Elliot's Trackside Diner....JUNE 2013!!!!

[rdgk1se3019]

Since I got top of the page......here is my credit card.........eat up everyone!

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galaxy

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I have a couple of old canvas messenger bags we use here...

I am turining INTO an old bag...and MOH is older than I am, so I already have an "old bag". {galaxy DUCKS}

TOmorrow I get my spinal nerve injections and friday I get the tooth pulled. I will be in a world of hurt this weekend!!!!!!

Surf and turf for dinner tonight.

later

 

Some people call me an old hag but that is a different pickle of another sort!!

Be careful over the weekend!! Sounds painful!

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Good Evening..

Well, the mess in the garage is...still...a mess. Every time I go in there it seems that a different form of mess showed up...sigh

Tomorrow will be the same thing as today...try to combat mess in the garage...maybe I should get more than one 50 cubic yard bin for all the 'stuff' in there...

[rdgk1se3019]

What is going on with the "Show Me" thread.......when I click on it ......I start to hear some kind of music...........is it just me?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

JeremyB

Jeff, you guys sure do have to stay on top of grass in Louisiana right? I can only imagine what it would look like if you left it for a few weeks.

I'd need to buy a new deck belt for the tractor because it would burn up. Thick St Augustine grass is murder on them! Today even with the grass having only grown about an inch the clippings were over two inches deep.

[JeremyB]

Evening guys,

Jeff, you guys sure do have to stay on top of grass in Louisiana right? I can only imagine what it would look like if you left it for a few weeks.

Sting from the hornet has gone but is still a little tender, he got me good,lol. Just had a quick bite to eat and will continue work on the layout until American Restoration is on tonight.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

galaxy

I use cloth bags for two of the stores I go to as they don't give out bags. I get paper ones usually with a  few plastic ones for garbage pails...they all get palstic bags in them to keep the pails clean. The paper ones get the recycle paper in them and the shreeded documents for recycling in them. SO they all get used twice.

The Wal-Mart here is uses mostly plastic bags. They do have canvas bags you can buy.

[galaxy]

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I have a couple of old canvas messenger bags we use here...

I am turining INTO an old bag...and MOH is older than I am, so I already have an "old bag". {galaxy DUCKS}

I use cloth bags for two of the stores I go to as they don't give out bags. I get paper ones usually with a  few plastic ones for garbage pails...they all get palstic bags in them to keep the pails clean. The paper ones get the recycle paper in them and the shreeded documents for recycling in them. SO they all get used twice.

Well went grocery shopping this MA about kileld me adn got the free bread.

TOmorrow I get my spinal nerve injections and friday I get the tooth pulled. I will be in a world of hurt this weekend!!!!!!

Surf and turf for dinner tonight.

later

 

[Cederstrand]

Extra strong coffee in an UNDECORATED mug, please.

Have a good day all.

Cheers!  Rob

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I have a couple of old canvas messenger bags we use here...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I have been busy today. Working on the layout and the old Apple this morning then working outside.

This is pretty much the way the old computer will look once I have a proper table for it.

I formatted the equivalent of fifty 5.25" diskettes this morning and there was only one dud. I say equivalent because I have my drives (single-sided) set up so I can use both sides of a diskette. The diskettes are after all double sided and double density. It's a waste to use only one side.

Went down to my fathers place and did a quick cut on the back yard. It had already grown up a little over an inch since Monday! I want the grass short for the wedding tomorrow. Well I guess I'll take it easy the rest of the day. I'm pretty much wiped.

[MisterBeasley]

V8Vega

The host of a computer radio show says the most often asked question is "My printer won't work

I'm a PC guy, but one of the best things I ever did was get my wife an Apple laptop, and the "come in to the store and ask questions" package.  I know nothing about Apple machines, so when she comes to me with "the printer won't work" I can shrug my shoulders.  Of course, I did have to put the printer in her car so she could take it to Apple so they could show her how to use it, but, after doing that only 2 or 3 times, she now can print things by herself.

[JeremyB]

Morning guys, I mean afternoon.

Ray : Yeah I use reusable bags also. Have been for a few years now.

