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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    TomO: Geesh, now ima hungry. In your planning, instead of the ferry Seattle to Bremerton, then down 101 - if you have time, go up to Mukilteo ( I5 ) then take the ferry to Whidbey Island. Up the Island to Fort Casey then the Ferry to Port Townsend. SR20 takes you to US101 of which you can either...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Wow, seems like a lot. Well, ~10% of the 23,000 current. Just remember it is a layoff, not termination. Kaiser did between 5% and 10% when needed every week on Monday manpower. Took me about 2 years before I moved up the pecking order and then didn't worry about it. Hmm, guess I didn't worry...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 56F @ 59% clear, to be near 90F later. To hot to do outside stuff, so bout noon will come inside and putter around. I sprung for 3rd Plan It as I need to see the different elevations of which XtrackCad does not do well at all. 3PI has rubber banding for tracks ( and other...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Sorry for your loss. It does provide some closure, so hang in there. L8r
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 65F @ 66% and clear. Still doing good abet a little slow. We ordered a Kardio Moble device last week as it was decided to monitor me a little closer. Got the $128 one with case. Came yesterday and when we went to download the Kardio App this morning, V/MC wanted. On top of...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Afternoon All! 79F @ 33% partly with wind. Geesh, 5 pages of the Shop just now. That will teach me NOT to go to the ER. Went in with low BP ( 103/67 ) and the heart moving around in its cage adding and skipping beats here and there. 1st thing ER did was to tell me that I had 'congestive...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 55F @78% cloudy Even though ima day late the 4th went off very quiet. Started raining about 2100 which here is just after dark. This was probably a good thing as it still is pretty dry here. There were not any loud boom/bangs in our neighborhood and not that many crackers...
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    My Railroad Empire HolzValley (Still Under Construction... Forever)

    Guys, L8r is a shortcut for Later.....I be Todd or CtcLibby; hey you plus some others sometimes works.
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    Are you happy with the scale you picked vs the space you have?

    Bushel: I am probably like some of the folks here - N is just to small. I did N for awhile way back when but the products available were lacking; then I found out that my eyesight was getting worse. So HO. Look into actually doing a 'givens and druthers' type of list. This will help you whittle...
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    A Beginner's Journey Pt 2

    Soldering is an art. The more you do, the better it will be and the more you will enjoy it. There are a ton of 'how to' things on the web. #1 thing to remember - materials and solder tip are hospital clean. #2 is proper heat. Play around with the heat for awhile. You will get better. L8r
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Ya, good ole windoz. I had this issue more than a few years ago with 3rd party machines. When I switched to all Dell products, you don't even need to enter a key on an original or wipe and reload. Think HP is the same. Go figure. Enjoy playing with trains! L8r
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 52F @ 54% bang, boom - happy 4th and USA's apparent birthday. Finally saw a fawn yesterday, twins this morning. Too far away for pix, I will work on it. Way later than usual. We did have a very fat doe which was probably triplets. Problem with that is 'no tit for tat'. Was...
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    A Beginner's Journey Pt 2

    Jacob: For the flex, you might try connecting the 2 pieces together, solder - then create your curve. Make sure the expansion tie joints are on the same side. At one time I would slide the ties and/or rail to get good mating tie distances which required the rail sliding into the tie's rail...
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Dave: Have good Internet? If so, Prime has a dongle pretty cheap. Roku is not bad as far as I have heard. L8r
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    Running Bear's July 2025 Coffee Shop

    Good Morning All! 61F @ 50% clear. Got to 95F Yesterday, low 80's today - better. FWIW - site was down for about 20 minutes an hour or so ago. Bob doing something? Wasn't my Inet as XtrackCad and AvrFreaks boomed in. Somehow I managed to stay up until 0200 this am. That long nap yesterday...
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