Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a cup of hot chocolate would be nice right now...
Good to see some old faces back here lately!
I have completed the last 3 sides of the Blacksmith's shop today! YES!!!
All 8 sides are now ready to be assembled into the main building.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Extra strong Italian roast coffee, please.
Garry & Jeffrey, enjoyed the terrific layout pics.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
galaxyUlrich BOY that is bright yellow! "Neon yellow" in the pic.
... that´s not the yellow I wanted to get, but the only one available - afterall, it´s only a mock-up and not the real thing.
It´ll be completed by tomorrow - a fun project to do.
Good afternoon. It's 41° with 88% humidity. The high will be 45° with a small chance of rain. with a Been busy this morning downloading software for my //e. My Starfleet1 game is quite old and has some errors that were causing problems so I got replacement programs. I'll copy my personnel records from the old one later. Other programs I got are:APPLE ACCESS IIAPPLE WRITER IIAPPLE DISK TRANSFERAPPLE DIAGNOSTICS V2.0 and VER2.1DISK REPAIR KITLOCKSMITHRAMDISK EMULATORBURGERTIMEI figure that should keep me busy for a little while at least.I need another SD card for these so I asked my father to get me from from Wal-Mart today. The nice thing is I can have the SD cards serve double duty. I can only store sixteen 5.25 diskettes on each one so they can still be used in my camera and for data storage on my PC.Only other thing going on today is I'm doing a load of laundry. Yeah, I've finally gotten to the point that I can negotiate the steps to the laundry room well enough to get in and out of there. I hope to be able to climb higher steps soon.
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
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ERm, looks like RAY is getting the top twice in a row now! Better he than me!
Went to the Wally WOrld, to the glasses place to get my glasses fixed, to the CU, to the insurance man, to the pharamcy, to the DSS, to my fathers, Then called for a script refill, SO I been Around the Town this morning!
Jeremy- Good that its not the heart, but STress can affect you seriously! DO you know what the stressors are? Can you remove it/them? Oh, you're married to it? SOrry then...lol
Ulrich BOY that is bright yellow! "Neon yellow" in the pic.
Well. I'd best grab a nap before my other half gets home.
later....
SPecial thoughts and prayers for those who need them...
-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.
Good Afternoon!
It´s been a busy day today. Year end shopping run, cleaning the house, and - the best of it - w*rking on that cardboard mock-up loco, which is nearing completion.
I learned quite a lot during the construction:
A few more details will be added tomorrow - like windshield wipers. Going to be tough to make them out of cardboard
I am surprized how strong that cardboard structures is after receiving a coat of primer and another coat of paint. Still, cardboard is not the right material for "serious" jobs, better to use sstyrene or even brass sheetstock.
JeremyB - stress can cause your heart to ache and race - guess how I know that... Keeping my fingers crossed for your doc appointment.
Continuing prayers for Johnboy!
Make it a great day!
Hi Fellas,
I have a apoinment for 2:30, hopefully we can get this somewhat figured out. I will report back later. Hopefuuly some layout work later. I also have freight cars coming tomorrow.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, How about a short stack of Buckwheat Pancakies with real NYS Maple Syrup, and side order of bacon, and lots of dark roast coffee for my R&GV RR Mug? Thank you Ma'am!
A few stray little white thingies floating around outside my window this morning... Partly Cloudy I think they call it. We may get a half inch of "partly cloudy" here today. No sun in sight. Still dark, gray, gloomy and this morning cold (18°F) out there. "But since I've no place to go..."
I think I shall tackle several end of the year items still needing to get done today! Catch you all later!
[edit] Oh! I have been waiting almost 2 years for Details West to start making their little code 70 plastic railbars. They told me there was a problem with the mold and it was taking longer to fix it than they liked... Well after postponement after postponement, Walthers finally listed them as "In Stock"! I checked a couple other places that are usually cheaper that I like to do business with and they were still listed as "not in stock" so I ordered 15 packages from Walthers. They will be shipped today. YES! Now I can get the detailing done in the yard in Kanandarque and beyond! I put a couple hundred more ties in place yesterday and hope to fill in the gaps on the windows and doors still left to do on the Blacksmith's Shop!
Chhers Guys
Yeah I am also glad that it has nothing to do with my heart that they can see through the tests. The ER doc wants me to follow up with my family doc to see what can be done. He did give me some pills a couple weeks ago that go under your toungue that help calm you down. They take about 15-25 minutes to work. The attack came around 12:15 and I took the pills and they kicked in around 1;00 or so, right when I was sitting in the ER, I figurew I was there I might as well stay as the wait was short ( only a hour ). I am going to give my doc a call and see if I can get in sometime today or tomorrow.
