Good MorningI am typing this with one hand...Spring is all cuddled on the other one, lol!!!We are a little warmer this morning, but that will not last long as we will be back under those ol' t'underin'boomers this afternoon...76 today...70 tomorrow...As I finished the filework yesterday my office work will be a lot lighter ...and I am off next week...heeheehee...
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/
Why not a tour of my home country? Perhaps the diner has crossed the Pacific...
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good morning, and happy Friday to those for whom it makes a difference. This morning New England is rainy, and, well, just dark. I've noticed over the past week or so that the sun is lower in the sky during the morning ride to work, requiring judicious use of the sun visor, but with the cloud cover the house was downright dark as I got dressed and poured my coffee into the thermos. And, with cooler temperatures forecast for the next week or so, perhaps the unpleasant summer heat is gone for another year.
I hope to actually get some layout work in over the weekend. The weather should be nice for spraying outdoors. I've got the walls for 2 of the tannery buildings built up, painted and mortared. I think I'll decal on some signs before I put them together. I've got 2 more buidlings plus a water tower to go for the complex, and 3 freight cars that will be associated with it, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a short stack of buttermilk flapjacks with maple syrup please. Oh and could I get couple eggs scrambled loose? Thank you.
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83.
Mr B- Very touching conversation with your Father.
Floor layers came back yesterday to “fix” the vinyl flooring. That stopped me from doing much due to where they were located. In the end, they left the floor no better, in fact worse, than when they arrived and only succeeded in holding me up. So, needless to say….still not done. I still have to relocate the cable and install a ceiling light. Then…...Oh who am I kidding. I’m beginning to think through a series of events, this place will never be done. Never.
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 FRIDAY MORNING!!!
Today is August 2nd, 2013!!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!
Sometimes, people say things have "gone to pot", SO:
Meaning:
Become ruined
One way to look at it:
When something is said to "go to pot" it means it is declining or going downhill, maybe even rotting. The phrase originated with roasts back in 15th century England. Squires ate much more than was on the roasts (beef, pork, lamb) and the leftovers (lesser good cuts of meat) were put in a pot for stew
Here's another way to look at it {read the whole thing through}:
When hippies took to smoking cannabis in the 1960/70s, one of the more common of the myriad terms for the drug was 'pot'. The derivation of that term is disputed. It was stated in American Speech, as early as 1936, that the word derives from the Spanish word for marijuana - potiguaya. Others have questioned that, saying that there is no such word in Spanish. That aside, journalists of the day couldn't resist the 'gone to pot' label; for example, this piece by John Brewer, in the California newspaper The Independent, June 1970:
"I can get marijuana faster than I can get a text at the bookstore," says a UCLA graduate student. College students, it seems, have gone to pot.
Of course, people had been going to pot long before then. That was in the sense of 'going to (the) pot', that is, being chopped up and boiled for food. That usage dates back at least as far as the 16th century; for example, in William Tindale's An answere vnto Sir Thomas Mores dialoge, 1530:
Then goeth a part of ye little flocke to pot, and the rest scatter.
The colloquial, metaphorical usage of 'ruin; destruction' is fairly old too and was in common use by the 17th century. Edmund Hickeringill used the term in The History of Whiggism, 1682:
Poor Thorp, Lord Chief Justice, went to Pot, in plain English, he was Hang'd.
That meaning alludes to the fact that the journey of an animal or ingredient to the pot was a one-way trip, with a very short future ahead.
-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.
MMMMMMMM,,,Wow, new digs,,,,,Looks nice,,,,,,smells nice,,or is that Cloe's perfume??? But,,,where are we....I don't think were in Michigan any more! This is what i get for dozing off in a booth for 2 days huh??
Nothing much happening here. Put a little excess equipment on ebay today. Stuff that either I have duplicates of, or doesn't fit my modeling scheme.
I also had a chat with the local John Deere dealer. The Model 40 is just too big to keep horsing around the yard, and the Cub Cadet is,,,,well,,,its a Cub. It can only do so much. We came to the determination that an X300 or x320 with a 42 or 48 inch deck will be a lot easier to manage, plus also has plenty of power for a snow blower attachment. For what I can sell the 2 tractors for on the open market, I can buy the new Deere with the deck and blower. The added bonus is by getting rid of the Cub and the 40, I can have back the half of the garage that the 40 takes up!
