GM, MEN!
Today's word: {a task I find this word to get over the 5 weeks of pneumonia!}:
-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 evening.
I also have Scotish ancestors.
Galaxy. Prayers continue. Also, I recall you said you have a cat too. Tell us about him or her if you want. What does he or she look like?
Mr B. Tux looks like one we had when we lived in AnnArbor mi.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evenin' folks!
Janie a hot cup of Decaf would be great right now... Thank you Ma'am...
Today has been a long day, But..... I think I did get a lot of things done. I spent around an hour and a half in a chat room with 3 different people (by the time I got done) from TWC Roadrunner. I think we finally have the email problems sorted out and corrected! The entity that had gotten into my account there is most likely the same one that got into the ebay account and was using it. They had a group of instructions telling the email program to send certain emails to different places. Looks like the same people were also targeting a national bookstore as well. I found the problem but the page was locked and I wasn't able to change the instructions. The lady from RR was able to, by using my desktop remotely unlock it and I deleted the instructions. We also did a test of the server that has my email account. That seems to be alright, so she is sending the issue up the line to all the servers that could be problematic for TWC. By the time I deleted all my History, cookies, and changed my password one more time, I logged back in and the intructions were easy to delete!!! Oddly enough my computer is running much faster than it was.... Hmmmmm. They were very helpful, unlike ebay.
I got done with all the computer stuff just in time to take the boys over to the vet to have their blood sugar checked. Manét after 2 weeks of no insulin was still only 119. Still a bit on the low side but much better than he was. Blackie's was 180. Right where she wants it. So.... He stays on the little bit of insulin he gets, and Manet is in complete remission for the moment. Manet was adament he wasn't going to go over to THAT place! He was hiding inside the case where I have my old Mackie Sound Mixer and a few other rackmount items, way in the back where It was almost impossible to pull him out. He let me know he was not happy! Growllllllllll!!!! Hiss...... Yolwl!!! He continued that all the time the assistant was poking his ear to get a sample of blood... Poor guy wouldn't even show the veins.. The girl had to poke him about 8 times to finally get the sample - with him growling the whole time.... Thankfully they are both declawed. They don't have to be seen for a month.
I then managed to get the MLK Art and Poetry stuff dropped off two of the school buildings. Three more to do tomorrow morning. Then I did my grocery shopping, came home and got the mail.... The Box from the guy who makes plaster castings was there!!! I spent most of the evening staring to build the first of the two stone retainig walls that will be used for the center bridge supports on the Girdaer Bridge... I think that area of the layout is going to be spectacular when it is finished.
Garry, Shiela was a sweet old kittie. She was wonderful for my mom in her last years. Sheila loved to be held and cuddled and became best friends with Manét when I got her after my mom had broken her hip and was in the nursing home. Manét would spend about an hour a day grooming her and she would nuzzle him very often... Blackie just ignored her.
Galaxy...... Haggis and kilts..... ah.... Never mind! By the way, what clan are you? I be of the Dun Clan since I be an Howard (silent "H"). Actually when my earliest ancestors came here as indentured Servants the last name was Hayward. The English spelling. When the Revolutionary war was over, the next generation changed it (back) to Howard.
Prayers for all in need! See you in the morning...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
This is Tux, my daughter's cat.
I think that makes him my grandkitten, right?
He's a well-behaved and playful indoor cat.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
DER JOhn:
CAN I wear my Kilt if I eat the haggis?
It shows up at some of the SCottish/celtic festivals we go to. there is ALWAYS a LOOOOOONG line to get it!
I havent had the pleasure yet, and with a long line, I doubt it, and MOH thinks NOT on trying it.
Good evening. We survived the big snow this weekend ending up with 12 inches. The people in our neighborhood did a good job clearing their sidewalks. It was nice to get out for a walk this afternoon with temperature at about 42 F.
Between shoveling and football games I kerfed up an other three feet of roadbed. It is glued down tonight with the first coat of joint compound filling the kerfs. I got a little carried away adding water the small pail of joint compound and will probably head to Lowe's tomorrow for a new pail of joint compound. I can always use the extra when I start on scenary. I have probably spread over 100 5 gal pails of joint compound in the last ten years. So it is one material i am very familiar with using.
