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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, March 5, 2016 8:07 PM

Jeff - check the address where you are sending the license.  Is it a local fast food restaurant where you can never get what you order?  Mischief

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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, March 5, 2016 7:55 PM

jeffhergert

Today, I've been an engineer for 11 years. 

This year is also the year I renew my engineer's license.  My current one expires next month on my birthday.  In January I finished up my part, sending in motor vehehicle license info and getting my hearing and vision tested. (Despite what the wife sometimes thinks, I have proof that I can hear.)  My last check ride was last year.  I figured it was within the required time period when I received my new license in the mail.  Upon looking at it, it was just a duplicate of the one I already held, expiring next month.  I contacted my manager and he checked and said I still needed a check ride.  He gave me one a few days ago.  I received my new-new license today.  It also expires next month. Bang Head 

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Posted by jeffhergert on Saturday, March 5, 2016 7:20 PM

Today, I've been an engineer for 11 years. 

This year is also the year I renew my engineer's license.  My current one expires next month on my birthday.  In January I finished up my part, sending in motor vehehicle license info and getting my hearing and vision tested. (Despite what the wife sometimes thinks, I have proof that I can hear.)  My last check ride was last year.  I figured it was within the required time period when I received my new license in the mail.  Upon looking at it, it was just a duplicate of the one I already held, expiring next month.  I contacted my manager and he checked and said I still needed a check ride.  He gave me one a few days ago.  I received my new-new license today.  It also expires next month. Bang Head 

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, March 5, 2016 3:59 PM

Sir Chicken:  He wanted to visit Auntie Mookie!  Must have seen the asparagus and headed back home - fast!  Will scottie arrive in a blue blanket?  Gift

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Posted by mudchicken on Saturday, March 5, 2016 1:45 PM
House cat was on the lam for 24 hours. Skeered critter was back in the house last night. Life goes back to somewhere near normal.. Stewart may get his name changed to Ferris Bueller. Scottie Watch: Approximately 6 weeks and counting down.
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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, March 5, 2016 11:46 AM
ns local was uptown when I went to work.Also a stack train was in the siding.Local was gone when I got off.Weather is rain/snow/drizzle.Chores to do. stay safe Joe

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Posted by JoeKoh on Friday, March 4, 2016 4:11 PM

evening

Ns had some empties to pick up when I left work.Went into town to do errands.Barber was wondering why CSX is backed up so much.The icy roadways have cleared.Work for a bit tomorrow morning.Matt needs the computer for his book report.

stay safe

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:40 PM

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(Okay, she just got home from choir...and wonders if you're going to do a quilt.)

Only the one I pull over me when I hit the ol' waterbed tonight...

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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:13 PM

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I was at a meeting at our local library this morning and noted a sign that said that March is National Quilting Month.  

I'm sure Pat will be busy celebrating! 

I'll be sure and tell her about this the next time she takes a break from quilting (or sewing, or knitting).  I wonder what makes this month different from any other.  

(Okay, she just got home from choir...and wonders if you're going to do a quilt.)

I wonder when National train-chasing month will be.

I'm hoping that we'll have a chance to see a train or six when we go out west tomorrow (Geneva/St. Charles/West Chicago).  I pretty much stayed indoors today ...the snow we got overnight wasn't worth shoveling, and the walks and driveway were clear by afternoon.

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Posted by Mookie on Thursday, March 3, 2016 6:59 PM

JoeKoh
We were shipping boxes to Lincoln NE today but none had a cat address.

 Drat!  

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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, March 3, 2016 6:01 PM

Snow here in Nw Ohio.Ns coal train is gone.Local was uptown when I left work.Tomorrow is Friday. We were shipping boxes to Lincoln NE today but none had a cat address.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, March 3, 2016 10:31 AM

I was at a meeting at our local library this morning and noted a sign that said that March is National Quilting Month.  

I'm sure Pat will be busy celebrating!

Cold this AM in the north country.  Participants in the "Rooster Roster" noted temps on both sides of zero...

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Posted by wanswheel on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 8:06 PM
Great show, “A Year in Space”
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Posted by edblysard on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:39 PM

If I forgot to open the door for my mother or my sisters, they would just stand there, waiting for me to wake up...same with seating a lady...they just stood there, making me look really rude.

And when a woman excused themselves, all the men better stand up when she did, and remain standing until she left the room.

I think my mom would rise up out of the grave and smack me silly if I failed to do any if these.

I have taught my daughters to do the same, if the man they are with fails to show these simple manners, just stand there until he gets it.

My middle daughter has her boyfriend trained quite well in fact!

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:10 PM

Well this poster has a better appreciation of crews involved in various collisions.  At 1805 EST today decided to drive out to get some fast food for both of us.  Heard a CSX freight northbound as getting into auto. Started out thinking would get a good look as street only about 50 feet from closest rail. At about 800 feet from home spied lady and two small children about to cross the tracks at a dirt location.  Rushed car to location and shouted " don't cross the tracks ". Meanwhile crossing gates close by started blinking. The smaller child who was one step from going down a hill to ballast fortunately stopped with other just behind.  They stopped and about 5 - 7 seconds later a manifest CSX freight with 3 units passed.

After getting home 15 minutes later blood pressure and pulse still very high and now have a headache.  

 

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:22 PM

Paul of Covington
The good ol' days.   I get the impression that many young people today see courtesy as a sign of weakness.

'Tis far better to be a "macho man..."   Not.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 4:20 PM

evening

a Norx coal train is in the siding at work.Looks like Ns took the power away for now.Ice has melted somewhat.Growing up you would "mind your manners" or you would find it hard to sit down.Time to get cleaned up.Tonight is lenten service and meet the confirmands night at church.

stay safe

Joe

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 3:40 PM

Deggesty
Indeed, for the last year or so, a girl, another boy, and I were among the first to go in; she sat at the end of a table, he sat on one side and I sat on the other; he would hold her chair for one morning and the next morning I would hold her chair. (There was no romantic interest involved.)

   The good ol' days.   I get the impression that many young people today see courtesy as a sign of weakness.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 3:22 PM

BaltACD

 

 
Deggesty

I was more or less invited to take part in the effort that took place in the early morning for several days--I did not join; I thought of reminding the physics professor how a Danish astronomer came to an early death--getting up early, early, in the winter to look at stars at the request of the Queen of Denmark and coming down with pneumonia or something like that--but I did not remind him. The physics professor and the students who did risk their lives survived. 

 

 

 

So - at that age you weren't a 'Morning Person'?

 

LaughWell, not that early a morning person. I don't recall missing breakfast (0700), though many did. The dining hall staff did not require as many people for breakfast as it did for the other two meals. Indeed, for the last year or so, a girl, another boy, and I were among the first to go in; she sat at the end of a table, he sat on one side and I sat on the other; he would hold her chair for one morning and the next morning I would hold her chair. (There was no romantic interest involved.)

Edited for clarity.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 3:08 PM

Deggesty

I was more or less invited to take part in the effort that took place in the early morning for several days--I did not join; I thought of reminding the physics professor how a Danish astronomer came to an early death--getting up early, early, in the winter to look at stars at the request of the Queen of Denmark and coming down with pneumonia or something like that--but I did not remind him. The physics professor and the students who did risk their lives survived. 

 

So - at that age you weren't a 'Morning Person'?

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:58 PM

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I remember how violated I felt when the "Sputnik" I watched in the sky as a third- or fourth-grader was revealed to be a stage of the ship that put it into orbit, and not the actual satellite (which would have been 'way too small to reflect enough light back).  The "blinking" was this cylindrical object tumbling through space.

And the pride at Echo, which, IIRC, was the brainchild of Ma Bell (AT&T back then), my dad's employer.

 

My college's physics department set a station up for observing Sputnik as it passed overhead, using pipes set in the ground that had short crossarms at the top--and telescopes set on small tables beneath the crossarms. My contribution to the effort was to get the pipes down to the observatory, using the college's pickup. I was more or less invited to take part in the effort that took place in the early morning for several days--I did not join; I thought of reminding the physics professor how a Danish astronomer came to an early death--getting up early, early, in the winter to look at stars at the request of the Queen of Denmark and coming down with pneumonia or something like that--but I did not remind him. The physics professor and the students who did risk their lives survived. 

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:39 PM

I remember how violated I felt when the "Sputnik" I watched in the sky as a third- or fourth-grader was revealed to be a stage of the ship that put it into orbit, and not the actual satellite (which would have been 'way too small to reflect enough light back).  The "blinking" was this cylindrical object tumbling through space.

And the pride at Echo, which, IIRC, was the brainchild of Ma Bell (AT&T back then), my dad's employer.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 8:20 AM

I remember looking for "Echo."

Any time spent looking at the night sky any more will usually yield a satellite or two.

I haven't gotten into it yet, but as a amateur radio operator, I can even communicate with the ISS, as well as other satellites there specifically for use by hams.  

Ice this morning about 3 AM, followed by an inch or two of snow.  Schools around here are on a delay.  Many schools north and east of here closed entirely.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:56 AM

edblysard

Tee shirt weather, outside at 5:40am with a cup of coffee and a smoke, watching the ISS glide by overhead.

Tomorrow it will show up at 6:22 going SW to NE, visible for 4 minutes, might get all the kiddos up to watch.

Awesome!

A reminder of years gone by.  Dad would take my brother and me out at sunset to look for Sputnik 3.  Also remember how everybody got out to look for the Echo satellite, which was a 100-foot diameter aluminum foil balloon designed to reflect radio signals as a communications relay.

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Posted by BOB WITHORN on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:20 AM

Maybe a long sleeve T. It was 16 degrees at 6 am in Flint, Mi., (the most missmanaged city in the US were everything is someone elses fault). But there are still trains to watch.

It's fun to catch the ISS, not often in Michigan with the clouds.

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Posted by edblysard on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:49 AM

Tee shirt weather, outside at 5:40am with a cup of coffee and a smoke, watching the ISS glide by overhead.

Tomorrow it will show up at 6:22 going SW to NE, visible for 4 minutes, might get all the kiddos up to watch.

Awesome!

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:29 PM

Looks like the nasty stuff will hit overnight.  Plenty of wind right now - wind chill is at zero or less.  If the wind keeps up, there will be drifting.  

Might be some mixed stuff in there, too, but that'll make things just that much more "interesting."

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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:02 PM

Expecting another three inches or so overnight. Roads are slick. Drivers are being stupid.

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Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 5:02 PM

Red Flag warnings here. Dry, wind and warmer temperatures not a good combo here at this time of year. We had a city park open space area on the far east side of town burn yesterday that usually would never burn.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:35 PM

Rain here in Nw Ohio for now.Ns had a westbound grain train waiting when I left work.Chores to do.

stay safe

Joe

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