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

[RideOnRoad]

This morning I feel like an everything bagel with veggie cream cheese.

I got back from my whirlwind trip to Saint Louis last night and am getting ready to head up to Salt Lake City this morning for a cousin's wedding reception.  I am the oldest of a pair of oldest parents so many of my cousins are closer in age to my kids than to me.  While we are there we are going to visit Union Station in Ogden.  I will try to post a couple of pictures when I return.

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a couple of them glazed bear claw donuts with blackberry jelly please. Thanks.

Partly sunny, with a high near 58.

Brenda’s appointment went very well thank you for asking . Great in fact. Her heart looks great, valves working fine and they say it is functioning (left side ?) in the 45-50% range. The max is 50-55% and she admitted she may be on the border of 50% range soooo…heart damage was negligible. It may come back over time, but then again, it may have been in that range prior to the heart attack. Either way, they are very happy with the results. Blood tests next week and we’ll see how she’s reacting to the meds.

Today, I’ll do more laundry and then w**k at 5. Tonight , til 1 am.  

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Good morning. Coffee and a donut please. 

It's football season, and I just posted pictures of some football specials in WPF. Does anyone else operate football specials? 

CN Charlie.  .... You're First ROF Day is arriving soon! .... Are you having an big celebrations?  .... Regarding having both N scale and HO scale, i was building a layout many years ago with both. It was mostly HO, but the N scale was in the background to force perspective. The layout was a long way from completing when it was torn down to move to another location. That layout never was put together again. 

Mr. B .... Sounds like you amy eventually be a ROF, too. 

Curt .... I knopw you have been busy. I'm glad you will be having model railroad time again. You reminded us you have skunks for pets instead of cats or dogs.

Jeff ..... You're photo of the KCS locomotive is a good one for people to study before weathering. In particular, the grimy color below the walkways is relatively uniform across the truck side frames, the fuel tank, and the steps. 

Also, Jeff.... You are so creative. Perhaps you can work in a little influence from Curt for your game. ..... Let's see. ...... "You are standing and looking at a pink house. Watch out for the skunk entering the scene. Yikes! The skunk just sprayed your 1971 Gremlin! " .... Oh never mind.

V8 Dennis .... Sounds like a slow news day for the LA Times. By the way, did I hear they are losing subscribers? I can see how they could.

Ulrich .... Thanks for sharing the video .Looks like a good one. 

Speaking of pets. Sassy, the all white female cat, just walked across the keyboard and laid down next to me. 

I plan to continue construction of my layout extension today. 

By happy, everybody. 

[MisterBeasley]

Good morning, and happy Friday to those of us for whom the day of the week still makes a difference.

CN Charlie, I really like the Jetta.  The thing I've really noticed is how stable it is driving at highway speed.  The old Saturn's suspension was really worn out, and it just felt very unsafe.  Braking with the Jetta is smooth and even.

Jeffrey, what you're doing reminds me of the old Adventure game.  A friend got me a copy of the original FORTRAN source code for a PDP-11.  Since our PDP-11 was not generally available, I ported it over to a Hewlett-Packard HP-1000 system, which had time available.  I spent a lot more time modifying the code to run on a different system than I ever did playing the game, but then again, I spend more time doing scenery on my layout than I do running trains, so it should be no surprise.

You are in a maze of twistly little passages, all alike....

Hmmmm.....

You are at the top of the page

Get credit card.

OK

[LSWrr]

Don't forget "Legend of the Red Dragon"

[Anonymous]

Good Morning Folks!

The past few days have been stormy ones - not only outside, but also for me. The most important issue was that I stepped down from my office as state party chairman, which initiated a landslide movement following down my path. I did not know I had that many supporters from inside!

I am slowly getting my mind back onto model railroading - good. The little critter has got its first coat of light blue for the body and fire red for the chassis. It looks to clean for my taste, but I will give it a good rust job before it hits the tracks. There are a few minor things I need to get to complete it, like front and rear lamps, glazing, but that´s not a big issue. The next weekends will see the final assembly - all I have to do is to install the gear box/motor assembly, the wheels and the rods. Quartering the wheels will be tricky, though.

I am going to put in my order of 2mm plywood to day, along with the my order of the DAS modeling clay.

This little video shows the way I will build my structures:

watch?feature=playerdetailpage&v=AsQbZbAz1W4

Engraving all that brick detail will be some job - and a little dusty as well!

