Evening all!
I did manage to chase a few electrical Gremlins out of the layout today, and centralized the control for the 110v feed. So now its easier to turn the power on & off. Also repaired 3 UTP panels I had one failing at times, so I pulled it out of the layout, along with 2 other problem children that were stashed in a drawer. Cleaned the contacts, rebent them and tested, all A OK. Started on a P2K Geep 9 sound install. Its apart, new axle gears done, the weight is removed and areas to be removed are marked clearly. I've also got a Kato NW2 to get milled. I'll try to get to my buddies machine shop tomorrow to get them milled. But i have to run to Grainger and get parts for an alek-trickle repair at SWMBO's office 1st. I have to install a lockabe on/off switch for the furnace. Seems code has changed and the county is requireing it in all the public buildings now. Oh, and I did mail off another article to MR. This one actually has a picture of me in it!!
JeremyB I never thought I might have a heart attack at age 32 ( again, they arent even sure if it was that ).
I never thought I might have a heart attack at age 32 ( again, they arent even sure if it was that ).
Jeremy. I never thought I would have had a stroke at 51, but I did. Call 911 at the next sign!
Dennis, Don't take this the wrong way but,,, nice caboose!
On anti-virus (since this is becoming a group project of sorts) here's my 2. My 64 bit Win7 PC is running Norton anti virus along with Advanced System Care Ultimate. My 32 bit XP PC is running Microsoft Security Essentials along with ASC, and SWMBO's 64 bit Win7 PC is running Microsoft Sec. Essentials with ASC. Norton is free because of our Comcast cable, Microsoft Security Essentials is free. The only thing that costs is the Advanced System Care, which is $19.95 per year for 3 machines. The only reason the 2 64 bit machines are running 2 different sets of programs is purely a matter of taste. I like Norton, SWMBO likes Microsoft. I'm not going to argue, they both seem to work fine.
I think I'll park my tail over at the RC, might have a bowl of ice cream!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Jeremy
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Did a bit of work on Oliver's adventure. He's out of the coach and into the baggage car. I've drawn up a rough map of it to use use as a guide while I construct it in the computer. There will be bags, boxes and crates to open, guys with bad attitudes to avoid and deadly perils to survive.Well I did some walking around today. Getting better at it. Steps are still being somewhat of a problem. I wore the leg most of the day but finally had to take it off at 6:45 this evening. That problem piece at the top of the socket was making a red spot on the side of my knee.Time for me 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
I'd move. With that many people, it could just break off the continent and go floating off for Indonesia any time now!
Good evening ...
V8 Dennis ... That's a lot of people in LA County. I was just reading what could result from a San Andreas Fault earth quake. It could be a massive tragedy.
Jeremy .... I would suggest you keep seeing the doctors until they know what happened. You might not be so lucky if their is another incident.
We're getting ready for Chrismas. Lots of stuff to do. We have birthdays for our five adult children in the next few weeks too. ...... Our oldest daughter who lives in Grand Rapids, MI with her family has her bithday tomorrow. ... Some grand kids birthdays are coming up soon too.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
V8Vega Wed. 70/47 Thur. 58/43Los Angeles city council settled with 11 police officers who were punished by no overtime or lousy assignments for not meeting ticket quotas. Us taxpayers have to pay 10 million to them. Its against state law to have traffic ticket quotas but that dosn't seem to matter somehow.Loa Angeles County has hit 10 million. It would be the 8th most populous state or the 88th most populous country. More people than 43 states.
Wed. 70/47 Thur. 58/43Los Angeles city council settled with 11 police officers who were punished by no overtime or lousy assignments for not meeting ticket quotas. Us taxpayers have to pay 10 million to them. Its against state law to have traffic ticket quotas but that dosn't seem to matter somehow.Loa Angeles County has hit 10 million. It would be the 8th most populous state or the 88th most populous country. More people than 43 states.
When I was young and foolish, and did not know better, My dreams were to: Move to Southern California {LA area}; and to do a few characters in the movies {supporting background stuff with maybe a line or two}; and to retire to Hawaii. Now I am SO PLEASED I never set foot in LA {except LAX on the way back from Hawaii}; am shy and can't remember things like lines to say; and MIGHT get to retire to Hawaii.
I am agoraphobic, and don't like people around me period. I go grocery shopping at 7:30 AM to avoid crowds, so LA is NOT the place for me!
AS far as the fine, I haven't heard the details. But I know of cops having "quotas", that: while bringing in needed revenue; I think also makes the officers DO THEIR JOBS and issue tickets to violators!.
-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.
morning coffee in the diner...
