Running Bear’s April 2026 Coffee Shop
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My buddy got his back worked on out here in Japan. He's a corn fed guy, so a bit larger than the local population. After they operation, they were sliding him onto the gurney and dropped him. Luckily, it didn't harm him.
Good morning Coffee Shop, it's Tuesday! The temperature is 36°F (2°C) and mostly clear.
Have a great day!
I was playing the a logo for my railroad. Looked great at 640x480. When scaled to 3/4" diameter to fit on stuff it was an eye opener; 1/2" was out of the question. I need more space between the lands and valleys and most of the tiny detail gone.
I like your AI idea for doing this. Brain won't hurt as much so I will give that a go.
L8r
When I had one it was a lot of back exercises.
Best wishes on a speedy recovery.
I used ChapGPT on the latest River Pulp and Paper Company logos that I showed here on the forum. I then copied them and pasted them into Google’s Gemini for adjusting. I have a 24 hour limit on images, I believe it’s 3 with ChatGPT and I now pay a monthly fee for Gemini so the limit I think is 120 image creations every 3 hours there. But ChatGPT responds better to my requests on initial images than does Gemini so I start there
I have compression on L3 & L4. My fault. I'm paying for my powerlifting in my late 20's-early 30's. I was warned that squatting 3x my weight was going to cause some problems as I got older. Young and stupid, paying for it now. The toes on the right foot and numb quite often and I do a lot of core exercises, so my lower back issues are still pretty minimal.
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traiNscale
Well-Known Member
good morning everyone
- short week ahead lets go
- airport is busy with easter travelers
- easter was great and productiv. more in my layout thread.
here is a picture from me, yesterday after working in the garden.
wish you all a great week.
cheers
Marco
- short week ahead lets go
- airport is busy with easter travelers
- easter was great and productiv. more in my layout thread.
here is a picture from me, yesterday after working in the garden.
wish you all a great week.
cheers
Marco
Kusojiji
RANK AMATEURS OF THE MODEL RAILROAD FORM MEMBER
That's awesome news!
My buddy got his back worked on out here in Japan. He's a corn fed guy, so a bit larger than the local population. After they operation, they were sliding him onto the gurney and dropped him. Luckily, it didn't harm him.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired NS Signal Construction Gang Signalman
Good morning Coffee Shop, it's Tuesday! The temperature is 36°F (2°C) and mostly clear.
Have a great day!
Good morning. It's cloudy and 65. It began raining about 5:30 PM yesterday, and rained most of the night. Since this is supposed to be our dry season, I'm not complaining.
Susie-Q's numbering system started in their early days of dieselization, when they used odd numbers for non-MU-equipped engines, and even numbers for MU-equipped units.
Susie-Q's numbering system started in their early days of dieselization, when they used odd numbers for non-MU-equipped engines, and even numbers for MU-equipped units.
ctclibby
Well-Known Member
Hay Tom! Good looking Logo's. Do have a question though. How big ...er... small are they to be on the Pulp and Paper company? If they get scaled down to something that fits on a side or front wall in HO scale, a lot of the info could become run together, garbled and or missing; even SVG's. If going on some sort of freight car, scale it down to an actual 3/4" / 1" / 1.25" tall/wide, print it and have a look.
I was playing the a logo for my railroad. Looked great at 640x480. When scaled to 3/4" diameter to fit on stuff it was an eye opener; 1/2" was out of the question. I need more space between the lands and valleys and most of the tiny detail gone.
I like your AI idea for doing this. Brain won't hurt as much so I will give that a go.
L8r
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Bulging discs are not a worst case, but they hurt!
When I had one it was a lot of back exercises.
Best wishes on a speedy recovery.
Patrick
What, me worry?
Morning all,
41° and mostly clear, some smoke in the air from the prescribed burns in the Flinthills. High later of 74°.
They burn the hills every spring to kill off the cedar and other unwanted weeds, etc. and eliminate the dead grass. Although in recent years they have had to burn patches every couple of years instead of all every year. That grass gets taller than you'd think and makes cattle fat pretty quick.
Kevin: Hope the back gets better soon. I have a disc in the neck that periodically has bulge issues. PT was able to help me get it back into place but it still took a while. As Troy said, they hurt.
