Elliot´s Trackside Diner - February 2012

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

Morning All,

I slept in a little, but no sleeping in for the next three days as it is work, work, work, over the week-end.

Chloe, when you get a moment, I'll have a big bowl of steaming oatmeal, with raisins, some cinnamon toast and a HC, please and thanks.

I would swear our wives are reading this forum.

After Tom, Barry and others got to preforming their duties on the floors, my wife says " We have a baby shower for our D-I-L  coming up in a little while and I sure would like to have the toilet in the main bath changed to a low flush model."

- So that was purchased.

-Then as I readied to install that, she says that the intent is to change the flooring at some point. So the Dura-Ceramic tile was chosen and purchased.

-As I am not going to do the whole floor right now ( as I can see the big picture here and there will be much more work coming forth).  I cut out enough of the old flooring out to lay four tiles down to set the new toilet on, so that wouldn't have to be moved again.

-So as I am about to set the toilet in place last evening my dear wife comes in for an inspection and says I think  (WE meaning Me ) should paint the wall behind the toilet before putting it down.

-So I said, I am not going through that experience again with my Wife and her Sister going over and over what color it should be.  NO, NOT AGAIN !!!      Then I said we do have enough paint left over from doing the 3/4 bath last spring that I can use....... so that wall is now painted and today the toilet will be set.  (Hopefully)   It should have been down three days ago.  It has also been mentioned that the baseboards and trims should be upgraded  as well.                                            --- It never ends----

Boy, the train room would sure look great right now.

Come to think of it, I hope the Wife doesn't read this.  The S__t   would hit the floor and that would be me I'm afraid.                               Lol

Johnboy out.................................and sharing in the "floor wars"

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

howmus

I see THAT some of our patrons are already going completely natty already and it is only the second day here.

I don't see anyone putting up rice paper wallpaper yet so it guess it hasn't gotten that bad yet. Somebody asked if they're turning Japanese from being in Japan. I spent nine years in Germany. That doesn't make make me German. I spent a year in Italy, that doesn't make me Italian. I lived in Greece, France, England and a couple other places. That doesn't make me Greek, French or English. I enjoy Chinese food, that doesn't make me Chinese. I enjoy Mexican food yet I'm not a Mexican. I enjoy good redneck barbeque, that doesn't - the jury's still out on that one. I am, always have been and always will be a Native American of Cherokee descent. There's no changing that. And yes, I have way too much free time on my hands.

[GMTRacing]

Ok Todd, if Mexico is in New York, and Moscow is in Idaho, why can't Ohio be in Japan ? Answer me that. And If you were in Kadena AFB, you still haven't made it so Honshu ,right? Or is that Honcho - or am I back in Mexico? The essential rhetorical question I thnk is "How can you be in two places at once when you're really no place at all?"

   And look at the mess you've made for Johnboy! His best bet now is to make a complete material list for the bathroom and get the CFO to look it over so at least they are on the same planet. I hope you're happy now. And yes I've recaulked both bathtubs and refit the drains and still seem to have a leak. And who told Vinnie where I hid the frypan - OUCH!    J.R. slinking off to lick his wounds.

[Anonymous]

howmus

And what is that glow on the horizon?  Kept me awake all night!  Hmmmmmmmm............

Sumi masen, Ray - I think the glow comes from this:

 

[Cederstrand]

Italian roast coffee in a BURLINGTON NORTHERN mug, please.

***Johnboy, thanks for the chuckles.

Ankle kept me up most of the night. Finally got some sleep when the ice numbed it enough. Painful and frustrating.

I was born and raised in America, which makes me a native American. Hopalong Rob

[jeffrey-wimberly]

GMTRacing

And who told Vinnie where I hid the frypan - OUCH!

I'll never tell!

 

Doctor appointment went well. As I figured it was just a rehash of the lab results from last time. He wants to see me again in two months. I have another appointment on the 7th of this month with the foot doc, again. Don't know right off what I'll do with the rest of the day. There was something called 'Kansas Pacific' being recorded on the DVR this morning. Figure I can watch that. Also got 'The Dirty Dozen' begging to be watched.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Early Afternoon...or whatever time frame you are currently in

 

Well I’m here looking through an old picture frame
Just waiting for the perfect view
I hope something special will step into my life
Another fine edition of you
A pin up done in shades of blue

Sometimes you find you’re yearning for the quiet life
The country air and all of its joys
The badgers couldn’t compensate at twice the price
For just another night with the boys – oh yeah
And boys will be boys will be boys

They say love’s a gamble hard to win easy lose
And while sun shines you’d better make hay
So if life is your table and fate is the wheel
Then let the chips fall where they may
In modern times the modern way

And as I was drifting past the Lorelei
I heard those slinky sirens wail – ooo
So look out sailor when you hear them croon
You’ll never be the same again – oh no
Their crazy music drives you insane – this way

So love me leave me do what you will
Who knows what tomorrow might bring
Learn from your mistakes is my only advice
And stay cool is still the main rule
Don’t play yourself for a fool
Too much cheesecake too soon
Old money’s better than new
No mention in the latest Tribune
And don’t let this happen to you

Editions of You-Roxy Music.