Descant:
noun: 1. A comment on a subject. 2. An ornamental melody sung or played above a basic melody
From: Latin discantus (refrain), from dis- (apart, away) + cantus (song), from canere (to sing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kan- (sing), which also gave us hen, chant, accent, enchant, incentive, recant, cantor, and charm. Earliest documented use: 1380
Usage: "These disappointments were descanted on, bitterly and frequently."
John Gross; Lessons of an Immoderate Master; The New York Review of Books; Jun 26, 1997
Hebetate:
Everything is 50% what happens, 50% how YOU react to it!
Hi. Merry Christmas, or as the big fella would have said kiss my a-- . Yep, model trains are the bees knees. I'm glad that I found a hobby that will see me out, good stuff. its my layout and I'll run what I want to.
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.
Liba .... Good to see you! ... I suggest your New Year's Resolution should be for you to visit the Diner more often. Several of us can relate to your thought of having a good hobby to see us out.
Galaxy .... I don't like crowded places either.
Dennis Blank ..... I like your custom painted green caboose very much.
Todd .... Reagrding viruses, we have Macafee on the old Dell computer and are satisfied with it. The Apple Imac is imune to viruses.
Like I said last night, today is our oldest daughter's birthday. I feel old having a kid in her 40's. The other 4 kids will be there soon also.
Merry Christmas. Here is a photo from under our tree last year with Sassy the cat. She enjoys playing a game of chicken when the train is running. The Lionel trains include railroads with which I worked before retirement. (GTW, DT&I, ARR).
TMarshI’m hoping it was Angina or Gerd. Both can mimic a heart attack.
Good morning to all. Bright and sunny here in the Burbs of Boston.
Think that online shopping is nothing more than clicking a few keys? Think again. We've got a package coming from Amazon, "out for delivery" as they say in the package tracking world, and I've got to go out and shovel snow so the FedEx driver can get the package to the house! We had another 6 inches or so last night. In all my years of playing hockey, which started back when Bobby Orr was winning the Stanley Cup for the Bruins, this was the first time I've ever had to call and say I just couldn't make it. I couldn't get out of my driveway, which is on a slight slope. Bah. Humbug.
Instead, it was a time for "finding things." The water tower I'm building comes with a package of pre-cut wires to use as braces, and I'd misplaced them. Turns out, they were just buried in the huge box that the Empire Leather Tanning Company comes in, but I'd already searched there and didn't find them the first time. Anyway, the braces are all installed now. Next, it was time to find the "station platform lights" that will adorn the tannery grounds. Again, I knew I had them somewhere. They were still in the workroom, in the bag they came home in. One of them, though, has a short at the base. I have a jar of paint-on insulation that should do the job, but, where was it? I have literally been looking for this for a year, but when I went to the workroom I looked in a drawer and said "What's this unmarked black bottle top?" Sure enough, that was it, so now I'm waiting for it to harden up so I can test it.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Well, I got a big red nasty screen alerting me to 2, TWO, 2 days left on my antivirus. I think they give away free then try to sap you money... so I am even skeptical of the other freebies offered here, no one does anything for free...
Went to Wally WOrld. Got a few things, danged if I try, but I can spen $100 easily in that store for getting nothing expensive. The cashier says "I call it the Hundred dollar store for that reason". I DID stock up on things though may not have to shop there until spring!
Went grocery shopping and except for bread and milk-type stuff, I should be set til the end of the year! WOO HOO!
Got a spiral ham and yams for Xmas dinner, and shoot, I forgot the blended fancy frozen veggies. Oh well, maybeI go back? Apple pie and whipped topping and that is IT. for the 4 of us. I am not going to the lengths I go to at TG day. GEtting too old to do "big" for essentially one couple and two "bachelors".
Gotta keep the 'puter running til MOH gets the new tables from work, I guess. WILL try tomorrow one of the other freebies to see I F I can get it installed.
dunno. SHould have gone to see if I could get my hairs cut, the ones left, oh well.
what else? dunno was gonna share something, but gone from my feeble mind now. OH! I know! I obviously did NOT win the Mega Millions lottery last night. My"dollar and a dream" didn't win me nuttin'!
well, later,
Prayers for all as listed this Morning.
galaxyWell, I got a big red nasty screen alerting me to 2, TWO, 2 days left on my antivirus. I think they give away free then try to sap you money... so I am even skeptical of the other freebies offered here, no one does anything for free...
Good morning. It's 50° with 84% humidity. The high will be 67°.Nothing special going on today. I may do some work on Oliver's adventure later. I need to work out what he's going to find and where he's going to find it. I also need to work out what and when whatever is going to find him.Tomorrow I'll be going to see the doc about my prosthesis. He has to make an alteration on it as it's very uncomfortable on the left side. I've got a red spot on the side of my knee from it. There are times I have to take it off because I can't stand it anymore.
