Depot Diner & Coffee Shop

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C

I've been busy on my "ask a question" thread, explaining air brakes to Canadians!

Peter

Yeah cause they got a lot of wind that needs braking...

[M636C]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

My 1 year old Gateway flat screen monitor went out this morning and I spent an hour chatting with someone in India this morning. ( At least that was the accent.) With my modest hearing loss it was no fun. Fortunately, I have another monitor from one of the office computers, so I can still hang out here. Replacement comes in a few days if it stops snowing.

I had an old ex office PC and it appears the video card died, (changed monitors with no result). I took the opportunity to get a new laptop, and downgrade the older laptop.

A bit later, a friend had a monitor failure on his Macintosh G3. Hmm, I thought, I wonder if my newly spare monitor will work on a Mac. Yes is the answer, and in exchange I was loaned an external floppy drive to try on the laptop - it hasn't got a floppy, instead seven types of flash cards will work (including the CF cards on my Canon cameras).

I've been busy on my "ask a question" thread, explaining air brakes to Canadians!

Peter

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

TIme for a midnight run to Krispy Kreme...

Who's with me?!?

LC

Gosh,haven't done that for a long time![:)]
Can we stop by "White Castle" on the way[?][:D]
Just "Toot" when you come by. Just so we don't
wake up CW. [:D]

[Anonymous]

Gonna bring some to the ol' YM...

LC

[Anonymous]

TIme for a midnight run to Krispy Kreme...

Who's with me?!?

LC

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

It is still snowing in So Wisconsin. I have to remind Tom that even if there is a foot and a half tomorrow morning, Bergie will still not allow any cursing in the Diner. Meanwhile, Fritz, the mini daschund, is up to his ears in snow, and comes back in telling me to get out there and shovel the snow off his territory.

My 1 year old Gateway flat screen monitor went out this morning and I spent an hour chatting with someone in India this morning. ( At least that was the accent.) With my modest hearing loss it was no fun. Fortunately, I have another monitor from one of the office computers, so I can still hang out here. Replacement comes in a few days if it stops snowing.

Since LC got a quit, I volunteer him to shovel the snow off the depot platform. Make sure there are no slippery spots at the doorways to the diner, too.

No,no,no...snow shovelling is strictly MOW work, I wouldn't dream of taking it away from the BMWE...

LC

"HUMM" Brotherhood of Me" [?]

OOP'S got that wrong---------still dodging snowballs!!!!!![:D]

DARN!!!! The MOW crew just hit me!!!!!!![:)} What Gives[?][:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton

It is still snowing in So Wisconsin. I have to remind Tom that even if there is a foot and a half tomorrow morning, Bergie will still not allow any cursing in the Diner. Meanwhile, Fritz, the mini daschund, is up to his ears in snow, and comes back in telling me to get out there and shovel the snow off his territory.

My 1 year old Gateway flat screen monitor went out this morning and I spent an hour chatting with someone in India this morning. ( At least that was the accent.) With my modest hearing loss it was no fun. Fortunately, I have another monitor from one of the office computers, so I can still hang out here. Replacement comes in a few days if it stops snowing.

Since LC got a quit, I volunteer him to shovel the snow off the depot platform. Make sure there are no slippery spots at the doorways to the diner, too.

No,no,no...snow shovelling is strictly MOW work, I wouldn't dream of taking it away from the BMWE...

LC

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton


Since LC got a quit, I volunteer him to shovel the snow off the depot platform. Make sure there are no slippery spots at the doorways to the diner, too.

Since LC got a 'quit' day sounds cool. At least we DON'T have that stuff
in our area of Ky. yet!!!!!!!!!!!![:D]

[jeaton]

It is still snowing in So Wisconsin. I have to remind Tom that even if there is a foot and a half tomorrow morning, Bergie will still not allow any cursing in the Diner. Meanwhile, Fritz, the mini daschund, is up to his ears in snow, and comes back in telling me to get out there and shovel the snow off his territory.

My 1 year old Gateway flat screen monitor went out this morning and I spent an hour chatting with someone in India this morning. ( At least that was the accent.) With my modest hearing loss it was no fun. Fortunately, I have another monitor from one of the office computers, so I can still hang out here. Replacement comes in a few days if it stops snowing.

Since LC got a quit, I volunteer him to shovel the snow off the depot platform. Make sure there are no slippery spots at the doorways to the diner, too.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Homemade spaghetti and meatballs is whats for dinner here tonight and after a nice short day today (can you say QUIT, Q-U-I-T! QUIT...)...lol...

LC

LC, your spaghetti and meatballs sounds good. I'll take an order, please.

And what, exactly, are you quitting?

