Elliot's Trackside Diner APRIL 2013!!

[Burlington Northern #24]

hahahaha, todd that's awesome.

Ulrich, I hope you feel much better and will continue to recover.

I have class in a bit then I have to go to the store and buy gum.

[blownout cylinder]

Ulrich!!!! You're back!!! Take care...pace yourself!! Like I am still learning this....

[jeffrey-wimberly]

BroadwayLion

Here is the secret key that nobody tells anybody about. It is Windows "God Mode"

Followed your instructions and I now have God mode enabled. You're right, everything is there.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Our granddaughters' week with us is over. We met their Mom and Dad (our son and DIL) in LaGrange KY for dinner.They live in Cincinnati, OH.

You railfans would like LaGrange KY. ..... We ate at a railroad-themed  restaurant on Main Street. 

The CSX track goes righ down the middle of Main Street. It is something to look out the window from a dinner table and see a huge CSX locomotive immediately outside. 

Here is a video of a CSX train in LaGrange, KY. LaGrange is about 15 miles east of Louisville on the CSX line running between Louisville and Cincinnati.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eghk7W0sq0

Every October, LaGrange has a railroad festival 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Ulrich! ..... I'm very pleased to see you have returned! ...... Sounds like you had a procedure to finally correct a problem. Hope you have a quick recovery, and you can lead a normal life after this event. 

[alexstan]

jeffrey-wimberly

alexstan

Jeffrey- Try Control Panel/Programs and Features.

THANKS! That got it! How the heck did I miss that?! Open Control Panel and it's the proverbial elephant in the room! If it'd been a snake I would be dead. Uninstall went off without a hitch. Norton is dead, buried and swept under the rug.

Glad to be of help mate! 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

alexstan

Jeffrey- Try Control Panel/Programs and Features.

THANKS! That got it! How the heck did I miss that?! Open Control Panel and it's the proverbial elephant in the room! If it'd been a snake I would be dead. Uninstall went off without a hitch. Norton is dead, buried and swept under the rug.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

We have lotsa sun here!!! But, our high will only get to 28F...yay...

Got some of my taxes done...need other things now...yay....

I was gonna do a youtube search for Psy's original to that but I think Todd nailed it...

[TMarsh]

(comes through door fake riding a horse and smacking hip in rhythm)”heeeeeey, sexy laady……do it Gumdum style!”

 Good Morning!!!   What?..I think it’s kind of a catchy tune. Besides, Ray brought it up.

Coffee and a raspberry Danish please. Thanks.

Sunny, with a high near 46.

Jerry- I think you need to put a coupler height gage on that new caboose. Could be the coupling issue there. Gotta say about the comfort caboose…..sure looks roomy.

Karl- Had to laugh. Saw the picture of your loco there and thought…”I’ve seen that before. But where?” And after a minute or two I realized…..your website. I’ve got recall, I really do. It’s just not instant.

Jeff- That’s what I hate about these new Windows versions. The “can’t finds”. I understand the make it simpler idea, pretty soon it will be too simple, but at least they can make things easy to find in the new version that was in the old version. Like I have Windows 7 and  the Temp Internet files. Oh it’s there….kinda.....but not really. Apparently some stuff is in the one that you can see, other stuff is in this ghosted one somewhere  or something. Now I can’t save my youtube videos. Dogs. I didn’t like Norton either. Too controlling. I had all sorts of issues with it and I do virtually nothing on the computer. Shoot,  I couldn’t even get some e-mails and if someone sent me a picture….forget it. Guess I won’t see that new car you bought or little Sammy’s new bike. You better type that Church bulletin cause if it's an attachment.... No way of turning anything off I could find. It just did it. First thing I do is uninstall Norton. Some may like it, even think it's the best...not my cup o tea.

ULRICH!!!! Oh ,my I am sooo glad you’re ok. Well, you know what I mean. Whew! Really bad things started creeping into my head. You really need to show Petra how to get on the diner and tell her there ARE people here who can read  Deutsch (hm. Spell check didn’t underline that)

Now Lion!....Curiousity is gonna get the best of me one day and I’m gonna try that God mode thing. If it locks up my computer…and you can say all you want about how it won’t, but MY luck says it’s a better than even chance it will, I’m gonna..…I’m gonna…......probably spin around in my chair and scream WHY???!!! WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS????!!!

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

(gets back on fake horsey and rides out door singing) heeeeey….,sexy laady…..doin dumdum style!

[alexstan]

Jeffrey- Try Control Panel/Programs and Features.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 52°F with 95% humidity. There's a small chance of rain today. The high will be 78°F.


