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[Mookie]

Sarah - if it is any comfort - the Midwest thinks everything always happens on both coasts! [:D]

If BC ate all the sugar, they would have to scrape him off the walls.

Saw the 8 winners on all the newscasts last night. They are a diverse group and all look very bewildered. I am so happy for all of them. And by dividing it 8 ways, it will make it easier for them - they only have to worry about 15+ million each instead of the total lump sum. Since a nice house would cost about 1-1.5 million, this puts it all in better perspective.

None has a clue how they want to spend the $ or even if they do. That is so much better than having lawyers scrambling to find another tax loophole, since you went into the next higher category. And it is my understanding that two of the males are single? Sarah, are you paying attention?

And for the male population - the one female is too....

Y'all come to Nebraska to investigate and while you are here, leave $.

Still trying to figure out the language camera-speak, (I think that is what they are talking about) but having no success.

Leaves me >%< perplexed.....

[cherokee woman]

Good Thursday morning, everyone! I think I'm awake this morning. Just
now working on first cup of coffee, so not completely sure yet.

Breakfast this morning will be: turkey bacon, toast, scrambled eggs, or you
can have sausage, biscuits & sausage gravy, and scrambled eggs.

Wonder where our illustrious Diner owner (Jim) is. Hope he was able to go
visit his folks, and celebrate his Thanksgiving & Christmas, with his parents,
siblings, and extended family members.

[tree68]

Sarah, we here in the wilds of northern New York say the same thing about the "City" and the NYS lottery. Bottom line is the odds go to where the tickets are sold, so if NYC buys 100 tickets to every 1 bought around here, they are 100 times more likely to win.

We do pull one off hereabouts from time to time, and the owners of the race horse "Funny Cide" are from a town about 15 miles from my house.

On other topics - stopped to do a night shot of a freight last night - a time exposure that included the gates going down. Almost missed it while I was setting up the camera, but the final image does include the line of the headlights of the small pickup that drove around the gates....

[cherokee woman]

Larry, that would be a very interesting pic to see!! Sounds like you managed
to get a fantastic shot!!

[JoeKoh]

wow larry glad you and camera are ok.sometimes in deshler people race down the street near the railfan park to beat a train turning on the wye.I think mookie needs some more coffee and a nap in the hammock.
stay safe
Joe

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Sarah - if it is any comfort - the Midwest thinks everything always happens on both coasts! [:D]

If BC ate all the sugar, they would have to scrape him off the walls.

I can just visualize him bouncing off the walls and windows of the
tower there at Proviso !![(-D][(-D][:-,]

On another note,there was a couple here in Ky.;who got five of the six
numbers correct on their Powerball ticket,got them about $670,00.
So Nebraska didn't get ALL of it !! [:D]

Larry;that does sound like an interesting picture,maybe you could
post it for all to see ??

[tree68]

It's on the computer a home - will package and post tonight, time allowing.

The gates were all the way down when he drove around them, so he wasn't moving all that fast, and I was in a parking lot alongside the road, so in no danger. Didn't have my regular tripod, so couldn't set up in the best spot - the middle of the road. As a result, the picture has to visual junk in it, but it's not bad over all.

[CShaveRR]

Haven't bounced off any walls at work for a while. My exercise while on duty consists of moving toggle switches and levers, punching keys, ripping paper off the printer, occasionally going up and down the stairs, and rolling my eyes at the pronouncements of our hump conductor. Dentist says I've been grinding my teeth--same probable cause. I try to stay vewwy, vewwy quiet at work, unless I have something important to say, or can come up with a punchline for the material I'm being force-fed.

[Mookie]

BC - quit grinding or you may have to go to bed looking like Darth Vader.

Stress, stress, stress!

I am teaching the driver how to be a road engineer - sleep sitting up. He is getting better at it! And if they don't do something about cell phones and drivers, I am going to learn how to sleep and drive. No difference!

[jeaton]

Hi all. Busy, busy these days-we are about halfway through the work for the year. I'm just as glad I did not win the lottery. Wouldn't want to have to split the take. How is that for the epitome of GREED!

Just kidding. Sounds like a nice group of folks to share the pot. Hope they get some good financial advice, though. $15 mill after tax doesn't go very far these days.

