Nope. I can’t take credit for that. It’s an old Partridge Family bus from Johnny Lightning. I did change out the wheels on it though to take away some of the ‘toy’ look. The wheels came from a Boley GMC truck.
All in all it’s been a productive day. On the game front I finished with the walk through the woods, exploration of the killers cabin, some exploring at the airport (where there’s an Area 51sh type of shimmer), looking through an abandoned car, walking over the dunes where ATV enthusiasts have their fun, found an old motel, fell in a river and emerged from the shimmer at the airport. Are we confused yet?
There’s still more to go. I have yet to make the park and the abandoned motel. Oh you’ll like it. It’s a killer place. And that will do it for part one. I’ll need to close the file on it. It’s almost up to fifty sectors. There’s still parts two and three to go and we haven’t even gotten to my neighborhood yet. Oh yes, even though this is purely a work of fiction nearly everything in it is based on areas around here.
It’s OK, Richard, I will help you out!
Here, for all the “newbies” in the diner is the “rules”: {they are simple, yet profoundly elegant}
1} ANYONE and EVERYONE on these forums is welcome in the diner! There is NO “club” “group” “clique”, NO “secret handshake”, NO “secret word or phrase”, NO “dues” to get in! {we will, however, spank you in the birthday manner later}
2} NO foul language of ANY TYPE…INCLUDING the squiggles to represent foul swear words! Not even a “%##!!@” !!! There ARE children who read these forums, so if you wouldn’t tell it
Well, erm
We went for a long 2 hour ride to the cemetary in BAth to find out where it was and where MIL will be buried. Nice neat Hillside cemetary, section “V”. Took the FIL naturally. SHe is on the board for 11 AM Friday. SO we will have just a private viewing and casket closing early on Friday, then proceed to the cemetary following the hearse.
Boy, MOH and FIL can sure pick at each other. FIL thinks MOH “knows everything” and MOH thinks my FIL “THINKS he knows everything”. OCASSIONALLY, admittedly, they may EACH be right, while the other is are wrong. TRY to get them EACH To see that is like trying to pin prick a porcupine with your fingernail without pricking your finger doing so. sigh
I tell MOH you have to learn to pick your battles, and let the rest slide. MOH says, and I quote, that FIL “pushes my buttons”. i say MOH LETS FIL push buttons. I say, Everything is 50% what happens and 50% how you react to it. double Sigh
well, I am exhausted. We stopped at Bob Evans diner to eat ont eh way home. I said we’d pay it, and FIL said no, he’d pay it. WHen the check came I reached for it, but FIL grabbed it first and took it to pay it. I LET IT SLIDE. I picked NOT to fight that battle with FIL. Besides we are about $35 richer now. Maybe FRiday, coming home from the interment, I can grab for it first.
Now, off to bed for a well deserved nap.
Later.
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Galaxy- Deb and I extend our condolences and prayers.
Phil aka flip
No further progress on the game today. Tomorrow I’ll get started on making the subchart for the motel and park. That’ll include a few blocks for lake scenes and maybe one or two for the spillway. The motel will be a bit of fun. I’m looking at two floors with four rooms per floor at least. They won’t all be normal rooms. Some will have “surprises”.
One thing I did today was double the RAM on this computer. I put in two 1GB DDR2 800 memory sticks a friend sent me and I dumped the single 1GB DDR2 533 stick that was in it. It’ll only take two so I used the two DDR2 800’s. The increase sped the system up by a little over a third. It uses 1.87 gigs for the RAM, the rest goes to VRAM.
Time for me to call it a day. See y’all tomorrow.
Evening gang[C):-)]
After making calls and filling out apps, not much got done today on the RR. I did find out dome early release news on an upcoming model. Supposedly, a manufacturer will soon be announcing HO GP38’s in the Maryland Midland blue & orange scheme with or without tsunami sound. Great, I build 7 of em (4 Atlas, 3 Athearn) , and now they release them!! [banghead] More details at Trainfest.
Finally, need a headscratcher? A woman hits a train with her car, then gets hit by another train, and lives!! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c90_1381721438#F4ry9eYW5s06zodo.01
Nite all![|)]
Something I didn’t mention earlier as it had completely slipped my mind. In between programming sessions today I left the IIe running. I back up all the files just in case then lock the write protect. Well at one point I was out here in the office and I didn’t see the cat around anywhere. Well she’s upstairs in the balcony curled up on the couch up there I thought. When I headed back toward my room I cast a glance up there and didn’t see her. As I entered my room I saw her. She was curled up on top of the IIe. Nice and warm there. All it took was a dirty look from me to send her off in search of another warm place. I’m still trying to figure a way to work a train into Native Fury.
Evenin’ Chloe, just a hot chocolate in a go cup. Wanted to stop by, since I have this problem with getting waaaay behind on posting…
Jeff - for those who might be confused, I will point out that an Apple II (so far) doesn’t quite handle 2GB of RAM (last I heard, the biggest memory card for an Apple II - gs, not a II+ or IIe - is about 8MB, a wee bit smaller than a GB). Some of our new people might have ever seen any Apple II products (or perhaps know what they’re like), and that you have a bit more modern of a computer that you use for your posts…[:-^]. Sounds like you’ve been making good progress on the game. [tup][bow] I like what you’ve described so far. And for those unfamiliar with Apple II’s, there actually are some companies still releasing Apple II games (though most of the newer releases are for the Apple IIgs, the last Apple II in the series that were made).
