yougottawantaWhat is the difference between Supplimental Security Income and Socail Security ?
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Saturday morning. Nice day, too, and it will be for a few days.
Jeremy, we've lost a number of fish for various reasons. Actually, we've lost all of the fish, since we have no more of them. One just got very old and he was probably overfed as well. One died the day after we found a fly floating in his bowl. We had a group of 3 that I think died because it was very hot and we don't have a temperature-controlled tank.
I did something very stupid yesterday. My car came up for it's 10,000 mile checkup, so I made an appointment for Saturday morning and loaded my bike in the car Friday afternoon, planning to drive over and drop off the car so it would be there first thing. As I backed out of the garage....I had left the rear passenger side door open, and I hit the garage door frame. Now, I've got the car door bungeed sort-of closed, and it will have to go to the body shop first thing Monday morning. The night before, oddly, I'd had a dream about a truck hitting my right-side car door.
Garry, after a while your BIL will feel great. If it's like my rotator cuff surgery, his worst memory will be of the hospital food.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Mr B : I have had dreams that also where something I dreamed about happen. Yeah fish can be finicky. I had these ones for about 5 years. Once the other two go that is it for fish for me.
Just about to head out door soon guys, catch up tonight.
Jimmy check your gas cap, A loose cap can cause this.
jeffrey-wimberly yougottawanta What is the difference between Supplimental Security Income and Socail Security ?
yougottawanta What is the difference between Supplimental Security Income and Socail Security ?
YGW: In addittion to the info there, if you don't find it in there, I have SSDI and Medicare, Jeffrey has SSI, and Medicaid.
My SSDI is based on my work history when I could work {salaries/earnings total or top 30 years earnings which I did not quite reach} up to the point of my disability, much like regular SS would be calculated for those who can take it at 62, 67 or 70, depending on their age group/desire. In addition I get Medicare as primary medical insurance, though they only pay 80% of "approved Medicare proceedures". I pay out a {rather high monthly} premium to have secondary supplemental insurance to cover what "approved Medicare Proceedures" Medicare payments do not cover.
IF, they continue the program when the trust fund runs out, I will get SSDI until I turn 62, at which time it becomes standard SS for me,and my medicare 80% coverage will continue. Unless they change the rules by the time I get there.
The SSDI trust fund is due to supposedly run out sometime soon.
There are those able-bodied individuals who play the system aand are draining the fund.
FOR people like me, who can hardly even move in the morning and have to wait 1/2-1 hour for pain meds/muscle relaxers to kick in to even use the facilities or get breakfast, or people like Jeffrey, who is now having body parts amputated, we NEED it, but I may luck out if the trust fund depletes, and Jeffrey may still win out with his SSI. By day's end I am back in about the same condition just from living life. I have trouble with physical things as well as documented mental issues. The physicals are winning out now. It is a 3/10ths mile walk on the flat road to the mailbox, some days it is a struggle to walk thre to get the mail and I have been known to DRIVE to the mailbox! I am lucky to get household chores done {my "job" as MOH works}. I am in pain sitting here now typing this. Of course, then again it is now time for another strong pain med. So I'd best go take it.
When I went for the third time application for SSD, going before an Administrative Law Judge for my case, he sat there with a 5 inch thick folder of medical records for me! He told my {free, non-lawyer representative} he had no problems with my case and approved my disability based on my medical records, and a few questions/answers from me. This should have beeen approved 4 years earlier, but they usually automatically disapprove all first time applicants as a matter of course. Appeals got me to the Judge.
I can't say much mroe as it could turn political!
Now to got atke that med and MOH will be home shortly...
-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.
galaxyWhen I went for the third time application for SSD, going before an Administrative Law Judge for my case, he sat there with a 5 inch thick folder of medical records for me! He told my {free, non-lawyer representative} he had no problems with my case and approved my disability based on my medical records, and a few questions/answers from me. This should have beeen approved 4 years earlier, but they usually automatically disapprove all first time applicants as a matter of course. Appeals got me to the Judge.
Hi, Garry.
Cuda Ken was asking for the spelling of the great big knife used to cut through the jungle. Hence my reply.
