Coffee refill, please.
I second what ROAR had to say. Get those ducks in a row, before you go.
Have been watching lots and lots of train vids today, mostly the full scale stuff.
Cheers! Rob
Evening Folks
Flo a JSTL and bring out my keg and starw. Give the Buick guy a starw as well.
Just down in the dumps today. Had to take Sparkie The Rocket Dog to the Vet so there goes $63.13 that I need for the house payment. Sink drain I fixed last week started leaking tonight! I know what the problem is, I just do not feel like fixing it tonight.
Just don't feel like typing anymore right now.
Ken
I hate Rust
Galaxy, You should check and see what the law is in your state but here, as soon as you get married your spouse has a right to 50% of your home. I had purchased a home before I was married and even though the title was in my name only, my wife would have been awarded 50% by any divorce court. There is a legal principle under common and most statute law, called dower rights. I suggest you do a little research. I bet there is a lot on line for your state so seeing a lawyer shouldn't be needed.
Still snowing here too, but only about 5 inches so far. At least it is mild. That won't last as we are expecting a windchill of -33C tomorrow afternoon when the storm clears and the wind shifts to NW.
I did run trains for about 10 minutes today so I suppose that is some train time.
CN Charlie
Good evening Diners,
Flo, I'll have some Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
according to the weather forecast, were supposed to get 1-2" of the white STUFF, but after that, the temperature is supposed to drop like a rock! I hate winter, with a passion!
Got the " How To Build Small Model Railroads" booklet in the mail. Even though it's a lot of re-prints, the package is very convenient. It gets it to where my feeble brain can formulate ideas.
All for now, I hope everyone is OK, safe and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
ALL:
Thaks for the degree of support, it is far more complicated than what all I let on in the diner. I, as far as I am concerened, still am "not at fault" for what is ruinging our relationship, but it is very complicated mess, and this is NOT the place to ari our dirty laundry. I only hint at the problem to you guys so you have an understanding of what is going on. One does not easily throw away 14 years if there is an underlying problem that can be solved...
I am trying to get MOH to go to marriage counseling, as a "fresh perspective' might help. I see things one way, MOH the other, natrual in most any relationship, now it comes down not to who is right or wrong, but can the twain meet? and resolve the underlying issues.
CN CHARLIE, MY FIL will fight and take it to court to gurantee I don't get any part of the house since he paid for it...and there isn't enough money for me to buy any half out, or for MOH to buy out...I will have to walk away from it, trust me, I will be homeless if we split, AND MOH KNOWS THAT!
DIVORCE May come..but I want to exhaust all possiblities before we do..like i siad throwing away 14 years easily, mostly good, is a cop-out to "just leave" becasue I don't liek something or there is a bump in the road...
I don't know...I jsut don't know...
don'tknow anymore..
Will shut up now..
-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.
Hi Everyone,
Well. I just finished my second week working in the new building in Reno. What a laugh! Ugh...and a 120 mile round trip to boot. Anyway, we shut down the one in Fernley sooner than expected. This $100billion internet retailer just don't get it when it comes to safety...or any sort of decency for that matter. To make matters worse the state of Nevada enforces nothing in protecting the working population of the state. So as a result, I have established my own personal safety consultants and staff.
My cat Oreo, and...
my Pomeranian...Elsa.
They are smarter than any 10 managers at work.
So now when I have a safety issue on the job and any of the managers want to know what's going on, I'll just say: "Nah...I'll just go home and tell my cat, or dog about it." I would get about the same response.
Anyway. Going back to playing with the trains.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Good morning .
Mark ... Thanks for sharing your pets. I like your clever name for the cat. Both look like good companions.
Galaxy ..... Sounds like you are doing what is best considering the circumstances. Hopefully, you have always had a good relationship with the father in law because he might be sympathetic to yoru situation if that is the case. Perhaps, you can continue telling your wife the marriage means a lot to you, and you are willing to work with her to make it better for both. Not trying to be nosey here, but just want you to know your friends care. You are being wise also by not saying too much in the forum. You deserve respect.
Meanwhile, back at the layout. My jinxed 2-10-2 finally has its numerous bugs corrected, and it is running fine with sound around the entire main line. I'm happy about that. Long story, but I'll just leave it at that.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Flowers: Check miniature read/white varigated rose {gave it already and got a "thank you" that was it, and MOH has hinted wanting flowers for 2 weeks? Maybe I got the "wrong one"?}
candy: check 3 lb box, don't come no bigger.
