Ah I see you have been busy decorating too Jeffery. Bet it was warmer for you than it was for me
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
chochowillie Ah I see you have been busy decorating too Jeffery. Bet it was warmer for you than it was for me
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
Evening All
Time to head in to
Watched Battle Of Brittan tonight on Net Flecks, for being made in the 60's I have to give it a 5 ***** rating.
See you all Wednesday.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Evening
My, what a busy day here....one meeting after another...did not get home until after 9pm tonight....sheesh
It seemed that everytime one meeting was finished I had to run to another one.....:chuckgrudenface:
I've got to check my bloodsugar now to see what kind of merry myahem all that running round did...
Have a good evening!!
Ulrich: That is the thing of it. My mother, being born in Dresden, had, by the way she told the story, had some kind of connection with some higher ups, as it were. We actually did not go to Ellis Is...but to Montreal QC...on one of the last Cunard Lines ships...I still have the original ticket..1st class yet....
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 just a decaf please....
Just stopping in to see what is going on. Guess not much. I see Ken is watching a movie about Brittany getting in a fight, I guess...??? Glad to hear your toe is finally healing up!
My sweet kittie cat Manét is losing a tooth. Right bottom Fang... The vet is closed on Tuesday afternoon, so if it is still in his mouth tomorrow afternoon I will give the Vet a call to see if she can remove it for him. This is a tooth she thought was getting loose last August, but it still seemed solid when she has two people hold him down so she could get a look at it without getting a finger taken off by him. He is 20 lbs. of pure muscle!
I have a meeting with the new Superintendent of Schools tomorrow morning to acquaint her with the working of the MLK committee in the community. With me will be a former secretary over at the local college, and the president of the college's wife who is a volunteer at the schools "after school" help program. Nothing like bringing out the "Big Guns" for the cause. The Asst. Superintendent for Curriculum should also be there. His sister received one of our scholarships several years back and was our featured speaker at the Scholarship Dinner last year. She is now a lawyer in Rochester, NY.
After that I may actually get some train work in depending on the cat situation. I'm kind of hoping he will lose the tooth by himself... They will heal usually without any problems so I just want him not to be in pain... His brother has already lost a tooth, and I didn't even know about it until the vet found it.
Prayers for all in need! Good night folks.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening guys
Just got back from the local MR club. A fellow modeler sold me an Intermountain SBD 50' modernized PS1 for $10 and he said he would trade me another accurail autorack for my athearn Ps2 covered hopper. So that brings my open autorack total up to 8. I think I can load them all too.
I also speedmatched 4 engines to run with 2 I had already matched. So I ran them together for a bit. I had a GP30, 2 GP38-2s, 2 GP38Xs, and a GP15-1. I set them so their top speed isn't lionel fast, perfect for taking to a show. Reason being if a kid wants to run my train, he can't go too fast.
it's late, so I'll catch up in the morning.
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.
Had to go down and look after my mother at 7:30 pm. Got back home 11:00 pm. Just keeping from falling was hard. Not feeling good right now.Time to call it a night, or a morning depending where you are. See y'all later.
Jeff .... Take care of yourself first. We'll pray for your Mom. .... A guy started a thread on swapping shells, and I thought of your Sundown Shops and your creations.
Talk about Europeans, my wife has German ancestors. I have English (50%) , Scotch (25%), and Dutch (25%).
Ken ... I hope that foot keeps improving.
I got back on my DCC learning curve today, and figured out some of the remapping stuff for lights. It did this for my F7 ABA.
Cheers. .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning!
Still dark outside. The sun will rise in about an hour´s time. To tell the truth, I am not particularly fond of the "dark" season. We have a little less than 8 hours of daylight now, going down by more than an hour until Dec. 21st. I wonder how those people living even further up north cope with that - liquid sunshine in a bottle?
Talking of bottles, Garry - oh boy, a share of 25% Scotch in your blood requires an awful lot of to get to that level
Flo, strong coffee in my SKB mug, please - make it the eye opening kind, will you, darling?
I have pretty much depleted my MRRing budget for this year with the purchase of those tools. Bought both at a price of 60% MSRP, which seems to be a pretty good deal, but now I don´t have any funds left to buy the material I need to continue on those structures . Well, maybe there is a chance around the holidays...
Anyway, I´ll be busy working on that loco kit.
