What happens when you're really sick and can't do anything.
Do you sit at your layout put the power on and watch trains go around?
Well that's my idea of a sick day what's yours?
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
I'll sit at my layout and watch trains go around on a good day. But, I usually will have a beer while doing this.
Actually, if I'm not just sleeping-it-off sick, I like to take on some small mindless project, like upgrading to metal wheels or painting figures. It's something I can do just sitting quietly and I can stop whenever I want to, and it takes just enough brainpower to take my mind of being sick.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have a swivel Captains chair I place in the area in front of the fireplace so that I can be a warm Zombe in command if I wish.
Or also in the train room If I get tired of the Captains chair I'll have a train or two running and be sitting in the Lazyboy having a Hot Toddy from the train room bar, reading MRR or playing my Guitar.
But I never get sick. I think traveling the world has made me immune to most things. My Arthritis can lay me flat sometimes and that is when the lazyboy really gets used.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I was thinking of installing a small strong plywood hinge section next to a curve track, so I rest my head on it. Fortunately I haven't gotten that sick before this happens.
Layout of LION is on third floor, two buildings over. HIM NOT going over there when sick. Him go to bed, and let zookeeper bring him wildebeests.
Working at the computer is another matter, that is in basement, just below my room. If I'm not dead, I may go down there. But that is such a waste, so now we shut off computer, and go to trainroom. The construction of new signals beccons.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I know I'm really sick when I don't feel like working on trains.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
For some strange reason, when I'm sick, that's when I'll do those little picky, time consuming jobs at the bench I can never seem to get to otherwise. Like soldering up a bunch of SMD LEDs for stock or painting figures, etc..
Mark.
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If I couldn't disappear into my model railroading "world" I think I'd get sick!!!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I usually get one cold a year. I don't cinsider that to be sick and I continue to do what I do when I do not have a cold. Two months ago I had a ventral hernia repaird. The next day I drove 25 miles to pick up some styrene. While recovering I worked on a T-Trak module. I did miss my clubs meeting the day after the surgery. When the staples came out a week later I resumed my daily three mile walk. I can't sit around and do nothing.
Even in spring, a Minnesota basement can be kinda cold, so I generally don't go down there if I'm not feeling good. My PC is in the kitchen, so I can go online and poke around. As it happens, I had to call in sick a few days ago. I slept pretty late, then spent a lot of the afternoon reading a railroad-related book.
I'm currently sick with fever and crap. I avoid the model trains cause of shaking and fatigue. Once I took my medicines and layed my head down on the workbench and super glued my face to the workbench.
Randy
I telework when I'm sick because vacation and sick days come out of the same pool and I'd rather use the day when I'm not sick.
Batman, I covet that 12-string. When I retire later this year, I'll be picking up my 65 Fender Jaguar once again.
I have many medical problems, and am considered permenantly sick.
But when any one of many symptom gets really bad and I get really even sicker, trains are the LAST THING on my mind!
It may often involve a trip to the hospital, or a stay there for an "indefinite period".
Mostly I am in bed hoping to sleep through the latest bout of whatever...
I MAY otherwise only veg in front of the TV. keep fluids going, and where most likely I will fall asleep due to the added meds to make me better.
as stated above, the meds make me drowsy and I may be shaky {sometimes to shaky to walk steady...if I didn't alredy use a cane, I'd need one}
I am also NOT the most pleasant person to be around when I am sick!
When I am miserable, I want you to be miserable too!
-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.
I've just had 2 weeks off with a cold that won't go away. I watched a lot of youtube videos of real and model trains and did a little electronic project for the railroad. I also ordered a few bits and pieces off ebay, didn't feel up to doing much else.
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
When I worked on the real railroad, I used my sick days for when the fish were biting.
Charlie
An owner of a prestigious Model RR store near me, who stocked all scales and had an extensive inventory that would make everyone here drool, once said to me, "Model Railroading is a Sickness".
He also called railfans who chase steam engines, "Idiots"
Can you believe that?
That store is no longer in business.
I could never figure that guys problem, it defies reason.
angelob6660 What happens when you're really sick and can't do anything. Do you sit at your layout put the power on and watch trains go around? Well that's my idea of a sick day what's yours?
I usually have a bowl of chicken soup and sleep.
Now some of the paid "sick" days I took from work I had another goal in mind like watching the 765,611 or 1218 or get a three day weekend.
No great sin..The policy was "use 'em or loose 'em by December 31"..The same applied for your vacation time.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
My layout makes me sick from time to time.
When that happens, I stay away from it till I feel better.
Rich
Alton Junction
Since I was very frugal with my sick time from my job I had 288 sick days in the bank to cover me if I really got a serious illness. When I retired I was paid for half of my unused sick leave. That $24,000 sure perked me up.