41° and mostly clear, some smoke in the air from the prescribed burns in the Flinthills. High later of 74°.
They burn the hills every spring to kill off the cedar and other unwanted weeds, etc. and eliminate the dead grass. Although in recent years they have had to burn patches every couple of years instead of all every year. That grass gets taller than you'd think and makes cattle fat pretty quick.
Kevin: Hope the back gets better soon. I have a disc in the neck that periodically has bulge issues. PT was able to help me get it back into place but it still took a while. As Troy said, they hurt.
Kusojiji
RANK AMATEURS OF THE MODEL RAILROAD FORM MEMBER
Wish they would do that around here. Unfortunately, big pharma in charge.
Last weekend I was looking for an older cheap laptop with Win XP loaded so I could play some of the old Windows games I have on CDs from the late 1990s. I found an ad for three laptops, basically each one was the next generation of the previous one. One has XP Pro, the next had Vista Basic, the next had 7 Pro, the last had 7 Ultimate. All these together for a low price, and all but the Vista-equipped one were fully functional as I bought them. The Vista laptop had a corrupted OS, and wouldn't boot. I'm currently installing Linux Zorin on it, and we'll see how it goes.
The XP laptop now has over 100 games and programs loaded on it, it will never be connected to the internet, so I'm not concerned about any security issues with it. The two remaining will probably get Windows 10 installed. and I can use one or both for whatever until they stop working.
I was surprised when I discovered all of the batteries are functional, as well as the DVD drives.
The XP laptop now has over 100 games and programs loaded on it, it will never be connected to the internet, so I'm not concerned about any security issues with it. The two remaining will probably get Windows 10 installed. and I can use one or both for whatever until they stop working.
I was surprised when I discovered all of the batteries are functional, as well as the DVD drives.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 47°, back into the 70's again today...a repeat of the last few days. Same weather pattern until Sunday when the rain reappears.
Dull boring day yesterday, and the only things that I remember doing were a load of laundry, and a trip to town to get a new battery for the Accura, fuel up the Lexus and fill up the gas cans. The gas hurt, but the battery was still under warranty so it was no charge. I did some weeding in the garden as well.
Today will be a mowing day, but only after a trip to the primary care doctor for another follow up and probably a blood draw. While there, we'll make the hand-off of the granddog to my daughter, so neither of us has to make the complete journey. Sometime today, the dishwasher awaits me!
While I did make it out to the train shed yesterday, I spent the whole time running trains. It never gets old. Project work was on hold for one day. But I did mix up another batch of IPA/water mixture to do scenery with, if that counts. Probably have another week or so before I have to make another batch of white glue/water to go with it.
Tom O - How high above the Blanco River are the houses on your son's property? If I recall correctly, the river rose more than 30' twice in 2015. While not as catastrophic as that year, it does seem to have minor flooding rather regularly. I also remember that it covered the IH35 bridge near San Marcos in the flood of May 2015. That stranded my son at the time.
Kevin - Good luck with the disc issues. Hopefully it can be managed easily.
Marco - Second time that I have seen them in one of your backyard pictures; but what is that line of stacked containers all about???
Today is National Beer Day. Seems like we have one of those every month. I don't need a holiday for consumption.
Everybody have a great Tuesday.
Dull boring day yesterday, and the only things that I remember doing were a load of laundry, and a trip to town to get a new battery for the Accura, fuel up the Lexus and fill up the gas cans. The gas hurt, but the battery was still under warranty so it was no charge. I did some weeding in the garden as well.
Today will be a mowing day, but only after a trip to the primary care doctor for another follow up and probably a blood draw. While there, we'll make the hand-off of the granddog to my daughter, so neither of us has to make the complete journey. Sometime today, the dishwasher awaits me!
While I did make it out to the train shed yesterday, I spent the whole time running trains. It never gets old. Project work was on hold for one day. But I did mix up another batch of IPA/water mixture to do scenery with, if that counts. Probably have another week or so before I have to make another batch of white glue/water to go with it.