If another attack happens I will take the pills and give them a few minutes more to work and slow my breathing down. I guess thats where the term stop and smell the roses came from? just take some time each day to just breathe.
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.
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morning coffee in the diner...
I am still here!
BLEB:
Etymology: Perhaps alteration of blob. Earliest documented use: 1607.
Usage: "His worried face shone with moisture; rivulets of sweat slid down his jaw bone. A bleb hung from his chin."
William Boyd; A Good Man in Africa; William Morrow; 1982
Heartland Division CB&QJeff .... I started using Firefox a few months ago on the old computer. It has imporved it a lot. Now they are seeking donations. Is that normal?
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Oh man, I found a gold mine of Apple II programs today. I just kinda stumbled on it while I was looking for something else. It has utilities, games, education, home, you name it, it's there. And every thing is in DSK format which is what my SDFloppy ][ uses. I downloaded ten today, half of those are games, the other half are system utility programs. I had tried to copy my two main ProDOS utility disks into DSK format but they wouldn't go. I kept getting errors. Guess what I found on that site! The two very ProDOS utility program disks I need already in DSK format. I have them on an SD card now. The other three utility program disks are two I used to have and one is an updated form of one I already have. They are all on an SD card now AND I copied them onto floppy diskettes in program form so I can use them that way as well. The games aren't anything really stunning by today's standards but they were big in their time. They as well are all on an SD card now. I got 'SKYFOX', 'STAR WARS', 'ZAXXON', CHAMPIONSHIP LODE RUNNER', 'CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN'. Other games I have on SD are 'STARFLEET1', 'LODE RUNNER', 'HELL HOUSE', 'AZTEK', 'PACMAN', 'ZORK I', 'ZORK II', 'ZORK III', 'MOONMIST', 'D-DAY', 'BEE CRUNCH', 'SHARK BAIT' and a whole slew of arcade and adventure games and yes I have 'Native Fury' on SD too even though it isn't finished yet. To say I've been busy today is kind of an understatement. My PC copies the DSK files onto the SD cards at over 2.6 Ghz but my old slow Apple //e processes them into usable form at 1.02 Mhz. That was slow even back in 1982 but that's part of the charm of these old machines in today's world where everyone wants the fastest, newest, glitziest whatever that's out there not because they NEED it in many cases but simply because they WANT it. I know people who get a new cell phone every month simply because their old one is a MONTH OLD or it has a barely visible scratch on it. Jeez! I'm using a Blackberry that I got BEFORE our current president won his FIRST term! And it wasn't even new then! It was refurbished! That thing is older than most peoples cars and it still works fine. I paid nothing for it, the service is free, I get 150 free minutes a month which is more than I need. Now I'm not saying that I enjoy using OLD things, they're just what I have and what I can afford. Sometimes I even use them in self defense. A couple of years ago a young lady half my age was trying to come on to me and I didn't want anything to do with her. I simply told her she's too young. She challenged that and I told her 'Honey, I own a van that's older than you are'. I never saw her again and I don't miss her a bit.Well it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Mike 8500 HP .... Good to see you in the Diner. Sorry you have had health issues too.
Galaxy .... Hope you will be OK.
Jeremy .... I hope the doctors solve the problem soon. Glad it is not heart.
Johnboy gave me an update, and he is continuing his battle with cancer.
Rob ... Good to see you.
Prayers for all.
Jeff .... I started using Firefox a few months ago on the old computer. It has imporved it a lot. Now they are seeking donations. Is that normal?
One of out Michigan daughters gave me two sets of Woodland Scenics figures for Christmas. One is of kids flying kites, and the other is workers on strike. I have placed them on the layout in the scenes below.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mint tea, please.
FINALLY dropped off the pickup truck for "fixin'". So, when it is running reliably again, I can pick up the lumber for making some new expansion tables for the (HO) layout. Has been a long time since doing anything with it. The New year will bring some positive changes.
Healing thoughts to all of you in need.
Hi Guys Just a update:
It happen again today with the shortness of breath and heart racing, not as bad as before but still went to the hospital. They ran a battery of tests and say my heart is fine and my blood pressure is good,it was racing when I went it but went down. They also think it might be stress and want me to follow up with my doc this week. He gave me a few breathing exercises to try if it happens again
Galaxy: Whoa! Be safe.
