Prayers to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing
Good Morning, Folks!
Did I actually say "All quiet on the Family Front" yesterday afternoon?
Well, it sure did not stay that way. Later that afternoon, the door bell rang and two policemen stood at my doorstep. My mother really did file charges against me for stealing her car, which isn´hers. Luckily, I was able to explain the situation and present a statement my father had signed. The two were very nice and thanked me for my unrewarding effort of keeping my Mom off the road. But that´s only part one of the ongoing family horror.
Part two is the nursing home calling. My Mom is getting ready to have my dad released from the hospital and have him taken to a hospital near their former domicile. A quick check with the hospital revealed, that my Dad´s condition makes such a move a not advisable one, as he will most likely not survive it. His condition is stable, but bad. He still shows no sign of improvement. The really worrying thing about my Mom´s activity is, that no one can stop her. She is entitled to do that, as long as she is not under legal care. I had a lengthy telephone conference on the issue with my brother, who is a lawyer, and he explained to me, why there is nothing we can do about this. German courts are very reluctant to to put someone under legal care, unless the person applies himself/herself, or a medical doctor. As much as I can understand this reluctance, it does not help us at all. Neither my brother nor I can address the issue at court for a number of reasons, the least one being that it would foul up my intended political career. We can only hope and pray, that the family doctor jumps in in time.
It is a deadlock situation only my parents can resolve, but I am afraid they are no longer able to do that. I am very, very sad about this and it will certainly haunt me all my remaining life.
Other than this, I am drowning in political w*rk. There are a number of meetings coming up in the next few days - each in a different German city and all over the country. I am just glad that a friend of mine (ex GE manager, a real nice guy, married to a Welsh lady who is absolutely charming) can give me a lift each time, as I cannot afford the gas or the train ticket.
Have a good one!
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning Coffee in the diner with friends...
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Tuesday, April 16th, 2013!!!
I will have the prayer candles lit while I am at home. There are the extra ones for the Boston Bombings, as well as those for Ulrich's father, and for others in need of thoughts and prayers.
ULRICH FOR BUNDESTAG!!!
Ulrich- seriously , I am aware of your goings-on with your parents, as you may remember the FIL was the same for us! BUT, things Ironed out for us, maybe they will for you and your mother...I am surprised that IF I understand correctly and her mind is going {she is losing her mental faculties}, then they SHOULD put her under legal supervision. They do that here for those who are no longer of sound mind!
MAke it a GREAT day!
-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.
Man am I stiff this morning or what? Arm feels tired as well. I blame gym.
Prayers for those involved with the bombing in Boston.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Is this a heavy weight; or, streamlined dinner? How is the coffee here and what's the price of the sticky buns?
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
NP2626 Is this a heavy weight; or, streamlined dinner? How is the coffee here and what's the price of the sticky buns?
Two pieces of advice, Mark.
First, get to know Flo. If you do that, all will work out quite well.
Second, watch what you say about the Diner and its inmates inhabitants.
The one time that I took a playful shot at the Diner in a separate thread, I wound up flipping burgers for an evening as an alternative to washing dishes. This crowd is forgiving, but you pay for your transgressions.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain NP2626 Is this a heavy weight; or, streamlined dinner? How is the coffee here and what's the price of the sticky buns? Two pieces of advice, Mark. First, get to know Flo. If you do that, all will work out quite well. Second, watch what you say about the Diner and its inmates inhabitants. The one time that I took a playful shot at the Diner in a separate thread, I wound up flipping burgers for an evening as an alternative to washing dishes. This crowd is forgiving, but you pay for your transgressions. Rich
Was there a transgression in my post? If so, Maya Culpa, Maya Culpa, Maya Mazima Culpa!
NP2626 Was there a transgression in my post? If so, Maya Culpa, Maya Culpa, Maya Mazima Culpa!
Well, you're in trouble already. Speaking Latin in the Diner is specifically prohibited, especially if you get it wrong. It is mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
NO SOUP FOR YOU !
Thanks to all who have expressed sympathy for our city of Boston. It's a shock to see streets I know well on the TV as a backdrop for such an atrocity.
