Mornin'......
The Finger Lakes are closed today! Stay home! Nothing is open.......
That is the news from here this morning. Zoe I'll have a breakfast bagel with egg and sausage to go and a large cup of dark roast and hope I get home OK.
Blizzard is in progress. Not too bad yet. I can still see the house across the street but it is rather indistinct. Good day to do some modeling I think!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray: better you than me, though in about 2-3 hours {or less} will be US too!
Right now is 37F and Raining HARD. Good thing not snow yet, but will change at about 1:00PM my time. darn good thing it wasn't snow up till now, we'd have what RAY is getting, we are still to get some 9-12"!
Well, I called around for scripts for MOH, who has insurance, mind you, but with a $2,600 deductible! So we get one filled at a local grocery chain and one at Sam's club. Gottat get MOH signed up for HSA account that will kick in May 1st for "enrollments". That will help offset the costs, but how much to put in is the question?
I have mental health intake next wed, and the dentist the following wed. other'n dat, I have nothing I guess. Oh grocery shopping once or twice too.
Well, Cable was out last night, just after my EARLY morning greeting! It died, it did. Two men were still working out near my pole this morning..wonder why?
Well'
On to better things, like the budget shortfall the scripts leave us.
-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.
Mid forties today, then mid twenties for a high tomorrow, with single digits Thursday night. We are supposed to get a couple of inches of snow, but the north country will be getting a foot or more. We're going skiing this weekend, so this will be really nice for us.
This time of year, pretty much all I do is work during the week and ski on the weekends. There's barely time for anything else. We can't even keep up with the few TV shows we record. Another month, though, and we'll miss the ski season and start getting bored again. Of course, that's when I can get back to the layout.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Evening!
An uneventful day is coming to an end. It was sunny again, but a lot cooler than in the previous days. Night time temps are below freezing, and our weather guessers are forecasting the return of winter for the weekend. I could certainly do without that!
I am battling a case of migraine today, so it´ll be just a short visit.
Ray, Galaxy and those struck by the blizzard - stay safe!
Good to see Barry posting again - any news from Johnboy?
Sir Madog Ray, Galaxy and those struck by the blizzard - stay safe!
We will, BUT: right now it is still 36F and raining is all. so we have missed several hours of what could have been snowfall...
River is going high, though, that COULD be bad news! It could mean flooding! Flooding could mean power outages! power outages the temp of only 7F tonight could mean FREEZING THINGS!
Alas, this too, shall pass...
It is supposed to turn to snow about now, but apparently not now...
Have a great evening, stuffed peppers for dinner here...dunno what else to go with it yet,,, but I'll think of somp'tin.
later...
Oops...spoke to soon..
I t has now just turned to pinkling on the roof, meaning sleet is now coming, the leading edge of the snow/mix...so soon will be snow..
Hello All you up north . Hope the best for you in the snow. Hear you are about to get 2" ? Been gone a while. Closing down one site. Processing LOTs of paperwork to start a new site . And just generally filling in where ever needed. No real office to speak of. And then there was the kids never ending basketball season - Phewww didnt think I was going to survive that one ! Well I hope to see you all more now that things hve settled down a bit.
TTYL
YGW
Afternoon!
Chloe a cup of very hot, hot choclate would feel real good right now!
YGW, 2"??? Hah! Try 2 feet! I just cleared out the driveway of over a foot of it and almost frostbit my ears in the cold wind out there... The city Snowplow just did our street and plowed the end of my driveway back in, but since I am not going anywhere at the moment, I will just wait until after supper and do one more cleaning before nightfall.
Can't wait to take my sister to the Rochester Airport tomorrow morning! Her flight is still scheduled to happen, but the airport has been closed all day. One flight listed as landed actually did land... In Chicago! It is still coming down pretty good out there with another 7 to 11 inches more by morning.
Take care and stay warm!
Took the car to the dealer today for some maintainance. State inspection, emission inspection, and an oil & filter change. Damages weren't too bad, as the state inspection is free. That was a dealer incentive when I bought the car. Then the wife had some shopping to do. Mainly a stop at a bookstore to stock up on some audio books. Then we had lunch. I had a rueben sandwich, which I haven't had for some time, along with a rasberry iced tea. Really enjoyed that. Finally got home around 2:00 in the afternoon.
