[bday] Mr. B!!!
Gee, 70 is only 3 years away! Then you can “fully retire”…so the 'experts" say.
WE WILL SHARE YOUR SNOW, or rather, we will send it on to you! Aren’t we all the lucky ones!
[bday] Again!
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Congratulations. I hope I can get that far.
Flo I’ll have the Monday special… Red beans and rice but instead of the sausage I will have the fried pork chop and a tall glass of sweet tea.
Happy Birthday Mister Beasley!
Lot’s to do tonight see yall later.
Jerry
Mr. B.
Hope You have many more! [bday]
I like birthday cake. [dinner]
Frank
I`ve had my truck in the shop since this past Thursday…new license plate light harness, inside driver side door handle broke, fuel pump, catalytic converters ( my truck takes 2 ), and new valve lifters…hopefuly I get it back tomorrow.
Today I tore down my two Apple IIe’s that I had for parts and combined them to build one. I put it through a tough battery of tests to check it out and it passed every test. Then the power supply went up like a grass fire! Changed it out and ran the tests again. No surprises this time.
Not much happened today other than setting off the smoke alarm. Time for me to call it a night. See y’all tomorrow.
Evenin’ folks!
Janie, I would love to get refil formy decaf please…
[color=red]Mr. B[/color], A happy birthday to you sir! You are now as old as I am… In numbers anyway. Hope you had a great day!
Made a trip to the LHS this afternoon and picked up a large box of Balsa wood. I will be ripping it to size to make the very large timberts I need for the King Post Bridge I am now building for the road by the Blacksmiths shop. I should have everytyhing else I need to make it. Looks I should get a couple good days to work on the projects. The decal paper also arrived from Micro-Mark today. Also bought a small electric screwdriver they had on sale and a cutting board for protecting the table I have been cutting stuff on. My workbench I have an old 2 x 12 hunk of pine I use. gthat is getting pretty weel marked up. ned to sand it down again…
The Finger Lakes Region is under a Winter Storm Warning for Wednesday until 5AM on Thursday. Talking 10 to 14 inches of the white stuff and high winds… could be a fine mess. Not only that, I have to take my sister to the airport on Thursday Morning! I need to at her house by 9 AM to give us some extra time to get to the airport… I will be watching her flight number on Wednesday to make sure it doesn’t get delayed or cancelled. Called her tonight and she was quite agitated and insisted that we are not going to get much if anything here. I read her the warning… Didn’t help!
Hope you all stay out of harm’s way and warm! Prayers for all in need!
73
Tue. 81 Wed. 84 Thur. 83
Happy Birthday Mr. Besley
I’m glad the page numbers are working for the moment anyway. I read Elliotts in the morning and in the evening and it easier to find where I left off.
morning coffee in the diner…
[color=blue]GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!## Today is Tuesday,## March 11th, 2014![/color]## [color=green]Healing thoughts and## Prayers for: Phil, Johnboy,## Ulrich,## Dennis’ MIL,## for the friends## and families## and neighbors of## diner patrons![/color]
Are you polyphiloprogenitive? {(pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv)}:adj. Extremely prolific.
Etymology: From Latin poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.
Usage:
"Polyphiloprogenitive Joe Fallon, the needy, breedy father of seventeen, or was it nineteen? I was never sure, any more than Joe himself."
Aidan Higgins; Dog Days; Secker & Warburg; 1998.
"All spring and summer my parents ricochet from garden to garden, mulching, watering, pulling up the polyphiloprogenitive weeds, ‘until’, my mother says, 'I’m bent over like a coat hanger.'"
Margaret Atwood; Bluebeard’s Egg; McClelland & Stewart; 1983.
Quote: In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
[color=red]MAKE IT A GREAT DAY![/color]
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Hi everybody!
I don’t post here too often but I had this urgent need to vent my spleen about some comments made on one of my recent threads. I had all sorts of nasty things to say to my detractors but when I read my comments I realized that they were just as petty as their posts were.
So, I’ll take the high road here and just ask everyone to think a while before you hit the ‘submit’ button. Like Bambi’s mom said…
Dave
Lunchtime!
I was about to turn in my order for the On30 track I need, but something kept me from doing it. So I went to the bank to check my account, only to find out that the bloke to whom I sold my old MRR stuff has not yet transfered the money. He should have done it by Friday last week, so I send him a not so friendly reminder. My order of track has to wait for a few more days [:'(]
Dave - I saw your post. A quick web search revealed, that you were absolutely right - your K4 is one out of the first batch of Bachmann´s K4´s, which did not look as good as the newer releases. Bob could have done that as well, before posting such a derogatory answer. As a former moderator to this forum, I feel there is a certain decline in ethics lately.
CU later!
Good Morning!!!
