Elliot´s Trackside Diner - October 2011

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I finished the install. Progress photos to wit:







Used my last two shelf couplers. Time to see about getting more.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody. 

Nice job on the tank car, Jeff.

I believe the special train of condolences is moving on its way to Rob's farm. I think he will appreciate it. Thanks to everybody who has been so kind to Rob. 

I will not have much computer time in the next few days as I go to Michigan.   

 

 

[Seamonster]

Just a cup of coffee, please, ladies.  It's getting too close to supper time.

Rob:  My condolences in your time of sorrow,  You've got a lot of friends here who have you in their thoughts and prayers.  I've often tried to imagine what it would be like to be without my wife of 46 years and I just can't.

Tom:  I can understand what you're going through trying to do things in the house while your wife is in the hospital.  My wife, despite her limitations, prefers to do everything herself and I don't know where anything is, but I've had to do more for her as time passes so I'm learning how things work and where things are.  She has been in the hospital a number of times over the years for surgeries, but at least she can plan ahead and prepare some frozen food for me to eat and tell me where to find stuff.  One time though she was unable to prepare ahead of time.  She was badly injured in a highway accident and I had to fend for myself for 4 months.  It was pretty rough, especially at first.  We lived in a very small town and the big city and the hospital were an hour's drive away and there were no fast food joints anywhere near.  I hope your wife gets the accommodations she needs soon and is well taken care of.

Ken:  Your comment about middle management being like having a target on your forehead struck home for me.  Back when I w**ked for a living I was in what I guess could be called a working foreman's position.  I was asked a number of times why I didn't apply for for any of the middle management jobs (supervisors) that came open.  I think my co-workers thought I'd make a good boss--or they wanted to get rid of me--and I'm sure that management felt that I had no ambition for advancement.  My answer was that a supervisor had the worst position in the company.  He got garbage from both directions, from the workers below him and the management above him.  Once I explained that, they understood why I didn't want to move up the ladder.

 

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

jeffrey-wimberly

Hey Jeff,  I've got two of those in my fleet of chemical cars.  They look great.

Johnboy out..................

[cudaken]

 Evening Folks!

 Flo, yep a cold and a with mushrooms, sausage and onion.

 Boy I am beat! Between being sick and worried I feel like I have been beaten. Well the Worry Part Is Over! I meet with Dave and I got the JOB! I start this coming Saturday, and Sunday want to guess what I get to do? Inventory! Yep count 22,000 tires! I am going to need more fingers!

 Couple of down sides but no big deal. I will be starting running a store in St Louis not the Fairview Heights store. Going to be driving around 60 miles a day and not he hoped for 19 miles a day. Dave is going to tr to work with the Manager there for another month. Does not give him a lot of hope, but i do respect that!

 Next down side is when I will get paid. Pay is every two weeks, I am starting on the new pay period. That I knew. But they will hod back one week to check the figures. So, I will have to go three weeks with out a check, that will be tuff but I still have some savings.

 Well I am worn out.

 Later.

              Ken

[GMTRacing]

Good Evening All,

   61F and cloudy at dusk here. No rain til Weds and that's good. Spent the daymoving cars back and forth and doing billing so no real shop time at all. Ended up ripping out most of the second level structure yesterday and have added a hidden return track for the freight siding which can double as a hidden stage for a train around 12ft long. As we clean the garage and move more stuff out of the basement I'm getting nearer setting up the home computer which will allow me to post pics again. That way you can get a better idea of what I keep mentioning on the layout front.

Jeff - nice job as usual and I love the way Curts roudhouse is progressing.

I do have a newlap top, but I'm still getting the kinks out of it. Everytime I try to post here it erases the post and I just get a red banner saying I had no post. Any ideas? I tried finding the help section for posting but can't seem to find that either. Everything else functions properly (E-mail and all that) so I've no clue what I've done or not done to post here.

   Ken - that's still great news on the job front. Hopefully you'll be able to get a set of wheels that are up to the daily commute.

   Time to head out home CUL, J.R.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

GMTRacing

Jeff - nice job as usual and I love the way Curts roudhouse is progressing.