Its a beautiful day out today. Went down and did some more rail fanning again but didn't see a train so just got a few a shots of some cars in the yard. Came back around 9:45 and cut the grass and the wife did the garden.

The thing that ruined it for me I was stung a hornet. Now I have been stung enough times in my life I have to say this one hurt and still hurts. He tried to get me again before I shooed him away. Its now almost three hours later and it still is stinging and my leg is sore from the hip down.

I am planning on working on the layout this afternoon as I have come in for the day.

[howmus]

Mornin' folks!

Zoe, can i get a refill for my mug of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast organic fair traded coffee?  Thank You!

Plastic bags???  I think what I just ordered should tell most folks where I stand on those things...  I have been using the same canvas bags for close to 30 years now at the grocery store!  I have to tell most of the clerks about the store name on the bags as it got put out of business when Wegman's came to town a quarter of a century ago.  I wonder how many plastic bags I have avoided by just taking my own with me.  Not hard to do either.  Once a year or so I have to bag up all the little plastic bags I seem to accumulate from other places and take them over to the grocery store as they will recycle them and don't care where they came from.

The sun has put in a rare appearance here today....  Should be a good one for the solar panels.  Waiting for the dump truck to arrive with 5 yards of topsoil to fill in the holes from the hedge....  27 hours in a day just isn't enough time to get everything done...

The R&GV RR Museum has been restoring a Lehigh Valley Caboose #95100 we found in a scrap yard a year or so ago.  It had been sitting there for many, many years, and had never been cut up.  One of our members who is excellent photographer just sent us an email saying:  "The first new replacement steel side sheet was fit and welded into its final place on the east side of Lehigh Valley Railroad caboose #95100.    An incredible accomplishment and a real sign that this project is well on its way to completion!     My personal congratulations to all of the volunteers that brought us to this point.    From acquiring the car from the scrap yard and moving it here to needle scaling the exterior to paint removal on the inside to the steel work on the exterior, it has all added up to keeping this project on a really positive trajectory toward completion where LV #95100 will join PC #18526 and Erie C254 in operation on our museum railroad."

Here are some photos from last evening posted to our R&GVRRM Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgvrrm/sets/72157634209876369/

Enjoy and have a great day!

73

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Lots of sun and cool out here right now...all of 60F going to a high of 70F later on today..

Got a few things need done at the abode here..such as more...hopeless...garage cleaning and other such oddments...gonna see whether I can do this without coughing up a few pieces of my lungs

[pascaff*]

  Morning All,

    Currently it is 51 with an expected high of 77 under partly cloudy and breezy skies.

    Did not get any layout w**k done yesterday, spent the day cleaning house and doing laundry.

    Have to go into Carson today to my house that my daughters live in. Seems to be a bad electrical switch in the bathroom and an electrician is coming over to fix it. As both daughters and son-in-law will be at work, and it is my regular day off, I got the Duty. Will stop at Radio Shack while there and exchange 1/4 watt resistors for 1/2 watt ones. I told my daughter the wrong wattage, so it is my fault and I admit it. So my day will be pretty well shot.

   Prayers to all in need.

    Paul

[MisterBeasley]

Good morning again!  It looks like we'll have a week or so of nice weather here in New England, with highs in the 70s to low 80s and comfortable sleeping weather at night.  I've got to get off my behind this weekend, though, and get a new air conditioner for the bedroom.

Wikipedia has a page for the original Adventure game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

 The article kicked in another memory.  The original author, Will Crowther, was married to Patty Crowther, an astronomy type who worked at the same place I did (Haystack Observatory in Massachusetts) but before my time.  She was an avid spelunker, and was credited with finding a link between two cave systems in the Appalachians that made them the largest connected system in the world.  It was her diminutive stature that allowed her to squeeze through the maze of twisty little passages and boldly go where no man had gone before.

Yesterday, I had an image in my mind of an explorer with an axe, along with a troll and some of the other adversaries, and the caption "Play Adventure on a computer near you."  I realized that it was the picture on a T-shirt I once owned.  It was so long ago, though, that even Google couldn't find it.