Well, time to turn in SWMBO is having a yard sale Saturday, so she's only working a half day, then her, he Mother and Aunt are all going to be here, unpacking stuff, pricing stuff and generally making a mess of the garage. I'll be on the roof replacing a few storm damaged shingles. (its safer up there)
L8ters
One of the ebay pieces,,,,,yes, the headlights are that bright!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Good evening .....
Mr. B. .... your tribute to your father was well written and very heartwarming. It gave me goose bumps. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jeff ..... Your photo of the old car in the weeds is quite good. It also reminds me; where is Ken?
Trip to Nashville went well. My heart condition is in a holding pattern where it neither improves nor worsens. ... Shelley was with me in the waiting room. Also, in the waiting room, was our neighbor and his wife. He is recovering from a heart transplant and is doing well. .....Visited with some of Shelley's Nshville family in the afternoon.
No mrr'ing to report today.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Packer Burlington Northern #24 your font is probably right then, I got mine from a random Internet search I did at least a year ago. I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5. Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale. I might try it, maybe GameStop has them. I agree with you on AC5. Alex, make on the F-units?
Burlington Northern #24 your font is probably right then, I got mine from a random Internet search I did at least a year ago. I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5. Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale.
I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5.
Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale.
I might try it, maybe GameStop has them. I agree with you on AC5.
Alex, make on the F-units?
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf right now please....
Fairly productive day here for me, even spend as few minutes in the train room. LOL I did a bank run, got my allergy shot, stopped at Mother Earth Natural Foods and got my supply of Fair Traded, Organic, Dark Roasted Coffee beans for the month of August. Also got some wonderful dark chocolate bars they carry and some dried tropical fruit. By the time I got home it had gone from pouring rain to a rarity around these parts called sunshine. Didn't last long before clouds once again ruled the heavens. Only made 13.89 kWh today. On the other hand the Air Conditioner remained off all day so I probably came close to breaking even.
Raked out a patch of dirt where they dumped one pile of topsoil to rough it up. Then planted grass seed and covered with straw. Tonight, even though we got a little rain, I watered all the new lawn areas.
Called the Computer place and found he has benched my iMac and did replicate the problem. He then hooked the iMac to a separate monitor to see if the problem still existed. It didn't show up so he says he is 99% sure it is the video card and will order one for it. He says I may have it back by next Monday afternoon. I'll also be a bunch of $$$ poorer as I didn't buy the extended coverage when I bought the puter.... At least I will be able to get going on the Name Tags I am making for the reunion.
I put together a play list for the music for the reunion today since that I can do on the laptop as that is the computer it will be played from. After putting all the requested tunes from the committee into the list (They decided only to do 50's and 60"s music for the reunion) I can play for 5.4 hours straight.... Well that is better than if I played all my 50's and 60's music which would be only 48 hours straight..... It's only for Saturday after dinner. I may move some of the tunes to the dinner play list to shorten the dance stuff. At our age we can only twist so many times in an evening and then we want to have emergency crews nearby.
Tonight I finished the Ford Model T pick up truck for the hillside scene and started putting together a Packard Stake truck for the road in the back. They are both Tomar Kits. Then I need to leave that scene for a bit and get to work scratch building the octagonal Black Smiths Shop from Alloway, NY. A friend of mine who drew the blueprints for me needs to have me get it done....
Hope all of you have a safe and pleasant night. Prayers for all who are in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good EveningWe actually had sun today...a whole days worth!! And, I finished all the ding dang file work that needed done..a few reports went into some HR files too...:johngrudenface:We also ran some trains around here...just to bug the little Spring....:)Anyhow, have a good night!!
Well it's time to call it a night, so I'll see y'all tomorrow. Looks like it's going to be a pleasant night with a low of 75.
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
Burlington Northern #24Will there be a sundown shops in N Jeff?
Will there be a sundown shops in N Jeff?
Packer, that's awesome. I bought all of the american planes and I'm slowly working on the luftwaffe, it's very intense. This time around there's a cockpit model for every aircraft.
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
Evening guys
Got 3 packages in the mail todayPackage #1. Atlas Trainman GP39-2 and an Athearn RTR fuel tender. Someone added genesis trucks (the ones with the working roller bearings) and kadees to the later.Package #2. Atlas Extended vision caboose in MRL. Will be stripped and repainted to BN or traded for a Q, GN, SP&S, or NP caboose.Package #3, 2x Rapido sleepers. Both were supposed to be phase III, but I got a phase 1 and a Phase 3.
