Hi Guy's,
I guess,you could call me a ''lurker'', Just turned,71 this month and I surely can attest,to having,Medical,problem's, fortunately, I have all my limbs, aside from some disability problem's,I got from Vietnam,which are acting up more and more,the older I get, I just try to take one day at a time and thank the power to be for that. People helping other's,is a great way,to share compassion, I was a volunteer worker at the VA Hospital at Hines IL. for a few year's and the Vets there,who had no one,really appreciated any friendship..I try not to complain,but sometimes,it is good to know,that we are not alone.
Cheers, To All,
Frank
galaxyTry THAT with your european backwards denotion of dating things!!!!!}
Awwwwwwh Gee Galaxy, I don't know where you got this mistaken backwards idea from , but far be it from me to shatter your delusion.
Anyhow I hope your good self and the other diners have a Great 13/11/13.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All those that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, November 13th, 2013!!
{Yesterday, here in the USA, it was "11/12/13". Try THAT with your european backwards denotion of dating things!!!!!}
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Today's Fun limmerick:
Rosetta Cody, a well schooled cryptologistWed Stanley Stone, a prominant archaeologist.After she wed, her nameShe changed, and it becameRosetta Stone, as known to cryptologists, archeologists and Egyptologists!
Today's fun words:
passepartout:: (n.)something, such as a master key for a safe conduct or passport at will. Etymology: [French : passer, to pass + partout, everywhere.]
Agowilt :: (obsolete) Sudden fear; unnecessary sickening fear
sitzfleisch:: the ability to endure or persist in some activity. Etymology: [G. "sitting flesh"]
AS used in a sentence:
After a long sitzfliesch, the agowilt filled passenger on the train realized he forgot his passepartout to the train's lavatory!
{ see- I have, of late, proved that sentences using the words are not to hard to manufacture!}
-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.
Lothar,
was VERY surprised to even see you in the diner!
VERY SORRY to hear of your misfortunes!
Although I have yet to have an ampendage removed, I was "blessed" have bad health issues all around and have had some things "ectomy-ed" and should probably have a few more things "ectomy-ed". Could use a whole new lung transplant, but not yet. Maybe a few years from now.These ones are giving me trouble thats becoming more severe as time passes.When you get winded walking 2/10thof a mile on a flat paved surface to the mailbox, or get winded simply putting your clothes on, maybe it is getting serious.
Jeffrey can commiserate directly with you on the loss of a leg. He has already hooked up wiht you I see.
We here in the diner, often share our infirmeries and commiserate with each other! Power of prayer, whether you believe or not, CAN make a difference! We have a tight knit group that seems to work to our advantage.
So, LOTHAR, {And other LURKERS} DON'T be a stranger here!!!
last mountain & eastern hogger ...Ultra Sound Guided Biopsy for me tomorrow.
...Ultra Sound Guided Biopsy for me tomorrow.
JohnBoy ... Praying the doctors will finally solve the problem.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good to hear from you Loathar, It has been a while. I have really missed your little "Huff and Puff"
Hope the mobility issues with you and Jeff get over real quickly and you both get out and about more readily.
Hope you will be a regular here again as we all appreciated your wit and wisdom.
Take care Good buddy,
Johnboy out.......................................Ultra Sound Guided Biopsy for me tomorrow.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evenin' folks...
Janie, just a cup of hot chocolate to warm me up for the moment.
I see all yall Southerners done gots some chillyness goin' on down there.... We done got a bit up here in the North as well. Temps here aren't much worse though. Right now it is 26°F with a low around 23°F on towards morning. Even got a little bit of white stuff on the ground to make everthin look purdy! I have the wood stove cranking to keep the house toasty warm and am about to go snuggle down on the carpet right next to it and get warm before bed.
Had to go visit the vampire lady over at the very big doctors corporation here in town. I do have a bad feeling about my blood sugar. Think it is creeping up where I don't like it to be... I did go celebrate by having the #2 at Water Street Cafe as soon as I lost the blood... Came home and kept over eating all day. Just took my evening read for the sugar and it is 144... Go figure?
Loathar, good to see you back, but sorry to hear of your health issues. Hope everything is now good and will stay that way for you!
Tomorrow evening I have a meeting with the president of the the model train club at RIT and a couple club advisers. MY MNRA Treasurer will be along as well. We will be discussing the 2015 NMRA Region Convention that my Division is hosting to see what might work out the best. Tomorrow the driving weather is supposed to be much better in these parts, so I'm glad it wasn't tonight.....
Time to call it a day I think. Prayers for all in need especially remembering the tragedy unfolding in the Philippines!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Loather .... What a nice surprise to see you back in the Forum! BACK ..... However, I am sad to hear about your surgeries. Prayers for you. ..... You'll always have friends in the Diner, and I hope to see you here often.... Sounds like you had a rough time, but I'm glad your work is sup[portive.
