Morning Coffee in the Diner
GOOD MORNING!!!
Smile, and Make someone's day!!!
Smile, and Make YOUR day, too!!!
We know there is no such thing as a free lunch, SO:
there ain't no such thing as a free lunch - you never get something for nothing - now a common business expression, often used in acronym form 'TANSTAAFL', the first recorded use of this version was by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 book 'The moon is a harsh mistress'. The general expression 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' dates back to the custom of America 19th century bars giving free snacks in expectation of customers buying drink. American economist Milton Friedman, who won the 1976 Nobel prize for economics, did much to popularise the expression in that form and even used it as a title for one of his books
So, eatup and enjoy PAYING for your lunch!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Today is Friday, September 14, 2012.
Pennsylvania RR bridge in Richmond IN built 1902-03.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Hi All
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Well work was a pain, so all was normal
Ray, if the solar panels happen to make more power than you used, do you get a check from the electric company?
Jeffery With the one foot being such a useless mass of flesh, why was it not removed? Heck I all most had to fight to keep my toe.
See you all later!
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me at the moment.
I picked up the wood splitter at my son's house with the help of my son and granddaughter #2... She climbed up on the trailer and basically got in the way (her way of helping). She was also talking non-stop the whole time I was there... She was very happy to be helping "Papa"! I didn't mind her getting in the way and did watch her for safety... Had to make some deliveries and pick up a few things around town and then just hung around the computer here until I had to go to a camp properties committee meeting tonight. Nothing at all got done on the layout today except I picked up another bag of ballast at the hobby shop while I was delivering some announcement sheets for the NMRA there.
Oh-oh! looks like I have started something.... Karl and Barry, in NYS Solar is surprisingly affordable at the moment. First the price of the systems has dropped considerably in the past few years. The total installation cost for my system is $16,870. NYSERTA, a NYS energy research and development agency gets funds from every Kw of electricity (It is about $3 per month on my bill) sold in NYS. In part, because of the work of this agency, the cost of electric here is now lower than it was just 5 years ago... I applied for and received a grant of $6,480 from that source ($1.50 per watt). There is also a Federal Tax Credit in the US (non-reimbursable, meaning you have to be paying that much in Fed taxes to qualify) of 30% of the remainder of the cost. For me that is $3,117 that I can take off this years taxes when I file next year. For residents of NYS there is another 25% tax reimbursement as well. I don't qualify for that as my retirement income (all I live on) is not taxable in NYS. So for me my total cost for the system is $7,273. If I was still teaching, it would be all of $4675.50. Now before somebody gets all bent out of shape, the Tax credits are exactly the same type of thing big oil and coal get all the time. It is only recently that individuals can qualify to get these credits.
Karl and Barry, check out what is available where you live to see what the cost is.... It varies from State (and country, of course) to state... For us here in NYS it helps the utility companies be more profitable as well as lowering the cost of electric. Very much a win - win situation! The times of day when solar is producing the most energy, is exactly the time of day when the power companies are purchasing the most expensive electricity from the least efficient and dirtiest power plants and they get to sell the excess power we produce at full profit. Everyone using electric benefits, and I hope no one is against creating clean, renewable energy that doesn't have ties to the middle east...........
OK, off the , just my ! Now I'll be quiet and go drink my coffee.
Hope everyone has a safe and pleasant night! Prayers for all in need.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Time for me to call it a night. Had dinner with my father tonight. We got quite a bit of rain, don't know how much yet. Wind is SW at 4 mph gusting to 21. I have to be at my parents place in the morning to meet the repairman for the a/c unit. Condenser coil needs to be replaced. See y'all tomorrow.
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
Good Evening..
Audrey and I are seriously looking at the solar panel idea for our place now....heeheehee
We had a lovely day today...all of 84F feeling like 95F ....nice and muggy...
Going to be a rainy kind of day tomorrow supposedly...high? ... 68F?
Anyhow...got some things to finish off here then off to...g'night!!
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/
sakelUgh. Sorry to hear about it.
Ugh. Sorry to hear about it.
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
-------- ( It's a worm)
sakelWhat happened to your foot?!?!?!
jeffrey-wimberly Had a bit of a concern this morning. It was time to change the dressing on for lack of a better name my foot when I noticed it was bleeding more than usual. In fact it was bleeding like a stuck pig. Those of a squeamish disposition will want to stop reading now. All others continue at your own risk! Your sanity may be in question or you may discover a masochistic tendency you didn't know you had. You've been warned. A quick examination revealed a bit of bone sticking out of the wound. I cleaned a pair of needle nose pliers in alcohol and went in after it. A bit turned into a piece of shattered curved bone an inch long and almost half an inch wide. Got it out of there and cleaned up the site then bandaged it up. It stopped bleeding fairly quickly so there doesn't seem to be anything else cutting up in there. If it starts up again I'll get it checked out. Looks like I'll have to limit my activity for a while. Those of a squeamish disposition may continue reading at this point. Went down to my parents place to have lunch with my father. I had to turn down a trip to the nursing home due to the aforementioned problem. I'm definitely not up to any long walks and anything over fifty feet for me is long. I'll be down there again this evening for dinner. I had just a little bit of train related work to do. A tank car turned up with a locked wheelset. Somehow a bit of ballast got wedged between a tread and the cast in brake shoe on the truck. It was quickly popped out with a small screwdriver.
