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Flo coffee and a bagel.
Get well to all those that are sick or in the hospital or going into the hospital. It's hard to keep track of who is having what anymore. My sympathy for the many of you who have lost friends and relatives.
The battle of the caboose continues. I thought I did not want 2-toned so I painted it, what turned out to be electric blue. Stripped it, gave it a couple coats of Milwaukee Road orange (MR hint) Masked it with the hospital green painters tape and darkened up the blue and did the roof and cupola. As stated in another thread by another modeler, paint runs under green tape.
Decided to try to paint over it, rather than stripping it again. Seems to have worked.
I used a ultrasonic cleaner to remove the last little bit of paint. There wasn't enough to make a definitive judgement as to if it was any faster. 91% alcohol has a flash point of 57 degrees F. The US cleaners have heaters. I did not use the heater but I had it in the kitchen with a gas stove (electronic ignition). Is it unsafe? I don't know but if you are going to try alcohol in a US cleaner, you should consider the risks.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Ulrich,
I contemplate life's finiteness all the time. However, I do sometimes wonder when I was young how I never shortened my life by doing stupid things. So I guess there is a plan for all of us. Like the end of "blade runner" - I dont know how long she's got - but who does?
I guess I just wake up every morning and thank god I got another glorious day to deal with.
The sun is shining and the grass is green.
Chris.
Loco Guy - is a state of mind - not an affinity to locomotives.
Sit back and enjoy your track...
ULRICH: Join the club...I have been contemplating life for a while.....
I wish you well, old friend....
I sit here, fat, dumb, and contemplating life....
Which came first,,, the chicken, or the road it crossed?
-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.
Steven Otte galaxy Go Ahead, Make Mr. Otte's Day! Is that really necessary?
galaxy Go Ahead, Make Mr. Otte's Day!
Go Ahead, Make Mr. Otte's Day!
It's HUMOR, Mr Otte, Laugh, laugh.....laugh a little...
Drop a quarter already...
Der ( hope you are okay havent heard from you in a while )
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
YGW, I finally got my camera flash working and took a picture of my plate glass sharpening set up so you could see it. I start with a oil stone for rough sharpening and then move to the plate glass/sandpaper sharpening plates. The plate glass pieces are 4 x 8-1/2 and are 1/4 inch thick. Sand paper with progressive grit is glued to the plate glass using 3M spray adhesive. I use 60 to 300 mesh sand paper. The end result is a very sharp chisel or plane blade.
Hope your procedure goes well tomorrow.
Jim
Good afternoon, all. Busy day so far. I picked up a new tail light lense assembly for the 2006 Colorado to replace the one I broke last fall and glued back together using Walther's Goo. Had to go to the post office to send in my passport renewal as they advise sending by a traceable mailing method. Took the dog for a long walk this afternoon and then bought her dog license.
Getting ready to head for the basement and add more roadbed. Sharing a picture of the progress below along with a picture of Adele, the rescue airedale.
Have a great day.
Good Afternoon
With more puncture marks and bruises from whatever banged into me...I seem to be floating in an interesting way righht now. Tramadol does weirdd thinghs to me...like make me feel buzzeddeded....
Fever caught me sideways...102 this morning, back down to 99 this afternoon....liver/kidney function still good. High white cell count. Electrolytes kind of borked...just a regular old mess I'm in...doctors figure that I'll be here until NExt Tueday...oh, heart rate went down to 32 bpm last niiight.
CYLTr!!!!
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...
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blownout cylinder. . .heart rate went down to 32 bpm last night. . .
I read once that John Stockton's resting heart rate was around 30 bpm. He had the heart of a horse.
Richard
RideOnRoadI read once that John Stockton's resting heart rate was around 30 bpm. He had the heart of a horse.
