Good evening Shop Dwellers, what an insane weekend this has been!
First, our washing machine stopped spinning/agitating, so I had to cart loads of laundry over to my daughter’s house to use her machine. Got my son [the mechanically-talented one in the family] to come over and examine it, and he found the failed part but has to wait until Monday to buy the replacement part. Next, I had to make a trip to the county “recycling center” (alias for
dump) with a bunch of large boxes and a dead inkjet printer in addition to my usual Saturday errands and chores. So no quality time on mrr activities.
Saturday evening I was getting ready to respond to Curt’s request about an overall view of my old layout – and I discovered that
all of my image files of it on my C: drive were
corrupted! Luckily I still have access to my old PhotoBucket account so I was able to rescue most of them from there, though I was continually having to zap away the pop-up ads.
I also had an epiphany about why I’ve been feeling so exhausted over the past 10 months: The culprit is one of my blood pressure meds, Clonadine. Since I lost 15 lbs from exercising, my body didn’t need the Clonadine anymore - so its side effects of drowsiness and tiredness were amplified. Saturday morning was my last dose, and I started having mild withdrawal symptoms this morning; but my BP was still in the safe range (136/68) so I’ve decided to tough it out, I want all that shit OUT of my system! Maybe now I’ll have more energy to get stuff done in the trainroom.
Garry – great photos of National Steel! I went on a bus tour of that facility with the Railroad Industries SIG in April 2003, but they didn’t allow us to shoot any photos [for fear of potential adverse publicity]. My favorite part of the tour was watching a huge CAT front-end loader shoveling still-red-hot chunks of slag into an over-the-road dump truck.
Curt – thanks for the comment on my Avery Street photo! Since the old layout filled all the empty space in my garage, it was impossible for me to photograph a complete overall view of the layout. But I’ve got the next-best thing, a GIF image of the track plan that can be viewed at:
http://ironbelt.net/images/CLW_Previous/CLWsub_legacy_trackplan.gif
I don’t want to post an inline image since it’s not something I’m particularly proud of – it was part of a painful learning experience!
Chet – I’m glad you finally found a way to get you photos to successfully display on the forum, even though the resizing process seems like a PITA!
Sorry if I missed anybody but I gotta go now, I've been at the ‘puter for too long rescuing my pee-bucket image files and I’m getting a headache. Hope you all had a great weekend.