Who said I was 'normal'?

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Ezra's getting ready to go hunting. Reckon this is big enough for possum?

[BroadwayLion]

I got a bang out of that picture.

[Cederstrand]

Coffee refill, please.

***Jeffrey, trying to figure out how that cannon will work for possum. Are you going to toss one in there right after firing for "flash cooking" or what exactly? Perhaps Major Reisman can make some suggestions. Can you imagine his response to that...

Semi-productive day, all things considered. Will be resting in a booth awhile.  Rob

[GMTRacing]

Don't forget to set the hand brake before you push the firing button Jeff.

[teen steam fan]

Boy, sure looks like Jeff's on a roll. Hope he has a blast.

Oh so a we a in a Japan ah. The only Japanese I've heard was when a girl I know cursed me out in Japanese I caught nothing of it. 

Urlich - san- Never been to Japan. My step cousin wants to go though and study Japanese there. 

Jeff - san- nice rail gun I don't think there'll be much possum, that's a big game railgun. 

 

Girl I know taught me some Japanese honorifics. Hope I got them right. (Doubt it.

 

Oh I like Chinese, I like Chinese, Their food is....Sorry, wrong song

[cudaken]

 Evening Fellow Dinners!

 Flo, Beer please.

 Computer Problems First. My AVG is not starting when I start the computer.While the windows alter is not coming on saying there is no anti virus but I cannot get it to run either? So I have 2 qustions.

 1 How do I get XP to go to safe mode?

 2 Site to get a new AVG, I was running the 2012 version.

 Work Front, Going To War!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Short version (I was posting the full story Monday and Ulrich moved the dinner) and it was lost. Had a customer Monday that came in for tire's. Told her about the free inspection and she said she did not need it, just had done at the dealership. Asked what they said need to be done and she went out to got the list.

 One of the things that was listed was rear brakes. At this point Larry The Crook / Services Writer butted in and said he would take the list! At the counter, they are my customer not his so I shut him down!  Dealership told her she had 5,000 miles left on the rear brakes. 

 SUV came in for the 4 new tires and Larry unzipped his fly so to speak. Went and got the customer and I was pretty sure I heard "you went a little too far and it is metal to metal" I was busy at the time and was not 100% sure.

 Half hour later she was back for a rubbing sound. Larry the Crook / Services Crook was gone so I handled the problem. While we where trying to find the problem (turned out it was a bent backing plate) we looked at the old rotors that where under specks. Guess what was sitting with them? Yep her brake pads that have 8MM of pad left! Guess where the pads are now? In my car!

 Now I was not 100% sure if I heard Metal to Metal when Larry The Crook was %&^$ her! I did tell Bill and few other people in the shop. (they all hate Larry) I saved a copy of the invoices and was going to call her as a follow up and see what she was told about he brakes?

 Did not have too. She came in today to get her Power Steering flushed and Bill asked her how was her last visit? She said it was fine and glad Larry the cook / services caught the fact the rear pads where Metal to Metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact there was no Pad Left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Hum, wish my pads are as thick as her old ones!

 Neil the Division Manager (asked me to come work for the company) will be in town Friday. So I will either the shop or be underemployed shortly.

                                          Cuda Ken.

[howmus]

Yoru no hitobito!

See Cloe, I'm learning the language....  (Have no idea what I just said, but I heard someone else say it a few minutes ago....)  I'll have the Tonkatsu for dinner...  I hear it is very good!  Ah, can I get a cup of decaf to go along with it? 

I think Jeffrey is looking to get rid of any new critters he might have on the layout.  I think he could even get a monster spider or two with THAT.....

Barry, no one here has ever accused you of being sane.  THAT would take all the fun out of this place if any of us were completely sane!

I just got home from the Cub Pack Committee meeting.  I started this over 2 hours ago....  got interrupted several times and then had to get to the meeting.  Made several errands earlier in the day, got my allergy shot, and came back home and did some odds and ends.  Mostly sorting through stuff THAT has been sitting around my house for a couple of decades and I have decided to get rid of!

Later!

