Evening All,
Flo I would love a piece of that pie that Sue made.
Had a great MRR day today. I ran some trains, fixed a feeder solder connection that was causing locos to bump up and down causing derailments, did some TT movements and MOH got JMRI working!!! I made up my database with my locos and changed some CV's (mainly steam whistles).
Jeff- Were you speaking in English in the last post?
Talk to you guys on Friday.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
pascaff* My daughters decided I needed a new computer, so I am getting an early, by a month, birthday present of a new Dell laptop. Should be here by the weekend. My current one is almost 8 years old. It mostly does what I need it to, but it can get slow.
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Had a four gig flash drive lock up on me after I copied it's data to another flash drive. It's no big loss. It's one of the cheaper flash drives made by Sandisk. I bought it at Wal-Mart over a year ago on sale. Upon examination I found the cause of the problem was a corrupted program. I did a forced format on it and cleared the corrupted sectors then tested it. Seems to work OK. I'm copying the FLV directory to it, so far no error messages. As solid state drives go it has really slow read/write speed. Always has from day one. It takes over two hours to write four gigs of data to it. That's why they were priced so low for sale. I bought two, a four gig and a two gig. I'll be replacing them when I can with much faster four gig flash drives from PNY. They run circles around these old ones on USB 1.1 and absolutely leave them in the dust on USB 2.0. If this one records all these FLV files I'm throwing at it I'll leave the files on it as a backup and store it with my backup DVD's. This doesn't change my plans to put the FLV files on a DVD tonight. The Car Talk MP3 files will be going onto a DVD also. Don't wanna lose them.
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
Morning All,
Like Jeff said, it is still morning here in the Pacific Time Zone. Currently 65 with an expected high of 91.
I have the day off, which is nice, since I have a lot of housework to catch up on. Wife's white blood count was low yesterday, so she received 2 units of blood. I only worked until 4:00 yesterday so I could get to the hospital to see how she was doing after she got the blood. Doctor bills are starting to come in, ouch.
My daughters decided I needed a new computer, so I am getting an early, by a month, birthday present of a new Dell laptop. Should be here by the weekend. My current one is almost 8 years old. It mostly does what I need it to, but it can get slow.
If I do not go to the hospital and see my wife, and I get the housework done, I will slap some earth color paint on the layout to get rid of the pink foam "ground". If I can get a nice mix of a rusty rail color I like, I will also paint some track.
Gary and sister,
Prayers to all in need,
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
Garry: Happy birthday to you and your sister.
Good morning (well it is here still). It's 85° with 67% humidity. It'll be partly cloudy with a high of 95° and a heat index of 106°.Been busy this morning gathering all my FLV files into one directory. Did the same with my Car Talk MP3 files. Tonight I'll back them all up on DVD's. Together they come to 5.53 gigs. There were many duplicates which I deleted. I'll figure out later how much disc space that recovered. I found out yesterday that my Magicjack Plus interferes with my Nero copy program, so the Magicjack has to be unplugged for the copy program to work. I want to have my phone on in case any important calls come in so I'll have to wait until tonight to make my backup DVD's. The possibility of an important call coming in then is next to nil. No work on the layout yet today, in fact I haven't run a train in the last two days. I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms! I'll have to run one for a bit today to get my fix.
Garry- Nice family photo. It reminds me as a kid when we flew we got dressed up also. Times have sure changed.
I done sayed it 'afore, and I'll be sayin' it agin':
Garry and Sister!!!
Lots of and to go 'round!!!
I may'ent share yer day, but I DO be sharin' yer Birthday month!!! {my'en's a few days aways yit}.
-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 all. Bill I would like to take off but I have people to take to Dialysis. No day off for them. On my early lunch break at this time. Later have more to bring in and then those that are done with their treatment I take home. Alarm was set for 5:15 but I was wide awake at 4:23. Just as well for going into the kitchen to start the coffee,I saw a note from Deb. Garage utlity sink was leaking..So turned off water. As our magnetic fridge magnet says: Good morning, let the stress begin. Well one good thing about working as a driver on a holiday, NO SCHOOL BUSES.
Happy Birthday!!Bro and Sis.
Prayers and Blessings to /for all.
