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Snarky Old Fart (in training)
I can only word words on one screen at a time.Not enough screens and not big enough screens
And I don't use very big words.
This isn't literary fiction.
I can only word words on one screen at a time.Not enough screens and not big enough screens
That member IS a scammer and he was BANNED by me when I was advised of his scam by another member last night. There is a group of individuals on the internet pulling this same scam, using the same message and sending it to various forum members.I received a reply to my "wanting to buy" topic of Roundhouse Arch Roof cars.
Here is the message:
I got a message from Mallen990 as a local seller, it's my old friend and very honest person, message me about HO, Union Pacific Arch-Roof coach cars by Roundhouse for sale... Thought I'm still interested and I've get one few days ago, kindly check on him maybe it's still available... Here's his Email brokermills@gmail.com.
The message came from "loopki98".
I checked on this member and seems he just joined about 45 minutes before he send me this message. I am just a bit skeptical here.
I sent an e-mail to brokermills@gmail.com telling I was interested in the cars. I also sent him a copy of the message I received from the forum.
I am curious of what to expect.
Any input here would be appreciated.
Take care....John
What brand of beer?Good Morning All. Cloudy and 57° on the prairies of North Central Texas. The off and on thunderstorms yesterday ended just after noon and we had sun for a couple of hours. I had 0.9" in the rain gauge, enough to soak everything and make the world start growing like crazy. Read that as the yard will be overwhelming real soon. While rain is predicted again for Friday night, temperatures will be in the 70's for a while.
Happy that I had gotten the garden completely mulched except the most recent green bean row, before it rained. I have flowers on many green peas and tomatoes right now. I should be picking the peas near May 14 or so, with tomatoes (if these flowers pollinate), around June 1. I have picked as early as Memorial Day before, but that's just Cherry Tomatoes. Most of my Lettuce crop was lost when the granddog dug up that row, but once everything dries out this afternoon, I should be picking off the outer leaves of the remaining leaf lettuce. Pick off just the outer leaves and the rest of the plant keeps growing until it gets too hot in 5-6 more weeks.
I never really counted down the days to retirement because I ended up retiring early (63) and waiting a few years before applying for SS and Medicare. I sat down and made a spreadsheet one July 4th weekend and compared expenses, future income via SS, and retirement accounts and decided to pull the plug. Went to work the following Monday and wrote the two-week notice. That was 2015. Never looked back! They ended up telling me to go a couple days early and I still collected paychecks for about 6 more weeks.
Weekly grocery/beer trek day today. Let's see where costs are this week. Been relatively steady for a few weeks, but with very few exceptions, prices have not come down as a result of decreasing inflation. Never have in the past! I think that a lot of suppliers increased in the name of inflation when it was not justified, and are now raking in record profits. Just look at some of the financial reports lately.
I'm still waiting to hear from the hearing aid center about my hearing aids. Thankfully they worked out this "loaner" pair. Today marks four weeks at the lab for repair!
Spent most of my time inside the house yesterday on the "honey do" list, and I only visited the train shed late. Mostly puttered around doing odd tasks. I really have had the urge to do some kind of modeling lately, so I got out a P2K freight car kit to assemble.
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As many of you already know, these are not "shake the box" kits. I did one back in January which I documented more closely than here. This is the progress after the first 23 parts were in place.
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Alas, I did break one of the very delicate pipes.
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I will work on that today.
I have made at least 20 of these cars since they came out in the late 90's, and I recall breaking this pipe before. This is the second of four that I purchased at the train show in January.
Todd - Seems like you'll be renovating the whole upstairs. Amazing that the house was built in Montana with no insulation on the second floor. Unless it's a hundred years old or something. Maybe Guy can come by to help! He's only about 600 miles away, not far in your end of the world.
Patrick - I didn't think of it yesterday during the Meat Loaf discussion, but he lived a few miles away from me in Dallas in the 60's. I didn't know of him (never met) until the late 70's, but it's possible that I saw him playing high school football back then. He was a few years older.
Tom O - Yep! Being retired is indeed a full time job. One of the first tasks that I had to do after retiring was to rehab a couple of acres of yard that had gotten away from me the previous years. That took two years. Now, it's keeping up with medical appointments and hospitalizations.
Although it has nothing to do with either his birthday, death day or retirement, today is National Babe Ruth Day.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
You sound like my son. His home office looks like something out of Star Trek. My workstations look like flat screen TVs with keyboards.
It may be hard for you guys to understand, but some of us are happy with what we have.
I was happy with my Commodore 64 connected to my TV. Time marches on. I'm just slow to keep up.
My oldest son's very first MLB game was at Memorial Stadium vs. the Blue Jays...I don't remember the score, but the (Good) Birds won. As I remember it was a Saturday afternoon game with caps as a promotional handout. 1985 maybe? Several weeks later we went for Glove day, against the Cleveland baseball team. Again, the Birds won.It's so good to see the Orioles and Blue Jays games mean something again!