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Today I got a big box in the mail. Inside, packed wall to wall in two layers were twenty-seven freight cars. Tyco, Life-Like, Mantua, AHM, AHM/Roco, AHM/Mehano and maybe a couple of Athearn cars.Most have horn hooks, some have Fleischmann couplers and trucks with pizza cutters that could cut two pizzas one on top of the other. The flanges are HUGE! I've only had time so far to ID one car, a Tyco Red Box 50' New Haven boxcar in near mint condition. Before I could ID more my parents insisted I show up for dinner. Wasn't a total loss. Steaks and rice in a heavy beef gravy, sliced carrots with jalapenos, green beans, french bread. Good stuff.

Hey, I have enough KO&G boxcars now to make a little fleet. I started with one, I now have eight!

I'll have a list of the cars up when I've ID'd them. Some are way too old for my general era.

[Anonymous]

jeffrey-wimberly

Ezra's getting ready to go hunting. Reckon this is big enough for possum?

I use this one for big game:

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Sir Madog

 

I use this one for big game:

Nice!

[der5997]

Good evening folks: An order of Ken style raw fish please and ありがとう - I'd like to try the Chicken Soup from scratch too - Todd's special order!

To answer a question from the last location,

Garry:

Der John ..... How do you work so well with that itsy bitsy N Scale stuff?

A picture being worth 1K words,

  Which leads us to a progress report that I had hoped to file before we moved. The next house down the street in the village I'm working on finishing is now done: The street is looking like this :

The engine lift out (or drop in - don't know which ) came out about how I imagined it, but it took a lot of fiddling to get the hoist chains to look as if they were hanging right.

I discovered another feature of the scenery technique I've used for the ground cover on this layout - sawdust and white glue mix spread on and painted. If you want to remove a section (I had to "plant" that house because I couldn't remove it from its base - the glue was too strong and the plastic too brittle)- all you have to do - even years after the scenery has been down - is to spray it with alcohol/water mix, wait about 10 minutes, and cut around the border of the section to be removed. Then you can simply insert a scraper under it, and lift it out - just a bit of clean up and you're down to the substrate - foam in this case.  Here's the removed section for the house. http://i

The pale sawdust mix is the cleaned up scrapings - not much left really.

So now there is only one house left to finish on that street, then I can get back to planting trees, and maybe do the field on the opposite side of the interchange. That hay field with the cows has me all inspired, thanks for posting it Terry. Quick work on that embankment Curt - how long is that run?

Ray: I didn't take time to read what you posted yet, but saw photos of your taking what looked like a major part of the layout down. Considering the care with which you model, that must have been a wrench.

Johnboy: My sympathies on the toilet / floor wars.

JR:

And who told Vinnie where I hid the frypan - OUCH!

sort of reminds me of a song on an "All the songs from 1939 - 1999" Juke box link that Dick sent me over Christmas -From 1955 IIRC,  Smokey Joe's Café. Here's a Youtube link to another cover of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j3xm_tJu-o

 

Ken: http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download

But can't help with the XP Safe Mode thing - sorry.

Hope it works out well with Neil! Kudos on your honesty

The groundhog consensus in Nova Scotia is no shadow = a short winter. Since there are no groundhogs on Sober Island, I expect we will get an interminable winter sogging into a damp cold Spring.

Tomorrow has been declared house cleaning day by the power that be, so I'd better get to bed so I'm all rested for it!

Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of Healing, Comfort, Prosperity and Peace.

 

 

 

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

Flo I would love a cup of Decaf please.

I finished the back of the layout. I think it looks 1000% better than I had but it still needs something. Most of it is vertical walls so it limits what I can do. I will post pictures tomorrow. I'm too tired to do it now (still have to take them). I did do one thing stupid, I did not tape the rails before I started so I spent a enjoyable hour scrubbing track with Q-tips and alcohol. I doubt that I make that mistake  again.

I love the photos and videos of the Japanese loco's in the snow.

Jeff- Shooting anything with that would be like a cartoon where there is black puff and bits of fur blowing out from it. 

Der- That is a tremendous job on the car, engine and hoist. Well done.

Everyone have a good night.

[Curt Webb]

Der- It is a total of 13 ft

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Curt Webb

Jeff- Shooting anything with that would be like a cartoon where there is black puff and bits of fur blowing out from it.

Yeah, I know. He already blasted Wile E. Coyote with it.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Time for me to call it a night. I posted photos of my new (used) rolling stock in the HO board of my forum so my members can see them. Forum policies here prohibit me from post a link to them as it would be construed as 'advertising' my forum. Sorry.

See y'all tomorrow.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Evening...

Ray:  

Ken: Good luck with that!!! 

