Track fiddlerMaybe I'll skip the nicotine mints
You shouldn´t be taking them at all!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Ulrich, Dave, Steven. Thank you all for your support. It really does help. I don't see anyone much to speak of until my breakfast club on Sunday. I've been collecting train shirts, a lot of the guys wear train shirts at the club.
I remember this quit thing from before. It got really tough right around the one month marker. I may have to go out and get some kind of supplement like nicotine mints on my way to work today. I would rather stay cold turkey but I would also rather stay quit too.
Ulrich I know exactly what you're talking about. We have a machine that makes cigarettes too. I had to walk over to the bag and take a couple of whiffs you're right it does smell good not burnt.
We have been buying tobacco and making our own cigarettes for about 7 years. The cost of a carton of cigarettes making your own is about $12 opposed to $80.
I just walked over to the tobacco bag and took another whiff. Maybe I'll skip the nicotine mints and become a tobacco bag sniffer....
Have a great day all
Track fiddler!
Don't stop now! Or perhaps it would be better to say "don't start again".
I only smoked for a brief period when I was in my late teens and early 20s. Unfortunately the urge to smoke hung in for a long time after that. Fortunately, on those few occassions when I did lapse after a few months of abstinence, the smoke made me feel really dizzy and rather nausiated. It only took one puff to make me feel green! It would seem to be a strange thing to wish on anybody, but I hope the same thing happens to you!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good Morning, Folks!
Another hot day starting here at the other end of the Big Pond. As it seems, Summer is back to stay, at least for the next week or so. June 27th is "dormouse" day, which is quite similar to your "groundhog day". The legend says that the weather of that day will stay for the next 7 weeks. While I cannot varify this legend by own observation, having the prospect of 7 weeks of hot weather leaves me with mixed feelings. I wish I had the means to escape from the heat in the lowlands to a mountain realm - just like the British colonoial administration did in India.
Track fiddler - please hang in there! I know you won´t go back to smoking, just because your wife has not joined you on the road to a smoke free household! Some days ago, you asked me about my day and how it starts. Well, after having my first mug of eye-opening strong coffee (with milk, but hold the sugar) I start to make Petra´s DDD - that´s her "Daily Drugs Dosis" Cigarettes are really expensive at $8 a pack of 20, so I "roll" her own, using a little machine that helps to get the tobacco into the cigarette tubes. I actually like the spicy smell of unburnt tobacco - as much as I hate the stale smell of tobacco once it has been oxydized, i.e. burnt. It´s a little crazy for me to support her unhealthy habit, but it gives a certain control over how much she smokes. Each time I tell her "you are smoking a lot more lately", she slows down, at least for a few days.
I know that the urge to light up a cigarette is very strong (just this one, please - I´ll stop after that one), but it is much more rewarding to have the strength not to listen to that urge. Think of what you save and what you can do with the riches you will gain! In those three years, my non-smoking put a pretty penny into our "get away" fund, should that become a necessity to survive. I also was able to by a few things for my "train set" now and then. If I´d still smoke, that money would go up in smoke
Believe me, it´s much more fun to run a train over my layout than to burn a coffin nail!
Enough of that, we are not in a church and this is not the Sunday sermon! Just hang in there and don´t prove me wrong, for I know you can do it!
cudakenEd Ken-fu-chew is open, have you had time to send some customers?
Lots of pesky distractions this week, Ken Getting a package together. I found a B&O and PRR Pullman car that might find its way into the package. Had to fix the couplers (Bachmann) of course.
I'll definitely work on it tonight!
Cheers, Ed
Track fiddler, keep it up, don't fall back into the habit, don't give up!
We believe in you!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Evening diners.... Forgive me if I come across like I'm yelling here.
I probably am yelling but not at you
I can relate to what I have read on the Forum since the last time I caught up with you guys last weekend.... and yeah I miss when you guys talk to me once in awhile.
