Good evening. Temp is 78° and humidity is 97%. Mostly clear. Looks like telescope conditions!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
PackerJeff, Good you can at least use the truck. But I am curious who maintenance falls under now, you or your father?
Evenin' folks!
Janie, can I get refill for my decaf please?
Tonight I tryed to get a start on the install of the Freway Blaster horns I am puting in the PiP. The instructions over at Prius Chat make it sound very easy. indeed it would be if you have very skinney small hands..... I can barely get my hand in there after taking out the top plastic piece in the engione compartment. My son has smaller hands and is coming over tomorrow afternoon to help me. It should take less than a half hour if he can reach the stuff for me. It is supposed to be a big improvement over the little meep, meep of the stock silly little thingies...
While I was out there I saw my next door neighbor come out of his house walking their dog. I waved and went over to say hi. His right arm had a large bandage on it and I noticed some huge bruises up his arm. I asked him what he did to himself? He evidentally had just gotten home from Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Last Wednesday he had a heart attack! They took him there from our local hospital by ambulance. The bandage and bruises are from all the IVs he had while he was there. He also showed me the "Patch". he has finally given up smoking! He is a good guy and a good neighbor so I hope he will recover completely and be arround for a ghood many more years. He is about 10 years younger than me...
Amongst a bunch of other things I did today, I managed to install some "J" bolts on the bridge. I used code 70 rail spikes cut down to fit in the ties for it.
I now have to figure out what to use for the blot heads on the top. I may try "O" scale rivets, but I doubt they will stick to the wood ties... I shall see.
Have great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening guys
Been super busy as of late.
Trainwise, I bought my first piece of brass... BUt then I discovered something about those Kato Superliners. It seems that I can only put 7 cars in a train before the couplers start pulling apart. I tried it with 9 on tuesday night at the club and it kept coming apart. There isn't really a way to put a Kadee on these cars (short of body-mounting) and keeping the close-coupling. Perhaps I will glue the knuckles on the "special" kato couplers shut. Although I am wondering if storing the train on a really tight radius track is causing the couplers to give or something.
Jeff, Good you can at least use the truck. But I am curious who maintenence falls under now, you or your father?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Nice night out tonight, last night was cool and you could get a hint of fall in the air. I noticed when I got home it looks like one of the goldfish are about to die, hes kind of floating upside down. When he dies we will only have two, and the tank will go to the first person that wants it. Free of charge after the other two die. I feel bad for him beause hes kind of bobbing there. He may be a fish but I never want to see any animal in distress. I guess its Nature though.
I also picked up some school supplies today ( as I have mentioned I always stock up on stationery this time of year ) still have a ew more things I want.
Well I have to go switch the laundry over to the dryer and check to see if the fish is still alive.
Ken: Good to see you montain biking, that is my other summer hobby even though I havent been out for a bit. Chances are you are running 26" tire on your bike but you can check the sidewall. It will say something like 26 X 2.00 or slightly smaller. Any 26" tube would fit a 26 tire. I would take a guess that your not running tubeless tire?
Ken, is the old bulb a 40w? The new ones state they are 35w. You may have a missmatch for the bulbs causing a problem running on that ballast... Try using both new ones and see if they work. Just a guess...
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please
Have not posted for a few days, I have been stopping by but just to tired to post. With the added time driving home from St Charles then working out I am poped.
Yep still Working Out! It been a month and a half now and still not tired of it. I have picked up a 1/2 inch on each arm. Going to get the Bike back on the road (Pedal Kind) and start riding 20 minutes a day for Cardio. (spell check) It is a 18 speed Mountain Bike, it has sat for 10 years outside. Pretty sure it will need new intertubes. How do I find the sizes I will need?
Fluorescent Light Question? Besides the kind of light output are there diffrent kinds of T-12 bulbs? I bought two new 4 foot T-12 fixtures (Wanted T-8 but could not get anyone to help) from Lowes. These are the one's I bought.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_420865-43921-MXL-101_0__?productId=4013481&Ntt=shop+lights&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNtt%3Dshop%2Blights&facetInfo=
Theses are the bulbs I bought.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_402212-3-22480_0__?productId=999899735&Ntt=fluorescent+tube+light+bulbs&Ns=p_product_price|0&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_price|0%26Ntt%3Dfluorescent%2Btube%2Blight%2Bbulbs%26page%3D2&facetInfo=
Reason I ask is I tried the old bulbs from the fixture I pulled down and one is good and works in the new fixture. Installed a new bulb on the other side and hung the light. Old bulb is steady, new bulb has a light display going on, strips and such.
