Ulrich: i WAS ALSO, once upon a time in my yoounger days, WAS going to go spend a year in Europe for International Business Studies. A semester {at least} at the American University in Rome, Italy. So I started studying Italian. I took French in high school, and at teh time I was going to go, I worked with a bunch of Brasileros{Brazilians} in a resort area here.
If I TRIED to speak ANY of the languages I studied now,{including one of my ancestral tongues...Norwegian}-I come out with a sentence that has several words from several languages-{all meaning exactly WHAT I would have said in English}, but instead of all words from one consistant language!!!
I WOULD have spent the summer in Greece, the Greek Islands, hten attended AUof R, OR spent 2 semesters @ AU of R and then all summer in Greece.
Where I lived in the resort area here, therer were a number of greeks, wiht whom I could practice. Enough greecians locally, and near enough to a major city that there was an AM radio with "Greece Today" show { Η Ελλάδα Σήμερα} {direct letter translation and pronounced-I Ellada simera} that aired soap and dramas {voice only} for me to gain extra practice.
SO...that WAS my dreams ONCE, but I hadn't enough money, couldn't afford NOT to work, and working while at School in Italy apparently was very...challenging to do according to the Italian rules, to say the least!
Haha...it Was to do double duty working in the US and Europe for the 'Unification of Europe 1992'! I WAS to be an "international guy"!! Working on both continents, mere "'play boy' of the lands"...ha ha!
oh well...
once upon a time... long long ago, in a 'galaxy' far far away...
now I sit here fat, dumb and {un}happy...{right now anyway}
-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.
Knock, knock.... Hello! Hmmm.... Place is empty. Guess it disappeared into a cyberspace warp on Lion's Server! Oh! Hi Janie! I see the wait staff servers are still in service. Or sumpin' like that.
Ah, I just need a cup of decaf for now. Thanks.
I have a new pair of reading glasses to use at the computer tonight. Another chunk of the 'Tesla Fund' gone. The eye doc says my eyes are in great shape with no signs of any problems from my diabettes. I went over to my son's house to take care of the kitties litter box and found that his Uncle in Law, Mark, was there as well. Seems that MIL had to take care of her other daughter's kids this afternoon and Mark came over to let the dog out. She probably didn't know what days I was coming over.....
Did a bit of cleaning up both in the Living Room and down cellar. Water is still coming in down there.
Gee, Galaxy, I drive through Greece all the time.... Huh? Oh, not the Greece near Rochester, NY the one over in thee .... Ah..... 'Very Far'.... Oh yeah, heard they can't pay their bills or sumpin'. Speaking of paying bills.... Sure wish the furniture would hurry up and arrive. I'm getting tired of looking at a large empty room. My sister tried once again to convince me last Sunday that her 12' x 14' living room is much bigger than my 11' 3" x 23' 6" living room..... She is an Artist, I am a Musician. I know more about numbers than she does! Harumph!!! Her's is 168 square foot and mine is just under 265 square foot. She also let me me know that she is not happy that I consulted my youngest son and not her for the colors and style for the living room! Frankly I do not like her decorating in her house, way too cluttered, and do like what my son has done with his. Besides I want to create a space I will like, not something she can ooo and aaah over because she is so wonderful.
Oh yeah! Interesting news article about the property where I taught the last 19 years of my carreer. I have to get some photos of the new college building being put up on the site. My old room will be still there in the new complex, but all the oldest part came down.... This shot was looking through the old stage into the auditorium when they were tearing it down. Part of the balcony was still standing then.
Anyway when they were digging they found some more bodies! (Well bones really...) Yep there were some bodies (bones) found when I was teaching there too... More information for the brave amongst you found here: http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3841079.shtml?cat=565
Guess I'll finish my decaf and head home for the night! Have a good one!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning!
I am quite early today. Got up at 3am - it´s too hot here to get a good rest at night.
As Germany is suffering from a heat wave, I thought it to be nice to breathe some clean, cool mountain air. Let´s enjoy a trip up to Wendelstein Mountain in southern Bavaria!
Have a remarkable day!
GM:
Well, I only slept little,,,unlike Ulrich, I HAVE a window A/C unit in the BR to keep me "cool"..AND A HUGE one in hte LR/KIt...
todays word:
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, I'll have an extra large cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
It's good to see you up and about this early Galaxy. At least I think it is. Unless you're up because of insomnia, then hopefully you'll get some sleep. Anyway, I like the words for the day and the quotes. You put a lot of work into it, and you do a good job.