I was going to post some stuff on my Bridge progress tonight because it's really important to me.
It can wait, I'm a little out of whack.
This quit smoking thing is now over three weeks old and I still have not had one damn cigarette.......... It's still really really hard! I could use a little support hear, if you would.
My Judy.... still smoking like a chimney, factory, smokestack.... whatever....NOT HELPING.
Actually she's spending most of her time on the stoop doing that.
That's another thing. Things seem quite a bit different now.
Help me out here with some support, I need it.
Ulrich.... Feel free to chime in at anytime. I always respect what you have to say.... That will work.
Evenin' folks!
Well..... It's been a day. Yep, that is the best way to describe it, I think.
Last night my idiot and very opinionated sister talked for over 3 hours on the phone. That is correct, she talked, I grunted now and then, and more or less listened. She is unhappy that all her friends have either died (some take the easy way out, I think) or moved far away (I can understand that). She is very opinionated and "always" right. But then she is my sister, and to paraphrase Shakespear, I love her according to my duty. I even agreed to have dinner with her on Sunday afternoon as a late birthday present to her. We will be going to a good Mexican Restaurant in Canandaigua (The other alternative was an Indian Restaurant that I really don't care for).
Today I spent an hour and a half on a conference call with a field Director for our Boy Scout Council and the other Commissioner for the handicapped units we serve. Discussed the "problems" going on and some solutions possible. The Field Director was going to call one of the "problem" people on the committee, and he must have talked sense as I just recieved an email saying she has resigned from the committee and is taking her son out of the Troop. These things happen when Adults forget to use the Scout Oath and Law (particularly, A Scout is Friendly, Courteous, Kind, and Helpful). There were several of the committee not acting like Scouts with this whole mess. Hopefully the saner ones and the commissioners now have a route and a plan to get things back on track.
Weeded garden for a while just to clear my mind from all the crap!
Sounds like you had a "great" day too, Ken!
"I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody." - George Burns
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Eveing Diners
Flo, give the gang and I a and Rick and Steven what they like.
Last 2 days have sucked rail spikes!
1 Yesterday Sparkie vet bill went from $25.00 to $99.37 and had to use my credit card.
2 Last night my wife TV sort of died, well it will not turn off? So there goes another $100.00 I cannot afford. But have to buy a new one because it is to much trouble to pull the plug?
3 Today while I was doing my running the car started getting louder? Yep, need some exhaust work and at this point I have no idea what that is going to cost?
Well I have had worst 24 hours!
Ed Ken-fu-chew is open, have you had time to send some customers?
Well it is pretty bad and power has gone down twices so I am out of here.
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Track fiddlerNice tile job Kevin.... Subway nice -n- straight. I love laying tile, always have. I just hate the dang grout!
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Thanks for the kind words Fiddler.
I actually love doing grout. I hate Caulk! I just finished up about half of the caulk... I will finish the rest tomorrow.
The whole danged project will be complete by Sunday.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Afternoon diners!
Where in Tarnation is everybody!
Well I'll just blab into the darkness...
Went to the bank to open a checking account, I need 100 bucks to open it, I'll have to either cash my paycheck or borrow from my parents, deposit my paycheck and pay them back.
Oh yeah, I got my first paycheck!
Well I was a roadrunner today, the pumps at both hotels had issues today, HIE had the motor go out on the pump, it's about 4-5 years old, the BW on the other hand is only a year old, I installed it myself, well some drunken guest took it upon herself to "fix" the pump because she claims it sounded "broken" and that she had worked with pools for 40 years, she attempted to "fix" the pump with a hammer or something because she broke the strainer pot, and you have to replace the entire pump! I had to go to the pool store get a new 2 horse pump, go home get my tools, go to the BW unhook the old pump, put the new one in, easy enough, go to HIE, unhook the old pump, disassemble both pumps, take the motor and pump from BW and the strainer pot from HIE and reassemble, so now both hotels "technically" have "new" pumps. I call that little move the "Kansas City Shuffle"
Well I'll be back.
