Good Morning!!!
Coffee and ……whatever Swedish people have for breakfast please. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45.
Ulrich- Working knowledge of the language of the country you’re living/working in huh? Now there’s an interesting concept. In the U.S., we have to learn the languages of those coming over here because we don’t want to offend them and risk a substantial fine or possibly imprisonment.
Ended up having to wait on tables last night and meet with a couple deliverers during the day. Stock the beer coolers etc. My friend was sick and his daughter couldn’t do it (wait on tables) so instead of helping her like I usually do, I powered through it by myself. I prefer it the other way but hey, whatcha gonna do.
Today, I must get to the Walmart for some coffee, bread and a few odds and ends along with a buffet dinner for one, tended to by a quiet girl with an accent who smiles a lot and calls me sir.
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 All,
Currently it is 36 with an expected high of 76 under sunny skies.
I thought I had a stress test a few years ago, turns out it was toward the end of 2004, I had my double by-pass in Jan of 2004. Sheesh time does fly. Stress seems to be the issue for me at the moment. As my late wife Bobbi would always say, "You can't help how you feel." and I believe she was correct. I think part of the stress is that I no longer have her council,which I depended on for the 42 years we were married. Another thing is that, anyone who knows me well, knows that I am pretty much a loner, and am not all that thrilled with most people (patrons of the dinner are not in that category, you folks I like). So working retail is not the ideal job for someone like me. Too many people that just set my nerves on edge. Retirement is the cure.
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 morning. It's 57° with 89% humidity. The high will be 82° and feel like 85°.Nailed another of Mickey's relatives under the kitchen cabinet this morning in one of the ever dependable cheese baited snap traps. The glue traps are clean.Today I'll most likely be ironing out some bugs in part two of Native Fury. I'm thinking about what I'm going to do in part three. The character has so far found some of the pieces of the Indian artifact he's looking for but there are still some others that have to be located included the prized ceremonial headdress.Been having a recurring problem with this computer the last couple of weeks. On startup it's developing a habit of reverting to it's defaulte CMOS values. It's the same thing every time so I'm pretty certain I need to replace the CMOS battery. It's only been in there for over ten years.
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
Mornin'!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of organic granola, yes, the Pumkin seed Flax stuff would be good, and lots of dark roast coffee in my FGLK Mug for the moment.
Paul, retirement is great! At least it was for me. Took away a lot of stress of teaching the "Sweathog" class of middle schoolers every day, going from school to school to school, dealing with idiot administrators and even more idiot parents! I didn't stay idle for long though!
Ulrich, it's good to have you back, and have you sound like your old self! I'm rather glad for you that you didn't get elected, just for your health and well being!
Jeffrey, so far I have 3 snap traps set here and on mousie wousies in them... hope it stays that way. Think I found and plugged the place they were getting in.
Had my trip to the ENT doc yesterday. I have Moderate Sleep Apnea! Like I didn't already know that.... He says I woke up every 15 minutes while I was taking the sleep test. He looked down my throat and said, "I see you still have your tonsils!" Yep, only one in my family who avoided the butcher.... My sister (the one who goes to the very far) almost died on the table when they took hers out. She ended up having to have two tonsillectomies. Anyway, I have an appointment for next Tuesday with the Medical Equipment place just a block away from where I live to get set up with a CPAP type thingie for a "Home Titration Study". "Oh Joy, Oh Rapture."
Got my sister home from her trip last night. She hadn't slept in 48 hours.... Amazingly she was in a good but as always talkative mood. Actually had a great trip except for the cancellation of her flight from Frankfort to Astana (that's in Bezerkistan I think...) which got cancelled after they sat on the plane for several hours. That was on her way to the the area so she had 4 hours of sleep before she had to get on the plane to reach her destination and leave with the group. She brought me a shirt (which I will tell you about later) and a bar of very fine chocolate from her trip. On the way home I told her I had done some cat research and think her cat Claude has some... She stopped me mid sentence and said, Yes, I know, he likely is a hybrid Scottish Wild Cat!. I asked how she knew that, and it seems before she left for the trip she had seen the same article on line I did and started to look up info. She too did an OMG that's Claude when she say photos and descriptions about the Scottish Wild Cat. He was glad to have her home I think.
