Tried to get my son to stay in school to get a masters in computer science. He didn't want to hear
Probabbly like me, there was no way I was going to get another degree. I got my B.A. in four years. ( even went summers to do so) and I was done. I could only handle so much school.
and in reality fat good my degree has done me > ended up in a completely dif field.
Good evening, Gents
Well, there is another spirit passsing over. My Aunt, My mother's sister, passed away today.
SO I have to make a trip to the midwest, To Battle Creek Michigan. SHe was 84. My father went this summer and saw here and his brother and cousin adn their families, I should have gone, but I can only go for a week or so, he likes to go open ended, as he likes o take his time.
He's not sure if he will go, But I think I will force the issue, he was close to her, and He says hes not sure he can hold together, I said funerals are not for holding together. SHe was his age. That might have hit home for him.
At work tonight, but now fingding it a bit difficult to hold together myself, or rather concentrate. I had a guest check in, his first name Christopher, I put his name in the computer as CHRISTMAS. Don't know where THAT came from, CHristmas is the furthest from my mind now.
Not much else to report, I guess.
I'll leave you to your thoughts as I meditate in the corner booth, if its not taken.
-G
PS Quote of the day: "To be or not to be, you CAN'T be me"......
-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.
hon30critter FRRYKid Mentioning the upside-down coupler, I find at times that I have to stop and think which way I am installing a coupler or even the box, especially when I have the engine or car upside. There have been a few times (not on Fridays either) where I have accidentally installed the couplers upside down Been there, done that, felt really stupid afterwards!! Dave
FRRYKid Mentioning the upside-down coupler, I find at times that I have to stop and think which way I am installing a coupler or even the box, especially when I have the engine or car upside. There have been a few times (not on Fridays either) where I have accidentally installed the couplers upside down
Been there, done that, felt really stupid afterwards!!
Dave
LOL .... Trip pin on bottom.....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
FRRYKidMentioning the upside-down coupler, I find at times that I have to stop and think which way I am installing a coupler or even the box, especially when I have the engine or car upside. There have been a few times (not on Fridays either) where I have accidentally installed the couplers upside down
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
tin canGoing back to school is definitely worth it.
Tried to get my son to stay in school to get a masters in computer science. He didn't want to hear it. His wife is in the same field, worked just as long, but has a masters and makes significantly more money.
I pre-ordered a Bowser RS-3 from one of the big mail order places. It is supposed to be delivered next month, but if Atlas is any example, it could be the middle of next year.
I am having second thoughts. I am imagining it going in the dumpster after I am called to the Big Sleep. I guess it comes down to how many engines do you need vs how many engines do you want.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
RideOnRoadI am here, just hiding in a booth in the back, heads down with homework. Every now and then I question the sanity of going back to school at my age.
Richard:
Going back to school is definitely worth it. Went to grad school in my 40's to get a MBA. It was hard on me, my wife, and my kids. But I did it, and you can too. It has made a positive improvement on my career, as well.
BATMAN Ed, I think you got a loco that was meant to go to New Zealand or Australia. Send it to Bear and the coupler will be the right way up. Yeah, but then the locomotive won't be!!!!
BATMAN Ed, I think you got a loco that was meant to go to New Zealand or Australia. Send it to Bear and the coupler will be the right way up.
Yeah, but then the locomotive won't be!!!!
Yep! You Kiwi's are pretty sharp. I was wondering if anyone would catch that.
Good afternoon from the left side of Canuck land. Still windy as all get out. Still, have power, that's amazing.
Dave, shortly after my Dad died in 1993, I came home with two tickets to England for my Mom and myself. She kept putting off her visit to all the relatives for some reason, so I stayed for ten days and came home and she stayed another month. While we were there she asked to go to an old church near where she was born. In the churchyard was the grave of a cousin she was very close to. It turns out he died on the Dambuster raid, he was a pilot. He had been repatriated not long after his death, while the war was still on.
Garry, in the 2008 crash, Canada was relatively unaffected by the whole thing. However, after the dust settled in the U.S. I put a lot (for me) of money into the U.S. markets and did extremely well in the coming years. The next big win for me was when the Canadian Dollar was above the U.S. dollar. I cashed out a lot of my shares on the Toronto exchange when I saw what was happening and bought back on the U.S. markets and then sold after our dollar came back down. Canada is the United States biggest supplier of oil and our dollar tends to follow the price of oil. Easy pickins for anyone that follows what goes on in the world.
