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[AndrewC]

Morning all its a brisk 6c (43f) in ye olde London towne with a high of only 13c (55f)
Just waiting around for the concrete to be delivered. B&Q (like Home Depot right down to the orange decor) screwed up the inventory so its coming in 2 shipments. Half today, half monday. D'oh. Thats going to put me back another week.

Chris, so glad your wife is home and feeling better. All transport in the UK is very expensive. Even cycling costs more as bikes are pricier. I'm paying around $200/month just in rail and bus fares. I only live 12 miles from the office. To drive with parking and C charge costs that would be about $750/month and take 3 times as long.

Steve, great video. One day I will have to get up to the GCR and have a look. As for petrol prices, whoa. Its 99p down here which equates to $6.55 for a US gallon. Don't forget the Amercian gallon is a lot smaller than the imperial gallon (128 ounces v 160 ounces) and the exchange rate is crap at the moment. Still bloody expensive though. Diesel is over £1.09 which works out to $7.15 US/gal. Which means its still costing me over $105 to fill my Landrover with Diesel. (conversions for the 2 people out there that are interested. 1 US gallon = 3.78 litres. £1 = $1.734 as of this morning)

Why can't you Americans catch up with the other 95% of the global population and go metric? Then we wouldn't have to do these silly conversions all the time.

 

[vato loco]

Then we wouldn't have to do these silly conversions all the time.

Sure, let's convert to Metric and while we're at it we'll convert to EURO Bucks. That way there absolutely no more silly conversions in the world at all! How about one language too ............This gets me to thinking of the tower of Bable?

one second thought......Let's leave the world as it is, More fun this way!


Have a good day everyone

 

[Bill Tidler Jr.]

10-17-2008

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Why can't you Americans catch up with the other 95% of the global population and go metric? Then we wouldn't have to do these silly conversions all the time.

What!? Do you mean to tell me that you people don't go from meters and centimeters to yards and inches in the same step of a building project like I see them do on the BBC?

 

[Cjcrescent]

Hi ya'll!

Been putzing around on the layout some and now have the main from the largest staging yards at Pratt Junction laid up thru Fulton, to the edge of Burnsville. This took only two days, with the construction of two mainline turnouts and two turnouts for Fulton. (To see what I'm talking about, click on my home page link in my sig and go to the layout plan in the photo section.) Hope to get more done this weekend after the ARG meet at Irondale. (For anyone coming to the meet, the forecast is for clear sunny skies with highs around 70. From personal experience, bring a light jacket or sweater. That wind there can make a 70 degree day feel like 40).

Went to the Doc yesterday and had the staples removed from my surgery. The Doc also drained 110cc's of fluid from around the incision. He says this is common to have this fluid build up around the mesh. He even says he may have to drain it several more times before my body "adjusts" to the mesh. Hope that he's right with this. Anytime any fluid builds up in a place it ain't supposed to be on me, has a nasty habit of turning into a septic cyst, ie pus pocket. That would be all I would need, another infection! He now says I can start lifting things up to about twenty pounds, and start driving again. (Everybody better look out!!) All in all, feeling best I have felt all summer.

I've finished writing my review of the Bowser USRA 2-10-2. Just need to get a few pix of it painted, (Can't do that without painting it,) before I can post it. I also milled the frame a lot and have fitted a NWSL 36:1 gearbox into it along with a sagami can motor. Discovered that I still need to mill a little more as it is a tight fit for the gearbox and it needs a little more "breathing room" for best operation.Preliminary tests shows that this has the distinct possibility of becoming an even better runner than when it had that big open frame in it. A few minutes with a Dremel cutter will get it done.

Chris;

Glad the wife is better! No one really can understand what that type of sickness can do to a person until they go thru it themselves. It a lot more than just a PITA.

Steve;

There are several gas stations around here that has gas now as low as $2.80 a gallon. Thats more than a dollar a gallon less than what we had to pay to go to Mobile for my MIL's funeral, about a month ago.

Well that's all for now, gotta go and see what other trouble I can get into, people to piss off etc.....

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning.

It's 60 and very cloudy here. The high is expected to be in the mid 70's and it will be mostly cloudy.

Yesterday I worked on relighting some of my structures and did a short tutorial on how to do such with old Christmas lights. This has already been posted on some of the forums I attend. Today I may post it on some others. I'm also learning more about my Digitrax system with each passing day but try as I might I can't find a section on how to program the neighbors dogs to stop barking. Anybody mastered this yet?

Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 10/17/2008

Wind Chill: 58°F
Humidity: 88%
Dew Point: 55°F

So Far Today
High: 63°F
Low: 59°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 9mph NE

Today High: 75 Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain in the morning...then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight Low: 52 Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

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[PNKFLOYD]

Well that's all for now, gotta go and see what other trouble I can get into, people to piss off etc.....

CJ- I'm so glad to see you getting back to normal...for you!
I'll have to visit your layout and see the progress you have made. Sounds like you are about to get all the track work finished.