Mornin'!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special, over easy eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sour dough toast to go along with more of the dark roast Seneca Lake Blend Organic coffee. Please and Thank You!
Hold it! Something called sunshine was out and about here in the Finger Lakes for a bit this morning..... It is now gone, but the weather peoples are warning that WINTER STORM Sunny Time could come back for a while this afternoon!!! BEWARE!!! Roads could be dry and not be slippery! BE AFRAID!!! BE VERY AFRAID!!!
Galaxy just remember your odds were 1 in 879,574,625,000 that you would win the Mega rip off Lottery... I just keep the $ in my wallet and figure I am one $ richer for it...
Got a long list of stuff to get done today. Grocery shopping, Christmas Present buying (then I shall be almost done), wrap some presents, and get to Scout District Committee meeting tonight... May skip the last and just do mor stuff on the Blacksmith's Shop.
Jeffrey hope the Doc gets the fitting problem taken care of for you. Sounds like all told for this early in the game you are doing great!
Looks like HTML no longer even works at this messed up degraded site!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
galaxyI think they give away free then try to sap you money... so I am even skeptical of the other freebies offered here, no one does anything for free...
Kind of like using the drug pusher's marketing model.
galaxyWent to Wally WOrld. Got a few things, danged if I try, but I can spen $100 easily in that store for getting nothing expensive. The cashier says "I call it the Hundred dollar store for that reason".
C*stco is our hundred-dollar store. (As is H*me Dep*t.)
Richard
Thanks for the tips guys on the chest pain. Nothing has come back from the docs yet as I called about a hour ago. I felt a little funny last night when I woke up in the middle of the night but it quickly subsided. Im not feeling too much pain today every once in a while I felt a little twinge in the chest, heart area?? but not too bad. Other then that not a whole bunch going on. We might have pizza for dinner so that sounds good. Im just trying to keep calm and not do anything pressing. The wife almost shot me when I went out to shovel the driveway,lol
Italian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Just got back the Atlas O train I painted for Christmas and gave to my parents so very long ago. Here is a quick, poor quality pic of it. The loco is a WDT Industrial Switcher NO. 6122 Illinois Central. Does anyone know if two-rail track for this stuff is still available new and where to buy it? Never found the loop of track that I gave them with it. And the transformer was a rather heavy old Tyco so I didn't bother having it shipped since I have a transformer that should run it, IF it will still run after sitting for well over 20 years.
Any info anyone can share about this old stuff will be appreciated.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
LION had chest pain one night. I called the Prior and told him that I was not feeling well, and was calling an ambulance. Went to the hospital, pain did not let up, but EKG was normal. They sent me on to a bigger hospital and they did an angio gram. Oain was still very bad, but eventually subsided. The cardiologist said I was ok, and if the pain comes back call a surgeon because it is probably the gall bladder.
Surgeon took out my gall bladder prophlytically and I have had no pain since.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Since we are swapping chest pain stories, here is mine. It started with a pain that felt like I had pulled something, mostly when I took a breath. It got progressively worse until every beat of my heart produced excruciating pain. They put me on morphine as they tried to diagnose the problem. It the end, it turned out to be pericarditis, inflamation of the fluid sac that holds the heart. The treatment was a course of anti-inflamitories. This was about ten years ago and I haven't had any problems since.
CederstrandDoes anyone know if two-rail track for this stuff is still available new and where to buy it?
BroadwayLion LION had chest pain one night. I called the Prior and told him that I was not feeling well, and was calling an ambulance. Went to the hospital, pain did not let up, but EKG was normal. They sent me on to a bigger hospital and they did an angio gram. Oain was still very bad, but eventually subsided. The cardiologist said I was ok, and if the pain comes back call a surgeon because it is probably the gall bladder. Surgeon took out my gall bladder prophlytically and I have had no pain since. ROAR
Hmmm...Anybody else notice something about the Lion's post as above? Him Talks in 1st person here!!!! Him no talk in third person and is near and dear to self instead of him being removed from himself! Methinks him made a mistake?
Went to the CU, the dealer to get a KIA rear wiper, and to get some hairs cut. FIrst i told her to "only cut the gray ones", then I said "OUCH" when she did! {i think I got that form Ray or somebody on here?} SHe giggled nad I said Ouch the second time nad she giggled again.
She was shocked, as was the pharmacist this morning that I had all my XMAS shopping done before TG!
I have one more thing to do tomorrow, not really a present, but it will turn into one...back to Wally WOrld FOR ONE ITEM, NOT $100 worth! FOr being a "cheap store" It can sure add up!
Dunno anything else.
Prayers and thoughts for those in need, the prayer candles are lighted for the night. You don't have to believe in anything to understand taht prayres send healing energies of the universe in the direction needed!
