Good morning. It's 78° with 80% humidity. A tropical storm warning and a flash flood watch are in effect. Tropical storm conditions possible with a fair chance of thunderstorms. The high will be 85° and will feel like 91°.Getting ready for a bunch of rain here. Wind gusts are up forty mph. I'm looking for the weather to start getting nasty by late afternoon/evening. If the power goes I'll be grabbing the stuff from the fridge/freezer and take it down to my parents place where the fridges and freezers will be powered by a generator.This morning I'll be going to town to pick up the wiper motor and caliper for the van. Might as well grab a set of brake pads too. I checked the price of the caliper with Advance, Autozone and O'Reilly. They all want the same price - $14.99. Advance wants $10 core charge, the other two want $17. So I can get everything in one place. The pads are pretty much the same price at all three places, differing by $1 up or down.Got a busy morning. Catch y'all later.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Sir Madog I am worried about Jeff. According to the radar picture I have, hurricane Issac must be right over him right now. I hope and pray he is alright!
I am worried about Jeff. According to the radar picture I have, hurricane Issac must be right over him right now.
I hope and pray he is alright!
Wow. If that map is right, I am in the red and not a drop of rain yet. Weird huh?
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
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More Morning Coffee
Well well
I got the grocery, banking and pharmacy done. Its getting so I dread going to the grocery store. It costs and costs and gets you very little!
Now all to do is to get the free bread down the street, then off to do dishes and some desperate laundry needs done. {put it off to long}
When MOH comes home has to mow the lawn..if what they say is true, we may get backlash form Isaac meaning lots of rain here...hopefully AFTER Saturday.
Why after Saturday? cause we are going to Steamtown for Rail Fest 2013. Doesn't look to be eventful {fewer visiting locos that we haven't seen yet} but it will be our steam loco fix for the summer. Taking train nut friend. May also investigate the Houdini museum while there too.Yes a Harry Houdini museum!
The park is mowing empty lot yards. They always set the tractor's mower to low and throw rocks at our trailer! Good thing they haven't yet broken a window!!! We'll not be happy then!
Well off to get the bread.
Oh, is everybody enjoying the tid-bits on how certain phrases came to be in my morning posts, or is it just a waste of my time?
-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.
Mornin'... Ah, Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I'll I'll have a toasted ham and cheese on 12 grain bread please, and a glass of real lemonade for lunch.
Nice cool day here in the Finger Lakes region, Currently 69°F with a high in the low 70s for the day.
Looks like the mid-west may get some of the remnants of Issac. They can use the rain for sure...
I have spent the morning trying to figure out who to contact to 'legally' dispose of the old railroad ties. I called my trash company that had told me "no problem" they can pick them up on your regular day. The lady on the phone now says, "Sorry they are one of the few items we can't handle and told me to call the Town of Geneva. I don't live in the Town of Geneva, but will call later to see who they tell me to call... And so it goes!
Galaxy, have fun at Steamtown!
Jeffrey, hope you are safe and still have electric. Prayers for all in harm's way!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Winds picking up here. Nothing spectacular yet but it could make driving an RV interesting. I picked up the wiper motor for the van and installed it. Yay! I have wipers again! On the brake caliper and pads, the store didn't have them in stock and had to order them. They should be in by tomorrow noon. At present I'm at my parents place but I'll be going home shortly.
Afternoon
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases
Well it is that time again. Yep back to work. Just hope i have a better day than yesterday.
Ran the heck out of the trains last night! Had 3 trains running on the A Line and 2 on the B Line. Using the JMRI throttles on the computer all most made it easy, still had to keep a eye on them.
I am off Thursday, not looking forward to it either! Another trip to the VA Hospital to see the Surgeons. I am sure they will be cutting on my feet some more. Personally I think they just like to cut on things. But, they claim they have to keep the wounds clear of calluses so they will heal properly.
See you after work!
Ken
I hate Rust
Morning All,
Currently 60 with an expected high of 94, glad I got the A/C fixed.
Doctor here and the one at Stanford decided my wife was too weak to make the trip, so they decided to treat her here. She started the chemo therapy last night, four meds at one time, every 28 days is the regiment right now. I will go into the hospital later and maybe stop by the only hobby shop in town that carries model railroad stuff.