Thoughts and prayers to all in need!

[galaxy]

morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!

Today is Friday, October 18th, 2013!!!

Make it a GREAT day.

Today's Fun limmericks:

Some people say that a limerick
Is some kind of anonymous gimmerick
A Lear or a Nash
May own up to this trash
But never a Wordsworth or Himmerick

There was a young dentist who thrilled
To the sound of a tooth being filled;

He would practise, they said
Every night in his shed ..

With the old Black & Decker ™ he's skilled.

Today's weird words:

Moirologist - Someone who has been hired to mourn at a funeral

Sandapile - Coffin-Roman {for a poor slave} 

gnast: a dead or dying spark, as of a candle snuffed out

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I've been working on part two of Native Fury. So far I programmed most of a generalization of my parents home (house, yard, outbuildings) more or less as it existed in 1972. I did change some things. Things such as the direction the house faces, locations of some rooms, etc. I also put one of the artifacts the character is seeking in the house. I'm not saying what it is or where it is or how many have to be found. I'm having a lot of fun with this. Since I'm forced to be an armchair model railroader it's a fun way to pass the time until I can get more projects to work on.

Well it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

Forest is the file name for part one of Native Fury. Note the size in relation to the disk space remaining.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

howmus

Whoa!  I seem to be standing in somebodies front yard.  There is pink house here....  Pink???   Hmmm.  Jeffrey, what is going on?  How did my post get in the middle of your game on an Apple IIe?  I dunno?

That's what happens when you go mucking about with time and space. The year is 1972. Imagine the characters thoughts when he finds a 66 Chrysler Newport and a 71 AMC Gremlin in the garage. Now about the pink house, it's not really pink but the color variations of the bricks (ranging from beige to red ocher) make it appear so.

[howmus]

Evenin' everyone!

Janie, just a decaf please...

Whoa!  I seem to be standing in somebodies front yard.  There is pink house here....  Pink???   Hmmm.  Jeffrey, what is going on?  How did my post get in the middle of your game on an Apple IIe?  I dunno?

Was supposed to drive to Rochester for the monthly R&GV RR Museum meeting, but decided to go to the committee meeting for the Handicapped troop I commiss with...  I also don't like driving on really dark nights with the deer rut in progress at sundown anymore.  It also gave me enough time to mix and pour the hydrocal for the last wall needed for the Blacksmith's Shop.  Last one if I don't mess something up and have to start over that is.

I have decided that both of my sisters kitties are sweethearts.  The outside one is there almost every day when I arrive now.  Comes right over to me.  I usually feed Claude the indoor cat first.  Clim will be sitting on the table on the porch looking in the window and meowing...  I'll try to get a photo of him before my sister gets home if I can.  Still very skittish about anything unusual. 

Monday will be assemble the booklets day here.  I need to do some major house cleaning before the ladies arrive... 

Curt, good to see you back in the diner!  A show of Skunks, huh?  I was going to follow that with an analogy, but I see Vinny looking my way, so I'll be quiet!

Hope everyone has a good night!  Prayers for all in need...

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I got started on part two of Native Fury this afternoon. It starts right in front of what roughly resembles my parents home in 1972. The house is still is still there today but it's much different. Someone who knew how it looked then would have some trouble recognizing it now were it not for the color and the windows in the older part.

I programmed the opening to describe the house then after the character has looked at something else the description changes and just says the house is there and mentions a few other things instead. Well, see for yourself in the photos below.

Opening screen:


standard screen:

 The 'PRESS RETURN' has since been changed to 'WHICH WAY'. The program was in debug mode when I took the photos.

[Curt Webb]

Evening all,

Flo I would just like a cup of coffee please.

Nothing much happening this way. Went grocery shopping and cleaned the track on my layout since it was filthy even though I had it covered. I was testing couplers on my lighted passenger cars and the loco and lights would stop-go-stop..well you get the idea.

I see that BLI has delayed the H10 until March. I believe that makes it officially 1 year late from the original due date.

MOH has been out of town all week and comes back Saturday. She is in Tallahassee for work training.

Speaking of Saturday...It is that time of year again...Yes, it is the 25th annual Skunk Show, so that is where I will be Saturday. 

Hope everybody has a great night and prayers for those in need. 

[CNCharlie]

Good Afternoon, It is a balmy 8C here now but it will be no more than 5 on Saturday which is about 40F. Not exactly nice for fall yard cleanup.

