Up831, I did I'm keeping an eye out for it...
Top of the page!!! Drinks on me...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Give Ken some of the special "Silver Run", good for the bazoobas......
Growing up on a Saltwater Farm, and cleaning out the stalls, some things just don't register.
Playing baseball they did--care was given as to where the outfield would be, based on the lack/locaton/frequency, of meadow muffins, and on occasion, the really sun dried patties were used for bases. Never did use one for home plate though.
On one occasion recreating a charge of Ethan Allan against the British forces, we got a Gurnsey milk cow to jump a four foot rock wall by blowing a bugle over her head. The kid on the cow wasn't dinged up too bad when he got bucked off on top of the rock wall, However, it did dry up the cow, and she quit giving milk. His father, the owner of the dairy, never did solve that riddle, it did end our cow-cavelry days however. We had one horse we could have ridden, however, it was a Percheron Draft horse, and when we sat on his back our legs were stuck out at 90 degrees because it was so wide. He could twitch large logs out of the woods though.
I swear one of my dogs bloodlines was outcrossed somewhere to bovine stock judging from the amount of poo he produces. Feeding rice based food doesn't help either. (Eukenuba)
NWP/SWP
My twin grandsons have Aspergers, they are 16, and the only thing different about them is they aren't. What ever they have set out to do, they have been encouraged. One excells at martial arts, it is good mental exercise, as well as physical--the other likes horses, and trades work for the opportunity to ride at a stable in off times, and is one of the favorites working there. He also appears to be a horse whisperer, able to get the animals to do what others cannot.
Don't ever worry about what others are saying--When others talked about me, I knew somone else was getting a rest...Plan your work, and work your plan, and remember, fear of failure has held more back in this life, than anything else. Education never stops, it is a journey that never ends, always, always, learn at least one new thing EVERY day. You may not always succeed in all endeavors, but you will always learn something.
Unwanted calls
About a year ago the auto-calls were driving me nuts---always came at a time when I working at one project or another. One afternoon when my mood was crappier than usual, I recieved a " Time Share Condo " call. The young lady started her spiel, and I cut her off by asking, "you any good at procreation?" (phrased in more direct verbage, usually found down on the wharf, or a bar room) and then hung up. I still don't know why I did that. The result however, has been, over a period of time, ( I did do this more than once, I'll admit ) my number of unsolicited calls dropping to only two or so a month....I wonder if I got put on some type of list ? Oh well---
Weather finally moderated, got up to 34F. today. Brought in the last of my firewood, and have another cord coming tomorrow. Giving serious thought to a pellet stove. Topped off the oil tank, $3.20 a galon for #1 kero. I had burned 71.4 gallons during the last four years. 250 gallons will last about 7 weeks, costing $800.00, a cord of wood, cut to size, split, and delivered, costs $220.00 and will last 5 weeks. Not in the original retirement plans, three heart surgeries changed that, at least my cardiologist does not have to worry about me getting exercise.
Wife's last cancer screen was clear, very thankful for that, however, she broke her hand cleaning the deck so the birds we feed would not have to walk in the snow to eat?? Missed hitting a chunk of ice and drove her hand into the railing on the deck, and cracked the long bone behind her little finger on her right hand. I diagnosed the injury,(what do I know) but it wasn't until my neighbor, a retired game warden, saw it and told her, "Looks like you broke a bone in your hand !", before she called the doctor and had it X-rayed. Yep, broken!
Time to bank the fire for the night, prayers for those in need---
From the Island,
herrinchoker
Good evening ...
Henry ... I made some LaBelle cars when I had my 1900 era layout, but the results are not like the Extreme Weathering video you posted. I do recognize the car in spite of the weathering. I made two of that kit. One of them I modified into an open platform coach instead of a car with vestibules. ... I still have the cars.
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I worked a little more on scenery this evening.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Eveing Diners
Flo, I see young Steven is buying! The gang and I will have a Crown Royal with a Chaser. Hum, I will skip the crown royal part Flo.
Nunce Phone Calls At Work. We have calle ID at work. When I see a call I don't want, well I mess with them.
Me Mayberry Sheriff's Offices, Barney speaking.
Them May I speak to the owner?
Me Andy down at Floyds getting his hair cut.
Them When will he be back?
Me After that him and Ron Howard are going fishing.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
herrinchokerThe result however, has been, over a period of time, ( I did do this more than once, I'll admit ) my number of unsolicited calls dropping to only two or so a month....I wonder if I got put on some type of list ?
I have to believe that there is a "code" that comes up on a customer service representative's screen if they are dealing with a "known" rabble-rouser. One of my former co-workers was just such a person, often calling his bank, healthcare provider, car dealer... you name it, with some real — or imagined — issue where he felt he had to call them to straighten THEM out.
