Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[Anonymous]

The one and only...

Figured I'd Stop by.. havn't been by in a while, figured i'd catch up on the latest news!

Seems rather peaceful the forums these days... That's a good thing, DNA results just proved Van Damme really is my brother.

So How's the forum life everyone?

Good to see you all again!

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Seems rather peaceful the forums these days... That's a good thing, DNA results just proved Van Damme really is my brother.

So How's the forum life everyone?

We've had our moments, but life is pretty good for most of us.

[Mookie]

You know - with no food in here, we are all wasting away to nothing!

Tree - fire up your barbeque and we will have nekcihc and steaks on the barbie. (you know how upset the resident fowl gets when I refer to relatives as food!)

Nachos for appetizers, salad as a side and a nap for dessert (must save the chocolate cake for the return of CW and Mutt....

Maybe a nap before, too......

Purrfect!

[cherokee woman]

Hello everyone!! Here in the Louisville Free Public Library, using the computer!!
Read through all the missed pages to catch up with everyone.

Did make dinner for everyone: meat loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans,
and cole slaw. Made enough to last a couple of days.
(And plenty of fries for Matt)..


Also made fresh batches of vegetable beef soup, and bean & ham soup.
Stocked up on all the breakfast items (bacon, sausage, milk for gravy & cereal)
and pancake mix.

Well, time on the computer is about to expire, so I would like to extend Mutt's
and my sincerest, heartfelt thanks to all of you for your encouragement and
prayers. WE DO NEED THEM, RIGHT NOW!!

Will talk with you later, whenever we manage to get the lights back on. Maybe
later this week, or next week, sometime (kind of depends on the contractor
and the city inspectors.)

Walt & Paula (Locomutt & Cherokee Woman)

[JoeKoh]

CW
thank you thank you thank you[bow] glad you and walt are ok.Matt and i have been busy and everyone has been helping out.I see Mr Kev has taken his place on the couch.thats great! we will keep you and Walt in our prayers.
stay safe
joe

[Anonymous]

Hooray! Thanks for the visit, CW, and our prayers for your speedy return!
Meat loaf and mashed potatoes! Food I can eat without it getting stuck in my braces.[:D]

[CopCarSS]

Mutt and CW, sure hope things start getting back to status quo for you soon. You will remain in my thoughts and prayers!

Kev, great to see you back in the diner. Hope you can stick around.

Meanwhile, I thought I'd bring some dessert to accompany the Bar-B-Q and Meat Loaf (though the nap does sound appetizing). I made a couple plates of M&M cookies using my Mom's recipe. Didn't quite come out to her standards, but they're not too bad. So enjoy!

[tree68]

The chicken is seasoned and the pit is ready. Barbequed chicken for lunch tomorrow. Could use a little help with the salads, if anyone is available. Lots of potatoes to cook and peel, cabbage to shred, and macaroni to cook.

Good to see CW in decent spirits. They certainly deserve our best thoughts and prayers.

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

The chicken is seasoned and the pit is ready. Barbequed chicken for lunch tomorrow. Could use a little help with the salads, if anyone is available. Lots of potatoes to cook and peel, cabbage to shred, and macaroni to cook.

Good to see CW in decent spirits. They certainly deserve our best thoughts and prayers.

Potato peeler reporting for duty!

Ed, watch for USPS PM, hopefully Friday.

[Modelcar]

Paula and Walt....including you in our prayers...and the wheels of help to be speedy.

[CSXrules4eva]

Walt and Paula, you guys are with out a doubt in my prayers. I wish you all the best in getting things up and runing again. Hope to see you guys soon....God Bless.

Well, I haven't been in here for three days. I've been very busy at work and doing other activites. These past three days feel like three weeks, I am very tired. But, anyway the most eciting thing that happened to me so far was hummmm.........................nothing. But we did have someone bust through a window last night at my job. The individual broke in and broke open people's tool boxes and stole lose change, from certain boxes. So, we had the police at my job today. There were 5 cop cars in the parking lot. I think we should of went home because of that. We also had a bit of a power outage today, due to strong winds.