When you get off work in less than 8 hours on the railroad it is known as "getting a quit".

LC

[cherokee woman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

Homemade spaghetti and meatballs is whats for dinner here tonight and after a nice short day today (can you say QUIT, Q-U-I-T! QUIT...)...lol...

LC

LC, your spaghetti and meatballs sounds good. I'll take an order, please.

And what, exactly, are you quitting?

[locomutt]

Our Friend Peter (M636C) just made the 4 star club.
A round of applause for him please![:)]

Kozzie-you're slippin'[:D]

[Anonymous]

Homemade spaghetti and meatballs is whats for dinner here tonight and after a nice short day today (can you say QUIT, Q-U-I-T! QUIT...)...lol...

LC

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan

I have a cat that is a Muted Torty. She is greyish and now a bit white as she is getting old but still kittenish. She is however getting a little senile though as she always wants to eat even after we feed her. She likes to talk and tries to speak human by altering her pitches to mimic ours. She is not agressive unless flies get into the house. She also plays with spiders, ladybugs and centipedes when shes goes to the basement.

Andrew - the real Mookie is a diluted Torti....not sure where she is diluted, but....

Mookie talks a lot now - didn't start until she was about 9. She is about 14 now. We compete for talk time!

Compete for talk time huh[?] Bet I know who wins.[:D][}:)]

[Anonymous]

I have a cat named Toby (short hair tabby). Never talks unless we go to the vet. He's 7 years old and managed the move well.

Light snow in WI. Very pretty.

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone, I wont be on tomorrow moring so I already made the orange juice and its in the refridgerator for tomorrow. Hope everyone has a good night.

[tree68]

Dog and Cat story: We were visiting my mother and had our Siamese along. The dog had been tormented by the cat, who as techguy57 said, usually took the high ground and teased the poor dog (a cocker spaniel).

Turnabout, as they say, is fair play. For some reason the dog was sitting on the organ stool. The cat strolled by, totally unaware of the "danger" lurking above. The dog pounced, the cat ran. I'm positive that dog was gloating!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan

I have a cat that is a Muted Torty. She is greyish and now a bit white as she is getting old but still kittenish. She is however getting a little senile though as she always wants to eat even after we feed her. She likes to talk and tries to speak human by altering her pitches to mimic ours. She is not agressive unless flies get into the house. She also plays with spiders, ladybugs and centipedes when shes goes to the basement.

Andrew - the real Mookie is a diluted Torti....not sure where she is diluted, but....

Mookie talks a lot now - didn't start until she was about 9. She is about 14 now. We compete for talk time!

[techguy57]

cherokee woman- Missed that bean soup is the special. Does it come with cornbread?

Sign me up for the chili![:p]Yum!

[cherokee woman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

I know alot of us are model railroaders also,but YOU should
go over on the MR side and check out Dan's "Green Goat"
project. He "scratchbuilt" the body for it;and has done a fantastic
job on it.[:)]

Hey Dan,when you finish it up,how 'bout bringing it to the Diner
and putting it on the 'HO' layout for awhile[?][:D]

Thanks Walt. I think it's a vegetarian though...[:)]

Uh Dan, how can a loco engine be vegetarian? They
use oil don't they? And besides, any goats we ever had
ate ANYTHING under the sun[:p][}:)]

[techguy57]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

2 things -

1: it isn't nice to laugh at kitty! Suprises will appear in your shoes!

2: We are having a rash of those roll-overs here, too. And, as I said before, the deer are winning! They are taking out a lot of SUV's, pick-em-ups and cars and people are hunting w/o guns! Just wreck your car and claim your deer! Wow!

Deer are winning here too. In fact I heard that Barrington and South Barrington (very nice, upscale nearby villages) are considering opening certain areas to hunters one day this winter in order to reduce the deer population. I know Brown County in Indiana has done something similar as well. Unfortunately, it seems the deer problem is only getting worse. Really it is a simple equation:

Urban Sprawl = Reduced Wilderness = More Animals In Less Space = Animals Forced To Find Food Elsewhere

We've had a doe and her three young ones forraging through the yards of our neighborhood for almost a year now. In the spring I'd often find them sleeping in our front yard when I took the dog out at 4am. Been as close to them as eight or ten feet when they were eating from the neighbor's bird feeder. The are awfully tame.

Even more troublesome are the coyote attacks happening in Mundelein, especially since it is pretty well developed and what wilderness is around is mostly parkland. Half a dozen reports of pets killed or missing in the last couple of months and its happening in people's backyards.

