GOOD MORNING AND
WELCOME!!
The OLD diner is here:
Morning coffee in the diner…
GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Thursday, August 1st, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!
Have you ever ‘heard it through the grapevine’?:
Meaning:
An indication that a piece of information was obtained via an informal contact.
Origin:
Short version:
Information that is received as unconfirmed or more likely gossip, is said to had come ‘through the grapevine’. The phrase is simple and goes back to all the wires strung between poles for telegraphed Morse Code messages. During the Civil War many messages were received either erroneously (due to transmission) or on purpose to spread false info
Good evening/morning all.
~Alexander~
the Minnesota Transportation museum’s webpage says Helvetica font…
Yup, Ace combat. IMO, the Xbox 360 ones aren’t that great, but I haven’t tried assault horizons.
So where are we?
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and any of those turnovers that Garry brought in left? Oh good, I’ll take one. Thanks.
Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 82.
V8 Dennis- No, we’ve never had a professional carpet cleaner come in or give an estimate, so I couldn’t tell you what really happens once they get in the door. But I would imagine they will find a reason to make it not so…[*-)]…reasonable a cost.
Welp, I’m disappointed[sigh]. For all my hopes and not for the lack of trying, I didn’t get finished yesterday. Soooo close but no bananer.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!
Just remember, no matter where you are, you are there. So we got that goin for us.
August 1, 2013 – Today would have been my Dad’s 100th birthday. He didn’t get close. He was a heavy smoker by today’s standards, and passed on at 56. I never really got to know him as one man to another, only as a son to his father. That’s a loss to me.
So, Dad, here’s to you. I’m 66 myself now, and so far, so good. I got married at a late age, like you, and had one great child. Penny and I named her Annie, after your Mom. I figured that since you were the last of 12, we owed her that much, at least. Annie was the first and only Leslie child born in her generation, the first since your own daughter. For all of your Mom’s offspring, the next generation shrunk dramatically. You would be more than proud of her already, and she’s just begun her career.
No, I never made it to the Moon. Mom thought I would. You might remember that we got there back in the summer of 1969, but after you left us the program never caught on. The last human footprint on the Moon was left in 1972, barely more than 3 years after the first. A lot has changed since then, but I’m not sure that this wasn’t the high point of space exploration for a long time to come.
The nation that you helped defend back in the forties is still here. Enemies have become friends, and friends have become enemies. Wars have been fought, won, and to tell the truth, lost. The oceans that keep us divided from the rest of the world have kept us safe, and my own career has mostly been spent trying to guarantee that safety.
Mom left us almost two decades ago, but, well, you probably know that. She never really recovered from losing you. I don’t suppose any of us ever did.
Happy 100th Dad.
Good morning. It’s 77° with 88% humidity. It already feels like 86°. The high will be 96° and it will likely feel like 109°.
with a 
Got bill paying and grocery shopping to do today. Most of the bills will be paid online but there’s always those that refuse to leave the stone age and join the rest of us in the 21st century. No other plans for today but I’m sure something will come up.
Morning All!
Coffee and toast with apple butter if there is any if you please. Humm, nice looking new digs we have here fellas. I like what’s been done to the place [swg].
Still feeling like 50 miles of bad road today, but the work must get done. No sense in complaining. As my Dad used to say, “If you want to run with the wolves then don’t whine like a puppy” [(-D]!
Have a great day all!
Don
Good Morning
We had a flashkaboomer come through late last night that stayed with us for a few hours dumping a lot of rain on our’n heads here…our raingauge shows all of 3" here…:o
Getting some more paperwork done for work today…finish the lot tomorrow and then off for a week…
Have a good one!!
Morning All,
Currently it is 60 with an expected high of 87, should be a nice day. Too bad I have to w**k. It is Thursday so Skype with my son tonight. I forget who asked about him, but her is some background. He lives in Australia at the present time, there on some kind of Visa. He is a assistant manager of a pizza shop. Moved there to be with a young lady he went to high school with. None of us were real happy when he decided to go there in 2011, especially my late wife. He was able to make it back and spend a few weeks with her before she passed away in November.
Was able to accomplish quite a bit yesterday. I got the seventh UP5 panel wired to the rest of them. Cooked a few meals, did laundry, and some vacuuming. Made some calls to relatives I had not spoken to in some time.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
MisterBeasley - Well said, and a fine tribute to your Dad. I’ll be 73 in a few months, and it seems the older I get, the more I think of and appreciate my folks, grand parents and other relatives who have passed on. Boy, did they all give me such great memories. As a kid, we didn’t have much, but nobody had a better childhood than I did. Thanks to them all.
Mornin’ everyone!
Zoe, I see the place got freshened up overnight! Guess I’ll have a mug of my dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed donuts to start with.
Mr. Beasley, a touching and fitting tribute to your dad. My Dad would be 100 on September 3rd. Mine was lucky to live a long and good life. Died at the age of 88 and was healthy right up up to his heart attack.
Tom, you are very right. History is wated on the young. You have to have lived a lot of it yourself before you begin to see its importance I think.
Last night I got an emergency email from the Museum. Somebody forgot to list a group that was supposed to be coming for a tour at the museum today on the spreadsheet so they needed someone to open up and give them the tour when they arrived by trackcar. I waited a couple hours and emailed the guy who is in charge of scheduling people to work and said i would go out since nobody else had volunteered. Got up at 7AM this morning to be able to leave on tme to get there. Just as I was heading out the door I got a phone message saying the group canceled due to the rain this morning. So I went back to bed for an hour and a half and just got up…
Still haven’t heard anything on the iMac problem… Hope they get in touch soon!
Later!
73
your font is probably right then, I got mine from a random Internet search I did at least a year ago. [(-D]
I love assault horizon, I have a couple WWII sims as well. My favorite Ace combat though has to AC 5.
Alex those are lovely Amtrak units, now if only they were in N scale.
I’m a bit out of the N-scale loop, arent’ there any F7’s in N Scale? Or no Amtrak ones?
Fri.85 Sat. 87 Sun.87 Those temps are for the valley, I saw on TV it has been below 80 in downtown Los Angeles for 10 days straight. I’ll take it, its usually roasting hot this time of year. What happened to so called global warming?
I always read the old Diners so if your one of the last posters you didn’t post in vain it still got read.
There are F units, lots of them are made by Kato currently Bachmann did some (way before I was a model railroader probably when I was playing roundy round with my HO scale GP38-2).
This is the one F-unit I own… It keeps company with my E units, 
well
only 67F at the airport high on the hill where it is cooler. Probably not much ore warmer down here in the valley.
Well, the Dr.s office called about my right hip MRI. Not so good. It seems I have bursitis, tendonitis and a major tear that an orthopedist needs to examine and maybe{?} repair. So, I wasn’t just whistling dixie about the pain it was causing me. The tear that brings tears!
Finally got laundry caught up. Been neglecting it and the dishes to favor the hip by staying off of it completely. Now feeling better, but that’s because I have been off it so much. WIll find out the 10 th when we go to to a festival how much it has “healed” {which apparently ti won’t} then and IF I can stand to be on it for a few hours. If it gives me grief, I now know why!
MOH at work. Spent 2.5 hours yesterdayh filling out an online application for another part time job. THey take so long online. They want one to upload one’s resume, but then require one to tediously fill in the blanks for all the info on the resume!!! MOH is kinda hoping fo the job. WHy upload the resume if they aren’t going to use it???
Well, got to go rest the hip some more.
HAve a good evning.
Broiled dead pig parts is dinner.
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