Good Morning All. Happy St Nicholas Day. Clear and 60°, with a touch of fog. Relative humidity is 96% and there is no wind. Rain in the forecast for the next week except Friday, but temperatures will stay around 70° for the highs the whole time. Shorts again today after a high yesterday of 80°. My kind of December weather.
The chimney sweep is supposed to be by this morning, hated to hire him, but my regular guy hasn't been able to come by. He has a regular job as a plumber and has been working 70 hours a week for his company. They pay him more than I do.. His company is working on a 500+ unit apartment complex near UNT that was held up by concrete and lumber shortages earlier this summer. Supposed to open for the Spring semester in January, but it's likely that only 25% will be ready. Hope that they don't have the whole complex already leased.
Thanks for the likes and comments on yesterday's various posts.
Out in the train shed, I continued ballasting. I did 28" more on the passing siding.
And I did about 18" on the main both before and after the switch, tying into the existing ballasted track.
I skipped over the working parts of the switch for now, as that requires a concentrated effort to do correctly. I just wasn't ready to spend that much time on it yesterday.
More to come.
Jeff - Week long gun season for deer seems a little short. In the northern part of TX it's from 11/5-01/01 this year. It's longer in South TX. I haven't heard much activity around here at this time. Of course that's partly because most of the bigger landowners in my neighborhood have a moratorium on deer hunting. Not so with dove and quail though.
Dave B - Hospitals and doctors don't seem to be in lacking around here, but nurses are definitely in short supply. My neighbor is a nurse and her doctor retired and closed her practice. She had over a dozen offers the day the retirement was announced. She settled on a foot doctor and remarked later that she didn't realize that there were going to be so many "dirty old men" hitting on her there. She previously worked for an internal medicine doctor.
Terry -
I just heard via MSN that Kirsti Alley has passed on after a brief bout with cancer.
I did verify this from a couple of other sources...
They do have a habit of posting outdated or unverified info.
Louis - That 54-19 scoring rout in the Cowboys/Colts game resulted in what's called a Scorigami. Never in NFL history has there been a score with those digits. First time that I have heard that word!
Curt - Here's a view of that curve from a different angle. I checked and it's a 32" radius curve.
The fog has really set in now, visibility is about 450' or less.
Everybody have a great day.