Our club is having an open house. I’ve been working on the project for about 3 weeks. Now it is down to the deadline. Tomorrow Night. My task to build a passenger terminal out of the plywood empire.
Tuesday I worked on the project until 4:45 AM.
Last Night it was until 5AM
Tonight I finished–at least as far as I can get it, at 11:45.
The more I did for the club, the more I wanted to work on stuff for my own layout.
Now if I can just decide what to do first.
May I suggest two things ?
Keep your promises to your club. While that may mean you have to postpone work on your own layout, your clubmates are counting on you to come through with what you promised to do for them. You can count this as practice for work you plan to do on your own layout.
Do what you enjoy most — beit work for your layout or for the club. If you really enjoy model railroading, does it really matter if the work you do is for yourself or for your club ? Either way, you can find joy in the work and satisfaction that others can appreciate your efforts and skills.
From the photos you’ve posted of your work, your clubmates had better appreciate your work. [swg] Its quite incredible !!! [^]
Oh, thank goodness I mis-interpreted the title of this thread! I though you’d overdosed on trains, and you were going to switch to professional wrestling.
Even worse, he might go “public” with his other hobby…![:0][swg][(-D]
Unfortunately, Cowboys season is just over out here. It would be great to to don my Duds and blast stuff…
Hmm, I see a major drawback to Chip switching careers. Somehow, I don’t think “Spacemouse” would make a very convincing WWF name. (The WWF jocks would have a field day with that one.)
Tom
They’d be toast… Disintegration rays are nothing to trifle with.
i was wondering where you were chip . take a couple days off , get some sleep , then head back to the basement . remember that any model railroading experience you gain , if it’s on your own layout or on your club’s , makes you a better modeller in the end . and hey … where’s the pictures of the passenger terminal ? [:D]
I was beginning to worry about you Chip. Plus I have not been getting my daily dose of SpaceMouse wit that I’ve become accustomed to. I second the advise to do the club stuff first for the reasons chateauricher said. I sometimes feel that life is conspiring against me to prevent me from working on the layout. Remember it is not a race to the finish, its a hobby (and a great one to)!
BTW, is that a Black Powder pistol you are sporting there. Great stuff! I had a very good friend (Scoutmaster of my son’s Boy Scout Troop) when I lived in Waverly, NY that was big into the North - South Skirmish Assoc. On occasion he let me fire his 58 calliber Civil War long rifle. My favorite though was shooting a Revolutionary War Flintlock that a guy used to bring out to camp for Black Powder demos. Next to the smell of coal gas and steam from a Real Loco, the roar and smell of black powder going off is a rush!
Hey Yankee, doncha mean a .58 caliber “war of northern aggression” long rifle?"
Seriously, I live near the Civil War museum in Harrisburg and we literally have had protesters out front who boycott it because it’s the ‘civil war’ museum. As a native southerner myself, I feel I’m allowed to say “get over it already”…
As to something on-topic. I agree with the very first response. to our OP, I say: Yes, keep your promises to your club, but use this experience to consider what you promise in the future - I definitely think keeping club/personal time well balanced is key.
That’s a '58 Remmington cap and ball. But that’s not me. That’s a friend of mine Wild Bill Blackerby. Here’s what I look like. I’m Sage, a Baluey Pilot (Ultra Secret Model)
http://www.chipengelmann.com/Grips/CoolPhotos/SageHead1.jpg
And here’s a standard UB-1Baluey piloted by Sweetwater Jack.
And here’s mine, the UB-1-2 Balhawk
Chip,
Wait a minute! Didn’t I see your picture hang up at the post office…???
Tom
I thought it was you in disguise! Sure looks like a lot of Baluey to me!
kchronister, one thing for sure, it wasn’t really that “civil”.
OK, back to MR. I gotta go turn a light down in the Blue Ice office.
This was fun. And to think that some of our members would have howled at about the third reply!! Tcchh!
Chip, where is the silver tooth?
Yeh! I caught that one too! LOL
I didn’t get it. Would one of you kind souls please email me an explanation.
My wife put it very well after I explained a Far Side to her. (She always had trougle with Larsen.) She said:
Jokes are funnier if you get them.
Wow, now we know what the mouser looks like. Furry, but a lil bit bigger than I thought.
Chip, my first remark was in reference to the recent off-topic rants. The one about the silver tooth is about your silver-toothed grin…where is it?!! Where is that, “I’m gonna kick your butt!” grin?
Spud (aka potato mtn.) Mouse:
So Now your a regular ‘Wild Bill’ Hiccup, already? Have you viseted Gettysburg yet?