Well I've learned a bit more about Windows 8, having played around with it for a few hours. I still haven't found an uninstall utility. It's gotta be hidden in that mess somewhere. There's a small booklet that came with the computer, little bigger than a pamphlet entitled 'Windows 8 Basics'. It has some very helpful information about some things you might do every day including information on using touch gestures. That's nice to know about but it's absolutely useless to me as my old monitor doesn't support it in any way, shape or form. It also explains how to add things, move things around, displaying things, closing things but nowhere does it give even a hint about how to uninstall something. Not even the faintest hint of a clue. Sherlock Holmes would be baffled! Oh well, I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll find something that can make the screen revert to the Classic Windows display. You never know what might be buried in there.

Speaking of new things, I also have a new phone for my trailer, new to me anyway. When my sister and her daughter were clearing out one of the closets in the west wing they came across a laundry basket full of phones, all identical, all still in their boxes, never opened. The only identification was a model number on the box. I looked it up online and it turns out they're talking caller ID phones. I don't know where my father got them (he can't remember) but since they were going to be tossed out I snitched one for myself. It works great. Much better than the cheap Wal-Mart special I've been using the past few years. Since my Magicjack already has Caller ID (blows this phones caller ID out of the water in all respects) I turned off the phones caller id feature. It's enough for me that it rings which is more than I can say for the cheapie that I was using. I had that POC set up so the ringtone came through the computer. That was the only way I could hear it. Now I have a phone that not only rings, I can hear it in the back over the TV, the fans, the a/c unit, etc and it has fourteen different ringtones. That's a big step up for me. I live so far beneath the poverty line I have to look up a few miles to see it! So a lot of things many people consider basic seem like luxuries to me.

Oh well, enough about all that. I've got other things to worry about.

[BroadwayLion]

jeffrey-wimberly

I also turned off the Norton anti-virus in favor of AVG 2013. I don't see why I should be saddled with an antivirus program I don't like. I already know how to use the AVG so it was a fast pick. If the Norton program starts making noise about being disabled I'll see about uninstalling it, though I haven't foun d the uninstall utility for it yet.

Here is the secret key that nobody tells anybody about. It is Windows "God Mode"

Just make a new folder and name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

You will be able to see EVERYTHING from this one window.

ROAR

[james saunders]

ULRICH! Great to see you are okay, even after surviving such a scare.I wish you well in your recovery.

I was about to mention I have a dear friend who lives in Berlin who could have maybe got hold of Petra/Ulrich if need be, keep that in mind for the future.

In health news my Grandmother is back in hospital, some of you may recall me mentioning her in the past. She has what was originally *** cancer that has spread. She was in hospital for a couple of days because she was not feeling well, but wanted to spend easter with family so she defied doctors orders to stay and it has come back to bite her, she is going to spend another 6 weeks in hospital with a pretty nasty infection, so she's going to be running heavy antibiotics for a while, doctors can't believe how she keeps defying death and keeps trooping, she has been battling for nearly 7 years.

Jeffrey - I just bought my mother a laptop and its installed with windows 8... it is terrible!!

Thats about it,

TTFN

OzJim

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning.

Good to hear from you again Ulrich.

Back to school after break (urk!), with some work this evening. Since graduation is little more than 2 months away, better make the most of it.

[JeremyB]

Very goo to see you back Ulrich. It sounds like you had quite a ordeal. But again very good to see you.

Well off to work in a few. I was there for about a hour yesterday and all over the floor. Quite embarrassing to say the least. They told me to go home for the day, and I did. I am feeling better today as I got a very good nights sleep.

Well catch up with everybody later this afternoon

[Cederstrand]

Mint tea, please.

^^^Ulrich, so very thankful you survived such an ordeal. Probably a very good thing you do not remember it. Sending extra healing thoughts your way. Welcome back among the living!

Have a good day all.

Cheers!  Rob

[galaxy]

It is GREAT to see ULRICH back!

Ulrich! I sent you a special message via "conversations" TODAY! Be sure to oepn it! and respond if you like! I am Sure You've had plenty of PMs, but mine is "special"!

I think the EXTRA prayer Candle I had lit EVERY DAY just for ULRICH has helped! He is still with us!

Well,

in other things:

MOH has  the first step interview {taking those stoopid personality tests!} today for a cake decorator. Hope it leads to something. They are willing to pay more than MOH was getting at old job,so would be nice. Still not a lot of money, and probably only Part time, but at least we'd have money comming in! WISH MOH LUCK, PEOPLE!!!