Regarding distracted driving. .... Several years ago I was in the cab of a locomotive in Michigan. We saw a small pickup truck on a cross road approaching the track. It was a country road with only crossbucks for protection. The locomotive horn was sounding. It was a clear day but the little pickup truck drove into the path of the train. A young man and a young women were in the pickup truck. The lady was screaming loudly until the Fire Department arrived about ten minutes later. Both the man and the women had badly mangled legs, and it took a while to get them into ambulances. .... Must have been distracted driving. There is no other explanation for the accident.
My friend, Gus, was operating a train that hit a loaded concrete truck. Again, distracted driving was the cause. On a clear day, the truck crossed the track in front of the locomotive. Five units and 75 cars went off the rails. Fortunately, there were no injuries to locomotive crew.
loatharDidn't see you in the online line up!
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Weather here is getting pretty cool for this time of year. It's 41° now and it'll be down to 32° tonight and tomorrow night. No sign of rain until Thursday night.Nothing done today. I just felt too bad to even think about it. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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
Hey y'all. Thanks to all those north of me (that would be a great deal of you) for sending this cold and windy weather down here to Alabama. Low tonight is expected to be 29, high tomorrow of 50 (according to the weather prognosticators, if we're lucky). Right now is not all that cold, but it is VERY VERY breezy. Welp, I've been digging through MB Klein's website looking at all the things I "need" (mostly just really want as I don't have a layout to actually put anything on). I've also been researching industries (past and present) that the ACL/SCL/SBD/CSX line through my area serves/served. Seems that a large part of past generation's business was wood-related with several untreated tie plants and pulpwood industries along the line that are now unfortunately long gone. Been thinking about "what if" there were still those industries along the way, how much different the traffic along the line would be.
Well, that's about it for me, loathar, glad to see you are back, but not too glad to see and hear about your medical issues, prayers to you sir for a speedy recovery (and prayers for all those on the mend!)
:Later taters!
Hey Jeff!Didn't see you in the online line up!Too bad to hear your having leg problems too. A BK amp and prosth. isn't that bad. (thank GOD for morphine!)I was up and walking without a cane in about 15 minutes. I went shopping/mowed my grass and walked my dog the first night. Just make sure they have all the infection killed and you don't start to get a skin rash from the liner. (gold bond powder helps)MAKE SURE YOUR INFECTUES DISEASE DOCTOR KNOWS WHAT ANTIBIOTICS HE'S GIVING YOU!!! Mine screwed up and that's why I lost my knee joint and you defiantly don't want THAT to happen! It's 10 times harder to walk with an AK leg/knee than a BK foot and socket.
I'll PM you my Email and cell #. Use them anytime! All of us with this stupid disease need to help each other out.
KyleOn the topic of Railroads, I wonder how many train car accidents are caused by distracted driving.
I've got a hands free smart phone and I won't answer it while I'm driving. People get mad, but I don't care. There's too many distracted drivers to look out for. Even in a parking lot at 5MPH!phone calls can wait! We have a news celebrity guy whose daughter just slammed into the back of a semi and died while texting.She had a full ride to a journalism school and a job waiting for her after graduation.Her father is devastated and can barely do his job on air.
loatharThings haven't gone well since my last post about a year ago. (toe amputation)I've had 8 surgeries with 6 of them being amputations in the last year. Ended up losing my left leg above the knee from osteomylitus (SP?)Now in a wheel chair with a $25k prosthetic leg that I can't balance/walk on very well.
loathar Woke up to the first 2" snowfall of the year. Some Espresso and a steak burrito would have been good.Things haven't gone well since my last post about a year ago. (toe amputation)I've had 8 surgeries with 6 of them being amputations in the last year. Ended up losing my left leg above the knee from osteomylitus (SP?)Now in a wheel chair with a $25k prosthetic leg that I can't balance/walk on very well. Gonna build my next layout a little closer to ground level!Don't feel bad for me. I'm doing just fine. Still have my killer great electronics job. My company stuck with me through all the hospital stuff! THEY are my new family that has my back. Two months after last amputation, (4 months ago) a woman blows a red light in front of me on my way to work. MAJOR 50 mph wreck! Both cars totaled! I'm wrecked, down in a ditch and can't get to my wheelchair to see who's hurt (or alive) Cars driving past and no one stopping to help!Finally the cops show up and sort things out and we're all uninjured. (woman that caused the wreck admitted she was playing patty cake with her 4 year old grand daughter when she blew the red light and caused the wreck) She's lucky the little girl isn't dead. I hit the passenger door where the girl was sitting and she didn't have a seat belt on. I came out of it with a better vehicle than I had, but still.... people need to pay more attention to the road and not their cell phones/children/stereos/etc...etc...I'll get off my soap box now and wish all of you a happy winter/train modelling season! span="" id="mce_marker" data-mce-type="bookmark">
Woke up to the first 2" snowfall of the year. Some Espresso and a steak burrito would have been good.Things haven't gone well since my last post about a year ago. (toe amputation)I've had 8 surgeries with 6 of them being amputations in the last year. Ended up losing my left leg above the knee from osteomylitus (SP?)Now in a wheel chair with a $25k prosthetic leg that I can't balance/walk on very well. Gonna build my next layout a little closer to ground level!Don't feel bad for me. I'm doing just fine. Still have my killer great electronics job. My company stuck with me through all the hospital stuff! THEY are my new family that has my back.