Had a bit of a concern this morning. It was time to change the dressing on for lack of a better name my foot when I noticed it was bleeding more than usual. In fact it was bleeding like a stuck pig. Those of a squeamish disposition will want to stop reading now. All others continue at your own risk! Your sanity may be in question or you may discover a masochistic tendency you didn't know you had. You've been warned. A quick examination revealed a bit of bone sticking out of the wound. I cleaned a pair of needle nose pliers in alcohol and went in after it. A bit turned into a piece of shattered curved bone an inch long and almost half an inch wide. Got it out of there and cleaned up the site then bandaged it up. It stopped bleeding fairly quickly so there doesn't seem to be anything else cutting up in there. If it starts up again I'll get it checked out. Looks like I'll have to limit my activity for a while. Those of a squeamish disposition may continue reading at this point. Went down to my parents place to have lunch with my father. I had to turn down a trip to the nursing home due to the aforementioned problem. I'm definitely not up to any long walks and anything over fifty feet for me is long. I'll be down there again this evening for dinner. I had just a little bit of train related work to do. A tank car turned up with a locked wheelset. Somehow a bit of ballast got wedged between a tread and the cast in brake shoe on the truck. It was quickly popped out with a small screwdriver.
What happened to your foot?!?!?!
Happy? You bet! Over the last 21 hours the solar panels have produced over 17 Kw of power. My average daily electric use year round is around 19 Kw. The meter down cellar was spinning backward at a good clip this morning when I checked it...
Ray, I'm seriously jealous.....especially when my garage gets sunlight on the roof all day long!!
Like to make all that light pay for itself someday!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Afternoon folks.
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Just wanted to stop by and say hello. Spent two hours on the phone talking with Paul from GA. He is just getting into trains and spent some time explaining some things. Real enjoyed talking with him.
See you later, Ken
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a couple eggs sunny side up, sausage, and some sour dough toast to go along with my dark roast coffee this morning. Oh and make sure you give everyone a refill on their coffee as well.
I will be going over to my son's house a bit later to load up the wood splitter. It will be delivered to the Museum on Saturday so they can get the fuel supply ready for this coming heating season... Since I started bringing it out every fall about 4 years ago, they haven't ever had to use Kerosine in the big pot bellied stove to heat the Depot office when people are out there working. We always have a lot of wood that either comes down or should be taken down along the ROW so I does help the bottom line.
Little by little I am getting all the items needing to get done this summer finished. It was good to see the RR ties get loaded up into the garbage scow yesterday. I need to rototill the old garden space and start putting together the raised beds for next years garden. I may also get a rock to put in the hole left by the Blue Spruce I had taken down. I plan to circle the rock with blocks and have a raised bed to grow strawberries in there.
I, like Jeffrey, have run out of materials to get much more done in the layout room, so I guess I shall occupy my time with some of the other stuff needing to be taken care of.
Later!
Good morning. It's 69° with 100% humidity. There's a fair chance of rain. The high will be 88°.Storms passed through last night. Not much rain but a lot of noise. Looks like we may get some rain today. I really don't feel like working on the layout today. There are no projects to work on so I just don't see the point. I have a Bowser Roadrailer kit but that would take all of about twenty minutes to put together. What then? I have nothing to use it with. It's just one of those things I have for possible trading material. No news on my mothers condition. In that respect no news is good news.
Good Morning
We are having some warmish, muggy days back for us'uns...84F feeling like 95F today as well....
Today is picking up a bunch of laundry related stuff and a few new things for the studio....
Have a good day!!
Morning Coffee !!!
Good morning again,
Well, well
{groan}
We had the roofer come to look at the trailer roof..he discovered the furnace people "sealed" the roof jack {chimney] to the roof with only regular silicone caulk! Wouldn't /couldn't/DIDN'T hold! He sealed it up with tar gunk. We need a new roof-overlay.That's about $3,600.00 but we should be able to get through the winter with his repair. Now to get the furnace people back out top fix the furnace as I tried to fire it up the other day when cold in AM and it would only "Click" and not fire. I DO hope it isn't because of the bad roofing job they did when they installed the new furnace!!! I MAY have to take them to small claims court.