Temperatures are dropping now, & they are forecasting 1 to 3 inches tonight. But we have been lucky this year when some bad stuff stayed either north or south of us. Maybe they will be wrong again. I hope so, as I have a doctor's appointment in the morning. Seems he doesn't like the results of bloodwork I had done a couple of weeks ago. He had changed 1 medication the last time I saw him, and I think that's the problem. Just have to wait & see what he says.
Everybody stay safe and warm...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
jeffrey-wimberlyToday I took apart an old Apple DuoDisk floppy drive. As the name implies it's two disk drives in one housing. These things were never great sellers as they were notorious for having problems.
Jeff,
My family had one of those when I was 10 or 12. It sure was an upgrade from using a Radio Shack portable cassette recorder for data storage as we did with the TI-99/4A though! I don't ever remember us having any problems with it, but that was close to 30 years ago. At this point electrolytic capacitors in all 30-year old computer equipment--not just power supplies--are a smoke cloud waiting to happen.
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I remember a game called "Tapper" that I thought was on the flipside of a single-sided disk (with the notch cut out), where you passed beers down a bar and had to hit certain targets or something. The one game I really don't remember if it was a IIe or TI-99/4A game though was something called "Jungle Jim," where you swung from rope to rope, over a swamp with alligators. Do you remember that game at all?
Bruce
BPoi jeffrey-wimberly Today I took apart an old Apple DuoDisk floppy drive. As the name implies it's two disk drives in one housing. These things were never great sellers as they were notorious for having problems. Jeff, My family had one of those when I was 10 or 12. It sure was an upgrade from using a Radio Shack portable cassette recorder for data storage as we did with the TI-99/4A though! I don't ever remember us having any problems with it, but that was close to 30 years ago. At this point electrolytic capacitors in all 30-year old computer equipment--not just power supplies--are a smoke cloud waiting to happen. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I remember a game called "Tapper" that I thought was on the flipside of a single-sided disk (with the notch cut out), where you passed beers down a bar and had to hit certain targets or something. The one game I really don't remember if it was a IIe or TI-99/4A game though was something called "Jungle Jim," where you swung from rope to rope, over a swamp with alligators. Do you remember that game at all? Bruce
jeffrey-wimberly Today I took apart an old Apple DuoDisk floppy drive. As the name implies it's two disk drives in one housing. These things were never great sellers as they were notorious for having problems.
I haven't played Tapper in years. I just looked it up and it's in my mega-rom file on my PC. So is Jungle Hunt (not Jungle Jim). That one is similar to Pitfall (don't have that one). I've got to get a joystick so I can play more of these games. Defender is an old favorite of mine but it can't be played from the keyboard at all. Lode Runner can be played from the keyboard but it ties my fingers in knots.
What you say about the capacitors being smoke bombs, you're so right. I have one blow up in a power supply recently and it took a big can transistor with it. The trailer smelled like burned paper and lacquer for most of the day.
Probably the worst thing about the DuoDisk disk drive is that the left drive gets used a lot more than the right one does, thuse the left drive wears out much more quickly than the right. This can be fixed by transplanting the chassis of a UniDisk disk drive into the left side of the unit but it's not a project to be taken lightly.
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Evenin' folks!
Janie can I get a hot cup of decaf please?
Still coming down! And... the city snowplow just came around and piled it higher at the end of my driveway. So far my sister's flight is still scheduled, so I am heading out to bed as it will be a very early morning for me. Have to clean out the driveway then hope the roads have been plowed and sanded to get to Canandaigua.
Have a great night, stay warm, and know all those in need are in my prayers...