Burlington Northern #24 if you get birds of steel I will definitely join you, I love that game.
if you get birds of steel I will definitely join you, I love that game.
I did a quick search for that game and I'm liking what I'm seeing. The price isn't too bad either. Maybe I'll get it with my birthday funds or in a few weeks. I kinda burnt up my funds with those 24 BN coal gons...
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.
Burlington Northern #24Jeff, what road for your F9? I just remembered that atlas did some F units too, B-mann was the first to make an N scale BSB GN F unit I know that much.
Jeff, what road for your F9? I just remembered that atlas did some F units too, B-mann was the first to make an N scale BSB GN F unit I know that much.
Lifelike did as well I had an F unit that I chopped up for a plow interesting color scheme may need to get a Kato F7 to paint like that LL BN foobie. come to think of it I need a ton of Kato F's to paint into BN, SP&S, GN, and NP colors. first things first F3A #802 and F7's...( I can't remember at the moment need to look at my SP&S loco diagram.)
Burlington Northern #24There are F units, lots of them are made by Kato currently Bachmann did some (way before I was a model railroader probably when I was playing roundy round with my HO scale GP38-2).
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Not much happening today. My father and I went to Wal-Mart this morning to get our respective grocery shopping done and I had him stop at the place that's still in the stone age so I could make my payment there. After getting the groceries home and put away I drove my van into town and gassed it up. $50 for 14.289 gallons of gas. That's a little over half a tank. I made sure to leave the engine running while I was filling up as there was a good chance it wouldn't start again until the engine cooled down. Came across a couple of ancient Mitac AD-1 disk drives in working order and snapped them up for less than $70. That used up my 'fun fund' so no more online shopping until it's replenished. These drives are Apple Disk II clones and weren't produced in what you'd call great numbers so they're somewhat rare, even rarer to be working unlike the ubiquitous Apple Disk II drives that can be found seemingly everywhere.
well
only 67F at the airport high on the hill where it is cooler. Probably not much ore warmer down here in the valley.
Well, the Dr.s office called about my right hip MRI. Not so good. It seems I have bursitis, tendonitis and a major tear that an orthopedist needs to examine and maybe{?} repair. So, I wasn't just whistling dixie about the pain it was causing me. The tear that brings tears!
Finally got laundry caught up. Been neglecting it and the dishes to favor the hip by staying off of it completely. Now feeling better, but that's because I have been off it so much. WIll find out the 10 th when we go to to a festival how much it has "healed" {which apparently ti won't} then and IF I can stand to be on it for a few hours. If it gives me grief, I now know why!
MOH at work. Spent 2.5 hours yesterdayh filling out an online application for another part time job. THey take so long online. They want one to upload one's resume, but then require one to tediously fill in the blanks for all the info on the resume!!! MOH is kinda hoping fo the job. WHy upload the resume if they aren't going to use it???
Well, got to go rest the hip some more.
HAve a good evning.
Broiled dead pig parts is dinner.
alexstan Burlington Northern #24 Packer Burlington Northern #24 I think the font is California font for the BN. Packer is that Ace combat that you play? I play some other flight games. the Minnesota Transportation museum's webpage says Helvetica font... Yup, Ace combat. IMO, the Xbox 360 ones aren't that great, but I haven't tried assault horizons. your font is probably right then, I got mine from a random Internet search I did at least a year ago. I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5. Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale. I'm a bit out of the N-scale loop, arent' there any F7's in N Scale? Or no Amtrak ones?
Burlington Northern #24 Packer Burlington Northern #24 I think the font is California font for the BN. Packer is that Ace combat that you play? I play some other flight games. the Minnesota Transportation museum's webpage says Helvetica font... Yup, Ace combat. IMO, the Xbox 360 ones aren't that great, but I haven't tried assault horizons. your font is probably right then, I got mine from a random Internet search I did at least a year ago. I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5. Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale.
Packer Burlington Northern #24 I think the font is California font for the BN. Packer is that Ace combat that you play? I play some other flight games. the Minnesota Transportation museum's webpage says Helvetica font... Yup, Ace combat. IMO, the Xbox 360 ones aren't that great, but I haven't tried assault horizons.
Burlington Northern #24 I think the font is California font for the BN. Packer is that Ace combat that you play? I play some other flight games.
I think the font is California font for the BN. Packer is that Ace combat that you play? I play some other flight games.
the Minnesota Transportation museum's webpage says Helvetica font...
