Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Sunday, November 11, 2012
Have a happy Veterans Day!
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Can’t sleep.
Prayers for Sallie. And for Jerry too.
J.R.- Sounds like Mr Murphy went with you.
Got the wall fixed and the yard mowed all while Brenda was at a Pampered Chef party. Of course when she got home….she wanted to leave again. This time with me. Still have a lot to cleanup in the yard to do but hey, I guess it’ll be there next spring.
Now that the remodeling is……done I guess. Well two rooms of carpet, but that’ll be done by someone who does it for a living. Not me. Now it’s time to clean this house from top to bottom. That’ll be a couple months no kidding, of going through stuff and getting rid of much stuff . Tired of living in a mess. Train time is near. Very near. Once the cleaning starts it won’t be so that I won’t have time to hit Toddland (of which I’m king) off and on. It’ll feel good to get back to normal here.
Guess I’ll poke around WPF and then who knows until I get tired
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.
Good Evening
Everything kind of turned around here...nice dull, rainy, foggy day here..did get a bit warmer though...we are now warmer than we were this morning here...
Today was a bit of a noner day for us..as in got next to nothing done here as it was our day to get groceries and other gotta do's done...this on a bad ankle...sure got a lot of 'staying off'n the feet done' today... Guess I will be paying for it tomorrow though....
A lot of people needing here lately...Jerry and Sallie added to the list here...
Have a good evening !
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 evening ....
A prayer request for Jerry and Sallie. (Jerry has been a regular here diner for several years).
I recived this email written by Jerry to Der John. John forwarded it to me. a couple of days ago:
"John Great to hear from You...Model railroad has kinda been on the back burner..Sallie was in Hospital for a couple of weeks and then She had to go to Nursing home...She is a little better but still very weak..Her Mother passed away and that hit Her hard along with all the other problems..Please keep Her in Your prayers John....Jerry"
Next, I wrote to John, and asked if I could post the news here. John asked Jerry if that was okay and Jerry replied as follows:
"John sure its OK to let the folks in the Diner know about it..The more prayers the better..Thanks Jerry"
Please include Jerry and Sallie in your prayers.
By the way, John is busy gettung ready to move to another location, and he is presently taking apart his beautiful layout.
I do not have much layout progress to report. Still catcing up with non-model-railroad stuff.
There was an earthquake in eastern KY today. Did not feel it here in western KY.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
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
Hi all,
Had my open house today from Noon till 8PM.....about 25 people came and went........got a little bit of work done on it too.........finished dinner a little bit ago......and now I`m bushed (tired that is)........open house tomorrow from 10AM till 4PM.
Good night all.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Good evening all,
Apple pie and coffee, please. Set a record high of 81 degrees here in St. Louis today, it's wierd to rake leaves in a t-shirt but I'm not complaining....20's at night by Tuesday. Just finished packing up the synthesizers, keyboard amp, stands and cables for church tomorrow.
Work next week will be fun but crazy....three 13-hour days at our bi-annual pledge drive and then probably 14 hours or so Friday working as a runner and driver for the Brandon Heath / Matt Maher concert. We do need prayer for the quick and safe repair of fire damage at our main transmitter....fire this morning and we're currently running on 10% power from our back-up tower.
Trains? Oy....dunno, but we'll see what the boys at the UP car shops in DeSoto are up to on Monday. Have a splended weekend.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Good Evening All,
Live at Daytona Beach and all. Sunny and in the 80's today. Did have a day of it though. Went out for first race and had the car (Pescarolo LMP1) stop coasting into the pits. Pulled the car apart and didn't find anything in particular though I did notice the master shut off was looking "funny". Changed that out and started the enduro (in 4th due to our missing the 1st race but still having a faster recorded time than all but one other car). Car didn't come around on lap 12 though we were running second then - run off road by slower car. 10 minutes later, car in pits, clear grass out of radiator, continue now dead last. 6 laps later telemetry show a tire going down - bad news at Daytona on the banking - bring car in change RF tire, lose another lap, continue finishing 20th.at least we finished.
Ken - it distresses me to hear your employer values you so little. On the other hand you need the work but gee, where is their appreciation?
Ray - Good job Moses didn't try to part the Dead Sea for you or do the burning bush thing. Might have been messy. (" A time to laugh, a time to cry") so to speak.