I do have a newlap top, but I'm still getting the kinks out of it. Everytime I try to post here it erases the post and I just get a red banner saying I had no post. Any ideas? I tried finding the help section for posting but can't seem to find that either. Everything else functions properly (E-mail and all that) so I've no clue what I've done or not done to post here.

Make sure your browser is set up to accept cookies. If it's not you'll have problems.

[teen steam fan]

Hey guys. 

Sorry I haven't been in for a while. Been busy. 

Rob- sorry to hear you lost your wife, you might be getting an email from me sometime soon. 

apple pie for me please. Thanks

[galaxy]

Evening, guys

Well when I got booted Saturday Morning, I dashed off an email to Kalmbach, but expected no response as it WAS a Saturday. I thought maybe if they were working on it, they might just get it.

Here is what I sent them on Saturday, trying to make it sound simple, quick and NOT as "hot" as I was:

Dear Kalmbach, 

How is it that I can already be logged in before Friday noon and accessed the site about 1:30 AM and again at about 6 am, but now it got bumped out?

Every thing was set up so I would have my regular use of the site, now, because it bumped me out I cannot access??

Can you fix it for me BEFORE Monday?

 

Thank you for your time

galaxy {user name}

 

Here is what I got late today from them:

Dear galaxy,

 Thank you for contacting us regarding the Trains.com website. With the updates we were making this weekend, the websites were all opened to everyone without a required login. We are not sure why you were logged out of the system; however, we hope you realized everything was still available to you.

 We apologize we did not see your e-mail until Monday when everything is now back to normal. We apologize for any inconvenience you were caused.

 To contact us directly, phone [phone] Mon-Fri 8:30 am - 4:30 pm CT or email us at [e-mail]. We can also be found on the web at http://www.kalmbach.com/help.

 Sincerely,

 Jenny

Customer Sales & Service

Kalmbach Publishing Company

21027 Crossroads Circle

PO Box 1612

Waukesha WI 53187-1612

It was at least nice of them to personally respond as it sounds like they did. The only thing I have to say is that, for me at least, the site was locked up and I see many of the regulars here also seemed to get locked out. I won't argue with them, though. I just had to go through some  trains.com withdrawal!!! Whew! THAT was a tough few hours!

Well,

GOOD NIGHT!!!

Sleep Well!!!

See you in the Morning!!!

 

[BamaCSX83]

Evening all.  Stopping in for a plate of chicken fingers, fries, and a tall Dr Pepper.  I had a very lucrative day as I was able to pocket about $100 from doing side jobs.  Too bad that money has to go to fuel for the vehicles and some other odds and ends.  That's okay though, since we're actually getting back onto budget and able to get ourselves financially straight enough so that I can actually have a MRR budget.

Jim, got your request and answered it.  I now have another friend (yay me!)  BTW, y'all can all add me as one, as I think of all of you as good friends, almost family-like.

Been doing some thinking about coming up with a "wish list" as its getting time for Christmas soon, so that my family can purchase those things which will fulfill a niche in my MRR needs.

I think that I'm going to hang around here, perchance I'll have a RBF, or sundae a little later, see whom else shows up.

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

Just sitting here hoping for no more calls today. OK I can occasionally be lazy at times. My back is itching like the dickens...aargh.

Jim- It is a Walther's Modern Roundhouse with the 3 additional stall kit installed. It actually went together very easily. What took the time was the pre painting and reading the directions several times while looking at parts.

Ken- I am glad the job front finally has worked out for you.

Bama- I have already asked MOH for 2 LRT signal logic boards and power supplies for Xmas.

Everybody have a good night.

[JimRCGMO]

Hey Flo, could I have a hot fudge sundae and a Rio Grande mug of decaf, please? Thank you!

