howmus Galaxy.... So you folks down there are just starting to get it, huh? Well, some people never get it do they! OH!!! You are talking about the winter storm named something or other by the Ad folks over at the weather (WARNING!!!!) channel. I doubt we get anything at all up here. They do have us under a WEATHER ADVISORY.... HORRLIBLE, STAY SAFE!!! thingie, but tyat just keeps the $$$ rolling in for them. If power goes off here, I will just turn on the PiP and hook up the 1000 watt Pure sine wave inverter and see how it does. Hey, I hope you folks survive even if the power does go off!
Galaxy.... So you folks down there are just starting to get it, huh? Well, some people never get it do they! OH!!! You are talking about the winter storm named something or other by the Ad folks over at the weather (WARNING!!!!) channel. I doubt we get anything at all up here. They do have us under a WEATHER ADVISORY.... HORRLIBLE, STAY SAFE!!! thingie, but tyat just keeps the $$$ rolling in for them. If power goes off here, I will just turn on the PiP and hook up the 1000 watt Pure sine wave inverter and see how it does. Hey, I hope you folks survive even if the power does go off!
Ray:
I t actually fizzled out down here. Right now it surrounds us, but we are getting nothing but a fine mist!
Doesn't hurt my feelings any!
ENjoyed Super SOul Sunday on Oprah's network with the CEO of Starbucks. Smart man. All I got to say.{I don't have any stock in Starbucks, I donot work for them or anything. Just a man who happens to be the CEO!}
-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.
jeffrey-wimberly Next thing you know Karl's gonna be out making snow angels!
Next thing you know Karl's gonna be out making snow angels!
ONLY if I fall down in it. Momma might have raised some homely kids, but she didn't raise no dumb ones! Besides, a certain young son can shovel out the driveway and SWMBO's car.
Karl
NCE über alles!
Today I picked up this interesting piece of kit:Yes, it's a SD card reader/writer. The interesting thing is it's designed to work on an Apple II series computer. According to the maker as far as the computer is concerned it's no different than a Disk II disk drive and I can read/write files on it just like I do with my disk drives. At £45 Pounds Sterling plus shipping it's a pricey little toy. But then I'm not the one paying for it. It has quite a ways to travel so I'll be receiving it around the end of the month.
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
Never did get that nap today. I should sleep good tonight. Tomorrow I have another doc appointment but that's not until the afternoon. He wants to see how I'm responding to the new med he put me on. So far it seems to be agreeing with me.Played a game of Starfleet1 today. Did well enough that I got awarded the Starfleet Citation for Gallantry. Just another way of saying I got away with rushing in where angels fear to tread.I got some debugging done on Oliver's adventure. Hopefully I'll be done with the command portion of the program soon.I ran diagnostic checks on all six of my floppy drives. Five checked out perfect. One had a read/write error. Go figure! It's the one I modified to ignore write protection if a toggle switch is turned off. I set the switch to on and the drive passed the tests.Blood sugar reading tonight before meds was 179. Not too bad considering I had chimichangas with chili, cheese and olives for dinner tonight.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
The tree is up and we have a pair of ovals around the tree--American Orient Express on the outside, Thomas the Tank Engine on the inside. Nothing special on with the layout, just EZTrack on unfinished plywood. We are waiting for a couple more cars for Thomas, cargo cars to fill with presents. When I get the cars, I will post a couple of photos.
I took the SIL 2B out mountain biking yesterday. Not surprising that the 20 year old was a bit stronger than me and my old man asthma lungs, but I held my own. We really like this kid. He is gainfully employed with a decent career ahead of him, and he treats my daughter well. He also treats me and MOH with respect, a rare thing in this day and age.
Richard
Hi Fellas, woke up to a bit of snow here.
Its my Birthday today Dec 9th
I have a docotors apointment at 1pm and then might go to the hobby shop afterwards. Talk to you guys later on how my day went
JeremyB Hi Fellas, woke up to a bit of snow here. Its my Birthday today Dec 9th I have a docotors apointment at 1pm and then might go to the hobby shop afterwards. Talk to you guys later on how my day went
Well, Golly gee! My how you have aged well! Do you feel wiser?
with lots of and some !
Cheerrs Galaxy, not dont feel any wiser,lol
morning coffee in the diner...
