Jeff .... I'm happy to see you back in the Diner!
You had well over 100 Get Well wishes in the model railroad forums. Nearly jammed the servers!
Praying for continued heeling for you.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Glad to see your back at your dads house Jeff. Good to have you back
I knew that you are a tuff man glad to see you back.
Russell
Good to hear from you. Surgery makes DCC look much easier. I wish you a speedy recover.
Art Hill
Peekaboo, guess who?
Made my escape from the hospital today. The ride home was uneventful. The fireworks started when I got here. I got down out of the van OK and got on my crutches and started up the driveway to the house. Just then one of the rocks in the driveway decided it didn't like me and rolled under the one of the crutches and threw me off balance and over backward I went. I got a real good look at the sky. Nice and blue with a cloud here and there. I was also quite helpless! So I told the van driver to go to the house and get a wheelchair that's in there. That was the easy part. He then had to pick me up under the shoulders so I get my good leg under leg under me and get to the chair. Not an easy task for a 65 year old man to lift a 250 lb man. Once he got me to the house I could get to my mothers old power chair (Hoveround wannabe). The next adventure involved getting on and off the toilet in my fathers bathroom. There's barely enough room for the chair in there. I manged that without incident. Getting out of that hospital gown and into some real clothes was interesting to say the least. I'll have to see if something I can grab or lean against can be put in my room so I can get into my clothes without doing the first seven steps of the ballet. The 'lay down and pull' routine works for most of getting the pants on but there's that point where I have to stand and pull them up the rest of the way. It's going to take some getting used to but I'll be able to adjust to it eventually.
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
Lehigh Valley 2089 Hey there everyone. Last day of work for the summer before college ended today. Wow. Can't believe that classes start in a few days. On the WoWP front, I have just obtained the P-51A Mustang. Fast little thing, but could use some better guns.
Hey there everyone.
Last day of work for the summer before college ended today. Wow. Can't believe that classes start in a few days.
On the WoWP front, I have just obtained the P-51A Mustang. Fast little thing, but could use some better guns.
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
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just a cup of dark roast coffee and a couple of the sour cream glazed donuts for me at the moment.
Another cool day here in the Finger Lakes this morning. Today should have a bit of sunshine as they are calling for "Fair Skies". I can use a few good days of sun to help the electric ratio this month! Currently 66°F with a high in the mid 70s later this afternoon.
I will be babysitting the granddaughters for a couple hours this afternoon. Should go the the monthly museum meeting tonight but I probably will not go as I have just too much pressing things to get done and I am running low on energy... I'll be out there on Saturday for the annual picnic, and I'll be working train crew on Sunday for diesel days.
Have the slide show finished. I need to set up my projector and see how it looks on a screen. The place we are having the Friday gathering for the reunion has a large screen and projector all built in... Need to go over the play list for the dancing on Saturday at the reunion. Since I know we are not going to be dancing for 5.4 hours, I'll move some of the less danceable tunes to the dinner list. At this point I'll be glad when the reunion is over and I can get back to a more normal existence for me even though I have been have a bit of fun with all the plans for it.
Paul, good to see you sir! You have been missed.
Hopefully we will be hearing from Jeffrey tomorrow if he makes his escape and hides at his Father's house....
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Morning All,
Currently it is 60 with an expected high of 94. Still a bit smokey out there.
Back to w**k today. Got a lot done around the house yesterday, even managed to get some modeling in. Not much else happening here.
Prayers to all in need, and especially Jeff.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Good Morning
Sunny with a high near 72 today...
Gonna go and do a few 'honey do' and a few more 'honey buy' things today...I'm going to attempt to get a few things done for myself somewhere along the line as well, if'n that is permissable.... That is if there is much money left that is..
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 oh I guess another breakfast burrito. Please and Thanks.
Partly sunny, with a high near 74.
Hey Paul! Good to hear from you.
Well, yesterday was uneventful and I got done at least what I planned to get done so I got that goin for me.
Still no Suki. I suppose next time I'll ask.
We’ll see what today brings.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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.
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!
Today is thursday, August 15th, 2013!!!
The prayer candles are lit with Two Extra prayer candles lit for Jeffrey's continued recovery from surgery!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Today's {clean} limerick:
A maiden at college, Miss Breeze,
Weighted down by B.A.s and PH.D's,
Collapsed from the strain,
Said her doctor, "It's plain,
You are killing yourself --- by degrees!"
We often need a "shot in the arm", SO:
Meaning:
A stimulus
Origin:
This expression is derived from the invigorating effect of injecting drugs. A shot, is of course, US slang for an injection, either of a narcotic or medicinal drug. That term has been in use since around the beginning of the 20th century. For example, this piece from the San Francisco Chronicle Supplement, October 1904:
"I varied hardly a minute each day in the time of taking my injection. My first shot was when I awoke in the morning."