Galaxy, from my attempts at getting to the forum on Saturday (not remembering that they said they would be 'upgrading' - a relative term at times...), I'd describe them as "You can look at all the goodies, but you can't touch them." I was able to find the last Diner page (with your post being the last one at the bottom, I recall), but the forum wasn't accepting any cookies as being there. I tried to post a response, but no go. Tried to PM/Conversation somebody, but no go there, either. Kind of like they had the forum pages set where only their sysadmins could write, and everyone else that was here looking around could only read (like an already-burned read-only CD or DVD). Didn't accept any logins, either. (Just bounced me to the Kalmbach login page - maybe a different kind of login procedure or something)... My best guess, at least.

CudaKen, congrats on the new job (sorta, right?)! Hope you have enough reserves for the gas to/from the store. You must be dedicated if you're looking forward to inventory on your first day there (well, you do have experience with that stuff, so you aren't having to learn everything from scratch, at least)

Anybody hear from Ulrich today? I was realizing that I didn't think I'd seen his post (since maybe his early morning visit?). Or maybe he got a job interview? Hey, we can say a few for that!

I was able to get some good news this evening. Last week, I went back to my doctor (and found out my cholesterol was elevated - bummer....), and he had me re-do a urine sample, because there was some small amount of blood present, which I couldn't think of any reason for (nor could he), but he had me do another sample and had that sent to the hospital's lab (which can give more accurate/picky results on such tests). This past weekend, I get mail from the doctor's office (telling me I had an appointment set up in another couple of weeks with a urologist's office) and another with forms from the urologist's office. I'm thinking "oh, great, another expense out of that paycheck..." and wasn't happy that my doctor's office had gone ahead and set me up with the appointment without contacting me to explain the reason why. (But, I was not going to assume the worst on this one). So, I called my doctor's office over lunch and asked them about why things were done without contacting me. The doctor's nurse was supposed to call me at the office after I get back from lunch. This afternoon was very, very quiet, and no call. So, after I got home from w**k, I called my doctor's office again, and (after some hunting down somebody who could explain things to me, found out that after my doctor got the lab results back (and my doctor checked the results), they didn't show any blood in the urine this go-round. However, the office's procedure is that when they do that test again, the office gal (when the sample is sent out) goes ahead and schedules an  appointment with the urologist, and mails me out a letter with the day and time. Then the urologist's office sends out their forms to me. I figure that if I had not heard anything from my doctor's office and had not called them to ask WHY, I would've wound up (thinking I had to be) going to see the urologist (the doctor's nurse happened to go home early today and never had called me before). Ah, the wonders of modern medical office practices... Oh yeah, the good part - I avoided THAT unneeded expense of the urologist's appointment (I made sure to call them after I got off the phone to make sure that they cancelled my appointment). Whew!

Curt, thanks for the info on your roundhouse. I guess I should probably do more of that reading all the way through the directions before I even start on a nicer/more expensive kit.

Ah, my hot fudge is here!

 

Blessings and prayers for comfort,

Jim in Cape G.

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

Just a decaf for me tonight.  Gotta watch the sugar you know........

Been a busy day as I knew it would be, but I did get quite a few things done.  I cleaned up around the post where the whistle sign is hung, and put away the air conditioner in the dining room/office and assembled and mailed out all the newsletters to the Division members who don't have email.  And...  I got more done on the layout, just a bit more tedious odds and ends like some ballasting and building the wood crossings over some tracks.  Tomorrow will be the last day I can do anything new until after the layout tour on Saturday.  I have a lot of cleaning and getting ready.  THAT will have to happen around a Drs. appt. and a couple meetings........

Prayers to all in need (and it seems we have quite a few...)!

73

[thortenney]

Hello everyone, Well I made it through another Monday. Four more days and I will be on vacation!

Rob, I am very sorry to hear about the loss of your wife, I pray that you are ok.

Todd, I thought what you said about the diner was very nice!! You seem to be a very kind and fun person. I really enjoy your msgs.

Ken, Great news on the job!!! I hope it works out well for you,Good luck!!!

Well good night to all of you! Thanks for the friendship! I am gonna say some prayers for those in need and take a minute to count my blessings. I seem to spend way to much time complaining and feeling sorry for myself I guess I need to change my ways.  See you all tomorrow!!!   

                                                                                                    Thayne. 

[blownout cylinder]

..stagger stagger...whew!!!