Another trick I use to do is buy on one market and sell on another right away as the bid/ask can be quite a spread sometimes between the two exchanges. This requires your full attention though.
This is the first image of the set the kid worked on for three weeks in Deadpool 2. They wore protective goggles and earplugs that the camera could not pick up. He is not in this shot, however, he said there were a lot of big explosions over the three weeks he was there. They wanted him for another three weeks but he had to leave for school.
The wife is painting the kitchen and sending out a mayday, so better run. All the best to all.
The wife is painting the kitchen and sending out a mayday, so better run.
All the best to all.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMANEd, I think you got a loco that was meant to go to New Zealand or Australia. Send it to Bear and the coupler will be the right way up.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Tom: Glad they could get it all. I have a spot on my arm that I am going to go have removed, I don't like the looks of it.
Model front: I am helping with the layout at the railroad museum. It is O-scale and coming along slowly.
Ken - I think it was all done with a scalpel. But the area is so numbed up that you don't feel anything. They slice away the cacinoma (about the size of a dime) & send it to the lab. You then wait for the results. In my case, some cancer cells showed up on the edge, so they took a little more off. The lab then reported all clear, so it was stiched up. Because of its location, the surgeon made additional inciscisions about 3/4" long each. One above & one below to allow her to gather enough skin area for closure. This morning I look like I was in an off-post bar brawl, but had no trouble sleeping. The only down size is I can't wear my glasses because of the bulky bandage, but I can remove it later today & then be back in business.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
BATMANMy Moms cousin was a group captain in the Royal Air Force and flew Langcaster bombers.
Hi Brent:
My dad was a Navigator Bomber in Lancasters during the war. He had a few very close encounters with enemy bullets and schrapnel but he didn't get shot down, at least not in the Lanc. He also flew Coastal Patrol Cansos (Catalinas for you Yanks) out of northern Scotland where he did manage to get shot down, by a U-Boat no less! They managed to make it to land on the Scottish Hebrides Islands so they thought they were safe. Unfortunately the locals, most of whom spoke Gaelic only, didn't accept them as being Allies. They got marched at 'pitchfork and shotgun point' to the local Constable. Once their alliegance was established they were given a very warm welcome.
Eveing Diners
Flo, Gary, The Great Ed, Tom, Brent, Gary, Inch, Galaxy, Jan, Angelob and I will have a please.
Ed I sure can find room for a RDC on the layout! When I bulit the K-10 Mining Section I forgot to plain on room for a road. The miners are getting sick of walking to the mine I will add! Long time ago I bought a Athearn RDC with the rubber band drive and it hauld butt! Have a kit to convert to gear drive and have yet to take time to intall it.
Ulrich and Brent What happened in WW II was a waste for both sides. Both sides tragted civlian populations and while I understand the reason's behinde there loigc I will never agree with it!
Tom Glad all went well far as the tretments go. Guess it was done by lazers.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Mentioning the upside-down coupler, I find at times that I have to stop and think which way I am installing a coupler or even the box, especially when I have the engine or car upside. There have been a few times (not on Fridays either) where I have accidentally installed the couplers upside down.
Ulrich,
Robert E Lee onece commented, " It is a good thing that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond of it.!"
Dresden was flown at the request of the Russian High Command, most air crews knew that there was no military value to the attack, and questioned why it was flown.
To those of us who have experienced the butchery of conflict--nothing will ever erace the sight, sound, or smell.
I have a real problem with those who make money glorifing combat, to those who seem to like these films, I wonder what the attitude would be if it was experienced first hand.
When my brother first came back from Korea I did not understand why he was so outspoken about some of the comic books I was reading at the time.( He was in Seoul, June of 50, when the N. Koreans moved South, and was one of the few that escaped by swimming the Han River-the bridge had been blown up by the S.Korean Army.) Fast forward ten years, I fully understood.
Unless it has been experienced, there is no comprehension. And if you have experienced it, it will be carried the rest of your life in the dark recesses of the mind. Survival of this varies with each individual, I have no answer, if I did, I would write a book, and never worry about the light bill again.