Galaxy - I for one enjoy the tid-bits on how the phrases came to be. Very interesting
Ken - Working retail and service is a pain with many customers. At my job we seem to cowtow to every stupid whim of customers. In my part time business, I have more leeway to deal with customers that are not upfront with me to begin with.
Going to try and weather some track before I head to the hospital.
Prayers to all in need and those in Issac's path.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Afternoon guys
Well we're stillunder Issac, but it's sunny out. Just really windy. I've been helping my father change the heater core in his 1990 mustang. I also tested out that Scalecoat wash-away on the DRGW shell that wouldn't strip. 5 minutes in the stuff and the paint is lifting off in sheets. I stuck the 2 sound/dcc chassis under my 2 Black Widow F-units. They sound really good and run well too. As for the paint stripper, I think I know what's in it. It has ammonia by the smell, but may be highly concentrated 409 or Simple green.
I went to the MR club last night and ran my F45/SD45/SD45/F45 consist. I pulled the second F45 off because I didn't like the horn sound. Now I don't have sound. It has a shut-down feature, but I don't know how to turn it back on. I'm gonna try it again next tiem I go over, if it doesn't work I could call athearn for a new board. It's MRC, so I could get a soundtraxx instead.
Thanks for the birthday wishes guys (and Sue). My birthday went okay, unfortunately all the money I recieved went into re-registering my car. It used to be 30 bucks a month when I got my licsence, but now it's close to $75.
Jeff, When were your engines blue and yellow?
Ulrich, I'm a few miles northwest of the 2nd little waterway in NW florida, before the part where the hump is in the panhandle.
Sam, How many big cities along the coast are there in Mississippi? I think Biloxi is the only one and I don't think it's very big.
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.
Finally sarting to rain here in Mississippi, and it's not going to stop if the T.V's right .
Vincent, I really wouldn't know, but off the top of my head I would say Gulfport and Biloxi are the two largest, keeping in mind that we have less than 100 miles of coastlines.
PackerJeff, When were your engines blue and yellow?
Winds getting pretty stiff here and the power has gone out a couple of times. Looks like this is the beginning of what could be an interesting few days. At least I got my windshield wipers fixed. Just looked at the forecast and it's just lovely if you're a duck tethered to a boat anchor. Wind and rain, rain and wind. Wind is up to 45 mph.
Time for me to duck out of here. Weather's starting to get nasty. Sustained wind is at 40-45 mph with gusts of 55+ mph. I can hear tree branches snapping and crashing to the ground. I think one of my neighbors has lost part of his corrugated steel roof. I heard a loud metallic crash from that direction about thirty minutes ago. Can't guarantee I'll be back on tomorrow but I'll be back when I can. See y'all soon hopefully.
Evening All,
Saw my Doc today and Fri I have a appointment with a Endocrinologist. The surprise is that it's not for my A1c sugar levels which have not changed in 2 years but because of my Testosterone levels. Doc says it could explain some of the issues I have been having.
Tomorrow I have to swing by my Doc's office and get a copy of the lab work for Friday then I was going up to the Jon's LHS.
To all the Diner's being affected by the storm, please stay safe and dry. All we got locally was some heavy rain belts from the storm.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Afternoon, Zoe! I'll have a RBF and a BLT, please. Thanks!
Figured I should get by the Diner before the month was totally gone. Lots o'posts to skim rapidly through (and hope I didn't miss all the important stuff, which Mr. Murphy says I likely will...)
Besides, if Sam K's coming back by, I'd better, eh? Stay as dry as possible in your area. As for Mississippi being skipped over, if you watch the national news, they rarely (unless it's a tornado, fire, etc.) do mention the middle part of the country (north or south, doesn't matter). (Maybe I'd better quit now, I see the coming out now...)
Good to see you're back, Ulrich, though sorry to hear you didn't get the loco engineer job.Sorry to learn of Wolfgang's passing - I really liked looking at his website and the photos of various projects he had done (like his extensive interior for a depot). You're right, he will be missed (and I'm sure even more there in Germany)
OzJim - (gasp!) When will the (re-)construction begin?
TSF, as the others said, welcome to (grunt..!) college life. Start yourself with good study habits, and you will wind up with better grades (maybe even learn more in the process...). Best wishes on this initial load and set up a schedule for getting assignments done (i.e., watch out for the party crowd, who may not be there next year/semester...). (Don't ask how I got so knowledgeable about the ins and outs of college life...)
Ah, Vincent - the practical approach to college classes. Another thing is, for some professors/instructors, you don't know how they want you to phrase your question (setting aside that other political consideration you mentioned...) until you get their first test under your belt. Hopefully, the professor will toss your lowest test score (or at least, weigh it slightly lower than ones later in the semester). Yes, there are multiple ways to answer test questions, even on "the facts"... And a belated Happy Birthday to you!
Ken, that is one... interesting... problem you ran into (especially if your wife thinks you're making up a story... You may want to make sure that your Sue is with you at all times that Susie even might be around. Just to ensure that if Susie says anything out of line, Sue hears it (and that Sue hears you saying "No way!")
Flip, hope you and Bama and Jeffrey stay safe (and high above the waterline in your respective areas). Our local weatherguesser today was saying we - depending on Isaac's particular track - might actually get a pretty decent catch-up on our year's rainfall shortage. Hope the folks in N.O. in the area that got water over the levee got out and are safe. Gee, as far west as they're saying the storm will go, C&O Terry (in Texas) may get a good soaking, too.
Paul, good to hear that your wife's getting renourished, even if it took going to the hospital to do it. for her recovery to continue even further. I can relate to your comments about finding "Where the #$%*^& did I put...?" (More than once, in fact)
Barry, get those steaks into you, fella! And your take on (re-)finding lost parts/details/etc. in MRR'ing is sooooo true! (Good to hear the definite word from your oncologist, too! )
Ray (or other Diners) - when did those "CCCP People's Hero Medals" show up? I noticed when I got to the Diner (all the sunlight reflecting off them almost blinded me as I came in the door...). Like what you said about making flowers "earn their keep" by being tasty as well. On your new phone, if you got it through a local place, take it in and have their guru show you how to turn off texting. (and send me the directions, in case I ever get a cell phone...) Okay, Ray, now you have me with that song stuck in my head...
Chris, I like your mock-up of the roundhouse there - even with the tape on the roof, it looks way better than mock-ups I've tried. As for the track design, whatever w**ks for you sounds fine!
Jeffrey, nice video of your Geep lash-up, and that is an impressively long train there. Stay safe there! From another post of yours, I take it that your mother is in a nursing home (temporarily or otherwise - I'm sure she is saying verrrryy temporarily!). Better warn the staff that she may be making a break for the exit about anytime. (My guess, from what you said...) Hope your trailer's well-fastened-down there! (Hey, once you get back on - where was that one photo taken on your layout - with the two levels?)
Stan, sorry to hear of your Dad's passing; I would say that I can see how that painting could be a favorite for him (very impressive). for you and your family. Feel free to post more photos of your paintings - I'd missed not seeing those for a while. (Liked 'em!)
Garry, for a good improvement report from your doctors (and continued healing so you can have the rest of your 'repairs' finished and get you more fully back to yourself.
CN Charlie, use your drops every night (or day or whenever your Dr. tells you). My glaucoma had done some (central) damage in my left eye (peripheral vision is okay...), but the drops keep my right eye fine. So other than needing glasses for reading/closer stuff, mine hasn't progressed any further. Good that your Dr. and you caught it early on.
"...Just looked at the forecast and it's just lovely if you're a duck tethered to a boat anchor."
Curt, hope you and your doctor get things figured out (and fixed up) all right.
Well (kinda dry right now, but that could change in the next couple/three days...), today we reached 95 F (35 C), and still about 15 inches short of our average rain for the year-to-date on the rainfall. We'll see how the moisture level is by about Monday or so...
Time for me to head home and do some reorganizing of hard drives and other 'fun' stuff. Found me a couple of RDC's (2's) recently; just would like to find a couple or so RDC-1's. Have a search setup on d'Bay for that.
Prayers for safety (and high ground), good night's rest, healing and comfort for all you Diners.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G. (making my quarterly appearance...)
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf please. I'll be in the back booth relaxing for a bit.
Jim, Turns out texting was blocked before they sent me the phone at my request when I signed up for the plan. I guess you just tell the people you ain't gonna pay for none of them stupid texty thing! Nope, I don't know nothin' about them funny little shooting starts at the top of the post... They been here since the day after the down upgrade.
