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Hey folks, It turns out that my 'jammed' fingers are actually a nasty infection. I had to go get a tetanus shot and some horse pills to stop the swelling. The stiffness is due to the bacteria moving fluid into the joints. I told my wife to remind me to never get arthritis! Holy cow it hurts. My kitties are wondering what is wrong with me. The good thing is that my grandmothers insurance is taking care of the bill. The pills alone were over a hundred dollars. Thanks for the cat pictures. They made my wife laugh!
 
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Will the driver get done for having an insecure load Jeffrey ???
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A common practice here is that the load will be cinched down at mill. Problem is the load shifts around a little while the truck moves toward the exit to the main road. The driver usually pulls the truck out onto the main road the over onto the shoulder and cinches the load down again to take out the slack. This time Murphy jumped on one before the driver got it over to the shoulder. Fortunately no one was hurt.
 
10-10-2008

Good Morning from Tipton IN ! :D

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Good morning.

It's 63 and clear. The high should be around the mid 80's and it will be partly cloudy.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/10/2008

Wind Chill: 63°F
Humidity: 79%
Dew Point: 56°F

So Far Today
High: 65°F
Low: 63°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 0mph NNE

Today High: 85 Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 62 Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.

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Good Morning Gents from FLORIDA!

Well, we got some rain on Monday and Tuesday with some brief showers on Wednesday. Got 2" at the park:) Thursday my wife was admitted to the hospital with real bad infection in her intestine:( there's a name for it but I can't remember at this time:confused: Last week I had passed two kidney stones, and this weekend was my wifes turn! It was her first kidney stone attack:eek: Now she knows what I go through every 6 months or so:rolleyes: then while being attacked with kidney stones this intestine infection was brewing in her too:eek: now her doctor had her admitted to the hospital for observation and further test:( :( She's in lots of pain and ain't very jolly!:(

So me and the boy are in charge while she's out......My first day on the job(Thursday evening) the boy get's a inner ear infection:mad: but even in pain my wife senced it from the hospital and called me:rolleyes:! and She laid out my marching orders to insure my son will survive!:rolleyes:LOL's It never just rains on me.......It freakin pours down frogs and dogs!:mad: I got another busy weekend lined up, "Keep the house up, deal with visiting her in the hospital, deal with Ryan and his issues, and of all weekends to have this happen this is my buzzy time with the lawn service this weekend:eek:! My plate is full and there isn't even enough room left over for jello!:eek:

Got's to go now and get the kid ready for school:) Type to ya later:D
 
Morning, everyone.

Corey, I hope you got those wounds washed out really good. My cat scratched the heck out of me when I tried to get him downstairs during the tornado we had in February. I wasn't able to wash the wounds immediately and and got a roaring case of septicemia. Oopps, looks like that advice is too late now, since it looks like septicemia is just what you got. No fun and it does hurt like heck.

Steve, those cats are hilarious. :)

Howdy, Paul, hope you got your squash.

Ray, I guess "banana belt" is relative if you lived in Cleveland. :) The only thing we ever had under our snow was more snow.

David, secutring truck loads is not a big deal down here in the South like it is in California. In California, you have the CHP that will give you a ticket and red tag your truck. Here we have about five troopers that cover the whole state doing truck enforcement. We have a loaded log truck lose all or parts of their load about once a week. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures. Handlaid tracks always does look nice if I ever had skill and patience to actually do it.

Another exciting day in the market. Sit down, buckle up, and hold on. I don't think the roller coaster is coming to a stop yet.
 
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Good morning folks

It was 57 F when I hit the road. It will be 77 F today. The trip into work was better this morning and it took me my normal half an hour to get to the office. Apparently all the fun and delays were happening on Schuylkill Expressway this morning.

My daughter’s volleyball got smoked yesterday. They lost 25-22 and 25-12. The first game was not that close. It would have been much worse if it had not been for one girl who got in a grove and scored 10 points off her serve. I personally think they need this wake up call since they seemed to be getting a little too complacent. This was a non-league game so it was a good one to have a bad day.

