as I have been trawling teh interwebz looking for whomever made the dang thing....
Evenin' folks!
Just a decaf for me tonight Janie. Just need a few minutes to relax.
Today was the day to spend in the layout rooms.... Yeah, Right! I did go down and turn on the heat... came back upstairs and read my emails..... Other people seem to have other ideas, so I just spent the last 3 k=hours verifying the membership list for the Division so it will have all the correct info on it to know who gets email and who has to get snail mail.... While I was at it I also verified addresses. Got it done though. Couldn't find info for a hand full of people. Somebody else can call and harass them, I'm not!
jeffrey-wimberly How many bet on the Steelers to win?
How many bet on the Steelers to win?
Win What?
Barry, what are those thingies you have been posting lately??? inquiring minds want to know!
Later!
Good Morning Everyone!
Ha, I beat Bill this time!
Zoe, just a cup of coffee for me this time, please.
I might run to our home depot to get some plywood, so I can start building the "benchwork" for some corner modules. It´ll run up to about $ 20 this time - I have to check with Petra whether we can squeeze this out of the month´s budget.
Jeff - I know exactly how you feel. Not being able to afford even the smallest purchase to continue on your layout takes away all the fun of it. I have been through that a number of times in the past 24 months, with many a dream bubble bursting, when it came down to calculating the cost for even a small start. Even though I have started "something" now (certainly not my dream layout), I know it´ll be a long way until I can see the first train circling the loop of track, which my layout eventually will be. I still need about $ 120 to be able to run a loco on a stretch of track, most of it to be spent on a DC power pack. I thought I could avoid buying that, but the coreless motor in my steamer will be ruined by the PWM DC controller I still have.But I have decided to continue, step by step. Progress will be slow. Did I say slow? I mean Slooow! I am confident that it will work out - somehow. I need this to keep my sanity, to have something to cling on in the bad times we are in.
Jeff, please hang in there! I wish I could help you. It makes me sad not being able to help a friend.
Barry - interesting collection of whatchumaycallits. Sometimes I wonder about what is able to run on rails.
CUL Folks!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
I'll get you next time, Madog !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Ray: Those things I suppose were called 'critters' ...I have a few of those things lurking in my computer yet......I did not find any information on that San Luis one so I am assuming it was an 'inside' job...
...we are somewhat back to our icebox weather this week...highs around 5-7F...lows around -2 to -4F...
Today is the day we interview about 5 new PSW's into our company...then I'll have a few days off to actually work on something other than w**k....
Flo, I'll have a coffee and a bowl of bran flakes with fruit in it please...I'll be at the RC for a bit