Richard
Hi
Well, had a scary low blood sugar episode a little while ago just after MOH left for w*rk. fell to about 20-25 by the feel of it. Barely could I funcition, but I had to boost it before I passed out. I have glucose tablets for that {big giant sweet-tart-type thingies} but only had 2 adn i was about to pass out, so I grabbed cookies {the Danish Xmas kind} and some christams candy. It is the Worng way to boost low sugar, but in a pinch when one is about to pass out it works. and fast.
I get all shakey, sweaty, very weak, my brain goes to a "cotton ball feel" and I am lucky t o move or get sugar boost on my own. I was lucky thins time. MOH would have freaked if been here, especailly wiht only 2 glucose tabs.
So my typing may nto be so great as still recivering a hour later. Now have a gut ache form so much junk. but feeling better wish my meter still worked. DOn;t really ned one anymroe as i know about what my sugar level is by the feel.
Not fun sometimes being Hypoglycemic.
I'fd better go lie dwon now.
Zoe, I'll have the Breakfast Buffet, but you can keep my FGLK Mug filled with Seneca Lake Organic Dark Roast coffee please!
Dark, gray, gloomy, and icky outside this morning..... I guess the sun isn't supposed to shine at all until next year! Last December I made about 85 kWh of electricity. This year I will be lucky to top 70 kWh. Last May I made over 700 kWh. Seasons make a big difference around here!
About to go hide down in the train room and see what can be accomplished. Only other big thing for today is the family is celebrating Uncle Ben's Birthday a couple weeks late. He is my DIL's Brother.
Hey Todd, it was that $5 movie that did it you know. Preprogramed to do that so you would run out and buy a new Blue xray thingie...
Good morning. It's 45° with 78% humidity. The high will 62° and feel like 67°.Checked the hold of the Go2Glue I used yesterday to stick the SDFloppy ][ unit in place and it's holding very well. Why was that a concern? Yesterday I tried some thin Velcro. It's adhesive held to the SDFloppy just fine. However the stuff didn't like the somewhat textured surface of the ancient disk drive I stuck it on. Didn't matter how much I cleaned it or with what. The result was the same. It would slowly lose adhesion until it was just sitting there held by nothing more than gravity. When I touched it or tried removing the SD card the unit just came up Velcro and all. Oh well I wanted a flush fit anyway so off came the Velcro. I put just a small drop of the Go2Glue on the surface and pressed the unit down on it and it's still stuck there now. Works for me. I wonder how little of the Go2Glue would be needed to keep a diesel loco shell in place yet let it be easily removed. It doesn't stick your fingers together the way super glue does and it can be rubbed off if you rub hard enough. I've used it to make 'window glass' in a couple of old Zamac diesel bodies. I can tell you that it sticks to the Zamac VERY well. Putting it on is easy. Getting it off is another matter entirely!
Good morning everybody. .... I hope you are having a good Christmas and New Year season. .... We're still busy with family visits. Now Son and DIL are here from Cincinnati with 2 granddaughters. Granddaughters will stay for a wekk, and Son and DIL will be back in OH to work this week.... We'll take the girls with us to see family in Nashville, TN during the week.
Velcro.? ... I've used a few time on the model railroad.
Ray .... I like the family photos of grand daughters and cat.
Ulrich .... Your critter project looks like a lot of fun.
Karl .... Your old 0-4-0 sounds like a fun project, too.
Prayers continue for JohnBoy and others in need.
Lunchtime in Germany!
Flo, steak sandwich and an RBF, please!
It´s a gray day again, but at least it´s dry. We will be visiting Petra´s aunt this afternoon, just to bring her a few late Christmas gifts and try to cheer her up a little. Life is not really treating her kindly.
I decided to "color" the cardboard mock-up and started with black paint for the frame. I will buy some yellow paint for the body tomorrow, which will shoot the cost of the critter up to an incredible 1 $...
Here is a quick update:
CU later, folks and make it a great day!
Making a mistake or a false assumption in something you are trying to achieve
the allusion is to hunting dogs barking at the bottom of trees where they mistakenly think their quarry is hiding.
The earliest known printed citation is in James Kirke Paulding's Westward Ho!, 1832:
"Here he made a note in his book, and I begun to smoke him for one of those fellows that drive a sort of a trade of making books about old Kentuck and the western country: so I thought I'd set him barking up the wrong tree a little, and I told him some stories that were enough to set the Mississippi a-fire; but he put them all down in his book."