Galaxy, sorry to hear of your MIL's passing.  It is a tough time and I am thinking of you.

We have our annual train show here this weekend but I don't think I will go. It usually is a big disappoitment.  A lot of old rolling stock and some new stuff but I generally find that I can do as well shopping on line. Some of the prices are ridiculous especially from the commercial vendors.  Not much I really need in any event.

Mr. B, how do you like your Jetta?  I rented one a year or so ago when on a business trip out Barry's way and was very impressed especially when I had to do a high speed swerve on the freeway to avoid another car. The one I rented had the 5 cylinder motor and it seemed to be very good on gas. Quiet too. It seems like your company is doing something similar to what ours did last spring. Basically if there weren't enough 'volunteers' then they would make the choice so I decided I would rather be in a position to have some say over the terms of departure even though those concessions weren't large. I would have rather stayed longer but I saw the writing on the wall so to speak.

Well not much progress on the RR front. I have swung my attention back to the N scale layout . I had been running some passenger stuff on the HO.  My dream layout would feature a lot of passenger trains but that isn't to be so I content myself with a string of Athearn heavyweights to which I have added interiors, lighting and diaphrams. I don't really find it a problem having two different scales but I have to get my mind into one or the other so I tend to ignore one scale for some time while working on the other. I mainly use the HO for running but now am at the stage where I can do some running on the N scale so I will focus more on that.

Only 2 weeks to go before I become a ROF.  I have basically cleaned out my desk, filing cabinets, etc. It is amazing how many old files you can accumulate 'just in case'.  Some of them had memos that were 20 years old!!  I dealt with a lot of insurance,legal and financial stuff so I often had to retain files for a long time. I'm looking forward to doing a clean out at home but first I will need to get permission from a higher authority, namely my wife.

See you soon,

CN Charlie

 

[MisterBeasley]

Galaxy, I think you're getting good advice.  My own Mom waited a few years to move after my Dad passed away, but she was happier once she left the old house and moved into a retirement community.  There's no reason that "wait a year" can't be simply "wait a while."

My own in-laws are stubbornly holding on to living independently, even though Papa can barely make it down the steps (no elevator) and Nana has to be carried whenever she needs to leave the place.  At 96 and 92 years of age, who can tell them they're doing something wrong?  After all, making the decisions they have is what got them to where they are.

We had a strange meeting at work today.  Our deparment manager read this odd announcement that said something like, "While we are not soliciting applicants for voluntary layoffs at this time, if you would like to be considered, these are the people you should contact."  It would appear that our staffing levels are higher than our work levels are projected to be, so we may have to reduce staff.  But, the whole thing was just so, well, surreal.  No numbers.  And, we were told that the "package" for volunteering would be the same as for any other layoff.  Since I'm close to retirement, this could be something I'd be interested in, but I'm not quite ready yet.  If it happened 6 months from now, maybe, and a year from now for sure, but not today, thanks.

[galaxy]

Heartland Division CB&Q

Galaxy ... That is good advice for your FIL. If you don't mind, I'll say some words of caution to you and anyone with elderly parents living alone. There are scoundrels who prey on elderly people, and  they are highly skilled at talking the elderly out of money. These people get away with it, because the elderly agree to give away their money. There is no law against giving away money.... I'm talking from experience because this did happen with my mother. She lived alone before we moved her into a senior living apartment with security. She was talked out of a substantial amount of money. My sisters and I filed a police report, and we provided a lot of of evidence, but they could do nothing to recover the money and to prosecute the person. After that we got a power of attorney and got my mother to agree to have us handle all of her finances. This was a very difficult time for us. 

Well, Garry, Thanks for the imput. MOH technically HAS POA for FIL already, in case FIL becomes incapacitated. FIL already turned the papers over now to us a few years ago for that. MOH is NOT good with money and so I handle all our {meager} finances.  FIL and My Father also know NOT to fall the "grandchild scams" as neither have any grandchildren, Though my only sibling sometimes claims to have a natural child he never told us about...but we {my father and I don't believe it}. SO unless FIL goes senile, in which case we will handle everything, FIL won't fall for that. Hopefully, since MOH is not good with finances, I will handle FIL's as well with MOH's approval.

Not much worth wanting, that is what MOH likes. Just some few items of childhood rememberance and some furniture. 

I think FIL will jump the gun a little quicker than a year...but not right now. I think he will want to change environs sooner than later. The house really IS inconvenient, hence why MOH and I don't want it. It would be great for a young growing family. but we all are not that..LOL.