When I was in my 30s and riding my bike over a thousand miles a year, my own resting heart rate was 40. I would say, "No wonder I have a hard time getting up in the morning. I'm a third of the way to dead."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
yougottawanta Garry - I go in Tuesday at 11am. Keep MOH in prayer. Her first husband she lost to a heart attack ( while she was preganant with their daughter when he passed ) and when I gave her the news of what the docs said she started crying really hard. I reassured her it would be okay, but you know women they just worry to much. YGW
Garry - I go in Tuesday at 11am. Keep MOH in prayer. Her first husband she lost to a heart attack ( while she was preganant with their daughter when he passed ) and when I gave her the news of what the docs said she started crying really hard. I reassured her it would be okay, but you know women they just worry to much.
YGW
YGW --- Your wife's emotions about your situation remind me of my wife, Shelley, when she learned I have congestive heart failure. She had similar circumstances with her family as your wife had, and she was very upset at the news. .... That was 15 years ago. We have had many fun and wonderful experiences over the 15 years since then. Most of the time my life has been pretty much normal. ... However, there have been some scary events in those years. My heart has sometimes stopped beating, but it has been restarted each time. .... As I sometimes have said, I have had the near death experiences. I certainly know there is something waiting for us after our bodies die. I know some of our loved ones have already paased away and they are now in a better place.
There are other Diners with heart disease. I suspect their wives also have experienced similar emotions as your wife is going through. ... In my case, I am very thankful for my wife, and I bet others feel that way about their wives. Praying for you that your procedure goes very well
Ulrich .... You said you are "contemplating life's finitenes". Don't forget to enjoy every minute while you do so. Life is a wonderful gift, and we should all be thankful for it.
Happy Model Railroading, Everybody !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
One should not spend a whole lot of time contemplating life...''live every possible minute of it and share with other's''....It will be gone before You realize.
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Take Care, All and Thank You for Your Kind Regard's.
Frank
I think they did the right thing at this place!
Neal
Neal .. That is great!
Frank And Galaxy .... Glad to see you
where is everybody else?
Heartland Division CB&Qwhere is everybody else?
Going nowhere in particular. I'm still fighting this cold after 10 days of coughing. I called in sick to hockey tonight. It's a little better every day, but I've still got a couple of days to go.
I think I'll do some work on scenery today. Carving foam into the general outline of the covers for the staging tracks is the easy part.
Morning diners,
I forgot to mention that I got the Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Amtrak Station. It will be my first official HO kit, if I decide to switch scales when I model the SP and AMTK.
This kit will help me to convert the station into N. It will be a huge structure building project.
Waiting for Walthers to send me an email on the order.
I hope your enjoying the rest of the day diners.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
I now have a new skill to add to my resume. I am now a "Certified Piano Technician" after completing the piano technician course offered by the Piano Technician Academy. It doesn't mean I have skills, just that I have book smarts.
I'm here!!! Well I was over at the Fieldhouse hoofing a mjile today... They were closing the parking lot at noon for a lacross game this afternoon so I decided to just do a little over a mile and try to decrease my time. I was successfull and a very out of breath old guy shaved 3 minutes off his time.........
Chloe, I could use a cup of your best dark roast decaf please and (shhhh!) a couple creme filled donuts, please.
I am busy with NMRA stuff today... Have to get the newsletters collated and ready to mail, and I finally got an updated membership list from the Region, so I can updfate my file and get in touch with any of the new members...
Prayers for those needing them, and I think there are several today!
73
Ray
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmusI was successfull and a very out of breath old guy shaved 3 minutes off his time..
Way to go, Ray! Thanks to this stupid cold, I've had no exercise in a week. If nothing else, it's going to be 70 degrees here tomorrow, and I'll go out for a long walk.
Well, I'm now an official Walthers mail-order customer. With the closing of my LHS a few months ago, I've no longer got the convenience of ordering through the shop and just driving over to pick things up. I ordered a motor and a new decoder to replace the burnouts in that subway car.
Good Afternoon.
Human Pin Cushion here. I'm running around 98-99 temperature wise so I might be beating the fever part of this...