I was at the gym this afternoon, when I learned I was 7 miles away from the most recent mass shooting. This backwater newspaper was not on the cutting edge of journalism nor a major purveyor of fake news. Recycled news out of Baltimore and the most recent crisis of Hysterical (usually spelled historical) Annapolis's objection to a plastic trellis or worse yet, a plastic flower.
When there are no facts, there is no shortage of reporting and mindless speculation. I know an editor and I hope he isn't one of the victims.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Steven OtteWhat's going on here?
Arizona + June = Too HOT!
Yes, I know, its a dry heat, you'll get used to it. Harumpf!
Steven OtteYeah, we thought we'd bring in some clowns and balloons and...
You can keep the clowns and baloons, thank you, Steven. I'll head on over to watch the circus train if you don't mind...
Cheers, everybody!
Ed
What's this? Not a single post since last night? What's going on here? Is it the big striped tent over the Diner? That's not a bug fumigation tent, honest, that's a circus tent! Yeah, we thought we'd bring in some clowns and balloons and...
hey, where ya going?
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Flo, give the gang and I a and Rick and Steven what they want.
Yesterday. Not one customer all day, glad I had a Clive Cussler book to read. Worst part is Spakie the American Eskimo is sick. Gave the wife my Citi Bank Card for what we thought was a $25.00 urine test. Wrong it was a $99.37 pee test. Now he is worth every penny but I have been watching my credit score like a Hawk and did not have the funds to repay that night. (if I use a card and pay it back the day I use it plus a $1.00 extra)
Today, good and bad. Staurday I total screwed up a deal! Thought we had a new close out mattress they liked, but I was wrong! Today they got a refund because I screwed up and I don't blame them. But next guy that came in in bought a $2050.00 King Set! That sure helped my mood and my self respect.
Jimmy I hope you will do well and like your new job and it is not a dead end job.
Ray Good numbers, I hope my A1c comes in around 5.5 this time maybe a 5.0? It has taken me right around a year to lose 30 pounds so I am evenesis. (boy I hope that spelled right) With my feet problem walking is a No No.
Speaking Of Foot Problems. Well it has been about a month now that I went to the local Cilvan Hosptial for a Active Foot Ulcer. This Friday I will be finally seen my the right clinic in the VA Hosptial! Thank goodness I went to a cilvan hospital first, they gave me intervenes and oral antibotic! If my toe look like it does now, I would have never went to the ER a month ago!
Later, Ken
Ray:
Congratulations on the weight loss and great numbers!
SeeYou190 . I can see the finish line! . -Kevin .
I can see the finish line!
Nice tile job Kevin.... Subway nice -n- straight.
I love laying tile, always have. I just hate the dang grout! .... Yuk
BigDaddyFirst crabs I've had this year. They were pretty full.
Henry, You look like you are having a great time. I wish I could join you.
Looks great!
Evening diners how is everyone doing.
I wasn't too tired after work for a change so I decided to do a little microsurgery experiment. I worked on one of my pillars for my bridge and installed the bridge shoes on top.
It looks pretty much what I want but it's also kind of a disaster I need to keep my Paws away from my work. I messed up all the lattice on my upright support
It's way too tedious I'll try again tomorrow night as I'll only have the patience to do one per night
Good evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Ray: keep up your health regimen. You'll be much healthier fo it.
Well, I'm waxing a little nostalgic lately. The summer of '68 was 50 years ago. It was good for me personally, but rather traumatic for the nation. I was working construction by day to earn money for school, and by night my buddies and I were in my basement playing Cream, Hendrix, and the blues at volume eleven until we had to quiet down so as not to attract the local constabulary after 10:00 pm. Must've driven my parents nuts, but they never complained. '67 -'68-'69, one of the better periods of my life, which is odd because Nam was raging and all of the other stuff going on. I did afford myself one luxury that summer. I ordered an Athearn GP "9" in Great Northern scheme From a hobby shop in Gettysburg, PA. I still have the locomotive. When it arrived, i paid $12.50 COD. Where I lived they didn't have much of a selection in the local shops so I ordered it. First time I ever did that. If I look at it today, the paint job was terrible by today's standards, but it is still a favorite of mine.
i suppose everyone has that one piece of equipment that's special.
