fec153 G- You are so right about the "I can't speak to you because you aren't on the contact list" mentality sweeping the country. Here, in FL, we've got everyone riding the "Privacy Law" high-horse so that you can't even call the hospital to check on someone's condition without their personal id # - they won't even tell you if the person is a patient or not. We have so much paperwork now for my MIL, Deb, Her Bro, and me - it is crazy. However, this is good advice for All of us to follow, not just the "Older" ones, because you never know when you may need someone to make "life or death" decisions on your behalf. Hope everything works out for the family, Take Care.. Flip
G-
You are so right about the "I can't speak to you because you aren't on the contact list" mentality sweeping the country. Here, in FL, we've got everyone riding the "Privacy Law" high-horse so that you can't even call the hospital to check on someone's condition without their personal id # - they won't even tell you if the person is a patient or not. We have so much paperwork now for my MIL, Deb, Her Bro, and me - it is crazy.
However, this is good advice for All of us to follow, not just the "Older" ones, because you never know when you may need someone to make "life or death" decisions on your behalf. Hope everything works out for the family, Take Care..
Flip
You are correct that everyone should do so. MOH {My Other Half} and I are now working on it also.
Unfortunately, sometimes these issues aren't known until the issue crops up! {as it did in our case- fortunately it is minor occurance, not a MAJOR one}
In case of an accident, EVERYONE should should have an advanced directive and Health Care Proxy, and should list on advanced directives all whom they think may have a need to be involved or who can act on their behalf IF the "PREFERRED INDIVIDUAL" is NOT available. For instance, whenever I was hospitalized, I always listed my spouse and my father so my father could act or gain info if MOH was not available. I NEVER THOUGHT to included my Inlaws! I did once included a close friend on the contact list who attended with MOH a surgery I was undergoing just in case he needed to gain info.
I stressed for the oldER ones, as they are more likely to need it sooner. Also they tend to have grown children {who may have spouses} to whom they entrust their final wishes.
Younger ones with young children cannot yet turn to their children for such things as they are not yet grown.
BUT younger readers, regardless of age, should ALSO be prepared adn LIST parents, children and any close confidants {who may carry out their wishes} on a CONTACT LIST.
ALSO, as I stressed, a child may be listed , but their spouse my be disincluded if they are not listed on the contact list. SO if the spouse also knows your list or has access to the copies of your advanced directives and may need to act on your child's behalf, they should be listed separately. AND list them ALL On YOUR advanced directives!
That way there should be little confusion.
-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.
Time for me to call it a night. 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.
It has been dull and dribbly here all day...only got to 40F ...here in the mighty burg of dribbleville....tomorrow I will be heading in to get this latest session done and away with...
A lot of interesting things abouts the forums today, I see...
Galaxy: Many millenia ago my sister jumped on us about the fact we did not have a living will either...so we cobbled together one that has our health issues ..known and unknown covered as to who was to know about them. POA(power-of-attorney) was established as well...all manner of stuff. Very important information here...
cv-acr: we are just outside of London ON out near Hyde Park...near Denfield Rd....
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/
Evenin' folks!
Janie, may please have a cup of decaf before I call it a day?
I spent a good amount of time finishing up (well almost as I may some changes) the bit of scenery I was doing. Some shots of where it is at rioght now:
a close up of an area:
Couple things I decided I don't like. What do you think? I don't like the tall tree in the back as it doesn't look right against the backdrop and it is too tall. I also don't like the tree on the bottom level in the front (right, in front of the rocks). It covers too much of the scene above it. Some changes will be made...
Guess It is time for bed... An old Scouting buddy of mine (Commissioner for the troop I have been doing the MB with) stopped by with a check for printing up a flyer for them and a sheet of proof I did the MB with the troop a couple years ago for the Volunteer certificate for the NMRA. So we sat and talked for a couple hours...
Prayers!
See you all tomorrow!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
easiest money I may ever make at that place, tomorrows payday, and my MRR for dec. is still not here really I hope it comes tomorrow or bad things are going to happen...
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Hello all, stopping by.
I see we made it into Georgia! Look out for walkers! I assume we are heading to Fort Benning, led by Rick Grimes? ( Reference to one of my favourite shows The walking dead.)
http://imgace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/zombie-in-walking-dead2.jpg
In less frightening news!
Some QR "Box Cars" wagons, the first RTR models produced in HO en masse.
Thoughts with any one affected by Sandy.
OzJim
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Gather together all you Georgians and Non-Georgians!
It's time for Morning Coffee in the diner!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Often, we may in MRRIng, in sports or with children, we EGG SOMEONE ON, SO:
Meaning: To egg someone on is to encourage them and urge them forward
Origin:
This little term has nothing to do with bird's eggs. Nor is it connected with the phrase that employs the other common usage of 'egg' as a verb, i.e. 'over-egg the pudding'. The 'egg' of 'egg on' is a straightforward variant of 'edge', so to 'egg someone on' is to edge, or urge, them forward. Egg and edge both have the look and feel of Viking words and this first impressions turns out to be correct, as they both derive from the Old Norse 'eddja'.
