Johnboy - Geez that is some tough guys pulling thier own teeth! What is Boxing day ?
CN Charlie - That seems odd that the Queen is still “head of the state” how does that work ? Is she a figure head or does she play a role in the laws in Canada ?
Ray - How is your friend ? Are they going to do an MRI ? He should get one. An MRI is the only thing that will show any injuries to the brain. I was involved in a very serious car accident years ago and suffered head injuries ( yea I know that explains a lot ) and that is the only way they discovered why I was having speach, memory issues and a few other problems. Took three years of rehab to get me functional again.
Galaxy - hope everything is okay.
Ken - What is the news on Dave ?
Just purchased a 2664. Cant wait until it gets here. On the move front down to one room and a large shed. Geez I will be soooo glad when this excercise is over ! Then it is on to setting up the new YGW Empire ! Cant wait.
Good afternoon. Cloudy day with a few showers here. I wouldn’t call it significant rain, though, which is what we need.
Dennis, have you tried just power-cycling your router, or the laptop? When you have these problems, does you wired-in computer still work? I had an older wireless router that needed a power-cycle every month. Something about the internal software. They forgot to refresh IP addresses, which the network needs. I bought a better router. I’ve got a wireless printer, and find I need to power-cycle that occasionally when my wife wants it in the basement for her photo stuff. It works fine in my office right next to the router, though.
I started the project of building the scenic cover for my staging tracks. I’ve been putting this off because I just wasn’t sure about how to build it, but I had an epiphany yesterday and now it’s going to be easy.
Wow Humbus it’s one huge tab. Luckily my tab is under $200 dollars.
Nothing much is happening another than buying more freight cars. I was surprised when I bought a Micro-Trains ATSF XM it read Grand Canyon Line. So I researched this boxcar and found out on this website.
Not much of a day off.[sigh] Sue had to have some test ran today and I was out the door at 8:30 AM and by the time I got her med’s I was not home till 5:00 PM. Sue had a problem with her pankaties (Spell Check) year before last. She has some Pollopes (Spell Check From Here Forward) and they wanted make sure they where not cancer. So today she had the test ran. First they stuck a scoop down into her stomach. Looked around and next drew some fluids for the biggest pollope. We will know something in the net few weeks. Dr did say there is no cancer at this point.
YGW I have not spoke to Dave senes Sunday when he called off. We where all worried that he would not show up to work today. 30 Minutes before closing his wife (Not Dave) said he would be there today. He is going in for more test Wednesday. She has all so noticed he cannot remember smiple things and seem’s lost for words. Othere night he fell asleep in his van when he got home and his son had to wake him up.
One finger hunt and pecking right along here. The little Spring is cuddled up on my other arm so here I be…typing weird.
It never got anywhere near 50F and stayed dull all day. Maybe tomorrow we will see 50F [:-^] mmmmmm…just a coupla days ago we were at 80F and now this…[:S]
Got a bunch of HO scale locomotives tossed at me this afternoon. A bunch of Atlas and Athearn RS’s and F units and other such things…as well as a bunch of HO scale buildings. A member of our diner gang had a friend of his die a week ago [angel] and left him with his whole layout. This included over 300 lokes and 500 piecces of rolling stock. [:S] A lot of this is going to end up on Eric’s layout…once we remotor them and et cetera…
Ray: Well…[:-^] it kinda went like this you see…3 wild boars, 200lbs of mashed potatoes and veggies and 35 SRP’s…uummmm…[oops]`[angel] for your friend. Hope things work out for him.
Gidday Chloe, a hot chocolate please. Well her-in-doors lit the fire tonight for the first time this winter. It was overcast and cool this morning but by lunch time it had cleared, the sun was out and it was t shirt and shorts weather but by afternoon smoko it had clouded over and the temperature dropped rapidly, hence tonight’s fire.
I’m trying to vary them, just hope that they’re enjoyable and interesting enough.
Tonights visit is to Steam Incorporated, where we see their Da class diesel electric. An EMD G12, 1431 was introduced in 1957.
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Flo, I’ll have my usual giant cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
Richard: Gettysburg is an interesting place. 3 days, 58,000 casualties. That’s as much as we lost in the entire Vietnam war. If you have the time, Antietam is also worth visiting, and as I mentioned in another post, on the way to Harpers Ferry there are some very old tracks along the Potomac River. These are U shaped rails spiked to individual stones which served as ties.
YGW: As near as I know, the Queen is head of state of all of the countries in the Commonwealth. I think that was part of the deal for independence. Perhaps some of our friends can shed more light on this. As for helping you move, thank you for the kind offer, but I’m still a little sore from the other day.
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For those in the frozen north, Dennis really isn’t joking about putting on the heater at 60-70F. When you live in a warm climate like that, your blood thins out and 50F is truly ski jacket weather. The first winter when I moved to Chicago was the coldest I’d ever been in my life. The only way I could get warm was to get in a hot shower.
Dennis, nice to see you pop into the Diner as I too was wondering how you are doing.
YGW, the Queen is represented in Canada by the Governor General who is appointed by the government. The role is largely ceremonial but there are times when the GG might get involved if for instance, all parties elected to the Commons had the same number of seats, then the GG would have to ask one of them to form a government. Other than such a rare instance, the GG and hence the Queen, play no part in the law making of the land.
Yard work on the agenda today and general house cleaning, so not too exciting.
Good morning all. I’m happy to report that I played another good, solid game of hockey last night. I ws a bit concerned because it was my first action after starting a new medication last week. The previous one made me feel overall bad, but this is not hitting me that way at all. Score another one for being my own advocate and letting my doctor know when my body doesn’t like what he’s given me.
I’ve started working on the scenic cover for my staging tracks. I’m using thin foamboard for this. It works well for this sort of project, it’s very light and adds very little height, which I can’t afford to do beneath the angled roof if I want to leave room for the planned scenery above.
I’ve got jury duty tomorrow. Hopefully, it will be a one-day affair. I’d like it a lot better if they paid me $400 an hour and gave the lawyers $16 a day.
Zoe, I’ll have a breakfast sandwich today. The one with egg and sausage please. Oh, a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark roast will nbe needed to wash it down and keep me awake!
I’m taking a break from folding programs for the Scholarship Dinner tonight. I just got an email from the lady who has done most of the legwork for the dinner (she used to be a secretary at the college where we hold it and has a lot of contacts to get things done for us). It seems that one person who is getting a special award there tonight has not sent in a choice for the meal… She wants to know if the person knows she is supposed to be there. My reply was that I have never met the person, was not at the meeting where she was selected, and was not asked to contact that individual I have no idea… Not my job! I copied the President of the Committee in my response…
Pick Your Part junkyard has a ½ price day once a month and in my hot rod days and restoring old cars days I went regularly. They have a huge parking lot but you had to get there early on ½ day as hordes of illegal aliens. Its a lot of walking and if you can’t get a place in the parking lot its just impossible.
As I got older it became more and more tiring and I only go now in emergencies, I haven’t been for a long time.
I guess it should be obvious but its kind of interesting how over the years the bulk of cars there were in groups of around 10 year 60 to 70, 70 to 80 and so on.
I slept in a tad today. must get hopping here as I have to be at work by 12:30. So Chloe, when possible, I would like a Double Denver and an order of home fries with whole wheat toast and peanut butter and a HC to wash it down, Thanks.
YGW, CN Charlie is right on the Federal scene, but, the Queen also has representation in each of the Pronvinces and Territories. In the Provinces they are called “Lieutenant Governors” and in the Territories they are called “Commissioners” They are mainly ceremonial but do open the sessions of the Legislator and read the “Speach from the Throne” They would also be called on to parogue the government if the Priemier so wished as if they were in a major stalemate. very rarily happens. They must give Royal assent to any new laws that are passed. Then they hold ceremonies for the many different awards that the Crown or Province or themselves issue.such as, RCMP or Municiple Police Long Service Awards, Volunteer Awards, Architectural Awards and the list goes on and on. They do have a very busy schedule, about 200 days a year they are flying on the Corporate Jet of the Province going everywhere even to the most remote areas where it is about the only contact those people have with us in the South as those communities are fly in only. They are chosen by the Government in power at the time and are appointed by the Queen. They serve terms of 5 to 6 years, and can be a man or woman. Enough of the lesson for now.
Richard - somje years ago I visited Gettysburg and the field where Pickets men charged across. I had no idea that the field was so small. I was blown away to think that men marched across there and that close to ten thousand men lost their lives in that small field. Picket blamed Lee for the rest of his life for losing his division.
Ken - Nice picture what road are they ? Good news on Sue. Hope your coworker is okay.
Blown out - that is a tough way to acquire trains but nice haul.
UP831 - You know it is amazing how mony people develop back problems when I invited them to help move ! [:-^]
CNCharlie/UP831 -Thanks for teh info. I didnt know Canada was a commonwealth !
Garry - 2-6-6-4 I should receive in the near future. Let you know when I get it. Pretty excited. Did you know that a 2-6-6-4 had better steam at 50 MPH that the larger Y3 ?
Yay, I called in and they don’t need any jurors tomorrow. Here in Massachusetts, if you don’t like the day they’ve assigned you, you can postpone it to any other valid day within a year. They don’t let you pick Fridays, so I intentionally picked the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend. With luck, I will “age out” of the juror system before the next time I’m called.
Only real thing to talk about right now is work. I had a good day by the current standerds with a mer $2044.00 in sales. Sad part, I did $1,000.00 more than the rest of the company! That is really sad to me, $3000.00 a day will not keep this company a float.
Dave Front. Dave is in the hospital, which is a good thing. I do hope they find out what the heck is wrong with him. While I hope for the best for him and his family I have mixed emotions. I personally hope not to see him back. I have never been impressed by him and even when I first meet him I was picking up after him all the time! I think the company would be better off if they replaced him, and let me do the training. I have been a trainer many of times in my carrer.
What small up side there is, I have to work 6 days this week and will miss out on cutting the grass. I sure can use the over time, not that it is that much. [sigh]