I would like to post more often. Elliot's has, for me, become a"My life is worse than yours" thread. EVERYBODY'S life sucks now and again. You want to hear my story, PM me. I'd be happy to prove your life DOESN'T suck.
I miss Bill T's coffee cup, Cape Jim and MANY others. Occasionally, it is asked where are the mia's. It is no longer Elliot's Track side Diner. It is someone else's. My two cents.
Get over it.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
saronaterry I would like to post more often. Elliot's has, for me, become a"My life is worse than yours" thread. EVERYBODY'S life sucks now and again. You want to hear my story, PM me. I'd be happy to prove your life DOESN'T suck.
And yet you post such a post here.
If you posted here more often, perhaps the "tone" of the diner might change to a favor you'd agree with.
If more lurkers {who obvious enjoy reading "my life is worse than yours" stories or they wouldn't lurk} posted, perhaps tone could change.
One {lurker} would never know unless trying.
This thread currently has 160 posts, and 5,168 Views. Amazing.
Thats an awful lot of lurkers "enjoying our misery", without commenting.
Amazing.
Quote of the day:
Positive change can only come with positive action.-anonymous
Have a nice day
Re-read my last paragraph.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Terry You are right to a degree. Most of us are friends that will never meet faces to faces. When we have things not right in are lives, we talk to our freinds about it. So there is some belley aching here at the dinner. There are some good things as well! Take my self, I am working out and feeling a little better. I have a job I like and good at. I all so talk about some bad, like when I have a bad day or week at work. Then there was the 3 year battle with Bank Of Stupid! Lot of us here have health problems. So there is a lot of neagtive stuff said about that.
My Day Well work went pretty good, we had 3 people working the sales floor and I was highest in sales. If I did the math right, I made $155.00 in spiff's. Nancy, one of the owners paid me a good complament. She said " You are very good with the customers and they seem to really like you". Hum, glad she has not seen the ones I piss off! I have PO my fair share, mainly because I tell them the truth, not what they want to hear. No Mam, that $300.00 Queen set will not help your back pain! You be better off to buy a used one off Craigs list.
Health Front Not so good today! Started feeling a little Lite Headed when I got to work. I tried the trick of drinking a little salt water. (Was to busy running to pick up the Sodium Supplment yesterday) My left arm that I had the hand surgery on and got in the posion plant in the backyard swelled up like a Blow Fish! Sure not drinking salt water again! Felt better latter in the day. On the drive home, I started feeling lite headed again. So now work out tonight and I was dissapointed! Did take Sparkie The Rocket Dog on a brisk 1/4 mile walk to make up for it.
Jemery Thanks for the tip on the Moutain Bike intertube. Going to try airing them up first. Does 80 PSI sound right to you?
Running the trains right now, have 4 trains running at the same time on 2 main lines. When it is in a good mood, I love trains!
See you all Sunday.
Ken and Sparkie the Rocket Dog!
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Boy he is cute!
I hate Rust
Terry ... Good to see you. I sent you a PM.
In my first post of the month I asked people to try to have a cheerful month. Nobody asked me why I said that. Suffice it to say we don't want this to be Elliot's Downer.
I think it is good to be friends and encourage each other when needed, However, there should at least be some balance where good news offsets bad news. We don't need to re-hash old personal problems over and over. Also, we should include model railroad subjects in our posts.
Again, I am thankful for kind words because my BIL is in the hospital. Doctors have decided not to wait until Monday. Now we are told four arteries have blockage of at least 96%. Surgery will start very, very early in the morning. I have faith prayers will be answerred, and he will be fine.
I have good news too. In a couple of weeks my family will be with my mother to celebrate her 95th birthday. Yay!
More good news, one of our 3 daughters is about to be married in September. This is her second marraige, and we like the guy. Good things are happening with them.
Regarding model railroads. .... I'm frustrated with 2 engines in which I just installed decoders. They do not work right. It will take time to de-bug. I also did a small amount of tracklaying today.
Smile
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I could really use a cup of deacf to finish off the evening. Thank you Ma'am!
What? Hey, I try to be cheerful most of time in here! After all, I'm a Scout Leader. "A Scout is Cheerfull". I also try to be a good ear for folks when they are having a bad day.....