My father still has done nothing with my mothers stuff, and she passed a decade ago. He says "you can deal with it when I am gone" Oh goody,. There will be at least 2 rolloffs there then! My brother is far far away, so It will be up to me to do all in our case.

Well, we now need to get our affairs in order, MOH and I. We've had 2 parental passings in the last decade to wake us up. SO we are not caught with out the proverbial paddle.

Dunno we will see what we see when we see it.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well I finished with the park and lake front and the tie-ins with the motel and the dunes. I added a back door and a porch to the motel lobby so the character can enter/exit there. I also made it possible to enter one of the rooms on the back side of the motel via a window. But beware, in the room there could be a nasty surprise! Some little touches in the park are a nasty little troll and an overly friendly pigeon. If he character looks in the right place he'll find a note with a clue to the artifacts location. It ain't in part one. To wrap it up I programmed in the variable handling subroutine that'll record all the item variables into a text file that can be read by a read subroutine at the beginning of part two. That's the end of the trail for part one. I'll get started on part two after I work out a tentative flow chart for it. The final size of forest (file name for part one) is seventy-seven diskette sectors. At that size it takes about twenty seconds for the file to load.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Lunch Time .... I'll have a Ruben sandwich with a Coke, please..

Galaxy ... That is good advice for your FIL. If you don't mind, I'll say some words of caution to you and anyone with elderly parents living alone. There are scoundrels who prey on elderly people, and  they are highly skilled at talking the elderly out of money. These people get away with it, because the elderly agree to give away their money. There is no law against giving away money.... I'm talking from experience because this did happen with my mother. She lived alone before we moved her into a senior living apartment with security. She was talked out of a substantial amount of money. My sisters and I filed a police report, and we provided a lot of of evidence, but they could do nothing to recover the money and to prosecute the person. After that we got a power of attorney and got my mother to agree to have us handle all of her finances. This was a very difficult time for us. 

On the model railroading front, it is good to hear about progress being done by some of you. 

Paul is making a furniture factory. Ray is making a black smith shop. JimCG has his Co-op building project. Mr. B has his tannery. I am glad to hear about these projects. 

Here are F-units hauling an ore train. 

[galaxy]

WEll erm

Went and did the grocery shopping. That about wiped out my back.

OH went to see the FIL last night, they had a good talk, reviewed MIL's will {FIL gets everything}, noted to FIL that all prof. finacial advisors, psychiatrists, psychologists, etc recommend one not make any major moves financial or otherwise for a year after a major loss like a death. FIL agreed. FIL has his own ideas of what he wants to do, but we will encourage him to wait. He wants to most liekly sellthe house, is too big and 6 levels of things and stuff in it. A roll off dumpster will help. All those stairs are getting to be  a pain for him, too. We don't want the house at all, so selling is not a bad thing. But we will encourage him to wait that year.Insuarnce policy will cover MIL's funeral. GOOD to know.If we can ever work it into the budget, MOH and I will need to get some on us for that.

Will go see FIL today too.  He seems "lost"

Gased up and Had the minivan washed to look "pretty" for the funeral procession {all of hearse and us} tomorrow. Early day tomorrow. MOH usually drives on longer trips, and when we go in the KIA, but I will probably drive home as MOH will be unstable? Dunno we will see.

Back is killing me as are my hips from my outing. Or is that ouTTing? Dunno. THAT word is too Simple for me! I like complicated outdated funny words!

well, I have some laundry to finish and some dishes to do.

Have a GREAT day!

LATER EDIT: I got tippy- TOP! Eat up fellas, put on my tab, Daisy! DOn't forget a tip for yourself! A $100 tip should be fine?

[pascaff*]

 Morning All,

   Currently it is 33 with an expected high of 67 under sunny skies.

   Back to w**k today for me. But I did get a lot accomplished yesterday. I finished the Hardwood Furniture kit, but with so many windows I will have to do some kind of interior detailing, measured twice and moved a spur track to put the kit in place. After the track and roadbed were secure I put the building in place, and no matter how hard I tried it did not fit. So I had to put it someplace else. I think it will w**k where it is now. Need to do some operating sessions to really see.

   Todd - Great job on being smoke free. Hope Brenda's doc appointment went well.

   Prayers to all in need.

    Paul

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 61° with 100% humidity. The high will be 75
in the morning becoming in the afternoon.