Will be sitting for my Granddaughters this afternoon, so I have to clean out my car so #2 can have a car seat in the back. I leave the back seats down most of the time so I can haul stuff in the PiP.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning/Afternoon
Another cool one here in Winterpeg. Sure wish Dennis would stop sending his weather here. I would much rather have some of Jeff's or Garry's.
Dennis, The loco I'm thinking of selling is a Life-like Proto 2000, MLW/Alco S3 in CP maroon and grey livery with the script lettering. It really is a nice unit but as I noted I"m 'purifying' my roster to only CN so out it goes along with a TLT CP caboose or van if I'm being correct about names. I suppose I"m beyond the 'thinking of' stage as I got the the boxes out for them last night. Besides the BLI NW2 has sound and I do like sound in my locos.
Another very boring day here at my desk but I must admit it seems strange that this will be my last 'week-end' coming up.
Paul, ask me in a couple of weeks about retirement. Although I have a very light work load now, I don't think I'll miss the stress of dealing with other staff here. I'm in charge of the credit department and there is always some conflict not only with customers but also with the sales staff. In credit you are largely dealing with negative situations. In the past I've actually had to put some businesses into bankruptcy and believe me it isn't much fun introducing some store owner to the Reciever of his business. I'm ready to go.
Hope everyone's day is a good one.
CN Charlie
howmusJeffrey, so far I have 3 snap traps set here and on mousie wousies in them... hope it stays that way. Think I found and plugged the place they were getting in.
DOG DOOR!
I use Victor mouse traps, the spring-loaded kind. I bait them with peanut butter. If I find one that's been sprung, but there's no mouse, well, I'll set it again. The mouse got lucky, but his luck will run out. If I find one that has not been sprung but the peanut butter is gone? That means I've got ants, not mice.
I hate the glue traps. SWMBO has a Terminix guy come in every year, basically to spray for termites, but part of the "service" is to put glue traps around inside. Of course, I don't know where they are, so I have to wait until I detect the odor of decaying mouse, and then follow my nose to the trap.
Even worse are the poisons. In theory, the mouse goes off and dies, supposedly of something that causes the body to dry up, but in my experience it doesn't work that way. This time, the odor of decaying mouse is there, but the corpse is somewhere in the walls where I can't get at it, and the only thing to do is open windows and wait a week or so for the smell to stop. Why anyone would use these things is beyond me.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Well
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went to the Dr. nothing serious it turns out. GOod.
FILs 'puter in the shop so he came over to type a letter. naturally, MOH and FIL got into a fight-they are just alike so they each think the other is out to get them...Unfortunately FIL has MOH so trained that any word comes out of FILs mouth is a fighting word to MOH, so MOH told him to leave. The fight? over going to the cemetary to visit MILs grave! FIL is adamant on going on Sunday, and MOH doesn't know yet if that day is a day off or not. MOH wants to go too. FIL says will go alone if MOh can't go, MOH doesnt' like that idea...FIl is getting on in age, you get the picture. MOH is resitant to FIL and FIL is resistant to MOH. They fight instead. I am trying to change it,and often I have to take FILs side as MOH is too quick to jump to nasty behavior {fight back}. But FIL also doesn't learn to let things go when he should either.If MIL couldn't change them, why can I? Even in death she can't change them. Now if the two of them could only get along...
Oh well
Did usual chores and have roast {on sale the only kind i buy} in the oven. CHilly here...43F for a high thus far. Is only 66F in here, but we keep the heat low to save money. SOme of you would freeze visiting us with a temp of only 64F registering on the thermostat. The oven will warm it up in here.