Went to do some banking yesterday {i actually had some to do these days!}. went to the pharmacy, and to the Post Office yesterday.

Today's agenda is not yet carved i stone for me, as I cannnot go with MOH to job interview, and MOh has to go to old store to get a Letter of recommendation from old Manager who liked MOH and will fill one out for MOH. Will need that for LPN course. DOesn't look like MOH will make it into this fall's semester course, as there is paperwork MOH is lacking and it all has to be mailed in by Monday the 15th! WOn't make it! SOme irreplacable paperwork that can be replaced is taking too long to replace!!! Dunno.

I cannot wait till the 11th! that is my next set of spinal nerve pain injections!!! My back has been good htis time around, but now is starting to kill me interminably!

Well, MOH now got up, so i'd best be going to say "god morning"!!!

 

 

[alexstan]

Ulrich - So glad to hear from you mate! Take care!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's great to see you back Ulrich. You take care of yourself now.

[galaxy]

Morning Coffee  in the diner with friends...

GOOD MORNING!!!

Today Is April 2nd, 2013!!!

I have the prayer candles lit for those in need...

MAKE it a GREAT day!

[Weighmaster]

Ulrich, my friend,

I'm so grateful to hear that you are back home!  Behave yourself and pay attention to what the doctors tell you.  I had a triple bypass 10 years ago, followed by an aortic aneurism repair less than 2 months later.  I rushed the surgeon to get it over and done, and the fool listened and scheduled the AAA when I asked him to.  Much too soon...Take care of yourself, and I pray your parents give you a bit of a break.  Gary

[Anonymous]

Good Morning!

Already April? I must have missed quite a lot!

I was released from the hospital last Thursday afternoon, but have not found the energy to drop by until today.

There is only very little I remember on what had happened. I know I did not feel well. I must have dropped from my chair, the noise waking up Petra. I woke up three days later in the hospital. Petra told me she had called 112 (our 911) in the middle of the night. About 10 minutes later, a helicopter landed nearby and took me to the heart unit in Hamburg. Geez, I missed my first helicopter ride! I was "on the table" in no time at all. I am still not sure what they did there, although they explained it to me. From what I understood, they carved some type of texture into my heart they call a maze, which prevents tachycardia. Well, it must have worked - I am still around. I am grateful I have no memory on all of this. Full recovery will be a long way, but I am going for it, step by step, even if they are little steps only. I am not the man I was before, still shocked by what has happened.Still, there is lots of pain as well.

There will be a series of check-ups ahead of me, each requiring a two-day stay in the heart clinic in Hamburg. The first one is scheduled for Thursday/Friday.  I hope everything will work out.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

[wetidlerjr]

"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

TIPTON IN

[Burlington Northern #24]

"f"ugly a shortened term for freakin' ugly, I even have a back story for the locomotive. 

[cudaken]

 Evening Dinner's

 Flo, Beer please and a map of where I am at!

 Rob, the radius depends on the engines you bought. If the T-1 is the BLI 4-4-4-4 you will need 22 inches and as you know bigger is better. My PCM Big Boy and Y6b will handle well laid 18 inch turns. I go by what the manufacturer say's about what radius is needed. One of the reasons (besides being broke) I have not bought a BLI Q 2, BLI T-1 and Bachmann Yellow Stone.

 Most big steam  are made to work on 22 turns theses days. Brass on the other hand, a Brass Big Boy needs 36 inch turns. If you have the room, I would go with 24 inch turns, big engines will still look stupid from certain angles (did I spell that right?) but will track fine.

 Best New's Of The Day? I have a another PK 2000 B&O SD 9 coming for FREE! I like free! While it has been taken a part all the way down to a parts list diagram I am pretty sure I can make a whole engine out of it and my Rio Grand SD 7. Then I can make a dummy out of the remaining parts!

 Jeffery, congrats on the new Keyboard Thingie! Why don't they make Retro computer for the ones of us that like the older operations systems? I was pretty darn happy with Windows 98 my self.    

  See you all latter, Ken

 

[Packer]

Ray, whoops. It was Rob I meant to reffer too...

Jeff, That was nice of your dad. That new computer is close to what I have, just a few years newer (mine has a 1 TB hard drive, but only 4GB RAM...). At least it's not Vista, IIRC windows 8 was designed to be compatible with smart phones. I have Windows 7 and it's kinda similar to XP. Maybe you could back-date to 7? Dunno if you liked your old keyboard; but if you still have your old keyboard and if it's not a USB type I think they sell keyboard to USB adapters. (heck, I think I have one laying around)

I'm headed off to bed. Got a long day ahead of me tomorrow.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good evening. It's 68° with 55% humidity. The low will be 58°.