Plastic Bags - I love them.  I use them in the kitchen to line the small trash can under the sink.  They're free, so I don't have to go out and buy bags.  If they end up banning them, I'll need to buy bags, which will no doubt be more durable and therefore put thicker plastic into the waste stream.  For me, anyway, the throwaway bags from the supermarket are perfect.

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and an order of Biscuits and gravy please. Oh and could you double me up on my Korean Ginsing? Thanks. I think I’ll need it today (yaaawnn).

Sunny, with a high near 82.

Power went out for about 45 minutes yesterday afternoon. Went down with a POW! I’m a thinkin there’s one less squirrel in the world. No proof, just speculation.

I have no imagination. I mean I do if it’s spelled out so to speak such as reading a book. But I never could do a game without visuals.

V8 Dennis-  Springfield, is talking plastic bag tax. They have been for a while now. I’m not sure how this’ll work and I haven’t seen it yet, but they say it’s coming and I’m sure it is. I thought the first of this year but so far nothing.

Going back to bringing your own bag. Guess what goes around….  That’ll be difficult knowing how many bags I need for the stuff we buy. They should bring back paper sacks. Recycleable if you choose, or they’re recycleable as all sorts of things around the house. Or if not, they’re biodegradable.

Well, Brenda’s down. Came home from w**k early….like 5 -10 minutes. If it were me I’d a stuck out the 10 but hey, that’s me. We are out of lemon juice.... That means we can’t make Mom’s tonic and she’s pretty….. well upset’s not the right word, but it’ll do. I had to w**k last night so it sounds like she just wallered around on the couch coughing cause she didn’t feel like going to get some any further than the Casey’s. Guess I’ll be heading into town to get some lemon juice today. Best get a few other things as well. Out of Jalepeno poppers and something else....what was it?  Hm. Hope to stall the trip so I can get in for lunch at the Chinese buffet.  

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

 

EDIT: Order up folks! Breakfast seems to be on my tab this morning.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 70° with 100% humidity and patchy fog. Showers and thunderstorms likely.


Looks like the word for today is 'agasgá' which means rain. I may do some work on the layout later depending on how I feel. I already did some track removal on it this morning. I also added a Duodisk disk drive to the Apple computer and plugged it into slot two on the main board and I changed out the green screen monitor with an RGB monitor.  I don't mind saying I was a bit tired after that workout. If I get the chance later I'll go over to my fathers place and lay a quick cutting on the grass behind the house. However with the way the weather is looking that may be a pointless endeavor. Yesterday I was looking for something in the back of my van and I came across a box of 5.25" DS,DD diskettes still sealed in packs of twenty-five diskettes each. There looks to be five or six packs. When I have time I'll have to go through and format them and toss out the duds. There's always some duds even in a brand new package. I believe I picked these up at a flea market a couple of years ago.

Here's a couple of photos of this mornings layout work.

[galaxy]

Morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Wednesday, June 19th, 2013!!!

I will light the prayer candles at 10 AM for those in need...

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!

 DOUBLE CROSS:

The colorful Meaning:

Illiteracy was common in the old days that when a person was asked to sign his name to a document, he would put an "X" or a cross as his signature, which was perfectly legal. Many times this was done under pressure and the party making the "X" had no intention of observing the terms of the contract.  Oral folklore stated that if a cross was doubled, that is, one was written over the other one, then the second one voided out the first.  The contract was then null.  So a double-cross often referred to someone who promised in word or writing, but changed their minds, or never even intended to obey the items they agreed to.

The more serious Meaning:

An act of treachery, perpetrated on a previous partner in a deceit

Origin:

The term 'double-cross' has been used in various contexts for many centuries, usually as a straightforward reference to the shape of two crosses, as in the architectural design of cathedrals for example. That meaning is unrelated to the current figurative 'cheating' usage of 'double cross', which dates only from the late 18th century.