Mr B. we had a cat chase a mouse and only injure it.. It crawled into a corner in a box we couldn't figure out where, just the gosh-awfull smell told us that the mouse was dying/dead. Finally MOH tore apart stuff to find THE box it was in...{I could not as it made me vomit constantly anytime I got near the room it was in} . SO no 'eat and die off " stuff for us either...they NEVER leave to die!
well, I'd better get a nap before the roast is done. Tired.
later have a good evening and a good dinner..we will!
-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.
I've got the bugs in part two pretty much ironed out. The map below is the basic layout of the game field. Yellow areas are the road. Green areas are yards/forest/etc. The blue areas are the first rooms of structures. The numbers are the starting line numbers of each area shown. This is nowhere near all the map. Only about one-sixth as most of the rooms of the structures and additional parts of the yards and such aren't shown. It's just to give you an understanding of how the area is laid out.
One of the things I worked on today. An old Apple disk drive. Yes, it's solid black. I'm getting it to run fairly well but can't get it to track as tightly as it needs to. I need to get the read/write speed set. I have no diag software so it goes on the back burner for now.
CNCharlieAnother cool one here in Winterpeg. Sure wish Dennis would stop sending his weather here. I would much rather have some of Jeff's or Garry's.
Hey now CN Charlie, it's +18C here this afternoon. Be nice or I won't share
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
It's 75 here now, due to be 50 tonight.
I didn't get much more accomplished today than I've already posted so I won't bore you by posting it again. I did however make one slight change to part two of Native Fury. The character can now find a hole in the fence around Mr Addams' garden and get in. Trouble is once he's in there he has to get away from a very determined triffid. What, you ask is a triffid? It's a tall, mobile, carnivorous and highly venomous plant that's fully capable of hunting down any animal or person it detects. Don't worry. It's fictitious as well. It exists in a few novels, some TV series and a couple of movies that I know of and now it exists in a private game written in a nearly dead computer language on a computer that's more than half my age and I ain't exactly a spring chicken. Well enough humor for one day.It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a hot cup of decaf please. I'll be in the back by the wood stove keeping warm.
High today was all of 49°F and it is currently 38°F with light rain outside. Low will be around 35° with a possibility of some white stuff coming down along with it. Won't stick around long, but it is getting to be THAT time of year again. There was frost on the neighbors roofs this morning when I got up... I spent part of the morning gleaning things from the garden, mostly peppers. I saw there is one small zucchini out there. I will bring it in tomorrow.
Watched #2 Granddaughter for a couple hours this afternoon. Also got a call from the Medical equipment place that they have my CPAP Equipment for me. I will get fitted and learn how to use the stuff next Tuesday The first 6 weeks will be a study to see if it works for me and what settings will be the best... Went over to the Halloween Party for the Pack and Troop tonight and found that two leaders there (one who is a longstanding friend in Scouting) use CPAPs as well.
Hope you all have a good night. Prayers for all in need!
RAY says:
Also got a call from the Medical equipment place that they have my CPAP Equipment for me. I will get fitted and learn how to use the stuff next Tuesday The first 6 weeks will be a study to see if it works for me and what settings will be the best... Went over to the Halloween Party for the Pack and Troop tonight and found that two leaders there (one who is a longstanding friend in Scouting) use CPAPs as well.
RAY- I have used a CPAP for years. Its fairly simple to use. I feel I get a Better QUALITY of sleep, but not necesssarilly feel better RESTED {than I did before, strangely enough}, though I am sure its true too.. I Have an O2 feed to mine as we discoverd through additional testing that my Pulse Ox drops to 78 at night whilest I sleep.We found witht the testing that I actaully do NOT breathe for aobut 40 mins out of an hour's "sleep".
I also don't snore anymore and when the time comes we are out of power, I can tell my sleep is interrupted by my own snoring-asuming I get some sleep!
I call the two machines together my "respirator".
