Good evening all,
Very cold still in Indiana. Did do some shopping. Did a puzzle wife with the missus. Watched a PBS show on Florida railroading. Pretty good. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Happy New Year all! Had my black eyed peas and some pulled pork sandwiches for lunch. Chief, that’s the closest thing we have to bar-b-que. Saw the Rose Parade and the B2 flyover. Always impressive. This year they had a fighter plane flying on each wing. Couple or three guys I knew on the railroad were and have been float drivers in the parade for several years now. They have a lot of fun. Don, I finally solved the air bubbles in my pool filter system today. It was an O ring that needed cleaning and reseating in the trap ahead of the filter. I still have some kind of creaping crud. I think it is pre bronchititis. It is sore and inflamed when I cough. Will try to get some anti biotics from the doc tomorrow. My oldest son came over and spent some quality time with me this afternoon. His wife has been busy visiting her mother who is in extended care at the hospital following pneumonia. She is doing good and likes the care she is getting. Chief, don’t worry about me using Mary Jane. I don’t even drink these days. It will be interesting to see how this new law plays out. State probably likes the tax they will get. Lots of others will suffer sooner or later. Good night to all,
Ray
Guten morgen,
I hope you all enjoyed the 1st day of the New Year. We are looking forward to our upcoming move. The older two kids are not overly excited about moving halfway through the school year, but they are being troopers about it. I know the area is great and I have been to Quantico MCB for temporary duty in the past. The reason the AF has a presence at the MCB is because a number of years ago a BRAC decided to have the HQs all the military criminal investigation organizations collocated. Although I will not be assigned to our HQ, I will lead another element of our organization that is there. I have worked, trained, and deployed with Marines, as well as Soldiers and Sailors, numerous times throughout my career so this assignment will not be a shock to me. I do plan to attend York in the next couple of years and the house we will rent (already signed the lease) has a nice room for a layout. It’s time to start the day now and get rid of some things we will not need in VA.
Rob - We are excited about the move, but definitely will miss Germany and Europe. There were many locations we wanted to visit.
Chief - Yes, I know I am moving to Rebel territory.
Good day,
Joe
Hello there, a lazy day.
Slept till 730. Put the pork in the oven and went to Mass at 9.
Daughter and her crew joined us for pork and kraut. (She brought the mashed taters) Son and crew were a no show.
Spent the afternoon watching It’s a Wonderful life.
Went to visit Mom. She is starting to accept being where she is. Physically no change.
Started to write this last night but crashed.
Best get moving, Mrs was hoping for a delay due to cold but doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen.
Prayers for those in need.
- 15 Need I say anything else? [:S]
Good Morning from -.5°F Southern Ohio,
Back to work and the kids are still off for Christmas break. Did a few honey do’s yesterday, trimmed out around the microwave, put up a clothes line in the utility room in the basement, and one of those curved shower rods in the master bath. All inside projects!
My neighbor at our old house died un-expectantly sometime between Christmas and New Year’s day, may God have mercy on his soul. After not returning calls, police called and went in and he was dead. Appears to have had a stroke or heart attack and was dead before hitting the floor.
My bride made porkloin with Krout and apples, with mashed potatoes, and green beans from the garden, it was very good. After kitchen clean-up watched a little college football, then went to bed while the rest of the family stayed up.
Joe – How long have you been out of the States?
Buckeye – Good to see your post!
Got to go, may God bless
Jim
Morning all. Done with my visit to the vampire, Will get results next Tuesday.
Okay so not much going on here today. My Menard’s package should be here tomorrow. I bought four 57 chevy’s that are suppose to be delivered today but the tracking info shows them still in WI. so I don’t think that’s going to happen, the seller says there 1:43 but the package says 139 so I guess there going to be a hair big. I have a GTO by the same manufacture and it’s like 1/32" on each side bigger than my GTO my NewBrite And unless your really looking it’s hard to see the difference so I’m thinking I’ll be alright with these.
Not much else going on here
Cold as can be thou. 27* at present going to 36* they say, I started out the day at 11* thou.
Morning all!
25 and Maybe 28 today. After dealing all last week with a low level something (light flu since I had the shot in Oct?), I started coughing last night. Slept on and off til 10 today. Ugh…didn’t need this…maybe something I got from my daughter when she was here sick last week…
Aloha and Happy New Year! It is currently 0 degrees or -27 with the wind. I decided to work at home today when I got up to find it was -7 or - 30 aided by the breeze - didn’t think the car could do 12 hours in the depot lot… nor me either. Fortunately, I could make that call and tell my staff to stay home too.
I was fortunate to have a few days off to re-do the layout - I just wanted to bring the action closer to the edge when I run the trains. Same theme with Ivor and still a fat dogbone - instead of running around the perimeter of my 29 by 14 ft space, it is now closer. Won’t post a photo because I know it makes everything run slow but maybe I’ll put together a separate thread. . . Hope you feel better soon, Roy.
Love this software. Curser disappeared. Went back out and started new post. [%-)]
Was 11 this AM when I left home. Been interviewing for a Food Security Program Manager for the County. Back tomorrow.
23 degrees and dropping. Got to go out in the cold to Town Board. [:(]
Hope all stays warm.
Was 11 when I left early this AM for interviewing folks for a County position heading food security. Came to town at 1:30. Late lunch and then meetings at town hall. Back tonight in the cold for town board. Back to do more interviews tomorrow AM trough afternoon.
Stay warm. 24 degrees now.
Well went and got food and they called on the PC when we were gone.