Well my old computer is well and truly dead. The main board and processor are fried. How it happened I don't know. Old age probably. It was however obsolete and had reached the end of the road on software and hardware compatibility with the new stuff that's out now.

I was wondering how I was going to get another computer. That question was answered this morning. My father bought me a new HP Pavilion computer. It's a 64 bit system with a 1TB hard drive, 8GB RAM, Intel i5-2320 quad-core processor and a DVD/RAM drive among other devices. It didn't include a monitor but seems happy with my old MAG DJ700 CRT. An external USB DVD burner that's Win8 compatible will be on the shopping list.

Oh yeah, that's right. This thing has Windows 8. I absolutely loathe Windows 8. To me it seems like it was designed by a 5 year old finger painting with invisible ink! Everything is hidden away but I'm slowly finding it. Since very little of the stuff in this system will work with XP I guess I better get used to it. It also needs a better keyboard. This flat as a flipping board HP keyboard is the pits! The keys are very nearly the same level as the surrounding surface and I can't rest my fingers against the sides of them

I also turned off the Norton anti-virus in favor of AVG 2013. I don't see why I should be saddled with an antivirus program I don't like. I already know how to use the AVG so it was a fast pick. If the Norton program starts making noise about being disabled I'll see about uninstalling it, though I haven't foun d the uninstall utility for it yet.

See y'all tomorrow provided I can get this thing started without having to go through the first seven steps of the ballet.

[howmus]

Evein' folks!

Janie, I'll have a cup of decaf please.  Half and Half and some Stevia to sweeten it would be nice.

I got to spend a bit of quality time in the train rooms today...  Started installing another fence and some trees along the back wall.  Also cut some particle board into strips to use for elevating the track (a fill) coming in front of the scenery I have been doing.  I'll have some photos by the end of the week to show I hope.

Went over to my son's house for dinner tonight.  Leftovers from their Easter dinner, and just as good the second time around.  After dinner we played a bowling match on their Wii.  Both Granddaughters, my son and I we bowling. Granddaughter #1 is excellent with the games already, but #2 at 4 is just learning.  She can't yet hold the "B" button, swing her arm and release it.  Her dad helps her, or was until she insisted she was going to do it herself!!!  After running and hiding with her controller so the game couldn't continue, she was caught and put in time out so she could scream for a while.  Dad finished her frames for her....

Ah, Jake?  Yes I know the Gang guy is Psy...  Still thinks he looks like the nut from the North!  His, ah, Music (???) doesn't do much for me anyway, but I did manage to watch some commercial he is in yesterday on the Idiot box without making too many derogatory comments in front of the family.   To each their own!

Packer, that might have been Rob who wanted to know about the big stuff going through #6 turnouts.  The largest I have for power are my USRA 2-6-6-2 Mallets.  They negotiate my hand laid #6s with no problems.

Just about time to call it quits for the day and head out to bed... 

Prayers for all of you whether you need them or not!

73

[Cederstrand]

Chamomile tea, please.

***Karl, I think that looks pretty cool. I will add, that is an awesome layout you have!

Enjoying all the various pics being posted guys!

Well, took advantage of the BUNNY sale and am now officially committed to Kato Unitrack for the (HO) expansion. Sure hope it won't be too much trouble to join up a couple Kato tracks to the Bachmann EZ track. Will just have to "make that part work". Only a logging and small passenger train will ever have reason to hit the old layout which has tighter curves. All the larger locos pulling trains will remain on the new expansion. Guess I'll find out soon enough if a T-1 will play nice going through a Unitrack #6 switch. It better!

Healing thoughts to those in need.

Good night all. Rob

[kbkchooch]

Burlington Northern #24

hahaha, I know I thought of Jeff when I was thinking of shoehorning the front end of an F unit onto a Dash 8 the loco would've been nicknamed well I'll save that for another time.

You mean like this?

Front of an F unit, back of a U boat, rewired to be compatible with Dash 2 units??

The name of it is on my webpage 

Well gang, I'm stiff and sore but the master suite has been repainted. Flat white ceiling, Antique white walls, doors doorframes, crown moldings and window frames high gloss bright white. SWMBO is happy, so thats all that matters. I just sleep in there. Tomorrow I'll put the furniture back after cleaning the hardwood floors , but in the meantime I'm enjoying sleeping in the other bedroom. The mattress is better than ours. plus the bed itself is higher so I think we'll do a switcheroo tomorrow!

Other than that, no train stuff today, maybe tomorrow?

Cya tomorrow, I'm bushed!