Flip
Thanks for the greetings everybody; I read each one. .... The Huckleberry Cheesecake is outstanding, and yes, I certainly have a sweet tooth! ...... Jim, yes I have plans. I plan to do nothing!
Here's a picture of me and my 2 sisters in the Super Chief dome car in the 1950's. .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry and sister, Happy Birthday to you!!!
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Happy Labor Day - for Garry's mother (twice over), and for all those who (currently or in the past) have w*rked (which might also include Garry's mother, whether it was "Mom's w**k or paid w**k, right?) Anyway, for those off from your employment today, have a great day! Hi, Flo - I'll have a glass of OJ, a Santa Fe mug of coffee, and a blueberry muffin (sliced and toasted, please) if you wouldn't mind. Thanks.
Hey Garry, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- and I brought you (and your sister, if you want to take some home for her) something in addition to that scrumptuous-looking cheesecake that Sue brought:
Do you have any birthday plans for today, Garry?
Officially, I'm 'on the clock,' as of 8:00 a.m. (and until 8 a.m. tomorrrow morning. (Hey, Galaxy, maybe you could look up "on the clock" and its origins?)
Barry, if you want to make a list of what to do on your layout, I have some paper sheets with me - take some. Your weather sounds about like they're talking that we will get today.
Lee, as for the flying (buzzing kind) varmits, I just figured they were a result of our milder winter this past year. In our area, we also have had drought (116 days so far), so maybe that at least trimmed (somewhat) the amount of skeeters we have seen hereabouts. Guess Texas must've had more rain than we did, since they're needing to spray the skeeters (for that West Nile virus thing). I recall having to knock off one mud-dauber cell the past few months. I see one of those most summers, it builds a nest by the sliding door to my apartment's deck. (Maybe the mud-daubers like whatever cooler air seeps around the door? Dunno...) Best as I can recall, I don't think I have ever been stung by a wasp/hornet/dauber, although unfortunately, several years back my daughter was with me and got stung (but not bad or any swelling, just painful).
Grey day in Cape G. today, some clouds, but no rain forecast for us. Appears Isaac is heading across Ohio, etc. on its way to grace the East coast with its presence (for however long). I think we only got a total for the two days (when Isaac was moving through) of 1.6 to maybe 2 inches of the liquid sunshine. We're still way below our normal rainfall for year-to-date.
Hey, Barry, let's put our heads together about how we both can get (re-)started with layout w**k...
Blessings and prayers for a safe holiday for you all,
Jim in Cape G.
Mornin' everyone!
Happy Labor Day to all of you! Happy Birthday to Garry, his Sister, and to my Father as well! Seems like a popular day to be born. My Father would have been 99 years old today! This Wednesday my FIL would have been 99 as well.
Zoe, I'll have the "Farmer's Breakfast" this morning... Two eggs over easy, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Potato and fresh Chopped Leek hashbrowns, and fresh baked country bread, with lots of dark roast coffee w/ fresh cream in my R&GV RR mug to top it all off. Back on the farm you needed all that because by breakfast you had already milked the cows, fed and watered the calves, fed the chickens and slopped the pigs! Then you came back in the house and had breakfast freshly made!
Currently 70°F here in the Finger Lakes under cloudy skies. The high should be about 80° and then rain showers predicted for late tonight. I have to get to work making one of my potato salads for the picnic late this afternoon out at my son's house. I also have a few things to move today before the install for the Solar Panels arrives tomorrow.
Have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and an egg sandwich please. Thanks. Whoa wait!! Huckleberry cheesecake? Hm, never had huckleberry. Had a Huckleberry Hound doll thing when I was a little kid. I’ll give it a whirl.
Ken- Sorry to hear about the house issue. I know we’re talking about BOS, but you’d think they would refi or something to get hopefully the rest of the interest off you. If the repo it, they chances are won’t get the new loan. Getting the principle back is great, but getting the interest is where they get paid.
Ray…, ahem. I don’t know how you keep a straight face and remain comment free with the wording of some questions at the museum. I couldn’t do it. Nope.
Garry!!!! May you have many many happy and healthy more!!
