Evening Dinners
Flo, please and give Mark one as well!
Worked with Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde Today. Paul was being a real Richard Head (Can I say that? ) today! He was having a bad day and I was tied to the whipping post! Twice he came close to making me walk out, and it is nicking picking stuff! At the end of the day I forgot to date when the ticket was written. They picked up at the sametime as they bought, which was today. I had them date where they signed that they picked up the Futton, I had pick up date dated as today and the credit card receipt shows today.
Yes, I know the ticket needs the date written as well, I missed it. It is a mistake I think it was the first time I missed that part. My Real Mistake was when I stated to Paul "They did date when they pick upped". Bang Off To The Races we went! Paul took it as me saying "I didn't need to date the ticket, they dated it that they picked up". Which is not what I was saying. But Paul like to twist are words (other employees as well ) to suite is reason to berate us for a small mistake when he is having a bad day!
Yet Mr Perfect makes mistakes and I keep quite. Again, he forgot to do the Spiff / Commsion report and so all us sales people checks where short this week? I all most threw that in is faces after this happen, but I kept quite but it is getting harder and harder.
See you all Friday after going the VA Health Care center at Jefferson Barracks MO. Time to have my feet checked out again.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Mark H,
Sounds like a great dream to Me. Try to keep it alive. Good Luck!
Jeff,
Congrats, on the fifteen steps.
Take Care! All.
Frank
I have a dream!
How's that for an opener?
I have a dream that's been brewing for months. To pack up the entirety of my personal railroading world and my dog and cat and make an escape run for my native Pennsylvania. Take the resources I don't have and find an a place along the Main Line (Rt 30 west of Philadelphia) right along the Keystone Corridor. Renovate an old service station, making the garage into a railroad room and the office area into living quarters. Keep a driver's licence and car only for going to a gun range occasionally, and ride trains and busses for everything else. There are dozens of commuter trains running there daily of Amtrak and Septa.
I could call it: "Escape from Nevada:The Quest"
Eh...just a dream. Maybe when I hit on Megabucks in a casino. Oh, I just remembered that I don't gamble. At least...not with my money.
Have a good night everyone
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
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
Zstripe
This corporation is well known in the area for being hostile and as I recently found out...has been kicked out of jobs fairs. There are many issues with this company that I couldn't possibly address them all. At this point the main reason for me to try to stay there are the med benfits. Also, unemployment is this area is still around 15%. I definitely want out of there before things cave in, and they ultimately will...and I want no part of that. Some of my experiences on the railroad occasionally haunt me. So safety in that place...stimulates that uneasiness.
This company...I'll continue not to mention their name...posted revenues last year of $73B dollars and employs 120K people woldwide. It's a shame, they could be a good employer. I often think they model their management practices and employee relations after China.
I think the most difficult thing with all of this...including living in northern Nevada, is being a genuinely concerned and deeply caring person in the middle of an environment that's exactly the opposite. And no one wants to change. Maybe it is time to find a workable way out. I'm currently working on getting qualified for Voc Rehab...which could be a start. But this is Nevada...I've been here for 20 years and know it well...I'm not holding my breath.
Okay...enough of my drama for one day...time to go play with the trains.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, A cup of hot chocolate would be really nice right about now.
Guess what? It's another beautiful day in the Finger lakes today.... Cloudy, gray, gloomy,and cold... Oh well, at least it is supposed to be nice this weekend. Since that is the day for the LSD Fall Meet, I guess I should be glad.
Spent the morning over at another Commissioners house helping to get the Handicapped Scout units rechartering done. Basically it is done... Then I had to grab a quick lunch and head over to the Gastroenterology folks to get the results of my colonoscopy last month. I showed up at the appointed time and waited for about 5 minutes at the check in window. The receptionist was tied up on the phone with someone who evidentally wasn't being nice... So when she finally got to me she was "all business". Wanted my name, address, insurance info checked.... Then for the last ID needed she asked, "If there is an emergency who do you want called?" Without breaking stride I said, "911!" She looked up and glared at me! I was starting to feel bad when she started to giggle.... Looked down, shook her head and said, "All right we call 911. Anyone else you might like to call?" I thought for a second and said, "Next of kin?" she smiled and nodded her head. So I said my son Arthur. She then laughed and thanked me... I guess she doesn't deal with my type all the time.
