Now that Garry mentioned it...I will have a 30lb rack of wild boar, two 5 gallon pails of poutine and 3 50 cup urns of cofffee please....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Howdy, everybody.
I was thinking of having lunch, but I see Barry was here. Not much food left in the kitchen now.
JohnBoy ... Glad you had a good trip. Sounds like you were very close to where a model railroader lives in MT. He posts regulary across the street.
Galaxy .... You were missed. Finally we resorted to having Ray send you a note via USPS. .... Hope everything gets better for you. Keep an even keel in a stormy sea, and eventually you will pass through it to calmer seas. Meanwhile, your friends here care.
Lion .... I like the photo. Passenger must be getting a thrill at that speed. LOL
Happy model railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Welcome back, Galaxy!
Do they make generic versions of your required drugs that your insurance will cover, or are you stuck with the name brand as your only option? I apologize if you've already covered that.
Today was my first bike ride today in over two weeks. Between spending 3-4 days a week for the last three weeks on the road, usually in a time zone three hours removed from my home base; having the grandkids in the house; and daytime temperatures in excess of 110 degrees, there has been no time for bike rides or train work. I am still on east coast time, so I was awake at 4:00am this morning so I set out for an early morning ride. Because it is so dry, we get large fluctuations in the temperature. Even though it is supposed to hit 111 today, it was only 75 at 5:30am. (That's right, a 35 degree spread for the day.) It does heat up quickly though. It is now 8:00 and is already 90.
Richard
Good Morning!!
I have been rather busy here with family and such...this house is Grand Central Station, lol!!
Weatherwise warm but not supper sticky out...posta get a slight chance of thunderstorms later though.
Nice to see Galaxy back and some others as well. for all of us undergoing all manner of challenges...
Good morning everyone, and welcome back Galaxy! Sorry to hear of your troubles with medical system, but I'm glad you're out of the hospital and back with us.
Well, we had had a fine lobster dinner, with steamers and corn, and then we drove the couple of miles to the ice cream place. Since I had that tooth pulled, I've avoided my favorite ice creams because of the chips, but it's healed up enough now for Black Raspberry Chip. Yummy.
It looks like we'll be getting some more rain tonight and for the next couple of days. Hopefully, there will be some dry interludes for biking.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good to see Galaxy back again, sorr to hear about your travails. That is some tough stuff.
The picture of the day: "POTD"
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning!
TGIS - and no PT today. I really must say it is exhausting me and I need to self-motivate me every morning to get up and go there, as progress seems to come in miniscule steps. Well, at least the PT lady as a nice sight, but one with a rough character. Hate to have her as a drill sergeant ...
Galaxy - good to see you are back. There is a special candle lit for you!
Today will be a day of rest. My friend will be coming to see me, hopefully bringing the layout along. He called me yesterday evening and told me why it took so long. He had been waiting for a part to be delivered. I am all eager to see what he has come up with...
Have a good day!
Hmm
Good morning
It seems a lot of you are wondering where I have been.
To those who guessed I was in the hospital, you were right.
after the huge cost insurances wanted for meds that actually work, no longer being affordable to me, since Jan we ahve been playing russian roulette with meds to see hwat will work, and what will work paycheck wise. SOOOOO..
They changed my plan.
Anyway, It took 5.5 months, but I finally had a mental health breakdown!
I wound up in the ER and asked for psych eval, and though I appeared "fine". The ER Doc THOUGHT I was a herion addicfa as it showed on 2 testings that i had methodone in my system!!!
Anyway, thouhgt I was VOLUNTARILY asking to go to CPEP {Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program}, THEY INVOLUNTARILY admitted me, meaning I was kept solely in a n ER room wiht security guard at all imes untilhte "found a bed" at a psych facility. They first wnated to send me Buffalo {4.5 hours away} and then I, and my OH SCReAMED, and got Cooperstown, NY {1.5 hours} away}.
They kept me a few days,and the Dr talked to manufacturer of meds THAT WORK on me, but are EXPENSIVE to me {$200/month} to get them free to low cost for me. PROBLEM IS it won't work with MY insurance!!!!!!
SO, after a total mental health breakdown, a 2 day stay in the ER with no food, lucky to have a porta potty, and NO MEDS for 3 days, I gto transferred to Cooperstown, a small quiter facility that I am used to at General Hospital.
Then today they kick me out, but I declared I wasn't going anywhere Until MOH got there/
They also treated me like a 2 or 2.5 years old as they WOULD NOT allow me to set up my oown CPAP machine {DUH! I CAN do it!}, refused to let me keep the CPAP-made bag fro it, either. Respiratoy had to do it the first nihgt, then hte nurses had to come set it up, after TEN years with JUST this unit{15 years total}, I THINK i can set it up!!! THEN they were concerned i COULDN'T do hte O2 THTA too, for nigh on what, 12 years.