Yup, Ace combat. IMO, the Xbox 360 ones aren't that great, but I haven't tried assault horizons.
This is the one F-unit I own... It keeps company with my E units,
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I see the place got freshened up overnight! Guess I'll have a mug of my dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed donuts to start with.
Mr. Beasley, a touching and fitting tribute to your dad. My Dad would be 100 on September 3rd. Mine was lucky to live a long and good life. Died at the age of 88 and was healthy right up up to his heart attack.
Tom, you are very right. History is wated on the young. You have to have lived a lot of it yourself before you begin to see its importance I think.
Last night I got an emergency email from the Museum. Somebody forgot to list a group that was supposed to be coming for a tour at the museum today on the spreadsheet so they needed someone to open up and give them the tour when they arrived by trackcar. I waited a couple hours and emailed the guy who is in charge of scheduling people to work and said i would go out since nobody else had volunteered. Got up at 7AM this morning to be able to leave on tme to get there. Just as I was heading out the door I got a phone message saying the group canceled due to the rain this morning. So I went back to bed for an hour and a half and just got up....
Still haven't heard anything on the iMac problem.... Hope they get in touch soon!
Later!
MisterBeasley - Well said, and a fine tribute to your Dad. I'll be 73 in a few months, and it seems the older I get, the more I think of and appreciate my folks, grand parents and other relatives who have passed on. Boy, did they all give me such great memories. As a kid, we didn't have much, but nobody had a better childhood than I did. Thanks to them all.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Morning All,
Currently it is 60 with an expected high of 87, should be a nice day. Too bad I have to w**k. It is Thursday so Skype with my son tonight. I forget who asked about him, but her is some background. He lives in Australia at the present time, there on some kind of Visa. He is a assistant manager of a pizza shop. Moved there to be with a young lady he went to high school with. None of us were real happy when he decided to go there in 2011, especially my late wife. He was able to make it back and spend a few weeks with her before she passed away in November.
Was able to accomplish quite a bit yesterday. I got the seventh UP5 panel wired to the rest of them. Cooked a few meals, did laundry, and some vacuuming. Made some calls to relatives I had not spoken to in some time.
Prayers to all in need.
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 MorningWe had a flashkaboomer come through late last night that stayed with us for a few hours dumping a lot of rain on our'n heads here...our raingauge shows all of 3" here...:oGetting some more paperwork done for work today...finish the lot tomorrow and then off for a week....Have a good one!!
Morning All!
Coffee and toast with apple butter if there is any if you please. Humm, nice looking new digs we have here fellas. I like what's been done to the place .
Still feeling like 50 miles of bad road today, but the work must get done. No sense in complaining. As my Dad used to say, "If you want to run with the wolves then don't whine like a puppy" !
Have a great 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."
Good morning. It's 77° with 88% humidity. It already feels like 86°. The high will be 96° and it will likely feel like 109°. with a Got bill paying and grocery shopping to do today. Most of the bills will be paid online but there's always those that refuse to leave the stone age and join the rest of us in the 21st century. No other plans for today but I'm sure something will come up.
August 1, 2013 – Today would have been my Dad’s 100th birthday. He didn’t get close. He was a heavy smoker by today’s standards, and passed on at 56. I never really got to know him as one man to another, only as a son to his father. That’s a loss to me.
So, Dad, here’s to you. I’m 66 myself now, and so far, so good. I got married at a late age, like you, and had one great child. Penny and I named her Annie, after your Mom. I figured that since you were the last of 12, we owed her that much, at least. Annie was the first and only Leslie child born in her generation, the first since your own daughter. For all of your Mom’s offspring, the next generation shrunk dramatically. You would be more than proud of her already, and she’s just begun her career.
No, I never made it to the Moon. Mom thought I would. You might remember that we got there back in the summer of 1969, but after you left us the program never caught on. The last human footprint on the Moon was left in 1972, barely more than 3 years after the first. A lot has changed since then, but I’m not sure that this wasn’t the high point of space exploration for a long time to come.
The nation that you helped defend back in the forties is still here. Enemies have become friends, and friends have become enemies. Wars have been fought, won, and to tell the truth, lost. The oceans that keep us divided from the rest of the world have kept us safe, and my own career has mostly been spent trying to guarantee that safety.
Mom left us almost two decades ago, but, well, you probably know that. She never really recovered from losing you. I don’t suppose any of us ever did.
Happy 100th Dad.