Diamond: Check, heart shaped necklace with 3, count 'em 3 diamonds
"Car angel", CHeck, MOH has been wanting one, it says "I am with you alawys"..with CZ in it. could be me with you always or the man upstairs...
Lamb steak dinner: check, MOH been hinting, no good lamb lately in store. Today was. {MOH works both jobs saturday, so it will be sunday dinner....}
yep, I am ready for valentines day. I didn't get a card as i dont' wnat to be "mushy" right now, it doens't seem to be more than words on apage to MOH, need to SHOW more love...I guess..who can figure out a spouse?.
Later
PS. Grocery store shopping wiped me out, next week is my spinal nerve shots, i should be better after then!
PS never too wiped out for romance however....
Just for YGW, and what I DON"T NEED:
Good Afternoon!
I am having issues with my Internet connection - again. Having access is like gambling these daysw. I called the service hotline a couple of times and there is only little improvement. I might have to change the provider ...
I am waiting for an answer to my request for helping fund the new set of glasses. I really need them! No answer for over a week, makes me nervous.
For the time being, I have lost my interest in model railroading. Whatever plan I have, I have too many second thoughts about it. Maybe it is because I have lost confidence in my skills, maybe it is all those plans are kind of foul compromises to what I really would like to do.
I hope my interest will be rekindled one day.
Galaxy - brother, what can I say. It hurts to see you in such misery! Keeping you in my prayers!
CUL!
After hockey last night, I got a big laugh by telling everyone I'd used my Medicare card for the first time. Just a check up for my blood sugar. The doctor took me off the Metformin a couple of months back, and we agree that it was another one of those medications that I don't "tolerate well." He just said to keep on keepin' on, and keep up the exercise.
The snow seems to have gotten to people, as we had a poor turnout last night. That forced us to move "Old Joe" back on defense along with me in goal and Warren, a new guy who has taken my crown as perennial oldest guy on the ice. Between me, Warren and Joe, we have 199 years of experience back there. "Old Joe" is actually the youngest of the trio. At 64, he still races motorcycles competively. For us, our sports keep us all young.
I think I'll name my snow shovel "Matilda." It's time for my daily exercise, and today it's going to be "waltzing Matilda" out to the driveway. The USPS tracking says my Phase 3 accessory lighting power supply is "out for delivery," so I don't want any issues with those last 30 feet to the house.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Strong coffee with a pinch of coal dust in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Think I found a layout which will work for my room. Well, not the exact layout, but general benchwork arrangement. Saw it on YouTube but don't recall the name of the layout. When I re-find it, I'll scribble down the idea on paper and post it here in the Diner.
Hired hand couldn't make it, got sick over night. Fortunately, a good friend is coming over to help me get those three tree starts planted and other farm stuff done. Sent a message to the other vendor to hopefully delay shipment of a larger order (8 trees in all) until the end of the month or next.
Have a great day all.
Gratuity ! I will give him the five finger Gratuity in the shape of a nuckle sandwich ! I run a tight ship done by the numbers and by the code. As they say on the old show Living color "Homy dont play that"
Galaxy - I agree it is always complicated and never easy. I do agree with trying to work through every possible solution to resolve it. Hope it works out.
You guys who live up in the snowmegadon territory I am sending some sunshine your way. Hope ypou are enjoying the modeling time. Send some this way so I can stay home and have an honest excuse to not w**k and model
Ulrich - Dont get down. As a friend said to me today as I was fussing about our current leadership, you can find something to be thankful for, at least you havent gone horizontal pushing up daiseys! You are still Vertical.
TTYL
YGW
Hello model railroaders! ... It is dinner time in the Diner. I'll have steak and potatoes, please.
On the layout today, I am back to working on my layout extension. Slow progress because I keep doing other stuff.
I have suggested to MOh we take teh weekendof the 28th to go away to a hotel {even if weather bad and down the road 10 miles only}, Jus teh two of us, and no fighting, no work, no prsssure, adn have a romatnic weekend jsut for us.
so far, MOH seems to be goiing for it.
We will see what happens next...
Mint tea, please and thank you.
***Mark, Oreo looks quite content and comfortable. Beautiful cat. Elsa is cute, too.
The vid of the train layout which sparks my interest (after some rearranging) is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1XRnKkMKo
Friend helped me plant the two trees and do a bunch of other farm stuff, so I'm now as ready for the coming cold snap as I can be. One tree was missing from the container though. I sent the Company a message, so we'll see if the company makes good on their error.
Have a good night all.