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Spending some time reminising back on my trip to see UP 844 last year when it ran from Idaho to Utah. Need to get back out and see another steam engine again soon!
Evenin' from the rainy Finger Lakes Area of New York State.
There may be some thunderboomers this evening and overnight around here. Currently getting a fairly heavy constant rain out there. In the high 60's outside although it will stay about the same overnight.
Jimmy, you have to get your Dad's Death Certificate online??? I have my wife's and my parents stuck away in a drawer in the spare bedroom, I think now. Hopefully they will never be needed again during my lifetime at least. When I go it will be somebody elses problem. Good luck with the new job continuing to be "more Rewarding"
I got in my 3.5 mile walk this morning, then had lunch and headed over to the Medical Group for my 6 month check up with my primary doc. Heh, heh, heh....... He said I look different and then said, oh, the beard... I told him he had seen me since I shaved off the beard. He stared a bit more and said, "You've lost weight!" He then looked up the stats on the computer and said "24lbs. of weight since last November. Then checked out my bloodwork!
He told me he wishes he could have the conversation he had with me today more often with his patients. Lets see... A1C - 5.3 (non-diabetic range and towards the low side of the normal range), Total Cholesterol: 122, HDL Cholestrol: 42, Cholestrol/HDL Ratio 2.90 (1/2 average risk would be around 3.43 for a male, Average risk (heart) is 4.97. He was estatic! I then told him I am walking 3.5 miles on 3 days a week over at the Fieldhouse, restricting my calories, and have all but eliminated animal fat from my diet. His response was, "Keep at it!" He is keeping my meds the same but will re-evaluate next time I see him in the fall. He said none of the meds I am on will bring the numbers down lower than what is safe, and wants to see what happens with my weight and muscle tone then, and bloodwork.
Sure hope I don't get run over by a bus or something tomorrow.....!!!
"Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size." - George Burns
Evening diners,
I've had the past two days off, I start back again tomorrow.
Yesterday had to take Kavik the husky to the groomers to be "furminated" or have his undercoat removed, and I went to the railroad club.
Today I had music and that's about it, I reapplied DE to my garden over the weekend because I found two caterpillars on the tomato plants, I killed them and today I noticed there were two more, with the DE applied thoroughly to the plants!
Today the little blue switcher was working around Slaughter, I posted this picture from the other day on instagram, the filter makes it look like the scene is much older than it is!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bki-fAtgP8c/?utm_source=ig_web_share
Well I'll be hanging around, later!
Hey all.
no luck with my dads certificates... the state program for those crashed while right in the middle of it....yay.....
Job- started new job this week. ITs different from my last job. It's more rewarding, if that makes sense.
Modeling-besides some work last week on a caboose.., I havent felt up to doing anything at all since the 13th.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
angelob6660That castle looked really good. Parts of it reminds me of Ulfstead Castle from the new Thomas and friends show.
That looks good, but Ihad to reduce the size so it didn't skew the whole page!
Roofing the last station awning continues. Slower than i had hoped because life tends to get in the way (First strawberries from our garden, both "cultivated" and wild. The former are escapees from some we planted in a tub. They all died; but not before sending out shoots which really took off in all dirrections, and now run along the base of our shed. It's those which have now given us some fruit, which the parent plants failed to do. The wild ones are on a similar south facing wall base, the main south wall of the house. That's a dessert for tonight. I think I should put more decent soil for the cultivated ones. At the moment they are in what is basically a gravel left over from when the shed was built by the previous owner.