Basically htey threw me out to the old system, which was FAILING me! same old, same old. They DID getg me the refills on the old WORKING MED {expensive on insurancce {$875/month for insurance, $200 for me to pay}.
Well, i Do NOT feel in the spirirt out a new word, so i will bow out here.
I look like a pin cushion from IV, blood work, etc. Adn I have had BP taken so many times lately it sin't funny.
I am glad to be out of there, but if they think htey solved my problems, they didn't!!!
Maybe I will talk later, rihgt now, gooing back to bed....
-G
good to see ulrich, johnboy, etc.
-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.
Evening gang,
Zoe, when you can, I'll have a HC. and a couple of oatmean raisin cookies for a bed time snack. Thanks.
Well, I'm back,,,,, Did anyone miss me ?? No, I didn't think so.
My Wife and I were down to my Son's place west of Billings for a week. He had bought tickets for us, (him and me) to go to a Gordon Lightfoot Concert as a Father's Day present for me. It was a great preformance and a beautiful venue. Full house as well. That was on Thursday evening and we left for home yesterday shortly before noon and got home about 9:00pm.
I got to visit with John at Jim's Junction in Billings again and picked up a few items, mainly Intermountain couples and a couple pkds of 70 ton trucks. I did get and Oxford
model of a 49 Mercury, this is a very nice model and I had one just like it in real life. I was more impressed with it compared to the way CMW vehicles have really gone down hill lately. What don't I get here.>>> CMW ( Classis Metal Works) and their vehicles are now a cheap plastic, iffy paint and wheels that will barely turn. The older ones I have were great but if this is now their standard, I"M DONE WITH THEM.
Also got a few items at Harbour Frieght as we don't have one of those up here, always a great place to visit and you never come away empty handed.
Helped my Son with a few of his home projects and he is planning on building a retro slot car track layout. That should be fun.
Garry, glad you had a good trip and visit with your east coast Son & family.
ULRICH, Hang in there with the P.T. I realize it seems slow, but one heals better that way. Give Petra an extra squeeze.
Galaxy, Light a candle for yourself and remember you are in our prayers. Get well soon good Buddy and check in when you can.
Ray, I think we all envy you with your fun times out at the Museum.. Have a great Summer.
Glad to hear from CN. Charlie and Wisconsin Terry, but still wonder about Choo Choo Willie.
Well, I work all day tomorrow and Sunday so must get some sleep, so I will check out for now.
Have a great week-end everyone and keep smiling.
Johnboy out...........................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
First let me say thank you to all that wished me good luck with the foot! VA is starting to get on the ball at this point. I am getting custom arch supports for my shoes. My feet are now totaly flat, hum could it be because my unit made me run 5 miles all most everyday? The Foot ulicer thinks that is part of the reason I get such bad callous, my feet roll inwards. Should get the new shoes this Thursday.
Work, if you could call it that today! I would not be shocked at all if Marv did not call Saturday and said close down the store! I only had 1 customer the whole day and it was a Warranty claim! It might have to do with all the rain we are getting, lot of areas are flooding that normaly do not flood.
Dave Front.
1 The guy they wanted to hire to replaces Dave did not take the job.
2 Dave has requested 2 weeks off because of the condtion he is in.Well, that is the smartest thing he has done so far. Said he will be in the Hospital for tests. A few people think it is for Rehab, could be but I still lean toward mental health problems.
Bright side for me? I will get to work a few more 6 days weeks and I need the overtime to get the ends just to wave at each other. Down Side? Paul the GM will be running my store! I am sure he will come up with a Ken Do List!
Train Front. I think I all most have the bugs out of my damaged E-6 B unit. (It was dropped years ago) Any tips on how to Solder with out get Glops on the wire?
Next project will be to try to get the sound going again on my BLI Blue Line RSD. Sound works on DC, but not DCC and I have reset the sound decoder more times than I count!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Evening fellas
just realxing watching the ball game. Have a few chores to do around the house tomorrow but then plan on relaxing and working on the layout
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a refill for my decaf qould be nice right now. I'm just about out the door to mow some lawn.... Man! This place has been desserted lately....
By the time I got on the computer last night to check out what was going on and read through a hundred or so emails, it was midnight, so I decided to get to bed...
Yesterday was a long but fun day. Went to a friends house to do an operating session. I found my new cab 6 NCE throttle worked great. Had it for close to a year and this is the first time I have actually used it. I then headed over to Subway to buy something for supper and stopped in at RIT to "steal" a couple kWh of electric for the PiP (they offer free charging to the public in one of their parking lots), and they are right on the way from where I was to the museum. That gave me enough EV range to drive out the museum and still have 5.5 miles left to climb the hill near the museum on the way home saving a couple miles for the last leg back to my house here in Geneva...
