Don’t worry, I won’t be a slave driver or one of those who advertises what he’s done. I’ve served as a mod on about a dozen forums in the last eight years and have plenty of experience in making any changes to suspect postings nearly invisible. Just a dis-allowed word or phrase would change or vanish here and there and that’s all there would be to it. In the case of a flame war an entire thread could vanish if it were bad enough. Usually just removing the offenders post(s) is enough to defuse it. I’m just the same easy going guy you’ve all known. I’ve always been watching from the shadows.
You mean it gets worse!?[:'(][:|] I’m on about fourteen or fifteen hours a day now.[(-D]
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Good morning. It’s 75° at a mere 76% humidity. It’ll be mostly sunny with a high of 85°.
Nothing much planned for today. My younger sister and her significant other arrived last night so I’ll be talking with them today.
1st cool morning in a long time. I live alone and am wearing a shirt for the 1st time in a long time. 86 today, going shooting in a hour.
Jeffery I read the announcement at the top of MR but diden’t see it on CTT. I am new enough to computers I don’t really know what a moderator do’s. I see your a moderator of all Trains.com forums. Does that mean you read each and every post on all the forums. That would be a 40 hour a week full time job.
Good Mornin’ Y’all From Drizzly, Foggy, & Seasonal 60 Taxachusetts,
Now this is getting downright depressing. The sun must be on strike, mostly wet and dreary here now for about 10 days. The rain should continue on and off with a brief respite tomorrow, then back to the wet stuff for the weekend. Our Fall foliage colors are about a week behind DougM and KEV even though the weather misforecasters had predicted that the drought and heat from the Summer would result in an earlier Fall. Would someone please explain to me how my local weather forecast can predict a 70% chance of rain…while it is raining!!! That’s 100% to my math mind. Last night these same knuckleheads predicted a Winter with more snow than average [banghead]
Wifey was aggravated last night because she kept changing the channels but could not escape the debate. Being a resourceful person, she switched gears and went shopping on the internet. She’s worse than RT, HudsonJohn, and AF Ray when it comes to obsessive compulsive shopping. [:-^][banghead]
Gasoline prices are still obscene up my way, topped $3.85 per gallon and has remained there despite the fact that demand (from the Summer driving season) is five weeks behind us. Did you ever notice how prices climb at the blink of an eye but take forever to recede? It seems none of the national and international news is considered a positive influence on helping edge prices downward. I don’t know about youse guyz, but neither of my two (older) vehicles are economical in any sense of the word. Guess things could be worse, like it is for
Jeffrey you were a logical choice as you spend a lot of time on the forum’s. I’m sure you will be fair and not nit-pick every little thing as has been done in the past. A little slack can still be fair…S.J.
No, I couldn’t possibly keep up with reading each and every post. The mods work in all the forums including CTT. When a forum member turns in an abuse report about a flamer/spammer/or just someone with a bad attitude it goes to the forum mods box which is accessible by all the mods/staff. The report is handled by the first mod that reads it. There are also new members whose posts are under moderation. We have to read those also to see that they’re actual postings and not spam/ads/flame war posts. If they’re legit they get approved. If not they get deleted or the poster is notified to change the post.
Lunch Time:
It has been quiet here today. Mom went for her petscan yesterday and is waiting for her results. I am going over there after work to do her laundry, have dinner with her and spend the night. She is doing well.
Laz, sounds like a plan!
Nothing new on the train front.
DJ, Safe Trip. Prayers for Tyler.
Have a Great Day!
John
Lunch is over, meatloaf sandwich. [dinner] Was not free, Chief.
Leaves are drying off so time to hit the sweeper and fire pile for the afternoon. [#dots]
UPDATE 3:15PM, I did 7 loads of leaves and burnt them all by 1:30 and you can’t tell now and that is only the yard around the house. [banghead] [banghead]
FSIL’s birthday is Friday and dinner is set at 7:30PM 45 miles away. [banghead] [8o|]
RIJack, Gas is at $3.69.9 here in North Central IL.On the north bluff above Marseilles. Brian is taking the truck in on Monday for the repair job.
Prayers for Tyler and DJ’s family and those in need. [angel]
Mornin’ All.
