Frank wrote "Don't put it off, whatever You do."
Thanks for the prayers all and keep them coming. Found thE lump on Wednesday, Thursday I was at my General Practitioner and Friday I had a mamogram and ultrsound test. Will not know the official report until some time this week but the ladies who performed the test said they dont think it is cancer. They do not see any blood vessels growing to it and when they performed the ultra sound it "didnt cast a shadow". Apperently cancer cast a shadow.
Also keep my sister in law in prayer something went really wrong last week and there seems to be some foul play to have taken place. Her car was vandalised, her town homes was gutted by fire and she is in ICU with burns, broken rib, brain bleed, broken wrist, right eye swollen shut. She is heavily sedated and no one seems to know what happened. I have heard and read ( news TV and articles ) that she was pulled from the building, specalation that she jumped ???? The news is all confusing. The police and fire are investigating...She is on a ventillator and has a tube in her for food and water. Doesnt look good at all. Her Mom is asking for Physical healing along with Spirtual healing. She was hanging with the wrong crowd.
TTYL
YGW
Off topic? Murphy was said to be carrying several spools of 18 ga stranded wire, clearly layout related. I would be more interested in where him got it from? Him must be up to no good carrying around stranded wire when him no have a layout.
Alton Junction
Murphy is a LION. Him was sent to me by one of the posters on our forum. Him also included several spools of 18 ga stranded wire!
The leopard in the background is Leopold Leonard von Leopard III., esq.
The painting on the wall is of me done by my father, I am sitting in a recess in the cliff. Dad called it the Monk on the Mountain.
Cats, Trains... Coments... Welsome Here!
RAOR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
As this is an off-topic thread, I'll be appending it to the Diner. LION will keep the non-railroad posts of him in that thread, please.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning ...
America will never forget 12/7.
Ken ... Thanks for posting the photos.
Barry .... Sorry to hear about "Spring" .... Rescue cats make good pets. We have three rescue cats now.
I'll have only coffee. Barry and Lion ate all the food.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Dec 7th
Ken
I hate Rust
Condolances on Spring. Condolances in advance about the upholstery that your new kitty will tear up for you! : )
A black cat eh, those are suppose to bring good luck, as long as you feed them, give them water and empty the box as required.
As for my cat. she justs sits in her cat house where it is warm and waits for the food to appear. But if she thinks I am going up that ladder again, she has another thing comming!
ROAR
Good Early morning.
I spent some time playing around with the 8 string bass and a few weird effect pedals tonight. Hence why I am up at silly o'clock
Foggy and cold right now going to a high of 45 later in...in the sunshine.... hopefully.
Oh...last week our little Spring passed away in his sleep. This left us down in the dump for awhile. But...next weekend we are getting a little black kitteh from the rescue agency across the town here. She will be 8 weeks old then.
Well wishes and good vibes from our house to those in need.
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/
December 7:
The quotes and word of the day.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
-Juliette Binoche
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
-Kim Hubbard
Jackleg (noun) \JACK-let\
1a: a characterized by unscrupulousness, dishonest, or lack of professional standards
1b: lacking skill or training : amateur
2: designed as a temporary expedient: makeshift
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
I have an 8.5' x 25' train room, in which boxes of engines and cars sit while I dither about the HO end of the room. Part of this is because the electrical panel is in the designated HO area, and part is because of family obligations. Also, it doesn't help that I can't decide what to do -- the planned interchange of ACL and CG, or a small part of the Elmira Branch of the PRR, which is where my grandfather worked until he died 44 years ago. The good thing about the PRR is, I already have one BLI and 2 Sunset I1sa's. The bad thing is, I'd have to buy PRR steam, which would cause my wife to kill and or divorce me, and there'd be no no need for the Southeastern stuff I bought 10-15 years ago. (Dad rode the ACL as a young Marine, and I lived in GA for awhile, so that's the attraction.) I also don't know if the Sunsets can be set up for DCC, nor do I know how well they'd run with the BLI engine on straight DC. Too many moving parts with this stuff (figuratively and literally), and not enough time to think things through between work and family and the infernal limited runs on everything. I guess we'll see what happens. Night all.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer please.
Work Front Finally a normal slow Sunday, only 3 customers the whole day. While I am not happy with it being slow, I wanted Jerry to see what he has gotton him self into. (I am sure he was told he could make $50,000.00 a year like I was) He did make a little progress today learn in the paper work. Still no where up to speed, but better than yesterday!
Sad Work Store Story Had a guy come in that Father is in a Assessed Living Home, he has to sleep in a hosptial style bed. (power base) They bought a used one for $800.00 but the Father hates the mattress, it is hard as a rock. Customer said He will only spend up to $200.00 for the needed mattress! I gutted a cheap Twin Extra Long menory foam mattress (I would not buy it, well for a dog bed I would) to $225.00 and he did buy it. Parting words where "he will only need it for a year or 2". I just hope my daughter thinks higher than he does of his father.
