Good evening all,
Busier day than expected today. Pain two is gone for 4 weeks plus for some medical stuff. Peace and tranquility! The puzzle is 1000 pieces and nothing Saturday Evening Post covers (Norman Rockwell). No theme or continuity at all. Ugh. Weather was better. Did not go the complete circuit today, but more than Tuesday. No soccer with kids tonight (maybe 2 hour delay?). I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evenin’ Fellas
Been busy with projects at work! Very busy. TheQ worked crazy hours last week and I pulled single Daddy duty, and on top of all that I was able to work on the layout dismantle project and now have 5 segments out and the addition I installed that eliminated 1/2 of the walk area on one side of the layout. Just have the 4 segments where the 3 levels of track were. Probably have it down this weekend.
Have some stuff to take care of then I will start building the new under the Christmas tree layout that we will use throughout the year and take with us when we move.
Fife - that could have been a lot worse than it was. Hope the repairs go quickly and some normalcy returns.
Sucks about Mr Bakker… we lost another good one.
Hope to see every one at York in April.
Good Evening,
Had a good day. Talked with John Fullerton, accomplished some stuff on the layout, and experiencing a reduction in robo calls.
BTW, Kevin that is one fantastic looking garage, and very well appointed as well.
The Fullertons are doing OK, both are fighting the flu and seem to be on top of it.
I have an older portable DVD player that I use as a “Drive-In” on the layout. Also have a 19" flat screen TV in the train room. And of course a DVD/VHS player. So the task is to get everything to play everywhere. Took some doing, but had success. So its really cool, have “Gone With the Wind” at the Drive-In, and Train videos on the flat screen. Or the same thing on both. Really like it.
We get bombarded with the Robo calls, as many as 8-12 per day! I initiated a conversation with one of the callers, and they told me it would take some time, but tell the caller we are “renting” and not the home owners. So far this week its been down to one or two per day, and soon as I mention we are renting, they immediately hang up.
Unfortunately, another house is slipping off a cliff as a result of the mudslides. The house is a huge 3 story house in Malibu.
Saw the movie “The Post” last night, it is pretty good, really enjoyed it.
Hope everyone is feeling better, take care talk to you all later.
Morning. Seems Dan has got his layout going again. I can’t find mine. 17 degrees and 10" of snow. Need Kev’s rig to do drive and streets. DOT has only scraped one side of the street. Can’t understand why. [;)] Think they will be busy for a few days. Suppose to go above freezing today and then warmer tomorrow.
Later.
Morning all!
19 at 8 am this morning, but rising quickly and to hit 45 this afternoon! Yes!
Cleaned out some more file drawers and eliminated another drawer full of unneeded paper. almost done with this project. Also got some reorg done in the home office. Still a ways to go to get the non-paper clutter off the desk.
Chief - Yeow - 10" of snowhizo in Rosyville???
88 - yes, planning on York in the spring. Good luck with the layout deconstruction.
Mike C - I thought you moved away from pains 1 & 2 last year?
Don - we solved robocalls to a good degree. We no longer answer the phone. Calls dropped off after a few months. If it is important/real call they leave a message. Now we only get the calls allowed (by the do not call rules) by “campaigns” & “charities”. We do not answer those either. A “charity” that calls a couple times a week vs once a year is not legitimate. Just think, if we could get everyone to not answer their phone when caller ID shows nothing recognizable all these illegitimate calls/telemarketers would go away.
Mornin’ all!
Cold again this morning, thermometer was at 9° at 6:30, had risen to a blistering 11° by the time I left at 9. At least it’s going up significantly today, they’re saying it’ll get up to 31° by midday.
I think I’ve mentioned that I moderate the two main Rutgers sports message boards. Anyway, yesterday one of the members who’s a law professor on the Rutgers Camden campus announced that he’s retiring. All good up to the point where someone posted: “another pig in the pension system”. When I saw it, I deleted his post and the replies quoting it, then banned him for 3 days. This morning he replies to me: “It was a joke & so what if it wasn’t? I can’t believe someone like you is lecturing me. In fact, I can’t believe you are a moderator. Fruitcake” I resisted my urge to extend his ban to a week. Or a month. What a jackass.
Finally figured out this issue at work which has been hounding me since Thursday. We made some major core changes, and it brought the system to a crawl. I had to back the changes out until I figured out what was going on. Took me several days: still don’t know why it happened, but I had to restructure the SQL code in a different way. I’m good at SQL programming, but really, really could have used a SQL genius on this. I have theories on why this happened, but even though I researched it I’ve found no explanation. Frustrating. Well, at least I’ve got a solution.
Have a good one.
15 heading to 32, lots of sun. A heat wave for us!!.
Nothing new here.