Finally!! The day is done!!...Flo, I'll just have a decaf coffee for now please...

Classes went a little longer than though but we did get there after all...

Todd:  You really brought out the fine points of this diner!!

JimRC:  I do not like surprises like that..especially from doctors!!....

Now it is time for me to sit back and check out some mags here....

[blownout cylinder]

Got top!!

Have at it !!

[ns3010]

Evening all.

Still keeping busy around here.

I FINALLY got the Common Application done last night! It was completely finished, and I submitted it to my three Early Action schools, Northeastern, Villanova, and Catholic. There's still a few more things to do before the application process is done for those schools.

It's a little late, but I'll send another locomotive down for the Chapel Train. It's an Alstom PL42AC, 4200 HP, as well as HEP for HVAC and electricity in the cars. It'll meet the rest of the train down in Atlanta. (sorry, no photo)

Garry and Jim, thanks for the congrats on the Eagle!

to the Diner, Otto!

Ken, congrats on the new job! Might not be the best, but it's better than nothing!

I'd also like to add a few people to the prayer list:

• Last week, the mother of the teacher in charge of Peer Ministry passed away. She had been sick for a while, so it was all for the better. Please keep Mrs. Smith (the Peer Ministry leader) and her family in your prayers.
• Yesterday, a local priest passed away. Father Tony worked at my school many years ago, and could sometimes still be seen at various events. He was in a coma after a car accident several  months ago, and died yesterday.
• I just found out tonight that a very good friend of a friend of mine was the engineer involved in a fatality involving two teenage boys several weeks ago. I was aware of the incident, but didn't know that this person (who is a member on another forum that I am on) was the engineer involved. Coincidentally, I just found out yesterday that this person is a modeler and was featured in Walthers' 2012 HO Reference Book.
• I also found out tonight that my friend (the same one as above) had an 18-year-old cousin who was killed in a car accident two years ago. Please keep the family in your prayers.

 It's getting late, so I better get going since we have a huge Peer Ministry retreat tomorrow. There's 105 8th graders attending, with only (I think) 33 Peer Ministers. There will be 12 students to a small group, so it will be interesting, but nothing we can't handle.

Catch ya later,

-Joe

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

It looks like the train of condolences has plenty of motive power to haul it to Rob's farm. I must say all of you are a great bunch of people. Your concern for our good friend ROb is remarkable. 

Rob ... If you are looking in., We care! Prayers for you and your family. 

PA Tom ... I hope your wife's recovery goes better than expected by doctors. Prayers for her. 

Ken ... I'm pleased to learn about the job! 

Ulrich ... Prayers for you, too, good friend. We missed your posting today. Hope to see you here in teh diner soon. 

JimCG ... you are right about emails. I'm glad you had several available to help out. I hope people will send a short note to Rob from time to time to be a friend while he grieves even if he is not able to answer each one. . 

 

I will have very little computer time for several days. I leave in the morning for Michigan. Shelley is already there. 

Happy Model Railroading! 

[galaxy]

GOOD MORNING!!!

Today is Tuesday, October 18th, 2011!!!

Enjoy your day and make it a good one, there are those who are much less fortunate...

[galaxy]

ns3010

I'd also like to add a few people to the prayer list:

• Last week, the mother of the teacher in charge of Peer Ministry passed away. She had been sick for a while, so it was all for the better. Please keep Mrs. Smith (the Peer Ministry leader) and her family in your prayers.
• Yesterday, a local priest passed away. Father Tony worked at my school many years ago, and could sometimes still be seen at various events. He was in a coma after a car accident several  months ago, and died yesterday.
• I just found out tonight that a very good friend of a friend of mine was the engineer involved in a fatality involving two teenage boys several weeks ago. I was aware of the incident, but didn't know that this person (who is a member on another forum that I am on) was the engineer involved. Coincidentally, I just found out yesterday that this person is a modeler and was featured in Walthers' 2012 HO Reference Book.
• I also found out tonight that my friend (the same one as above) had an 18-year-old cousin who was killed in a car accident two years ago. Please keep the family in your prayers.