Der John, seems like Canadians will make potato chips into about any flavor imaginable.
CN Charlie, glad to hear you are having a relative mild winter.
Galaxy, hope you start to recover soon and can avoid another stay in the hospital.
Have a good night everyone.
Jim
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... I hope you are feeling better each day.
Galaxy ... I hope you are feeling better each day.
Unfortunately, NO. I saw my GP today, nad the news is I am not better, He is trying to keep me out of hte hosptal again but it isnt working/
I also have had the day form H-E-double hockey sticks!
Nuff siad,
Bed is calling me.
Der John .... The cartoon about the model train detector is funny. I was just reading a little about Robert Burns.
Steven ... Nice picturess of Clinchfield and Pixel. A lot of cute pictures are in your wife's blog.
Ray ... Shiel and Manet looked good in that photo. It is sad when pets pass away. ... I too was a dog person. I still like them, but cats are nice too.
Lion ... Callista has beautiful coloring.
Henry ... Toby looks like a great companion. That is a lot of snow.
Ulrich ... You are making a lot of progress already with the next layout.
CN Charlie ... WIth all of the winter weather there, I woyld think you would be doing a lot on the layout. .. Oh a new TV ... That is definately a destraction from model railroading.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
I´ll be calling it a day in a few moments. I hope I´ll be able to catch up on that missing sleep tonight!
I did not get around to look for the modeling clay, although I managed to finish the basic structure of the left portal and also integrate it into the pink foam scenery, which still needs a lot of cutting, sanding and shaping.
Here is a sneak preview:
The Gaugemaster throttle replacing the old Roco controller was in today´s mail. It took me a while to solder all the wires to the plug, but I finally managed to get that done without any major burns. The new throttle is just fantastic! It´s got a momentum and a brake feature, just like BEMF in a DCC system! I now have to learn how to run my engines in a prototypical fashion, which is a lot of fun! Can´t remember when I had that much fun!
John - only true Scotsmen eat Haggis and like it! You can´t pay me enough to even give it a try. I think it must be as bad as our "Saumagen" (a pig´s stomach filled with you really don´t want to know about it).
Well, off to bed - CU tomorrow!
Good day to you all, diners! I have been absent for a while, now I'm back. Nice view out the window, ULRICH.
BOC, I too have a collection of coupler springs around and about me on the floor, in the rugs etc; I now avoid the danger of such things flying in the air to who-knows-where using a tip I saw, probably in MR : I runs a brightly-colored piece of thread through the coupler spring when its' being well-behaved, before I try to sneak in onto the couple pins; when it flys off, it really doesn't have the energy to travel very far with the thread strung though it, and it's easy to retrieve. When I evenutlally succeed in 'pinning' it, the thread slides out slick as a whistle.
It's a nice day in the neighborhood here in Western Maine. Later I will tackle assembling a GP-9 that a friend dropped over for me to try out.
Good Afternoon,
A balmy 22F here right now so we are in a tropical heat wave. We have very little snow this year with only about a foot on the ground.
We finally have the new TV all hooked up and working. I had to get Shaw to send a tech out as the signal wasn't strong enough to run the converter box. Turns out the line to the house was 'corrupted' so a new one was laid and it all worked. HD sure is amazing.
Nothing happening on the RR front. I seem to have hit a slump. I did order the new Woodland Scenics theatre for the HO layout. The Connie or Hog in CN slang, is sitting at the water tank and perhaps I will make up a train today, but who knows. I was doing a little shunting on the N scale a few days ago but only for a few minutes.
After lunch we will be heading out to do some laps at the Reh-Fit centre.
Have a great day,
CN Charlie
Steven Otteder5997, looking at your track plan, I find the switchback connection to the industrial tracks along the front of the long leg of the "L" puzzling. What's the purpose? It just complicates things. I can't imagine a prototype railroad ever building such a track arrangement, when they could simply connect directly to the runaround track.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
I shoveled taking many breaks and rests and did well. I am very pleased at the progress I've made with Dr Jenny. Toby is the one that likes catsThe CSX scanner said they need to bring the snow blower out to clean the points. Wonder what snow blower they mean. The county did not plow exit and left turn lanes so getting around is still hazardous.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Heritage Flakes Organic cereal this morning and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please.