To find the origin of the expression 'double cross' as it is now used, we need to look first at one of the many meanings of the noun 'cross'. From the mid 1700s, a 'cross' was a transaction that wasn't 'square', i.e. not honest and fair. The term was most often used in a sporting context, where a cross was a match that was lost as a result of a corrupt collusory arrangement between the principals involved. You might expect that a 'double cross' was a deceit in which two parties collude in a swindle and one of them later goes back on the arrangement, crossing both the original punters and his erstwhile partner in crime. Although that is the case, the term 'double' doesn't here mean simply 'two times'. 'To double' had long been used to mean 'to make evasive turns or shifts; to act deceitfully'. This derives from the imagery of someone doubling back over a previous route. This 'doubling' gave rise to the term 'double dealing', which has been used since the early 1500s to refer to someone duplicitously saying one thing and doing another, for example, a 'double agent'.

Given that, by the mid 1700s, the language included both 'cross' and 'double', it wasn't a great leap to introduce the term 'double cross' to refer to aggravated duplicity. Double crossing dealings are the precise opposite of those that are 'fair and square', but the two expressions do have one thing in common - they are both tautological. 'Fair' and 'square' both mean honest and 'double' and 'cross' both mean dishonest.

The earliest reference that I have found to 'double cross' in print is in David Garrick's 1768 farce The Irish Widow. The play centres on various practical jokes, and the phrase occurs as a play on words between two of the meanings of cross - 'marriage' and 'swindle':

Sir Patrick O'Neale: I wish you had a dare swate crater [dear sweet creature] of a daughter like mine, that we might make a double cross of it. Mr. Whittle: (aside) That would be a double cross, indeed!

The sporting usage was defined a few years later, in an early self-help tome, written by 'Two Citizens of the World' and 'Containing Hints to the Unwary to Avoid the Stratagems of Swindlers, Cyprians and Lawyers', i.e. How To Live In London, 1828:

"A double cross, is where a boxer receives money to lose, and afterwards goes in and beats his man."

A systematic policy of double crossing was given the UK government's official, if covert, sanction during the WWII. In 1941, MI5 set up a military counter espionage unit called The Twenty Committee, chaired by John Masterman. The naming of this unit clearly linked the double crosses of the Roman numerals for twenty (XX) with one of the unit's aims, which was to 'double cross' Germany by coercing German spies to become English double agents. The coercion was less than subtle; captured German agents were given an offer they couldn't refuse, i.e. feed false information back to Germany or be shot.

During the Cold War, following the publishing of Masterman's The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945, in 1972, the terms 'double cross' and 'double agent' became much more commonplace.

 

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

We've had some big storms going through here today and it looks like still some more to come. The forecast shows more thunderstorm activity tomorrow. I hope it clears out by Thursday afternoon or my father's wedding may be taking place indoors. Speaking of activity there's been no activity on the layout and none with the computers. I just haven't had the energy for it. Maybe tomorrow I'll change out the green screen monitor with an old Amdek Color-X RGB monitor. I'm also thinking about adding on a Duodisck drive and assigning it to slot two. The Franklin and Disk II drives are assigned to slots five and six.

I'm still sore from yesterday so it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Hello.

Work has me tired again, but I may, thankfully, be getting used to it. Halfway through the work week on my end, so it's not all bad, just need to survive Wednesday and Thursday.

By the way, also got my dorm assigned to me at PennTech. It's in one of the really nice halls, Dauphin to be exact. They say that college freshmen aren't even guaranteed on-campus housing, so I guess getting my application before the start of my senior year REALLY paid off here.

P.S. There's nothing saying that I couldn't have an N scale layout. 

[galaxy]

CURT;

You keep posting pics of what is Strasburg {for those who don't know} and the RR Museum of PA At Strasburg, but you haven't YET said ONE WORD about how much you ENJOYED IT!

Did You do the noon shop tour???

Did you ride the presidential car?

 

Did you shop the fantastic Model RR train shop at Strasburg??? How about the one down the street?????

 

TELL ALL please!

TELL ALL

Majestic Mountain type loco #6755 IS my absolute FAVORITE there!! I just love her!