I greatly upset my DIL, and twin Grandsons, when I made some pointed observations about some of the " Shoot Everything That Moves-" video games they were playing at the time. That was one of the very few times I explained to anyone, just what is NOT revealed in these games, and movies. Words will never describe what it is like to lose close friends, and in many cases, being closer than that of birth family. I would like to think that what I said at that time changed their views, at least they no longer engage in that activity when I am around.
So Ulrich, I have great empathy for your emotions.
After having walked partway down that path, appreciation of "Life" is viewed with a different perspective, and I know there are those who experienced far, far, worse--and those who experienced far, far, less. And those who have yet to experience.
I apologise in advance to those I might offend--time to run a E-8 with a mixed consist, and a caboose.
herrinchoker
BATMANSorry didn't mean to offend.
Brent - no harm done, I just have very strong feelings about the subject being, IMHO, unsuited for entertainment.
Back to model railroading!
Sir MadogHollywood took a lot of liberty from what must have been reality in those days. the Germans were far from being the brutal, stupid creatures often depicted in these movies.
Ulrich, I was thinking of this when I told the story about my Moms Cousin. When he landed in his parachute, the Germans could have just shot him and been done with it. Instead, they invited him to come along with them in retreat as he had a better chance of survival.
He talked about the war, but it was a horrible time for him and I am sure he talked about it more for his own benefit than anything else. The first time he bailed out he went to a prison camp and eventually escaped. That was a horrible period of time for him.
Sorry didn't mean to offend.
Thank you, Garry!
The ordeal was far beyond what anyone can think of in his worst nightmare and I am just glad that my immediate family came through this unharmed - at least their bodies. Both my mom and my dad have seen and lived through things that make hell a comfy place.
BATMAN Garry, that is interesting about GE dropping the transportation arm of its empire. I think the profit margin does not warrant the investment into the research and development that is required to compete. Things are changing at a record pace and GE has already fallen too far behind. I have owned a lot of GE stock over the years just because they have their nose into so many enterprises that it is like owning a mutual fund without all the fees. The same with Berkshire Hathaway.
Garry, that is interesting about GE dropping the transportation arm of its empire. I think the profit margin does not warrant the investment into the research and development that is required to compete. Things are changing at a record pace and GE has already fallen too far behind. I have owned a lot of GE stock over the years just because they have their nose into so many enterprises that it is like owning a mutual fund without all the fees. The same with Berkshire Hathaway.
Brent .... GE is one of the first stocks I owned, but it has been a long time since I sold the last I had. I bought some after the Financial Crisis for about $8.00 per share, and I sold it several months later for about $15.00 a share. ..... I briefly owned Berkshire Hathaway (B shares) after that company bought BNSF shares for $100. Warren Buffett bought BNSF shares for $100 with a portion in an equivalent amount of Berkshire Hathaway. It was good for me becasue I paid about $26 / share of BNSF stock only about 8 years earlier.
Ulrich ... I am sad to hear how your family and other Germans suffered during that time. I will respect your views on such topics.
Brent - according to a Swiss historian, a minumum of 2 1/2 million senior folks, women and children were killed in Germany by the Allied bombing, among them quite a few from my family, so that´s a topic which does not go well with me. According to the same source, over 300,000 were killed on February 13th/14th, 1945 in the bombing of Dresden, a city with no military relevance other than the fact it was packed with refugees from Breslau, Liegnitz and other places in the province of Silesia.That day, my great aunt and her entire family of husband, 4 kids and 2 grandparents ceased to exist. The amount of people burned to death is double the figure of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together!
I don´t feel any anger for those British and American bomber crews who were told they´d hit military installations while the actual target was civilian folks, although the type of load should have given them a clue as to the nature of their mission. You don´t need incendiary bombs to destroy military targets!
I don´t think it is a topic for cheap Hollywood entertainment, nor an issue for anyone directly or indirectly involved to be proud of.
Do a Google picture search "Dresden 1945" and you will understand my point of view.
Good morning from the windy West Coast, yep it is still blowin and is expected to get worse later today.
Ed, I think you got a loco that was meant to go to New Zealand or Australia. Send it to Bear and the coupler will be the right way up. Born in 1956 Eh. What an old geezer.
Bigdaddy, "The Train" is actually a pretty good movie.