Evening Dinners
Flo a JSTL and a Beer please, give the Buick guy one as well if he shows up.
Rob That was a great looking layout! Any chances you found the plan for it?
Galaxy You have more restraint than I that is for sure. If you do get her away for the weekend might be a good time to ask her why she as wandering eyes?
Health Front. I am going to the VA Hosptial this Friday, Yep Friday The 13th Of All Days? While I am there I will have a good talk with my Dr about the meds I am on. I have finally read some of the side effect warnings that come with my meds. One of my blood pressure meds states "It will make me feel tired and rasie my Blood Sugar"? With me having diabetes it does not sound like a great thing to be on! Plus I am all wise tired and don't feel like doing anything. I am sleeping better now I have a CPA machine and good mattress but still tired! Even working out did not help?
Latter, Ken
Word of the day:
cudaken Galaxy You have more restraint than I that is for sure. If you do get her away for the weekend might be a good time to ask her why she as wandering eyes?
Ken: The idea is to help restore some marital fidelity to remind us both of what we are "commited to", not start another fight! I can do that well enough at home!
Good Afternoon, Folks!
It´s a gray day here, but, providing our weather guessers are right, tomorrow will be bright and sunny! No wonder, it´s Petra´s birthday! I have to figure out how I can sneak out of the house to get a nice bouquet of flowers for her. With those glasses of mine, I shouldn´t be driving and the florist is at the other end of the town ...
Flo, make that a mug of hot chocolate and a slice of that cherry crumble pie for me, please.
All my N scale stuff is packed up and ready for the "Bay". I will have a friend helping me to sell it. With a little luck, I will get sufficient funds to pay off the bigger part for my new glasses and maybe still have a few €€ left to do some MRRing. It´ll be really on a shoe strong budget, something in the area of a set of micro layouts I can put together to form a bigger one at a later stage. Similar to what I did with that Japanese style layout I built some years back.
I got the idea from a page I found searching the web. There is a modeler in southern Germany, who built a nice little layout, using ready-made boxes from an arts & crafts supply as the benchwork. Linking (and alignment) is done via standard plugs and sockets -a simple and inexpensive method. The layout is HO scale on 9mm tracks, so it´ll be narrow gauge again (which suits me fine, as narrow gauge is my secret love anyway).
Here are a few pics from this layout:
The boxes (at $ 8 each):
How the boxes are connected to each other:
The track plan (adapted to my space requirements)
I figure on building module 1 and 2, plus a cassette staging as a beginning, with progress according to funds available. Will be dead slow, though.
I hope to be able to get a starter set to have something to play with - like this one
I should have come up with this idea a lot earlier. The concept suits my skills and financial abilities and I am confident I´ll be able to come up with something nice. Still, my level of confidence is not up to what it used to be, but these bit-sized chunks I can swallow!
Here is a video of Gerd´s fantastic little layout - do I adore his German accent (Like Herr Flick in "`Allo, `allo"!
Waldbahn "Eusserthal"
Enloy!
Thanks, Gerd, for this great inspiration!
Italian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Ken, no track plans. The general benchwork and how it fills the space is what I like. Will alter it just enough to fit my particular room. Trackage on mine will likely be considerably simpler.
***Ulrich, I like your new idea there. Hope the n-scale trains sell well for you.
Fella called from the one nursery and said the peach tree will be sent out next month. The other nursery will delay shipping of my big order (8 trees) until next month. I just hope this ankle is better by then.
Have a terrific day all.
Good morning diners,
Plans change when they come unexpected. (Railroading in different scales.) Sometimes it's good going back to want you love. It could be HO to N or Burlington Northern to Seaboard Air Line. (Examples).
I'm wishing everyone good luck today.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Civil at our house for now.
MOH agreed to the outing.
We will see what happens.
Maybe good will come of it.
not much else, get out taxes done tomorrow. that will be Off my list now...as of tomorrow.
Not much, usual chores...
LQQKED at the TRAINS.
later.
No good luck for me today, I'm afraid. It started in the wee hours of the morning, with an ice dam developing upstairs. This happened once before, quite a few years ago, an now, after 35 years in this house, it's back again. Anyway, there I was at 1 AM in my stocking feet, rigging a piece of rain gutter trough inside the window sill. When this happened before, I had cut this piece and fitted it with some flexible plastic tubing. Fortunately, I'd saved it, but the seal at the end had come loose so I still had some work to do.