Have another Pre-approved credit card offer! Think I will take them up on it, wife just broke a tooth and I don't want to max out the other credit card. I all was Pre-approved for a $35,000.00 car loan through Captial One! To bad there is no way I can swing a car payment. Sues car is on its last leg! Uses a quart of oil about every 300 miles.
See you all later, Ken
Evening guys
well I got bit by the bug again, I am in the mood to work on the layout. After taking a break in September to play mostly table top sports games and table hockey ( which im still playing and working on painting players ) And for the last couple days have been wanting to work on some projects. So today I cleaned up the sports games in there season boxes and placed them on a old card table. I will be leaving the hockey game up as the wife like to play too. I cleaned that up and gave the layout a tidying up before cleaning the workshop up. I also gave the track a good cleaning also. just been reading through the latest mr and great model railroads. I have some unbuilt kits that I'd like to get toonat some point this week also. I have enough weatheringto keep me going years,lol
Good Evening.
Seems a little quiet around here lately.
Quiet do nothing day here as well, ran some trains around getting for another operating session on Tuesday.
Chloe, I'll have the 160oz prime rib special with poutine on the side as well as a barrel of RBF please. There, that oughta wake Garry up...
My brother lives in North Carolina... In Washington by the coast, My parents (both 92) have been in assisted living in Pennsylvania, but have (been) moved to North Carolina to be closer to my brother. So it looks like next summer's vacation will be to NC rather than to PA. Still gotta make a trip ut to the city though.
And here I thought that "Murphy" was a branch line in western North Carolina that has become a tourist railroad.
Apprarently "Leo" means Lion in Portuguese. My son, who married a fine woman who grew up in Brazil speaking Portugeuese, practices that Brazilian fighting form known as Corporea (sp?). It is sort of a Brazilian foot-fighing. The folks from Brazil in that group gave him the nick-name "Leo" for his tendency to lay low and not attract attention, but then strike suddenly. When he named his second son Leonard - calling him "Leo" - and with Leonard being my grandfather's name as well as my and my son's middle name, I was quite honored. Little Leo is quite a beast, by the way - always hungry.
** always enjoy your posts ** and there IS a New York City subway car in western North Carolina, by the way.
Bill
Afternoon Diners,
I decorated the Christmas tree yesterday, and finished all the downloads on the PS4 that took a month and half to do. My brother had to get a bigger memory to store games. Which erased (if you remember) Batman Arkham Knight at 100% complete so I could get Vicki Vale.
Since the Christmas rush of mail is coming in my packages are coming in at 4 days late.
EDIT: I checked my package right now it has taken an unexpected detour in salt lake city.
BroadwayLion Uncle_Bob Well, I got nailed again. I must be related to Ray! I checked my MC account before bed to make sure a payment was received, and saw a charge I didn't know about. Turns out, some jackhole is running around Amman, Jordan, with my credit card number. Luckily, only 1 of 5 charges went through, and that one is being removed, too, but this is insane! This is like the 4th time I've had this happen in the last 12-18 months. This time, it was on an almighty chip-equipped card that I don't use a lot. Just very frustrating. Now, to try to wind back down so I can sleep. Later. As a vendor, I can tell you that I do not need your card to put charges on it. I only need to know your card number, the expiration date, and your zip code, and I can enter that information on my terminal and it will show up as a telephone order. So the chip does not protect you from that. What the chip will do is eliminate the need for someone in the store to touch your credit card. And even that is not really true, since you will hand your card to a waitress or some such, who will run it and bring it back to you. Do you eat at any Jordanian restraunats? Pay cash in the restraunts, and sea if that helps. ROAR
Uncle_Bob Well, I got nailed again. I must be related to Ray! I checked my MC account before bed to make sure a payment was received, and saw a charge I didn't know about. Turns out, some jackhole is running around Amman, Jordan, with my credit card number. Luckily, only 1 of 5 charges went through, and that one is being removed, too, but this is insane! This is like the 4th time I've had this happen in the last 12-18 months. This time, it was on an almighty chip-equipped card that I don't use a lot. Just very frustrating. Now, to try to wind back down so I can sleep. Later.
Well, I got nailed again. I must be related to Ray! I checked my MC account before bed to make sure a payment was received, and saw a charge I didn't know about. Turns out, some jackhole is running around Amman, Jordan, with my credit card number. Luckily, only 1 of 5 charges went through, and that one is being removed, too, but this is insane! This is like the 4th time I've had this happen in the last 12-18 months. This time, it was on an almighty chip-equipped card that I don't use a lot. Just very frustrating.
Now, to try to wind back down so I can sleep. Later.
As a vendor, I can tell you that I do not need your card to put charges on it. I only need to know your card number, the expiration date, and your zip code, and I can enter that information on my terminal and it will show up as a telephone order. So the chip does not protect you from that.
What the chip will do is eliminate the need for someone in the store to touch your credit card. And even that is not really true, since you will hand your card to a waitress or some such, who will run it and bring it back to you.