Tonight I did the 3rd. first final draft of the article I am trying to write. Also trying to get a final date for a NMRA Officers meeting we need to have soon as we are very behind schedule for next years Region Convention we are putting on.
Oh, My son and I got the new horns installed in the Prius Plug In I own today. Once I figured a couple things out the install went smootly. Now it goes HONK! HONK! instead of meep, meep.... Not nearly as good as the air horns I had on my old 1960 VW bug way back when, but definately an improvement.
Not sure whether I will be going out to the Museum tomorrow or not. I may jasut go out and see if they need help with the Museum Guides and if not, just hang around for a while. My DIL's Aunt has a birthday tomorrow so I will be going out to my son's house for dinner tomorrow.
Have a great night and prayers for all in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening guys
Went out to a local pizza joint/bar to try to catch the Packer's pre-season game. They only had the Browns/Lions game :(
Trainclub was about the same as tuesday. But I did notice the more I used the Superliners, the less they uncoupled. I though parking them on tight curve might be causing the couplers and swing-arms some kind of stress where they get stuck or something. So I found a straight and empty track in a passenger station and parked them there. Tuesday I'll find out if it helps. Another member suggested #4 couplers mounted to the swing arm with a double-ought 80 (00-80?) screw. I'll try that if it still acts up.
Ken, I know mountain bike's tires take more PSI than a car tire, but I think mine was around 50-60 psi.
Garry, IDK if you have tried using the F0 or F8 functions for that locomotive. I've done that with 1 engine I installed sound in, tried to figure out if I did anything wrong, then realize the sound and lights were off.
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.
jeffrey-wimberly Good evening.
Good evening.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
last mountain & eastern hoggerast mountain & eastern hogger wrote the following post 6 hours ago: jeffrey-wimberly Good evening. JEFF, how come the kids don't like your playground ? I never see anyone playing there.
Good morning.
Hi Guys
Ken: 80 sounds a little high for a mountain bike. I keep mine around 35- 40 PSI because I sometimes go offroad. But with lower PSI you increase your chances for a pinch flat. If you are just going to stay on say the road or a paved bike path ( or loose gravel type ) Id wouldnt go higher then 45-50 PSI. It should also say on the sidewall of the tire. My max pressure on tires are 65 but never go that high.
All this bike talk makes me want to get back out,lol. I cant believe it has been a month since I was out. I went out alot back in May and June so did get alot in.
Good afternoon. It's 87° with 71% humidity. The high will be 95°. with I'm without phone service this morning. Started the computer and the Magicjack didn't come up. Tried bringing it up several more times without success. So it was off to eBay to find a new one. Found one for $34.95. It should be here on or before Aug 18.No plans for today.
galaxy saronaterry I would like to post more often. Elliot's has, for me, become a"My life is worse than yours" thread. EVERYBODY'S life sucks now and again. You want to hear my story, PM me. I'd be happy to prove your life DOESN'T suck. And yet you post such a post here. If you posted here more often, perhaps the "tone" of the diner might change to a favor you'd agree with. If more lurkers {who obvious enjoy reading "my life is worse than yours" stories or they wouldn't lurk} posted, perhaps tone could change. One {lurker} would never know unless trying. This thread currently has 160 posts, and 5,168 Views. Amazing. Thats an awful lot of lurkers "enjoying our misery", without commenting. Amazing. Quote of the day: Positive change can only come with positive action.-anonymous Have a nice day
I doubt what you say is true. I am a lurker and the only reason I read this thread is I am rooting for Cuda Ken against "Bank of Stupid". Saronaterry is right. Most of you are welfare recipients and seem to thrive on who's got what worse. To each his own...Have at it....
Ken I hope you win your fight against BOS. I for one am on your side!
Flo, Beer for my self and Motely!
Boy What A Day! We where busy, I have no idea how much we did. Just to busy to look. I was Nancy Go To Person which suckes. Most of the time she has no clue what the mattress real name is, what the SKU is and it's real is prices! Worst part, she does not remember what she told the customer the price was? She will start a ticket and just write Mattress then the customer has to show me what they want? Makes for a Fun Day!