So did I buy the wrong bulb, have a bad bulb or a bad fixture?
See you all Saturday after work, Ken
I hate Rust
Howdy ..
Thanks for the thoughts, comments, prayers, lighted candles, etc.
Not sure why they will wait until Monday, but that is when my MI BIL has surgery. He has one artery 99% blocked, one 90% blocked and two blocked enough to need surgery also. It will be a quadruple bipass.
So, the whole family is worried through Monday.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
who, boy!
Where to begin?
First Garry: your BIL has a candle glowing for him. Even the "healthy people" have hidden problems!
Ray: Jeffrey: My mother had MS Multiple Sclerosis. FOr 25 of her 59 years she lived in a wheelchair. The last five years she had mini strokes, was ephasic/ couldn't talk, already was a quadraplegic by then and her vision was going. it was not pleasant.
TO all those who agree about healthy people thinking sick people "just lazy"...Until it strikes them, then never have feelings for it. Even with my father caring for my mother, and watching his mother die of cancer, he thought me "lazy" not sick. When HE had gallbladder trouble, it came on sudden, they diagnosied itin the hospital and scheduled surgery in 2 weeks. I battteld it for FIVE years before they decided to take mine out! He was in such misery and complained " I am in so much pain and can't get any relief" Afterwards , he apologized to me about the misery I went thoruhg for the 5 years I suffered. My father has had his health, but has had two more hospital stays {one for low sodium like KEN} and another minor ailment and he now has feelings for me and being sick. Took only 23 years for THAT to happen. MY father doesn't even have an aspirin in his house!
Ray: half my teeth are like the stars, they come out at night. And I will need more dental work done. we have parital coverage inusrance and 60% charitable discount on balance but still high...we are so low income we have that advantage.
At the hospital any Hospital {specifically} ONLY services are 100% charitable discount to us. even those {2 people} with incomes up to $54K a year can get a 25% discount! Ceck it out!
well, MOH just got home, so I will leave you all.
-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.
Jeff - Funny - makes one cringe a little - I have been in construction for 35 + years and I cannot tell you how many times as a supervisor I stand back and think " what was that guy thinking" I have seen a guy slice his belly open cutting drywall, another cut half his foot off, nail through just about every part of the body you can imagine and unfortunately I have had a death (stepped off a three story building ) and several that were permanently injured by building illegal scaffold ( fell five stories, amaze they lived ) . And after all that I am constantly preaching safety and they get attitudes about me trying to help them keep their body parts where they belong- go figure ! What is the difference between SSI and SS ?
Garry - will keep your in laws in prayer
Homus - I feel your pain on the dentist cost. I am saving now for dental work .
TTYL
YGW
MisterBeasleyRay, where are the teeth with the cracks?
These are not second Molars, which would be the only ones I would even consider not fixing.... The bridge goes from first bicuspid to the first molar on the upper Right, and the other one that needs a crown is the first molar on the upper Left.... The second bicuspid on the Lower Left needs the filling. 'Tis expensive, but I feel blessed to have enough $$$ coming in in retiremeht to be able to pay for stuff like this. Just means I will have to put off buying that Tesla I want for a couple more years....
Got my Rx's filled. Now I have to take my Shure KSM27 large diaphram Cardioid Condenser Microphone down to church so it can be used at the Installation Service for Pastor Deb a week from tomorrow... Unfortuately I will not be able to attend the service as I will be working Train Crew that afternoon out at the museum. The following day is Diesel Day out there. Our biggest day of the year! Again, I will be working train crew for the day.
Later!
Garry, don't think of that as "bad results." In our engineering world, troubleshooting and isolating the problem is halfway to getting it fixed, so it's actually "good results." "Bad" is when they can't figure out what's wrong. I remember having a shoulder injury that wasn't getting better, and the doctor told me I had a torn rotator cuff and needed surgery. I was thrilled, because it was going to get fixed.
Ray, where are the teeth with the cracks? Over the past couple of years, I've had that happen to two crowned teeth. I thought I'd be looking at new crowns, but Doctor Diane (who also gives me old dental tools for my layout) said to just take them out, since they were way in the back. I asked how it would affect my bite, and she said, "To tell you the truth, you probably won't even notice it." She was right.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I could use another refill for my coffee mug, please.
I got in here about an hour ago, but got interupted by several other things needing to get done first...
Garry, I will keep your BIL in my prayers for his upcoming surgery! Yes, keeping up a good schedule with the Doc is a good thing to do. I see mine every 6 months. Then I see the Allergist, the Dermatologist, the eye doctor, the podiatrist.... That comprises most of my social life these days I think. Went to the Dentist yesterday for a teeth cleaning. By the time I got out of there I was handed an estimate of work needing to be done of $5,200!!! Most of it I already knew would likely need to happen. Been having a few twinges lately from a permanent bridge over a missing bicusped. I figured I probably had a problem with one of the teeth it is anchored to. A tooth I opted last year to get filled rather than pay for a crown is now cracked.... That one now will get a crown, and a small cavity on one of the few teeth that haven't been crowned yet... The Dentist also asked me to write a recomendation for the Silver Beaver Award in Scouting for a member of the Troop Committee he works with (my old troop). Before I left he said, give me the estimate.... Crossed out the first estimate and gave me a $700 discount on the work... Still pricey, but a bit better on my bank account. The one thing none of my insurance will pay for is dental.
Need to head over to the Pharmacy to pick up a couple Rx's. One for me and one for Blackie the cat. Then I'm heading down cellar to do some model railroading for a change!
Hello again.....
Just learned my brother in law in Michigan had some bad results of heart tests this morning. He has bad blockages in 4 arteries. He will be having bipass surgery shortly. Remarkably, this is a guy who gets plenty of exercise, eats wisely, and keeps his weight where it belongs. .
Meanwhile my sister in law in Tennessee is doing well recovering from her heart attack last month.
I encourage each of you to have a phyiscal exam regularly. If it has been too long since you had one, schedule it as soon as you can.
Hi Guys,
Just about to head out to work soon. Its a nice day and suppose to be nice all weekend too, I have to work tomorrow so hope to get outside on Sunday to cut grass.
See you guys tonight
Happy Friday morning. Looks like a nice day and a nice weekend. I'm planning to push through my meds-induced lethargy and try to get in a bike ride.
My Mom made sure her affairs were in order before she died. Her will was simple - my sister and I were co-executors, and we split everything down the middle. Actually, being co-executors would have been a pain logistically, so she asked me to just do it, which worked fine. There were no disagreements, and getting rid of all her furniture was the only hassel, as neither of us wanted much of it. We've still got some metal porch furniture, but the French Provincial living room set ended up incongruously located in a lodge at a Y camp in Connecticut.
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 everybody.
I hope you have good plans for the upcoming weekend.
Cheers
RAY- My wife was MISdiagnosed Hep C and almost died from the meds. PBS was found to be the problem. Been ten years now and it aint easy. Now with my operation, out of work and S S just gets us by. Still, better off than many others.
Jeff- Just got that E from another modeler. Didn't know you had it and posted it. Stupidity can't be cured.
Prayers and Blessings to all.
Flip
morning...
Quotable Quotes:
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou
"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.” ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
and now, for your pleasure, a limerick:
The Mad Hatter said to the Hare:"I think someone's taken my chair".Said Alice: "I see—And who might that be?""Myself", said the Hatter, "so there!"
Go Ahead, MAKE it aGREAT DAY!
Temp 79°Humidity 93%Wind S 5-10 mphP CloudyBeen outside. It feels like a sauna out there. No rain but I had to dry off when I came in. It's been cloudy all week and looks like it will cloudy all the coming week. I haven't been able to use my telescope yet. I think it's some conspiracy!Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Hi Guys
Not much going on here. Just playing around on the Ipad for the most part. There is a app that will come in handy during my next strat o matic project. Kind of getting a little tired so might just lay on couch and watch baseball.
Workers of the year 2013
howmusMy Mom managed to live 35 more years (she had Primary Biliary Cirrhosis of the Liver and degerative bone disease later). She lived all those years in pain!
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy They didn't like the fact that I was on welfare and COULDN'T work. They thought I was just "being lazy". My father is now begininng to see how bad i am. I have had to have him take me for my spinal nerve injections and he's seen me go in and come out about crippled and "the pain you go through"he once said. HE now knows {with proof} that I have trouble s and the elaborate thing of going and getting the injections is not a game or charade. I had a lot of the same static from my father who never had anything worse than a light case of the flu. It was always 'Your legs can't be that bad. I'm twenty-six years older than you and mine are fine. Now go out there and run around the fenceline for exercise'. Quite a few times I told hm what he could do with that attitude and how to get it there. My mother was more understanstanding as many of my problems I inherited from her. One year my father got hit with a bad case of sciatica and could hardly walk and then only with great effort and intense pain. My mother and I both told him to go run around the fenceline for exercise. He told us both where to go and how to get there. Then he came down with diabetes and now has to keep that under control. He's now getting some burning in his fingers and toes and has a much better understanding of what I'm going through. He doesn't even want to know what it's like to lose a leg or even an ankle as I lost the use of my right ankle many years before I lost the right leg below the knee.
galaxy They didn't like the fact that I was on welfare and COULDN'T work. They thought I was just "being lazy". My father is now begininng to see how bad i am. I have had to have him take me for my spinal nerve injections and he's seen me go in and come out about crippled and "the pain you go through"he once said. HE now knows {with proof} that I have trouble s and the elaborate thing of going and getting the injections is not a game or charade.
I had a lot of the same static from my father who never had anything worse than a light case of the flu. It was always 'Your legs can't be that bad. I'm twenty-six years older than you and mine are fine. Now go out there and run around the fenceline for exercise'. Quite a few times I told hm what he could do with that attitude and how to get it there. My mother was more understanstanding as many of my problems I inherited from her. One year my father got hit with a bad case of sciatica and could hardly walk and then only with great effort and intense pain. My mother and I both told him to go run around the fenceline for exercise. He told us both where to go and how to get there. Then he came down with diabetes and now has to keep that under control. He's now getting some burning in his fingers and toes and has a much better understanding of what I'm going through. He doesn't even want to know what it's like to lose a leg or even an ankle as I lost the use of my right ankle many years before I lost the right leg below the knee.
Isn't it so true that it is very easy to "blame" others for their disabilities and problems. I hear so often comments about "those" people and how lazy or stupid, or (fill in the blank with this or that generalization ). That appears to be an easy sell for some politicians I guess and is grabbed up by so, so many people just looking to find someone else to blame for "whatever". OK, no more use of the word "politician"...
I can remember all too well coming home to visit my parents after I became a teacher and sitting and talking to my Mom after she became disabled... She was in constant pain, could no longer drive, and was told that she had less than 5 years to live by her doctors. She was previously a successfull local business woman (hairdresser) and a well known singer in the area. She could no longer sing as it caused too much pain for her.
One time while we were talking she started to tell me about the times when some of her older customers and some who were disabled would ask her to drive them home (A few miles out of her way) and how she was always upset with them for thinking SHE should have to give them a ride... None of those ladies could drive and for many their only "Fun Money" was the day at the hairdresser so paying for a taxi wasn't possible. Often times something came up that their ride back to home suddenly couldn't pick them up. She would drive them home, but I remember mom would come home in a foul mood on those days and rant about how pretentious some of her customers were. But this day she sat and cried.... She told me how much she wished she could turn back the clock because now she knew. Now she would feel priviledged to provde a ride home for them. She wished she could have been glad to do that when she had the chance.
My Mom managed to live 35 more years (she had Primary Biliary Cirrhosis of the Liver and degerative bone disease later). She lived all those years in pain!
What I learned:
“To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
galaxyThey didn't like the fact that I was on welfare and COULDN'T work. They thought I was just "being lazy". My father is now begininng to see how bad i am. I have had to have him take me for my spinal nerve injections and he's seen me go in and come out about crippled and "the pain you go through"he once said. HE now knows {with proof} that I have trouble s and the elaborate thing of going and getting the injections is not a game or charade.
Good afternoon. 89° here with 63% humidity. Cloudy with a fair chance of rain. High of 92°. with Been busy today with a powered seven port USB hub. Supposedly guaranteed to support whatever devices are connected to it. Apparently the Magicjack and certain keyboards aren't among those devices. My key board that I've been using for a couple of years won't work with it and it won't even recognize my Magicjack. So those two devices are plugged into USB ports on the computer itself. The mouse (ain't caught in the traps yet), printer, scanner, external hard drive and a couple of flash drives are plugged into the 'USB Mass Storage Device' as the device manager calls it. It took a bit of work just to get the thing to work properly as Win8.1 wouldn't see it. It's no wonder the darn thing cost under $5.No plans for today.
well,
I will either be lucky or haunted for my family feud.
My mother has passed a decade ago,so all is now up to my father. I have told him IF there is ANY inheritance- and I am not banking on oen if he uses it all up-IT will GAVE to remain invested or BE invested as our retirement funds, and any left over will probably go to charitable funds IF we have anything leftover.
Now I have a brother...there is no doubt he is the favorite of my father....in so many ways, though I am gaining some favor, as I do visit and check on dad which dad complains my brother would never do even when my bro was in my father's town {we all live in the same general area, but can be miles apart too.}.
there is an issue in hat my father gave my bro thousands of dollars for various things over the years, and I mean in the tens of thousands, probably amounting to 3/4 of a 100 grand,if nto the whole hundred grand. Menawhile, while I was fihgting to get my disability aproved, my parents gave me bupkiss, nada, nothing to help out. They didn't like the fact that I was on welfare and COULDN'T work.
They thought I was just "being lazy". My father is now begininng to see how bad i am. I have had to have him take me for my spinal nerve injections and he's seen me go in and come out about crippled and "the pain you go through"he once said. HE now knows {with proof} that I have trouble s and the elaborate thing of going and getting the injections is not a game or charade.
He may pass along a few bucks here and there so i don't complain and only ever really asked for help to get through the time MOH was unemployed and i was denied recently and we were in BIG trouble. He did help out.
Subject of my brother has changed....lets just say my brother has "disappeared' and is "away" for a VERY long time. we will most likely never see him again. He is still the favor child as my father sends money and is still spending thousands of dollars on things for my brother which will alll be moot point really. My BRO will most liekly still be "away" for the rest of his life, {as was the original intention by the folks in charge of such matters} be it long or short. But as the favored child, my father still shells out money on his case.
Go figure. SO IF there is anything left over after dad is gone, It SHOULD go to me with a small amount going to my brother PERHAPS. That COULD all be wrong. My fahter has a living trust set up so I don't know what is in it, of how set up, but I told him he'd better be sure I am in charge of all the medical issues for dad, as my BRO, being "away" can not do so.
I am expecting nothing really, what doesn't go to take care of my father, will probably already be spent on my bro's case anyway whcih my fahter will probably fight til HE dies. He doesn't get it, My Bro is "away" for life. I have also suggested my fanthere se t up some accoutns with joint owner me for me to access to pay his immeditre bills when/if he becomes incapacitated. He has refused to do so,.
I could be haunted by havign to continue to spend money on my bro, who is "away" as per my fahter's trust directives, or the trust will direct so.
MOH's {FIL} is ttrrying to set up will and transfer funds via double ownership to ease the burdon on mOH when FIL dies. HE REFUSES TO set up a Living trust! We won't be able to put up any money if required for probate on his will! He thinks the will is enough. we differ on that with him.
so we can only wiat to see what happens.
AS I said, I am expecting nothing. Perthaps I will be surprised, perhaps not.
that closes that issue.
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Cherry Granola, skim milk, and some stevia. Oh and my usual dark roast coffee, Please!
Currently 68°F outside here in the Finger Lakes region with a high of 74°F on the horizon for today. Sun is shining and it may be a fine day for a change.
Family feuds..... Reading about some of your experiences, I am very thankful for my family. When My parents died a few years back, there was no fighting over the left over remains to the famly fortune as there wasn't any. My Father and Mother were born with nothing, and still had most of it left when they died! My sister (the one in Canandaigua) and I had to clean out my parents house. Aside from some furniture that I took as neither sister wanted it. The one in Canandaigua said it just wouldn't fit with her decore, you know... The other one, the reverend, wasn't about to spend any money to ship what can be refered to as juunk all the way out to Indiana at the time... Besides, she had to dispose of some "family hierlooms" my Mother left out there when she was living there... Most of it went to a church sale I think. My youngest son inherited the small piano they had. Technically that would have been mine as it was bought for me when I was in Jr. High as a ploy to get me to practice... I made it very clear to both parents that they had no physical belongings that I would ever fight over! What I wanted was to have them around as long as possible. Human greed is such a nasty thing! I have some relatives (cousins) I don't associate with that maintain that sort of stance in life. Greed is the basic problem with some other stuff discussed in here this morning too. It is evidently easier to go to church and pray for forgiveness than to be the kind of person we should be...... 'Nuff said!
I have a bunch of things I need to do before I go to the dentist today for a cleaning...