Ray: I see this all the time with women who believe themselves to be designers, which is why most interior designers are women. They do, for the most part, have a better sense of color and fabrics than men. As good as I am with color and fabric, the girls still have an edge. And you quite correctly called it decorating. The problem I find with non professional decorators (and designers) is that they usually impose their own tastes on the "client." In this case, she as an artist may have been hurt because you didn't ask her opinion. You have the advantage in that she's known you like forever so she probably does know what you like and dislike. But hey, it could be pure disaster. Only you know the answer to that.
For what it's worth, what I did notice is that you have a lot of Greys and white, and if I remember correctly, the Amish furniture you acquired is black. Suggestion, ask her to help you define a focal point in the room and put a subtle splash of color there to accent. that way she'll feel included and you still get what you want.
i gotta go to work.
I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Italy is suffering since joining the Eurozone as well. I lived there during the late 80s and married my wife there. Back then, in southern Italy, you could bargain at the markets and prices were very reasonable even for the locals. Once the Euro was introduced, prices went through the roof on just about everything and the standard of living has dropped. Young people are leaving my wife's village searching for a better life in northern Europe.
Lion - that is very disheartening. I do NOT trust other buisness to own my history, pictures etc...I have lost so much info as one companies system takes over another system and all of my info gets lost or screwed up recently my work phone broke and I lost over a thousand contacts ! I HATE that ! I trust these buisness to screw up my information or loose it !
Howmus - They are building in a cemetary ? How can they dop that ? That is property that was bought by the deceased to rest in until Christ returns !
V8 - 49 Cents ! Wow may send a tractor trailer your way and buy some of that !
Angelob - why is your tag in multi colors ?
Ulrich - enjoyed your video. Parts of the area looks like our West. 104 degrees, Geez I didnt think it got that hot there.
Garry - thanks, Yep there will be years of enjoyment there
Galaxy - One of the key reasons the house are "affordable" where you live is because market conditions - no jobs - No money - who can buy anything ? My sister lived in Hawaii for a few years. She hated it after a while. Back in the 90s when she lived there everything was crazy expensive, after one had driven around the island there was nothing else to see and surprisingly she hated the weather. Just two seasons. Beautiful and monsoon rains. She missed the change of seasons we have here. Paradise turned out for her not to be paradise. She couldnt wait to get off of the island. I do not know Greek. But I know a man who read the bible in the orginial Greek and I asked him what it said. He explained the same thing as english version. In other words the translaters had gotten it right. Is that what you found ? I like your Antoine de Saint qoute nice !
Well I am going to check the forum and will check back in later.
YGW
DRfan Italy is suffering since joining the Eurozone as well. I lived there during the late 80s and married my wife there. Back then, in southern Italy, you could bargain at the markets and prices were very reasonable even for the locals. Once the Euro was introduced, prices went through the roof on just about everything and the standard of living has dropped. Young people are leaving my wife's village searching for a better life in northern Europe.
... and so is Spain, Portugal, and France. And guess where all those people leaving their countries move to? Germany would have joined the ranks of those countries as well, hadn´t the exchange rate selected at the time of the introduction of the Euro been set at an artificially low level. Adding to that, we have seen a massive reduction of wage levels, all the way down to a value of the mid-1970´s!
The Euro has spelled disaster over Europe!
Enough of that!
Please join me in a cab ride in an ICE 3 (Bullet) Train from Frankfurt to Cologne. Top speed during that ride was hitting close to 200mph.
Tomorrow, we will be a lot slower, promised!
Good morning everybody.
I'll not comment on the Euorpean situation.
On the layout, I am restoring a beat up old engine house. Also, I have a very old craftsman kit with wood parts to make a plumbing supply house, and I have it on the work table. I hope to start it very soon.
Ulrich.... Thanks for sharing the videos.
Happy Model Railroading !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Hi everyone! It's a pleasant 72 degrees out here in the Northeast, with a high of 81 expected. It feels sticky now, as we had thunderstorms on southwest winds yesterday, but it's going down to the mid 50s tonight so the humidity won't last.