Have a good day!
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Wednesday, November 28, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning Coffee in the Diner
GOOD MORNING!!!
Often, because we "play with trains" some think us "Mad as a Hatter", SO:
Meaning:
Completely mad. This is now commonly understood to mean crazy, although the original meaning is unclear and may have meant annoyed..
ORIGIN:
Mercury used to be used in the making of hats. This was known to have affected the nervous systems of hatters, causing them to tremble and appear insane. A neurotoxicologist correspondent informs us that "Mercury exposure can cause aggressiveness, mood swings, and anti-social behaviour.", so that derivation is certainly plausible - although there's only that circumstantial evidence to support it.
The use of mercury compounds in 19th century hat making and the resulting effects are well-established - mercury poisoning is still known today as 'Mad Hatter's disease'. That could be enough to convince us that this is the source of the phrase. The circumstantial evidence is rather against the millinery origin though and, beyond the fact that hatters often suffered trembling fits, there's little to link hat making to the coining of 'as mad as a hatter'.
The earliest known printed citation of the phrase that I know of is from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January-June 1829. It appears in a section of the magazine headed Noctes Ambrocianæ. No. XL1V, in a fictional conversation between a group of characters that wouldn't have been out of place in Wonderland:
NORTH: Many years - I was Sultan of Bello for a long period, until dethroned by an act of the grossest injustice ; but I intend to expose the traitorous conspirators to the indignation of an outraged world. TICKLER (aside to SHEPHERD.): He's raving. SHEPHERD (to TICKLER.): Dementit. ODOHERTY (to both.): Mad as a hatter. Hand me a segar.
The expression appears again (twice) soon afterwards, in a book by the Canadian author Thomas Haliburton - The clockmaker; or the sayings and doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, 1835:
"And with that he turned right round, and sat down to his map and never said another word, lookin' as mad as a hatter the whole blessed time." & "Father he larfed out like any thing; I thought he would never stop - and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter. Says she, Sam, I do believe you are a born fool, I vow."
"And with that he turned right round, and sat down to his map and never said another word, lookin' as mad as a hatter the whole blessed time."
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"Father he larfed out like any thing; I thought he would never stop - and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter. Says she, Sam, I do believe you are a born fool, I vow."
There's no explanation of the phrase in Haliburton's book to help us infer any sort of derivation - there's certainly no mention of poisoning or anything else to relate it to the practice of hat making.
There is also a suggestion that the phrase was originally 'as mad as an adder', i.e. a viper. That corresponds with the US expression 'as mad as a cut snake'. I can find no example of 'as mad as an adder' that predates the above citations though.
Another possible explanation is from New Zealand, in the name hatter that was given to miners who work alone. Writing in 1889, E. Wakefield, in New Zealand after 50 Years:
"Miners who work alone are called 'hatters', one explanation of the term being that they frequently go mad from the solitude of their claim away in the bush, exemplifying the proverb 'As mad as a hatter'."
That's more than fifty years after the first printed and so seems unlikely to be the origin. It's more likely that antipodean miners were called hatters because they were mad than the other way about.
Whilst not being the source of the phrase, we can't mention 'as mad as a hatter' and leave out Lewis Carroll. His 'Hatter' character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865, is of course the best-known mad hatter of them all. The Hatter is not actually described as mad in the story - merely a participant at 'a mad tea-party' - although he can hardly be called sane, and he is portrayed as mad (along with all the other characters) by the Cheshire Cat:
'In that direction,' the Cat said, 'lives a hatter: and in That direction, lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
It would also be remiss to leave out the fact that mercury, which we now know to be highly toxic, was used in the manufacture of hats. Hatters commonly suffered from 'hatter's shakes', a form of nerve damage which gave symptoms similar to Parkinson's Disease and which is still known today as 'Mad Hatter's Syndrome'. A neurotoxicologist correspondent has put forward the view that hatters could have been mad in either or both of the 'angry' or 'insane' senses. He states that "Mercury exposure can cause aggressiveness, mood swings, and anti-social behaviour. It is therefore likely that the mercury in hat making did lead to 'mad' hatters both in terms of rationality and plain old grumpiness."