I don't know anyone who was directly affected by this, although one friend was manning one of the communication centers. They had a lot of contingency plans already in place, and ended up using the medical tents, which are spaced about every mile along the route, as makeshift command posts to hold the straggling runners before they got any closer to downtown.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning
Dull and dribbly today....Ray...you see any of that sun yet?
Still kinda in shock with what happened in Boston...we are living in weird times....
Gonna go check the rest of the forums out...have a good day....
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 Morning!!!
Coffee and a couple scrambled eggs and an Italian beef sandwich please. Oh, somebody didn’t eat their soup. Can I have it? Thanks.
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 56. Had a bit of a thunderstorm overnight. Nothing severe, but got an inch of rain of of it.
Karl- Someone else told me Dark Shadows (movie) was pretty good. I do remember it from my childhood, but just barely. I was in school at the time of course being sooooo young, I rarely saw it. (just googled it and it was on the 3pm time here and school was over like 3:15 or some goofy time) I was, and still am, a habitual watcher of tv. If it’s not something I watch all the time, I rarely remember it’s on unless I stumble across it.
Remember….No Ziva…no watcha!!! Kidding, but yet actually pretty true. I’ve watched tv no doubt, but never was a tv "watcher" but for just a few shows. Never could watch those shows that required you to watch every week or get lost cause I never would know what’s happening. Though for the last few weeks I haven’t seen NCIS’s new episodes, for which I usually watch Wednesday on CBS.com because I w**k Tuesday night) That is the only show I watch weekly other than Family Guy and American Dad.(yes, yes, I know) Before that, the last show I actually watched weekly, was the Dukes of Hazzard. Before that, Starsky and Hutch and before that….Movin’ On. For some reason I liked that show. Oh and somewhere in there a short lived show called Chase. I’m sure there may have been one or two more. Not counting the shows that were on after school reruns there wouldn’t be but one or two. I like tv, but not hard to pull me away. I use it to fill relax free time I guess. Or at least what there is of it.
Ray- Oh. I’s gonna say. Only looks like room for one person anyway and I don’t think they had autopilot back then on those things either othern maybe a rope. Didn’t seem like you’d get much a restful sleep up there all things considered. This all sounds like Déjà vu. Didn’t we have a similar conversation about this plane a while back
Terry- Free time? I had more “free time” when I was w**king. Like I said, last thing you wanna do when you retire, is tell anybody. Especially you as a builder…woo boy. I feel sorry for you the day they find out you’re retired and “have nothing to do now”. Whoo. Bad, real bad.
Vincent- Roll around in honey, then lay near an anthill….oh and Jeff has these things called Fire Ants down there too. I think you do too. Maybe? Anyway, Fire Ants….hate ‘em.
Rich- Ah you know we’s funning ya. But we’re people just like everyone else. Sometimes the typed word just doesn’t come across and if someone is a bit miffed on either end anyway….well you know. But like you said, we don’t get wrapped up about it. After a while you get to know what they mean and how to take it. Or ignore it.
NP2626- No transgression. Unless you were referring to Flo and sticky buns as one in the same then well…., I’m sittin ten feet at LEAST from you. And as to what this place looks like..well we’re still workin on that it seems. There sure is a lot of stuff in here for being a railcar of somesort.
We’ve definitely narrowed this to a railcar at least since it’s had to move once a month…..right?
Well I said this year I was going to cut my grass earlier before it became a jungle out there like last year….and the year before..and the…anyway, due to the events of this weekend, and due to the rain this week, and judging by how well the grass responded to the fertilizer applied Friday….I’ll need a baler again.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Prayers for those in Boston and all affected.
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.
TMarsh Rich- Ah you know we’s funning ya. But we’re people just like everyone else. Sometimes the typed word just doesn’t come across and if someone is a bit miffed on either end anyway….well you know. But like you said, we don’t get wrapped up about it. After a while you get to know what they mean and how to take it. Or ignore it.
Todd,
Yep, I know that and believe me I got what I deserved for daring to poke a little fun at the Diner.
The worst part, though, was flippin' all those burgers as my punishment. I have never worked so hard in all my life. And just finding all the fixins' in the kitchen was no easy matter.