Playing with the 12" to the foot scale trains was fun also. Tomorrow is opening day out there, so I will be there both Saturday and Sunday on Train Crew.
Heartland Division CB&QRay ... Got your eply. Thanks !
Garry, got your answer as well... This morning on the way to the Credit Union. I mailed a note to Galaxy and asked him to contact me. We will see what I find out... Got my hair cut around lunch time. Want to look my best for opening day.....
Better get out and get started on the lawn before the weather changes for the worse... Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning ... My quick trip to Alabama is over. I saw my family memebrs there plus my son from North Carolina was there with his wife and some of her family. ... My 95 year old Mom is deteriorating and I'm sad about that.
Richard... That is hot.
Ray ... Got your eply. Thanks !
Ken ... Hope the foot will be okay after this.
Ulrich ... Good to hear from you. Keep up the good work with PT.
Mr. B ... Enjoy the weekend visit. ... Sounds like you need to tidy up the train room.
Lion ... Keep those photos coming.
UP831 .. A U50C ...... That has been a while.
Galaxy... Where are you? ...
Happy Friday! My daughter and one of her college roommates will be dropping by over the weekend, so it's a lobster dinner tonight! Yummy!
My bicycle wheel will be in the shop for a while, as they are out of that particular size spoke and have to order more. I've still got the mountain bike, and we'll be going up to Bar Harbor, Maine, early next week anyway. So, I'll ride that over the weekend and when we get back the road bike wheel should be ready.
Still nothing on the train front. I just haven't felt like it. The first step will be to clean up the mess of tools, materials and parts all over the train room floor. It won't take long, but it won't be any fun, either.
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, would you be so kind to get me a humongous cup of coffee with extra generous amounts of cream, please?
No Galaxy! Hope he is OK!
i didn't get to see a train yesterday. Someone had mentioned in a different thread some time ago about every time they approached a grade crossing that they were hoping the gates would go down so they could watch the train. Boy, is that ever true. Every crossing I get to I'm hoping there's a train "in the block" and the gates will go down just as I get there and I'll "be forced" to sit and watch a train go by....in the front row!
Usually when it does happen, I get stuck right behind a semi and my whole view is blocked. Bummer!
Once I was on a little dirt road at a crossing with nothing more than cross bucks to note the crossing. I saw a train approaching and just stopped, put the car in neutral, set the brake, and waited. I was rewarded with a close up view of a U-50C. That was a treat! The poor engineer probably thought I was going to commit suicide or something crazy like that.
Lion: Those are nice pics. You should post them on WPF that JaBear starts every week. I especially like the white with (dodger) blue train against the orange foliage. OK, it's not really Dodger blue, but hey, got a plug in for the team and it's close enough.
Gotta go to work.
I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Morning guys
just getting ready for work. Not much planned this weekend, after a busy last weekend and busy week the most I might get done this weekend is house work and cleaning the garden. the rest of the time I will be relaxing and working on the railroad
has anybody heard from Galaxy ? I'm getting worried about him. I see he hasn't been in since the 9th.
Good evening diners, Time for a grilled hotdog wrapped in bacon, yum.
Been very anxious since Monday evening when our 10 yr. old Airedale had a major seizure. A trip to the emergency vet and the regular vet haven't helped much. She has been a wonderful dog for a rescue, very friendly and well trained. One problem with the breed is thy don't tend to live much past 10 or 11.
Cleaned up the drier vent mess today and then found out the regional land fill closes promptly at 4 PM. Back tomorrow morning to get rid of the demo wastes.
On the train front, six soup cans are resting on an other section of road bed. Plan to kerf more Homosote road bed for the second curve for the double main this evening.
Ken, healing prayers headed your way.
Ulrich, good to see you in the diner today.
Jim
Evening Dinners!
Flo around of on my tap, guess that will be about $6.00.
Foot Front. When the Foot Ulicer Nures first saw the wound she said it was a Infected Ulicer. After she cleaned off the callous and it took her a while the wound it self is not infected!
She gave me tips on how to keep the callous in check and what it should look like after I am done. That helped a lot, really have not wanted to mess with it with not being sure what I was doing.
There is still a chances there is tunneling ulicer. Area around the wound is some what soft. So she set me up with the Leg Ulices Clinic when I had a real infected ulicer. That one took 21 skin grafts to heal.
Galaxy I as well hope he is OK. But remember this not the first time he had vanish from the dinner. One time I think he was MIA for 2 months. Then I saw he was on the site by looking at users on line and repoted it here in the dinner. Shortly there after he was back.
See you all later, Ken
Hello everyone,
Been awhile since I've visited the diner. A cappucino with a proof rating would do me nicely. Well summer is here in northern Nevada...at 12:30 PM it's 86 degrees and 9% humidity under a cloudless cobalt blue sky. Forecast for 93 today.