Carroll may have taken his inspiration for the Mad Hatter from the known unusual behaviour of hatters and also from Theophilus Carter, who was an Oxford cabinet maker and furniture dealer with a reputation for eccentric behaviour. The cap, or in Carter's case the top hat, certainly fits. He was something of a 'mad inventor' and came up with the alarm-clock bed, which woke people by tipping the bed over. Carroll would have been familiar with the sight of Carter, in full top hat, outside his shop at 48 High Street, Oxford, where he lived in the 1850s - during the time that Carroll was an Oxford don.
Similes of the form'as x is as y" are extremely commonplace in English. They almost invariably link an object with a property that it is well-known to possess, e.g. 'as white as snow', 'as slippery as an eel' etc. Whoever coined this term would certainly have had reason to associate hatters with madness. Whether they meant hatters or adders and considered them to be annoyed or crazy, we don't know. Until we do, the derivation of 'as mad as a hatter' remains uncertain.
The prayer candles will be lit while I am home
-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
We are going to see some more sun today...high of 37F is expected...right now we are sitting at...oh....24F....
Going to be a bit quieter in the runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff department...which is a good thing. All I got on the agenda today is a few household gotta dos and some traintime....heeheehee....
Have a good day!!!
Good morning, Diners. I will have a quick coffee to go, Chloe.
Ulrich, Nice start.
I climb tonight so tomorrow will be my first chance to start painting my car shop. I used Aileen's glue to attach my battins. I am holding my breath that the paint won't make it come apart. Since it is a NP car shop, I intend to paint it to match the depot.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good morning. It's 41° with 95% humidity. It'll be mostly sunny with a high of 62°.It;s on the cool side here with a northeast wind coming off the lake. I may work on the layout a bit today. There are no projects I want to work on right now. The grain elevator still isn't complete but I just don't feel like tackling that right now. There are other smaller things I can work on but I just don't want to get wrapped up in any one thing at this time.Oops!! State Farm ain't never gonna believe this!
Morning Folks!
Flo, Die Dew if you would.
Gary and Ray and others, thanks for the comments about the toe healing. With some luck and the proper treatment maybe I get this behind me this coming year.
Jeffery and Ulrich Seems you have gotten back your chest full of metals back!
Job Hunt Found around 6 jobs that where worth sending in a resume for. None of them real close, but is they pay halfway good, it would be worth the drive.
Will be getting ready for work shortly, yuck! I close the next 2 days and I am to the point I hate closing, but someone has to. Tyler is being pretty fair about it, we all close 2 days a week so I cannot complain, still don't like but what can you do?
See you all later.
Mornin' everyone! (yep still morning here, but not for long.)
Zoe, just need a refill of the Dark Roast Coffee if you would be so kind...
The meeting with the new superintendent of schools went very well, and she recommended some items that would help both the school system and the committee to accomplish our goals.
No sooner got home than the repair company called and said they will be here this afternoon to replace the support posts on the back porch. One more item off the check list for the year.
Catch up to you all later!
Good Evening!
Just a mug of dark roast, please, Chloe, dear, I just had tea. It was an egg sandwich and FOP, freshly brewed. I´ll be joining Ray.
Goodness gracious, what happened? I made it from a small contributor to an ultimate contributor just in a big poof! Good to have all those medals back!
From now on, I am Ulrich von Jebrammen, DSO, VC, KFC, McD and BK. That´s what those medals stand for. For the non-British, that´s the Distinguished Service Order, Victoria Cross, Kentucky Fried Chicken, MacDonald´s and Burger King.
No MRRing today. I spent the better part of the day writing a political comment for our local weekly paper, but I doubt that they will publish it. You cannot comment on the Euro politics of our government without being sarcastic to a degree. Zoe, you don´t have to get the soapbox out, I´ll stop here.
Ken - keep your chin up with that toe. I have had a wound which too over two years to heal to a degree I was not bothered anymore.
Lots of MIA´s again on the list. Chris has not been in lately.
Blessings to all!
ok come on friday, I can't wait. learned how to change the oil on my explorer, no class friday and it's payday. not a bad week.
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
Slowly calling it a day for today. Petra and I settled down comfortably and aimed at watching the idiot box, only to find out the we get the 15th rerun of some stupid soap opera - not for us, please. I´ll be going to bed and read a book before closing my eyes in sleep!
CU tomorrow!
Where's Ziva!??????!!!! Oh.... Darn.