Coffee please. No thank you, just coffee.
Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Tonight, Rain before 1am, then rain and snow between 1am and 4am, then snow after 4am. Low around 29. Blustery, with a north wind 8 to 13 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Then Tomorrow…,A 40 percent chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 33. Then Thursday, high around 50. My sinuses are in an uproar right now I tell you what.
Mr B- Happy late Birthday!!!
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!
Well, thank you all for the nice birthday greetings. Help yourself to the chocolate-on-chocolate layer cake, and have some ice cream, too, if you’d like. Please don’t bother with presents - I’ve got enough stuff already, but buy yourselves something for your layouts instead.
Let’s see, mid 50s today, then a touch of…snow. It looks like the bulk of it will be up north in ski country, which is great because we’ll be driving up after the storm for the weekend.
We are required to take 3 ethics courses as part of our annual “learning plan” at work. It used to be that these were mostly just reminders to “do the right thing,” not something that most engineers have to be reminded of. In fact, most of the little videos used to illustrate the point were about managers pressuring the engineers to fudge results or skip steps to meet a deadline. Now, though, the message is “don’t expose the company to legal liability.” It’s not about ethics anymore. Following our corporate ethics guidelines won’t get you a meeting with St. Peter, although you will be in full compliance with Import/Export regulations. That’s what happens when you put ethics training under the control of the Legal Department, I guess. Something about foxes and henhouses comes to mind.
Good Morning All,
Back in Ct, back in the shop, back in the cold. 34F just now with a high in the 50’s same as neighbor Beasley there. Catching up paperw…k before picking up tools plus PT this morning so I’m a bit sore (obviously didn’t exercize as much as I thought on my trip). I’ll just have a coffee to go please Zoe.
A belated Happy Birthday Mr Beasley. Why would anyone put lawyers in charge of ethics? Really. I agree with Ulrich though the tne on the forum has turned a bit harsh again. As my wise old grandad used to say if you can’t say something nice…
Jeff That’s what’s meant by a smoke test eh? Sounds like you need to Swiss cheese all those power converter boxes. It would be unfun to have one go up when you’re not right there to catch it.
Ray - we’re due the same storm a bit later. Hope your sister checks her flight for cancellation before you schlep all the way there. Jet Blue actually called us last time the night before to annnounce they had scrubbed the flight one of our guys was on. Weather this year has been crazy so far.
If I don’t get busy shuffling papers I won’t get into the shop so I’ll catch y’all later. Cheers, J.R.
That reminds me of a warning I’ll pass on to all of you. We were in a similar situation back in January. We were flying on United, but we had booked our flights on Expedia. Fortunately, a friend who was on the same ski excursion had booked directly with United. He was notified of the cancellation, while we were not. Thanks to his timely warning, we were able to go directly to United and re-book. Expedia didn’t contact me, and when I finally got a hold of them they were still unaware of the cancellation, and by that time it would have been too late to rebook. So, next time I’ll do my search with Expedia, but I’ll buy my tickets directly from the airline.
People grumble a lot about the airlines, particularly when the weather messes things up, but I was very happy with the way United took care of us. I even went to their web site and wrote them a thank-you comment.
It looked a lot worse than it really was. Those old power supplies have everything sealed up in a steel box that has only four tiny holes, one at each top corner. I believe the idea there was to limit the amount of air that could get in while smoke is getting out. In this case a capacitor had given out and caused a large can transistor to overload. There was a lot of smoke but there’s no evidence of any open flame. The box wasn’t even hot.
Good morning. It’s 58° with 99% humidity. The high will be 75°, cloudy with some rain.
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No plans for today other than to take it easy.
Well, I have certainly been aroudn town this morning already.
Went to: Wally world, grocery store, CU, Post OFfice, Dollar Tree and Barnes & Noble, then to the liquor store only to get a lottery ticket. Apparently it is “up there” MOH says, so i amuse MOH and buy one ticket.
Lets see is that it? Yep I think so.
Now I also have a load of laundry in and did the remaining dishes.
I have been a busy beaver!
Now to review the budget for the spending I did and then to fisnish of fthe luandry.
It is a balmy 45F out there! I actuall took off my light weight Witner coat in favor just my long sleeve shirt over T shirt!
But not tonight/tomorrow with that blasted storm coming! Hopefully it is THE last “hurrah” for winter…then comes spring??!
Well, best get at my chores…
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Last weekend saw the famous ONTRAXS model railroad show in Utrecht/The Netherlands. Each year, they exhibit some of the finest pieces of European model railroading art - right in the Nederlands Spoorweg Museum/The Dutch Raileay Museum. What a setting!
Here is a link to a little video, showing some fine modeling.
Never mind the Dutch “narration” [:-^]