It's been a bear of a week. Issues with the employer again. Same company (a subsidiary from before) different facility...but same garbage. Being threatened by them because of a need for basic restrictions. One write up already. Why do employers insist on torture till you can prove a health problem? If I wanted that...I could move to the Middle East. Anyway...I hope I can get my restrictions before I get written up again. Too bad Nevada doesn't enforce their labor laws...oh right...they have no labor laws of their own. So...I'm back on meds again to help manage anxiety and stress so I don't drop over with a stroke or heart attack. Okay...enough of that.
I think I'll go talk to my dog...she's smarter than any ten managers at work...combined.
Train time.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Hey Richard, you and I are on the same boat with that heat. It sucks! Basically nothing to do and sit with the air conditioning on.
I watched a few a MRVP videos and washed the dishes. Lets see what happens later in the day.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
112F at 12:00 noon in Phoenix. It may be a dry heat (11% humidity) but it is still hot.
Boy, this place looks deserted!
Where art thou, friends? Vinnie and the girls are yawning, twiddlin´ their thumbs.
Good Evening, Gang!
PT didn´t go to well today, as my wrist is still hurting. I need that hand to support me when doing the exercises, so there was little I could do today. Even so, I am beat!
Not much to report otherwise - my days are pretty boring these days. I am just glad I still have days ...
I am really worried about Galaxy. He´s been missing for over two weeks now. I hope he is just taking a break from the Diner and is doing OK.
No plans for the rest of the evening. Well, what should I be doing, when moving around is a bit of an ordeal? I think I´ll be watching an old movie on the tube. Have not looked at the idiot box for ages.
Ken - hope your foot will get OK soon!
CU all tomorrow!
Afternoon just dropped in for a cold
Well the house move went great but now we are working or way through the many boxes sorting everything out. Still a fair number to go but we are almost there. Can't say the same about "the railroad empire" the hut contains all the epmty boxes and other trash. But we are getting there.
Ulrich keep up the good work at your PT we are all rooting for you!
Galaxy I hope that everything is OK!
Bear I will have to get permission from Cousin Vinnie as I am hoping to leave a few top quality Malt Whiskys behind the bar so that visitors can sample "the good stuff". But will definately give a whisky of the week.
regards to everyone else and thoughts and prayers to those in need.
Brian
Flo, I'll have my usual barrel sized cup of coffee with extra generous amounts of cream, please.
Has anyone heard anything from Galaxy? It is becoming apparent that he's not ok. I'm not sure what a sudden drop in blood pressure is symptomatic of (mentioned in his last post), but it can't be good.
Ulrich: you hang in there with your PT. we're rooting for you.
Nothing to report train wise today. Maybe I'll get lucky and see a CN train on the old EJ&E tracks today.
Relivant quote for the day:
"Life I love you, all is groovy" -Paul Simon
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please.....
Strawberry festival went well, sound system worked as I thought it would, and lots of people in attendance. Fun! The revote on the School Budget (it lacked the super majority needed by NYS Law last time) passed yesterday by a wide majority (the largest number of voters ever as well), and the city of Geneva has another honor in it's list of acheivements. "Want to play? If so, Geneva is the perfect place to be, as the City accepted the honor of being recognized with a 2015 Playful City USA designation for the 4th time."
Ken, I hope the doctors appointment goes well and they can get your foot healing soon! Keeping you in my prayers....
Garry, received and answered.
Time to head for bed! I have a full day of playing with trains planned for tomorrow. Late morning I head to Rochester for an Operations Event at one of my NMRA members Home, and later I will get my supper, stop at RIT and "steal" some electricity for my car (they offer it to any plug in for free) and then head to the R&GV RR Museum for the monthly meeting which this time of year is just an excuse to ride on trains for the evening.... I will be working crew as usual.
I did some figuring and since the PiP says I have 95 miles worth of gasoline left and tomorrows driving will be over 130 miles.... Let's see I'm currently getting a little over 11 miles on a charge... Hmmmm... two full charges would give me around 23 miles of electric range.... So since the car is off on the estimate and I should get around 30 more miles on this tanke than it says.... Best be safe, so I just filled the Dinasuar dung tank with the proper crap to be sure I can get home without running out or having to fill up alomg the way. I stopped and filled the tank here in town where I could get $1.90 off a gallon.... Yep drove over 640miles on this tank, it took 6.9 gallons of gas to fill it and got over 92mpg this time... Love Summertime and driving on Sunshine!
Have a great night!
Hello everybody .... I'm in Alabama ... This will be brief.
Ray ... I just tried sending PM to you using an old old thread.
Ken ... I hope all goes well. Glad you have Simon lined up to keep us informed. Good of you. Of course , it would be good to hear from Simon anytime.
Todd ... Glad you made it to the Diner.
That's all for now.
Happy Model Railroading