So far the only plan today is to get the park programmed into Native Fury then set up the subroutine that will record the variables set during the game (items picked up, etc) so they can be read by the next segment of the game.

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a breakfast roll please. Thank you.

3 ½ weeks and still smoke free!!

Scattered showers, mainly before 10am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 63.

Friend of mine who just bought the house is having a furnace installed and removing the boiler. Called yesterday to see if I could come over to cut the floor vents out for him and of course I said sure. He has wood floors and his wife would stand over me , well, not “stand over” me, she’s like 4’10” soooo….., more like hang around the room I was in with the vacuum cleaner in tow and as soon as I was done, she’d ask if I was done. When I said yes, she’d fire up the vacuum cleaner and suck up all the sawdust. Then, I found out I cut all the holes 1/4” too small (don't know what I was thinking. Murphy musta come with me) so had to go back and make mess again. This time she waited until I was done with all. Not sure how happy she was about that, But she said it was ok she just wanted heat. I apologized again anyway, because I am not familiar with just how long it takes a Vietnamese woman to go from happy to launching whatever is closest to her directly at your head, and begged my leave.

Just kinda piddle with laundry today er this morning anyway and have last  nights supper dishes to attend to because I ate so much I just didn't feel like washing them up. Don't tell anyone though. I have to take Brenda to her checkup at the heart doctors today. She is doing well, real well, and her echogram (?) they said looked real good. So our fingers crossed that the doctor says the same and all is as good as it seems. THEN, we probably stop off and eat at the Chinese buffet on our way back. I drop her off at wo*k and I take a nap. That’s the plan anyway, then wo*k at 5.

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

LSWrr

West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

Ah yes. Looks like Zork I. I played that one back in the very early 80's.

[LSWrr]

West of House

 

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

 

There is a small mailbox here.

Your post brings back some not so old memories, then again if I was a computer they would be the bronze age tales, lol

[galaxy]

morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Thursday, October 17th, 2013!!!

{My fancy cheap watch tells me "Thurs", and"17", so It Must Be So}

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

Today's fun limericks:

I really liked you're delightful page
which brought memories back to this sage
For I once was in Crewe
with nothing to do
except watch trains as to Scotland they flew
{in anno domini of MCMLII!!}

As 007 walked by
He heard a wee spider say, "Hi."

Suddenly shaken, he shot
It right there on the spot

As it tried to explain, "I'm a spi ..."

Weird words:

phantasmagoria-{ Theater} a crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes

caitiff-(n.) a A despicable coward; a wretch; a base, weak,despicable person

Mournival - A term used to represent a set of 4 kings, queens, jacks or aces in one card
                hand.  Or, it means any set of four things or people.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Had a busy day today. Programmed thirteen or fourteen blocks into Native Fury. That was the motel by itself, not including the tie-ins with the forest and dunes modules. Tomorrow I'll be programming the park behind the motel. That's another nine to eleven blocks. Almost a full day counting breaks and I'm taking my time on this. When I wrote 'Hell House' back in 97-98 I was programming almost thirty blocks a day. After ten hours of that kind of fast typing your eyes feel like biscuits that were left in the oven too long and there's so much code running through your head your dreams even come up looking like Fortran, C and C++. In my younger days I could almost speak assembly language. Taking apart a program and rearranging it with a sector editor or a nibbler was child's play. Now it's difficult because I haven't done it much since 1990. It's true what they say about use it or lose it. What I'm doing with Native Fury is nothing. I'm playing with it. An eight year old could do it if you gave him/her the proper instruction in the use of Basic code, C++ and VBasic. Kids used to learn this stuff in the third grade. I gave both my nieces and my nephew their first two semesters of computer instruction. Didn't take with my nephew. He's a gear head. Give him a computer and he's lost. But give him a car or truck engine and he can tear it down and rebuild it in his sleep, under water and blindfolded. My two nieces, they're a different story. The one that lives here, she's always having to show her husband how to program the phones and troubleshoot problems on any of their computers. The niece in Virginia already has her six year old son checked out on Visual Basic and he can already do more things with Windows than I thought was possible. I'd love to see that kids IQ score. I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher than mine.