Not much happened today. Took one of the old Apples apart. Pulled the chips and cleaned the legs and sockets then reinstalled everything, hooked it up and tested it. A-OK! Thing about doing a thorough cleaning like that is all those chips suddenly seem to have a bazillion legs! Cleaning the holes in the sockets is easy with a pipe cleaner and alcohol. This one really needed the cleaning as it had a case of light rust going.Copied some programs from the Apple Mega-ROM file on my PC to an SD card then copied them to floppy disks on the //e.Other than that it was a pretty quiet day except for the wind blowing outside. Sounded like some gusts reached 40mph.Time to call it a night. See y'all in the am. I got a doc appointment in the afternoon.
Howdy .... Our trip to Cincinnati went well, and now it is time to get back to a normal routine.
Barry ... It's great to see you in the DIner, but the kitechen is running out of food as you order your Barry-sized portions.
Mr.B ... Late Happy Birthday to you.
Jeff ... I hope the appointment goes well.... Will the L&A Air Force get off the ground?
YGW ... Good to see you in the Diner.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
morning coffee in the diner...
There once was a girl called Kate,Who was in for an amazing fateShe said her words wrongWhilst singing a song,And complained about her non existent weight
There's not much that's worse than a coldAnd cough syrup's worth more than goldI need sympathyFor my miseryI'm just sickly, that's what I've been told
Good Morning!!!
High today around 50
Power started to flicker yesterday as I was doing my daily post so I shut down and went on with my day.
Sinuses are driving me batty so I sleep about 30 minutes before I get up coughing my head off. Blow my nose until it's raw, then back to bed after about an hour then start all over. Oh well. Head hurts from all the couhging and so does my chest, This happens fro a few days every year in the Spring and then again in the Fall. You'd think I'd be used to it by now wouldn't you.
Ya'll have a great day now 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.
Good Morning....well....sort of....
Right now we are at the lonely 1F out here...going for a high near 20F later on....with about 10" on the ground here...then this part of London seems to get more than some other parts.....Byron got a foot....
Garry: But there is a lot of unloaded cars behind here...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
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YGW, 2"??? Hah! Try 2 feet! I just cleared out the driveway of over a foot of it and almost frostbit my ears in the cold wind out there... The city Snowplow just did our street and plowed the end of my driveway back in, but since I am not going anywhere at the moment, I will just wait until after supper and do one more cleaning before nightfal
Howmus - sorry to say this BUT better you guys than me ! LOL ! We had about 16" a few weeks ago and the last of the snow disappered with the rain and high winds yesterday !!! Hope you all dig out soon .
Todd - Sounds nasty. Hope you feel better soon
Garry - thanks. Have you heard from Mike ?
Jeff - How are you doing ? Man that thing needs wings to get off the track do you have all of your track in now and your entire layout running ?
Gotta get to w**k. Not even time for coffee.
yougottawantaJeff - How are you doing ? Man that thing needs wings to get off the track Whistling do you have all of your track in now and your entire layout running ?
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Good morning. It's 34° with 97% humidity. The high will be 65°.Nothing planned for this morning. Got a doc appointment to go to this afternoon so that's the afternoon shot.
Good Morning All,
15F with a biting cold wind this morning. Thanks Ray. You could have kept it and I wouldn't have minded a bit. So far only flurries for s**w so no real complaints. Had PT again this mornign which is going well enough.
Haven't touched any of the MRR stuff since I got back but I'm catching up shop stuff and maybe this weekend I can get some layout time in. Need to finish up the yard switch mechanisms and add some fascia down that side of the layout to anchor the switch levers to.
Is that the old Tyco or Bachman rail cannon Jeff? Haven't seen one in years though somewhere I have some other Army rolling stock and a flat car with a semi truck also in o.d. with the stylish horn hook couplers.
Time to roll into the shop and get to it. My thoughts and prayers for those in need - anyone hear from Johnboy lately? Good to see some familiar faces lined up at the rivet counter. Cheers, J.R.
GMTRacing Is that the old Tyco or Bachman rail cannon Jeff? Haven't seen one in years though somewhere I have some other Army rolling stock and a flat car with a semi truck also in o.d. with the stylish horn hook couplers.
Well, it s a whole 7*F and Extremely windy out there!
I have a small short errand to run. SO I will have to be out in it!
WE down here, did NOT get the snow RAY got.we just just a dusting and light coating of crusty stuff....in areas that the snow had melted you can still see grass puffs poking through, but that WIND!