On a lighter note, got to tell you a funny pet story. We have a beagle,Dash (as in Dash-9) almost a year old and a kitty,Peanut (as in way better than plain M&Ms) thats almost 14yrs old. Dash loves to "investigate" the kitty and often does so by chasing her around the bedroom. She may be older but she's smarter and more agile so she often outraces him and finds a safe spot he can't get to where she promptly taunts him by meowing and pawing at him. Such was the case this morning as I was getting ready to jump in the shower when thay both came running full steam into the bathroom. Not wanting to get cornered Peanut leapt up to make her way to the top of the toilet tank and aparently misjudged because her whole back in went right into the bowl. [oops] Needless to say she was not real receptive when Dash offered to help clean her off. She got her laughs too because Dash shorted his jump onto the ottoman this morning. Looked like something out of a Scooby-Doo cartoon.

Is it lunchtime yet? How about some ravioli and garlic bread?

Mike

[Junctionfan]

I have a cat that is a Muted Torty. She is greyish and now a bit white as she is getting old but still kittenish. She is however getting a little senile though as she always wants to eat even after we feed her. She likes to talk and tries to speak human by altering her pitches to mimic ours. She is not agressive unless flies get into the house. She also plays with spiders, ladybugs and centipedes when shes goes to the basement.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by locomutt

I know alot of us are model railroaders also,but YOU should
go over on the MR side and check out Dan's "Green Goat"
project. He "scratchbuilt" the body for it;and has done a fantastic
job on it.[:)]

Hey Dan,when you finish it up,how 'bout bringing it to the Diner
and putting it on the 'HO' layout for awhile[?][:D]

Thanks Walt. I think it's a vegetarian though...[:)]

[locomutt]

I know alot of us are model railroaders also,but YOU should
go over on the MR side and check out Dan's "Green Goat"
project. He "scratchbuilt" the body for it;and has done a fantastic
job on it.[:)]

Hey Dan,when you finish it up,how 'bout bringing it to the Diner
and putting it on the 'HO' layout for awhile[?][:D]

[mudchicken]

Look at it this way.....Free parts, slightly used, located immediately by the roadside for your convenience - Enquire about availability from the nearby cra***est dummy and former SUV owner.

Plenty of folks had their Thanksgiving holiday spoiled in Western Nebraska and Western Kansas over the weekend. (including a semi vs. Greyhound bus in KS on I-70 yesterday)..... Winter is here! Majority of wrecked SUV's I saw were Toyota 4-Runners and Ford Explorers (Exploders) followed by empty pick-up trucks (no weight in the back and poor tires) plus gaggles of little light cars (Ford Mustangs & Chevy Camaros take the cake)...... 4WD does not imply 4 Wheel Stop!

[locomutt]

Allbeit, this is not quite as good as Larry's with the Siamese: but,
back in about 1978, we had one of our large snowfalls. I
had a very large (about 18 #) cats, who enjoyed being outside
when the ground was dry. I was outside and he was on the front
porch with me. He kept sniffing at and looking like he wanted to
check out the snow. So I grabbed him around the middle, and
tossed him toward a snowbank.
To this day, I don't belive he touched the snow. He whirled around
in mid air and landed back on the porch.[:D]

[railman]

We, in the mighty winter state on MN, had more rollovers last week with a dusting of snow and rain than I thought possible. People aren't told that yes, the 4 by 4 will get you started faster, but you can't stop any better on ice than that 72' Gremlin!

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

2 things -

1: it isn't nice to laugh at kitty! Suprises will appear in your shoes!

2: We are having a rash of those roll-overs here, too. And, as I said before, the deer are winning! They are taking out a lot of SUV's, pick-em-ups and cars and people are hunting w/o guns! Just wreck your car and claim your deer! Wow!

There have been a rash of "rollovers" in SUVs around here also;mainly due to
crazy drivers.
Now as far as the deer problem goes;Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife is thinking
about adding a new twist to deer season; bow -rifle-shotgun;and now
SUV season. One of the local body shops commented the other day,since
the start of 'fall',their business has about tripled due to the number of
deer/vechile accidents.[:D]

[Mookie]

2 things -

1: it isn't nice to laugh at kitty! Suprises will appear in your shoes!

2: We are having a rash of those roll-overs here, too. And, as I said before, the deer are winning! They are taking out a lot of SUV's, pick-em-ups and cars and people are hunting w/o guns! Just wreck your car and claim your deer! Wow!

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by techguy57

Watched as a fellow in a Ford F250 w/4wd slid into a Palatine street sign and then into a tree. Thankfully he was okay but I can't say the same for the truck. .
Mike

Ah, yes. The famous "I'm driving a big 4 wheel drive truck so I can drive through this stuff like it's not here" ploy. Gets them every time. Same for SUVs. We've had a tremendous amount of rollovers this year during slippery conditions- a proven characteristic of SUVs.