Today's fun limerick:
There was a space telescope named HubbleThat produced images that appeared doubleThey sent up a rocket& Adjusted a socketOh!! how the engineers got out of trouble!
vagile: able to move freely
fludgs: means quickly; old way of saying "hurry"
Anthropophagous: man eating; feeding on human flesh
As used in a sentence:
When told to engage in anthropophagous, SAm and Harry fludged vagilely!
*** Many of you probably think I am a vocabularian: A person who gives much or undo attention to words! {you'd possibly be right!}. Do I remember all these words? Not ALL of them...but it is fun to use brain power for more than a Tetris game on the gaming console! {which I don't do as I don't have a gaming console}
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.
Jeremy!
Thanks for the wishes guys.
Funny thing, I thought I could hear a bird in my water heat vent this morning, dont know if it was that or the freezing rain tinging on it. I use to also have the furncae venting out through it but now its just the hot water heater. We also had a new galavanized lining put in and cap put on. They told me that no animal could make a nest in it like the old one we had which was a clay liner. But I think a small bird could have still sat in the top and maybe got gassed and fell down? all I know is that between the dishes I did this morning and the shower I and the wife had that either the little fella got out or probably got gassed from the water heater ( Its a gas )
Thanks again guys for the wishes, I have some things to do before my apointmment and hobby shop after. Might see if I can get in to docs early, I will call in a few.
GoooooD morning gang!!
Flo, can I get some blueberry pancakes with some sausage on the side?? Gracias !
TMarsh Hmmmm. Kinda freaky. Page 6 does not exist even when you’re on it……in limbooooo. I wonder if there's any more forum out there.
Todd, maybe we've reached the end of the internet and need to turn around?
Got SWMBO off to work, JR is still sleeping,,too much shoveling?,,schools closed today anyhow. Gotta find a recording of Reveille and put it on his alarm clock.....ya know....just to prepare him
Me? Today I have to call the county roads dept,,,,,,they took 3 feet off my yard last night and redeposited it 6 feet from the road!!! Now I have a grass & dirt berm on top of the snow!!! Then on to projects. Had a customer drop 3 more engines off Friday night for sound!
Cya later!
Thanks Karl, I appreciate it.
Couldnt get in to the docs ealry so will have to wait until 1pm for my apointoment. Im the first or second after lunch so thats good. Talk to you guys tonight
Kind snowy and slushy out today, and a cold wind. But nothing compare to what the guys out west have
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar along with a cup of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug please.
Cloudy and windy outside the window here this morning. Got a whooping .1" of white stuff that just blew away except for where it can stay out of the wind.... Currently 38°F so the white stuff is already gone. Sure wish the sun would come out for a while though.
Karl, up here it is common practice to.... ah.... Widen the road when it sn*ws. If we complain loud enough sometime in mid summer the city will send a couple guys in a pick up truck over to put the now dead sod back in place where it more or less came from. I imagine the sn*wplow driver down your way has not handled one of those things much and so doesn't have a feel for how wide they are actually plowing the stuff!
Oh Happy Birthday Jeremy! Hope it is a great day.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Thanks Ray,
I might head out soon and go to the hobby shop before the docs, and that way I can just come straight home. Talk to you guys later on today.
Good morning. It's 38° with 100% humidity. The high will be 48° and cloudy with rain.Blood sugar reading this morning was 116, very good for me. My doctor is happy with anything between 80 and 140 and sorta happy between 140 and 150. Got a doc appointment to go to this afternoon. He wants to see how I'm responding to the new med (Onglyza) he put me on a couple weeks ago. So far it seems to be agreeing with me. It can have some rather nasty side effects. For one thing it can cause pancreatitis. After the doc visit we'll go next door to Fox's Pizza Den. I probably won't have much computer time today so I don't think there'll be any progress on Oliver's adventure.
JeremyB Thanks Karl, I appreciate it.Couldnt get in to the docs ealry so will have to wait until 1pm for my apointoment. Im the first or second after lunch so thats good. Talk to you guys tonight
Thanks Karl, I appreciate it.Couldnt get in to the docs ealry so will have to wait until 1pm for my apointoment. Im the first or second after lunch so thats good. Talk to you guys tonight
I LOVE it when I have a Dr's appt on my B-day! and they ask "when is your birthday?"...I say "TODAY. 19mmmrff"
They all pause, look at my documents and then laugh and "drop a quarter".