My Moms cousin was a group captain in the Royal Air Force and flew Langcaster bombers. He was shot down twice, bailing out of the plane both times. When you bail out more than once you get to become a member of the caterpillar club. It is for those that have bailed out more than once and survived. His second time he was bombing Berlin as the war was almost over. He jumped out and landed behind enemy lines. The Germans were retreating at a full run at that point and said to the cousin that he better come with them or he'll likely get shot by the allies because they are advancing so fast. So he went along not as a prisoner, but just as another guy running for his life from the allied advance. Moms cousin had endless stories about the war and didn't mind telling them.
Netflix just released a new documentary about Hitlers personal train "Amerika". It is worth a look.
Amazon Studio's announced a few weeks ago that they will be spending an additional 500 million dollars in the Vancouver film industry. Yesterday they announced that they will be making a "Lord Of The Rings" series and opening a second huge studio up here. They haven't announced where it will be shot, however putting two and two together gives you a pretty good idea. Vancouver is losing 3 series that are filmed here and gaining 15 for next year. The kid has been inundated with calls in Ottawa to book him starting in April, so he should make lots a bucks over the summer. He has worked for Amazon Productions twice and they pay him really well. That show has a 13 million per episode budget which is really high for TV. He wore the same costume the second time he was called and found something he had thought he lost in the pocket when he put it on.
Well, need to do more reading about all this and decide to buy more, sell or hold, so best get on with it.
Afternoon all,
Getting ready to go take a nap. We had to get up early this morning as I had to be at the hospital at 7:00 am. Had biopsys done on 2 facial lesions a couple of weeks ago. Both came back as "basal cell carcinomas. The larger one on my right temple, & the other on my left cheek. The surgeon did Mohs Surgery on the temple this morning & I wanted to tell all not to worry if you need this procedure done at some time in the future. It is painless & there's virtually no discomfort. The results came back from the lab & indicated that some additional cancer cells were still present, so a 2nd round was done. Again, nothing to it. This time no cancer cells remained. I do have some swelling around the eye, which is also getting quite a shiner, but these were anticipated. Ice & Tylanol should take care of things. I go back next Tuesday to get the other one done, which will not involve as much. I'm only bringing this up as it was mentioned here some time back, but I don't recall too much about the discussion. Just wanted to let everyone know that this procedure is not a big deal, nothing to worry about. I should mention that what made the morning even more enjoyable was the fact that both the nurse & the surgeon were very attractive, young ladies. I'm sure that helped in some way.
Morning diners,
Ed- Thanks for the Root Beer float! Were those special decorated bottles? Nice to see those Amtrak diesels to bad for the coupler.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good morning ....
An RBF for breakfast ? ... Sounds good. Why not? ... Thanks, Ed
Interesting business news. General Electric is planning to divest of its Transportation Division which includes locomotives. I can not think of a US company that would want to buy it. Caterpillar already owns EMD.
Henry ... I'm glad for you the endoscopy went well.
Ken .... That's a spooky ghost story.
Ed ..... Hmmmm.... Maybe you have a ghost in the train room, and it rotated the coupler. ???
'Mornin everyone!
Well, I was digging around in the storage locker behind the steward's station in the diner and found a whole case of PRR Amber Root Beer!
IMG_0293_W by Edmund, on Flickr
Root Beer Floats for everybody!
It was a No-Go on the dryer heater box. I kind of knew the old one wasn't the problem but it is usually the most common failure so I changed that first.
Now I suspect the heater relay on the main board, which is gooped solid in epoxy. $110 for a new board. Hopefully it will be here Wednesday. If I jumper the relay I get heat. Could still be the control panel? Thermistor checks OK.
So, enough of the dryer w**k. I wanted to stretch the legs on my new SDP40Fs
You know what they say about buying a car that was made on a Friday...
Well—
IMG_0300_W by Edmund, on Flickr
I NEVER had this happen before!
Must have been a long day for somebody.
IMG_0298_W by Edmund, on Flickr
Tomorrow I'll put the trucks on the roof and everything will be OK.
Gotta replace those imitation couplers, anyway.
cudaken Ed Thank You for helping with the parts!
I'll get a package together maybe by the weekend, Ken. Do you have room for an RDC on your layout?
Cheers—
Ed
angelob6660 FRRYKid- I'm glad you got your switcher. Nice looking paint scheme.
FRRYKid- I'm glad you got your switcher. Nice looking paint scheme.