Not much else happened last night.

We have an insane weekend. Tomorrow is more Cub Scout Popcorn Show and Sells. We actually have three locations. We started out with two but the church we meet at gave us a space at their White Elephant Sale. It will be a long day. Then the kids want to go a local school carnival in the evening. Sunday there is another Show and Sell but my son is not signed up for it so all I have to do is deliver and pick-up popcorn.

Modeling, what’s that?

I hope everybody has a good day.
 
Good Morning ! From sunny and warm Buffalo , well maybe sunny but only 56 . just stopped in for a quick hello and coffee Flo and it's off to do some errands and stuff. hope you all have a nice day !!!!Oh Yeah Happy long weekend to all and also our Canadian friends north of the border !!
 
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Chris, sorry to hear you and the wife have been sick. Sounds like maybe she had a bad bout of gastroenteritis. That, combined with kidney stones, is pretty miserable. Hqave you talked to your doctor about using regular ultrasound treatments for your recurring kidney stones? It works pretty good and it's a lot better than going though the agaony of passing a kidney stone. :eek: I hope your son's ear infection gets better too. It does seem to pour when it rains, doesn't it?

Tom, I guess you're now our popcorn king. :)

Hi, Paul, nice to see you and hear it's decent fall weather in Buffalo. Almost looks like you're getting Indian Summer without having a touch of winter yet.

Just got the new heat pump compressor put in. The house is now cooler and my wallet is $1650 lighter. :( Thank goodness President Bush gave us a nice, encouraging speech on how busy the crew is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The market was up 90 when he gave his pep talk and it's now down 300. :mad:
 
Jim, all this economy thing is nothing more than the Yuppies of the early 80's graduating from the Cyber Markets to manipulation of Wall Street. Actually, I think it is all a communist plot :rolleyes::D.
Just thinking:eek:: The real estate credit debacle is mostly to blame for all the woes of the economy, but stop and think: That neighborhood down from yours that has all those +5000 square feet homes, the guy with the Escalade and Lexus parked in the drive, new ski boat, club membership, .....and the he works in a factory???? I would bet that he has less than $20 in his wallet, but about 15 credit cards. borrow! borrow! borrow! How can we have a real economy when we live like this?:(

I know, "You're thinking to danged much, REX!" :D:D
 
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Good Morning from Cold & Crisp Coarsegold, Calif,
It a brisk 42*F at 9:30 here with a lot of moisture in the air so it's even colder feeling.

I finally got around to posting a few pictures of the S&A area I'm working on and still have a couple more to post yet. These first shots are all hand held and th qulaity of the distressed Ties at the S&A switch is not the best but I do have another that I broke down and used the tripod to shoot with. The only problem is the Tripod doesn't have a lens to it so the shots didn't come out? I couldn't resist that.

Jeffery: The road comming out from the mill sure must be pretty rough and rutty to cause the load to shift like that or possibly the driver was going a little too fast? It would seem that if a load was chinced properly that wouldn't have happened.

Jim: I do enjoy the appearance and realism of hand laid track but it does take a lot more time to get it down especially if your also adding distressig by scrubbing the ties with a wire brush to wear away the soft portions and then going back and staining them. The finished result is worth it from my standpoint though.

Rex, You bring up a very good point, where's the cold hard cash being transfered from hand to hand with so much stuff being purchased on credit with mounting debt accruing??


A Tip I'll pass along if you already have an existing layout is to only do a section 3' to 6' at a time that way it won't keep you from operating for too long. I'll be posting other track laying tips as I go along with the C & S West SL, one of those is joining code 70 to code 100 to make a smooth transition of rail surfaces.


Out of currosity, how many of you, who operate alone, actually operate your layouts like the real thing where your droping off an empty/s and picking up loaded car/s to be delivered elsewhere or of course doing just the opposit in delivering a loaded car and picking up the empties from the various locations to be delivered elsewhere to other destinations and of course shuffling cars around in the process?

