Ken, Happy Birthday! I get it now, the old garden hose treatment. 
I'm due for one in two years. I hate those things. I hope your tooth and insurance problems aren't too troublesome. I have no problem with dental insurance - I don't have any. 
My dentist is good though and only charges me the minimum Blue Cross rate. Dianna is improving rapidly, to the point she wanted a shake and burger from McDonald's and then tried to convince my youngest to get her another shake on her way home from work. I think she'll live another day.
BOC, I'd really like to see that road. I think I've got mine as good as it's going to get with the Mark IV version. The trouble is that it's hard to get it to look right in pictures. It looks pretty good in person, it really does.
Bob, you've got to slow down. More model railroading and less remodeling. I sure hope you get a nice gift for all this work. I need to do my deck next year and it's a task I'm not looking forward to. The Alabama sun is hard on decks so it will have to be pressure washed and probably sanded. The dang thing is 45 feet long by 10 feet wide so that's a lot of wood. The deck is also nailed and most of the nails are popping so I'll have to screw it all down as well. Glad your boat situation is taken care of. When we had plans to sail the Caribbean, we were getting a 45 foot catamaran. Strangely enough, there was one corner of the cockpit that had this 2x4 space just sitting there, doing nothing. I was already drawing track plans.
Jeffrey, any meal that can last for three other meals and only costs $10 is a heck of a deal. Hardly pays to cook at those rate. That reminds me, I haven't been out to a Mexican restaurant lately and I've been craving a good carnitas burrito.
Just had a strange little line of showers pop up out of nowhere and go through. Not much rain but better than nothing. The high was only 79 today, which is the coolest high we've had since mid-June. I have to go to the urologist to follow up with my bleeding episode of a few weeks ago. I'm sure she'll want to do a cystoscopy. I'll have to find out exactly what kind she wants to do since there's one that uses a flexible scope that isn't bad with just some lodging and another that uses a rigid scope and I want to be knocked out for that. Why is it that getting old means people are always wanting to stick things up your various body orifices?
Rex, that tornado footage you sent me is real. There's a thread about it at http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13343&highlight=tornado. I'm still not sure why that rear unit had a dash cam running but I guess that's getting to be more common. I'm also surprised that that the DS didn't warn the crew that a tornado was on the ground since I'm sure they are on the emergency notification system. They could have at least slowed the train down. From the footage, it looks like the train maintained the same speed until it was actually struck by the tornado.
I'm due for one in two years. I hate those things. I hope your tooth and insurance problems aren't too troublesome. I have no problem with dental insurance - I don't have any. My dentist is good though and only charges me the minimum Blue Cross rate. Dianna is improving rapidly, to the point she wanted a shake and burger from McDonald's and then tried to convince my youngest to get her another shake on her way home from work. I think she'll live another day. BOC, I'd really like to see that road. I think I've got mine as good as it's going to get with the Mark IV version. The trouble is that it's hard to get it to look right in pictures. It looks pretty good in person, it really does.
Bob, you've got to slow down. More model railroading and less remodeling. I sure hope you get a nice gift for all this work. I need to do my deck next year and it's a task I'm not looking forward to. The Alabama sun is hard on decks so it will have to be pressure washed and probably sanded. The dang thing is 45 feet long by 10 feet wide so that's a lot of wood. The deck is also nailed and most of the nails are popping so I'll have to screw it all down as well. Glad your boat situation is taken care of. When we had plans to sail the Caribbean, we were getting a 45 foot catamaran. Strangely enough, there was one corner of the cockpit that had this 2x4 space just sitting there, doing nothing. I was already drawing track plans.
Jeffrey, any meal that can last for three other meals and only costs $10 is a heck of a deal. Hardly pays to cook at those rate. That reminds me, I haven't been out to a Mexican restaurant lately and I've been craving a good carnitas burrito.
Just had a strange little line of showers pop up out of nowhere and go through. Not much rain but better than nothing. The high was only 79 today, which is the coolest high we've had since mid-June. I have to go to the urologist to follow up with my bleeding episode of a few weeks ago. I'm sure she'll want to do a cystoscopy. I'll have to find out exactly what kind she wants to do since there's one that uses a flexible scope that isn't bad with just some lodging and another that uses a rigid scope and I want to be knocked out for that. Why is it that getting old means people are always wanting to stick things up your various body orifices?
Rex, that tornado footage you sent me is real. There's a thread about it at http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13343&highlight=tornado. I'm still not sure why that rear unit had a dash cam running but I guess that's getting to be more common. I'm also surprised that that the DS didn't warn the crew that a tornado was on the ground since I'm sure they are on the emergency notification system. They could have at least slowed the train down. From the footage, it looks like the train maintained the same speed until it was actually struck by the tornado.
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That guy you rescued in the boat learned the hard way why you never go out on the water without a radio. Lake Powell has tons of Rangers that patrol the lake and he would have been towed ashore in an hour if he had a radio. Denver has had an awfully mild summer this year. When my son lived in Boulder, it was always 100+ degrees when we'd visit him in the summer.