Had a few visitors up here to see me...that was good...off to
Evening guys
was a nice day out today and to think we had a huge snow storm last Tuesday. Great job on the exercise Ray. I have been working on the layout and putting together some freight car kits in my spare time.
Good evening diners.
Glued some cork sheets to the benchwork for the yard. From China, very brittle 2x4 rolls.
Returning the favor to Ulrich, this is colorized, high resolution of pre WW I Berlin. Equal mix of Panama hats and bowlers. Great old cars, trucks and buses and at 3:05 a steam truck pulls into the picture.
hmmm this isn't playing for me. The link is https://youtu.be/B-m9A8mY-U0
Hey all
Came through the operation fine. Didn't know this until they were finished they actually STOPPED my heart and restarted it. Hmmmm might have been bit more nervous if I had known...
Der - glad you are doing well
Chris - lot of truth to that statement. Here is mine. If I wake up and my heart works that is a good day. If it fails it's a better day. Because that means I am in heaven where there is no pain, no sorrow, no tears streets of gold, I will have a mansion....and it is so wonderful it is said that my pea sized brain cannot comprehend it !
Jeremy - well that was a terrific tease have any photos
BO cylinder - sound like you may be on the mend. Oh you can keep the bed. They changed up meds on me that didn't require observation and sent me HOME !
Howmus - do you contact each member ? That's terrific
Richard congrats on the cert
Angel HO to N from a HO kit ? How are you doing that ?
Neal LOL love the Mickey see sign
Galaxy are you testing Vinney with the demative Trump comment LOL !
Jim is that copper colored rail ? Or is that a trick of light ?
Henry I am having a battle of the caboose too ! Uh just not the HO scale but the 1 to 1 scale !
Garry thanks for the comments how has she felt with your heart condition since ?
Ulrich will be praying for you.
Ken - did you read my PM ?
TTYL
yougottawantaCame through the operation fine. Didn't know this until they were finished they actually STOPPED my heart and restarted it. Hmmmm might have been bit more nervous if I had known...
Nah, it's fine. Triple A knows what they're doing when you need roadside assistance.
Seriously, welcome back.
yougottawanta Hey all Came through the operation fine. Didn't know this until they were finished they actually STOPPED my heart and restarted it. Hmmmm might have been bit more nervous if I had known... Garry thanks for the comments how has she felt with your heart condition since ?
YGW ... Glad you are already in the Diner. I'm very pleased to hear your operation went well. .... Shelley has been with me for each of my six heart operations, and it was good to have her at my side as they rolled me into the OR. It is likely my 7th heart operation will be before 2016 is over, and it will be good she will be with me then. .. Of course The Big G looks out for me, but I won't say more so I don't digress into religious conversation. ...... Continuing as you recover.
Barry .... I hope your temp goes down and you can go home. ..... Continuing for you too.
Ulrich .... Hope you had a better day.
Galaxy ... Keep improving with your breathing.
...
Happy Model Railroading, everybody
Evening Dinners
Flo, IV bag with
I am mentally beat up today from work. I won't go in to details tonight but the owner has pretty much killed the only reason I have stayed there.
YGW Yes, I got the PM 3 times! How many wheel sets do you want? You know, I think K-10 still has a PCM Y-6b in his show case. It is a stealh version, meaning no sound but it is a good looking engine.
Barry Seems I have been miss spelling your name now for sometime. Sorry about that. Glad your fever is gone and hope you get back on your feet.
I am beat, so latter.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Had a good day at work, today. Had some sales.
YGW: Glad to hear everything went alright and that you are home. You and SIL are in my prayers. A friend of mine some years ago was fixing a toilet, had a heart attack and died. Glad you are ok.
Ride on: Congrats on the certification.
Barry: Hang in there and heal quickly.
Ray: That's great that you could shave your time. 3 minutes is amazing. Speaking of amazing, how's that bridge model?
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
YGW: Glad you made it through the procedure.