Egg has been used as a verb in English since around the 13th century and appears in print in the Trinity College Homer, in the form of 'eggede', circa 1200.
To 'egg on' appears later. It is used in Thomas Drant's translation of Horace - Horace his arte of poetrie, pistles and satyrs englished, 1566:
"Ile egge them on to speake some thyng, whiche spoken may repent them."
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Friday, November 2, 2012
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Burlington Northern #24I hope it comes tomorrow or bad things are going to happen...
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Good Morning all,
Flip, the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (note if it has ACT after it Congress installed it) has been something I’ve been knee deep in it for the past year here at work and I still don’t understand everything.
My Uncle passed away in 1985. In 2006 my Aunt had a problem with the electric bill and the power company wouldn’t speak to my aunt or I since our names weren’t on the bill. I brought it to the attention of the electric company’s lawyers that they had been cashing my aunt’s checks without my Uncle’s name on them for the past 20 years. They were very helpful in changing the name on the account after that.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
LSWrr My Uncle passed away in 1985. In 2006 my Aunt had a problem with the electric bill and the power company wouldn’t speak to my aunt or I since our names weren’t on the bill. I brought it to the attention of the electric company’s lawyers that they had been cashing my aunt’s checks without my Uncle’s name on them for the past 20 years. They were very helpful in changing the name on the account after that.
Train Master Burlington Northern #24I hope it comes tomorrow or bad things are going to happen... Yeah? Like what? ****WARNING! This may fetch a PG13 rating!****
Good Morning
Another dull, drab, dribbly day for us'uns again....hopefully tomorrow will present us with a little yellow orb with blue sky for once.....
Today is the day for yet another session of chemo/radiation...if'n this one does not make me glow cherry red, well, I'd be awfully dang surprised.....
I'm going into my studio to put together another song, or two, or three.....
blownout cylinderToday is the day for yet another session of chemo/radiation...if'n this one does not make me glow cherry red, well, I'd be awfully dang surprised.....
Bonjour y'all ! Good day today to begin something new,researching and planning for my 1st electric train in 60 years. Must hurry off now and get busy.C'mon Lara gets go ! Wow,this is exciting. Cheers !
Once Upon a time.........
My photobucket:
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I am a man of few words but lots of pics
I quit drinking beer because the download was taking longer than the upload !
Morning Dinners
Flo, Coffee pleases.
Man I got up early, 5:00 AM. But then again I was asleep around 7:00 PM last night. Something I ate did nor agree with me, between 10:00 and 10:30 PM I could not stay out of the bathroom! Think I made 6 trips in that short time.
Jeffery and Tom, sure not the news I was wanting to hear. Jeffery, I all ready know you have massive problems.
Tom, has your Blood Sugar been under control?
I guess what I need to keep in mind is the Damage to my capillary's is all ready done. Only real hope I have at this point is I still have good blood flow in my feet. I am being seen by the Foot Ulcer Clinic on the 19th, maybe they have a few tricks up there sleeve. I hope.
Has anyone heard from Ulrich or Petra yet?
See you all after work.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and peach cobbler please. Thanks.
The age past trick or treat age? Let's say when you grab a walmart bag, turn your hat around, jump in the car and drive to the houses. Or should I say when the person no longer sees it as fun dressing up and getting candy. Instead they see it as just a way to get a bunch of candy for free. Like I said though, that group has really dwindled out the last couple years. Must be a phase or something. Wasn’t that way but within the last say ten years, then kinda gone. Hm. Who knows.
One week and the restaurant changes ownership to my buddy who owns the bar part. Now before you get an Olive Garden view of this thing, the building is like maybe 20 feet wide and maybe 35 feet long. 40 maybe. Not counting the kitchen part. (lotta maybe’s but I never measured it and not that good at eyeballing distance.) The “bar part” is a bar along one wall about half the length of the dining room. Small town you know. Anyway, a bit in a state of indecision as to whether I remain employed there. I have a problem with working for friends or friends working for me. With is ok to an extent. But starting as friends and then working for them…(shakes head) recipe for disaster. Often times things get asked and expected done as a friend would to help and as a business employee, the rules change. Just asking someone to help do something is now asking an employee to do something. Drawing the line between friend and employee becomes blurred and does not usually end up in the same place for both, building hard feelings and then..... Not good. Not to mention the other employees as the see and interpret what goes on as they "see" it. It's different if you work at a place and then become friends. Don’t know we’ll see.
Still grouting on the shower. Why? Oh like today I have so many things happening I’m pretty much doing it in my spare time. “Would you do this, and this, and run into town for this and that. Oh and could you….say, are you ever gonna get that shower done?” “no dear. I figure I’ll save it as a retirement project.”
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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.
cudaken Jeffery and Tom, sure not the news I was wanting to hear. Jeffery, I all ready know you have massive problems.
Morning All,
Flo could I have a coffee please?
Not much to report from the last few days. I have a worker coming to the house to look at something then have several errands to do probably including groceries at Wally World, but MOH is off today so she can help.