Speaking of Dr's appts. I went to the dentist to see about a filling that came out. I got a new "temp" but have a feeling the tooth has to go. It has HUGE chunk missing now. The "blessings" of bad teeth.
Went to the Drs. office to get a form for MOH.
Went to the Insurance man to drop off the safe driver courses certificates for me and MOH for this next 3 years. Asked about Life Insurance, Agent is supposed to call me this afternoon, see if that happens. Dunno if we can get in the budge but that is what i aim to find out.
Went to the pharmacy.
Went to the liqour store next to the pharmacy to get Mega Millions tickets, just for fun I got 2 of them! At $343 Million dollars or so, I figure I can spare $2 for 2 tickets, IF we win! What would I do with it if we won? give a large part to charities of my/our choosing, maybe START a charity of our own...and then officially "retire" to Hawaii, of course!
what else? Nutin' I guess. Now on to laundry and boring household duties!
Later gaters
Hi Guys
Back from doctors and hobby shop. At the hobby shop I purchased a couple boxes of atlas mill lumber a bottle of modelmaster green a container of MIG pigment ( industrial city dirt ). Also had a nice chat at the shop with a fella.
Spent a hour or so blowing a ton of sn*w around with my new heart attack preventer. Works well and sure beats the shovel. Only problem is that with this 35 ft wide lot, it's hard to find a place to blow the white stuff. Stupid narrrow lots All so the greedy developers get more homes to the section of land.
Ok rant off.
Went shopping this am and managed to part with $500 dollars for so called "necessery items" The good news is that we won't have to do it for another 2 months. Except for food.
No action on the railroad again..... Need to contine wireing the switch machines.
More sn*w coming tonigh Looks like one of THOSE winters.
Cheers all
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Hi Dennis, good to see from you.
Well I had a good birthday guys, docotrs out of the way and treated myself to a few treats at the hobby shop. Nothing real big just some detail items but Im happy. We had a cake and the best part for me is always my grandma calling to wish me happy birthday, make my day each time. Only thing was she was early this year at 11am she usually calls at 5pm or so. Alayws makes my day.
Tomorro I am expecting some calls and have a few loads of laundry to do. Then some train work for me.
chochowillie More sn*w coming tonigh Looks like one of THOSE winters.
Us too Dennis, (3 to 5 inches) but I don't have a heart attack preventer, except for my son who went back to his mothers house today (and promptly started a fight with her) I do have a meeting to attend tomorrow a.m. but if it snows I'll have to postpone it. My car is like driving a banana peel on this stuff.
Wound up working on the scenery on the layout today. I have a river scene. Originally poured with Envirotex. Over the years it go scratched, so I was told to coat it with Future floor polish. Eventually that got nasty so I decided to remove it. But how to get it off?? Ammonia! Gets it off, chases the cats away, and makes the whole basement smell funny! Tomorrow I'll get some clear polyurathane on it
L8ter gang!!
Good evening. It's a cool 42° here. Looks like the low will be 36° with an 8 mph north wind and an 80% chance of rain. Chilly and wet!Doc appointment went well. He's happy with the way my blood sugar numbers are dropping. He wants me to continue what I'm doing. I go back to see him again in a month. Went to Fox's pizza from there. No time for working on Oliver's adventure or playing any game. I did however make time to work on a copy of the Starfleet Officer's Manual that I have in a PDF file. I went through and highlighted all the code words I know of, about eighty in all. The game of Starfleet1 asks for a code word when you're starting the game. That, your identity and password will get you in. If anything is incorrect you get kicked out. I've also printed a list of the code words with word numbers, line numbers, page numbers and the corresponding words. For example if the game asks for word 3 on line 5 of page 5 I go to the word 3 section of my list, go down to line 5, page 5 and see the word is 'ENEMY'. On the list it looks like 3---5---5---ENEMY. It's a lot easier to use the list than flipping through a manual that's falling apart. Someday I'll print out the highlighted manual I have in PDF format. There was nothing else going on today. Blood sugar tonight is 155. That'll drop after I take my insulin before bed.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Today's limerick:
There once was a man who liked to bet He even did it on the netThen one bad day The money went awayNow he's drowning in debt
Today's weird words:
heteroclite: deviating from the ordinary rule; abnormal; irregular
scrippage: your baggage or personal belongings
brumous: foggy misty
USED IN A SENTENCE:
In the heteroclite brumous, David missed a piece of his scrippage!