The Appointment went well. I have no problems to speak of, everything was normal. I do have diverticulos and hemorrhoids (but who doesn't at my age...), They removed 4 polyps. One was nondescript and the other 3 are the type that can become cancerous, so they want me back in 3 years... Oh Joy, Oh Rapture... I told the Nurse Practioner that My sister asked me why I make polyps and nobody else in the family seems to get them. I said my answer to her was that I think there is a connection between the chemicals I was exposed to on the farm and when I worked summers at the Golf Course way back then. (I used to come home, eat dinner, and be sicker than a dog all night...) She turned around in her chair, looked me straight in the eyes and nodded her head. She said that most people think it all has to do with diet, but diet is only one factor and the chemicals I was exposed to is a bigger factor in the mix.
Have one more meeting to be at today! Property Committee for Boy Scout Camp.
At the moment I am printing out materials for Saturday....
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
If You would like to ''get Your concern'' as You put it better understood. I believe a better understanding of what would happen if Your Employer ever got caught with his Hazmat shipping practices, sad to say....You will go down the tubes with Him. Ignorance is not bliss, in this situation. Hazmat violations are strict and penalty's more so, prison time and heavy fines. I know You said You need the job.....but?
I also would not tell a lot of people.
Was in Transportation of Hazmat Materials & Packaging and licensed for same most of My working life.
Info for You to read on the subject....If You want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazardous_Materials_Transportation_Act
Take care!
Ahhhhhhh!!!!! What a horrid night at the grind!!! Who ever is minding the bar...
ABSINTHE...neat. And keep them coming till I'm incoherent...please.
The alternator in my pick up went to dead short and burst into flames on my way to work. Thankfully the safe place to get off the road was the Fernley NV Auto Zone. I'll have get help from a friend to fix it and get it home this afternoon. I got to work well on time after a half mile walk. Usually not a big deal but sometimes a walk like that can be a challenge on a bum leg ravaged by cancer surgery. Most of the people I know in my immediate area I could get a ride from...where off work. But I lucked out and found someone who commutes from Carson City...good deal, got home this morning no problem.
Not looking good for me being accepted for a job in the new building in Reno. I'm 53 with a disablity...potential discrimination. They don't want to accommodate me anymore. They are also forcing all in the new building to be PIT operators (Powered Industrial Trucks...for anyone unfamiliar with the acronym). That's a fatality in the making. Don't know where I stand with that one with them...but I don't want to run one anyway considering how safety stupid my employer is.
Throughout the night, while trying to do my job...nothing was working right, broken down everything. I had the anti-Midas touch as well. Everything I touched turned to...well...something that won't pass for gold. My numbers went down the toilet and I'll probably get written up. That would be a notch in their belt for ousting me out.
Then, another occurrance of something that really disturbes me. I packed out an order containing a gallon of a very potent insecticide with several packages of candy. I've put cereal and rat poison in the same shipment at another time...it goes on. They should be separate...but Noooo...that's too costly. Ship it! I get told. I'm waiting to hear something like some little kid was was poisoned by eating cereal that was packed together with something very toxic and bought from who I work for. Get my concern.
Okay...I'm done griping.
I got my three days off. I'll get the pick up straightened out then start tidying things on the railroad and the railroad rooms (my livingroom, diningroom, and kitchen) in preparation for the Reno/Carson City layout tours on Nov 1 and 2. Don't know how many visitors I'll get...I'm a good bit out of the way, but hopefully a few.
Enough for today.
Take care all
jeffrey-wimberlyUnfortunately dinner tonight wasn't that great. It was pattetable but where I come from road kill is road kill no matter how well it's prepared and spiced.
LIONS eat not the carry-on. Him likes his own to catch.
We get UFOs for dinner. Unidentified Frying Objects. Actually we seldom fry them, most often they are baked for that healthy but bland taste. Bah on healthy, I'd rather have a fres, raw wildebeest.
Well, at least we know where they get their food from:
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
This bit of adversity is only a pause. I'm not letting it stop me. I'll find a way over, around, under, or through it. How long it takes depends on my determination and persisrance.
Sir Madog I am just back from my attempt to buy a few pieces of straight track. Mission not accomplished, because my LHS is no more. Their website is still up, but the store is gone. I just waisted an hour a gas for a few bucks to find that out! OK, on the way back I stopped at my home improvement store to buy a roll of double-sided tape. At $ 22 for 5 yards I did not dare to do that. The Internet shows prices down by 80 % from that figure. Who needs shops, if they are either gone, don´t stock what you want or charge prices making any merchant in a bazaar blush?
I am just back from my attempt to buy a few pieces of straight track. Mission not accomplished, because my LHS is no more. Their website is still up, but the store is gone. I just waisted an hour a gas for a few bucks to find that out! OK, on the way back I stopped at my home improvement store to buy a roll of double-sided tape. At $ 22 for 5 yards I did not dare to do that. The Internet shows prices down by 80 % from that figure. Who needs shops, if they are either gone, don´t stock what you want or charge prices making any merchant in a bazaar blush?
Oh, NO! Yet another "the hobby shop has closed" or the "hobby is to expensive" rant! Whatever will we do?
business who don't have websites, often close, the smaller they are, the more likely...EVEN whne they DO have a website, as a website may be cheaper to maintain than brick-n-mortar. They may NOT have everything online that is in-store, but it gives you an idea of what they may carry on a regular basis.
To bad you don't have a Wally World {really called WALMART} in your area..I paid just $3 for 4 yards of double sided tape 1 1/4 " wide {i think was 4 yards, if not at least 3}
See if you can find CARPET double sided tape for throwrugs...it comes in miles and miles of length, is about 2" wide, is a much thinner tape than the "puffy double sided tape" and sells for like $5. Holds much better too! Desinged to hold throw rugs down while they get vacuumed and walked on. I DON't know how it will work with extruded foam, but I can't see why it might not work, as it is designed to hold fast and steady, and to not mar hardwood floors so much!
Just an idea...
-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.
~NEW MOON out tonight!
~Quotable quotes:
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize in literature (1872-1970) {Wait til that gets out, we will have "new hobby is unnatural thread" material!}
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles
Swindoll
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
Ancient Chinese Proverb:
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Me again!
Warning: Rant ahead!
I am just back from my attempt to buy a few pieces of straight track. Mission not accomplished, because my LHS is no more. Their website is still up, but the store is gone. I just waisted an hour and gas for a few bucks to find that out! OK, on the way back I stopped at my home improvement store to buy a roll of double-sided tape. At $ 22 for 5 yards I did not dare to do that. The Internet shows prices down by 80 % from that figure. Who needs shops, if they are either gone, don´t stock what you want or charge prices making any merchant in a bazaar blush?
End of rant!
Good Morning!
Seems to be a nice day today - it´s bright and sunny, but a little cold. That´s the way I like my "golden October"!
Jeff - good to see you here! I was worried, y´know! I remember the "Volkslauf" quite well, although I never participated in one of them. They are gone now (I like the pun to that), replaced by various city marathon events.
Ken - thanks for the kudos. While the layout won´t offer much in terms of operation, it´s supposed to be a gem in terms of scenery. I don´t have the space to copy the prototype location, but I want to capture the atmosphere of that region. Here are a couple of shots of the prototype location:
I have been up and down the Rhine Valley by traina number of times, so there are a lot of fond memories attached to this layout idea.
Make it a happy day!
Garry: Thanks. How'd you guess about the maurathon? I competed in severaL in the past. Even won a couple. I've also competed in a ton of Volks marches. Ulrich knows what those are.
Take care, my friend.
Great to hear from you JEFF, we were starting to wonder if you had eloped with one of those southern belle Nurses. The saying goes one step at a time and you already have five in. Next thing you will tell us is that you have entered a Marathon.
GARRY, Glad to hear you are back home and all went well.
ULRICH, that layout is looking more probable every time you tweek it.
Trying to make up my mind which Vitamix Blender to buy so that I can make my own food for the stomach tube. Boy they are expensive..But my stomach is starting to sour after ten months on this canned stuff.