Richard, yep, you should fit in well here with the rest of the Diners. Now, once you can get your daughter hitched (and moved out), you can resume w**k on your layout. Priorities, priorities… [swg]
Good to see some of our other (than me) irregular Diners back in again. I will try to respond more individually tomorrow. Except tomorrow morning I have CPR and first aid training at the office until 1 p.m., and then I head out to the doctor about 3:30 p.m. or so.
Oh, I did get the tire replaced on my car today (at no charge, which was nice. [:D]) Talked with the repair guy abo
Hey you guys
I got to go to the train club today. I got the 2 U30Cs I finished up speed matched to my other locos (2 F45s, 2 SD45s, 2 C30-7s, and an ATSF SD40-2). Ran the U30Cs with F45 6633 (I installed an older soundtraxx and LEDs in it) and pulled 1 track cleaner car with 29 coal gondolas and a caboose. I forgot that these U30Cs aren’t really as good of pullers as the other locos. I have the weights from some of the older U33Cs which are larger, so I may swap them out to get some more pulling power out of them. It’s kinda of weird watching them go up the helix. The F45 was on the point and it wasn’t spinning, but the U30Cs were spinning like crazy.
However as of late, I’ve been thinking of changing the speed curve in those above engines. They don’t start out till almost 1/4 throttle. I noticed my SD7 starts out really early and runs really smoothly and isn’t too fast, maybe I’ll speed match the others to it.
Galaxy, Sorry to hear of your MIL’s passing…
Jeff, do you think that memory stick you took out would work out in my old Dell. I’m trying to upgrade it to be similar to this HP so I have something when I strike out on my own
That’ll depend on several things. What type computer is it? A desktop pc uses a different memory board than a laptop or notebook. What kind of memory board does it have now? If it’s not DDR2 it won’t work. If the board is compatible (DDR2) what’s the clock speed? Some computers don’t react well with memory sticks of different speeds. That was the thing with the one I have here. I could have used the 533 stick with one of the 800 sticks but there would be conflicts and errors down the line.
Right you are. My Apple //e only has 128k RAM. The
Gidday All, Just a hot chocolate please Chloe.
Yeah Karl, but yours are unique. [bow] Sorry to hear about your Mike, I didn’t get around to it at the time, but I enjoyed your unpainted photo in WPF, showed just what work you had done.
Yes, it was on our evening news tonight, Hope that I’m not going to incur Vinnies or Galaxys wrath, but that’s why I believe in God, there’s gotta be someone to take care of the idiots!!!
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear…
morning coffee in the diner…
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!
Today is Wednesday, October 16th, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Today’s fun limmericks:
My neighbor came over to say
(Although not in a neighborly way)
That he’d knock me around
If I didn’t curb the sound
Of the classical music I play.
I told him, "Get out of my place
You’re an utter uncultured disgrace;
You’re a simpleton loon.
I guess it could mean, that with my tidbits I post every morning, I might be considered your apocrisiary!
I post them for fun, educational fun, Hilariously funny fun, and to show us all some of the words or things we COULD be “used to” if we had lived in another century/place.
I DO hope that it helps “starts your day off right”, {and that Like Ray {Howmus} that you all TRY to use them in a sentence at least 3 times that day! Tee Hee}
Have Brilliantly Smartz day!
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Off to work now guys, catch up tonight. I bought iphone last night also,lol
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and oh I don’t care. Surprise me. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59.
Light was a pain but it’s done. Today I will take one minute at a time. One small minute.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!
well, erm
MIL’s Obituary was in the paper this morning, Small, and to the point. Top of the page. Since there will be no calling hours, there will only be the private viewing for te three of us, so nothing to report to the paper.
MOH was in tears over that, as is the “first finality” in about 3 of them. The final two will be at the grave “ceremony” and tghe actual interment.
MOH is strong willed and will go to work today. And Tomorrow. but wants Fri… Sat and Sun off. to mourn. Has Sat off already. May already have SUn off to, won’t know until Fri, which won’t likely happen {getting the schedule for next week that is}.
So, now we wait, MOH went off to order the flowers this AM, and get hair done. and our friend is coming for a visit.
That about it. for today. I guess.
HAve a good one
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Morning guys
I’m off today. I don’t have any real plans, I might work on the intermountain DRGW hopper kit some more.
It’s a Dell XPS 400 desktop. I really don’t know a whole lot about computers, so I have no idea what clock speed and board it has.
Good morning …
Karl … I think your described one of the corollaries of Murphy’s Law applicable to model railroading. You can spend long periods of time building a unique model. You are very proud of your work. Next, a manufacturer produces it so other modelrs don’t need to work as hard as you did to get basically the same thing.
Here are examples of this corollary to Murphy’s law. Prior to Walthers announcing its first run of the Empire Builder, I was making my own. The dome-coaches were made out of Con Cor Budd domes and Brass Car Sides. The full dome lounge car (Great Dome) was made from a Bachmann Santa Fe dome car. These were used with Rivarossie Great Northern cars to make a version of the Empire Builder.
Here is an older photo of the cars.
Later, I painted the interior in the full dome to a more correct red color. The tan plastic interior did not look right. Here it is in a more recent photo. One of my Rapido coaches is also in the picture.
I have since added some of the Walthers Empire Builder cars to my fleet.
Galaxy …
The Chapel Car is still coupled to the DIner, and prayer candles are lighted. It is sad to read about Mrs. Galaxy’s grieving. Prayers continue.