Good Evening
32 now
I guess the best thing I can say about today is that we are still here. The Lions lost in the last 2 minutes, That’s the same thing the Red Wings do, just can’t hold on a little longer. So napped, TV, a little CTT and now the Banilla is ready…S.J.
Time for me to call it a night. I’m typing more or less with one hand tonight. Two fingers on my left hand keep cramping up and want bend backward, so I’m trying to use it as little as possible. However it doesn’t want to be left out and keeps trying to get in on the typing act. This results in more typos than I care to admit to.
See y’all tomorrow.
Howdy guys - Happy New Years!
LAZ - Happy Birthday man! God bless - hope you got something really cool [:)]
Today we went out to lunch and I had a “California Reuben”, which was turkey with coleslaw and melted swiss on grilled rye bread. It was okay, but not a reuben sandwich for me anyway. It needed sauerkraut! We then went out to see Sherlock Holmes, which was really good. There was quite a bit of train action in the movie and also action in and around some kind of train yard. We loved it - good movie [tup][tup]
TARDIS is ready, guys - so let’s hit it!
Evenin’ All.
Happy B’day Laz. [^] [B] Does this mean we have to send Buckeye a present ? [;)]
Started off kinda rocky at the museum this morning, DCS as usual. [8o|] Finally got the issues resolved, fortunately before the doors opened so the guests didn’t hear the language floating around.
Great dinner, all brought by the run crew, meatball subs/chicken Caesar salad and a peanut butter & chocolate with grahm cracker crust dessert. Oink-oink !
Truck is unloaded and goodies brought up to the trainroom, unpack tomorrow just too pooped tonite.
Sounds as though all had a good Christmas & New Years, may it carry forward for the rest of the year.
I see where the Chargers showed up for there last game of the season. [X-)]
Well, think I’ll shut’er down for the nite. Don’t know which is more tired, the body or the eyes.
Nite All, see ya on the flipside !
Jeffery or anyone. When you post on Coffee Pot and Elliots Diner do you type the same thing twice? If you have the reply to: RE: Coffee Pot box open and scroll up to the top to trains.com sites to try to get on MR you can’t unless you close Reply to: RE: Coffee Pot box. So how do you do it?
I assume you’re opening just one site at a time and to go to another site you have to close the site you’re on? IE8 and IE9 have what’s called tabbed browsing. You can have several tabs open at once and have a different site on each tab and simply switch from one to another by simply clicking the other tab. Firefox, Chrome and Opera also have this feature. I would assume Safari also has it but I can’t say. All Safari does on my machine is crash before it’s even loaded.
I use Firefox myself and routinely have nine tabs open. Each tab is a different site and I’m logged in on all of them. On the first tab is my own forum, on the second is the MR forum with Eliott’s Diner, the third is Big Blue, the fourth is Modelrailroadforums, the fifth is Classic Toy Trains with The Coffee Pot, the next two are are two of my many Photobucket accounts and the last is a text to speech application I use to listen to the posts I want to know about. I can read but I have bad dyslexia so it’s easier to copy the post, past it onto the text to speech application and listen to it.
Lets take a usual posting exercise for me. I’m logged onto all the sites I go to 24/7. I almost never log out. I keep the same nine tabs open all the time, even when I shut my computer down. I put together my morning post with it’s usual weather report at the top and a photo at the bottom and whatever I’m passing on in between those. Once I have it put together I press Ctrl-A to highlight it then Ctrl-C to copy it to my clipboard then I save it on my forum as a post in my forum’s Cup-o-Joe Trackside Diner. Now I click the next tab in line and instantly switch to the M
Good morning. It’s 42° here and the sky is clear. The high is due to be 59° and it will be sunny.
I’m up and around very early today. Just one of those cases of waking up and can’t get back to sleep. The cramping problem in my left hand seem to have resolved itself and I can once again comfortably type using both hands. My typing speed is nothing the shout about, just twenty-five to thirty words a minute. I have nothing in particular on my schedule today other than getting started on painting a junkyard scene. My neck, lower back and knees ache but what else is new? I’m glad Christmas and New Years are past. Now things can get back to normal.
Day two of this New Year and a few snow flakes are starting to fall in Central Ohio. Per the forecasters it will not accumulate into any significant amount. I was hoping to be able to get through the winter without cranking up the snowblower.
Will start changing out the locomotives on the layout, the UP Heritage diesels haven’t been run for over a year so those guys need to get some steel under the wheels.