Tom O - How high above the Blanco River are the houses on your son's property? If I recall correctly, the river rose more than 30' twice in 2015. While not as catastrophic as that year, it does seem to have minor flooding rather regularly. I also remember that it covered the IH35 bridge near San Marcos in the flood of May 2015. That stranded my son at the time.
Kevin - Good luck with the disc issues. Hopefully it can be managed easily.
Marco - Second time that I have seen them in one of your backyard pictures; but what is that line of stacked containers all about???
Today is National Beer Day. Seems like we have one of those every month. I don't need a holiday for consumption.
Everybody have a great Tuesday.
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Todd, Thank you on the logo. Haven’t played too much with scaling them down yet. Probably Saturday when I am waiting for the flight to Vegas at the airport I will start that. I did send them to my decal guy to make for a few trailers but he won’t look at them for awhile.
I used ChapGPT on the latest River Pulp and Paper Company logos that I showed here on the forum. I then copied them and pasted them into Google’s Gemini for adjusting. I have a 24 hour limit on images, I believe it’s 3 with ChatGPT and I now pay a monthly fee for Gemini so the limit I think is 120 image creations every 3 hours there. But ChatGPT responds better to my requests on initial images than does Gemini so I start there
kbkchooch
"retired" conductor
Good morning gang!
45° under sunny skies, high of 50° today.
Slept last night with a pillow under my knees.. Not sure if the great sleep I had was due to that or the Percocet that I took around 7 pm. We went to sleep at 10 pm. but I felt pretty good this morning. A little stiff but no real pain. Gonna try it tonight without the Percocet.
BBL
45° under sunny skies, high of 50° today.
Slept last night with a pillow under my knees.. Not sure if the great sleep I had was due to that or the Percocet that I took around 7 pm. We went to sleep at 10 pm. but I felt pretty good this morning. A little stiff but no real pain. Gonna try it tonight without the Percocet.
BBL
That's good news on the discs. PT should help.
I have compression on L3 & L4. My fault. I'm paying for my powerlifting in my late 20's-early 30's. I was warned that squatting 3x my weight was going to cause some problems as I got older. Young and stupid, paying for it now. The toes on the right foot and numb quite often and I do a lot of core exercises, so my lower back issues are still pretty minimal.
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
Morning all. It's 44°F out there this morning with a high of only 52°F, colder than yesterday, and a band of snow to the north of us. No grass cutting today. I mis-read the forecast when I checked on Sunday. After double checking the forcast for tomorrow, I will be cutting grass. Supposed to be 77°F tomorrow.
I had a Mrs. Calender's chokolate pie on my grocery list yesterday instead of my usual apple pie. Wow! That is a great pie. I don't think it's going to be around very long.
Nothing on the agenda today. Called in a script I have to pick up tomorrow and that's about it. I love being retired!
Have a great National Beer Day! Prost und Servus!
I had a Mrs. Calender's chokolate pie on my grocery list yesterday instead of my usual apple pie. Wow! That is a great pie. I don't think it's going to be around very long.
Nothing on the agenda today. Called in a script I have to pick up tomorrow and that's about it. I love being retired!
Have a great National Beer Day! Prost und Servus!
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Good morning to those with bulges in the wrong body parts. I’m been told they are always uncomfortable and mostly painful.
Austin weather is Chamber of Commerce weather. 51f degrees now 76 later, almost a copy of yesterday. Just beautiful with hardly any noticeable humidity. Perfect golf weather yesterday and the same for the day. Unfortunately the golf yesterday was not as great as the weather in the late afternoon.
Drove down to New Braunfels and it’s a good place. Ate an early 11:15am lunch at Krause Cafe that we were told we had to eat at. Unfortunately they stop breakfast serving earlier than up in Wisconsin so I had a Weiener Schnitzel that was too huge for a lunch. But it was oh so damn good. Veal is a bad word at home the last few years so to be able get that and how delicious it was super. Terry had the Jaeger Schnitzel and loved it. We brought back:
WILD GAME SAUSAGE SAMPLER
Wild boar, venison, jackalope (rabbit & antelope), bier mustard, cheese, pickles, peppers, pumpernickel bread and
SAUSAGE SAMPLER
Three grilled local sausages, spicy mustard, cheese, pickles, peppers, pumpernickel bread
TEXAS TRIO
Goat cheese & poblano pimento, candied jalapeno cream cheese, cowboy caviar served with chips & crackers
To share after golf with the son and his g/f. The son had stopped at Pieous in Dripping Springs for a couple wood fired pizzas and by luck 3# of smoked pastrami not picked up by someone.