The phrase must have caught on in the USA quickly after Hall's book. It appeared in several American newspapers throughout the 1830s; for example, this piece from the Gettysburg newspaper The Adams Sentinel, March 1834:
"Gineral you are barkin' up the wrong tree this time, for I jest see that rackoon jump to the next tree, and afore this he is a mile off in the woods. 'beating around the bush': Meaning: To prevaricate and avoid coming to the point. Origin: The figurative meaning of the odd phrase 'beat around the bush' or, as it is usually expressed in the UK, 'beat about the bush', evolved from the earlier literal meaning. In bird hunts some of the participants roused the birds by beating the bushes and enabling others, to use a much later phrase, to 'cut to the chase' and catch the quarry in nets. So 'beating about the bush' was the preamble to the main event, which was the capturing of the birds. Of course, grouse hunting and other forms of hunt still use beaters today. The phrase is old and first appears in the mediaeval poem Generydes - A Romance in Seven-line Stanzas, circa 1440: Butt as it hath be sayde full long agoo,Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take. The poem is anonymous and exists only as a single handwritten manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, the early printed versions all having disappeared. Even at that early date the author's implication was clearly that 'beting the bussh' was considered a poor substitute for getting on with it and 'taking the byydes'. If it really was said 'full long agoo' in the 15th century then the English 'beat about the bush' must be one of the oldest non-biblical phrases in the language. The earliest version I can find that adds 'about' to 'beat the bush' is in George Gascoigne's Works, 1572: He bet about the bush, whyles other caught the birds. As far as the relative global popularity of the two versions of the phrase goes, the US version is becoming the standard. According to this graph of instances of the two phrases in print that are recorded in Google's databases, 'beat around the bush' overtook 'beat about the bush' around (or about, if you prefer) 1980.
"Gineral you are barkin' up the wrong tree this time, for I jest see that rackoon jump to the next tree, and afore this he is a mile off in the woods.
Meaning: To prevaricate and avoid coming to the point.
Origin:
The figurative meaning of the odd phrase 'beat around the bush' or, as it is usually expressed in the UK, 'beat about the bush', evolved from the earlier literal meaning. In bird hunts some of the participants roused the birds by beating the bushes and enabling others, to use a much later phrase, to 'cut to the chase' and catch the quarry in nets. So 'beating about the bush' was the preamble to the main event, which was the capturing of the birds. Of course, grouse hunting and other forms of hunt still use beaters today.
The phrase is old and first appears in the mediaeval poem Generydes - A Romance in Seven-line Stanzas, circa 1440:
Butt as it hath be sayde full long agoo,Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take.
The poem is anonymous and exists only as a single handwritten manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, the early printed versions all having disappeared. Even at that early date the author's implication was clearly that 'beting the bussh' was considered a poor substitute for getting on with it and 'taking the byydes'. If it really was said 'full long agoo' in the 15th century then the English 'beat about the bush' must be one of the oldest non-biblical phrases in the language. The earliest version I can find that adds 'about' to 'beat the bush' is in George Gascoigne's Works, 1572:
He bet about the bush, whyles other caught the birds. As far as the relative global popularity of the two versions of the phrase goes, the US version is becoming the standard. According to this graph of instances of the two phrases in print that are recorded in Google's databases, 'beat around the bush' overtook 'beat about the bush' around (or about, if you prefer) 1980.
He bet about the bush, whyles other caught the birds.
As far as the relative global popularity of the two versions of the phrase goes, the US version is becoming the standard. According to this graph of instances of the two phrases in print that are recorded in Google's databases, 'beat around the bush' overtook 'beat about the bush' around (or about, if you prefer) 1980.
galaxyOne word, Jeffrey: V-E-L-C-R-O! Does wonders at holding things in place but alows them to be removed/moved!
jeffrey-wimberly Earlier this evening I got tired of having to hold the SDFloppy unit pinned down while I changed out the SD card in it. So I took the little rubber feet off it, applied a 1/8" diameter spot of Go2Glue to the bottom and stuck it down on top of a dead disk drive that's helping hold the flat screen video monitor up. Now I can change the SD card one handed as it can't slide around. Eventually that dead drive will be moved out of there and replaced with a Lobo Drive that I have (a second one). That drive too is dead but I'm rebuilding it and it will run all the different types Apple software I have just as the good Lobo Drive I have does. When that dead drive is moved I need to be able to get the SDFloppy unit off it and that's where the Go2Glue comes in. It stays flexible and can be easily removed.