Nasty!
It will be only a high of 14 today, but tomorrow a different story...it will be 40*F! so the river has a day to recoup from rain overload....
Can't wiat til tomorrow..we got spoiled on Tuesday with warm eather up to near 50.
Then I come home and clean out the computer room, and tomorrow I MUST make some semblance of the TRAINS room! There is a closet full of non-essential stuff that has been there nigh on 13 years, and I don't know what it is, so I won't miss most of it. If I get that cleaned out, I can re-organize the train stuff for storage properly. Then MAYBE get teh train space I need to build my bigger layout? Doubt it though...the room won't grow in size then it will just be emptier.....making it appear bigger...
Later dudes, off to clean up...
Thursday morning again? Didn't we just have one of those last week?
Our predicted 2 inches of snow turned out to be about a half an inch. Fine with me. It still looks like we'll have single-digits again tonight, but with a bit of luck that will be the end of it until next winter. Gotta watch out for the predicted lows of 13 and 14 on Sunday and Monday nights, though.
Still mystified by Malaysian Air 370. If I were to come back in another life, I think I'd like to work for the NTSB. This stuff fascinates me, and it's so hard to be looking in through the distorting lens of media reports, many of which would rather speculate on outer space alien abductions. General-purpose reporters have no working knowledge of radar and transponders, and they don't even know what questions to ask when they have the opportunity.
We're doing another round of data-passing with our financial advisor, with a bit more emphasis on retirement now. I spent an hour or more pulling together pension, Social Security and 401K numbers. It's hard enough to even find the right web sites, and then I have to go through the mysteries of user IDs and passwords. I managed to create an account for myself on the Social Security site, and then went off to look at my wife's side. Blocked! At the same site I had just used! On a hunch, I closed all my browsers, started again and it worked. I know, something about government web sites, but the rest are no better. (I can't add a quote here without manually inserting BB code, for example, and avsim.com, my favorite flight simulation site, has been down for a week and a half.)
Afternoon folks!
Mr. B, glad you got little from the storm. We got about a foot and a half out of it. The last Blizzard here was 15 years ago and it hit us with a foot or so of the white stuff. The one before that though.... Back in '93 I think it was dumped over 3' of it here in the area. My son got snowed in at the college where he was working. Couldn't get his truck out of the parking lot and we were under a state of emergency making it illegal to be driving around anyway... So he walked home! About 2 miles in total white out thick snow with 50 mph winds. I told him I had raised an idiot!
This morning I had the privilage of driving my sister to Rochester to catch her plane to Atlanta and then to Mexico City.... I got up 3 hours earlier than I normally do and as soon as I had started a pot of coffee and the sun had come up enough, I went out and ran the sn*wblower to clean out enough of the driveway so that I could get the car out to the road... (8°F out there and windy.) Then came in the house just managing to avoid frostbite and called my sister. According to her the roads would be just fine! I had breakfast, gave Blackie his Med an hour early and headed out the door giving me a half hour to drive the 17 miles to her house. I took the main road rather than the back road which is a bit shorter. Took me an hour from the time I walked out the door to when I arrived at her house. First off, when I cleaned the snow off the car, I discovered about 1/4 inch of ice underneath! So I fire up the ICE (motor) and got it scraped off enough I could see to drive (10 minutes). The roads were plowed but still barely passable. Got to the 5&20 Bypass in Canandaigua to find a major accident had occured. Front end T-bone collision evidently. Somebody didn't stop at the light and somebody else was already there..... There were 4 police cars, a fire truck and 2 ambulances still there... Luckily one lane on each side of the 4 lane highway was open so there wasn't any real holdup. Roads going North out of Canandaigua were also very icy so getting to the thruway was slow. Once we got on the thruway roads were clear and traffic was moving along well. Managed to get her there with an hour and a half before the flight departure time.