Morning gang!
Coffee please,,,it's cold out there!!
Glad to see I can at least make it here, snowing hard here. Got up, looked outside, nothing. Took a shower, got dressed, looked outside. Snowing so hard I could not see my mailbox, and the sidewalk & driveway all covered!
County schools, county offices and even the courts are all closed, were supposed to get 4 - 6 inches of the stuff before noon! So I'm staying home, SWMBO too! I just hope she doesn't want to make any lists today. I'm cancelling them now. Not cuz of snow, but because of a lack of interest!!
Good morning. .... I'll have 2 eggs (over medium) , toast, bacon, and grits please.
Galaxy .... Sounds like a busy day
Jeremy ... Glad you had a good birthday.
Jeff .... Good to hear the doctor appointment went well.
CDN Dennis ..... Glad the new snow blower is working well. .... Rant? What rant?
Karl .... The Weather Channel showed the winter weather in Maryland this morning. Messy stuff.
Todd .... 'tis the season for shopping. Do you love it.
Everybody .... Late yesterday, I heard from JohnBoy by email. . ... He certinly is going through a rough ordeal as he begins his fight to beat cancer. He had appointments late last week, was in the hopital over the weekend, and had a rough appointment yesterday. This morning he is at the hospital with a procedure that requires him to be sleeping with anesthetics. He appreciates support and prayers from the MR Forum.
Speaking of shopping. I can tell Shelley has been shopping. One clue was the UPS man delivering 39 packages yesterday.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. It's 33° with a wind chill of 27°. The humidity is 98%. High will be 45°, wind north 10-15, cloudy then clearing.No plans set in stone today. I intend to get more work done on Oliver's adventure then maybe squeeze in a game of Starfleet1 this afternoon to relax.
Well,
i knew it would happen and probably keep happening. I go the first phone call for life insurance this morning already. I was hunting and poking around last night for the insurance, adn now we will be bombarded with calls "Sign up NOW, over the phone" I told the guy it's like buying a car, SEND me the info..USPS or Email. don't care which, but I am not going to buy RIGHT NOW, TODAY ONLY for this "once in a lifetime oportunity" type of deal!
I My final costs insurance will be only slightly higer than MOH's, technically IF we get the two policies together. Odd that, as I am disabled and weigh a few pounds mor'an MOH does.
I want to SEE, READ what they are offering. SEND it to ME.
I expect calls all day long about it. We will also see our local insurance who handles car and house...Another thing is that I knew of only 2 kinds - term and whole life, but now they say there is Universal and other types too?!
Either way as my father says "insurance is generally a losing proposition, but can pay off IF the person dies a timely death". {?!} SO we expect it to be a problem.
How much is another criteria...he's started off offering whole life "final expenses" {covered to age 110} of only 15K or 25K benefit. Now lemme see, My mothers funeral was about 6K 10 years ago "full complete package" with all burial costs. MILs was about 8,000 for 'simple package" with no viewing or calling hours, and no grave expenses, 10 years later. So MIL would have been about $9,700-$10k with "all package". So nearly doubled in 10 years. SO 30 years from now, if we die, will $25K be enough??? 15K I do NOT think will be enough, but its a start. We opt for cremation any way and interment on a paid for plot unless we move somewhere else and decide to be buried there instead. 30 years form now we can expect it to cost around $50-60K MAYBE? Maybe need $100k policy to cover "final expenses"
We aslo don;t want one of these "phony plans" for "Just $1 a day" that goes UP exponentially as you go through each 5 year age bracket! One paymetn to stay the same is fine. ANd maybe one of theose policies taht "pays for itself" after 20-25 years?
There WILL be more calls as I put in for a couple of quotes. Grr.
So, now i will have to entertain other callers .
Also got yet another robocall from the cardiologists office, "time to schedule". Bosh! Pish Posh! Putooey! I HAVE an appt next May Already! I don't NEED one now. I JUST CALLED them yesterday to make sure! SO I had to call they to tell them "PULEEZE, make it stop!" I hate robocalls with no person to talk to! She said she'd turn it off.
Some times I wonder if ALex Bell knew what he was doing could become a "dangerous thing".
So i shall bumble along today. I think I have something outside to do, but can't think of it now.