The roof condition has naught to do with the furnace people, but if the leak caused furnace failure, then I would have a case, I think...they caused the damage by not sealing the roof with correct materials. The roof IS 30 years old and heat/cold can wear on it. We had it sealed again last year AFTER the furnace people were here, BUT the seal coating is only to protect the metal from rusting, not to prevent leaks. A new roof-overlay will cover us for another many years. Since we would like to buy property, I don't relish putting more money into this one!
The plumbing was replaced 10 odd years ago, now the furnace last year and roof this next summer.We also have to have the proch "siding" re-done as the nasty storm's hail shredded it! About $450 in labor alone to redo it..plus materials. We need skirting to be redone too. It never ends..was the vehicles $1000.00 -ing us to death, now the house is. Can't get ahead for being behinder more!
The prayer candle is lit, but we have to go out today to do things, so it will be down for a few hours.. supposed to be nice weather, good for the tar to seal and settle before the rains weare expecting Friday night/Sat morning.
Well, off to the day, I guess.
Good Morning modelers et all,
66F, 70% Humidity, HI 82F, mostly sunny
Ray, those are mighty fine looking solar panels, I look forward to your reports on future electric bills to hear about the savings.
Sakel, that’s outstanding news. Retired myself and served in Kuwait during the 2003 conflict. Funny I was sitting on a short stack of sandbags one morning outside of the Army’s dining facility waiting to go on patrol when an Army private sat down across from me and asked how he could join the Coast Guard and get the heck out of the desert, I told him sorry I’m stuck in the giant litter box without any hope of going home soon….. I was based out of Camp Spearhead and we had every branch of the service there except for Air force. The Air force stayed at Camp Wolf. We figured that was because Camp Wolf had a golf course and we didn’t, LOL!
Paul, thanks I’ll give that a try.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
September 13, 2012 is the 257th day of the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.
Interurban passenger and freight depot, Tipton IN-1930s
Morning Coffee in the Diner!!!
Good Morning!!!
Today is Thursday, September 13th, 2012!!!
Have you ever wondered where the "&" symbol and its likenesses came from? Or what it is called?
It is the "ampersand", and here is where it is from:
ampersand
- the '&' symbol, meaning 'and' - the word ampersand appeared in the English language in around 1835. It is a corrupted (confused) derivation of the term 'And per se', which was the original formal name of the & symbol in glossaries, alphabets, and official reference works. 'Per se' is Latin and meant 'by itself', as it still does today. Traditionally all letters were referenced formally in the same way. The letter A would have been 'A per se', B would have been called 'B per se', just as the '&' symbol was 'And per se'. The ampersand symbol itself is a combination - originally a ligature (literally a joining) - of the Letters E and t, or E and T, being the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. The earliest representations of the ampersand symbol are found in Roman scriptures dating back nearly 2,000 years. If you inspect various ampersand symbols you'll see the interpretation of the root ET or Et letters. The symbol has provided font designers more scope for artistic impression than any other character, and ironically while it evolved from hand-written script, few people use it in modern hand-writing, which means that most of us have difficulty in reproducing a good-looking ampersand by hand without having practiced first.
Goood eve, uh, morning...
YOUGOTTAWANTA: First, my deepest condolences for your loss, I can't imagine what you've been going through, but we're all here for you. Second, I agree 100% with what you said. What surprised me the most, was I could've gone to the other school I cover, a more "urban" school. I figured the small-town school would be more respectful than the one with thugs wandering around with their pants half-way down their...rears.
Maybe not, I don't know.
What I do know is THAT every high school has it's collection of jack wagons, they just happened to be concentrated in one small area, I guess. They were a far cry from one of the 2012 graduates I got to know pretty well over the past four years: a stand-up guy, noble and honorable. He was in the car behind a car full of teens last fall involved in a high-speed collision near the school. As a volunteer firefighter and EMT, he had multiple patients ranging from DOA to critical to minor. Then he realized his parents were in the other vehicle. He kept his composure and did what he could before Fire, EMS and the LEO's arrived. Two weeks after graduation, he joined the Marine Corps. I'm proud to say I know him.
This same school district held a Veterans' Day event last year with a color guard made up of then-current, and recent grads who had joined the Iowa Army National Guard. Again, awesome and decent kids. I just wish they'd been there to knock some sense into the butt-clowns.
Maybe patriotism just isn't "cool" anymore...
Chris (in Iowa)
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Janie, i could sure use a cup of decaf right now... Maybe a slice of peach pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.... What? Oh, I'll eat it standing up, that way it doesn't count.