He often mentioned to me that when he would make calls to some of these outfits, he would get transfered to a department that handles "special cases".
I remember being in his office once when he was in the midst of one of his ranting calls to, I believe it was his bank, and he was then placed on hold, with the Muzak playing.
While holding the phone to his ear he then proceeded to tell me about this-and-that and how this bank was giving him the run-around, all the while using language that would make a sailor blush.
When the customer service rep. came back on the line they happened to mention that even though he was on hold, THEY could still hear everything (and of course it was all being recorded for quality assurance purposes) and that his language was not appropriate for this discussion.
Lesson to learn here? Even if you're on hold, don't assume they're not listening! You might just place yourself in a compromising situation
Cheers, Everybody! Ed
Ken aka Deputy Barney Fife, I sent you a PM...
Another good nuisance call dialog could be,
*in German accent*
Me - Jawohl (yavole) you have reached stalag 13, sargent Schultz speaking
Caller- yes could I speak to the manager?
Me- nein Colonel Klink is in dusseldorf seeing General burkhalter...
Caller, when will he be back?
Me, I know nothing, NOTHING!
Caller, well then can I speak to the owner?
Me- ok I will transfer you to Berlin..
(Now at this point if anyone remembers those discover card commercials with the guy named "peggy" I could do the "transfer" bit...)
Me again in much grouchy voice, hello?
Caller, is this the owner?
Me, the owner of what you dummkopf!
Caller ???
Me how dare you call me and insult me like this!!! Hang up...
Caller, scared for life...
As you can see that bit is based of Hogans Heroes
Another good one would be M*A*S*H... Well Auf Wiedersehen...
gmpullman
The main difference being I don't originate any calls, they call me, I do not bother people with calls offering unwanted goods, or services. I hope they DO record the call, they will have to spend 6 months down in Skid Row to get a translation.
angelob6660Apparently what I do for the past 5 years can so offending. I'll won't walk around for 30 to an hour holding at least 4 bags when their is a nearest trash can. I had a neighbor watched me doing it and he was fine with it. As long it wasn't on the ground.
Not so fast please angelob6660.
My community requires that we put a garbage bag into the garbage can so the loose waste can be contained. When the garbage gets picked up, they obviously take the bag with them. Then you come along and deposit your dog's poop into my now empty can. That means that I have to pick that bag of poop out of my can before I can put a new garbage bag into it. That is plain inconsiderate! You choose to have dogs, I do not! Based on your theory, I should be able to dump anything I want on your property with the full expectation that you will gladly clean it up.
If you have done it for five years then you have been in the wrong for five years! Just because one neighbour tolerates your behaviour doesn't mean that everyone has to or should.
I was worried that my first post on this was a bit aggressive. Apparently it was not aggressive enough.
I suspect Steven will have to stop this discussion. I'm sorry Steven if I have bent the rules again.
Dave Warnica
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
We are besieged by calls from duct cleaning companies and people who want to help us with our debts (I don't have any). We get one or more every day. They are coming from off shore so the 'no call' rules can't be enforced. I used to yell and scream. That was a waste of breath. Now I just hang up. I'm too cheap to pay for call display. Getting rid of the land line is getting more tempting each day because most of the activity on it is nuisance calls.
We also get calls every once in a while from local real estate agents asking if we want to sell our home. Those calls are illegal. We are on the no call list. Up until now I have been polite but I think I'm going to start telling them that they are breaking the law. To add some meaning to my comments, I will tell them that I will never do business with a person or company who breaks the law, so they shot themselves in the foot the minute they dialed my number. Fat lot of good that will do to stop the calls, but at least I would be able to reciprocate by wasting their time too.
I like the fog horn idea!!
Cheers!!
Dave
herrinchokerThe main difference being I don't originate any calls, they call me, I do not bother people with calls offering unwanted goods, or services.
Right, I should have prefaced my story about my co-worker by mentioning that. When I saw your mention of "the list" I immediately thought of this guy — meaning HE must be on a corporate list of chronic complainers.
I only mentioned the episode with my co-worker to point out how the "system" is rigged against the consumer or general public, weather we or they originate the call.
Consumer proctetions are eroding every day, that was my main focus of the reply.
Regards, Ed
Morning diners,
It's true the day of small business and the customer/consumer is always right are long gone now it's a few big super mega companies running the whole show, and any "privacy" you believe you have is nonexistent anything yes ANYTHING that is stored electronically is hackable by bad guys that's a fact of life, and the smart appliances aren't helping that...
The air horn is a beautiful concept for ridding yourself of that one family member (you know the one) that is always annoying you and needing something that they could handle themselves but won't, they call and bbbrrraaannnttt no more annoyance... of course that would probably get you very mean looks at family get togethers and possibly exiled all together...
Well gotta go for now...
Not so fast there.