Earlier this evening I got tired of having to hold the SDFloppy unit pinned down while I changed out the SD card in it. So I took the little rubber feet off it, applied a 1/8" diameter spot of Go2Glue to the bottom and stuck it down on top of a dead disk drive that's helping hold the flat screen video monitor up. Now I can change the SD card one handed as it can't slide around. Eventually that dead drive will be moved out of there and replaced with a Lobo Drive that I have (a second one). That drive too is dead but I'm rebuilding it and it will run all the different types Apple software I have just as the good Lobo Drive I have does. When that dead drive is moved I need to be able to get the SDFloppy unit off it and that's where the Go2Glue comes in. It stays flexible and can be easily removed.
One word, Jeffrey:
V-E-L-C-R-O!
Does wonders at holding things in place but alows them to be removed/moved!
Earlier this evening I got tired of having to hold the SDFloppy unit pinned down while I changed out the SD card in it. So I took the little rubber feet off it, applied a 1/8" diameter spot of Go2Glue to the bottom and stuck it down on top of a dead disk drive that's helping hold the flat screen video monitor up. Now I can change the SD card one handed as it can't slide around. Eventually that dead drive will be moved out of there and replaced with a Lobo Drive that I have (a second one). That drive too is dead but I'm rebuilding it and it will run all the different types Apple software I have just as the good Lobo Drive I have does. When that dead drive is moved I need to be able to get the SDFloppy unit off it and that's where the Go2Glue comes in. It stays flexible and can be easily removed.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks,
Janie, just a refill on my decaf please.
I actually got to get stuff done down in the train room today!!! YES! I finished glueing together the iupper door for the Blacksmiths shop, painted the door and the window for that wall. After the paint dried I weathered it with a darker gray (Dry Brush). Made the window panes for the door in another wall (Testors plastic glue and window maker), glued the door and the window in place on that wall. All I have left on the walls is to glue the last two items in the last wall. Then I can start to glue the walls into the Octagon they will make. Photos by tomorrow night (I hope). I also put down some ties on the roadbed I put in place earlier this week. Since I ran out of ties, I made a couple hundred more and stained about half of them with the dark "Creosote" stain I use. I hope January and February will give me some quality time to get a lot of items done down there. Oh, I also got 5 loads of wash done! It's been piling up for a couple weeks I guess...
Karl
He was checking out the candles when my sister lit them yesterday:
Couple of my favorite two little girls. Granddaughter #1 in a toy that opens up and closes down my sister got for them from the Metropliton Museum in NYC:
Granddaughter #2 looking out from the same toy after it closed down... The toy will stay open, but if dropped it completely closes down into a ball. They can make it any size they choose and do all sorts of neat things with it. They were both fascinated with it.
"Peace on Earth to Those of Good Will"
Well this afternoon I hooked the SDFloppy ][ to the drive 1 position on the slot 6 drive card. Why didn't I do that before? Now when I turn the computer on here's no annoying drive chatter. Just a beep then it boots from the SD card in the SDFloppy unit. I've copied much of my software to three SD cards and I've printed lists of what's on all three. Earlier this evening I played an entire game of Starfleet1 and never once did I have to even have to touch a diskette. I only had to press a button to switch from side 1 of the game to side 2 and vice versa. The game went quite well and I did win but I didn't get enough percentage points to be promoted. I'm still a Vice-Admiral. I gave Lode-Runner a try. It can be controlled via the keyboard but it would be so much easier with a joystick. Maybe someday I'll get one. There are other games I'd like to get when/if I can. Skyfox, Batman, Zaxxon, Defender, Deep Space, Zork Beyond (already have 1,2,and 3. Don't care for zero), ZorkQuest, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Flight Simulator II.
Good evening guys
Not much goin on here today, kinda takin it easy after yesterdays running. Seems SWMBO got a whole bunch of gift cards for Christmas, so it was off to the after Christmas sales yesterday! Guess who drove and carried packages???
But we had fun. Today I fixed,,,,actually more like resurected a Mantua 0-4-0 from the ashes. New boiler coming soon, but the chassis was stripped, degreased, repainted, and all the electrical was redone. Still ran bad, till I found a bad connection where the brush holder fits to the top of the motor, fixed that now it runs great! Spent the rest of the day teasing the younger cat with an indoor helicopter SWMBO gave me. Between battery rechargings I got out an R/C Challenger RT and chased her around the basement with it!
Ulrich. Cardboard mock up?? I am impressed! Love to see it in styrene with a power truck under it!
Well, the recharger light just went off on the chopper,,,,here kitty kitty!!
NCE über alles!