Two months after last amputation, (4 months ago) a woman blows a red light in front of me on my way to work. MAJOR 50 mph wreck! Both cars totaled! I'm wrecked, down in a ditch and can't get to my wheelchair to see who's hurt (or alive) Cars driving past and no one stopping to help!Finally the cops show up and sort things out and we're all uninjured. (woman that caused the wreck admitted she was playing patty cake with her 4 year old grand daughter when she blew the red light and caused the wreck) She's lucky the little girl isn't dead. I hit the passenger door where the girl was sitting and she didn't have a seat belt on. I came out of it with a better vehicle than I had, but still.... people need to pay more attention to the road and not their cell phones/children/stereos/etc...etc...I'll get off my soap box now and wish all of you a happy winter/train modelling season! span="" id="mce_marker" data-mce-type="bookmark">
Distracted driving is the #1 cause of accidents, many lives could be saved if people would put down whatever is distracting and just focus on driving. Fortunately everyone lived in the case, it is sad when an innocence person dies because someone was sending a text. IT CAN WAIT!!! On the topic of Railroads, I wonder how many train car accidents are caused by distracted driving.
The House Special and some Italian Roast coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
Hope everyone is doing well these days.
Cheers! Rob
Wow!
The place is dead! No posts in nearly 6 hours????
Can't have that!
Got to go shopping for train stuff! For the "4-almost 5 year old "grand nephew""!
GOt some stuff. We will give a few, the Grandpas we shopped for will give a few.
A DCC steamer loco/controler set; a track package of Atlas, {with the track shortage Atlas and others have, it was easiest to get to get NS track instead of cheesy steel track}; H2O tank {they had no coaling towers in stock}; a station set {platform and common station}; A house; a foam tunnel {cheesy but he will enjoy it going and disappearing}; A tanker car; a refer; a gondola; and a caboose. Nothing special to them, just cheap easy to play with.
Only 10 items, all the cheapest I could get stuff that was in stock today, but still cost $250 at wholesaletrains.com. The track work and loco/dcc set came to $130 alone. I had to pony up more for the gondola as the one I chose that WAS in stock this AM was gone by the time I got there, someone beat me to it!
I won't rant on "how expensive the hobby has gotten"!
I HOPE he is as excited as the grandpas and We are!
Wiped out I am. That and get this:::: the news {local] said this:::: "Today the Binghamton area got nearly 1 and half inches of sn*w, which caused some schools delays and problems!!!"
Now when I went to school, it took6- 8 inches OR MORE of sn*w or a blizzard to "cause schools delays and problems"!!! And I would WALK to school, UP hill both ways! {true that: there was a valley betwixt the school and my house, so there was UP hill to get to the school, and UP hill to get to my house located near the base of another hill, but high enough to walk UP hill to get to it.}
They close schools now at 3"..BAH HUMBUG, I say, make 'em go to school!
Ojh well, I digress, I know, I am a "grumpy old man".
Later
Morning-Afternoon All,
Currently it is 48 with an expected high of 67 under a mix of cloudy and sunny skies.
Had a cardiologist appointment yesterday, everything looks good except BP is a little high. He wants me to try the lowest dose water pill available for a month, and take my BP twice a day and mail him the results every 30 days to see if that helps. The results of the stress test I took last Thursday did not show anything adverse, and in fact, the 120 images that were taken, shows my heart looks real good he said.
W**k today, but I may get a chance to look at an SW1500 loco that is running a bit erratic. Other than that not much else going on.
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
I'm not feeling good today so I'll probably not be on much. I have a games disk coming by mail today. Some old adventure games. Big Quest, Kid's Adventure, Earthquest and Grungy Towers. I can use these to get more ideas for obstacles to put in Oliver's path.
Good morning from New England! It's the first snow of the season here. Nothing significant, as it's nothing more than a few flakes mixed with a light drizzle. The ground and roads are still well above freezing, and even the air temperature is in the mid 30s, but, well, it is snow. As one who eagerly awaits the start of ski season, it's a welcome sight indeed.