MisterBeasley Batman, I covet that 12-string. When I retire later this year, I'll be picking up my 65 Fender Jaguar once again.
Mr. B.
I bought the 12 string when I was 13. That was 44 years ago! I remember it took a lot of hours of cart returning at Safeway and paper route money to pay for it. I bought the 6 string two years later at 15. It was a lot more $ than the twelve string.
They are very treasured instruments and I probably play them a good ten hours a week. My playing ability is really being affected by my arthritis these days, and that is a bit of a drag. At least I had a good fifty years of real enjoyment.
Enjoy getting back to it in retirement. Picking up the guitar while working on a kit or the layout makes glue dry much faster.
If I can sit straight up I'm going to work.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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I'm one of those people who rarely gets sick, but when I do it's a doozie. My layout is in a second-floor bomus room and if I'm really sick (provided I havn't tried to tough it out and go to work), I don't usually have the energy to climb the stairs. I'll usually end up watching Silver Streak instead.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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Geared Steam angelob6660 What happens when you're really sick and can't do anything. Do you sit at your layout put the power on and watch trains go around? Well that's my idea of a sick day what's yours? If I can sit straight up I'm going to work.
We had a guy to do that..He should have stayed home instead of inflecting almost half of the repacking crew and one forklift operator(me) with Pneumonia...The Production Manager was all for firing the guy due to the lost production he caused but,his boss said no..
I enjoyed my paid 5 days of rest and reading western novels.
It was the Production Manager's responsibilty to recognize that situation, and act on it, if he didn't, it was his mistake.
I graduated from "professional" forklift driver 25 years ago, some of my co-workers looked for any reason not to work, I never did that.
My job doesn't require me to have to work from an office, I can perform my duties from home (if I'm sick) airport, airplane, etc.
Some people get it, some wonder why they don't.
As the World Turns.....
When I couldn't work any longer, because of my arthritis. I lasted a year after the Rheumatologist suggest I pack it in, until the feds forced me to hang it up. I had over two years sick time in the bank and that carried me through to just short of my retirement date. I had to claim disability for a few weeks and as long as I paid my deductions up until retirement, I recieved a full pension.
I remember being sent home sick twice. Once when I had pneumonia and the other time was when I had a broken leg. I had a cast and crutches and after three days of working I was told to go home. It appears that passengers at the airport were complaining to some of our Members of Parliament that I should not be forced to work. They saw me get out of my Government of Canada truck on the ramp and go about my business with the cast and crutches. They were tyrannical employers. I really was there because I wanted to be. But it was bad optics for the government. I went back to a desk job after four weeks of Salmon fishing up the coast on sick time.
I can honestly say I never took a sick day when I wasn't sick. That being said, I loved my job and don't ever remember a day when I didn't want to go to work. I used way more sick time for broken bones and other non work past time/sporting related injuries than being sick.
I rarely get sick, I don't drink so hangovers are never a problem, but as others have already stated, when I DO get sick, the LAST thing on my mind is trains. Right now I've got "spring fever;" I haven't touched the layout in weeks. Too much to do around the house, garage and garden. This will last till the first heat wave and then you won't see me leave the basement.
galaxy I have many medical problems, and am considered permenantly sick. But when any one of many symptom gets really bad and I get really even sicker, trains are the LAST THING on my mind! It may often involve a trip to the hospital, or a stay there for an "indefinite period". Mostly I am in bed hoping to sleep through the latest bout of whatever... I MAY otherwise only veg in front of the TV. keep fluids going, and where most likely I will fall asleep due to the added meds to make me better. as stated above, the meds make me drowsy and I may be shaky {sometimes to shaky to walk steady...if I didn't alredy use a cane, I'd need one} I am also NOT the most pleasant person to be around when I am sick! When I am miserable, I want you to be miserable too!
Galaxy, that is a EXACT description of me. I have no functioning immune system, (I was born with it), but I was able to have a career as an RN, in the Operating Rooms. When I finally was descovered with the immune problems, I became a desk jockey. I was one long enough to retire on a full pension.
I have lost several major organs to infections due to the condition. I almost lost me lt foot to MRSA.,I have to use a cane to walk with. Sometimes I too spent infinite periods in the hospital as well. I have to take 10 pills in the morning and 13 at bedtime. It gets really old being this way.
What happens to me when sick is I sleep, and I sleep alot! Last week I slept for 3 straight days. Still don't feel right from my last IGG treatment.
But when I'm sick, NO TRAINS!
Carey
Keep it between the Rails
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What's a sick day?
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
A sick day is when you're exactly sick.