I hope things are getting better for the people affected by the storm.
I will stop in later. Prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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blownout cylinder cv-acr: we are just outside of London ON out near Hyde Park...near Denfield Rd....
OK, I know the spot.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
Good morning, Diners. I think I posted on the old diner, not thinking about the day. I caught the cold that everyone seems to be passing around, but I am past the worst of it. Once I kick the cough, I should be fine. Chloe, I think a large black coffee will taste fine this morning. I plan to swim this morning. The big bowl of bleach should help me recover, too.
We had a calm day yesterday, and it shouldn't start raining again until tonight.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning. It's 66° with 100% humidity and fog. It'll be mostly sunny with a high of 85°.No plans today for layout work. It's possible that my mothers nurse/minder will have to leave this afternoon for a med appointment for herself. If that's the case I'll have to go down there and watch over my mother. That means being on my feet quite a bit. I'm looking forward to that like root canal surgery! It won't be a pleasant experience. Nothing happening here this morning. I got some of the clutter off the layout yesterday. It's a start.
Good morning, everybody. I'll have a pecan roll and coffee please.
Looks like everybody is busy.
Barry ...... Prayers for successful treatments.
Ken, Jeff, and Loather ..... Prayers for you as you live with diabetes .
Ulrich ... I hope you are improving. Prayers for you.
Lee ..... I don't care for those privacy laws because there are times when Shelley and I have to do something involving an account in only the name of the other spouse. Crazy laws.
Todd .... Grouting can be a messy job. Hope iy looks good when its done.
Not much new with the layout in recent days. I have been running freight trains including those I just posted in WPF.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QKen, Jeff, and Loather ..... Prayers for you as you live with diabetes .
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, a bowl of hot oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar along with a pot of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug would do very nicely this morning.
Dull, dark, and gray again today here in the Finger Lakes. Currently 39°F with nearby locations reporting sn...., sn....., sn......! Can't bring myself to even say it. High may get all the way up to 40°F! Whoppie!
Oh, Happy "All Souls Day"! Have you all gotten rid of the Jack-O-Lanterns yet? Know where the Jack-O-Lantern came from?
The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply "Jack O'Lantern."
Barry, keeping you in my prayers again today!
Jeffrey, I agree with you wholeheartedly! Diabetes is not a pleasant thing to live with. IOty is however better than the other option!
I best get a move on as I have stuff I want to do today.
Later!
I do have an M1 on a flatcar I know how to use it...
YIKES! It NEVER ends!
FIL was in Hospital Wed and Thurs, and got out and got my MIL released today too {she was there for Hospice respite care while he was in there}. Then, when they got her home and settled, she said she wanted coffee, and he got as far as the BR door, and the next thing he knows is he is having 3 people standing over him to go to the hospital! He fainted, passed out and FELL DOWN.
They called MOH at work and MOH called me wanteing me to try and find out what was going on with FIL...ONCE AGAIN< I AM NOT ON THE CONTACT LIST....YET. SO they cannot talk to me!
So, now, he is back in there and I will go sit with MIL.
JEFFREY- That package is on its way, and i will send you a PM here after I post this!
I will have a long busy tiring day ahead with the INLAWS,as if the errands weren't enough.
I hope it is not this complicated in 25 years-30 years when we are as old {mid 80s}...as neither of us has any children, and no nieces or nephews and won't have any!
GRRR
Have a swell day guys!
Good afternoon, all,
A bowl of chili will do nicely at the moment.
Been getting some house items taken care of the last few days in anticipation of resuming full-time work next week. Leaves raked, windows washed, hair cut, shower tile cleaned. Results of all this activity? A very pleased wife, always a good goal.
However, the digital camera gods were not nice to me this morning. After the haircut I went to Kirkwood, MO, to photograph some Union Pacific action and catch Amtrak P42DC 66 (phase II Heritage locomotive) on the morning train from Kansas City. After shooting two UP eastbounds, my camera's battery dies. No spare. Nowhere local to recharge it. And the clouds were finally clearing up. I'm gonna plead with Santa Claus for a spare battery this year. Oy.
Have a good weekend and don't forget to set your clocks back on Saturday night.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
my MRR came today, they got lucky... this time
Just nuked a TV dinner for lunch. You know the ones that are $1.00 each with 22.6 grams of a turkey-like substance, 18.9 grams of something looking like tappioca pudding but called mash potatoes and 12 grams of corn that looked like something I discarded from my C rations when in Vietnam. Yum, Yum. Like casting a bean into a lion's mouth.
Am considering abandoning my current 1/16th completed layout as ill-considered and assembled to this point in haste. I hope to be designing something I like more. No rush, though, this time.
Gotta' play pick-up-stix tomorrow over the yard to cleanup all the blown down twigs and clippings from the two large pin oaks in the front yard due to "Sandy". Plus, I'll have to put a bit of insulation in the Kit Kat house on the screened in porch so they won't freeze during the winter. Feel like a farmer tending to the land and livestock.........
Richard
If I can't fix it, I can fix it so it can't be fixed