Steve, always good to see you! Especially when you are just paying a social visit and don't have be the heavy.... You know, for the most part we are a pretty good bunch here in the diner and usually we all behave ourselves. I used to be a "dog" person back when... Still am I guess, but I inherited two of the sweetest kitties from my Father when he died. I wouldn't trade them for anything. I also inherited my Mother's old cat whe she died. Shiela was , we think, 19 years old when I got her. She had to be put down at the age of 21 from cancer. I came home and cried my heart out. Yep, she got herself into my heart as well. Here she is at 20 years of age with her good buddy Manét. Shiela weighed in at about 7 lbs. then and Manét was over 19....
Beautiful tiger kitties you have, BTW!
Currently 33°F outside under cloudy skies here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. High will be 36°F later today when the sun makes a brief appearance as well. Solar output is low this month as we have had cloudy day after cloudy day this winter. On the other hand I have only used the roof rake once so far.
Looking at the USPS Tracking online, I should be getting the package of wall strips, etc. today. Yeah!!! I also need to make the rounds to the school buildings with the rest of the certificates, prize money, and premission to use forms for the MLK Art and Poetry Contest. The lady in charge of it stopped by yesterday afternoon and signed the certificates that had to be reprinted. then mid afternoon I take my kitties to the vet to have their blood sugar checked again. Manét has been off the insulin for two weeks now and Blackie has ben down to a very small amoint. Hopefully she will find them both in remission!
Got to get myself moving! Have stuff to get done (and tonight is reserved for working on stone abutmanets needed for the Girder Bridge project!!!)
Here is Callista (cat of the LION) when she was much younger.
She is an outdoor cat (sort of) and in never really happin when brought indoors.
Our routine is, I open the courtyard door, she comes in, runs down the hall, down the stairs and then up the basement hall, waiting at the door to my infirmary office. Once I open that door, she scampers up the ladder, jumps up to the window ledge and waits for me to open the window which will put here exactly where she was when I opend the courtyard door anyway. At least this way she is sure that I will fill her breakfast dish and check her water.
Train room, three buildings over and two floor up, nah she is not going there, and would be in a panic if I tried to take her up there. I have only just now gotten her accusomed to sitting in my computer office, next to the nice warm servers.
PS Her house has a heated bed pad and water dish.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Wow, I came back from a weekend off to find not a single fight, no off-topic posts, not a single abuse complaint of any kind! Flo, are on me.
der5997, looking at your track plan, I find the switchback connection to the industrial tracks along the front of the long leg of the "L" puzzling. What's the purpose? It just complicates things. I can't imagine a prototype railroad ever building such a track arrangement, when they could simply connect directly to the runaround track.
I like seeing pictures of other Forum members' cats. My wife writes a blog about the antics of our youngest kitten, Clinchfield. Here he is with our oldest, Pixel, who looks like he should be a relation but isn't.
Despite his mischievousness, he hasn't ravaged my layout yet. Though he does occasionally bring upstairs the odd stick of stripwood or styrene from my workbench and play with it.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning folks, and we have "sunshine on a cloudy day", which isn't bad for a "Monday, Monday" LOL
Sir MadogJohn - the moment you click on that tunnel icon after having selected a length of track, SCARM "buries" the track under a thin layour of scenery. I could do without this automatism, but it´s not a big concern. The real issue is that you just can´t place a tunnel anywhere you would want, unless you cut the track at that specific location using the clipping (or is it snipping?) tool.
Here's an item which was sent me by a Derry NH resident whom we know from their visits to a summer cottage near to our old address. She thought it would amuse, and here it is:
Have to go check emails, may be see you later...
Today's word:
Today's quotes:
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. -William Somerset Maugham, writer (25 Jan 1874-1965)
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Good Morning (or should I better say "Meeow"?)!
It´s been a short night - first I couldn´t find any sleep for over two hours, so I cot up again, and when I finally went back to bed, I woke up after only 4 hours. I feel tired and weary. Flo, the only known remedy for that is coffee in an IV bag, please!
While I was up again, I watched "The Unstoppable" on German TV. Whoever made that movie should have done some research on how to run an engine. I still don´t know how a speed lever advances all by itself ... Well, at least there was a lesson to be learned - trains are bad
I´ll be doing some more w*rk on those tunnel portals today. I may have to spoend a considerable amount of time to retrieve that modeling clay I have stashed away somewhere...