So good luck with all that...you should feel a better quality of sleep.
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, October 25th, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GOOD DAY!!!
Today's Fun Medicine claims:
Mother! Children love this laxative!
Next time your youngster needs a laxative, give him Ex-lax...and watch the big smile you get! It doesn't taste like medicine at all, It tastes like a piece of Chocolate. Millions of mothers trust Ex-lax, They know from experience that Ex-Lax is gentle and effective for children.
It won't upset your youngster's sensitve little sytem. Not to strong, not too mild, Ex-lax is the "Happy Medium" Laxative!
So when you or your child need relief, take dependable and pleasant tasting Ex-lax. Many Doctors use it in their practice. Still Only 10 Cents, Economy package just 25 Cents. And there is no bettter laxative at any price.
When Nature "forgets"..Remember EX-LAX , the chocolated laxative.
Today's Weird words:
ingle: (n.) \ˈiŋ-gəl, ˈiŋ-əl\: a fire burning in a fireplace, or the hearth itself, or corner, angle. Etymology: Scottish Gaelic aingeal. First known usage 1508.
labefactation: {labefaction}(n.): a deterioration; The process of coming apart; a weakening decay; overthrow
Chadband - A person who is unctuous and hypocritical
Unctuous: (adj.)\ˈəŋ(k)-chÉ™-wÉ™s, -chÉ™s, -shwÉ™s\: —used to describe someone who speaks and behaves in a way that is meant to seem friendly and polite but that is unpleasant because it is obviously not sincere; smooth and greasy in texture or appearance;
Hi
Does anybody actually READ the tibits now? I include the medicine claims now as many are outdated and legal when some substances were legal back then, SOme medicines may just be a lot of Hooey like "swamp root".
Does anybody actually pay attention and try to use the "weird words"? They ARE real words, we either have no use for them today or they have become outdated like the buggy whip.
Let me know how you view them! If you want to see something in particular, word or phrase, or other "fun thing" lemme know what you'd like to see for future segments!
Good morning. It's 50° with 81% humidity. The high will be 70°. Sunny with some clouds.No plans for today. I have someone coming to pick up a copy of parts one and two of Native Fury. He'll beta test it on an Apple IIc for debugging and will recommend changes. Meanwhile I'll be going through another copy seeing what I can find.
Good Morning all!
Flo my dear, A lumberjack special for breakfast today....and intravenous coffee too!
Oh, it's been a nutty week, and the end will probably be nuttier! The job fair yesterday was a bust. Lots of jobs working in senior assisted living places, or in child care. Not so much for a greasemonkey supervisor of sorts. Of the 2 dealerships that were supposed to be there,, 1 was a no show, and the other I worked for before and left because they pay employees on a 1960's pay scale.
Went to the local auction house last night. Got some more trains to resell, but I think I'm keeping this. $5.00 bid won it!
Kinda looks like an Oscar Meyer product!
Jeffrey, is this game you are working on going to be PC compatible too??
Galaxy, The Ex-Lax thing reminds me of a stunt a buddy of mine pulled in high school. There was a teacher/basketball coach who was a real jerk at times. And he used to drink coffee from a beer stein. Coffee with a chocolate creamer. Well this buddy of mine slipped some chocolate Ex-Lax into his coffee. Poor teacher almost beat a path in the carpeting running back and forth to the bathroom that day! I found out about it from my history teacher in the next room, who he kept asking to cover for him while he ran to the bathroom!
Ray I feel you pain. I had to do the sleep study thing years ago. My doctor told me I had 2 options. Go with a CPAP machine, or lose some weight, or both. I dropped 80 pounds over the next 6 months, have kept it off, and now only snore if I have a head cold or forget my allergy meds. (allergic to cats, have 2 in the house,,,,duh!) I sleep well with no machine.
Garry, Never heard of a Gramps tanker being full of Geritol. Make me shudder to think what could be in my Hooker tank car?
