Alcohol widens the blood vessels near the skin, which allows core body heat to leave quicker, the heat dissapating from the skin makes the person feel warm.
So, it is bad to have alcohol in your system if you are going out into the cold, or already out in the cold, but a shot once you get in out of the cold, might be a good thing.
I was going to snowblow the driveway this afternoon, but the wife had other ideas. I did get it done this evening. Maybe I’ll start taking down one of the Christmas trees this evening.
Quiet days lately. Miserable weather. I spent Friday looking at Lionel’s new catalog. I wonder what they are thinking. Most of the “sets” have some sort of promotional theme (Star Trek, Harry Potter, Frozen 2, etc.) and maybe one new railroad oriented one. Even the Legacy Line of sets are pretty obscure. I am Catholic and I would not be the least interested in the Cardinal set. I think the most obvious example is the Polar Express Acela set at $2500 and expansion set at $1000 more. There is one small ray of hope. The page of 6 box cars with electro couplers does present possibilities. I hope everyone has a good day.
Mike, I hear you, my grand daughter got a Frozen gift from her other grand mother for Christmas and like asked us??? frozen is so un-cool. Hard to try to live off of the trends.
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A few years back MTH came out with a “Cardinal” assortment of passenger cars. I was raised Catholic myself, but quite honestly if you looked up the definition of “Good Catholic” in the dictionary you won’t find my picture there. On the other hand, that MTH set kind of brought back the old “Home Team” spirit.
But I never saw it for sale anywhere so didn’t lose any sleep over getting one.
Aloha. Looking to get snow later today here - first real storm of the year. I think it will miss Kev but we may get 5 inches or so. Glad to be working from home still. I’ll still have to clear things as everyone else who lives here has to get to work tomorrow.
Fife, I have been watching the America’s Cup here and there - it is tough to find on TV and online - but very exciting - some of those boats are ‘flying’ at 50+ knots.
I got a kick out of all the liveries for the Acela. I may try replacing my conventional controlled Percy to make up a new Ivor (the old British television show Ivor the Engine is the theme of my layout) that would use Lionchief. I have to look more into what Lionchief requires power-wise on the layout
Flurries, sleeties, and slick road conditions in the Potomac Highlands. Fine by me, I’ve got nowhere to be. Going to try and stay in the train room. Didn’t have anything in the “can” for SPF this week. Need others to contribute.
cnw1995 - Everything Americas Cup is on youtube. The best segments are the ones between 25-30 minutes long, by americas cup. Day 3 of the round-robins was the best racing I’ve ever seen, up to the capsize. If you have the time, watch the December match races first, which include the Kiwis. BTW, nice to have you back in house.
Very cold this morning, 15° when I got up around 6:45 to get the boys up.
So they’d been talking about a winter storm (actually a pair of them very close together) for the past week that was supposed to hit today through tomorrow. Well, the last 2-3 days as things have gotten cleared they’ve been slowly dialing it back, until now it’s predicted by the NWS to be <1". You can almost hear the sadness in their forecasts as their wishcasting comes to naught. I’m surprised the announcers on the Weather Channel aren’t wearing black in mourning.
So I got up into the attic yesterday for a little bit, just to take the initial measurements on the first board. Need to lop off the end (it’s 4’ by 32", I need to cut the 4’ length down to roughly about ~40". I need to do this for each board), then cut it and fit it around 2 vertical joists and 2 angled joists. Got the sawhorses set up up there, humped the jigsaw and circular saw up there, will do the cuts tonight or tomorrow night and get that first board in. This one’s the most difficult, the others will be much easier.
Gotta push everything aside this week and finish this project the owner over promised. Just got off our weekly 9:30 planning meeting with him, I told him he needs to run blocker for me. Anything not a dire emergency can be put off. he also wants me to come in (probably next week) so that we can plan for the year.
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They say snow is on the way? Chains are on the tractor, Plow is on the Ranger and it is backed in the garage. If that don’t stop the snow, nothing will. I am ready Doug, your right, looks like your in for more. [:O]
46 and rainy. Now guessers say not as much rain as earlier guessed.
Cooked stuffed sausage butterflied and biscuits. Cleaned kitchen and especially the gas range top. Sat in den with Wifey and watched news and the All Creatures Great and Small DVR’s from PBS. Now to get moving and do nothing. Work tomorrow.
On the vaccine side. Now since I have Thursday appointment with WakeMed, State and County are trying to set me up. Interesting. BTW: Friend Fred is not interested in getting it.
They’re predicting rain around here instead of snow, which suits me fine.
I like snow at Christmas time for tradition’s sake, but after Epiphany I’d rather not have it, thank you just the same.
Say Chief, do you remember the “All Creatures Great And Small” from the '80s? We’re watching the new one ourselves and enjoying it, although it’s kind of like coming back to the old neighborhood and everyone you knew is gone, if you know what I mean. Taking a little getting used to!
Short weekend again, before too long, I’ll be making it a day longer.
Saturday completed my cleaning of the house, I’ll swab the decks tonight. Set up my new home off in my bedroom, just need to fix the desk and I’ll be done and then setting up my monitors and such.
Saturday night my Princess came over with her BF and we had dinner at a new Mexican place - which they enjoyed. Afterwards, we went to Jenni’s and played with the PS1. It was a good time.
Sunday Jenni and I ran some errands and made it to the Train Attic - got 2 shelves up over the layout - I’ll try to post a picture later - so that is progress. I now have some room on the storage tracks on the layout. I can put more rolling stock off the floor and on the layout. The shelving also made for installing the LED lights I bought so that worked out as well.
I have my $100 e-gift card and another $100 card from Home Depot so I have everything in place to buy the ceiling tiles and get started on putting them in between the trusses in the attic. Hopefully it will stabilize the temp up there a little better and
anjdevil - You may want to concentrate on adding more light in the attic. Remember the single fixture fluorescents at my old house. It took six of them to fill the layout with light. It’ll put eyes on the trains, and no one will be looking to the rafters. Check out Mouldy Raspberry on YouTube. Similar situation in an attic.
Roy - Good news on the downgrade trend. [Y] Do watch out for any rolling snowballs.
Flint, no I don’t but Wifey watched it back then. I’m guessing the young vet will marry the farm lady, the brother will marry the pub owner’s daughter, the vet will marry his house keeper and the farm lady’s little sister will become a vet [unheard of back then]. I love the English country side.
The funny thing is the Yorkshire countryside didn’t look that good in the first go-round! Seemed like it was always overcast and threatening rain!
We’re especially having trouble getting used to the new “Tristan.” The old one always came across as a mischevious little boy, this one we want to punch! Seems like smarmy wise guy!
I am ready Doug, your right, looks like your in for more. [:O]