I'm also playing with MS Publisher to develop a paint scheme for the pasenger cars. My Freestyle CB&CNS has passenger service which the prototype never ran - so I'm golden as to design, I can do whatever! Lunch date must go. CULTR.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Evening Diners,/ Morning
Our phone line down today and tomorrow, a down power line.
Der- Nice to see you again. That castle looked really good. Parts of it reminds me of Ulfstead Castle from the new Thomas and friends show.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Janie, just need a refill for my decafe, please. Thank you Ma'am!
Got up a bit late this morning, and been dragging all day long. There was a Committee Meeting for the Handicapped Scout pack and troop here at my house last night. They have been having some really bad problems working as a group (Big Boss Syndrome) and so the commissioners invited the District Commissioner and two Executives from the Council to be hear to explain some things and help the units get straightened out. Was a usefull meeting as the "Big Boss" quit her position because she didn't get her way and get to "fire" the Scoutmaster...... Bottom line is that the other commissioner for the units will be stepping down as commissioner and join the committee with the idea of becoming the Chairman. Great solution as he is an excellent leader and knows how to get people to work together. I am also stepping down as their commissioner the end of August and might join the committee. Only problem with that is I am looking to lessen my obligations to accomplish some other hopeful changes in my life.........
The bulk of the committee stuck around to do some "planning" for two hours after the "Big Boss" stormed out . She left at the same time the Council and District guys left, but it was after 11pm when the last person left. By the time I fed the kitties, cleaned the litter box, and got myself in bed it was close to midnight. I did sleep like a rock all night!
Spent most of the day putting things away, cleaning up, weeding garden, and mailing out some notices for the NMRA.
Got an email today from an old fellow teacher who wants to bring over another person to see my layout. They want to come over the same day I am hosting the "Fine and Practical Arts" dept (old retired teachers from the Middle School that were in the same dept. with me) picnic. Should be doable, but I want to check things out with the elderly lady who does much of the planning for it we affectionately call "Ma" Deal (name is Mable actually).
Tomorrow is my Doctors apt. (just a regular check up) and I am interested in what he will think about my program. Hoping the blood work comes back all good!
Fact for the day - "114°F is the point where Extra Strength Deoderant stops working."
Maryland Steamed Crabs for dinner!
First crabs I've had this year. They were pretty full. I remember my mother once refused to buy crabs because at $8/dozen, they were too expensive. Now they are $70 a dozen They are covered in Old Bay seasoning, which is salt, pepper and mustard, and the restaurants always add more salt.
Did my very first test casting of sculptamold. I added some gray paint, but not enough and probably too much water because it took a good 50 minutes to get hard. I've added more gray paint when it dried and I am going to try some other colors and a black wash.
The MRVP folks used it on Canadian Canyons, and pulled the mold off far earlier than I would have for hydrocal. I did the same and it worked, mostly. It stuck to the foam and the detail is good on the left side of the cast and a little soft on the other half.
It is not as hard or as heavy as hydrocal, but less messy to mix. If it actually dried in the advertised time of 30 minutes, that would be a good thing. Measuring it would have required one of SWMBO measuring cups and that would not have gone unnoticed. The tools and bowl cleaned up quicker than plaster.
Evening diners
Been back to a heavy work week. Busier than normal because of the week I had to take off when my ribs were cracked got me behind.
Just wanted to stop in and say hi to everyone
Good evening!
Just stopping by before I hit the hay! It´s been an uneventful day, for which I am thankful in these times. Southeasterly winds blew the clouds away and we have now warm weather again. Temperatures are predicted to surpass the 30°C mark within the next days, which is way beyond my comfort zone!
John - what a nice model of Caernafon Castle! The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Rlwy. is currently erecting a new station building close to the castle. Unfortunately, they decided on a ratjher modernistic building, which, in my humble eyes, looks out of place in this historical setting.
Well, de gustibus non est disputandum...
Have a good night!