Night all, and sleep well.
Johnboy out...................for now
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Eveing Dinners
Flo, Beer Please
Ray Thank you for yours words of encourgerment (I miss spess check) on the cholestrol blood work! Do you divied the total cholestrol by the HDL level, or is the LDL divied by the HDL? I cannot find the web page that had the raito's again? Far as the A1C test, I still unhappy with 7.0. I want 6.5 or lower. Maybe this diet will help with it being low carb.
Jeffery Glad to hear from you! Congrats on the 5 steps, it is a start to a long jounery but you will do it! Won't be long before you are kicking your nephew's butt, and it won't hurt!
Ulrich While it is not my cup of tea, the layout idea looks good.
See you all later, Ken
Jeffrey! Great to hear form you,I had to check one more time before I went to bed, as I was worried,and I second Garry's comment!
Congrats on 5 steps! I was hoping you were not communicado due simply to being tired from walking!
I know you will be hob-nobbing and dancing around with the nursing staff soon enough!
Jeffrey, Does the hospital/home have an "alternative menu"? you might ask. sometimes if you don't want what the hospital is offering around here, you can order off the "alternative menu" which is often more palatable. Last time i was in for the pneumonia, it became my go-to as they repeat the regular menu each week for a month before changing it. Since I was there 2.5 weeks, I was there long enough and saw the repeats, and orderd instead A la carte from the alternative menu to vary the food.Pretty much anything I wanted.
Have a great night's rest, see yous in the A of M.
Jeff ... Good to see you. Congratulations on the five steps. You are remarkable. .... Too bad about the dinner. Perhaps you should order a pizza from the local pizza shop.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Tablet battery is OK. Been busy with physical therapy. Made five steps between the parallel bars today. I know that doesn't sound like much but for someone with no legs it's a great accomplishment! Unfortunately dinner tonight wasn't that great. It was pattetable but where I come from road kill is road kill no matter how well it's prepared and spiced.
Rob - good to see you again!
I am worried about Jeff! I hope everything´s just fine with him.
I have been tinkering around with that plan of mine, just adding some more detail to the drawing, allowing me to visualize it better.
I start to like it, so I will freeze this plan, before I start to make it worse by fiddling around with it.
We had some errands to run today, and got back about an hour ago. One of those errands was to stop & purchase a new cloths dryer. I'm not too upset that we had to get a new one, as the old one was bought 18 years ago. It has had some minor things repaired, but nothing major. this time, it was the automatic gas valve, & the part is no longer available. One downer though, is both my repairman & the little local dealer we buy all our appliances from, said to only expect 10 or 12 years out of the new one. Without getting on a soap box, I think it's just a shame that we seem to manufacture only so-so products anymore.
Getting ready for the weekend trip to Timonium. Really looking forward to it. Not expecting to make any major purchases, but who knows what might catch my eye. I have to admit I can be a little weak willed at these shows. It's usually something that doesn't fit into my collection & I don't need, but it's a cool paint scheme or some other dumb excuse. The wife is no help either. She will say "Oh, that's cute" or "those are pretty colors". This time it will be hard for her to do that much walking, so I'll park her at the refreshment area while I make my walk thru, then get her & look at the layouts. She does enjoy that.
Rob -Good to hear from you. I've been wondering if you still paint. I haven't heard you mention it for quite some time.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
well
~went to PT. Hope it has the results of last week's wereby it eased the pain in my rt shoulder quite well.
~ my check was in today, so moved it around like I usually do...it is all spoken for for next month's bills already.
~ I don't know what is worng with me..since Monday night, I have had Zero energy, sometimes not enough to even walk from one room to the other....my bowels were giving me major grief too..mOH thinks I may have a bug...I managed to get done today what I had too, but now I am so drained, even lying in bed is a chore...
~HOpe Jeffrey's battery ran down in his tablet and not a set back! Wish someone would let us know!
take it easy, I know i am,...
Mornin'.... Ahhhh, hmmmm... Ahem! Afternoon folks!
Janie just a refill for my dark roast coffee, please.