We close at 5:00 today yet the customers kept coming and coming. We turn off the front lights as a hint we are closed but that did not stop them. With Nancy being there she kept helping them. I was out side smoking at 5:35 PM and yet another customer pull up. I was nice and told them we closed at 5:00. Paul and his wife Ronda where in the Van heading home. Paul Gave Me The Death Glare and started to say something, then went ahead and left. We still had 2 coustomers in the store I will add.
Paul Lives a whole 5 minutes from the store and he was leaving. I on the other hand live 45 minutes from the store. Paul all so knows I will stay late to get a deal. Last Sunday I started to work with a customer at 4:30 and did not get the deal till 5:30. A good sale, takes about a hour, but 30 minutes after we close is just to plain late to start! If we really want coustmers to come in after closing, why does Paul have us turning off lights 15 mintues before we close?
All the way home I have be wondering if I will get a Rash Monday about this. If he does bring it up, well I will try to not speak my mind. But if his happy Caboose was not sitting in his Van for the whole 5 mintue drive home, he would not have knowen I told a customer we closed at 5:00!
By the way, I had plans. Did not get home till 6:30 and my friends had left by then.
Ken
Good evening. It's 76° with 99% humidity. In so many words, 'WET'. Kind of peaceful without the phone today, then again it was Sunday. I ordered two replacements. A Magicjack Plus and a Google Voice GVMate Phone Adapter. I'll try them both and see which one works best. The GVMate evidently uses Google Voice's subscription free phone service with any regular phone to provide a featured landline style calling experience including optional E911 emergency calling and CNAM national LIDB database caller name lookup services. It should be here no later than the 14th so it'll be the first to be tested. Went to town today and filled the front tank on the truck. $45.05 then went down the street and got a Domino's medium thin crisp c rust Meatzza pizza which I munched on for the rest of the day.Time for me to call it a day. See y'all tomorrow
Good morning. 75°, humidity 100%. High will be 92°. Cloudy with a fair chance of rain. with
Morning all. French toast would be good. Well, I work today, and am off Tues, Thursday and Friday. It's gonna be a kinda lousy paycheck, but what can ya do? Yesterday found me playing with my trains on the club's modules, and makes me what to build one designed as an outdoor railroad museum. Not sure what this day has in store for me besides work, so yeah we will see. Have a good day everyone.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Good morning model railroaders!
Zoe, I'll start off with a cup of the coffee Jeffrey is pouring, and a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts to dunk in it. Thank you Ma'am!
Overcast day so far here in the Finger lakes. Some showers may be showing up late this afternoon. I'm taking a break from the numerous odds and ends I have already been attending to this morning to get some good breakfast here in the diner.
Had an agrevating day out at the Museum yesterday. They were running the schedule wrong for the track cars. We had the same problem early in the season and it was supposedly taken care of by the "powers that be" out there. On Sundays the track cars are supposed to bring the first load of guests down to the RR Museum and then head right back to Midway Station to wait for the next load. They bring them down to Industry Station, pick up the first group and head right back to Midway to wait for the trolley. Yesterday they were using the "weekday" schedule which is to bring guests down to Industry, wait 15 minutes, then have them get back on the trackcars and go back North... I got quite , ah, grouchy about the situation and made my feeling known as did some others working out there. So this morning there has been several emails being exchanged trying to get whatever happened yesterday not to happen again. We have a published TT for operations, and I guess the "Officer of the Day" just interpreted it wrong. Stuff happens....
I'm also trying to get a meeting scheduled for all the Committee people for the upcoming Mortimer Junction Convention the NMRA Division is putting on next April. Deadlines, dealines, deadlines! I think this will go well and hopefully the division will have fun with it.
I best get going. I have a bunch of phone calls to make, errands to run, and models to build! Have a great day out there!
Howdy, y'all. Storm clouds abuildin so closing down dis here 'puker.
Prayers for all
Phil
Hi Guys,
I only work half a day today ( 3-7). I had a apoiuntment this morning and we found out the wifes grandmother passed earlier this morning. We knew it was coming but still sad. I have to get some stuff done but will check back in later on tonight.
Hi Gang,
Although there doesn't seem to be anybody around this afternoon.