Fortunately, I'm not wording words today. I'm listening to my already-worded words, as I try out Google's AI narration for one of my books.I actually use a 40" 4K TV as my main monitor with the iMac screen as a second. I have an older non Hi Def 30" (2560x1600) Apple Screen as a 3rd off to the side for email and stuff like that.
My work computer is similar. Same model 4K TV (40"), a 32" 4K monitor, and the some wide screen but in portrait mode on the side for Slack and Email. It is in portrait mode as that is all that would fit. Previously I had a laptop there and that was the Slack screen but when the laptop was replaced with a small table top I had to get another screen
I did, I knew exactly the time my heath care ended with the union and the 18 months I would be on Cobra. At 61 1/2 I had 1 year to go. I retired at 62 1/2. The union paid my heath care for 1 year after I left. I paid Cobra for 18 months until I was 65 and went on RR retirement Medicare. It all worked out as planned and it's been good ever since but even with that my wife and I spend $13,000 a year between Medicare and the ARRP health supplement.I never really counted down the days to retirement because I ended up retiring early (63) and waiting a few years before applying for SS and Medicare.
I feel your pain on the Proto 2000covered hopper build.Good Morning All. Cloudy and 57° on the prairies of North Central Texas. The off and on thunderstorms yesterday ended just after noon and we had sun for a couple of hours. I had 0.9" in the rain gauge, enough to soak everything and make the world start growing like crazy. Read that as the yard will be overwhelming real soon. While rain is predicted again for Friday night, temperatures will be in the 70's for a while.
Happy that I had gotten the garden completely mulched except the most recent green bean row, before it rained. I have flowers on many green peas and tomatoes right now. I should be picking the peas near May 14 or so, with tomatoes (if these flowers pollinate), around June 1. I have picked as early as Memorial Day before, but that's just Cherry Tomatoes. Most of my Lettuce crop was lost when the granddog dug up that row, but once everything dries out this afternoon, I should be picking off the outer leaves of the remaining leaf lettuce. Pick off just the outer leaves and the rest of the plant keeps growing until it gets too hot in 5-6 more weeks.
I never really counted down the days to retirement because I ended up retiring early (63) and waiting a few years before applying for SS and Medicare. I sat down and made a spreadsheet one July 4th weekend and compared expenses, future income via SS, and retirement accounts and decided to pull the plug. Went to work the following Monday and wrote the two-week notice. That was 2015. Never looked back! They ended up telling me to go a couple days early and I still collected paychecks for about 6 more weeks.
Weekly grocery/beer trek day today. Let's see where costs are this week. Been relatively steady for a few weeks, but with very few exceptions, prices have not come down as a result of decreasing inflation. Never have in the past! I think that a lot of suppliers increased in the name of inflation when it was not justified, and are now raking in record profits. Just look at some of the financial reports lately.
I'm still waiting to hear from the hearing aid center about my hearing aids. Thankfully they worked out this "loaner" pair. Today marks four weeks at the lab for repair!
Spent most of my time inside the house yesterday on the "honey do" list, and I only visited the train shed late. Mostly puttered around doing odd tasks. I really have had the urge to do some kind of modeling lately, so I got out a P2K freight car kit to assemble.
View attachment 167274
As many of you already know, these are not "shake the box" kits. I did one back in January which I documented more closely than here. This is the progress after the first 23 parts were in place.
View attachment 167275
View attachment 167276
Alas, I did break one of the very delicate pipes.
View attachment 167277
I will work on that today.
I have made at least 20 of these cars since they came out in the late 90's, and I recall breaking this pipe before. This is the second of four that I purchased at the train show in January.
Todd - Seems like you'll be renovating the whole upstairs. Amazing that the house was built in Montana with no insulation on the second floor. Unless it's a hundred years old or something. Maybe Guy can come by to help! He's only about 600 miles away, not far in your end of the world.
Patrick - I didn't think of it yesterday during the Meat Loaf discussion, but he lived a few miles away from me in Dallas in the 60's. I didn't know of him (never met) until the late 70's, but it's possible that I saw him playing high school football back then. He was a few years older.
Tom O - Yep! Being retired is indeed a full time job. One of the first tasks that I had to do after retiring was to rehab a couple of acres of yard that had gotten away from me the previous years. That took two years. Now, it's keeping up with medical appointments and hospitalizations.
Although it has nothing to do with either his birthday, death day or retirement, today is National Babe Ruth Day.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
Bruette: Ya, C64 was a blast. Well, until the C128 came out! I actually started on an ISAM8080 with tape drive before the C64 - never did have a trash 80 though.You sound like my son. His home office looks like something out of Star Trek. My workstations look like flat screen TVs with keyboards.
It may be hard for you guys to understand, but some of us are happy with what we have.