Time to get some sleep - it's been a long day. Best to those in need of prayers. CUL, J.R.
Thankyou to all my fellow VETERANS. Thanks for wearing the uniform in times of peace and to those of you who saw action, I gratefully thankyou . May health and peace of mind be yours.
Prayers and Blessings.
Flip.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer pleases.
Wife says we need a new skillet, everything sticks in the one we have now? Today I made my own breakfast, 3 eggs sunny-side up they slid right out of the skillet on to the plate? Took them back and showed my wife, she looked real confused! She is not Susie Home Maker, if she cannot microwave it, she does not buy it!
Work called 3 times today! They can go doing something to them self's! If they won't schedule me for 40 hours, I am sure not going in to bail them out when the are understaffed!
Another reason I am PO at them! I hit my 1 year mark on Oct 23rd. I should have gotten 40 hours personal time and 40 hours of vacation time on this pay stub. Did not get it! Guessing the are holding the 6 weeks I missed against for being off due to being in the hospital with the infected toe.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Hi, Diners!
Had t-stroms, hail and fog today! 45f and partly cloudy.
Spent most of the day in the trainroom, got a bunch of stuff crossed off the to-do list:
Filled in a block in Rice Lake, houses on the "wrong side of the tracks". Also re-built a warehouse/plant from a previous layout and installed a parking lot for it. Then RAN TRAINS. Still some stuff I want to do yet tonight, though.
I forgot to tell you all I passed along your comments to PFC Son the other night, he was grateful. Said to tell you" you are all very welcome!"
That's it for now, be back later.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Good afternoon. It's 76° with clouds. Looks like we have rain moving in tonight.Internet service has been down most of the day. It just came back on within the last thirty minutes. Nothing going on here today.
Jeffery, I don;t know how you manage to do anything with that foot of yours the way it is. My heart goes out to you. Rest and heal man!!!!
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Morning All,
Slept in late today. I have been up until 2 AM the last 2 nights and it caught up with me. MOH made homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast. The only thing planned for today is OPS night at the club.
Happy Birthday USMC.
Jeff- Hope you feel better real soon. Make sure you drink plenty of fluids.
Hope everyone has a good day and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good Afternoon Gang!
Hey, I got one of my medals back! Where is the rest of them?
Another drab day, with unpleasant weather. I did not touch my plan again, there is nothing to be done with it for the moment. Went to my friend´s place and spent a couple of hours with him, before I got some respiratory problems again. Not of the kind I had recently, it felt more like asthma. Must be his cat I am allergic to . Fortunately, his cat never goes into his basement, so I won´t have a problem down there when Lothar and I will do some work on my new layout. He has taken down his old Marklin layout and put up a big workbench instead . He´ll be building a new layout once his youngest son moves out.
Ken - I looked into HO scale, but found that building that On 2 1/2 gauge layout is much cheaper and easier to do for me. Thee are lots of cheap materials around that you can use in the bigger scale, but not for HO anymore. O scale is ideal for scratchbuilding in the best sense of the word. My friend has quite a number of HO scale drives I can use to build my own locos (critters), using styrene sheets. If my soldering skills were any better, I´d even use brass...
The new layout will take quite some time until completion, but I am in no hurry.
Prayers for all in need and a belated to USMC.
Mornin' folks!
Zoe, I'll have a big bowl of hot oatmeal w/ brown sugar and lots of dark roast coffee (Use my FGLK mug) to get me started.
Didn't get in here after I got home from the Dinner for my retiring Pastor. Major bash, sold out, with a fairly long waiting list should someone cancel out. Glad I got my reservation in early. The MC for the evening was Dr. Mark Gearon, president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges here in Geneva, with all kinds of speakers for many of the community organizations Jim (our minister) has been involved in over the years as well as people from church. The greatest was a "surprise" speaker... The Profit Moses! Yep complete with staff, long white robe, sandals, and long beard! (Never knew Moses could be that funny!) However, the most memorable moment was when Jim spoke at end. He used the old song best known sung by Pete Seeger: "Turn! Turn! Turn!" from the Book of Ecclesiastes. While we are going to miss him in the pulpit, he and his family are staying here in Geneva, so he will continue his community service towards fairness, health, and peace for all people. I have been privileged to work on a couple committees with him over the years! In fact he the person who "conned" me into joining the MLK Committee close to a quarter century ago.