On the way home the roads were a little better, but not by much. Going South from Victor to Canandaigua I was doing about 35 in a 55 mph zone when the light ahead tuirned red (just at that point where you have to decide whether to brake or zoom through the intersection hoping it is still yellow. I decided to brake and found myself on a glare of ice... Slid right into the intersection, I did. The automatic braking on the PiP kicked in and chattered until I finally stopped. I looked in my rear view mirror and there was a car behind me doing the same thing. He was a good distance behind me though and was able to stop before he was near me. I thnk I have had my fill of Winter Driving for the Year....
Sun is shining at the moment here.
Stay safe out there!
We had a nice and sunny day again, though the temps did not exceed 10°C. Soory, folks, no snow, and, if I may ask you, please keep it at your end of the Big Pond!
It´s been a do-nothing day again. I finally was able to contact that carpenter friend of mine, only to find out that he will be really busy in the next months and we may find a slot to build the benchwork not before July or August I am not going to wait that long!
Ray, good to see you are back safe! I was worried a little. Driving on icy roads is no fun, and even if you play it slow and safe, there are enough fools around, thinking they can defy the laws of physics!
HAve a splendid day (if the weather permits you to)!
Well
We took the cat to the vet. He is staying overnight at least. Blood work fine, but underweight a tad and apparently not holding "water" {fluids}. SO some tests and an overnighter.
He also got shaved while there. A long haired cat, he has NOT allowed to be brushed/combed for about a year now.
MOH is panicking, as lost the other cat in '12, Mother in '13, and does NOT want to loose this 17 yr/old cat now! Ironically the first cat passed of kidney problems, so did Mother, and now vet thinks this cat may have kidney issues too. Sensing a theme here......
The wind has died down and the sun is out burning brightly. If same at RAYS house, must be producing some Killed-Watts.
Now tomorrow is postabe warm and sunny too. and near to 40*F I hear!
Well, MOH is not hungry for dinner, I think is full of worry. I said not to worry about his passing, as it hasn't happened yet!! MOH has him cremated already and missing him terribly. Says the house is "empty without him"..it is only temporarily, I think. The cat may have arthritis that why not jumping up on things. We {MOH and I} have arthiritis too! No biggy.
later
Good report from the doc. I'm in excellent health for someone in my condition. Van didn't want to start for the return trip so I had to take the doghouse off so I could open the air filter and spray a bunch of starter fluid down the carb. I then held the gas pedal to the floor and crank it over a few times before the engine roared to life. A few minutes to put everything back together and I was headed for home. Took time to get some gas, left the engine running while I did that. Got home from there without incident.
So that's what Tapper looked like in color! We only had a monochrome monitor (green, if I remembering right.)
That's pretty cool that you've rigged up an SD card reader on the IIe. I was only a kid when I was playing with them in the early 80's, but I still like them because they're that sort of older technology that I can kind of understand. That's why I play with vacuum tubes in audio circuits, I think. At least I have some idea of how the circuit works and can read the simple schematics tube electronics have.
BPoi Jeff, So that's what Tapper looked like in color! We only had a monochrome monitor (green, if I remembering right.) That's pretty cool that you've rigged up an SD card reader on the IIe. I was only a kid when I was playing with them in the early 80's, but I still like them because they're that sort of older technology that I can kind of understand. That's why I play with vacuum tubes in audio circuits, I think. At least I have some idea of how the circuit works and can read the simple schematics tube electronics have. Bruce
I have two of those old one wire green screen monitors. One is an Apple III monitor (the Apple III was a dismal flop but the monitor was good and was standard equipment with the IIe). The other is a small trash-80 monitor (never did like the TRS-80) I use when I'm testing an old Apple. Back in the early 80's high school was only a memory. I'd been out of the army since May of '81 and was working as an assistant administrator at my parents insurance brokerage and had a small programming and computer tech business on the side.
Got a Call from the vet.
Seems there is nothing wrong with the cat, really. He is just being a cantankerous crochety old codger worrying us needlessly!
He is a little underweight, but other than that, the vet says he is fine. Since he had knots in his fur, that may be the reason he can't/won't/couldn't jump up oon the bed or MOH's recliner. Since he got shaved there, he may very well be OK now to do so. IF he feels like it.
So,there, Like I told MOH "don't worry until there is something to worry about."
Have a great night, see you EARLY in the morning!