Gotta Church meeting at either 6 or 7. Guess I'll go find out. Probably drive halfway across town to find out it's 7. Oh well.
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.
Evening gang!
Funny thing. After years of faithful service,, my Binks Wren airbrush broke. The air valve plunger broke off. So I located what part I needed. I called Binks to try and buy it from them. No dice, you have to go to a distributor. So I locate the nearest distributor, 22 miles away. I order the part ($19.95, its actually only available as part of a rebuild kit) last Tuesday. The guy I spoke to told me he would have it in 48 hours, then ship it directly out. A week goes by, and I call for a status report on this Tuesday. The guy I spoke to was off Deer hunting, so the young lady checking on my order stated that they were on backorder, and they have some coming, due this Friday, then they would send it out. Disappointed, I thanked her and felt like I was being told the truth, even though it wasn't what I wanted to hear.
Today, Wednesday, it arrived it looks right, but it was sent in a 9 inch square box with a lot of brown paper stuffed inside. It would have easily fit in a small padded envelope, after all, were talking about a repair kit smaller than a cassette tape! The worst part? The previously undiscussed shipping charge of $20.00!!! More than the cost of the kit!! I could have driven there for less, but that would have meant time off from work!!
Fear not, for tomorrow I am calling them back!
Hope everybody else has a wonderful evening, I'm havin a or
Karl
NCE über alles!
I soldered up the trucks on that P2K SD7. It's kind of a trick to solder to the Kato pick-up strips, which are attached to BLI sideframes and P2K trucks. Not a whole lot of room, I used a rough file to file a groove into the pick-up strips on both sides, wrapped wire around it, and soldered it. I was about to stick in a TCS A4X, until I tried to strip the motor wire. It came off and I wasn't a happy camper. I put it back on the shelf for tomorrow. I managed to pick up the needed styrene sheets (even got them in black) to fix up the 3 MDC thrall gondola kits I have. I'm putting them together now.
I'm off tomorrow, so I figure I'll finish off that SD7 (aside from redoing the step wells for GN's extra step. Maybe also get my early Soundtraxx for an EMD 645 installed in my kato SD40 or my Bicentennial U30C. If you're wondering why I'd put the EMD decoder in a GE, I have a set of weights that were milled for a speaker, and it'll be bracketed by an SD40-2 and an SDP40 (whenever I build it). If anyone wonders why I have milled weights and an old soundtraxx decoder, it came with a U30C I bought (and later sold to Jeff). A friend showed me a trick to get the old soundtraxx decoders to have a quiet motor drive, as evidenced by the same type of decoder in his OMI F45.
My sister turned 16 on Monday. She got her first car today. A gray 2010 Ford Fusion. My father claims he didn't want to mess with another car (more on that in a bit) and he knew she wouldn't have the desire me or my brother have to work on cars. So he got something newer and nicer for her. Her bestfriend got a 2012 Accord for her 16th. My first 2 cars were projects and I had to put them together. My brother's first was somewhere in between, it was dealer maintained but it was older. I wonder how long they will last with my sister and her friend? I got 4 years out of my first car, my brother got 2 (wasn't his fault). I give her about 2-3 years before it's wrecked.
Karl, I have a Harbor freight dual action airbrush. i like it, but I'm on the second one. The trigger broke on the first one, and I didn't think i could make another trigger. At $15 it's pretty inexpensive, but works pretty good.
Jeff, Do you have a "big hook" to call for that one? lol
PackerJeff, Do you have a "big hook" to call for that one? lol
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Got my day torpedoed before it even started! Got out everything I needed to start work on a project when my father calls. Needs me to look after my mother for a little while so he can go get a few things done. Sure, no problem. That was about 11:30 am. Here it is almost 9:00 pm at their place! I just her to bed a little while ago. Now I have to get the kitchen straight and finish some laundry. What happened to my father? He didn't there was a twelve hour work shift involved! He gets off at 11:15 tonight. I've already told him he owes me $80. If I'm going to work as a nurse I'm darn well gonna get paid for it!! My time is worth something! This also means I'll be out of commission tomorrow. I'm already hurting bad and tomorrow I'll be worse.Time to call it a day. I may be on again tomorrow.