I can still walk to the corner market, and pick up fresh Vermont grass fed beef. I can still buy raw milk, local artisan products, lumber produced by small local mills...
My local car dealership knows me by first name as I have been a customer there for almost fifteen years now. The sales manager always greets me with a hand shake, and my wife with a hug.
My local lumber yard knows that they can't load pallets into my one ton with the skid steer and forks because it hits the drop gate, and that the fork lift is the only piece with enough reach to push a load forwards.
My plow customers? They went with us because we're "smaller" and know we care.
Small business is BIG business now. You just have to look in the right places.
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GraniteRailroader Not so fast there. I can still walk to the corner market, and pick up fresh Vermont grass fed beef. I can still buy raw milk, local artisan products, lumber produced by small local mills... My local car dealership knows me by first name as I have been a customer there for almost fifteen years now. The sales manager always greets me with a hand shake, and my wife with a hug. My local lumber yard knows that they can't load pallets into my one ton with the skid steer and forks because it hits the drop gate, and that the fork lift is the only piece with enough reach to push a load forwards. My plow customers? They went with us because we're "smaller" and know we care. Small business is BIG business now. You just have to look in the right places.
Your point vividly illustrates something else that is lacking. The human interaction factor. You have, admriably, built those kind of personal relationships that used to be so common, but are quickly going the way of the non-avian dinosaurs.
In our modern era of digital communications, anyone can buy online or over the phone, and even many of our daily interactions with friends and family take place over a wire or a network. It's not as much the small business aspect that we're losing, it's the human interaction that makes small business successful. People become acclimated to that disconnected, digital anonymity and the instant gratification of clicking "buy it now", and lose the value of that personal interaction. That, and we're in such a rush, that even when we talk to a clerk, even in a big-box, all we want to do, as Walter put it, is "Get our **** and get out," so even that interaction is now a chore.
It's not a loss of small business value, it's a devaluing of their greatest commodity: the personal interaction.
- Adam
When all else fails, wing it!
LonehawkYour point vividly illustrates something else that is lacking. The human interaction factor. It's not a loss of small business value, it's a devaluing of their greatest commodity: the personal interaction.
You actually summed that up quite nicely, and made the point that I was swinging at but missed! As an aside, it's funny that we're discussing this online.
I actually would rather go to a local small business than go to a Walmart or shop online... just sayin'
Also this is actually quite hilarious we are discussing this on an online forum where most of us have never met in person!
hon30critterWe are besieged by calls from duct cleaning companies and people who want to help us with our debts (I don't have any). We get one or more every day. They are coming from off shore so the 'no call' rules can't be enforced. I used to yell and scream. That was a waste of breath. Now I just hang up. I'm too cheap to pay for call display. Getting rid of the land line is getting more tempting each day because most of the activity on it is nuisance calls. We also get calls every once in a while from local real estate agents asking if we want to sell our home. Those calls are illegal. We are on the no call list. Up until now I have been polite but I think I'm going to start telling them that they are breaking the law. To add some meaning to my comments, I will tell them that I will never do business with a person or company who breaks the law, so they shot themselves in the foot the minute they dialed my number. Fat lot of good that will do to stop the calls, but at least I would be able to reciprocate by wasting their time too.Smile, Wink & Grin
Brother of LION has land line for convienence of him. He NEVER answers it. People whom he wants to talk to know to use his (or wife's) cell phone number.
You need a little answering loop consisting of some tones and then a disembodied voice saying "AT&T Tracing service, Trace Complete" and then hang up.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
GraniteRailroader You actually summed that up quite nicely, and made the point that I was swinging at but missed! As an aside, it's funny that we're discussing this online.
NWP SWP I actually would rather go to a local small business than go to a Walmart or shop online... just sayin' Also this is actually quite hilarious we are discussing this on an online forum where most of us have never met in person!
Yeah, rather ironic at that. But it also goes to reinforce the point. It's possible to get that "small business", personal interaction online, but the big boys don't bother.
Online is great for those who live hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Wonderful. But when you prefer to use social media to talk to your friend a few blocks down, there's something off about that. And that's the mentality that makes small business an endangered species. I gladly pay a couple bucks more at my local hardware store rather than go to the big orange box, because I spend five minutes getting what I need, then fifteen BS'ing with the guys. But for a lot of people, saving that couple bucks is all that matters. People become numbers, or dollar signs, and that's where it all starts downhill.
You could do...
You have reached the CIA extraction hotline please state your codename and coordinates hangup wait for the phone to ring five times then answer, if the voice doesn't say "THUNDERBALL" hangup wait five more rings and the voice will give you the directions for extraction... thank you..
Good morning from the very wet coast. It is 3c.
I put an add on Kijiji for 100 wine bottles for $30.00 I was going to take them all to the recycle centre, however, it seems a lot of home winemakers need bottles. I had responses instantly. I should of ask more money.