Todd, I also have a hard time keeping up with "episodic" TV shows, but lately the miracle of On Demand and DVRs has let us get involved with a few of them. Hell on Wheels should be on everybody's must-watch list. It's about building the Transcontinental Railroad, just after the Civil War. We are also following a few other historical dramas, true tales made up from our legendary past - Copper, Ripper Street, The Americans and now, Vikings. In these days of reality TV and game shows, it's good to know that pillaging can still draw an appreciative audience if it's done well.
MisterBeasley Thanks to all who have expressed sympathy for our city of Boston. It's a shock to see streets I know well on the TV as a backdrop for such an atrocity. I don't know anyone who was directly affected by this, although one friend was manning one of the communication centers. They had a lot of contingency plans already in place, and ended up using the medical tents, which are spaced about every mile along the route, as makeshift command posts to hold the straggling runners before they got any closer to downtown.
Good morning. It's 72° with 100% humidity and patchy fog. It will be cloudy with a high of 85°.Today I'll be working on applying decals to the FP7's I've spent the last couple days painting. For now it's just the L&A decals. I haven't quite decided on the range of numbers yet. I used '601' on the unit I photographed just so there was a number there. I was actually wondering where I was going to put the numbers when I thought 'hey, dummy, these are F units! Use the number boards! That's what they're there for!'. It makes for a good use for my label printer.
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 morning everybody, I was a day ahead. I thought today was Wednesday, nope it's only Tuesday. I guess I'm getting too excited for the trip that me and gramps are going on this weekend, we're going down to the oregon rail heritage center, then to the columbia river interpretive museum(the home of a beautiful SP&S F3A), then off to the Washington rail museum in Pasco I hope they have lots of stuff to look at.
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
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, from the Train room of LION
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Morning Dinners
Flo, Coffee Pleases, make it a Bill Sizes one.
I am on my second Liter of coffee and still cannot wake up!
Will be off to the VA Hospital in a hour and hope they don't want to cut anything off again. I have to get another job where I am not on my feet as much, other wise they will get to cut the toe off. For the new dinners, I had a callus on my right big toe that turned into a ulcer (open wound) and was in the hospital for 6 days and off work for 6 weeks. It will not heal do to me being on my feet all the time.
Rio Grand SD 9 Front. Made some headway in getting it to quite down! One of the things I do not like about Proto engines is how close the flywheel is to the motor. My pinpoint oilier will not fit in between them so getting any oil to the bearings is pure luck.
Last night I came up with a simple trick to get the oil on the shaft! I pushed a straight head screwdriver in between the flywheel and the motor. I was able to get the oil on the shaft this time, and the motor got a lot quieter.
Jeffery, I know you use ATF to oil your engines. Why do you think it works better than model oil?
See you all after the Hospital Visit.
Ken
I hate Rust
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of organic Vanilla Almond Granola and lots of dark roast coffee in a R&GV RR mug please.
Barry? Sun? Well we had a couple of minutes of it today so far and quite a bit yesterday afternoon, but right now it is dark and dull outside. Currently 61°F outside with mostly cloudy skies and a bit of wind. Talking about thunder boomers later this afternoon...
Todd, yep, I do remember that conversation about a year or so ago IIRC. Not sure whether the Air Camper was a single seat or a two seat (front and back) but either way if the engine was running I guarantee you would not be able to sleep! They didn't sport mufflers on those type of things back then.
Ulrich, sounds like the days are still, how should I say, interesting (?) around your place these days. Glad you had the proof of your Father's instructions on the car. I do hope a doctor intervenes with your Mother, sounds like she needs a different kind of care.....
Sticky Buns? Sounds good to me.
Have much more to get done today... before the thunderclouds arrive!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudaken Jeffery, I know you use ATF to oil your engines. Why do you think it works better than model oil?
Good to see everybody here!
Mr. B.; Rich; and NP 2626 .... You guys have not been here every day, and so it is very good to see you visiting today. Feel free to stop in more often. Bring others with you, too!
Mr. B .... Prayers for your city. I think millions of people around the world are saddened by the bombing. It's not something normal people can begin to understand.