Dinner will be veal ala vino. roasted veal shoulder swamped in wine, to become wine sauce later with the pan drippings. Asparagus, adn tom/basil/mozz/noodle salad. YUM!
DOn't you just wish you were eating here?
Maybe not. I am the crazy one and I have papers to prove it!
Coffee refill, please.
***Jeffrey, Thank You! Now, any idea how many sections of this [ 36" Radius Full Curve Track Section Walthers Part # 151-7062 ] I will need to make a full circle?
Hi Guys
I have been feeling pretty good today. Nothing back from docs office today so will call tomorrow. Spent a peaceful afternoon working on the layout and got more done then I thought I would.
talk to you guys in the morning.
Cederstrand Coffee refill, please. ***Jeffrey, Thank You! Now, any idea how many sections of this [ 36" Radius Full Curve Track Section Walthers Part # 151-7062 ] I will need to make a full circle? Cheers! Rob
No work on Oliver's adventure today. I just didn't feel like it. The legs been causing me a little pain today but nothing like it did yesterday. That was crazy. Hopefully it gets fixed tomorrow.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Etymology: From Latin importunus, from in- (not) + portus (port, refuge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, comport, petroleum, sport, passport, petrify, colporteur(a peddler of religious books), Swedish fartlek (a training technique), Norwegian fjord(bay), and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1530
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Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Hi Guys,
Felt great throughout the night and today so far. The wife has to go to work today and am under orders from her to not do the following
-Cleaning
- Vaccuming
- Shoveling snow
Or any activity that involves heavy lifting until we find out whats going on with me. They might have the Eco cardiogram result in today ( dont know if I spelled it right ) they told me that if it was a dire situation that my docotr would have got it back right away. So hopefully that means I might be ok, guess I will have to wait and see. Well Im going to continue work on these lumber piles I have on the go. They are calling for a messy weekend. Snow then rain then freezing rain back to snow?? who knows, will have to wait and see
I will be back in later
Good morning. It's 53° with 96% humidity. The high will be 70° but feel like 65°.My appointment at the prosthetics clinic is at 10:30 so that leaves plenty of time for breakfast at McDonald's, my father's favorite place (prices are lower he says). That's another place I don't buy anything from. I'll have the Big Breakfast. There's nothing on their menu that won't blow my blood sugar out of the water so there's no point in looking for something special. Back to the clinic. Hopefully the doc will be able to make the adjustment on my leg and make it feel comfortable to wear. Having that one little piece digging into my knee with every step gets old fast.Time to go. See y'all later.
Well, 25F!!! A heat WAVE! and NEAR 60F in TWO DAYS??? "December thaw" I'll call it. ANd flooding is on the horizon. SO IF we flood and we are out of power once a gain, y'all won't hear from me! The stupid, I mean stupid power company has the substaton in low lying area and it flooded in '05, '06, '10, 'the big flood of '11. They are on PLENTY of notice that, what, some 20K customers are without power for at least 5 days each time when it floods. You'd THINK they'd build one somewhere higher???
Rudy Maxa, the Travel guy on PBS, was on Maui, and the Big Island of Hawaii this AM. It's a show I've seeen so well I could narrarate it, but still, it makes my heart go longering for...Hawaii. If I am diligent about finances, we might just get there again next year. MAYBE. Especailly with MOH's new higher income. Depends on how much we have a tax bite now.
The Fine Washables are in the delicate cycle of the washer {my wool socks, MOH's silks}. I don't think it actually runs long enough when it does run, so I kept resetting it. I mena 3 mins of gentle light swishing isn't enough to clean certain things, i don't think.
Put together a MADE IN AMERICA wooden hand-dry old fashioned rack for the fine washables to dry on. Was a tricky devil but I got it. GOOd thing I did as MOH would have just banged with the regular hammer and broked the rods. I used a rubber mallet of course.
Finished off the dishes. Now have to go "salt the driveway" with the non-salt stuff. Warming up will melt it and turn to ice tonight.
Then I see what other trouble i get into.
Myabe lots, maybe none.
DUnno yet.
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MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Good Afternoon!
Not yet 4 pm and the sun is down already! Feels like I have missed the day, as I took a long mid-day nap. Still feeling totally exhausted, although there are signs of a little improvement. At least that´s what my doc says...
As long as I can´t start to work on a layout, I continue to draw up my dreams. Added some more details to the last "painting". This one would fit nicely into the shelf in this room...
I have been trying to locate a source for HO scale track spikes (for code 100 rail), but no luck. Wherever I search for, I end up at Micromark´s web page. As I don´t have a CC nor a PayPal account, I cannot order there
Jeff - I hope the doc will be able to make you feel more comfortable with that new leg!
Continuing prayers for Johnboy!