Well, gotta finish packing up, I'll be spending time at the GMTS show in Timonium this weekend. Got a few boxes of stuff to sell, and stuff to search out and buy.
Easy come, easy go I guess
Karl
NCE über alles!
kbkchoochJeffrey, is this game you are working on going to be PC compatible too??
kbkchooch Garry, Never heard of a Gramps tanker being full of Geritol. Make me shudder to think what could be in my Hooker tank car?
Tanks, but no tanks.
Karl .... The show me thread is looking for a unique loco, and I bet you have one to share.
Coffee to go. I'm leaving to drive over to Murray this morning. See you later.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Coffee and a pulled pork sandwich with BBQ sauce, macaroni salad and a glazed donut please. Thank you.
Widespread frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 52.
Paul- I know what you mean about working with/for the general public. There are many times when I want to just say to them, “take your greater than thee, smarter than thee, you are my servant and the customer is always right even though I have proved to you I am an idiot attitude, and go back to where you came from and find someone else to put up with you. You’re lucky I don’t just knock you out of your chair right now, but that would land me in jail and you know that. Of course, THAT’s why you do it, because you know you can probably get away with it. Otherwise you’d sit there and act like an adult or get drug out behind the woodshed. Or…..is it this is your last place because you’ve run out of people who’ll put up with you. You do NOT spend enough money in here that the cash register will notice you when you’re gone. But I will. I will give you as much respect as you give me.”
Whoa! Where’d THAT come from. I guess I had a little more penned up than I thought. Whew.
Mr B- The poisons have a chemical in them that stops the decay smell. In my experience, and apparently yours as well, d-CON can save some expense and not bother to add that ingredient.
Galaxy- Yup. I read the advertisements and like them. Not so much the old words though. But don’t stop just cause of me, others may enjoy them. Probably because I am trying to learn another language and my brain just doesn’t wanna learn any more words than I already am.
Welp, every day this week seems something small has come up that just ruins the whole day so to speak. Today I expect it to be no different. I’ve paid some bills and for the rest of the day, plan on only getting the screen panel out of the front storm door and replace it with it’s glass panel for the winter. Other than that 5 minute job, wo*k tonight at 5.
Currently it is 35 with an expected high of 71 under sunny skies.
Todd - I kind of like your rant. That is exactly how I feel at times. The other thing is young supervisors, who really have no life experience, think they know how to treat people, when in reality they have no clue.
Need to pick up a prescription before heading in to w**k later. This is the new BP med that I am on. Still have to take my BP twice a day to see if it is going to do the trick.
Really looking forward to the spring when I can actually retire. I know I will have lots of things to keep me busy, model railroading, reloading and shooting, also will have more time to do my gunsmith business, which will help with finances.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and my Seneca Lake Roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug please.
Currently 44°F outside with a high of 48°F later this afternoon. The sun has been peeking through the clouds this morning which doesn't help me a bit as right now my roof is completely shaded by the Maple Tree next door keeping any of the nice sunshine from hitting the solar panels today... Of course in another half hour the shade will move off the roof and into my front yard, and it will start to rain! Need 75 kWh to break 300 kWhs this month. Would be nice to almost break even you know.
Todd, why don't you tell us how you really feel... Love your posts! As I was in bed this morning snuggling with my 22lb. Cat who had his head up against my beard purring away, I was reminded of a large sign my FIL used to have hanging on his porch. "The More I Deal with People, The More I like my Dog!"
Have a 1PM appt. to reset my hearing aids today, then I will go next door and get my allergy shot. After that I shall proceed to the grocery store for supplies. Also need to stop at the Natural Food store and replenish my supply of world class dark roast coffee beans (and get some good chocolate too probably...).
Italian Roast coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
Nothing new to report. The ONLY part of the coming winter I will look forward to is building the new benchwork and working on expanding the (HO) layout. Still have to get my truck fixed so I can pick up the required lumber.