[railfan619]

Good eveing everyone. How are we all doin tonight fine and dandy. I hope well today is hump day or better known as Wed. And only two more days until the weekend YEA but anywho hope everyone has agood night and I will be talkin to you all later.

[edblysard]

Outstanding...

Ed

QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

The chicken is seasoned and the pit is ready. Barbequed chicken for lunch tomorrow. Could use a little help with the salads, if anyone is available. Lots of potatoes to cook and peel, cabbage to shred, and macaroni to cook.

Good to see CW in decent spirits. They certainly deserve our best thoughts and prayers.

Potato peeler reporting for duty!

Ed, watch for USPS PM, hopefully Friday.

[Anonymous]

Nice to see back CW. For Breakfast will be Pancakes, Bacon and Eggs.

[blhanel]

Mmmmm, pancakes- the forbidden breakfast food (the syrup converts instantly into blood sugar, I swear)!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman

Good Morning!

What a day for... freezing rain.

What a change -01F Yesturday, 42F and rising as we speak today!

So what's new with everyone? I've fallen in a hole where the news couldn't reach me, So, How's life with everyone?

Kevin

Try answering your emails. [:(] Or im me so we can talk--one railroader to another. [;)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie
And I will bite - what's CRS?
Moo

"Can't Remember S***"

also known as . . . awww, I forgot [}:)] [;)] , oh yeah, half-timers. [:D]

[Mookie]

^^^ - I am doing my ears a little differently today. A girl gets tired of the same old style....Plus if someone drops a cookie accidently, I can hear it better!

Wow - great to hear from Mutt and CW! And the wonderful smells and full fridge and.....makes me want to go lock the door and party! But gotta get Tree in here to cook!

40 this morning at 5:15, but snow headed our way - looks like it will hit more of Kansas than Nebraska and of course, head easterly. They aren't expecting much for us. Wonder how many more years it will be and Lincoln will be home of the Orange/Rose Bowls, since our weather is so moderate? [swg]

Off to work - must start annoying people earlier than usual!

Mook

[JoeKoh]

morning
more juice and coffee for everyone.hey mookie with the weather so moderate there should we send all the polar bear clubs there for new years?
stay safe
joe

[Modelcar]

...That warmer air started to arrive here in Indiana as I was headed to bed last night and this morning it is climbing into the low 40's and headed for 52 today. Sunshine is shining right in on my computer now and that inch and a half of snow of earlier this week is going fast...Street is dry. Not a bad January so far....

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

morning
more juice and coffee for everyone.hey mookie with the weather so moderate there should we send all the polar bear clubs there for new years?
stay safe
joe

Joe - it seems we have one coming up in February. Some members of our police department, no less. Brrrr.....

I'm not takin' my fur off for anyone - polar or no - no bear!

Moo

[chad thomas]

Good morning gang,
Well it's been a weird day for me (actually started yesterday but sience I didn't get but an hour or two of sleep.. well you know). About 3 days ago the tip of my index finger started getting sore, I think from an ingrown fingernail. 2 days ago it started to blister up. Yesterday morning it was getting red and white and black and blue and quite large. it started to hurt more and more as the day progressed. I had decided to make a doctor appointment for this morning. But by the end of the day my hand and wrist started to get red and hurting too. By then it was too late to see a doctor (if I could get an appt.) and was faceing an emergency room visit with no health insureance (big $$$ as we all know).

Well my construction foreman talked me into seeing his doctor in Tiajuana. At first I had all kinds of scarry visions of what Mexican doctors were like, but I was running out of options. So I went down to Tj to see his doctor. After about a 15 min wait in the lobby (first come first serve) I got to see the doctor. He doesn't speak english so I got my construction guy to translate. The first thing he said was this is going to hurt, he was right but it had to be done. Then he told me that had I waited till this morning I might have lost my hand.

So without a local, he used a big needle to poke about 6 holes in the infected area to drain it out. That didn't hurt nearly as bad as him squeezing all the blood & yuck out. He got right down to bussiness from the start and within ten minuets I was out the door with a perscription in hand. And after a quick stop at the pharmacy I was back at the border 10 minuets later.