It woke me up after 5 hours, because the temporary job hadn't held well enough. I replaced it for the day with some Tupperware containers, and went down to check the weather on the computer. I turned on the computer and got...nothing. Dark screen. Not even the motherboard's splash screen that comes on before Windows loads.
I spent some time looking at it, re-seating the boards and the like. To gain access to tech support, I pulled out an old Dell computer and got it running after a bit of a struggle. The odd thing, though, was that I could see the shared files from the the computer that isn't working. I think the problem must be the graphics card, as the computer itself seems to be running fine. So, I'll take a trip up the Amazon and order a new one. Installation should be a piece of cake. Just have to hope it works.
Oh, did I mention that it's snowing again?
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a nice hot cup of hot chocolate would be nice right now....
I have been "putting out fires" all day! Found out a couple days agao that since the U of R graduation weekend and an International Society of Garden Clubs the samw weekend in Rochester, NY as the Regional NMRA Convention we are putting on, there is basically few rooms left with a 25 mile radius of Rochester already!
Mr. Beasley, I have had a few Ice Dams on my house over the years... Still do. You may have noticed the icicles in the photos I put here. So far (knock on wood), the metal roofing has done its job and I have no water backing up into the house (that I know of anyway)... I went out and tried to start clearing the solar panels of the foot plus of sn*w on them. Very, very slow going. The other end of the pole gets stuck in the sn*w drifts by the driveway so it is difficult to pull the sn*w off the panels. I did get a few small areas clean so maybe when the sun decides to shine it might start to clear itself.
Next few days the Finger Lakes will be in the Deep Freeze.... Got up to 23*F today, now 16°F on its way down to -2°F overnight. Friday will not get above 10°F with a low of -1. I think it is time to just stay inside and get some other things done.... Have a Scout Meeting I have to go to tonight. Lucky it is just around the corner from where I live. The Commissioners are teaching Compass Skills to the older Scouts.
Edit... Scout meeting just got cancelled. Something about single digit temperatures and 20 plus mph winds by the time the meeting would be over. We have families that drive from all over 4 counties to this troop. (Wind chills tonight -20°. For the weekend.... -30°.) It is the Handicapped unit I work with.... So tonight I will either clean house or work on the layout.... Hmmmm.... Let me think about that for a while!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusScout meeting just got cancelled. Something about single digit temperatures and 20 plus mph winds by the time the meeting would be over.
Back when I was a scout, we would go tent camping in weather like that. We had a troop motto, given to us by our Scoutmaster: "Scouting Builds Men." It still does, from what I've heard.
MisterBeasleyBack when I was a scout, we would go tent camping in weather like that.
LOL... Back when I was a Scoutmaster I once took the troop to Cuba Ice Camp in Cuba, NY (Where Cuba Cheese comes from). You actually camp on Cuba Lake! That year there was 2' of ice, a 30 mph wind, and the thermometer said it was about -15°F... Only 4 of us went (two adults and two Scouts), the other chickened out.... We were in canvas two man tents that were over 30 years old and had been made by the Scouts of the troop way back when as a project. Actually, properly prepared for the weather, we were all very comfortable. It was surprising just how long you could wait inside the double sleeping bag before getting up, walking to shore, and using the little portapotty there....
The next morning (Sunday) the temperature had risen to +10°F and the wind had died down. "We're having a Heat Wave... Tropical Heat Wave...!"
The leadership of the Troop was more concerned about the Mommies having to drive the Scouts to the meeting.
Ray and Mr. B ..... I recall when I was a Cubmaster in Michigan, and we took the boys on a winter outing. The boys were outside in the cold snow with their activities, and the Dads were inside the cabin watching bsketball on TV. Of course, we Dad's were "roughing it" because it was an old black and white TV. .... LOL
Galaxy ... Best wishes to both of you. We Diners care. Of course, no two peope see eye to eye all of the time. The key is how to resolve conflict. Sometimes, it is best to be philsophical and say "If there is a difference that makes no difference, then there is no difference." I have faith, both of you can let bygones be bygones and live happily together ever after. ... My 2 cents.
I was across the lakes in Murray today. Finally took care of the recall on Shelley's car. It was a dumb recall GM did to modify the keys because many people stupidly attach other keys to their car keys. We always keep car keys separate from others.
Mint tea, please.
Picked up a few weathered train cars on the-bay earlier. That's the only train stuff to report on.
Troop 441, has passed every test, the biggest and the best in the whole southwest.
Cheers! Old Eagle Scout Rob
Just a quick Hello and will see you Friday if all goes well.