I managed to all the track connected in place that will lead to the upper staging tonight after the Boy Scout District Committee meeting. Still can't run a train to the upper staging as I still need to hook up several leads from the DCC Bus and finish putting in the leads to all the frogs on the turnouts. Then I will check continuity. By tomorrow night I should have the first train running to the upper staging.
I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the old RR Ties I need to dispose of. Called the trash people and they said RR Ties are one thing they can't pick up. I do believe the local landfill (run by the same company) will take them from what they have told me before. I sent an email to the guy who is the City Code officer for my area (an old Scouter friend of mine)as I figured he would know what to do, and he got back to me several hours later. He was kind enough to contact the DPW for the city to see if they would take them with the fall leaf/branch/garden waste pickup. They will only take items suitable to grind into mulch... You can only get it picked up if you grow it! They did tell him the name and number of a private hauler who will pick it up and take it to the dump. I taught one of the guy's kids in Middle School and know him, so I will be giving him a call tomorrow.
Prayers for everyone in Isaac's path! Hopefully some people will get some much needed rain at least...
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
August 30, 2012 is the 243rd day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Folks
Flo, Beer pleases.
Well Work Went By OK I guess.
Paul, I hope things go well for your wife. I hope my wife is not going down the same path. She had her Mammogram a few days ago. They want her to come back in for a retest
See you all Thursday.
Ken.
Morning Coffee and Donuts!!!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Bill has provided the date.
There are 117 days left til Chrismas!!!
We often say there is A RING of TRUTH to the RULE OF THUMB to do something by, in our hobby and our lives, And when it doesn't seem quite right, we often blame it on the RED HERRING. SO:
"ring of truth/ring true - sounds or seems believable - from the custom of testing whether coins were genuine by bouncing on a hard surface; forgeries not made of the proper precious metal would sound different to the real thing. 'Ring' is from the Anglo-Saxon 'hring-an', meaning ring a bell"
"rule of thumb - general rule - from an old English law which mede it illegal for a man to beat his wife with anything thicker than the width of his thumb"
"red herring - a distraction initially appearing significant - from the metaphor of dragging a red (smoked) herring across the trail of a fox to throw the hounds off the fox's scent"
Good Morning
Everything is all sunny and mild today..high of 82 feeling like 88F later on...
Going to get a chance to work out some photography later on today as we are having an informal operating session this afternoon...
Anyhow, got to get going here..have a good day!!
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/
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and the Thursday breakfast surprise platter please. Thanks.
Sunny, with a high near 94
Jeff- looks like the latest radar shows the heaviest of the rain is petering out before it gets to you. Hopefully today will just show a rainy one at worst. Of course, the radar don’t show what happening on the ground either.
Central Mississippi and Alabama though….whoa. Prayers for them.
Talked to someone from New York state yesterday, said they didn’t know Ray. I said you sure you’re from New York.
G- Yes I like the trivia.
Oh by the way. Shower door project went south fast. New project for me woo hoo. Looks like Brenda’s getting that ceramic tiled shower she wanted and I said NO! to in the beginning. (waste of breath. Shoulda known) I’ve never put in a ceremic shower and wasn’t willing to experiment on ours. Tsk tsk… My how things change. See, though the door was properly measured, it turns out there is one type of shower stall this special order to fit, non returnable door will not fit which is clearly shown on page 5 of the installation instructions well into the installation and AFTER the first cut to fit piece has been cut and installed so there is now absolutely no way you can return the door even if you could have weaseled them into it…….. I don’t think I need to tell you what shower type we have.
Ya’ll have a good 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.
Todd: I'd have her doing the work on maintaining it ........after all, it was her idea...
Is the door framed now?
JimRCGMO Jeffrey, where was that one photo taken on your layout - with the two levels?)
Jeffrey, where was that one photo taken on your layout - with the two levels?)
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Good morning. It's 71° and very wet. Humidity is 100%. The high will be, well the weather guessers can't make up their minds between 81° and 88°.It's wet here but not bad. Winds gusts are down to 30-35 mph. Rain showers are frequent but not heavy. This morning we've gotten 0.29"of rain at a rate of 0.04"/h. A wind advisory is in effect until 4am Friday. The forecast here is:Breezy. Showers in the morning...then rain likely and isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the 80s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.Rainfall totals are predicted to be generally light and total around or under one tenth of an inch over an hour.So as I said, wet but not bad. We're on the west side of this storm so most of the bad stuff is east of us and heading north.No plans for today. As you can imagine my attention is centered on the weather.