Then I got to ride the trolley back up to the E street station where I had left my truck earlier. That was the first time I actually rode the trolly, that was cool. So the whole adventure only cost like $38. $30 for the doctor visit $6 for the perscription and $2 for the trolley ride. Why can't medical attention be that painless (hassle wise) and inexpensive here in the states?

Then I get home and because of the anti-biodics I can't drink my usual couple of 40s of beer, so I wasn't able to fall asleep till a lot later then usual. I was up till about 1am. I had barely dozed off when I got a call from the Sweetwater authority (water co.) that they had a main water line blow out and I needed to come locate my lines. Normaly the tech that's on call would handle this but he couldn't be reached (he's in big trouble for that) so I had to go out and do it. Anyway after gathering my tools I got on scene and it was crazy.

The main had blasted a hole in the street big enough to drop a car into. The fountain of water must have been 75-100 feet high. I missed that as they had it shut down by the time I arrived. But the carnage was awsome. Mud and debris covered a 200' radius that included a new car lot. Well I had to wait my turn to mark my lines out. After everyone else (power,phone,traffic lights,water,sewer,Cox cable and us) had everything marked out I split. By that time it was too late to go back to sleep so I went home and showered and cleaned and bandaged my finger then came to work ( a little earlier then usual).

What a day. And later I have to goto a utility meeting with a bunch of suits, that's going to be fun.

[jeaton]

Chad

OK-We'll excuse the typo's for now. Get well!

Jay

[chad thomas]

Thanks Jay. Are you sure they are typo's and not my bad spelling.[;)]

[Anonymous]

Hey Chad

Take 2 aspirin and drink one half bottle of Nyquill before bedtime. That should help you sleep tonight. [^]

BTW That will be $35, just sent me a check. [;)] [:D]

I hope your hand is better and you sleep well tonight. [:)]


Hi All

Well today is my Monday [8] [:(] So it is back to work today. [B)]

Windy today, but warm, about 60 right now and going to hit almost 70. [:0] And THIS is the middle of winter, huh? Well thank God is it not 20 and 6 inches of snow. [:)] After all the storms and the predictied high prices for gas, heating oil and propane it is nice it isn't as much winter as possible. My natural gas bill is on level billing but has actually decreased 1 buck each of the last 2 months. [8D] That certainly is better than going up 10 or 15 bucks a month. [:p]


Hey Mookie [8)]

I made two 9 inch rounds of yellow cake yesterday. Then topped them with caramel icing and chopped walnuts. [:p] They are not bad if I do say so myself. The proof is in the pudding errrr cake, since one of them is already gone. [:0] [:p] [:D] The second one is in danger too. [;)] [:o)] [8D] It will probally be history by tomorrow afternoon. [:p]

Well the day is wasting.

See yall. [:)]

[Mookie]

Chad - blood poisoning? That can be so dangerous!

Sorry you are missing some sleep, but just think - you can charge it to "Job Security!"....

Now since I have some real problems with our local medical profession lately, how far is it from Nebraska to TJ?

Mook

[chad thomas]

Jim, Thanks for the medical advice. Your check will be in the mail even though your advice costs more then the doctor visit did.[:O]

Jen, It's a 4-5 days ride on horseback, a 1 1/2 days drive, and a 2 hr flight. I'll pick you up here in SD and give you a ride when your flight comes in.[swg]

[Mookie]

Chad - Wow - my last trip to SD was a half-day trip - with the clock running backward! Maybe it was the headwind! Meet me on Shelter Island - I will be the one taking a nap on the bench in the sun!

Jim - Yum - it might not be chocolate, but it.....drool....gotta stop thinking about it....

oo....

[tree68]

Sheesh - walked in the door at work and had problems to deal with immediately. Usually I can get a cup of tea made. So - I missed breakfast. Will try to do better tomorrow...

Mook - love the new 'do!

[Mookie]

Tree - Avoid the crowds and stress and problems - go to work earlier! Works for me! [:D]