Jay

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

And if they don't do something about cell phones and drivers, I am going to learn how to sleep and drive. No difference!

Agreed on that one - I almost got run down in the French Quarter (pre-Katrina) by a lady who wasn't even looking.

I saw an account once involving a woman (there really isn't a theme here) who was involved in an accident. When first responders went to her vehicle to check on her, she waved them off, still engrossed in the conversation that likely caused the accident...

Back when it wasn't illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving in NYS (it's ok if you're hands-free), I experienced several examples first hand of how your attention is anywhere but on your driving when you're on the phone, hands-free or not. And I was the driver... Fortunately there were no negative outcomes.

[chad thomas]

I would be willing to bet cell phones cause more accidents then drunk driveing. It seems every time I see someone around here doing something really stupid it's cause they have a [censored] cell phone plastered to there head. And that jerk in the fast lane doing 55 usually is on the phone totaly oblivious to the traffic jam behind them.[:(!]

[Mookie]

Witnessed an accident - Lexus broadsided a little old lady - (no not me!) injuring her - he had to finish his conversation before he could even think about rendering aid.....

Heard on radio a lady in an SUV - rollover accident - paramedics found her arm down the road a-piece with the cell phone still in her hand......

I do so want to be Samantha from Bewitched when I see cell phones in drivers hands. I would turn the cell phones into a Bermuda Onion!

[cherokee woman]

Sorry about kind of "disappearing" this morning, folks!! Was not intentional.
Just did not make it back to the 'puter to post a lunch special today.

Supper tonight: mild beef tamales with shelly beans and lettuce w/tomatoes.
For anyone not interested in tamales, there will be a big pot of Betty Crocker
Hamburger Helper Quesedia. If you want, there will be some warm soft tortillas
to put the Quesedia in.

[chad thomas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie



I do so want to be Samantha from Bewitched when I see cell phones in drivers hands. I would turn the cell phones into a Bermuda Onion!

You sure got that right.[;)]

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

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If you want, there will be some warm soft tortillas

Will take one for the hammock - someone is using the blanket....

[Modelcar]

....Somehow governments need to draft legislation that bands the driver operating a cell phone in a moving vehicle....{Yes, I own one...since ' 89}...

[JoeKoh]

yes i agree cell phones are a problem with drivers. this lady yesterday was on a cell phone eating smoking and driving a car.im like how many hands you got lady?supper sounds good tonight and mother nature looks like shes blowing up a storm.
stay safe
Joe

[railfan619]

GOOD afternoon everyone well guess what. I start at my new job tomorrow morning which is very good cause I am now offically bored of just sitting around watching t.v all day long and also it's really cool cause now I can legally drive buses that. Are equiped with airbrakes which I have always wanted to do. And now my foot is just alittle bit higher on the stool of life. Hey CW you got anything to celabrate with my new job like a cup cake or even a chesse and sausage pizza. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[cherokee woman]

Pat, I made a cheese & sausage pizza just for you.

Now, for the rest of us, the tamales, and sides are ready. (In case anyone
doesn't remember, it's tamales, shelly beans, and lettuce w/tomatoes for
supper tonight.

We also have chocolate cupcakes and white cupcakes for dessert tonight.

[railfan619]

WELL good eveing everyone well now that night time has fallen upon us it is time to go to sleep so I will be talkin to you all tomorrow and I will tell you all how my new job went for the 1st day. OH CW thanks for the pizza got me nice and full for the night oh and the cupcakes were really good to. OH yeah have a great night everyone. [zzz][zzz][zzz][zzz][zzz]

[tree68]

Here's the pics (click on the description):
Gates dropping and pickup driving through (coming toward the camera).
There's actually a train moving through this one. See the headlights?
If you look right above the trace of the headlights you'll see a periodic blip - that was one of those little amber beacons that some CSX engines have. It's not a warning beacon in the traditional sense, but I've never seen one on before.

The pictures aren't very good artistically, but I wanted to get the gates thing, and it seemed to come out OK for that. The next attempt will be better composed...

[blhanel]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie


I do so want to be Samantha from Bewitched when I see cell phones in drivers hands. I would turn the cell phones into a Bermuda Onion!

One idea that I've always entertained and put forth to my fellow electrical engineers- wouldn't it be neat to have a new type of "gun" that would emit an electro-magnetic pulse at the right frequency to blow out the power stages of the "boom box" in the annoying car ahead of or behind you?