'A shot in the arm' came soon afterwards and the first mention of a figurative use of it in print to be found is from the Maine newspaper The Lewiston Evening Journal, January 1916:
The vets can give politics a shot in the arm and the political leaders realize
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY! ONLY YOU CAN!!
-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.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Howdy Ulrich: Be careful there. What are you campaning for? I guess I missed that.
I haven't had time to check in here lately. I get on the computer maybe once a week for a few minutes.
We got one of the hay bailing customers done yesterday. Last night it rained and today was forecast to be rain so I took the day off. A friend of mine came over and we played with the trains in the basement most of the afternoon. I had a really good time.
Well it's time to hit the hay. I also have to check the weather. I'd like to cut another place tomorrow if it's not going to rain.
Night All
I posted a brief update in the thread about Jeffrey. Feel free to add another comment there if you wish.
Well
Erm
Today it is now, at the hottest part of the day, a mere 61F! at the airport on the hill. Only 4 degrees warmer down here in the valley. Is this August or October? WHAt WILL october be like then when it gets here???
A do nothing day ALMOST.
Went early to get a new Miracle Wave oven. It a miracle it waves the food warm! The old one had peeling paint inside it and was in danger of arcing. It started peeling under the wheels or the turney-thingy under the glass turn plate. Then it spread. Only the glass probably kept it from arcing. Spent a pretty penny at WAlly world. Cost $10 more to have the 6 preset timed buttons {which we like}, but $40 more we coulda gotten tthe 1100 watt, for that money, I said no we will deal with only 1000 watts!
Got a letter form the Energy dept. of the county, WE may be eligiable for a new refridge, a new freezer and a new H2O heater. Free WHy? we are eligible to have all the windows replaced with double pane vinyl windows in 2014. Free as low income recipients in the program waiting list. A new furnace TOO, We may talk them into adding the Central A/C since we just did the furnace.Dunno if we get as our applances are not younger than 15 years, and we have to again quailify. got the application in the mail today.Won't hurt to fill er out and send er in! Sometimes good things do come our way. But I bet we go on another wiating list!
Well, dinner will be surf and turf- salmon and steak, rice-a-roni, the San Fransico treat, ding ding...and corn. NOT in the miracle wave.
Howdy .....
Just got back from Wednesday lunch with the lake area model railroaders.
The thread for Jeff has a lot of posts. I'm impressed with the goodness of people. I'll call him later to see how he is doing.
Ulrich ..... I guess those mindless radicals have no goodness.. Watch, next time they will stage a protest against bullying.
Afternoon All,
Still morning out here though. Currently it is 67 with an expected high of 95 under still smokey skies.
Got up really late for me. Must have been really tired. Day off so laundry and housework to keep me busy, maybe do a little grocery shopping. Maybe w**k on train stuff.
Ulrich - Nut jobs are everywhere. Hope you and Petra stay safe.
Hope Jeff continues to have a good, and uneventful recovery.
Prayers to all in need.
Morning all! Almost afternoon I suppose too...
Anyway, cold here today but it's kinda refreshing.
Time to sell the house I think. It just seems too crowded and filled with "stuff". I keep tidying up and pitching things but it seems like all I am doing is shifting the piles from one corner to the other and back again. I told my wife that we need to move to cull the heard and start over. Keep the heirlooms and treasured mementos (...and trains of course...) but sell everything else. Fresh start, clean slate and no more clutter. Surprisingly, she never said "no"...but she also never said "yes" either......you know how the ladies can be at times.
Well, off to move more piles of goodness knows what...
Have a good day all!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sourdough toast this morning.
Currently 58°F outside the door here in the Finger Lakes.... 14th. of August and the high today will be all of 67°F. Cold and, ah, changeable may be the best way to describe it. The sun was just shining brightly out there as the rain was falling. Sun didn't last long though. Today will be a good day to finish up the slide show for the reunion I think.
Ulrich! WOW! Hope they catch the perps and that you and Petra stay safe. Extremism on both ends of the spectrum is scary!
Hope Jeffrey is continuing an uneventful recovery!
Stay safe out there! The world is full of whackos I think... Later!
Sunny right now, current temperature is at 50 going to a high of 66 later on....
Need to pick up some things today..wonderful honey buy list magically showed up in front of me this morning... Like to know how these things come up whenever I have a little cash available...mmmmm
Ulrich: WOW!!! There seems no end of trouble anymore!!!
Continuing for Jeff
G'Morning gang!