Our daughter is in California, at a Neuroscience conference in San Diego. I got a text that she was planning to go to the Stone Brewery Beer Garden. They make one of my favorites, Arrogant Bastird (deliberately misspelled to avoid Nanny filters) among other worthy beers. I'm jealous.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and some of that stir fry please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 33.
Sn*w on the ground. Yup. Nothing on the roads or driveways, just a covering on everything else, but still….hate it. I guess I shouldn’t complain, it’ll only get worse.
Foot’s feelin better it seems. If I’d remember to take the Ibuprofen regular, I’d probably be better yet. But, as it is it’s better than it was. Much better than it was.
A bit of a busy day today so I best get crackin with some house chores and get them outa the way.
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.
Just about to head out for work , talk to you guys this afternoon
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!
Today is Tuesday, November 12th, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!
Today's fun limmerick:
The thirsty man's face became wry,When the barman offered him rye."I'm a teetotaler" he said, as he sat,"But I'm so thirsty, that""I could drink Canada Dry"
Today's weird words:
Nundination -(n.) the act of marketing; Buying or selling; trade; nudinate Etymology: [from L. nundinatio]
frondeur::(n.) a malcontent; a rebel Etymology: [frɒnˈdɜː (French) frɔ̃dœr]
extirpate: (t. v.)[ech stur pate] To destroy completely; to wipe out 2} to cut out surgically. Etymology: [fr. L. extirpo to uproot]
Today's words in a sentence: I will do double duty for my cause! I will extirpate the frondeurs while nundinating bread at the market square of the big city Roma!
Thank you all
SSGT DUKERT U.S. AIR FORCE
VIET NAM AUG 67--AUG 68
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Didn't get a chance to do any programming on Oliver's train adventure today. Had an appointment with the cardiologist today. So did my step mother. We had worked it out so our appointments were withing twenty minutes of each other. Even so we didn't get out of there until about 4:30. My father met us there and since it was too late to go home and cook dinner we went to Fox's Pizza Den. Trouble about a place like that is I almost always have to be rolled out. On the cardiologist report, they found the blocked blood vessel. The doc says it's not big enough to worry about so it looks like I'm gonna have to learn to live with the whooshing racket in my ears.Well that's all for today. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a hot cup of decaf please....
Wintery weather is being predicted across western and central NY State tonight. To the West they are calling for 3" to 5" of white stuff! Around the Finger Lakes, we could see about 1" possibly. Biggest danger is that it has been raining this evening and they are saying "Black Ice" may form on untreated roads and bridges across the region. Currently 33°F outside with a low in thye high twenties... Woodstove is keeping the house nice and warm...
I got out today and did some grocery shopping and bought some stuff at Staples. My logitech mouse had stopped scrolling up lately and I tried to blow out any dirt that might be causing the problem with no improvement. So for $20 I got a new one. Also needed a ream of heavy paper for the next Division Newsletter.
Still haven't heard from my sister that she arrived home safely... I want to call my other sister and chat, but want to be able to tell her all is well.
Later!
Hey y'all. Just popping in with a big wok of chicken stir fry that my lovely wife made! Y'all eat up! (it was supposed to be chicken fajitas, but she went into autopilot when she started cooking and it ended up stir fry). Had to w**k today, was an up and down day. Really busy this morning, lots of cars, but not a lot of money, then this afternoon we petered off to nothing and were able to clean up and due some upkeep that's been put off far, far too long. Going to be doing some more research on the topography of the line from Montgomery, AL to Thomasville, GA (the beginning and end of the CSX Dothan Subdivision, respectively). I'm also going to do a little digging and see if I can find the old lines that connected into the subdivision along the way that are no longer there (used to be a connection at Ozark, AL and a few others that I've been able to find here and there through historical digging.
Again, thank you to the men and women that served behind and ahead of us all, we all owe you an unpayable debt.
Welp, I'm out of here for now, y'all Enjoy the stir fry if you want it! I'll be back though.
Oh Joy of Joys!
I{we} get to go train shopping tomorrow, mostly on someone else's dime!
Loco, cars, track, a few structures, Oh Boy!
Look out wholesaletrains.com here we come! The store opens at noon, we will be there at 11:45!
i have a list of what I want that they have in stock on the shelves as of 4-5pm today. Tomorrow morning could be different!
Nothing really expensive, they just want trains to have grandson bash around..I think the grandpas have a secret desire for play time too!
But I get to LOOK! ANd PLAY! and shop! Oh my!
Oh The Joy! Oh the rapture! Oh the delight!
How every will I sleep the night?
Again thanks to the vets.
Also on some personal notes. Im going through some personal stuff here and wanted to say thanks to the fellas I have talked to about there advice they can offer ( you guys know who you are ). I just wanted to say thanks and let others know if you are going through some tough times there are some great people on this forum who will be kind enough to answer back and make you feel better and give some tips and ideas you may not have thought of.
Thanks again guys, members here are fantastic.
Jeremy