Good debate lastnite. [tup]
Local TV visited our layout yesterday morning, www.k u s i.com/video?clipId=7796993&autostart=true , if they post the second segment I’ll add the link later. The software didn’t like the letters in the stations name so I had to add a space between the call letters. If you want to view the clip you’ll have to do copy & paste the url then remove the spaces. [banghead]
Jack, I won’t mention Ca. politics, don’t want to get us shut-down. CostCo gas was $4/gal for reg, other places it seems to vary from about $4.15 - 4.25 .
Feels like the heat is over, after 10am and the temp has just now hit 70*. [yeah]
DJ, Safe travels and prayers continue for your Munchkin. [angel]
Time to get movin’, gotta head to the bank then find some of those little flat batteries for halloween goodies.
Later all.
Good morning all,
Third day on walking this morning went well. I started off walking about 20 minutes each time and I will add to that as I progress. Yesterday had a low carb diet mostly with oatmeal for breakfast, one piece of whole wheat toast, salad for lunch and assorted fruit and vegetables for snacks. Had Chinese food for dinner but that is chicken and vegetables with a few boiled shrimp. Not perfect but better than some of the stuff I have been eating prior to this. Using cauliflour for potato substitute sometimes. Keeping bread to a minimum. No deserts until I find out what is safe besides Jello.
Pat, re carbs, about the only guide I have is the South Beach Diet book which my old retired doctor suggested some time ago. I don’t have diabetes yet and don’t want any but I have to change my ways. My triglyceride number was 411 which is way up. The doctor says if it goes over 500 it could kill you.
Jeffrey, congratulations on your moderating recognition. I haven’t seen it yet I don’t get MR but only CTT and OGR.
later,
Ray
Here’s a link to the announcement.
Good afternoon all,
IIABSDISEI (perhaps the last one of 2012), and it was a spectacular night last night. “My” soccer boys defeated their arch rival in a sectional game last night that was tied at the end of regulation, 2 overtimes, and the rnormal shootout. It went to the sudden death phase of the shootout in which our kicker made his shot and the opposition did not. The boys play for the title on Satuday. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Afternoon/Evening
Got all kindsa sun here as well as a good stiff breeze blowing…and, it got up to…TADA!!!..75F!!..tomorrow? Not so nice…
Had the CT scan thing today…hopefully it is all kaput…the cancer that is…
Might get to run some trains today…if’n certain HD list thingees do not show up…
cheapclassics - Shootouts? [:O] Sudden death? [:O] Violent game, soccer.
It’s 75 now, topped out at 78, I did cut the grass after all. it was too nice out, had to do something. No toy train news though. Banilla is ready for the thingy flight…S.J.
Evening all not a lot going on today. Short again at work ( manpower) Tomorrow is a 12 hour day oh well we’ll see how that goes. as long as I do my ot tomorrow night and sat I will have 56 hrs this week [Y] so that will make 28 hrs ot for the pay period = nice check lol I’m off the 16th thru the 22nd [Y] but really don’t have the funds to do anything extra like York. in fact I haven’t heard much about York this time is it basically a no show this year for the CTT forum gang other than like Roy and others that have a booth ?
well all take it easy talk to you all later
Time for me to call it a night. I’ve been busy with family, doing some work on the layout, moderating the forums, etc. See y’all tomorrow.
To Quote Fifedog,
Interesting news on the MR forum
Good luck, Jeff. [;)]
Thanks. I think I might need it.[(-D]
Tyler’s coming HOME!!!
Linda called me around 6:30 as I was driving up from Virginia: Tyler’s doing so well they’re going to discharge him tomorrow! Awesome news.
Unfortunately we’re not prepared for it as we thought it would be early next week, so I’ll be scrambling tomorrow to get this place cleaned up, to get a bed in his room, to get some drapes up, to get the whole first floor vacuumed, the rabbits moved to the garage, and, hopefully, get the carpets steam cleaned. He goes back in Monday and Thursday for blood checks to see if he needs a transfusion. All the fun stuff that goes with recovery from chemo will take place. But his coming home means they’re confident that all his innards are now back in the right place.
So now he and I and Corey can watch the Rutgers game against UConn together on Saturday. Granted, we only have a small flat screen TV, but it’s still better than trying to get it on the laptop in the hospital room. Glad I just brought their Rutgers shirts up: we’ll be decked out in SCARLET as it is not a “black-out” in the Spanky Household. (Apparently Rutgers is copying everyone else and having Saturday’s game as a “black-out”, even though we’re the “Scarlet” Knights.)