57 Degrees outside,, all the windows in the house open, lookin for a high of 75 today!!!
Ulrich, all I can say is WOW, I thought you were living in a civilised country! Stay safe
Glad to hear Jeffrey is doing well,
Gots to trot, going to town to get some supplies & stuff!
later gators!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Coffee and a couple glazed donuts please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 76.
Glad to hear Jeff is doing well. I hope things keep heading in that direction.
Gee whiz Ulrich!? What’s wrong with these people? I’m glad you are not directly in the line of fire and I pray you remain that way.
Just goes to show you Radicalism has nothing to do with race or religion. Whackos are whackos and give all the good ones a bad name. Funny how we’ll condemn a group of millions for the actions of a hundred. But yet….ok Vinnie.
Yesterday went as expected. Today, I hope for the same.
morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, August 14th, 2013!!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!
Today's {clean} Limerick:
There was a young man so benighted
He never knew when he was slighted;
He would go to a party,
and would eat just as hardy,
as if he had been invited.
Now, for the "real McCoy":
The real thing - not a substitute
The Scottish racing cyclist Sir Chris Hoy won the sixth Olympic gold medal of his career at the London Games on 7th August 2012, making him the most successful British Olympian and elevating him even higher in the sporting firmament in the UK than he was before. This is far from the first time that Hoy has made news here and the red-top newspapers strained themselves to come up with new headlines - 'Medals Ahoy', 'Hoy Joy', 'Six Machine', 'The Hoy Wonder', 'Knight Rider', and so on. They couldn't do better than the line on the banner that his proud parents unfurl each time he wins - 'The Real McHoy'. This is of course a paraphrase of the expression 'the real McCoy' (or 'real mackay', 'real macoy', 'real mackoy'...), which rivals 'the whole nine yards' and 'the full Monty' for pre-eminence in the 'I know where that phrase comes from' stakes. As usual, plausibility and frequent retelling are considered enough for absolute certainty. With that in mind, please read on...
There are several sources that are suggested as being the origin of 'the real McCoy', for example:
The list goes on to include several other versions but none is supported by any evidence and they carry little credibility. Given that there's no hard evidence, the favourite has to be the earliest example to be found in print. That's a close call, as many of the sources date back to the second half of the 19th century. The earliest known printed citation is from 1856, in the Scottish poem Deil's Hallowe'en:
"A drappie o' [drop of] the real McKay."
This clearly refers to the McKay (or MacKay) whisky. The 'real MacKay' expression occurs in Scottish newspapers quite frequently in the 1860s and must have been in common use in Scotland at that date. There's no proof (no pun intended) that MacKay's whisky is the source of this phrase but we can say for sure that Elijah McCoy, Kid McCoy and the Hatfields and McCoys weren't involved in its coinage as their respective supposed involvements all come years after the expression was already widely used in print.
The 'Real McCoy' variant, which is essentially the same phrase, comes later and the earliest examples found come from Canada. James S. Bond's novel The Rise and Fall of the Union Club, 1881, contains this:
By jingo! yes; so it will be. It's the 'real McCoy,' as Jim Hicks says. Nobody but a devil can find us there.
A December 1891 edition of the Canadian newspaper The Winnipeg Free Press also includes the expression. Given that Elijah McCoy and the phrase 'the real MacKay' both moved from Scotland to Canada, it is possible that the adaption from 'real MacKay' to 'real McCoy' was done by him or on his behalf, but the real 'real MacKay', like the 'real McHoy', is Scottish
Good Morning Folks,
time to show up before you folks put me on the MIA list.
Before all, I am just glad that Jeff is doing fine. That candle is still lit up for him until he is home!
Campaigning is rather exciting, but not really in a positive way. I am on my way to the southern part of my state, where our campaigners have been attacked by ultra left wing people. The attack left tow people hurt, one of them had to be hospitalized. Topping this, there has been an attempt of arson. Unknown criminals poured gasoline around the house of one of my colleagues. Fortunately, the police was able to prevent them from igniting it. I have a meeting with the DA and local police on this at 11 am today.
Fortunately, My home is in a rather rural area, so I still feel somewhat safe. Local police is keeping a closer eye on my neighborhood, though.
Remember, this is not Russia, China, Syria or Egypt - this is Germany!
Well, I must get going - CUL & have a good one!
Edit: I got TOPS! Janie, here is my CC - what ever they chow hounds will be having today, put it on my tab!