Well I have been working on our Fifth wheel and it has just got too hot out there to stay at it any longer, so I think i'll head to the train room and cool off.
I needed a through truss bridge, I had a european looking one that was curved at the top and I had a double track truss bridge that I didn't have the width for, so I went and bought a single track one from Walthers and now I am in another quandry and that is I think I like the look of the curved top one the best. Decisions, decisions.
Sure hope Garry's BIL is doing OK, I am sure he will let us know later on tonight.
What are you all doing this afternoon that I am the only one in the Diner, I think all the girls are sitting out back in the shade and sipping mint julips. Vinnie has probably gone fishing.
Whatever you are doing I hope you are having a great day.
Will try and stop back later.
Keep smiling.
Johnboy Out........................for now.
Hello everybody
I think one of the nice things about model railroading is it helps serve as a sanity break from all the other stuff going on in the wolrr and in our lives.
Yesterday was a very, very long day for our family as we waited for my brother in law's heart surgery to be copleted. It was a very difficult surgery for my brother in law, and it lasted much longer than expected because of complications )sary stuff) . We are 600 miles away from him, and of course did not go wait at the hopsotal. ... Today, I am glad to say he should be able to recover okay.
Yestedday, I spent my sanity break mostly running trains on the layout. One of my newly installed decoders is working fine now after correcting a cold solder joint. The other engine with a newly installed decoder is my jinxed Heritage 2-10-2. The new Tsusamil decoder is okay, but the wire connections under the cab going to the tender are govong me fits. Also, I did some tracklaying on my layout extension.
Happy Model Railroading
Gonna be a wet evening it looks like. 73° with 96% humidity. Hey I've been out there! It's wet and windy! North of us here it looks like fire control maps out of control! This is just plain and simple bad weather.[img src="http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/louisiana/weather-radar" alt="http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/louisiana/weather-radar"]I got a broken Nikon L20 camera today. What the heck would I want with a busted camera? It has parts I need to fix my old L20. Namely the bottom of the camera and the battery box door not to mention the battery box itself.I had badly damaged the camera when I dropped it getting out of my mothers Pontiac G6 when I attended her memorial in Leesville.
Janie, I'll have a hot fudge sundae and a cup of decaf right now...
I've been trying to get caught up on some stuff today.... Started a wash this morning with idea of getting both loads done by mid afternoon. The first load is now sitting in the washer waiting for me to off my rear end and go down to put it in the dryer and then start the second load....
Last week I bought a fourth electronic doorbell for the house. The units plug into a 110v socket and are driven by the battery operated wireless doorbell push button outside. The first three units I got worked great, but if I wasn't wearing my hearing aids I couldn't hear the bell sound nor see the flashing light on it. So I figured another one here by the computer would be helpful. A few days ago I hooked it up and evertything seemed to be fine. But a couple days ago at 1:15AM the doorbell went off in my bedroom scaring both me and Manét the cat out of our wits. I got up, put on my bathrobe and peered outside to see who was being so brash to do such a thing. Found nothing and went back to bed. 2:30AM! The doorbell goes off again. This time I am both scared and ticked off! I storm around the house, look out every window, and finally open the doors and look outside!!! Last night 4:30AM, same thing happens. I had already asked the neighbors if they had recently installed any device that might set it off. Nope! So I start checking to find the instructions for the units. Can't find them. I sent an email to the company and got a prompt reply with a PDF of the instructions on how to set a different operating code for the units. I take the sending unit off the door and pull a couple of the doorbells to start changing the code. Push the button and one of the doorbells (an old one) fires right off the first time. The other one hesitates, then chirps, then plays the chime. Its light flashes once brighly, hesitates and twitters a few times followed by a couple more good flashes... Hmmmmm. That is the one I just bought. Set them all back to the original code. Now the new one doesn't work at all. Think I found the problem! I'll know for sure in a couple of nights when I don't have the flashing doorbell going off in the bedroom... No you may not come to my house at 3AM and push the doorbell on me!!! Don't even think about it!
Jeffrey, I bet you'll have the old camera up and running in a jiffy! How's the foot healing up? Keeping you in my thoughts for good healing and better mobility.
I think I better go put the first wash in the dryer and start the second one! Later!