-Joe

JOe,

Looks like i need to put up about 6 prayer candles...4 passings{including Rob's wife}  and one for concern, and one extra for others who may need special thoughts and prayers ... I will be busy today, But they shall burn as long as I can let them without being unattended.

[galaxy]

JimRCGMO

Galaxy, from my attempts at getting to the forum on Saturday (not remembering that they said they would be 'upgrading' - a relative term at times...), I'd describe them as "You can look at all the goodies, but you can't touch them." I was able to find the last Diner page (with your post being the last one at the bottom, I recall), but the forum wasn't accepting any cookies as being there. I tried to post a response, but no go. Tried to PM/Conversation somebody, but no go there, either. Kind of like they had the forum pages set where only their sysadmins could write, and everyone else that was here looking around could only read (like an already-burned read-only CD or DVD). Didn't accept any logins, either. (Just bounced me to the Kalmbach login page - maybe a different kind of login procedure or something)... My best guess, at least.

.....Anybody hear from Ulrich today? I was realizing that I didn't think I'd seen his post (since maybe his early morning visit?). Or maybe he got a job interview? Hey, we can say a few for that!

.....I was able to get some good news this evening. Last week, I went back to my doctor (and found out my cholesterol was elevated - bummer....), and he had me re-do a urine sample, because there was some small amount of blood present, which I couldn't think of any reason for (nor could he), but he had me do another sample and had that sent to the hospital's lab (which can give more accurate/picky results on such tests). This past weekend, I get mail from the doctor's office (telling me I had an appointment set up in another couple of weeks with a urologist's office) and another with forms from the urologist's office. I'm thinking "oh, great, another expense out of that paycheck..." and wasn't happy that my doctor's office had gone ahead and set me up with the appointment without contacting me to explain the reason why. (But, I was not going to assume the worst on this one). So, I called my doctor's office over lunch and asked them about why things were done without contacting me. The doctor's nurse was supposed to call me at the office after I get back from lunch. This afternoon was very, very quiet, and no call. So, after I got home from w**k, I called my doctor's office again, and (after some hunting down somebody who could explain things to me, found out that after my doctor got the lab results back (and my doctor checked the results), they didn't show any blood in the urine this go-round. However, the office's procedure is that when they do that test again, the office gal (when the sample is sent out) goes ahead and schedules an  appointment with the urologist, and mails me out a letter with the day and time. Then the urologist's office sends out their forms to me. I figure that if I had not heard anything from my doctor's office and had not called them to ask WHY, I would've wound up (thinking I had to be) going to see the urologist (the doctor's nurse happened to go home early today and never had called me before). Ah, the wonders of modern medical office practices... Oh yeah, the good part - I avoided THAT unneeded expense of the urologist's appointment (I made sure to call them after I got off the phone to make sure that they cancelled my appointment). Whew!

Jim,

First- I thought we would be able to use the site as usual if we were logged in and had cookies for the site. Apparently it was, as you mentioned, a "read only " site for all. They {dkawala} should have mentioned that in their "sticky post it" thread of the few days prior to this weekend. I, and apparently others were led to believe if we were logged in and had cookies set before Friday Noon, that we would be able to use as usaul--including posting threads, adn posting responses. I was no the only one who got logged out automatically and hte site frozen.

Second- Ulrich had posted that Saturday AM and if locked out the rest of us, wasn't able to post any more then. He has been feeling low these days, as you may know, and his last job interview he found out he was *over qualified* and that put thim in a sour mood. We can say prayers for him but his reality is that having had a former high-ranking job, he is now over qualified to even clean toilets with a toothbrush or dig graves with a shovel! All we can do is say prayers for him and hope for the best for him. We can also support him here, in the diner, in case he lurks and sees our good intentions.

Third- as you may or may not know, I have a series of 18 medical problems. I even have a urologist on speed dial. so are 8 other Doctors and specialists to regularly address those issues. I take  28 prescriptions, not one of which I can do without . I have had two tumors removed form lumbar spine recently and have chronic severe lumbar back pain, I also have severe muscle weakness and fatigue. not being personal, but I can get utterly exhausted getting up from the couch and going {slowly} to the bathroom adn returning to watch TV. By the end of the day, I am not only walking like an 85 year old man leaning on my cane, I am totally whipped, pooped, wiped out and beat, muscle/fatigue wise. My Primary Care Physician saw to it that I got permenant handicapped license plates.