Do you eat at any Jordanian restraunats? Pay cash in the restraunts, and sea if that helps.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, just a refill for my dark roast coffee, please.
Got up and made it to church this morning. Got to sit with my granddaughters and family. Music was excellent today.... Actually the whole service was excellent. After the service they had the "Hanging of the Greens!" Huh? No, I don't know what they did to deserve that. I didn't stick around with the mob......
I have been given an assignment as a member of the Acoustics Committee of the church to research hearing assist devices for our parishioners who, like me, are hard of hearing. Looking for the type that work with T-cell on hearing aids. We already have a member who will donate the system!
Today would be a good day for a bike ride here, Mr. B. Currently 47°F under fair skies. Should make a few kWh today, for a change....
I am about to disapear to the train room and install more rivets!!! 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!
Another bike ride today, and it looks like the weather will hold for tomorrow, too. So much better than going to the gym and spending time on a treadmill.
I'm almost over this stupid cold. I'm still sleeping a lot. I think it's taking a while to get back into my exercise routine so I feel better and have more energy.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning
Foggy and cloudy with a bit of sun sprinkled through the day here. High expected of 45.
Galaxy: Hope the move goes well.
Garry: I would like to know where Ulrich is off to now...hope he is not back in hospital...
Got a do nothing, see nobody, and buy nothing day today...so I will be in the basement with my empire.
Have a good day everyone!!
Heartland Division CB&Q Lion ... Nice of somebody to send Murphy to you . .... Also, it was good of your Dad to paint Monk on a Mountain. .... Perhaps, there should be a Monk manning the controll stand in a subway train. ... Hope your recovery continues to go well.
Lion ... Nice of somebody to send Murphy to you . .... Also, it was good of your Dad to paint Monk on a Mountain. .... Perhaps, there should be a Monk manning the controll stand in a subway train. ... Hope your recovery continues to go well.
He took the picture, but never made a painting of it...
Galaxy .... I hope the move continues to go well......
Ulrich... Where are you ?
only here for a moment.
WE had 5 of us tro do the heavy hauling witht eh UHAUL 17footer yesterday. BUT: we have probably still only moved about 60% of what we need to!
ALl the heaby and I mean some HEAVY furniture went over yeasteday. Then our 2 frisnds who helped took us all out to dinner as a home warmning gift.
There is still lots to do!! Train mnjut frined is coming by todya to help again before I take the Uhaul back this evenign.
So he will be here in aobut an a half hour,s o i'd brst get to packin!
sorry for typos fingers are froxen cold here.
-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.
Good morning ......... Coffee and a donut please.
Ken .... Where does your boss get some of these people from? ... Doesn't he know how to use a calculator ? ........ I like the photo you posted.
Is anyone working on their trains or layouts? .... We've been so busy with other stuff, it is hard to get much done on the layout.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Ken: uuuummm....I do think he is a little off there...wow
Flo, Please and I will need more than 1 tonight!
Work Front We where busy again? With it being Dec and a busy weekend last week I thought we be slow today, boy I was wrong! Paul (GM) told Jerry (new guy) I was to take all the customers again this weekend over the phone. (Jerry thought he was making commision this weekend) He was just to handle over flow. He took care of customers picking up stuff and others folks till I got to them. While I felt bad for him, there is no way he is ready to do any selling.
I hate to call anyone dumb, I am not as sharp as I use to be. At this point I don't turst Jerry to turn the store lights on! Saddly I am not kidding about it either! We have a bad Breaker that will be replaced next week. When Jerry turned on the breaker it started going Snap, Crakel and Pop, he looked at me and asked "Should it be making these sounds?" Give me a break, he is 62 years old! You would think he would know to flip it off?
Not math wise either! He added up all the tickets for today.
$893.65
$136.25
$345.16
$1693.16
$109.13
$72.78
Total?
$211.65 is what Jerry came up with and wrote it on the report?
Think he might be off a tad?
Richard That is some good looking track!
Has anyone heard from Ulrich? I hope he is just working on the messed up bench work and not taken a turn for the worse health wise!
Galaxy Hope your back is OK as it can be! You going to share any Photo's?
YGW Good luck with the health, you need a break health wise!
See you all Sunday! If Jerry does not burn the store down!
Lion,
Hope your recovery is coming along well. Judging from the view of your father's painting in the background of your photo I can see the Lion's artistry lineage.
Regards, Peter
Richard, all's well that ends well, so it's good to see "the best laid plans" have resulted in the best laid track as well.
I had a bit of a scare on my bike ride. When I got to the trail, it had been widened and flattened by modern machinery. I knew they were doing some kind of unspecified maintenance, but this seemed extreme, and I quickly developed a fear that the old Billerica & Bedford right of way was about to become a modern paved bikeway. Fortunately, I came upon the guy who runs the small shop at the end of the nearby Minuteman Bikeway, and he told me they would be putting down crushed stone dust, not asphalt, so the path would remain pretty much as it had been, just a bit spiffier.