I was happy with my Commodore 64 connected to my TV. Time marches on. I'm just slow to keep up.
I'm not too far behind, I like using TVs as monitors! I am still using only one per PC.I actually use a 40" 4K TV as my main monitor with the iMac screen as a second. I have an older non Hi Def 30" (2560x1600) Apple Screen as a 3rd off to the side for email and stuff like that.
My work computer is similar. Same model 4K TV (40"), a 32" 4K monitor, and the some wide screen but in portrait mode on the side for Slack and Email. It is in portrait mode as that is all that would fit. Previously I had a laptop there and that was the Slack screen but when the laptop was replaced with a small table top I had to get another screen
There's more than 1 kind of beer? hint (sierra nevada)What brand of beer?
Mike CGW
My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99, I think.Bruette: Ya, C64 was a blast. Well, until the C128 came out! I actually started on an ISAM8080 with tape drive before the C64 - never did have a trash 80 though.
Later
Yes sir, there are two kinds in my book. Lager and Pilsner. Both Lagers but you get my drift.There's more than 1 kind of beer? hint (sierra Nevada)
Willie: Yup, almost 100YO. Until the EPA got involved with restrictions on smoke from the chimney you could have a wood stove that you could really stop down to keep the place heated. There was baseboard heat up there so ya didn't freeze, but as the electrical rates kept going up and up ... we chose to get rid of them and just give the kids electric blankets and such. That actually kept them downstairs for the most part where we could interact with them. Insulation between the 1st and 2nd floor is pretty heavy so the 1st floor keeps heat for the most part; goes up the stairway and we loose some cuz of that. We are looking at new windows on the 1st floor.Good Morning All. Cloudy and 57° on the prairies of North Central Texas. The off and on thunderstorms yesterday ended just after noon and we had sun for a couple of hours. I had 0.9" in the rain gauge, enough to soak everything and make the world start growing like crazy. Read that as the yard will be overwhelming real soon. While rain is predicted again for Friday night, temperatures will be in the 70's for a while.
Happy that I had gotten the garden completely mulched except the most recent green bean row, before it rained. I have flowers on many green peas and tomatoes right now. I should be picking the peas near May 14 or so, with tomatoes (if these flowers pollinate), around June 1. I have picked as early as Memorial Day before, but that's just Cherry Tomatoes. Most of my Lettuce crop was lost when the granddog dug up that row, but once everything dries out this afternoon, I should be picking off the outer leaves of the remaining leaf lettuce. Pick off just the outer leaves and the rest of the plant keeps growing until it gets too hot in 5-6 more weeks.
I never really counted down the days to retirement because I ended up retiring early (63) and waiting a few years before applying for SS and Medicare. I sat down and made a spreadsheet one July 4th weekend and compared expenses, future income via SS, and retirement accounts and decided to pull the plug. Went to work the following Monday and wrote the two-week notice. That was 2015. Never looked back! They ended up telling me to go a couple days early and I still collected paychecks for about 6 more weeks.
Weekly grocery/beer trek day today. Let's see where costs are this week. Been relatively steady for a few weeks, but with very few exceptions, prices have not come down as a result of decreasing inflation. Never have in the past! I think that a lot of suppliers increased in the name of inflation when it was not justified, and are now raking in record profits. Just look at some of the financial reports lately.
I'm still waiting to hear from the hearing aid center about my hearing aids. Thankfully they worked out this "loaner" pair. Today marks four weeks at the lab for repair!
Spent most of my time inside the house yesterday on the "honey do" list, and I only visited the train shed late. Mostly puttered around doing odd tasks. I really have had the urge to do some kind of modeling lately, so I got out a P2K freight car kit to assemble.
View attachment 167274
As many of you already know, these are not "shake the box" kits. I did one back in January which I documented more closely than here. This is the progress after the first 23 parts were in place.
View attachment 167275
View attachment 167276
Alas, I did break one of the very delicate pipes.
View attachment 167277
I will work on that today.
I have made at least 20 of these cars since they came out in the late 90's, and I recall breaking this pipe before. This is the second of four that I purchased at the train show in January.
Todd - Seems like you'll be renovating the whole upstairs. Amazing that the house was built in Montana with no insulation on the second floor. Unless it's a hundred years old or something. Maybe Guy can come by to help! He's only about 600 miles away, not far in your end of the world.
Patrick - I didn't think of it yesterday during the Meat Loaf discussion, but he lived a few miles away from me in Dallas in the 60's. I didn't know of him (never met) until the late 70's, but it's possible that I saw him playing high school football back then. He was a few years older.
Tom O - Yep! Being retired is indeed a full time job. One of the first tasks that I had to do after retiring was to rehab a couple of acres of yard that had gotten away from me the previous years. That took two years. Now, it's keeping up with medical appointments and hospitalizations.
Although it has nothing to do with either his birthday, death day or retirement, today is National Babe Ruth Day.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99, I think.