Hope everyone is doing well these days.
Cheers! Rob
Karl - Nice job on the weight loss! Even better that you kept it off. Diet, exercise, or both?
The travel is starting to wear on me. I was in Saint Louis and Salt Lake City last week, Saint Louis this week, and Saint Louis again next week. (I have been seeing red, Cardinal Red, that is.) I am at the airport right now looking forward to being home, only if it is for a couple of days.
Richard
My friend showed up today with his Apple IIc+ and beta tested part two of Native Fury. He found plenty on the copy disk to keep me busy for a bit. He'd come across a syntax error which was usually the lack of an '=' in an 'if-then' statement (IF A$ = "N" THEN GOTO 200) or a forgotten 'PRINT' statement in a line that was supposed to be printed on the screen. He'd tell me what it was and where and I'd correct it in the master file. He also brought with him a diagnostic program disk. We went through and tested each of the drives to see if the speed needed to be adjusted. The speed has to be between 198.0 and 202.0 MS to be in the correct range. Faster or slower speeds means the drive won't write the tracks correctly. Too slow and the tracks will be too short, too fast and they'll be too long and overlap. We found that the black drive I was working on yesterday has a bad board. It looks to be working OK but it's only going through the motions. Send it a command to save a file and the drive would run, you could hear the head moving but nothing was being written. SO I'll be looking for a donor drive to cannibalize. I should be able to find one on Ebay easily enough. Problem with that model drive is it's so heavy it costs a bit to ship.I put a new CMOS battery in this computer today, reset the CMOS and entered all the setup info and it fired right up. The hardest thing was having it ID the hard drive. It checked all the Sata ports and came up empty. I had to redirect it to search the RAID Ide port. I'm using an Ide drive and that's the only place I can connect it.
So here we are at the end of another week. Nice day for this late in Oct but the weather guessers are predicting a bit of sn*w for Sunday. Just a couple of inches but still...
Tomorrow I take MOH and her sister to the airport where they will board their flight to Vegas for 5 days of fun and games. MOH is so excited she can hardly sit still. I'm enjoying watching her anticipation.
Me, I'm staying home and cat sitting which is fine with me. They both wanted me to come with them but I didn't want to be the thorn between two roses.
On the RR front, I finally got my butt in gear again and have about half of the fascia up. It's sooo much fun doing that by yourself but I'll get it done. After that, I don't know what I'll do next but there is no shortage of stuff to do. Just have to wait and see.
That''s about it from this part of the great white north for now.
Cheers all
Haven't been in for a while, so have some catching up.
Its cool here, cold almost ( right now its 5c and raining, a very cold rain ) and calling for rain all weekend. Perfect time to do some railroading. Haven't done much in a while but want to do something tomorrow, even if its just some maintenance things. Anybody else get the Great model railroads 2014. I Just gave it a glance over quick the other day but didn't see any modern day layouts. I'm going to go over it better in a few minutes.
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me right now...
Busy day around here (what else is new...). I took the newsletters to the post office, went to the credit union (my son's birthday is next Monday and he likes green!), stopped at the natural food store for coffee and a few other things, Had my appointment at the hearing center to clean and reprogram the hearing aids, got my allergy shot, and then went grocery shopping. I packed all the equipment and tools I might need out at camp tomorrow (need to take apart the sound system and take the mixer in for repairs). I'll do some cleaning and check out a few more things while I am out there.
Tonight I set up and cut out the last opening needed on a side for the Octagon Blacksmith's Shop. I was going to take a photo of the sides all set out on the table, but didn't get back down with the camera. Will get a couple tomorrow evening and hope to also get the angle (12.5°) filed into each side so they will fit together. Really, really hope i don't mess any of them up doing that! Once that is complete I will stain the sides and start on the windows and doors. Should have more time to w*rk on it the next couple of weeks...
Hope everyone has a great night! Prayers for all in need...