The sun has been peeking out from behind the clouds from time to time this morning. I need to get myself outside and finish mowing the lawn. Then I can bring the battery in the house for the winter and get some other needed items done outside.
Later!
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 the egg sandwich with ham please. Thanks
A 20 percent chance of showers before noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
Jeffrey- Ugh. You’re right. Stay home, rest and get well.
I still have some w**k to do with the bathroom wall having nothing to do with the functioning of the shower. For that we are just waiting or tomorrow and I will hopefully attend to it here in a moment, but for the most part, today I will be outside with Lee mowing and cleaning up.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
So it is a day early...big whoop.
Anyhoooo...Good Morning!!
A wonderfully dull, foggy, misty, mostly yucky day for our viewing pleasure.
Got a few days of staying off'n the feet here...so the ankle may get a chance of getting a bit less swole up...
Jeff: Good decision on staying off the feet!! Get well soon!!!
Thanks Dad !
Once Upon a time.........
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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 !
Good Morning All:
I have a 4-day weekend starting today and since the weather is going to be nice I’ve decided to squander my MRR time outside doing mundane house work. But the good news is that Monday will be a complete washout and Tuesday the high will be right around freezing so I should get 2 days puts zing around in the train room.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
GOOD MORNING!!!
Since We are in Georgia,The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia is a song that contains a line about a court referred to as " a make believe trial" {" the judge said 'guilty' in a make believe trial, slapped the Sheriff on the back with a smile, and said 'supper's waitin' at home and I gotta get to it"}, we could call it a "Kangaroo Court", SO:
KANGAROO COURT, Meaning: an unauthorized or bogus court
ORIGIN:
Kangaroo courts are sham legal proceedings which are set-up in order to give the impression of a fair legal process. In fact, they offer no impartial justice as the verdict, invariably to the detriment of the accused, is decided in advance. Such courts are associated with groups who have found a need to dispense a rough and ready form of justice but are, temporarily at least, outside the bounds of formal judicial processes; for example, inmates in jail, soldiers at war, settlers of lands where no jurisdiction has yet been established.
The origin of 'kangaroo court' is unknown, although, given that kangaroos are native nowhere else, we might expect the term to have originated in Australia. As always, a lack of a definite origin encourages speculative claims, which may be an appropriate word in this context as one frequently repeated supposed derivation relates to 'claim jumping' in the California Gold Rush - hence the allusion to kangaroos. That's quite a plausible notion. Kangaroos and their claim to fame, so to speak, i.e. jumping, were known in the USA by the early 1800s, so there's no reason to limit the derivation to Australia. Also, the earliest known citation of the term is American and appears in a collection of magazine articles by Philip Paxton (the pen name of Samuel Adams Hammett), which were published in 1853 under the title of A stray Yankee in Texas:
"By a unanimous vote, Judge G-- was elected to the bench and the 'Mestang' or 'Kangaroo Court' regularly organized."
The natural inclination to want to base the phrase in Australia has led to suggestions that the vacant stares of kangaroos when meeting humans for the first time were mimicked by jury members in court. There's no documentary evidence to support this, or any other Australian derivation, and it seems highly speculative.
The claim jumping derivation though has the feel of a 'trying to hard' explanation that is the stamp of folk etymology. The supposed wordplay of linking kangaroos and jumping is appealing but isn't really necessary to explain this phrase. Kangaroo courts courts were also called 'mustang courts' in the USA (see above). Allusions to the unsophisticated natures of wild animals are frequent in the metaphorical coinage of phrases that apply to things that are considered inferior or ersatz. We have dog Latin, dog's breakfast, horse-faced and many others. It seems probable that the reference to mustangs (half-wild horses) and kangaroos came about by that same route.
-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.
Happy birthday USMC!
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Can't sleep. I've got a 101.7 fever kicking me around, every time I close my eyes the room starts spinning an I still have some bleeding from my ankle though it's not bad. It will be if I start walking around on it. To top everything off my father called at 1:57 (and that's AM!) telling me I need to go down and keep an eye on my mother in the morning! Can you imaging that? If I hadn't had the computer on I wouldn't have even known he called until I started it around 5 or 7 am. I told him I wasn't going anywhere for the next couple of days at least and why. My mother has a weak immune system and I'm sick with God knows what and going down there would rip my ankle open again. She doesn't need this crap! I'm not going within 500 feet of her. I told him he'll have to get somebody else. The only reason I'm leaving my trailer is if it's on fire or I'm carried out. Feet first!