John - the moment you click on that tunnel icon after having selected a length of track, SCARM "buries" the track under a thin layour of scenery. I could do without this automatism, but it´s not a big concern. The real issue is that you just can´t place a tunnel anywhere you would want, unless you cut the track at that specific location using the clipping (or is it snipping?) tool.
Ken - continuing for Sue´s foot issue!
I am still undecided as to the season I would want the layout to be in. I recently saw a video of how easy it is to build a good looking Winter landscape. Winter with lots of snow in the Swiss Alps certainly is appealing...
Make it a great Monday!
Barry ... Lucy sounds like a lover.
Ray .... Blackie looks like a nice companion.
Mr. B ... Interesting name.
Here is our Trio.
Front to back ... Tabitha (Tabi), Sassafras (Sassy), and Victoria (Tori)
Tabi was rescued in Paducah, KY, Sassy was resuced in Cincinnati, OH, and Tori was rescued in Clarksville, TN.
Garry, we too had a cat named Sassy, back when I was a teenager. He lived a long and relatively happy life.
I watched the football games today and wasn't happy with either outcome. On the other hand, I used the time productively to work on my City Classics "company houses." Over the week, I installed a couple of LEDs as porch lights, and found I needed over 11K in resistance to get them down to the light level I wanted. (It's fine. What else was I going to do with those 5.6K resistors, anyway?) Today I spent all of my multitasked modeling and football-watching time, all 6 hours plus of it, installing varieties of window glazing with curtains, pull-down shades and Venetian blinds.
Evenin'folks!
Janie, I could use a refill for my decaf if you please!
Well I did get a bit done today. The good part was that I now have all the Certificates signed and ready to take over to the schools for those kids that didn't pick them up at the service, I gave my granddaughter her guitar lesson and she had a pretty good lesson, and I had nice supper consisting of Spagetti and Meatballs, Smoked Turkey Breast, salad, and birthday cake and ice cream. I know a bit of a strange combination, but my son wanted to try out his new smoker unit out on his deck and the MIL needed to make spaghetti and meatballs fort her brother's birthday....
The not much fun was another day of trying to get the ebay account fixed and done with. Lets just say, by tomorrow it should be able to be closed, cancelled, kaput! And, I might just be able to leave a note telling exactly what I think of them! It won't be nice and I certainly couldn't put it up on here!!! I ended up getting a new PayPal account to get the bogus charges paid off which I just did.... Tomorrow I will delet that as well after I make sure everything went through like it should. Folks! If you have not used your ebay account in a while, at least go in and check it once a week or so. If you aren't planning on using it? Get rid of it!!!
I started my account about 13 years ago, bought 2 or three items, and then never went back. Someone got into the account and was using it to sell some crap and they somehow managed to pocket the $$$ but I got nailed for the costs. i talked to their "Help" people twice and was basically tough, it is your account so you are responsible and liable..... I will be seeing my lawyer to draw up a new will soon, and will take paperwork down to him and ask if it is worth persuing the..............!!!
Garry, What a pretty kittie! I think my Blackie is giving her the once over....
I plan to sleep a lot better tonight... You all stay safe and warm out there!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Last few days have been some what dull, which is fine with me.
Sue Foot Front. She seems to me to be getting around better and is doing somethings around the house. She still complains about the pain, but with Sue that is the norm for the last 10 years with all her problems. I hope when we go see the Surgon this coming Wednesday the X-Ray will show some healing! But, I am not holding my breath.
Work Front Well Jerry is still Jerry! Far as sales, I am kicking his cabosse by around $5000.00 for the month. Nancy is coming down to my store to help him with sales on my days off. I am turly glad I will not be there for the Meeting Of The Minds!
BBQ is just about done! I just hope I can chew it! Lost yet another molar. Back when I could afford dental work my denist died. Could not find a denist that would take any more weekend customers.. Now that I can go during the week, no funds.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good Evening
Lucy is still cuddled by me here. Purrmotoring away.
Spent the last little while having fun with reprogramming some Atlas RS2's after I had roasted some decoders.
Garry: Sassy looks wonderful.