Hope everyone has a good day and stays warm while delivering the various loads to their destinations.
 
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Trussrod said:
Out of currosity, how many of you, who operate alone, actually operate your layouts like the real thing where your droping off an empty/s and picking up loaded car/s to be delivered elsewhere or of course doing just the opposit in delivering a loaded car and picking up the empties from the various locations to be delivered elsewhere to other destinations and of course shuffling cars around in the process?
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David, that is a good and interesting question and I am also curious. Why don't you start a poll with people describing how they operate their layout? Some polls/surveys are good to have ;) .
 
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Jeffery: The road comming out from the mill sure must be pretty rough and rutty to cause the load to shift like that or possibly the driver was going a little too fast? It would seem that if a load was chinced properly that wouldn't have happened.
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The road out to the highway is quite rough. The trucks leave the mill area with the loads cinched down but the ride out causes them to shift just a small amount and that's all old Murphy needs. Immediataly after getting to the highway the driver cinches the load again to take out any slack. Usually there isn't any, but sometimes ...

I'm always very careful to be behind or ahead of a truck that's coming out, never beside it.
 
Correct Rex Credit is easy, everyone thinks that to fix the hole in the bucket you just throw more money inside, but that does not fix the leek.
 
Evenin' everyone!

Didn't make in here this morning as my son showed up to finish the work on his boat trailer and needed me to hold stuff. You know, 35 years ago or so that used to be his job.....:eek:;):D Anyway it is now ready to put the boat on it so he can install the winch and he is done. Maybe tomorrow he will get someone to help (it will rtake three of us) to lug the thing over and onto the trailer. Then I can see if anything other than mushrooms has been growing under it.....:(

I just spent the last two hours repairing an old HEPA filter unit that started to squeal last winter. I was hoping to take it apart and see if I could lube it enough to get a little more use out of it. Of course these things are made so you can't take them apart without breaking them. I GOT IT APART! Of course I had to break the top piece to do it. Once I got it to that point, I decided to plug it in and turn it on to see what it did. Squeal was gone. Put the now broken cover back on.... Squeal is back.... I think the cover had warped in the sun coming in my dining room/office where it was used. It must have been touching the fan itself causing the squeal. Anyway it is now running quiet without the cover (had to redo the electronics on it) so I will use it down in the train room only when I am down there. Can't hurt to pull some of the dust out of the air. I have a new one on order for the office.

Unfortunately I didn't get to do any layout work today. I will run through my presentation for the Lakeshores Division Meet before I call it a day.
 
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Hi fellas!

Finally getting back into some activity. Had that recurring infection the past two months, my wife's mother passing and I had to have surgery last week.

I had an incisional hernia repair done and I haven't hurt like this in years! Dr sez he should charge me for three operations, since within the old suture line there were three separate hernias. He put in some mesh after releasing many adhesions, three separate hernia sacs, and then pulled everything tight. Though I feel much better than I did at first, dilaudid is still my best friend right now.

Then the night I get home, after a 5 day stay, our AC conks out. I now get to spend the next couple of days directing my son on removing the fan assembly, speed control and motor, and replacing these with new pieces/ parts. Not happy about having to do this, but its cheaper than a whole new unit.

Looking forward to ARG next weekend!
 


Good morning.

It's 61 and clear. It will become partly cloudy later as the high rises to the mid 80's.

Yesterday I installed a DZ125 decoder in my new Athearn BNSF SD40. The rear light is brighter so I set it to run long hood forward, partly because of the light but mostly because I like to see them run that way. The rear light is set to stay steady while the cab light becomes a double pulse strobe light while the loco is traveling short hood forward. I also put a DZ125 in my GP35/S6, no light options on that one.

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/11/2008

Wind Chill: 61°F
Humidity: 90%
Dew Point: 58°F

So Far Today
High: 64°F
Low: 61°F
Rain: 0.01"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 0mph NNE

Today High: 85 Mostly sunny early in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog early in the morning. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 65 Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds around 5 mph.

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