Packer kbkchooch Packer Afternoon guys I found a smoking deal on a P2K GP7 with sound. Try $60 bucks. It was too good to pass up, for a P2K with a soundtraxx. It's a southern green unit, and a friend of mine models southern. I might be able to sell it to him without the sound decoder for about what I paid for it. Then I could use the decoder in my SD7 or one of my GPs. Vincent Just cant swap the shell for a road you model? pretty much that's what I'd be doing. I have 2 BN GP9s that came out about the same time as this southern GP7. So I'm gonna swap the chassis, then try to sell the non-sound equipped southern GP7 to a friend. At the train club, someone brought in a February 2013 Model railroader. Let's just say I made it into MR sooner than I expected, and not for what I wanted. If you read the little article (IIRC, trains of thought with niel) about "model train disasters" and come to the part about the GP18 getting chewed up by the ice maker. That was me, lol. I still have that GP18 sill. I rebuilt it and have started upgrading it to make it correct for a BN unit with the extra steps in the well.
kbkchooch Packer Afternoon guys I found a smoking deal on a P2K GP7 with sound. Try $60 bucks. It was too good to pass up, for a P2K with a soundtraxx. It's a southern green unit, and a friend of mine models southern. I might be able to sell it to him without the sound decoder for about what I paid for it. Then I could use the decoder in my SD7 or one of my GPs. Vincent Just cant swap the shell for a road you model?
Packer Afternoon guys I found a smoking deal on a P2K GP7 with sound. Try $60 bucks. It was too good to pass up, for a P2K with a soundtraxx. It's a southern green unit, and a friend of mine models southern. I might be able to sell it to him without the sound decoder for about what I paid for it. Then I could use the decoder in my SD7 or one of my GPs.
Afternoon guys
I found a smoking deal on a P2K GP7 with sound. Try $60 bucks. It was too good to pass up, for a P2K with a soundtraxx. It's a southern green unit, and a friend of mine models southern. I might be able to sell it to him without the sound decoder for about what I paid for it. Then I could use the decoder in my SD7 or one of my GPs.
Vincent
Just cant swap the shell for a road you model?
pretty much that's what I'd be doing. I have 2 BN GP9s that came out about the same time as this southern GP7. So I'm gonna swap the chassis, then try to sell the non-sound equipped southern GP7 to a friend.
At the train club, someone brought in a February 2013 Model railroader. Let's just say I made it into MR sooner than I expected, and not for what I wanted. If you read the little article (IIRC, trains of thought with niel) about "model train disasters" and come to the part about the GP18 getting chewed up by the ice maker. That was me, lol. I still have that GP18 sill. I rebuilt it and have started upgrading it to make it correct for a BN unit with the extra steps in the well.
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
hahaha, no way packer that was yours?! awesome!
Packer I'd like your advice on reprinting an E unit into the ex CB&Q silver, would an aluminum color be just as good. I super detailed it and I'm not liking the way it turned out. I plan on getting some CCS silver BN cars to mix into the 10 car Kato set I have as well as replacing the original #9942 with another non modified model.
Grrrrr... stupid me trying to improve my model looks, better just stick to running them and scenicking layouts.
ok here's #9942, I'm not done yet but the paint patches don't match so I'm gonna completely repaint it into a ex-Q locomotive as well as redecal it for the BN again. those BN silver E's were gorgeous.
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.
Hey guys, great to hear that Jeff's doing just fine!
Again, not much today. Scored some more victories in my WoWP game, but not much other than that.
Good EveningWe never even got to 60 here...it stayed at...57 .... ??Anyhoo...got a fair bit of the yard...or field...cut....brother...what a pain in the tukous....especially around the wetland part...thank goodness it was done before nightfall...otherwise I'd still be doing it by the light of my silly little tractor thingee....
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just another cup of decaf please....
I have been at it all day... Beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel... Hope it is not a speeding freight train coming at me though. I have the photos for the (reunion) slide show resized and loaded into PowerPoint. I hope to have it roughed in and put in order tomorrow. Then add some other stuff to keep it interesting. Drove to Canandaigua at noon to meet with one of the ladies on the reunion committee. We were to have lunch at Wegmans and start to put together the nametags to be given out for the Saturday evening banquet... She never showed. I waited 45 minutes for her and then checked with the Catering dept. who are putting on our Social on Friday night to make sure the slide show will work with their equipment. Then drove back home and left a ???ing email for the classmate saying, "I guess we missed each other". She wrote back saying that is because we aren't meeting until next week... DUH! I put it in my calendar a week early.
Good to hear Jeffrey is recovering well. Hope he will be out of the hospital by the weekend! For his sake and the Nurses...
Lawn is growing where I put down some seed. The cool and damp weather is helping it along. We got a couple good showers today and had a high of 72°F we did. Whoopie! Most of the day was overcast and gray as well so the solar panels put out a whooping 13 or so kWh today. At least the air conditioner is off!
Prayers for all in need out there!