Well, now for my trivial issues. Got the shower stall cut up and out yesterday. Turns out water lines do not come up from in the wall, but about an inch inside the wall and leaning back into the wall so the shower head line is in the wall. I’ll have to move the stuff into the wall beacause with the shape of the prefab stall it was fine. With the flat walls, (shakes head)…it’s not doable. Naturally.
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.
MOH is off to a sewing sale about a hour from here and my son is working, so quiet reins supreme at the moment. Go back to w**k tomorrow and the new schedule is Tue, Wed, Thurs. It will take a little getting used to as I'm used to doing specific things on specific days (love OCD).
I will probably run trains for a while then fight with the JMRI monster.
Garry- Happy Birthday to you and your sister. Mine is the 9th.
Todd- How is the shower going?
Hope everyone has a great day and prayers for those in need.
Happy Re-Birthday, Garry!
Happy Birthday to Garry and his sister!!!
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/
Chloe, I brought in a huckleberry cheesecake to celebrate birthdays for Garry and his sister.
Let's wish them a happy birthday!
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning All and Happy Labor Day:
I was able to get the entire track laid on the 4x8 yesterday but I won’t be able to get back to it until Thursday. Today is my family’s 97th reunion, Tuesday I’ll be showing my Aunt’s former home to prospective renters, and Wednesday I’ll finish the demolition of George’s layout in Painesville. From 1915 to about 1980 we held our family reunion at Fort Megis now we hold it in Rising Sun, Ohio right next to the C&O mainlines.
The 4x8 isn’t the coolest layout but it will keep an 8 year old happy; 9 turnouts with the focus on modern coal and passenger operations. No pictures yet, it was raining so I couldn’t pull it out into the sun for any decent pictures.
Garry HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you and your sister.
Ray, LOL, nice. Matter of fact I have a few stories like that to share, but I’ll refrain from posting them in the diner. Funny you mention getting stung; this past week I’ve been stung 3x just walking through my yard and I haven’t been stung in maybe 10 years. There seems to be an abnormal amount of flying insects here this year.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
cudaken Just dropping by to let you all know I am around. Ken
Just dropping by to let you all know I am around.
Ken
Why so glum?
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And a good morning to everyone here....
Going to be another warm somewhat sticky day here...84F feeling like 94F....and sunny....
Having a lazy day today with nothing planned but working on the layout plans...again.
Which means that I may need the old padded corner booth complete with punching bag in the back room somewhere...to get a little ...exercise in
More Morning Coffee!!!
It's
LABOR DAY, USA!!!
Take the day off and rest from your labors!!!
{Forgot to tell you this month's name}: SEPTEMBER:
Middle English septembreLatin SeptemberLatin septem "seven" + -ber (adj. suffix)Latin september mensis"seventh month"
September had 30 days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 30 days long
HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
Smile and Make someone's day better!!
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning Coffee in the Diner
GOOD MORNING!!!
Bill has provided the date
HAPPY LABOR DAY USA!!!
There are only 113 days left till Christmas!!!
This has a surprising twist from what you MAY usually think of!!! :
clean someone's clock/clean the clock/clean your clock - beat up, destroy, or wipe out financially, esp. via competitive gambling - Cassell's explains this to be 1940s first recorded in the US, with the later financial meaning appearing in the 1980s. A specific but perhaps not exclusive origin refers to US railroad slang 'clean the clock' meaning to apply the airbrakes and stop the train quickly, by which the air gauge (the clock) shows zero and is thus 'cleaned'. Extending this explanation, clock has long been slang meaning a person's face and to hit someone in the face, logically from the metaphor of a clock-face and especially the classical image of a grandfather clock. The word clean has other slang meanings in the sense of personal or material loss or defeat, for example, clean up, clean out, and simply the word clean. While these clock and clean meanings are not origins in themsleves of the 'clean the/his/your clock' expression they probably encouraged the term's natural adoption and use.
GARRY!!! !!!
The prayer candle will be lit at 8 AM!!!
For my 6th birthday, my "present" was a baby sister born on that day.
Thereafter, my youngest sister and I share our September 3rd birthday.
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Monday, September 3, 2012-Labor Day
DEPOT - Tipton IN
Evenin'!
Just a refill for the decaf Janie...