Frank, do you remember a TV show called Cannonball? It was about a couple of truckers IIRC. I use to love that show, any idea what kind of rig they drove?
Ground up moth balls do keep cats out of the garden and so does apple cider vinegar sprinkled around. I know one guy that puts mothballs in a jar with holes punched through the lids and puts them on the layout to keep the cats off the layout. When spending time working on the layout he just puts the jars elsewhere. It not only keeps the little tigers off the layout, they tend to keep out of the room as well now.
I have three Labelle kits, including that coach I need to get to. The last train show I was at, a guy had a whole bunch for sale for a song, I am still kicking myself for not grabbing a few more, but my pile of unbuilt things is growing.
We have an unlisted Ph# and still get an occasional Robo call. We were told to just put down the receiver and let the call run its course. It registers with the computer as a total waste of time and we are taken off the list. One call a month is a busy month, so it does work.
I have 4700 post in twelve years, no wonder my layout is so unfinished. When the old bones hurt so much, it is easier to just sit at the computer.
The guy is here for the bottles.
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."
Good Afternoon,
Batman, we don't have any cats roaming about especially at night in our neighbourhood. Could be the 2 Great Horned Owls have something to do with that. I must admit I'm not much of a cat lover.
Not much planned for today. It has gotten cold again with a -35 windchill today.
CN Charlie
Afternoon Diners,
Got a haircut. ( I'll keep my private life simple).
And unstop about trains and railroading interests.
I'll be off line on the forum for two weeks.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
I must admit I'm not much of a cat lover.
Me either, unless it has a side of Pork Fried Rice and some Wonton Soup w
I have had them with bamboo shoots-----Cat..the other White Meat
Afternoon Diners.
Flo, Give the gang a cold the young wipersnaper a RBF.
all the new folks as well, dang the dinner is getting busy!
Train Front Rediscovred a old friend! I placed my old BLI Hudson on the IRP track years ago and not sure why? It track's well and I had worn off the nickel plating on the wheels. Still cannot pull but the whistle is great! It is a Pargon BLI [Red Box] and I cannot remember if it came with traction tire's? Guess I will check the box.
Later Ken
Ken, I sent you a PM yesterday, not sure if you saw it or my post yesterday saying I sent one...
Nothing on the hobby front to report...
Now to your regularly scheduled looney tunes programming...
No nuisance calls today!!!
I saw a hilarious joke told by Howie Mandel on TV yesterday...
It goes... *in helium voice*
(Howie Walks up to the ER admitting desk and says)
Howie hi could I see a doctor???
Nurse, what's the problem?
Howie, you're seriously asking me what's the problem???
I was at a birthday party everyone was doing this, I wasn't the only one doing it, everybodys inhaling helium and going "ho ho ha ha, listen to me!" Then their voices go back to normal after a minute, maybe a minute and a half...
That was two or two and a half weeks ago...
End of joke.
That's all for now...
BATMANFrank, do you remember a TV show called Cannonball? It was about a couple of truckers IIRC. I use to love that show, any idea what kind of rig they drove?
I used to watch it religiously with a school friend who's Dad drove for RISS. Who also had a number of those trucks in their fleet. It is a 1954 GMC "Cannonball" which is probably why they named the show ''Cannonball'' not after the actor...but the truck. I made quite a few of those for that same friend 6yrs. ago. It's the Red tractor on the left pulling the rag top:
You can click on pic' for a larger view.
Take Care!
Frank
Good evening.
Frank ... Intersting conveation about Riss Trucking and Cannonball trucks. ... I rcall the name, "cannonball" was used by the Wabash Railroad for a passenger train.
Heartland Division CB&Q Good evening. Frank ... Intersting conveation about Riss Trucking and Cannonball trucks. ... I rcall the name, "cannonball" was used by the Wabash Railroad for a passenger train.
Garry,
Yes You are correct......there were a few singers who made a song about it. Roy Acuff was the original artist. Johnny Cash also gave His version.
This is the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yhvv234oaA
Good morning, everybody ....
Frank ... Nice song. ..... Interesting video with a UP Challenger instead of a Wabash locomotive. ... . Lyrics don't follow the route of the Cannonball. The real train went between Detroit and St. Louis. .... I like the song "City of New Orleans with lyrics that do have the route of that train.
Heartland Division CB&QFrank ... Intersting conveation about Riss Trucking and Cannonball trucks. ... I rcall the name, "cannonball" was used by the Wabash Railroad for a passenger train.
The "Cannoball" is still run by the Long Island Rail Road on Fridays every semmer. Used to be the only "First Class" accomodation on the LIRR, but now it uses C3 cars just like everything else, but it is non-stop from Jamaica to the Hamptons.
I think they still hang the sign on the Locomotive.