Long day around here. My Dermatology Appt. was rescheduled due to some emergency that took the Dr. away for the day. I got the Yaris Serviced. Oil change and tire rotation. Lets see, something else happened??? Oh! I know! I got to see my electric meter spin backwards! Yep, the system is all in stalled and working. At about 1:30 this afternoon the installer threw the cut off switch and I started producing Electricity right here at home. Last time I looked around supper time, the meter wheel was standing perfectly still and the panels had produced 12 Kw of power so far. That was about 5PM. The Certified inspector who was supposed to be there to certify the system never showed up so we still have that to do. The Electric Company installing the system is going to find a different person to inspect it. Guess this one has pulled the same thing before.
Jeffrey hope the weather isn't too bad around your place tonight!
Prayers for all in need!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
So much for a quiet night. Looks like we have storms moving up from southeast Texas. Looks like it could get noisy.
strong to severe thunderstorms developing over southeast Texas and eastern portions of central Louisiana will move northeast at 20 mph. Rainfall rates up to an inch an hour will be possible in and around Kirbyville and eventually Newton as well as Marksville and Opelousas. Small hail, gusts to 40 mph, and frequent lightning will be possible with these storms.
Good Afternoon...
Sitting out back with the laptop and enjoying the fresh country air...while BBQ'ing some Angus Beef Burgers....
Had a bit of a surprise this morning...boss showed up with company bonus check...knew I missed something somewhere........which means more ca$h for mrr....hopefully...
AmanaMedicSpeaking of selling, did I mention I have a factory-new in the un-opened box Walthers ADM Elevator available? *hint hint hint*
Thanks all
I appreciate the kind words on the passing of my best half. Robin. It has been a very tough road. There are days when even the thought of model railroading will not get me going. Appreciate all of the prayers very much.
Samuel - congrat on your brother going into the svc. Give him a pat on the back from us. If he is heading to the middle east I have some advice for him. This came straight from the front over there and is a true story. There is a marine on my site who fought in all of the major conflicts in the middle east. While stationed in the middle east they had some bad guys that were using a nearby village to drop shels in on the marine base. Out of frustration after several attempts to root out the baddies the marine seargent told the locals that if they didnt stop shelling teh marines they would fly a large plane over there village and rain pigs blood on them. The shelling stopped. You know why ? They believe the pig is an unclean animal and if a pig so much as walks across the ground that section of teh land has to be abaondened FOREVER. I think I have a quick cheap way to end the war !
AmanMedic - hear you about your frustration with the students. Send them to me. Let me take them to the pentagon where a friend of mine was killed , some more injuried. I will show them where my friend died and where my other friends were injured. I will show them the blackened sections where Americans were burned then I will let them meet my marine friend who fought to stop the muslim terroist. That will stop some of that foolishness
Paul - will keep your wife in prayer.
sakelWas not able to post yesterday, was in Jackson, MS all day. One of my brothers was shipped out to basic trainning (not the mrr course) for the Air Guard, he is going into services.
Was not able to post yesterday, was in Jackson, MS all day. One of my brothers was shipped out to basic trainning (not the mrr course) for the Air Guard, he is going into services.
Goooooood Morning, bucket of coffee please, thanks.
JEFF: Yup, good points! The area I'm trying to replicate has the world's largest cereal mill and a large power plant. But, those two...set pieces...are concentrated in one area. After THAT, going South the line runs through downtown Cedar Rapids. Going North, the line passes the ex-RI roundhouse and into the ex-RI yards. Everything is going to be selectively compressed, out of necessity. I could use the entire second floor of my house, with the interior walls removed, and probably still not have enough space to model the Quaker Oats complex in full. When I built the ex-RI roundhouse, I used the Atlas kit. It has the same lines, but is shorter in length. I also made it nine stalls vs. the dozen of the prototype. I've already had a "Joe in the know" say it captured the "feel" and matched his memories of the place. THAT's what I'm going for.
PAUL: Thanks for the encouragement. I'm a firm believer in learning from the mistakes of others...so I realize the "experts" say how things "should" be done for a reason; and i guess THATs what makes them "experts." I'd like to think I'm a "pert." I'm not an "ex-pert" yet!
Gotta get moving: Rerun needs his late morning bombing run on the back yard, and I gotta get ready to go to w**k. Today's agenda includes a doctor's office celebrating 25 years in business (without affiliating with any of the "health networks" in the state), and a City Council meeting. Yip. Yip. Yahoo. I'm still a bit taken aback from the high school volleyball game I covered last night: no mention whatsoever of 9-11. I thought maybe a moment of silence, at the least. Nope. Nothing. As it is, some in the student section were screwing around during the National Anthem.
Have a good day everybody,
Hey, I think I just saw the lunch special for the day: