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The staff here is very friendly and able to serve. There’s Zoe, Chloe, Flo, Janie, and Brunhilda. They’ll serve up plenty of virtual food with a smile and a friendly “See any nice trains today?”
December 1st, 2017 - the countdown for Christmas has begun!
Good Morning!
Thanks, Ed, for moving this month´s Diner to this interesting location! I´ll be tuning into the web cam during the day!
It´s hard to believe that almost three years have passed since our friends Jeff left us. I still miss him!
No plans for the day, other than running down to the service center of my Internet provider to file a claim. For whatever reason, we have inteemittent connectivity issues and a loss of bandwidth by 1/3. I had to call their service line three times yesterday, but the problem remains. So I will show up at their place, all 6´5" and 230 lbs. of me, including my “fog horn” voice and tell them off!
Come to think of it — you can get Cheez-Whiz® in a handy aerosol can, why not this stuff? And they say everything that can be invented has already been invented! Harumph, indeed.
I hope those “sticky 'taters” aren’t left over from Thanksgiving!
Not much going on in my neck of the woods. I will be working on a DCC++ project for my self and the museum. Being that I am a tech tinkerer this is right up my alley.
I am not a sweet potato person. so i will just have a heap of hasbrowns.
Steven, Ed - caramelized sweet potatoes with marshmallow cream on top sounds, well, interesting, but I think I don´t even dare to give it a try.
Todaý lunch was filet of fish, fries and a side dish of some sort of salad. Great taste, completely unhealthy, but I don´t care any longer. Who wants to turn 100 years of age when 70 is not in sight?
The Internet problems continue, which means we are out of telephone and computers a couple of times during the day Add to that that my not so trusted smartphone, which I was given denies to work properly, which leaves us sans communication. Frightening! I am trying to revive my old cell phone, which is not so smart, but I remember it working!
Edit. The old cell phone is as dead as the Dodo, so I ordered a new phone. It will be just a phone, with big buttons and a big display, made for senior citizens, who don´t need a phone with an integrated movie camera, electric razor, stereo, refridgerator and who knows what!
Yup! found the new place, I did… Chloe, I think I will try a helping of the Carmelized Sweet potatoes with the Marshmallo creme that Steven brought in today. What, Just a cup of Decaf to wash it down with. I think the sweet potatos alone will do a number on my blood sugar which was already about 10 points above what I like to see in the morning already… Good thing is my wieght is back down where it was before Thanksgiving feasting. Still want to lose about another 30 lbs. and hoping I can have about 15 of that disappear over the Winter.
Will be getting back to walking over at the fieldhouse next week as my outdoor work that has provided a bit of exercise is done for the next several months. Should have more time for some Model Railroading as well. I have several structures I want to get built (and judged) by Spring. Need to finish up the paperwork on the ones that have already gotten Merit Awards.
Now [color=red]Ulrich[/color], don’t go getting the blood presure all out of whack and have a heart attack on us while yelling at the idiots out there… [sigh]
Gotta head out to Manchester, NY (next to Shortsville, NY where the biggest yard for the LV once was) to sign some paperwork for rechartering the Handicapped Boy Scout Troop I am commissioner for. BTW, The old roundhouse still stands more or less in Shortsville and has just gotten a major grant to preserve and restore it. Will be interesting to see how it works out. It has just been sitting there unused for for almost half a century now and is in very bad shape.
Catch you all later, but here is a quote for today: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain
I see Ken mentioned me twice in his last beer dispersal paragraph, so now I will be drinking with two hands, THANKS, KEN![B][tup][bow][:D]
I see we moved. I was lying on my deck lounger watching the action at Horseshoe curve through my eyelids and when I opened them to order a pina colada everyone was gone. You have to go farther than that to lose me.[(-D] Dinner and drinks on me tonight as I need to drown my sorrows.
Opened the hatch to the crawlspace two days ago and there was a foot of water down there.[#oops][sigh] Restoration and plumbers are on it, however, we lost everything that was not in Tupperware tubs. All my R/C planes and equipment and a ton of other stuff. The crawlspace is about 3000 sqft. That is a lot of water to get rid of. No Christmas lights this year. The restoration company removed everything and will sort it out and list everything and then we put a value on it. Insurence does not cover the plumbing cost, just damage, and contents and the restoration company. It could be an expensive fix. Once the water level is down they will send a camera along to find out what happened. I am glad we always have our three month cash in the bank backup on hand so the money part is in place.
Hope to learn a lot at our new location. Whoops! Didn’t realize it was so late. Have to go get Daughter at school and take her to the horse for her lesson.
Yeah I can concur with that statement. Back last August in 2016 we had what was deemed the “Great Flood of 2016” here in Louisiana… displaced many people who had to take up residence in hotels or friends houses that didn’t flood. My house was spared but my “shed” or storage building was not with 6 inches of water coming in long enough to cause all the sheet rock and insulation to be torn out. But it was a blessing and curse because we discovered that the back half of the building was about to collapse due to rotting studs… we just finished that remediation project which too a while because of the extremely wet summer we had. But I am now quite experienced in reframing buildings without causing collapse. I would build about 4 tp 8 feet of wall studs top and bottom plate the jack it into place. Some of the club members are still not done working on their houses and the club itself is finally back in operating condition due to the water saturating everything from about 6 inches below the layout.
My sympathies go out to those affected by all the violent weather this year especially those affected by the likes of Harvey and such.
By the by, is the diner a dining car??? If so is it an observation too? Or is it a dome? If either I’ll take a nice big cup of hot peppermint lavender tea on the observation platform thank you. (Just make sure I don’t doze off and end up over the railing.
In my first apartment after college, I ended up with a flood in one bedroom. I don’t remember if it was a bad window or what the issue was (that was many many moons ago). Not to go into the major issues that resulted, but I ended up with my F-unit getting a little wet and I had to redo some of the lettering as it existed at the time. (The shell has been changed at least once and the lettering has changed a couple of times. However, there are parts of that engine that were part of it at that time. As a result of playing with that engine and changing components, I have gotten pretty good at assembling and disassembling Athearn BB 4-axle units. Half or 15 of my 30 engines are Athearn BB 4-axle units.)