Been sitting here at the computer for the past 3 or 4 hours watching old Grocho Marx clips... He was truly a comic genius! My dad used to watch his shows when I was a kid. Of course much of the humor went over my head (Just as well). Also watched a few Victor Borge clips as well.... My Hero! Did you know he used to raise Rock Cornish Game hens on his farm?
Teen Steam... Sounds like the old "Last four words of a redneck thing". Hey Y'all Watch this! Hope the flowers survived! (Sounds like fun actually...)
Time hit the hay. Have a great night and prayers for all in need!
Hey guys
Just got done with my family's Labor Day party. Nothing much, just alot of cheap and fun entertainment, mainly "Whose crazy enough to try and throw another guy off of the mattress behind the quad."
I was holding on great until my dad threw me into the flowerbed and I hit the border of it and flew. Snapped the rope and I was too busy laughing at how awesome it was.
No I wasn't hurt, but my knee was a little sore. I'm fine now.
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
I hate Rust
Had a nice supper with the parents.
MOH finally got JMRI running---kind of. I still think there are some issues. I will play with it tomorrow and see if it works like it should. Fingers crossed.
Here is my old control panel and what is there now
Note the one toggle switch
Evenin' folks!
Janie, are there any of those cinnamon rolls that Sue brought in this morning left? Jim got the last one.... Oh well, I didn't need it anyway, but I do want a cup of decaf please.
I spent all day out at the museum doing Docent w*rk. Had a fairly busy day with a lot of very inquisitive people. It sure is more fun when there people actively wanting to learn about our collection. The high point of the day was the lady who asked my about coupling... She said that she and her daughter wanted to know about how to couple... I bit my tongue and behaved myself and showed her how it was done using the caboose. Ah, the coupler on the caboose... YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT! At least 5 different people asked how diesel locomotives worked, and so I got to do the explanation I use for the RRing Merit Badge with scouts several times. Only problem today was we had a number of people get stung riding on the track cars to the museum. One was a little girl who got stung twice on her leg. Luckily none of the people who were stung are allergic to them.There is a nest of ground nesting wasps in an old tie along the ROW. I think they finally found where it was and got the nest with a can of spray.
Later!
Afternoon, Janie - is there one of those cinnamon rolls left that Sue brought in? Yes? Terrific! I'll have a Rio Grande mug of coffee and one of those, please. No, just warm it up in the microwave a few seconds and I'll put a little pat of butter on it. Thanks! (And Thanks, Sue! ...)
Don't think it has rained much at all today in my area, but it sure has been cloudy and grey (or as Barry might call it, "dull..."). Hey, I'm okay with that, we got maybe an inch and a half/a little less than two inches of the wet stuff. As Todd said, what's left of Isaac is mostly into Indiana and a little south of there.
Rob, think either I missed you coming in the Diner, or I took a nap since then... (Huh? Oh, nothing) Well, just in case I haven't met you already,
Garry, sounds like you have improved, since the doctor thinks it's okay to delay the other surgery (surgeries?) Good luck with the new cat.. I have a few of those MDC ore cars, for the CAW's uranium/vanadium mines. Will need to find some glow-in-the-dark paint for a little 'touch' to them, though...
Barry, sounds like your park trip may have had like some people's photos - good view up the noses of the engineer, etc. I'm guessing your humidity must be worse off than ours - ours is 81 F air temp, and a "feels like" 85 F temp currently.
Jeffrey, I'm a little bit like you, doing revising my drive's contents. In my case, moving all the stuff in my download directories onto (data) DVD's, to free up room on the hard drive. Heh, I can recall when 20MB was so big I thought I'd never fill it up (and same for 80MB, 120MB, 10GB, 40GB, 1TB backup (and that 3TB drive I'm using for my Time Machine backups isn't looking quite so large anymore. Need to slow down/weed down my music/CD collection, and also trim down my various programs and data. Haven't gone through my Documents folder in a long while, which likely means there's a bunch o'stuff there that is either outdated, duplicated a few times over, or is for an older version the the operating system (and as such, won't run on my current hardware...
Mmm, talking about all that 'digital hoarding' gave me a bit of an appetite (even if the w**k was in my thoughts only...). Janie, could I have a bowl of chili (grated cheddar cheese & onions) and a RBF, please? Thanks again, gal. I'll have it here at the RC when it's ready. Thanks!
Blessings and prayers,