Today the golf is at 11am and Terry will drop me off and then head out to an art gallery to meet up with the son. Then she always stops at a book store here. 1/2 Price books on Lamar.
No trains of course. The cement plant along i35 in Sam Marcos re-ignited an idea from last year when we drove past. It’s massive and rail served and it’s in civilization where most that I have seen are out in the sticks. Just an idea that I look at Google Earth for some more info but I really have too much going on.
6th day of the 7 we’ve been gone so far where my steps are over 15,000 on my iPhone. Thats without a treadmill!
Willie
the house is about 250 yards away and 40’ higher than the Blanco River that goes through the property. I’ll use my compass for elevation on Thursday when we are going back out there. Brian said he was guessing on the elevation. He said he was shown where the high water has gotten to in the past and he definitely said he wanted to be beyond that and into the trees on the south facing side of the house.
The main house on the ranch his girlfriend purchased from him and 5 acres around it. She renovated it for her mom and older sister who move in soon. You can’t see the river from there so it’s well out of the way. However, they are aware that if it floods many of the creeks over flow and will cut the ranch off from the world. They have not told her mom! Many of the creek crossings have high water markings on them. They have solar panels and wind powered generators so power shouldn’t be an issue. The ranch house also has electric utility but his place and his hangar are off grid.
Be well
Austin weather is Chamber of Commerce weather. 51f degrees now 76 later, almost a copy of yesterday. Just beautiful with hardly any noticeable humidity. Perfect golf weather yesterday and the same for the day. Unfortunately the golf yesterday was not as great as the weather in the late afternoon.
Drove down to New Braunfels and it’s a good place. Ate an early 11:15am lunch at Krause Cafe that we were told we had to eat at. Unfortunately they stop breakfast serving earlier than up in Wisconsin so I had a Weiener Schnitzel that was too huge for a lunch. But it was oh so damn good. Veal is a bad word at home the last few years so to be able get that and how delicious it was super. Terry had the Jaeger Schnitzel and loved it. We brought back:
WILD GAME SAUSAGE SAMPLER
Wild boar, venison, jackalope (rabbit & antelope), bier mustard, cheese, pickles, peppers, pumpernickel bread and
SAUSAGE SAMPLER
Three grilled local sausages, spicy mustard, cheese, pickles, peppers, pumpernickel bread
TEXAS TRIO
Goat cheese & poblano pimento, candied jalapeno cream cheese, cowboy caviar served with chips & crackers
To share after golf with the son and his g/f. The son had stopped at Pieous in Dripping Springs for a couple wood fired pizzas and by luck 3# of smoked pastrami not picked up by someone.
Today the golf is at 11am and Terry will drop me off and then head out to an art gallery to meet up with the son. Then she always stops at a book store here. 1/2 Price books on Lamar.
No trains of course. The cement plant along i35 in Sam Marcos re-ignited an idea from last year when we drove past. It’s massive and rail served and it’s in civilization where most that I have seen are out in the sticks. Just an idea that I look at Google Earth for some more info but I really have too much going on.
6th day of the 7 we’ve been gone so far where my steps are over 15,000 on my iPhone. Thats without a treadmill!
Willie
the house is about 250 yards away and 40’ higher than the Blanco River that goes through the property. I’ll use my compass for elevation on Thursday when we are going back out there. Brian said he was guessing on the elevation. He said he was shown where the high water has gotten to in the past and he definitely said he wanted to be beyond that and into the trees on the south facing side of the house.
The main house on the ranch his girlfriend purchased from him and 5 acres around it. She renovated it for her mom and older sister who move in soon. You can’t see the river from there so it’s well out of the way. However, they are aware that if it floods many of the creeks over flow and will cut the ranch off from the world. They have not told her mom! Many of the creek crossings have high water markings on them. They have solar panels and wind powered generators so power shouldn’t be an issue. The ranch house also has electric utility but his place and his hangar are off grid.
Be well
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