Neat pics, Larry!

[switch7frg]

CW & MUTT>>>>
I have some interesting news, hopefully . It seems a deal came across my path the other day. one that can't be refused . We are re domiciled to Ariz. In a short week , 10/98 { radio talk for bye bye Ohio} . The son's & daughter's live there. Empty nest syndrome hit us again. However ,we won't be leavin' fine friends @ the diner or on the forums . Homeplace is history , but not Rattler . like old dog he goes w/ us . We want to congradulate you two ,C W & MUTT for all you have accomplished in life . The same goes for all the page Diners who have input to the Diner . I will try to keep in touch in our westward run.We also have daughter in Grand Junction Co. ,close to BNSF rail yard . What a hoot . Glendale Az . has a large railyard there , BNSF . a good chance to see a goodly number of traffic . Till then , see ya' all,Cannonball & Shirl.

[locomutt]

Brian;Great Idea !! Maybe you can get with your fellow engineers,
and use the same principle to do that to the vehicles that go past
your house,playing that loud music (?) "shaking" the windows and
"vibrating" the foundation !!!

Larry;nice pictures,don't guess you got one of that pick up that went
around the gates did you ?? Could have turned the license number
over to the police.

Switch8frg;don't you all be strangers to the Diner,you all visit when
ever you can,there's always a place here for you.

[Anonymous]

Hi All

I'm Bacccccck


Sarah [8D]

You don't remember the man from West Viriginia who won 315 mil about 3 or 4 years ago. I don't know how you could ever forget him. He is in the news all the time. Drunk driving, drunk driving, sexual assault, arrest warrent, drunk driving, sexual assault, reported loss of $100,000 in brief case after running mouth in strip club and was drugged, woke up with no briefcase, you know, the usual run of the mill rude, drunken, touchy feely, idiot. Oh, his loving wife finally had more than enought and divorced him. Good for her ! ! !

Well I am back from my Thanksgiving / Christmas celebration. [:o)] What, you mean everyone doesn't celebrate T / C in late February? Oh well, not everyone works for the railroad. [B)] And the weather sure was Christmasy, ice, snow, sleet, and lots of below freezing weather. From Clinton, Arkansas and north, they had a fair amount of snow. I saw lots of cars and trucks off in the ditch. I came across one wreck but I don't think it was weather related. I think one person just pulled right out in front of the other one and got broadsided real good.

Well, well, well, the 10 pm news just said that Little Rock / North Little Rock is rated in the top 100 cities for something to do with jobs, business and something else. I didn't catch it all but that is a good thing.

AND . . . there was a new 3 point record set in Arkansas tonight. A basketball player from John Brown University just became the best 3 point shooter in college basketball. Can you say . . . N B A ? [;)]

On a good note, we have no belowing freezing temps predicted for the next week. I sure hope that last Friday's little winter weather was winter's last fling here. [:)] Come on M A R C H. [;)] Just like Q says, everyday is another day closer to spring. [:)] Bring it on. [^]

Well, this year's Olympics as far as the US is concerned is just a little flat. We definately could be doing a little better, actually, we could be doing a lot better.

Well, since it is close to 12, I think I might go to bed.

Take Care.

[Mookie]

^~> TGIF?

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

^~> TGIF?

And not a moment too soon, either.

[cherokee woman]

Yes, Mook and Tree, it's finally TGIF!! Yeah, I finally made it in. No excuse, just
slept in this morning.

Coffee on, juice is made, and breakfast is on it's way.

All the regular breakfast items have been fixed, and are awaiting for you.

Larry, those are two fantastic pictures you've got there!

Jim, welcome back! Know you had a great time!!

Switch8frg, you all be careful on your way to Arizona. We'll keep the
coffee on for you.

[JoeKoh]

hey cannonball dont feel bad about moving to arizonia.I heard before the ohio st game out there that arizonia has one of the highest percentiles of alumni out there.hopefully you can get your stuff all in one truck.saw a guy trying to haul 3 sets of bedding in his truck.the top box springs flew off.its also interesting that a certain tax preparing company is being audited by the IRS for not paying their taxes!Cw thanks for the breakfast and mookie thank God it is Friday.
stay safe
joe