The situation in Greece reminds me of my brother-in-law. He's always lived beyond his means, and racked up quite a bit of debt between his business and his personal expenses. Now, he's sold the business to help pay off his debts, and he's just gotten a divorce. He's been living off handouts from his parents for decades, and they're fed up with him, besides the fact that they just can't afford to keep doing this any more. He's very secretive about the true state of his finances, and has lost a number of friends because his honesty has been called into question. Oh, yes, of course he has a boat.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
YGW- The reason I have a multi colored tag is to represent, the different colors on railroads.
First you might be thinking about my fictional railroad. Blue, yellow and red with baby blue.
History Lesson: When I made back in high school it was another passenger train in my math notebook with colors almost everybody had. Fortunately it stayed with me and named it G.N.O. Railway, but back then it was called the Government National Organization then to Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio. (Blue-Georgia, Yellow-Ohio, Red-North Carolina. 3 Different states gets a color.) Baby blue is used inside the railway's realistic diamond logo.
Second- Basic colors from real railroads UP-yellow, BNSF-orange, New York Central-gray, and Conrail-blue. Amtrak couldn't get one because of the white, wouldn't be seen.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Mornin' everyone,
Zoe, I'll have a breakfast egg, cheese and bacon muffin and a pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to start ths day, Please and Thank you.
yougottawantaThey are building in a cemetary ? How can they dop that ? That is property that was bought by the deceased to rest in until Christ returns !
Long and probably uninteresting story to most folks I think.... It was a cemetary probably dating back to the pre-revolutionary war period when this was a trading outpost with the Seneca. In the tradition of commoners going back to earlier times in Europe there were no caskets and graves may have been reused originally (usually after 7 years in most of Europe). When the old High School was built (from Wikipedia): "In 1924-1925, a commodious High School building was built at the corner of Milton and Pulteney Streets in the City of Geneva. The school was erected on the grounds formerly occupied by a cemetery; the bodies from which were exhumed and removed to Glenwood Cemetery." What happened is that they didn't find all the interred people that were buried there. These new finds will be reintered most likely at Glenwood cemetary as were the two sets discovered when I taught there and they put in an elevator in the school. Who knows how many more there are still beneath the soil at that spot. There is no surviving record of who was buried there back then and those that were interred later on that spot were moved way back when to a new location.
Sun is trying to shine outside today. Current temperature is 66°F with a high in the mid 70's this afternoon. I will be heading out to Boy Scout Camp after lunch trim around tents again.
up831, LOL.... What I like is totally not a factor where my sister is concerned! After all I am still the baby brother who just isn't supposed to have opinions on anything, especially if I am agreeing with her! She subscribes to the "It's too late to agree with me, I changed my mind!" philosophy. She will tell me in no uncertain terms that I am not to have an opinion as she will tell me what to think. Now, she will strongly deny that she does that, if only because that means I have an opinion...... I do expect that I may put up a pair of beautiful paintings from a local Native Painter out there that she has given me. Oddly enough my son and I have agreed on the colors and the basic idea of what I am doing. He has been a lot of support to me in choosing what I am getting. Right now it just looks bare.... It won't when I am done but I don't want it to look cluttered!
I can tell you what Europe and Greeces problem is and it is not the euro. The problem is they have left the fundemental market place ideas and gone into a form of socialism. Not politics just stating fact. When you have more people collecting than you do paying in the is the beginning of the econmic issues. Same with your own house hold. When your outgo is more than your income that is your down fall. Basic math. Problem is people are way to happy to recieve money thinking others "owe" them. Politicians are willing to give others your money to buy the votes of those who think they are "owed" your money. It will survive for a while but eventually fails.
We came from the mtns of The "Blue Ridge" where we were dirt pour. My father only had a third grade education and today because of self teaching, smart decisions and a lot of hard work is now is worth a million. I too have followed in his foot steps. No one ever gave us anything. We didnt feel like we were "OWED". We EARNED it. Greece needs to start a NEW policy called "get to work"
Ulrich - There used to a model railroad cars made called Ulrich. Was that you ?
Anelob - Oh thanks I always wondered.
Mister B - good morning
Hey diners,
Still talking about European countries. It must be nice to travel outside the United States or Germany (other countries as well).
Ulrich- I enjoyed the videos
YGW- I forgot to mention I got the railroad's name after a Miley Cyrus song. Weird how... When we name our railroads after something, and totally forget how it got started in the first place.
As the day is filled with alarming news from Greece, here is something rather pleasant from this country:
Enjoy!