A lot of my paint schemes are designed from and inspired by actual schemes. I decided that way my freelanced ones would have a somewhat authentic look.
Eveining Diners
Flo, Ed The Great, Gary, Brent, Ulrich, Galaxy, Inch, Angelob, and I will have a please.
Ed Thank You for helping with the parts! I really loved the looks of the Mighty B&O F7's even with the sound not working. The broken chassis (probley a crack when you had it) explains why you where hearing a drive shaft noise. While I did not hear the noise for all most a year, it finally let go and broke.
My Ghost Story. I was a MP at Ft Bragg N.C. 18th Airbore HQ has what was called the Top Secret Library that all times had a MP stationed at it's door 24 hours a day. HQ use to be to seprate buliding and both where 3 storys tall and about 40 feet a part, the TSL was on the 3rd floor. Some time around 1950's they had a bridge between the two bulidings making them one. Think of it as a 3 story tall dumbell.
When the bridge was bulit one of the bulidings stairwell was blocked off so there was only 1 stairwell now and it was by the entraces of the TSL where the MP was stationed. No one could come up to this floor with out passing the MP!
Anyone that has been a military stone buliding will know you cannot not step on there polished floor with out hear a foot step. One night I was pulling TSL duty and around 2:00 AM I heard foot steps coming from the other wing? I had not fallen a sleep with only coming on duty at midnight. I had sweep the other wing when I came on duty. Where I was sitting I had a clear view down the bridge that connected the two bulidings. I saw a officer in what looked like WW II Khaki's wearing jumb boots walk in to what was a copying room. Called for back up and searched the room, nothing but copying machines. Back up was a K 9 unit, no one was found. Night shift Lt showed up and said to me "So you have meet the Colonel".
Legends as it that a full Bird Colonel from the XVIII Airborn was working late one night in 1945. Around 2:00 AM he suffred a heart attack going down the stairs in the second buliding. Staircase use to be where the copying room was when I was at Ft Bragg!
Do I belivie in Ghost? That night heck yea! Have another reason as well, but for a later time.
Evening Diners,
Ulrich- That is very sad to heard.
Ed- I forgot to write down. Hard to read sometimes. Yes I'm doing fine.
I hope you be enjoying your new SDP40F's tomorrow.
BigDaddy If you are over 50 ask your doctor about a colonoscopy. I had polyps once before.
If you are over 50 ask your doctor about a colonoscopy. I had polyps once before.
For those who have family history , think about it even earlier.
Hobby Front: Got my 1200 today. Found that I need to get a few parts to get it right for my prototype. On posts to get the help I need for that purpose.
Also got the GP20 for the repair. Looks very good. Now it is just a matter of getting the engine apart for the shell.
I hate not being able to sleep. or sleeping so hard I don't feel like I slept.
Not much going on in this neck of the woods. I just got back from a 4 day weekend to our "hovel" in Mississippi. I fixed the ramp to the back porch which had rotted, I read the entire year 2008 of Model Railroader ( yes I am that far behind. ) We did much of nothing. It is back to w*rk tomorrow. We had to winterize the hovel so that the pipes don't freeze.
I am going to take a "sick" day this week so I can use up some of my sick time as they are changing the way the count sick and pto and basically getting rid of any existing sick time by putting it into a bank that you can oly touch if you have a big time event that causes you to be off work.
It stinks for long time employees as I had a co- worker with 2000+ hours of sick time. He can sell it back for .10 on the dollar or it goes into long term bank dollar for dollar but you can't really touch it.
On my sick day I am going rail fanning because I am sick of the office.
gmpullmanAugust of '56 here, Brent. Old enough to know better
Same here - older, yes, but wiser? Questionable!
I am struck with insomnia again. It´s just past 1.30am here and no matter how hard I try and how many sheep I count, I don´t find my way to dreamland.
That sucks!
If you like to watch narrow gauge action in Colorado, here is a video showing some amazing footage on fthe D&RGW in the 1950s!
There are 6 parts in total, all of them worthwhile watching!
My own little slice of Colorado NG railroading is rather humble!
Henry - why should I be offended? I wasn´t around then, my dad was much too young and my granddad much too old to be involved in anything but surviving this ordeal. What I have noticed, though, is that Hollywood took a lot of liberty from what must have been reality in those days. the Germans were far from being the brutal, stupid creatures often depicted in these movies.