Mornin’ boys. Chilly and blustery (sounds like a DQ menu) here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Back to the cop-shop this afternoon…hope the belt fits…
Good morning everyone. We had a front come through last night and the temps dropped into the fifties. Supposed to have another come through this afternoon with high winds and dropping down to the twenties for the next few days…brrrrr. Wife shuffled off to work, so it will be me and the kids for the day. I was able to get a little work done on the layout yesterday, but hope to complete at least one project on her today.
May take the kids to Hobby Lobby later to see if they have any scenery items. They were real sparse on the o gauge items this year. I have been able to use some HO items in for Forced perspective, but I need to do some of the bigger things for the closer side of things.
Picked up a book on Bonhoeffer yesterday, want to get a bit of reading done too. Hope it is a peaceful one for each of you…especially you, Fife! Hope the belt fits and that you don’t have to run off anything you worked hard putting on during your time off.
God bless,
Dennis
Aloha. Back from the train station after realizing once I got there that Metra is running a holiday schedule and the next train downtown isn’t for 3 hours. Sigh. So I’ll be ‘working from home’ today after paying for gas and parking… Ah well. It was cold outside anyway.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR…
It is a cold 26 degrees. Windy. Going up to 29 today with some snow flurries.
Today is a busy day. I want to watch the Rose Bowl Parade on TV. The usual chores to do and a bunch of paperwork. I will try to catch a short nap this afternoon. Most places are closed today.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y’all have a great Monday.
Chuck
Morning all getting ready to make some ham and eggs on biscuits for breakfast. ( Bet its going to be ham this and that for a while lol 2 people 8lbs of ham yep its a while lol)
Not much else going on today. Just a day to relax. need to straighten the den up a little more but thats about it. May goto the store for a couple of items.
Konbanwa,
It is 2300 so I should be off to bed soon but I figured I’d sneak in a quick post. Today was my last day of leave; it’s back to work tomorrow. I assisted my wife with some homeschooling duties in the morning (we had the kids start today since they were off for two weeks with me). After lunch we tried to rake some leaves but it was much too windy. We then rearranged the Princess’s room which resulted in her having more space. The kids and the wife watched some Little House on the Prairie; we bought the Princess the complete catalog on DVD. I made chicken tikka for dinner and that wraps it up. PSU’s bowl game starts at 0200 here so I have not decided whether or nor I’m waking up for it; and it looks like they decided on a new head coach. I’m not sure if I like the choice.
Thanks for all the safe thoughts on the earthquake.
Dennis - What Bonhoeffer book did you get? I have read a couple he wrote and I just finished Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. It was a great read; it provided a lot of insight about the German people prior to WWII.
Sayonara,
Joe
WOW I Feel sooooo honored today to get this MAJOR AWARD. TANKs FIFEDOG!!! Now I gotta make a fancy frame for it when I go back to school tomorrow and place it next to my OTTS Membership plaquard.
laz57
HI GUYZ,
TANKs again for all the well wishes for my big Bday. Yes I did run trains last nite for 2hrs. and again NO PILE UPs. Gotta keep the record clean. Going down to pick up my Bday gift to BARRYs this morning. Gonna get the Lionel Santa fe AC 6000 probably will run trains this afternoon. No Flintlock hunting today, because of the high winds here. Don’t want a “window maker” to come down on my head.
ANJDEVIL, are you gonna watch the Hockey Classic today? Starts at 3 in Philly, Go RANGERS!
V8VEGA, hope they catch that arsonist out there.
BANKs saw YUZ GUYZ out there were getting rain on Saturday. We just had cloud cover thats why It got dark fast and I couldn’t see my sight.
KEV and DOUG M., BEARS FINALLY WIN a GAME> Wait til next year?
Stay frosty,
laz57
DOUG DA GRUMP,
LOL!! Yes I think it is time to send BUCKEYE a gift or two? Speaking of which does anyone know if SANTA left one LUMP or TWO LUMPS o COAL for BUCKEYE this year?
laz57
I heard he was really good this year so Santa left him 3 to help him keep warm for the rest of the winter 1 per month [(-D]
Laz, You know I did not even watch. [8D]
Outright cold today 18 degrees right now. Some snow cover on the ground but not much more than dust. Cat is back in and went to bed with the wife.
Tinking of going to ACE to get some paints for detailing the Hobo Jungle kit.
Dennis, The Hobby Lobby by us has NOTHING for O gauge Zip. I did get some moss in the craft section for cheap and that is what I used around the pond. I printed a coupon and it was only like $2 or $3 it is called Forest Natrals Moss ground cover.
I need to order the people fishing figures for the pond but I will wait till I get something else to save on shipping.
You guys have a good day,
Kev
Can’t find my morning post, so I’ll just go with good morning all.
S.J.