Another head-scratcher of a day. Work good, kids nuts, wife bothering me to turn the computer off. Whoever came up with the idea of closing the store late in the evening and bringing the closing employee back to open early in the morning needs to give their head a shake. Haven't been able to even turn the set on in two days. So what the heck am I doing in front of the computer?
...
Um...er...bye!!
Streamlined steam, oh, what a dream!!
Evening Dinners!
Flo, Pleases
Work Front Man this makes for a late night! Got home at 10:00 PM, did a few things like change the dressing on my toe, took some med's and did a small amount of book keeping and now I hit the dinner at 11:03 PM?
Out Of The Frying Pan And In To The Fire! When I got to work today Tyler was there but off duty. He asked me to go with him to his offices. First he tried to take care of the $60.00 worth of commission that was stolen from me, did not work! So either he has to tell Dave (area supervisor) that his Services Manager and a Counter Person ripped me off, or pony up $60.00! I wonder which he will choose? My guess is $60.00!
I thought he was done with me, but he was not! Took me to where the schedule his posted and changed my days off! I was off Monday and Tuesday, but that has been changed to Monday and Wednesday, reason you ask? Seems I have a MANGER MEETING I NEED TO GO TOO! Then he handed me a post-it with the website I need to go to and password so I can take the test!
I have mixed emotions, I really don't like working here! But, if you are stuck in a job you don't like, might as well make a fair living at it! If I get the slot, I am going to buy myself a Bachmann Yellow Stone! I have been wanting for all most a year now!
Vince's Sorry it has been taking so long to answer! I have not forgotten!
Now where is Ziva!
It's Thursday, November 29, 2012
Dang Bill, when do you sleep?
I take a lot of naps.
Morning coffee in the Diner
When dealing in trading locos, we usually want Quid Pro Quo, SO:
Quid Pro Quo
Meaning: Something given in return for a item of equivalent value - like ti t for tat
Origin:
A Latin term meaning 'something for something' or 'this for that'. The idea is more commonly expressed in English as 'one good turn deserves another'. This has been in the language since at least 1654, as here in H. L'Estrange's The Reign of King Charles:
"One good turn deserves another."
'Quid pro quo' is in use in colloquial English but is also a legal concept in the area of trade or exchange of goods or services. A contract is said to be binding if it is quid pro quo, i.e. if it involves an exchange of goods or services for something of comparable value, usually money.
It is often used to describe corrupt practise, where favours (notably political or other favours) are illicitly given in exchange for cash. I.e. 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours'.
The 'turn' link with 'quid pro quo' was played on by the scriptwriters of the 1991 thriller movie 'The Silence of the Lambs', starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins as Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter:
Hannibal Lecter: Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming. Clarice Starling: That's only part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful... Hannibal Lecter: Terns? If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" for us too. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? Also: WE are NOT amused Meaning: A quotation, attributed to Queen Victoria Origin: This supposed quotation was attributed to Queen Victoria by Caroline Holland in Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, 1919. Holland attests that Victoria made the remark in 1900, but supplies no details of the circumstances. Other reports have suggested that the line wasn't an example of the 'royal we', but that Victoria was speaking on behalf of all the ladies present at court.
Hannibal Lecter: Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming. Clarice Starling: That's only part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful... Hannibal Lecter: Terns? If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" for us too. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?
Also: WE are NOT amused
A quotation, attributed to Queen Victoria
This supposed quotation was attributed to Queen Victoria by Caroline Holland in Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, 1919. Holland attests that Victoria made the remark in 1900, but supplies no details of the circumstances. Other reports have suggested that the line wasn't an example of the 'royal we', but that Victoria was speaking on behalf of all the ladies present at court.
Prayer candles will be lit as long as I am home
Lunchtime!
Janie, just coffee, please - Petra and I just shared a pizza.
There is snow in the air. This morning, temperatures dropped to just below freezing and there is sufficient humidity to bring us the first snow in the season. Quite early this year.
I had a strange phone call this morning. Well, with almost nothing better to at the moment, I enlisted at a political platform against the European Stability Mechanism our government so recklessly joined, which is most likely to end up in an additional debt of more than 730 billion €. Now they want me as a candidate for the 2013 general elections! Me, a politician? Can hardly see myself in that role.
Well, I´ll be going for a nap now. Seems, as if a share Bill´s fate - hardly any sleep during the night, but a series of naps during the day.
Have a nice day!