It's Saturday, November 10, 2012
Happy Birthday, USMC!
Hey y'all!
Finally, a weekend off!!! And I don't have a ton of "chores" either! Who knows, I might even get some railfanning or modeling done!!
Yeah, I know its a dream. Either one of the kids will have an "emergency" or SWMBO will pull a project out of thin air. I can dream, can't I?
At least it will be sunny with highs in the 60's for the weekend, so even a nice walk on a nice fall day could be a nice change of pace!! Welll, time to toss another log on the fire for the night.
Everyone have a goodun,,we'll catch ya tomorrow!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Had a big mess to clean up here today. At home, not here. Blood is so hard to get out of the rug. Seems I'll have to take a few days off from helping my parents. My ankle split open again and I was bleeding like a stuck pig. I cleaned it up, flooded it with alcohol, pressed a thick dressing on it and wrapped it up good. Looks like one of the muscles ripped in two. I wish I could say it hurt but I can't. I would have noticed it sooner. I didn't feel a thing. I heard a squish and that's how I knew something was up. It's going to need at least a couple of days to close up enough to take more than a few steps. Looks like I'm out of action for a while.Time to call it a night. I'll see y'all tomorrow.
Just thought I would check in and say "HI ALL."
I feel the need to give CN. Charlie, Seamonster and Blind Bruce a heads up.
Been snowing all day today. Started around 8:30 this morning and still a few flakes coming down. Received about 4" so far. Supposed to get that much more overnight and then that much again tomorrow in the daytime, and it is all coming your way. Temperature starting to drop tonight, will probably be -12 to -14 C by morning. So polish up those snow shovels and dig out your winter gear you are going to need it.
Need to get some layout time to plan where a few roads are going to go and look right. It's been slow down there for awhile. I get home from work and want to get down there, but my wife has been alone all day and wants to chat as she is lonely. So i try and accommodate and do what I can.
Back working the week-end again, So it's off to bed.
Happy Rails Guys and gals.
Johnboy out.............................for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
cudaken Computer Geek Advices Needed. OK, it is a older machine and I am running XP Home. My old computer ran XP Pro, specks are not as good as the current one, but this one is no faster. The current machine has a lot of auto run programs on it. If I turn off the auto run programs, will they start when click on them? I know the Words Program takes a lot of memory to run. When I was running a real old computer (windows 98 with a Pentium 400 chip and it was the fastest one made at the time) when I turned off the auto start for Words computer got faster and Words still worked when I want it to.
Computer Geek Advices Needed. OK, it is a older machine and I am running XP Home. My old computer ran XP Pro, specks are not as good as the current one, but this one is no faster. The current machine has a lot of auto run programs on it.
If I turn off the auto run programs, will they start when click on them? I know the Words Program takes a lot of memory to run. When I was running a real old computer (windows 98 with a Pentium 400 chip and it was the fastest one made at the time) when I turned off the auto start for Words computer got faster and Words still worked when I want it to.
Terry- I'm glad your son is well and you got a chance to talk to him.
Evening All,
Had BBQ for supper and drinking a cup of coffee now.
I completely disassembled the PL signal today. There is someone at work that will sand blast the metal parts for me so I am happy about that. I ran my BF-16 A/A on the layout for awhile. I will be using that for Ops night tomorrow at the club.
Ken-Thats a great picture.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
44f and cloudy/breezy.
Grand Trunk, Garry?
PFC Son called at 11:30pm last night, only had about 5 minutes to gab. He's good, likes what he's doing. He goes out about every other day to pull security for the Indiana Guard engineers that are building a new road to some ville. Lotsa kids, lotsa smiles and elders are VERY happy for the road. Said he's either driving the LT's truck or in the turret. Only had to get out once, for some " Thing,Dad." He's protected ME I think Anyway ,it was good to hear his voice!
Saturday's going to be a TRAIN DAY! Rain's in the forecast, so it'll be perfect!!
Prayers for those that need'm!
A VERY relieved Terry in NW Wisconsin