Let's keep politics, even European politics, out of the Diner, please.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steven Otte Let's keep politics, even European politics, out of the Diner, please.
Thanks, Steve!
I was wondering when you were gonna pop in!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
YGW:BE carrefull! You are being warned about politicking again!
As for jobs here THERE are jobs, IF you are in the right field, or have a double income household, you can do well. This area has remained largely stable now for many years, though jobs have shifted form one field to another.Health care for example still pays $30-60/hour here. There IS limited Federal manufacturing here, just not as many subcontractors nearby, IF you are an engineering individual!
REcently here housing costs went up, but by the # of actual SOLDS it seems they are asking too much currently.
well, that might get onto politics too, so I will leave it at that...We cannot fathom paying half a mill for a house, uness it is a place like Hawaii, where land is STRICTLY LIMITED.
Friends recently paid $200K for 3 acres, 5BR, 2.5 Ba, + LR, family, and dining room, + office space large remodeled kitchen, and barn out in the country built in the mid 1899s- a REAL colonial. We'd like their space, BUT not their heating bill!{$650/m oil, PLUS electric units upstairs.
well, our little hovel now needs a new bath floor, somehting else to save for, besides the new furnace!! Unfortunately, the floorin hte bath is deteriorating under towards the tub/shower form the toilet..bad sign they may have to rip out the tub/shower too....too bad YGW wasn''t closer to here, I'd have to trhow him a few $$ and maybe he'd fix it for me!
It will have to wiat til next summer hopfully!
later
Huh. Steve just just "popped in". Imagine that.
Same old here. Life is good. Kids coming for the Fourth of July festivities. Hope that's ok to post.
Couple of Hookers on the bridge over Bear Creek:
Hope that's ok to post, too. Terry in NW Wisconsin
Hope that's ok to post, too.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
yougottawanta Lion - that is very disheartening. I do NOT trust other buisness to own my history, pictures etc...I have lost so much info as one companies system takes over another system and all of my info gets lost or screwed up recently my work phone broke and I lost over a thousand contacts ! I HATE that ! I trust these buisness to screw up my information or loose it ! YGW
YGW; I have a knack for remebering phone numbers I have used fairly frequently. Though I admit, 1000 #s MAY break my memory maker if needed to recall all at once.....
While in the hospital, when they asked for #s to the agencies i worked with, my pharmacy #, my Drs #, etc, They were AMAZED I could recall them all right off the bat wihtout barely a thought!!!
I STILL do the old fashioned thing...keep a written record of the numbers I may want to use/need/want/refer to...as I DON'T trust tech to handle it all, I back up my back ups with PAPER and PEN.
You CHOULD enter all your 1000 numbers into a spread sheet on your computer and back up on a thumb drive, for instance, IN ADDITION to keeping a Business card in a business card folder/holder, from everyone you do business with!!
Also EMAIL yourself those #s to, so if you can access email, at least you cna look up those #s!
That way, if you phone gets: broke, lost, stolen, goes missing, dies etc, you have several back-ups to refer to!
Just a thought!!!
Just an idea!
Hello Everyone,
Another scorcher today. Went to my nearest town Fernley, to get a few things at Lowe's...107 degrees in the center of town...103 here at my house when I got home. Hottest I've know it in northern Nevada since moving here in 1994.
Staying home tonight and tomorrow. Too hot to work on the layout, so I'm camped in my computer room and moving some A/C from my bedroom across the hall with a slick arrangement of two fans and a large sheet of corrigated cardboard.
Since I don't have a working printer to generate CAD prints. I'm getting out all my old manual drafting gear and will be drawing out the schematics for my signaling system. Building it all the old fashioned way...electromechanical. Tying an automatic block system of relays and magnetic detection into switch indication. Should be interesting. Having had my hands dirtied countless times on locomotive electrical systems, interlocking relays and contactors pose little worry.
Still intending on going to Carson City to the RR museum Saturday to get some photos of their old steamers in action...hoping the 3' gauge Glenbrook is running...that's my target.
Well...till next time.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Terry - Yea imagine THAT ! Steve just poppin in...
New word for the DAY Hypocrite - Claim or pretense of holding beliefs, standards, qaulities,opinions,virtues or other characteristics that one does not actually hold.
Example : Expecting everyone else to put up with your slant or view of life BUT not allowing other view points or opinions.