Chloe, I'll have a roast beef sandwich with it in a cheese and onion bun and a coffee as well, 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/
howmus Barry, so how many model railroaders does it take to change a lightbulb???
Barry, so how many model railroaders does it take to change a lightbulb???
(I took this photo a couple of years ago of our cat, Sassy, on the ladder. I had set up the ladder, and went to get a new light bulb. When I returned, she was on the top step.)
Good Afternoon
I am cuddling Lucy between my arms right now.
Have a good afternoon!
Lucy is all cuddled up between my arms whilst I am trying to type chicken wing style here, lol!! Her purrs are loud here....
and. promptly ran into my favorite bugbear... losing coupler springs...which, of course, meant crawling around on my hands and knees looking for the dern things...which I managed to do.
Now, because of that, my sciatica is having war with me.
Been a very long and frustrating day around here. I won't go into a lot of details, I'll just say it involves someone getting into my ebay account…
John - SCARM is supposedly an easy program to learn how to work with, but it has a learning curve to it. It took me quite some time to figure out how to shape flex track or how to cut off track sections. I also find designing structures in the 2D mode a little cumbersome, as there is a lot of trial and error involved in adapting and positioning the roof and doors/windows. Let me know if I can be of any assistance to you for your layout design.
SCARM, not as steep a learning curve as XTrckCAD, the later I haven't figured out. SCARM has better teaching videos, but I never figured out how to add buildings, which is too bad
because I think I am planning too much track and not enough space.
I would recommend a separate program track. I read an MRR article that gave multiple reason some years ago. Don't remember the reasons.
Reading what Ray and G have said, I have to ask, what's low or high blood sugar? My last blood test had it at 120, at my last actual office visit it was 112, but a dietician says I'm a raging diabetic because my A1C is 6.2, down from 6.5 over 6 months. My previous GP was an incompetent quack, but he said all my numbers were great except my weight. So, the dietician gave me a blood meter. My readings have varied from 83 to 147. I don't know what to think. I don't want to screw up my body chemistry, but I also don't want to literally kill myself, so I've been a good boy and taken my Glyburide (since Metformin disagrees with me). Still, I just don't know if I buy this stuff.
Good Afternoon!
We are having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave!
Today´s high reached + 6°C, that´s up by 15°C from yesterday´s high! I don´t like the temperature to climb that rapidly, it´s making me feel like riding in a high speed elevator with my body going up, but my blood pressure remeining at first floor.
For that, I didn´t feel like putting more pink foam down on my layout - I started to w*rk on the tunnel portals instead. The Rhaetian Railway has different looking ones than you can buy from any of the big brands. There are handmade tunnel portals available, but they, while looking really nice, don´t fit my wallet. So I´ll be going for scratch building. The rough structures are up - I need to add retaining walls and the inner lining before I´ll cover them up in modeling clay and engrave them
I know that I have some left over modeling clay stashed away somewhere, but where?
Edit: Looking at the picture I think I will reduce that slope a little.
It´s now closing in on bed time - it´s been a quiet day in the Diner, over 3 hours without anybody showing up. Is everyone out, fighting the sn*w?
Zoe, I'll have the breakfast buffett this morning. You can bring me a pot of Seneca Lake Dark Roast Coffee to keep my R&GV RR Mug filled. Thank You Ma'am.
BigDaddy, spot on, sir! My doctor, who is supposed to one of the best around here for people with diabettes, says that the goal is less than 7.0 for the A1C. He is very pleased as mine has been around 5.8 for the last 4 years. I have a tendency to get up in the morning and find my blood sugar is higher than when I went to bed the night before... He says it is probably due to the liver boosting blood sugar during the "Wake up" process and not to worry about it.
Looks like my package may arrive tomorrow.... That would be nice so I can get the Girder Bridge finished and in place on the layout.
I'm still waiting to here from my Division members about having them sign the petition!!! Model Railroaders tend to be very, very hard to get in touch with sometimes......
I'll catch you a bit later this afternoon!
Morning
Had to change three lightbulbs this morning. My knees are feeling it now.
Getting a mix of sun/cloud with the high near 32 today...the heatwave is on!!!
Rest of today will be in resting. In the trainroom, hah!!!
Make it a good'un!!!