Chief, by the time I could get there it will be gone! [;)]
Robocalls are big here as well. All are phone calls show up on our TV screen and if I don’t know the number I just pick up and hang up. Sometimes I will answer and act like I am a nut case till they hang up just to waste their time. [swg] Other time I will tell them they should get a real job and not be a dirt bag then they hang up on me. [(-D]
Spanky I enjoy daily a big popular forum city-data, it’s heavaly moderated. At first i did do some caustic posts and over time I have got quite a few what they call infractions usually for two weeks.
I am now really careful about my posts and still have got two infraction I don’t think I deserved. Some people get away with murder.
This has discouraged me and I don’t post as much as I used too. I am afraid of getting too many infractios and getting banned.
Some kids I think who are good with computers get banned for outrageous post and promptly rejoin under another name.
Last night I saw a really good program on PBS TV on artic wolves, I really like their nature programs. Wolves are my favorite animal. Their life isn’t easy, one starved to death, another got killed by a competor wolf pack, their biggest danger, another pups were found by a competor wolf pack and they were all killed.
Chief, If that’s the case won’t Roseyville be abdandond pretty quickly?? Or is it that everyone is being trapped and can’t get out?
Roseyville DOT at work.
And their biggest plows!!
Man do I have a buddy at DOT [state]. Made a text and 5 minutes later two plows came by twice. Owe him big time. [have a feeling they were on the way]
Snow melting fast. Yes, Kev, will be gone by tomorrow afternoon or Sat. 60’s on the way.
Staying warm.
Chief, They say above freezing next two days and 51 for us on Sunday so that should get us back to no snow. But 8 weeks or more before anything like you will have by tomorrow afternoon. [:S]
Good afternoon from sunny 34°F Southern Ohio,
Crews are still scraping roadways and walkways on the plant site. The kids had a 2 hour delay this morning as it was 9°F. Hopefully the sun will hit more of the driveway at home. The drive is tree lined on the west side so it does not get much sun.
I’m starting a management course the diocese wants me to take. It is an on-line course with 6 classrooms starting this Saturday and finishing March 24. The classes are a 100 miles north in Columbus. We’ll see where it goes.
Kev – I like your John Deere snow removal equipment. A littler classier looked than the home brew you posted pics of ingenious as they may be. The deer rack on the roof rack is a nice touch!
Don – I remember the DVD drive in from our visit a couple years ago
Spanky – Tyler is about the size of our Felicity; she is the oldest but the smallest. She is kind of a picky eater.
May God bless
Jim
Uhhhh Chief - they only scrapped one side cuz it’s a one lane road - aka Rosyvilles main drag!
Hi All!
Just popping in for a quick check. The “dog days” of winter are starting to kick in. Ugh…
Jim H. - Welcome!
Kev - Like the “snow plow” pics!!
Spank - Sorry, that was me on the message board. GO BLUE!!! [:D] Seriously though, it is frustrating when those blur the lines with the “right” to free speech and being a jerk (not my first choice of word, but ironically I don’t want Bob K. to give me a time out either!)
Sir James - I missed the meteor, but I enjoyed the latest D3R video I saw “elsewhere”. Rumor it is was you working the coal loader. I know the membership is closed, but if there’s ever an open house somewhere, I would be very interested.
Have a good one.
Rob
Yea that was me at the coal loader. Club membership is limited because meets are held in member homes and some of us can only accomadate a limited amount of people. The host can invite guest but I just did one in November.
S.J.
Dennis, I’ve been moderating message boards since 2000, so I’ve learned how to balance moderating what and how people post with the environment of the online community. That board sounds like it has over-aggressive moderation - I’ve run across that occasionally. Unfortunately it tends to prevent the forum from developing its own personality.
Funny, but we deal with the banning and re-registering a lot on our Rutgers boards. Those who do so are pretty easy to ferret out, and usually not too sharp on hiding their tracks. Posting style is a big giveaway, and some people just can’t seem to get away from the behavior which got them banned in the first place.
Rob, so you’re a Meat Chicken fan, huh? Trust me, what this guy did pales compared to when our board gets infested with State Penn fans. There’s a very small cadre that come on to defend their honor when anything comes up concerning Jerry Sandusky, or, more recently, that whole horrible story about the fr
Good evening all,
I did move from both but I am still close enough to hear them from time to time. And Pain two was definitely the worse by far. Finally got the puzzle done last night. Whew. Was a little warmer today. Work was quiet today, which is good. Went for a walk and it could be a lot warmer still. One last thing. Please keep my younger daughter in your thoughts and prayers. She has surgery for TOS in St. Louis (very specialized practice) and will have a rib removed to prevent seizures in her arms. This is the one who goes to the 500 with me. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Done
Mornin’ all!
This has been a draining week, glad it’s almost over. I could really use a full night’s sleep.
Looks to be around 10-11° this morning, thought it was supposed to warm up? Supposedly getting up close to 40° today, hope that’s right.
Mike, thoughts and prayers for your daughter’s successful surgery. Let us know how it goes.
Have a good one.