 

 

also...what did the wifey say about all of the train stops? DId SHE enjoy it too?? Did she get into it too?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

cudaken

 Had a guy named Al drop by today, he wants my Road Runner. His first offer was $5,000.00 and laid the cash in front of me! Bumped it up to $5,200.00 and offered me some HO Train stuff that I don't want, they are 30 years old.

Not all thirty year old train stuff is bad. Just look at the old stuff I've made use of in my rebuilds.

[Curt Webb]

Evening All,

Just finished supper of sautéed shrimp and noodles followed by a small piece of homemade cheese cake.

Tomorrow I go back to w**k so I will probably be back on Saturday. Nothing much happened today but I ran trains for a little bit.

GARRY- Sorry to hear of your theft. I have been meaning to tell you that.

 

 

 

 

Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.

[JeremyB]

Hi Guys,

Its a nice night here, actually it was nice out here all day. I went down to do some rail fanning this morning, other the that didn't do much all day. All im going to do tonight is watch Storage wars and shipping wars and that's about all,lol

Ken: I was watching Counting cars earlier today and Danny found a road runner, thought of you right away.

[cudaken]

 Evening Dinners!

 Flo, pleases.

 Been working on the Road Runner today. Got some parts cleaned up at a friends shop. Still cannot get in the darn trunk! Pulled the rear seat, but no way in heck I am going though that spaces!  Plus I found that I stored some smoked tires in there!

http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Charger%20Site/06-18-3_zps0fd1cec0.jpg.html]

 Did see my air cleaner in the trunk!

http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Charger%20Site/06-18-5_zps8e65f4bc.jpg.html]

 Now if I can only reach it!

 Had a guy named Al drop by today, he wants my Road Runner. His first offer was $5,000.00 and laid the cash in front of me! Bumped it up to $5,200.00 and offered me some HO Train stuff that I don't want, they are 30 years old.

 Well I still have the keys to the Runner, but I have kept is number all so!

 Later, Ken

[Cederstrand]

Italian Roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.

Today was the first time in what seems like ages I got down to the Train Room. Removed glue and foam traces as well as sanding the walls where the (N) shelf layout project had been and then got the first coat of Sheetrock done. Will let that sit a few days and then continue with patching all those spots on those two walls.

Still haven't run any of the new locos. Have had very low energy for much in recent days. Will get to everything eventually.

Hope y'all are doing well. Hello to any and all new folks I haven't met yet and a belated Happy Birthday to those I have missed.

Cheers!  Rob

[chochowillie]

Ah yes the ancient art of computer programming in the öld" days  Been there done that and don't want to go back to it. It was fun at the time and lets face it, it gave me an excuse to buy a TRS80 

Just checked the weather guessers web site and it looks very much like I need to run out and buy some gopher wood to start building an arc. Like we haven't had enough already. Sheesh!!

MOH is having a wee Nap and I'm thinking I should join her. It's that kind of day.... Ya, that's what I will do, to heck with the Gopher wood 

Dennis

[galaxy]

You  are in a cave, it is very dark here.

I knew the game as simply "Adventure".

First, find the lamp. Then find the batteries for the lamp for when it runs out.

Then find the magic words scrawled on the cave walls.

 

The basic object of my version was to get all the treasures back to the miner's cabin.

Drop the  rod to get the bird.

Getting lost in the maze was a mess and usually game over, unless you knew the code directions to get you out of it.

W {est}

You are in a room where there is a bird singing in a cage. What would you like to do?

GET bird.

You cannot get the bird. he is frightened by something you hold in your hand.What would you like to do?

Drop the rod.

You have dropped the rod.what would you like to do?

Get bird.

Get rod.

You are in a room with a rod and a bird in  your hand.

W {est}

You are in a  room where there is a sack of coins on the floor. There is a door to the E and a door to the S. What would you like to do?

Your move!

Ah the fun days of simple visual-less computer games!!!

Well, thank you for this stroll down amnesia lane....

busy day now exhausted...will take a  nap...with my sak of money under my pillow.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

MisterBeasley

This one silly game, full of trolls, dwarves and giants, led to the computer fantasy world we know today.

Yep, and I still get lost in it. I even get lost in mine and I wrote the darn thing!