Qoute : “I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.” ― William F. Buckley Jr.
Qoute : “He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.” ― Sigmund Freud
Qoute : Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere” ― George W. Bush
Qoute : “Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” ― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858
TTYL
Evening Dinners
Flo, please.
Been a long day! I had to go to Court for the Company because Drunk Dave had forgot to tell us the city wanted something fixed 5 months ago! After I found out about it, well it got fixed. I had to be at the court house at 8:45 AM today, I normaly do not have to be to the store till 11:00 AM.
Far as sale wise, the door swung my way today! Had 9 customers and 7 bought for $3200.00.
YGW Grat to see you back at the dinner! Boy, will I ever be taking you up on your kind offer. Pluming problem is more than likely simple. Fence Problem? Well, you may have missed it when I typed about 16' feet of it fell over!
I wish I felt like typing more and good to see some of are MIA's back in the dinner!
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning, Gang!
Are you ready for today´s steam trip?
Today, we will visit a shortline, probably the shortest of all shortlines. It´s the Chiemseebahn (Lake Chiemsee Railway), connecting Prien with the landing at the lake. It´s only a little over a mile long and still runs the equipment from the year it was built. That was in the late 1880´s!
Upon arrival at Prien-Stock, we will board the old paddle-wheeler "Ludwig Feßler", which will take us on a cruise to the Herreninsel (Gentlemen´s Island).
On the island, we will visit Schloss Herrenchiemsee (Herrenchiemsee Palace), one of Crazy Ludwig 2nd´s Fairy Tale palaces. Crazy Ludwig emptied the state coffers to build a number of beautiful castles and palaces in Bavaria, Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof being the most prominent ones.
Herrenchiemsee was modeled after Versailles, but was never finished. After the king´s death by drowning in Lake Starnberg, construction was stopped.
Enjoy today´s tour!
The swamp cooler pump died in the middle of the day with 98 degree heat. I had to walk to Lowes to get a new one at 7:00. So I decided to buy a bottle of water with that exceed heat from the sun, I could have drink three water bottles. After I came back home at 8 I went up the roof with a flashlight and installed the new pump.
Here's a video I found of the first run of the 1875 3' gauge Glenbrook at the RR Museum in Carson City on May 30. Planning on going there and getting some photos on Saturday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sbf_VGzEH8
Looking forward to it even if the the temps are over 100 degrees.
Good morning all.
Flo set em up with Coffee and whatever they want to eat. Breakfast is on me this morning.
Have a question. Just signed up for EBAY so I can purchase train stuff. I was SHOCKED at teh shipping charges- REALLY STEEP. Is there a way to get slower shipping and therefor cheaper shipping cost on EBAY. For instance one $15 item cost $7.50 for expediated shipping. Thats nuts. Half the cost is in shipping. Give me a break !
Ken- sent you a PM. Feel free to contact me about any questions. Glad to help. What is the picture of ? It appears to be European in design not American. Is the top half missing ?
Ulrich - Who is driving that thing ! I stopped and watched and reversed the video several times. I didnt see an operator in the cab. Pretty neat. Amazed such a small locomative could pull soo many cars.
Galaxy - I would help out fellow modelers free of charge for minor handi man stuff. Especially if it was under a eight hours.
V8 Thanks
Garry, Howmus etc....Hello when you get here
Qoute of the day
Ronald Reagan - Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people
- Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it
Oleg Atbashian - “Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?”
Word of Wisdom - Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Angelob - What is a swamp cooler. Not familiar with that type of cooling system
Mark - Oh my gosh loved the sound of the steam engine, made my heart jump.
TGW
YGW: Even if you DID come and fix things, besides dinner, I'd also throw a few bucks ANYBODY's way who would help me out! Right now, we discovered a soft spot becoming a hole in the bath floor next to the tub, covered it for now with a shelving board, The bath sink is so old now that the faucet {which leaks not a drip but a stream}can't be fixed/replced {we turn on/off supply line to the hot if we wnat it}. we'd like to install new vanity with a tall cabinent or two on either side of the vanity for storage next to it {its 5' but only single sink on one side}, The porch needs work and the skirting...
SO, YGW: the Bath alone, MAY take a full 8 hours if not two days!
And we'd have the furnace installed too...
I wouldn't expect ANY or ALL of that for free...
I'll send you a PM sometime today...