Well enough with the program talk and techno babble. It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well I finally finished programming in the motel. What a workout! I am wiped. What happened to the days when programming was a lot easier? Oh yeah. I could see better then. Well after today's programming marathon I pulled up another program I wrote many years ago called 'Hell House'. It's about a character who's searching for a particularly valuable bond and he has to go through many perils to do it. It's so complex with so many things that have to be collected and so many perils to dodge that it's nearly unwinnable. I've only won it twice and I wrote the thing. Despite it's complexity it was written in very simple code, similar to what I'm using for Native Fury.

Here's a couple of sample shots of parts of the program listing. It was written to run in 80-columns but I'm showing it listed in 40-columns so it's easier to see. The program is so large it's stored on the diskette in seven segments, the largest being seventy diskette sectors. It was written on an AMI-ONE, a 48k Apple II+ clone.

This first one is from the segment concerning a Civil War era silver mine.



This second one is part of the listing from the ancient manor house.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Been busy on the other computer with Native Fury. I have more than half of the motel done. Still have to program in the rooms on the south side of the hall. I also worked a train into the mix. There's an old HO 4x8 layout in one corner of the motel lobby. It doesn't work though. Part of the track is torn up and the locos wouldn't run anyway. Their rubber bands are all rotted away. Mention is made of the layout again when a room is being searched. The character finds a picture of the layout when it was working and the motel owner is at the controls. Mention is also made of the possible object of interest of the game. Indian artifacts can be seen hanging on one of the walls, most notably a ceremonial headdress. Once I finish the motel only the park is left and that's going to be a headache in and of itself. The game now takes up fifty-seven sectors of diskette space. I'm also keeping a duplicate file on a diskette in drive two.

No model railroad action here as I have no active projects to work on. I have to wait until I can get parts for them.

[MisterBeasley]

Good afternoon, all.  I've got a cold, so I took the day off.  We have "Paid Time Off" at work, which covers sick time and vacation.  I took Monday off, and felt well enough to go in Tuesday.  The cold is a double-whammy one, though, and by later in the day it was back with a vengeance.  So, another day off.  If I'd had standard "sick time," I would have just taken 3 days off.  Hope I didn't give it to anyone work.

I bought a new car about a month ago, and traded in the old one.  I couldn't find the title.  Maybe I never had it, or maybe it came to me in an unrecognized envelope and got discarded, but anyway I had to apply for a duplicate.  Since I originally financed the car, I needed a certificate from the lien holder, which I got, and mailed in the form with the fee.  The check came back, but no title, so I called the Registry.  They had sent the title to the finance company instead of to me.  I specifically asked them if I'd checked the wrong box on the form or something, but no, I did everything right.  So, now they're going to send another one.

Still working on my tannery.  I'm starting to detail the buildings now.  I got the boiler house done, but now I've got to wing it a bit more, having no real knowledge of tannery  operations.

[yougottawanta]

Whoa Paul

That is pretty scary stuff. The meds that are supposed to help just about take you out ! Geez !! Careful there.

Another crazy day at w**k. We have another "mansion" settling this week and on the last inspection the county LOST the paperwork ! If you think that bad you should have seen all of the drama yesterday surrounding a retaining wall inspection, engineers , wall builder, building inspector, zoning , login, etc...my head is still spinning. Feels like I was run over by the "Big boy" followed by a couple of F units. Phew glad that excitement is over !

Jeff - Well you may have not painted that bus but you do some really neat stuff and I would have believed you could have painted that. Your Halloween car made me LOL !! Loved it. What a hoot.

Galaxy - Amen on picking battles. Some are just not worth fighting.

Jeremy - shhhhh its w**k. Was that Vinnie starting to rumble over in the corner ?

Richard - now that is funny "per diem funding your MRR addiction" it is an EXPENSIVE addiction is it not ?

Gotta get back to w**k

TTYL.

YGW

[pascaff*]

 Morning All,

   Currently it is 32 with an expected high of 68 under sunny skies.

   Day off today, so I already have one load of laundry going and will start another as soon as I am done with this. Need to do a little grocery shopping, then model railroad w**k

   Had yesterday off too, but spent it in the ER, with what was diagnosed as Angioedeme, it means I had an allergic reaction to my blood pressure meds that I have been taking for the past 10 years. My face got all swollen in different areas. Doc said I was lucky, some people have their tongue and throat swell up so bad they can not breathe. He said throw out the Enalapril and he gave me another med. I need to call my cardiologist today and get a new prescription. I am now allergic to any ACE / ARB inhibitors. So once I get my new prescription, I need to get a new medic alert bracelet.

  Prayers to all in need.

   Paul