This is for Ed Blysard

[Mookie]

Are you Ed B? Do you know where he is?

(Where are you? You are way too quiet! I am having to hold down a different point of view all by myself. Could use a little help here!)

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Mookie

[dharmon]

They did have all that bad weather down there.....maybe he's in Kansas again.....

[Anonymous]

Maybe Ed is on vacation. It gets pretty hot in Houston this time of year. Good time to head for the rockies...

LC

[Mookie]

Oh heavens! You don't suppose he is hanging out with that ......chicken!

Been several postings from Kansas lately - maybe he is toying with us under a pseudo-Ed name?

Mook

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Oh heavens! You don't suppose he is hanging out with that ......chicken!

Been several postings from Kansas lately - maybe he is toying with us under a pseudo-Ed name?

Mook

So he'd be Psuedo - Head Ed?

[Modelcar]

...Ed did not run away...just heard from him a few days ago.

[Overmod]

I responded to an Ed post, specifically, a couple of days ago... I believe he is alive and well (and certainly hope so! ;-})

[Overmod]

dharmon, you're not insisting that he had to tap his red shoes together to get there, are you? ;-}

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Overmod

dharmon, you're not insisting that he had to tap his red shoes together to get there, are you? ;-}

If he's wearing ruby red women's shoes...my bet he's hanging around in the Montrose area of Houston.

But last time he disappeared he did click his work boots and say "there's no place like home". He came back with a little dog though.....

[Anonymous]

I sent him the same e-mail as you Mook and got a response. So he must be laying low

[Mookie]

Marty - he is in my e-mail, but it isn't the same as the forum. Gotta flush (bad word) him out!

Mook

[mudchicken]

Just heard from the enigmatic uni-head himself- today and it was appreciated (answered a really dumb mudchicken question). The women in his life may just be keeping him extra busy....

[edblysard]

Hi Mookie...
Yes, alive and well, no, not in Kansas or Denver, although Denver sounds a lot better than the swamp.

Mrs. Unihead Aimee has me re-doing the kitchen!
New ceiling, new walls, new floor tiles, new cabinets & drainboards, new stove and refridgerator, dishwasher and microwave, along with a new trash compactor, all stainless....all built-in, and all the trim.

Oh, and new ceiling fan and light fixtures, along with wall plugs and light switches, all GFI...and a new breaker box and electric service entry.

Hate GE's locomotives, but love their breaker boxes!

Add to all that, its been in the high 90s all week, 80 percent humidity, and UP and BNSF have been dumping on us at work, what ever they dont feel like handling in their yards, they just mix in with the transfers to us.

So, North Yard, which holds about 2500 cars on a normal day, has about 3500 cars jammed into it, which makes switching a real chore, double handling a lot of cars....

I have pretty much hogged out every day this week, 12 hours a day pounding rocks and pulling pins tends to wear you out a little....

And, of course, we are sending almost half of what they send us right back to them.
So far, all UP can say is "whoops, sorry.."
BNSF just dosnt respond.....

I switched 320 somethings cars today, and sent back right at 100 to BN and UP, "mis-routed" single cars mixed into their transfers delivered to us.

Talk about a waste of time.

With so much going on, time on the forum has been a little tight.

But thank you all for your concern, didnt realize I was missed!

Better be careful, as tired as I am, I might get a little misty here...

Naw, but thanks again...

Oh, by the way, just as a warning to anyone building walls, a Bostich/ Stanley framing nail gun will shoot a 10 penny nail all the way through work boots, and into a 2x4, real fast....

Missed all the toes, but ruined a good pair of boots.(and jeans)!!![:D]

Ed

[Anonymous]

Ed, are you for hire? The wife wants a new kitchen...

LC

[edblysard]

Oh, by the way, Miss Mookie, you never told us if your driver caught anything on his fishing trip....

Fly casting is one of those skills that escapes me, I usually end up catching either tree branches or my own hat, but never any fish...

Much perfer my old spin cast reel, and the Texas Gulf coast jetties.
Nothing is as good as flounder you catch yourself...

So, how did he do?

Ed

[Mookie]

Oh am I going to delight in telling this one!

He went with a male that works in the office where I work. They spent their time around the Centennial Wyoming area. Caught a few small ones, but nothing worth keeping. Driver is catch and release which will figure into this story.

Kevin, his cohort, is catch and eat!

So driver caught a rainbow trout of pretty good size and wanted to keep him to see if Kevin would like to fry it up for dinner. Kevin was a ways away, so driver took a large ziplock plastic bag out of his shirt pocket, filled it with a little water and put fish in it. Zipped it shut, but left an opening for air to get it. Put fish down on bank next to him and went about fixing his fly rod.

Looked back a couple of minutes later and fish gone.

Kevin came by and they both looked high and low. There were no bears in the area. There were no other people. The fish was within arms reach.

Won't the next person to catch the fish be surprised when he finds they come already bagged!

Mookie [8D]

[edblysard]

Try explaining that to the game warden...
"But officer, I caught it that way.."

PETA would have a fit with that....

Ed

[tree68]

Ed - better to nail the boot to the floor than a patient I took to the hospital one time. He managed to kick the nail gun with his knee. Certainly "sunk" that one. Hurt just to look at it...

[Anonymous]

"Oh, by the way, just as a warning to anyone building walls, a Bostich/ Stanley framing nail gun will shoot a 10 penny nail all the way through work boots, and into a 2x4, real fast....

Missed all the toes, but ruined a good pair of boots.(and jeans)!!!"

Kinda reminds me of the ancient joke:
Ed to Aimee: Honey, why am I running around in circles?!
Aimee to Ed: Shut up, kid, before I nail your other boot to the floor!

Frankly, I'm jealous. A railroader, carpenter and electrician! Must be nice to have a skill....

Erik

[mudchicken]

ow ow ow ow OW OUCH!!!

If you did that and still went out and banged boxcars afterwards, I am in awe![bow][bow][bow]

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Ed:
After an accident at home like that, I'm starting to wonder how PTRA won its Harriman awards. All seriousness aside, though, it reminds of the time I tried to cut off part of my right index finger with a bow saw while clearing some overgrown bushes around the house. Took four stitches for that one.

The heat and humidity down there sounds about right. Once in a while some of it will get sent our way.

Paul

[Modelcar]

....And here I was under the impression Indiana had all the nasty humidity in the summertime....Glad some other areas share in it too.....Like the stainless steel finish Ed....Have had quite a bit of that at times....Now have black on appliances...Like stainless better.

[Modelcar]

PS....That nail gun story is scary...! It's a wonder we don't hear of more of such happenings. Sure glad you missed the toes.

[Mookie]

He's taking a page from the Jim trains, planes, boats, run into the furniture with your toes book.

[locomutt]

Mookie,

That was twice,wasn't it[?][}:)]

[JoeKoh]

Ed
glad to hear your ok. Honeydo lists are always something to work on.
stay safe
Joe

[edblysard]

Smack dab between the big toe and the one right next to it, missed everything....
Did get a nice friction burn, but thats all.
One of those nail guns set up for continous fireing, just pull the trigger.
Shot the first nail, the recoil got away from me, fired a second time, and ta-da, vented boot...
Went to Home Depot, bought the safety kits, modified the gun so you have to press the head against something and depress a safety plunger before the trigger will work.

I like all my toes right where they are, thank you.

Ed

[mudchicken]

Whew![:I][:I][:I]

[Anonymous]

Ed-

Glad you missed!

[Modelcar]

...Boy Ed, I thought all nail guns had a safety sort of what you describe of having to depress a "stick out" sort of thing before it would fire...