Dark and gloomy and cold, and icky again here in the Finger lakes today. Repeat of yesterday. The city has been around with the John Deere bucket loader picking up piles of leaves, and limbs for the Fall collection as usual. I have been busy getting last minute stuff done for the Fall Division Meet on Saturday. Still have a couple weeks of work to get done in the next couple days. (Seems that way anyway... It will all get done by Friday before I hit the sack.)
Have to make a wine run down the lake to get my other son a few bottles of Finger Lakes wine and Mead for his upcoming birthday, and also make a quick run over to the Mennonite stand for some goodies.
Do hope that Jeffrey is doing OK!
Good to see you Rob! Don't be a stranger.....
Best get myself moving. Since it is 47°F outside almost at today's high, I will light the wood stove early today.
Later!
Italian Roast coffee, TO GO, please.
Hope everyone is doing well these days. Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Good Afternoon!
Still no word from Jeff? That leaves me worried! I hope he has just connectivity problems with his tablet PC!
With the help of some fine and helpful folks on a British "railway modelling" forum, I am slowly getting to where I want to be with my layout plan. I reduced the number of tracks in the station and introduced some storage tracks in the staging area. This means I have to install some kind of controll for the switches and track monitoring there.
I also moved the layout back to the Rhine Valley area - gives me a much wider choice of buildings available in kits.
This could be it (the drawing needs some more work):
I´ll be going to buy a few lengths of straight track tomorrow, so I can put up the temporary layout to play with.
MisterBeasley I picked up a Roku box for our TV. This lets you watch internet programs or stream movies and such on the big TV. It's an older model I got used (third hand, actually) for $20. Lately, we've become increasingly annoyed with Comcast for providing a thousand channels of nothing, plus all the zombie movies we don't want to see and few that we do. We'll see what happens.
I picked up a Roku box for our TV. This lets you watch internet programs or stream movies and such on the big TV. It's an older model I got used (third hand, actually) for $20. Lately, we've become increasingly annoyed with Comcast for providing a thousand channels of nothing, plus all the zombie movies we don't want to see and few that we do. We'll see what happens.
Let me know how that works.
We have time warner cable, but they are supposedly {if apporved] merging/buying/being bought byComcast, and we ARE NOT looking forward to it. I suppose it woudl be helpful to know what plugs into what and if our TV has it to plug into, we don't have a lap top, and the hard wired computer is in another room, and we can't really watch tv on the puter as its a small screen adn a small spaced room to try and watch it.Andour tablet is basic modle doesn't allow for much to do onit besides pre-programmed inserts.
TW has channels 2- to about 200 that we usually watch regularly, almost ALL of them are triplicate copies of each other..so really only about 60 channels, most of which we don't don't care to watch.
We need to keep the internet, as MOH needs it for work reports.
We watch tv more often than not as it is always on at our house, even if not sitting directly in front of it.Maybe I could get into the habit of listening to music again, but dunno.
Let me know how it works, and how it works for YOU. I'd look foreward to it...
later
Good morning to all. I hate Wednesday mornings most of all. Tuesday nights, I've been playing hockey since the Bobby Orr era. A few years back we got pushed back to a later time because the girls' programs have become so popular, so now it's a late night followed by an early morning. But, I just checked the calendar and I've only got 6 more Wednesdays to work before I retire.
We had a guy show up at hockey who we haven't seen for a while. Last spring, he lost a son to a drug deal gone bad, and it's been hard on him and his family. We're hoping our hockey time will let him leave it all outside the rink for a few hours. I anonymously paid for his ice time for 5 weeks. The "bribe" seems to have worked.
Our daughter Annie will be home for a visit tonight. She's asked for the baked stuffed flounder dish I made up, which has become a family favorite. I use their pre-made seafood stuffing mix, and add a lot of mushrooms, some spices, scallions and sherry.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
RAY:I, too, hope Jeffrey just couldn't make it in. I hope he didnt have a set back that took him back into the hospital from the convalessence{?} home.
Jeffrey! we are pulling for you, buddy!
hmm...hope you make at least an appearance today!
Well, here are your daily quotes to get you started:
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
{here's maybe a good one for those "the hobby is expensive threads":}
We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. –Kevin Kruse
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale