It was an eventfull day, did a few scheduled cases and finished with an emergency that pretty much made for a long day. No train time and I didn’t even get a chance to do some good reading.
Lisa, congrats on the new additions! We have two, both mutts. One is shephard/collie, other is Rott/lab. Great dogs and they are a big part of our family.
Chief, good luck on your trip. From the messages I have been reading, it sounds like a bunch of good guys getting together…but we know better, they are the enemy[:D]. Just kidding guys, hope y’all have a great time and I hope y’all have a healthy serving of GRITS!
ATSJer, Good luck with Hebrew, have you had Greek yet? Very complicated language, but also very descriptive…ie: Agape. It will really help with interpreting the good news.
Had a nice chat with the Chief this morning, all set for Saturday.
We had beautiful weather today, to be warmer the rest of the week, but may get some rain Friday or Saturday.
Finally finished the TMCC conversion of the DOCKSIDER, Works great, but the only sound is the horn. I know steamers are supposed to have whistles but the Docksiders sound like horns to me. It seem wierd running a TMCC engine witout sound, almost like a stealth engine as there is very little noise, especially at the slow speeds the TMCC allows.
Inventor of FORTAN??? Oh, do I remember those [censored] punch cards! I remember programming the computer to handle matrix algebra problems. After we put the program in the que to be run on the computer, it sometimes took hours to get back the results. One mistake punching a card and you did it again.
Roy, do you remember the green CRT screens? Pen plotters? Sneaker networks? Boy, has it changed…for the better.
The Hebrew language is beautiful and colorful and it is amazing how one word in Hebrew takes several Latin or Greek words to come close to the same meaning. A lot of the time when researching scripture, I’ll read different translations to sense the flavor or intent of the writer. A Commertary is real handy too!
The sawmill’s action is so neat. I love the simple efficient mechanical engineering. Really looking forward to getting it on the layout. I think the grandkids will love it. I know I do.
Last night shift, just found out I won’t need to cover for my relief supervisor tomorrow night, get to sleep at night. Time for some popcorn, (I’m on break now)
Buckeye - for the better? Used to be when the data center was down we all went home and it was another guys problem to fix. Now we get to fix it ourselves [banghead]
Do you remember or did you ever use the IBM punch card “verifier.” You had to run your punch card deck through it if you had duplicated cards (you know - the ones the card reader ate) on the IBM “duplicator” as the “duplicator” did not annotate the new cards - ARGH!
Hey and who can forget those high speed “chain” printers. One mistake and if you printed one line per page hundreds of pages of “watermelon paper” (alternating green and white striped tractor paper) ran out onto the floor. Always loved the look from the data center guy when he handed me a few reams of paper with one line per page. Those were the days!
My first interaction with a computer was in 1978 and the program was on a paper ribbon with holes on a large reel like you woud have movie file on. As the program ran it fed off the reel into a basket where we would collect the ribbon and spool it up again. The processors needed for our operation in the early 80’s filled a 12 x 16 room, same operation today runs off 4 Dell desk top PCs.
Going for a blood test in an hours time. Nursey could not get any last week, have to take a hot bath and drink lots of H2O yuk!! Rather have Robbies. Bad news here is ‘the chancellor has just put a penny a pint on the cost of living’ SWINE!! He’s a whisky man, left that alone.
Got a lot done on the Chief’s tunnel portal last night. Also, I finally got my train videos put on a DVD and will be uploading them today if all goes well. First up will be the Polar Express with it’s revamped smoke unit.
Spring-like weather predicted for here today. Train show this weekend and a semi-formal dinner dance with the wife Saturday night!
Here is our Polar Express Berkshire pulling a set of NYC streamliners. I replaced the original smoke unit material with fiberglass insulation, and the results were better than expected.
Morning all. Rebel raid into Yankeeland. Sneak attack during meal with the Yankee leaders. [}:)][;)] Getting ready to go to airport. Jim, great video. Good smoke.
It is warm and rainy in SE Indiana with temps in the 60s today. It was so nice yesterday my wife had the windows open when I got home. I went to the YMCA for weights last night and for some reason it was not very busy:-) We watched “Lost” and found out how Locke got in the wheelchair. I ran the trains on the upstairs layout for the first time this season (an unheated attic). It was a good day. Time for the dining car to head to “Points East”. I don’t want Chuck and the rest of the Ohiozo gang to be hungry. I hope everyone has a good day.
It is a nice 60 degrees. Cloudy skies. Going up to 68 today, with a chance of rain. Yesterday turned out beautiful. 80 degrees.
Today, I am going to take it easy. I got my running around done yesterday. Very busy day. I am planning on working on the layout, later. I spent a lot of time outside yesterday, and never got to the train room.
I hope you PA guys have a nice lunch with the NC guy, today.
Well, I guess it’s time to board the Dining car. No previous stops at " points west ", yet. Breakfast is served.
Fife - thanks for the well wishes. I didn’t see your post till this morning.
All went well with the MRI yesterday. It is comfirmed, I do have a brain, wife says we have to wait for the test results to see if it is a functioning brain… gotta love women!
Wife and I stopped at Ashley Furniture last night, looked them up since Doug said they were good, and we bought a new kitchen table, 4 chairs, and 2 matching bar chairs to go at the island.
FORTRAN?? Wow, that was another life time…learned that on the Princeton University computer and a digital PDP series computer. Used to stay up all night with that punch card thing… Like to drive me nuts!!! Graduated to a IBM 3070 a few years after that. Though we still had LOTS of watermelons on the floor (a real gas at 3am!!)[:-^]
Cloudy today, should be about 73. Rained last night, and forgot the 'cycle was out in the weather. Guess I have my work cut out for me later…been so busy with the work/house shopping thing, no trains until tomorrow…I hope!
Thanks devil, but I’m feeling fine. It’s the wife who’s not running on all 8 cylinders, and she wants me to hug-hold-and comfort her. I simply can’t afford to be ill when I have to fend off raiders from the South. Perhaps she’s a double agent…? [:O]
I hear things are going well for the Rebel raiders who are are taking the fight back to the northern aggressors! [;)] Armed with Grits and sweet tea, our boys will see that the South shall rise again!
Speaking of the south, it’s getting warm down here. Supposed to be up to 85 degrees on Saturday. Nice weather, but we need rain pretty badly.
In train news, I broke down and ordered a Railking set with a Pennsy 2-8-0 w/ PS 2 and three Madison cars. I was lured by the sound and smoke! [:D] Anyone have one of these and want to share their opinion?