The point I am trying to making is be glad you have a Dr looking out for you and who has your best interest at heart. If blood showed up in my urine, you'd best bet I'd be referred quickly to the urologist. Again.ANd I'd GO. I am glad for every one of my doctors, and  their time they spend with me. I know health care can be expensive, and I pay about a third of my meager monthly disability check  to have the coverage I have. You could have a serious problem, and the expense you saved now, could cost you a lot more down the road. MAybe you just got lucky and won't have a problem serious enough for a urologist to see you. But I'd rather know for sure

Not trying to shame you or anything, just giving you food for thought, and my  towards your good health. for you too!

And for a separate note:

PETCO- some of you remember the scandal at Petco during The Great Major Flood Of 2011 in September. If not here is the story, in brief. AS the waters of flash flooding rose at an alarming rate, and flooded out total areas not even touched inthe Great Flood of '06 {or the Flood of '05}, the PETCO employees begged the manager to take some of the animals home with them  to help save them, when the area was evacuated. The Manager said NO. SO, aobut 300 animals perished by drowning in the muck , mud and sewage of the flood waters, mostly reptiles, rodents and even fish.  Well the CEO flew in and tried to mitigate the damage and outrage and even PETA came and protested at the store location. It seems PETCO's claim is the city did NOT give them any warning. THe city claims they DID as they evacuated ALL PEOPLE from the low lying area there that tends to flood. Well- Get this- PETCO, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided to REOPEN here , though, after 2 floods, may not reopen in the same store!!!!!! I wonder how much business they will do????

 

SPecial thoughts and for every one, wiht prayer candles lit later today as outlined above.

Make today a great day, If it is miserable you'll feel better if you make it a great day!

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Going to be a sunny day today but tomorrow and Thursday will be just soaking with downpours and those ol' t'underin'boomers again..

Our day is going to be a day of relatively slow getting of some groceries...and isiting a few neighbours here...

Our operating session included the usual suspects, non operating locomotives, two recalcitrant turnouts both in far reaches of the layout handlaid nearly #10 turnout seemed ot be working ok though....oh...and the coup de grace? My faorite...RS3 took a header to the floor due to nonturning turnout.

Flo, I'll have a coffee and a breakfast bagel please...I'll be sitting at the RC...

[galaxy]

blownout cylinder

Got top!!

Have at it !!

Ok I will have scrambled eggs, sausage patties AND bacon, homefries- extra crispy and topped with melted extra extra sharp NY or VT cheddar cheese, two points of whole wheat toast with very berry jam, 2 slices of French toast and 2 pancakes with REAL NY or VT Maple surple. I'll have about 4 cups of hazel nut  coffee with Splenda or Truvia {ever notice how diner's cups don't hold more than 4 swallows?} and a glass of ice water with lemon please.

What ever I don't eat I will take home in a TOGO container to finish for breakfast tomorrow, or as a snack for later lonight..

GEE- The Diner is EMPTY this Morning!

Thanks!!!

Top o' the mornin' to ye!

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

   Just a regular to go in my New Haven travel mug please Zoe. More gearboxes to do today - finish the VW based one and start a Renault based box - all modded for use in midengined formula juniors.

   Jeff - made sure the cookies were turned on for the Trains site but the post still vanishes as soon as I hit POST below on the new 'puter. Other than that it functions just fine. After patching the old Dell numerous times I finally got a new HP which suits me better and has just a keyboard without all the myriad extra buttons that I never use anyway. The other thing I like is the function buttons across the top work directly instead of the tiresome fish for the control button first thingy. Still setting parts of it up so we'll see if Ican find what I haven't activated yet as it doesn't seem to be the site here.

   That's some impressive train we've sent for Rob. It's nice to see how much people care for each other here at the diner as Todd has already mentioned. If it's not too late I'd send an American Flyer coach for all the folks going along and tag it onto Joes NJT locomotive to meet in Atlanta.