Sore wa, koko ni kyōmibukai hidatta.  Yes, it were that interesting....

I tried but I could not find a way
Looking back all I did was look away
Next time is the best we all know
But if there is no next time where to go'
She's the sweetest queen I've ever seen (CPL593H)
See here she comes, see what I mean' (CPL593H)
I could talk talk talk, talk myself to death
But I believe I would only waste my breath
Ooh show me

Roxy Music "Remake/Remodel" 

Floor Wars, London ON division, part 2, kinda...Bought the tiles for the bathrooms...now we need to get the 2 bathrooms started at some point next week...this is going to be interesting as well.....note, while I am in the middle of Floor Wars there will be no sheckels for trains

Oh...besides which...my vehicle has been acting kind of funny lately..so this usually means that there will be an outgoing of $$$ to fix that issue as well....

Chloe, I'll just have a chamomile tea and a bit of toast please...I'll be at the corner booth commiserating with JohnBoy about the wonderful expenditure...no---not the frying pan!!!

Keeerrrrrttttuuuuunnnnggggggguuunnnggguunngg!!!!

Oh!! Look at the pretty birdies!!

*thud*

 

[Cederstrand]

Chamomile tea, please.

***Der, nice work with that engine scene.

Time to hit the hay here. Have a good night all.

Rob

[galaxy]

おはようございます  OR   Ohayou gozaimasu

GOOD MORNING!!!

Today is Friday, February 3rd, 2012!!!

The wekend is close at hand!!!

[wetidlerjr]

 

Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.

 

 

 

 

 

[LSWrr]

Good Morning All,

 

Dennis, I think we need good schools, but I’m not sure how much more we can pay out of pocket. 

 

Ken tap F8 when the computer is starting.

 

I must be missing something; I’m the only one here at work today????  Almost 7, doors opened at 0630.

[TMarsh]

Happy “National No Work in Ohio Day“! Were everyone in Ohio gets the day off. New federal holidays starting this year. Next month is Montana, but I don’t think anyone actually lives there to enjoy it.

Good Morning!! Coffee and maybe some more of that Kaneesheewah stuff. It reminded me a lot of an omlet…., wait what is today? February 3^rd? Well then in that case, scratch that. I suppose I had best get back to what this diner stands for. MRRing, friendships, and….pie. Zoe! I’ll have a nice big piece of Lemon Meringue Pie please. Thank you.

Pie. It’s not just for dessert any more

Partly sunny, with a high near 55. Not complaining mind you, but I don’t think we’ve had but a handful of daytime temps below freezing. Not sure, but I don’t think we’ve even had but two or three where it stayed even in the teens all day. In fact, my grass is still green with just patches of brown. I may have to mow next week!

Johnboy- Welcome to the fold. Except for the toilet part, that’s pretty much how it happens around here. Starts out so meek and mild and soooooo simple. Then POW! Right out of the blue, the biggy comes. Used to be a subtle and almost sneaky, no, not almost sneaky, more like down right sneaky, approach to the desired end result.

Pssst. (Ahem) Who let JR have the Saki?

Me I was borned a coal miners daughter. No that’s not what I meant to say. I meant I was born in the good old United States back when you could say God in a government building and smoke in the grocery store. I remember the ash trays at the end of the aisles. So that makes me United Statesian. Jeffery’s ancestors were here prior to any country being formed when it was probably just a chunk of land with only buffalo and Sasquatches. But, we have to call it something so when good ole Amerigo Vespucci, or how ever you spell it, named the continent, we had, after of course misspelling and mispronouncing as per tradition for us, we can now happily call them Native…Americans. Until that is, of course, Senor Columbus, got a snoot full and wound up on some island thinking it was India. Then tried it againa and STILL didn’t get it right, but at least made to the main continent and TADAAAAA! Discovered America! Odd how it already had a name. Good thing too. Can you imagine living in the United States of Columbus. Oh, ya, I know, we would have misspelled it first, but you get the idea. So goes the story of why some NA's don't like being called Indians. Kinda like you calling me, well, Indian. Wrong group. But I think they should be upset with the Spanish and their olives for that! Not us. We United Statsians had nothing to do with that. All we did was move in and take over.

Der- The neighborhood is really looking good.

Best getta groutin

Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

My head hurts...is there Excedrine in the house?

It is going to be a dull day here today, maybe, tomorrow we might see a few specks of sun here...

I'm going to go and pick up some wood trim for the baseboards in the living/dining/great room area...then I am going to go finish off the grocery shopping...or it is going o t finish me off...

Flo, I'll just have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the window booth for a bit

[blownout cylinder]

Got the top today!! And I just got the CC paid off...here we go again!!!