Lunch time! .... How about some Bait Shop Pizza? .... The toppings are remarkale.
Hope to see more people in the DIner!
EVERYBODY IS WELCOME!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good afternoon.
Plenty'o'homework to do this evening. Oh boy. 22 note cards due tomorrow in English. Got about 2 done? I'm in for a rough evening.
Wet here in Towanda otherwise.
Afternoon folks
Flo, pleases.
Man I am just beat today, I feel like I worked a 12 hour shift and I am off today?
Some Good New's For A Change!
Foot Ulcer Clinic Visit. When my PA walk in (Stevie) first thing she said when she saw my toe was "that doesn't look good". My heart sank, here we go off with the toe. But what she was really comment about was how much callus build up there was. When I was there 3 weeks ago I saw Velma (also a PA) and she hardly removed any of the callus build up. She all said the wound was deeper and it was getting worse!
Stevie likes to cut, and she is good at it! She really went at the callus and did a lot of cutting! I was all so bleeding pretty good, so I still have good blood flow in my feet, all so a good thing. When she was done she measured the wound depth and it was not deeper, it was the extra callus that made it seem deeper!
I all so got the results of the Blood Test and X-Rays that where ran 3 weeks ago when Velma thought the wound was deeper. No infection in the bone or in the flesh! So it is still healing!
The Mail Box. I normally hate hate looking in the Mail Box, 99% of the time all it brings me is bad news. Well today it had something good in it for a change! Found a check for $1,000.00 in it!
It is the settlement from the fine's the Fed's leveled against Bank Of Stupid for the way they have treated and placed home owners in Fore-closer. It is a bitter sweat, all I can do is add it to the savings toward our moving cost when they foreclose again. I am sure BoS will not modified my current home loan, it would just be to logical to lower my house payment from 7% and $998.63 a month to 3.75% and $632.00 a month!
You can't fight Stupid! I am sure Peggy works at BoS!
Later, Ken
cudaken You can't fight Stupid! I am sure Peggy works at BoS!
I got three of the FP7's decaled and numbered today. That was a little tricky cutting out those number boards.Tomorrow, if I have the time I'll see about getting the other two done.
NP 2626................Feel free to start a food fight any time you want.
(Runs like hell out of the diner yelling into his communications device "Beam me up NOW! NOW! NO......." disappears........hey......where did he go?)
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Not before Vinnie wrapped one of his works of art around him!
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder Good Evening Having a tummy ache...yes... I said tummy ache.. I must have ate summat did not agree wit' me... Garry....now, no comments about my burger fetish.... Barry, I won't mention the burgers, but are you the guy who had the unique recipe for shortcake? It actually has straw as one of the ingredients. ......... I think it is called Straw BARRY Shortcake.
blownout cylinder Good Evening Having a tummy ache...yes... I said tummy ache.. I must have ate summat did not agree wit' me... Garry....now, no comments about my burger fetish....
Good Evening
Having a tummy ache...yes... I said tummy ache.. I must have ate summat did not agree wit' me... Garry....now, no comments about my burger fetish....
Yuck...baaaad Garry Baaaaadd!!
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Good Evening...kinda late for this'un but oh well....
Had actually quite a bit of sun today...after the dull start...and rain/drizzle/mizzle we got this morning..
Going to be somewhat busy tomorrow...staff meeting pretty well all day....oh joy...
Anyway see you all later!!
jeffrey-wimberly Not before Vinnie wrapped one of his works of art around him!
What? No PIE fights?!
About 5:45 I went down and mowed the front and back yards. I found the optimum throttle setting on the tractor (they all have one, you just have to find it) and I did it all on one tank of gas. The grass wasn't high enough to make a bunch of clippings and I wasn't going to wait for it to get that high. We're expecting rain Thursday, maybe as early as tomorrow so I considered it a good idea to stay ahead of it. If we got a heavy rain on uncut grass it would be a big job to cut it. I don't feel like going through all that.Tomorrow I'll see if I can get the other two FP7's decaled and numbered. Certainly not a big job. Just slow and tedious.Well, I'm tired so time to call it a night here. See y'all tomorrow.