    Gotta go as I have way too much on today.  J.R.

[cudaken]

 Morning Folks

 Flo, Lemonade please.

 Well it is a cold, rained and dark day today here in Maryville IL. Got some running around to do this morning and then a trash run.

 I like to thank all that have given me well wishes on the new job! I am not fooling my self, it is going to be a tuff job! If I can get the stores sales up, I will be well rewarded.

 OH, last job! They fired the guy they gave my job to! Current manager sales are not as good as what my where. Makes me feel a lot better!

 Curt Round House looks out standing! If or when I build my new layout I am planing on a round house and turntable.

 I e mailed Rob and have not heard back from him. I used his site to get the address, I am wondering if it went through? But then again, he sure has more on his mind than answering e mails.

 I will drop by later, time to run some trains.

    Ken

[gear-jammer]

Good morning, Chloe.  Just a coffee before swimming.

Thanks, guys for the help on the PM stuff.  I'm still not there yet. 

Jeff, I did check that everything was set right.  I will try tomorrow when I have more time.

Later, Sue

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!! Just coffee please. Thanks.

A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52.

Garry- I don’t expect an E-mail from Rob. He has a lot of things to do, last minute things he had no way to plan for and things move too fast to really have time to let things settle in as to what has happened. The grieving process really takes place after the services. At least for me anyway. Problem for me was I had soooo many things to do in that month and those that followed, I had no real time to do it. I hope Rob is able to give himself time. As strange as it sounds, it is an important part. When he is ready, I’m sure he will return to the diner. I sent him an E-mail and he knows I care about his situation. That’s all I need.

I wish I had my “Elliot’s Diner” car finished. I have the car, it’s just in pieces working on the interior. Or I should say was. I guess I am, just have to get back to it. That would be the car I would send. Maybe we can pretend it is done and it is part of the train. Of course with all the stuff that’s in this car, it’ll need all the locos and a few more ponied up by Jeff just to get it to roll. I still haven’t figured out how it all fits in this car.

I think Kalmbach's techs just made a oopsy and the removal of something happened unexpectedly during whatever they were trying to fix or update or something else. It happens. With the way the things are tied together in the programs for these contraptions, my hat's off to them for even knowing where to start, let alone how it all fits and works. Thanks Tech Guys for all you do!!

Life is a bit rough on the home front again. Nothing major I suppose just a little bumpy in certain areas (double ). I don’t seem to have as good a shock absorbers as I used to have (chuckle). Situation is not helped by the fact my entire family, including Overweight Missy (the dog for you newer folks who haven’t met her), are Cardinal fans. BIG Cardinal fans. Being a Ranger fan I am on the fringes of being an outcast anyway and now that the Rangers are going to beat the Cardinals in the World Series, I will be no more than Navel lint to them. Picked out and flicked who knows where.

Oh well, I’ll just chock that up to ANOTHER fine mess I’ve gotten myself into.

Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 64° and wet. The high will be 71°. The chance for thunderstorms is 50%.

I woke up at 5:30 this morning to thunder and rain. The rain continues in a slow drizzle but the lightning and thunder has moved on. The storm is moving ESE and radar shows it about to cross into Mississippi. The trailing edge of the storm is moving through here now and radar shows no activity behind it. The rain gauge shows 0.59" so we got half an inch. It was much needed and we need a lot more.

This mornings photo shows a foggy morning in Sundown.

[tcwright973]

Good morning everyone,

I just finished some ironing (I think my wife would sit down and cry if she saw the results} and getting ready to clean the living and dining rooms. We still haven't heard back about openings in any of the skilled nursing units.

Bob - I understand completely about not wanting to take a promotion. When I was on the Fire Dept., I always refused to take the Lieutenant's test. It was a job where a Lieutenant was in charge of each shift, and had all the responsibilities for  structual and crash-rescue operations at a major airport, as well as two military air bases. The downside was you had no real authority. The few bucks in pay versus all the aggrevation just wasn't worth it to me.

Ken - Good luck on the new job.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Tom