$65 to get it back and FireFox is removed along with two years worth of bookmarks. Gurrrrrr!!! [banghead] Two years of bookmarks gone along with all those passwords. [banghead]
So now I have to learn how to use Edge and start from scratch. [:^)] Guess it could of been worse!
Got all dressed up went out and and checked on the septic drain. The condensate drain for the shed heater is fr
Good Evening,
Wow, can’t believe the cold weather you all are contending with. Doesn’t look like fun at all, and dangerous even. Its a little chilly here and possible rain in the forecast, but not going to brag on it.
Saw a couple of movies over the weekend, “All The Money In The World”. A good movie about the Getty Kidnapping, both the Getty Museum and Getty Villa are located her in So Cal. Admission is free going have to put it on our “To Do” list.
Not much else going on, hope the weather breaks for all of you soon.
Edit:
Did have a interesting New Years Eve, first thing the cursor on my laptop touch pad disappears. Spent 3 or 4 hours trying to get it back. Finally gave up, and we went to the movies. Then after the movies, about 11:45, the second thing; Chris called on his girl friends phone and said he just realized he left his phone in the Uber car he and his friends got to take them to Huntington Beach to party, and it has all his work contacts. When we get home we had a midnight snack and decided to go to bed. Third thing; Kay went upstairs, I went into the downstairs bath and found the rug in front of the sink was soaked! Immediately started looking for the source, couldn’t find anything, anywhere! No other water on the floor all soaked in the rug. Put the rug in the utility sink, and went to bed. So thought I would wait until after New Years to see if the upstairs bath was the source, or maybe a pipe in the wall.
Sunday get up and Kay tells me Chris called about 3:45 and Uber had his phone and arrange
Good evening all,
Kevin, you can reinstall Firefox on your own. I even use it at work (and it is ok!). Only software I use for the internet. Today was a train day. Got old Marx set out that got me started in this part of the hobby many many years ago and ran that. Ran the Alaska equipment as well. Got Trains, MR and TCA Quarterly today as well. Was hoping they would have arrived earlier so I had more time to enjoy before heading back, but at least they are here. Somewhat warmer today and still sunny. Tomorrow, not so much. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
quick pass through on the way to bed.
Spent a couple hours at the office today.
Considered working on the coal but at17 degrees I decided to wait for tomorrow’s mid 20s.
Feels like I have head cold coming on. I know Hot Toddy but not Rock and Rye. Somebody give me directions?
Night all.
Prayers for those in need
Mornin’ boys. [sigh] of relief in Fifedom. New Year’s Eve trains went off without a hitch, and my girls had a good time on the midnight run. Wifey and I actually flirted with each other from across the car, like we did when we first met. Crew did have to thaw out a couple water fill tanks and the turntable switch.
Then Monday afternoon the in-laws showed up at our door, and my BIL, the chef, prepared a wonderfull ham supper. The ladies played board games, while the guys snoozed. Then bright and early yesterday we all headed to Huntingdon for the funeral, then home again.
East coasties might get pounded with snohizo tomorrow. Batton down the hatches.
Good morning.
A balmy 14 this morning with very light snow but dropping all day to -8 by nightfall. [banghead]
My 1979 or so Craftsman floor jack gave it up the last time I used it. Bleeding past the relief or clyinder seal and won’t stay up so I guess I will have to get one. What kind do you guys have? Best looking one I have seen so far is a Datona Snap-On knock off at Harbor freight. Will out live my old butt.
Then swapping out that bad cruise control switch set I put on the Ranger a couple weeks ago and that is about it for today.
Howdy all!
1° on my thermometer this morning around 7:15. One friggin’ degree! I can’t remember it being this cold in a long time. And temperatures will plummet even more tomorrow.
Still don’t have a consensus on that storm. We could get anywhere from 1-2 inches to over a foot. It sounds like the shore is gonna be walloped either way, along with gale force winds and high tides. Apparently this is gonna be a bomb-cylcone, which is defined as having a pressure drop of 24mB over 24 hours. This is gonna be a drop of 40-50 mB over 24 hours. Supposedly it will get down in the 950mB range, around what occurs for a Cat 2 or Cat 3 hurricane. If this storm shifts westward 100 miles or so, we’re gonna be in for a world of hurt. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.
Have a good one!
Aloha all. Like Kev says, it is 14 right now and feels warm - compared to the below-zero air temps earlier this week so I went out to remove about 2 inches of snow from the driveway and sidewalks. Hope the east coast storm turns out to be nothing. My friends in GA, SC and FL are freaking out that it is so cold down there.
I’ll go into the office tomorrow and then work from home Friday - one of the car airbag indicator has gone off and the bride doesn’t want to drive it. I know it is because someone put a large heavy box in the passenger seat but it hasn’t gone off so hopefully it is just a sensor - a known issue with these Kias at about 100K miles…
DonB, what an adventurous weekend! Water mixing with electricity scares me. I hope everything is now fine. Quite a change from when you were out here a year with the layout-move adventure of a year ago!
More tinkering with the layout on tap for later today - getting the MTH coal elevator to work properly.
Afternoon all!
41 right now. We came out of the deep freeze fast today! Bright and sunny!
Worse today. This has turned into a full fledged cold I guess. Did not need this on top of last week’s ills. Another day on the couch…
DonB - that was quite the adventure! Good luck with the leak project.
Kev - interesting, my Craftsman 1.5 ton floor Jack also crapped out last year. I have been trying to figure out if I can replace the seals. It leaks down as fast as you pump it up. I was eyeing those HF aluminum jacks myself. The Craftsman is heavy.
Ran across a very interesting read on this bomb cyclone they’re forecasting:
Hurricane force winds and snow to head up East Coast in rapidly intensifying ‘bomb cyclone’