Jeff, glad you've made it through the storm so far. Keep us posted. The picture reminds me of a rechargealbe drill set I bought. It came with both a drill and a flashlight. The drill is fine, but I tried to use the flashlight on an under-the-sink plumbing job, and the bulb went after about 2 minutes. Oh, well.
We've had beautiful weather here in New England for the past week, and the forecast is for more of the same. I haven't had to run the AC at all for quite some time. We were up in Maine over the weekend, and really enjoyed the bike riding around Kennebunkport.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning All,
56F, 75% Humidity, Hi 85F
Today’s worst weather is reported to be in Christmas Camp Lake, LA
I worked from 1800 to 2200 last night on George’s layout. He had a U-shaped layout that occupied 15 feet x 10 feet area. George passed away in the spring and the widow asked us to take the layout down with the understanding we could anything we wanted. It was rather sad, George loved his layout and none of his kids or grand kids wanted anything. I brought home several buildings and I was able to salvage all but 2 turnouts. George’s wife had sold off most of the rolling stock and locomotives before we arrived. I cut the layout up in less than 4 foot sections to facilitate hauling it out of the basement. Now we have to go back and remove the layout remains after we find a trash hauler to pick it up.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
MisterBeasley Jeff, glad you've made it through the storm so far. Keep us posted. The picture reminds me of a rechargealbe drill set I bought. It came with both a drill and a flashlight. The drill is fine, but I tried to use the flashlight on an under-the-sink plumbing job, and the bulb went after about 2 minutes. Oh, well.
Got several errands to do today before I get home and physically remove the layout control panel (everything already removed from it). I was going to keep it but even with the DPDT switches removed there were several painted areas that the layout diagram is wrong based on changes I have made.
Jeff- Glad you are doing well. I continue to say prayers for those being effected by the storm.
Lee- We had a similar event here. A widow called us to take down her deceased husbands layout. The man did incredible scratch building structures. We used a lot of his stuff on the club and personal layouts and renamed a town on the club layout in his honor.
Everyone take care.
Current temp 59 with an expected high of 95.
Never made into the hospital yesterday, wife told me to stay home and rest, I have been going non-stop for the last 5 weeks. Both daughters went and gave me good reports. I will see for myself later.
Started to weather the rails with some Polyscale and Floquill paints that are about 8 years old, and still good I have one of those min-stirers and it works great.
Jeff glad you made it through the storm OK.
I hope all in harms way did too.
Ken my wife always has to go and get another mamogram because something did not look right, it was always nothing. But they just want to make sure. I hope that is the case with your wife.
Prayers to all in need.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a pot of dark roast coffee... Yes, leave it here at the table, and you can bring me a breakfast bagel w/ cheese in honor of Barry's good news. Zoe, I need my R&GV RR Mug to put the coffee in...?
Todd, Upstate or the Rotten Apple? Heck, I don't know half the neighbors around here anymore. Why would they know me?
I'm waiting for an old Scouter Friend to stop by this morning. He called and said he was coming to Geneva this morning and wanted to stop over after he went to the Scout Office here. I was hoping he would be here by now, but he may have gotten waylaid. This evening I will have supper over at my son's house as they both have to attend a parent meeting for Livy to start Kindergarten next week. Doesn't seem possible that she will be going to school...... The years go by so very fast. Anyway, I get to watch the girls while they are at the meeting.
Jeffrey, glad you are getting through the storm without problems! Neat emergency light. I just bought a pair of little flashlight type things that plug in and stay charged. they come on automatically if there is a power outage. Even during the day if the power goes out and I am in the train rooms, it gets real black down there (no windows that show). I am getting to the age where feeling my way around the rooms with no light isn't fun any more... I have already used one of them for the night photoshoot out at the museum earlier this month.
Best get to doing some needed items for the day!
Later!
Issac update: Tornato and flood warnings in counties all around me, got 7-9 inches of rain yesterday/last night, so far am alright. Though, have to say Mississippi is getting alot of talk about this...