Chris- thanks for sharing the information that your wife is improving. The emotional toll on family and friends can be devastating at times. Besides all that loving support and hospital visiting takes away from the time you could be playing with trains.

It is kinda funny how much I look forward to seeing people's comments about their health and everyday activities as well as their modeling adventures. I can spend a few moments in the morning or at lunch scanning the forum and it will brighten my day.
Well, now that I have been brightened and enlightened for a while, I must go back to work.
Mikey

 

[pcarrell]

Mornin' all!

(I know.....a man of few words this morning)

 

[tompm]

Good morning folks

It was a chilly 50 F as I left this morning. High today will be 64 F. A front came through last night and the temperature went from 80 F at 6:30 PM to 55 F by 8 PM. For a while last evening the wind kicked up and the sky got dark like a real nasty thunderstorm was coming. We got a few drops of rain but nothing else.

We had to do some shopping for my daughter’s birthday party last night. My daughter’s volleyball team lost again. They played better but they lack the killer instinct. They had the other team down 24 to 21 and could not put them away and lost 26 to 24. They lost the second game 25-22.

This weekend my son has the first popcorn selling shift at our Saturday location. After he is done we have my daughter’s birthday party. She is doing a shopping party at a local mall. Apparently this is the big party thing with 13 year-old girls. On Sunday my son has no popcorn shifts scheduled although he will be on call to possibly cover for one of our no show specialists. My wife works Sunday also and we have to fit in grocery shopping.

Who knows maybe I will squeeze some train time in.

Chris
Glad to hear your wife is home. Hope her recovery continues to go well.

I hope everybody has a good day.

 

[OldGettysk]

Good Morning Folks ! Another cool 48 and sunny day here on the Niagara Frontier suppose to get up to 52 so we're not far away from our high of the day . Not much else to shout about so I guess I'll just wish you all a real nice Friday !!!!

 

[Trussrod]

Good Morning to all,
It was a cool 50*F in Coarsegold at 7:30 this morning as the sun was just peaking over the hills. It's suppose to go to a high of 83* thi afternoon?

All else is quiet is quiet for now.

Have a good day.

 

[Cjcrescent]

Sounds like you are about to get all the track work finished.


Mikey

I wish!!!!

 

[UP2CSX]

Good Morning, everyone.

Andrew, we'll switch to metric when you get a real gallon instead of that "imperial" thing. It is actually silly that we all don't use metric and downright dangerous sometimes. We had a job in Mexico on a dam and our engineers were doing all the drawings in inches and the Mexicans were doing all the drawings in metric. Caused no end of confusion and we had a few things could have caused real problems if we hadn't gotten the common measurements right. How much of your petrol price is because of taxes? The total tax on a gallon of gas here is about 60 cents a gallon, which is why our gas prices are so relatively low. I wouldn't even mind paying more for gas if I had another means of travel but there are no passenger trains in Alabama so driving is my only real option.

Chris, I hope your wife is doing better or at least in not as much pain. Believe it or not, I think we are moving toward a common global language and it's English. In all my travels around the world, France was the only country when not knowing the language was a real problem. Everywhere else, almost everyone 30 or under spoke English, sometimes a lot better than the average American high school student.

CJ, nothing more fun than pus pockets. Sounds like you are at least healing on schedule. I'm looking forward to seeing your Bowser complete. I've had several Bowser steam engines in my modeling life and I never could make them run worth a darn. It should be a good day for pictures tomorrow and at least we won't all be dropping like flies for dehydration. We actually have a shower right now so maybe it will take a few more days for my lawn to die completely.

Morning, Phillip.

Paul, sounds like a nice day up there. Enjoy it before the first blizzard arrives.

Mikey, see you tomorrow. Thanks for keeping things coordinated. BTW, I'll be the guy in Ohio State cap, speaking of pissing people off!

Tom, every time I read one of your posts, I have the urge to go down lay down and take nap.

David, sounds like a perfect day in the California foothills.

My brother and sister-in-law arrived yesterday and my son will be down here on the 23rd so we'll have a family reunion of sorts for a few weeks. It will be nice to see see them again. I'm hoping to get my Digitraxx DCC system completely installed and get my crossing gates and signals up while my brother, who actually understands electricity, is here.



Morning, Phillip.

 

[RexHea]

Happy TGIF guys!
Nice and cool today and only 61 deg at this hour. For some reason, this weather puts me into gear for high intensity modeling.

Metric conversion! I always loved the argument that metric had greater accuracy. That may stand with common fractions being used for something they were not developed for; although 1/4 of something is always 1/4. On the other hand, 0.001 of an inch is a bit more finite than 0.001 of meter. It's all relative. Pleeeze guys, not again. Let's bury that thought as we did a few years back. Maybe when the Brits drive on the right right side of the road instead of the wrong left side.

Mikey: You guys should have some fine weather. Wishing you loads of fun.

JIM:...Believe it or not, I think we are moving toward a common global language and it's English.

Yeah, everywhere except the U.S.A., comprende?

Carey:...Anytime any fluid builds up in a place it ain't supposed to be on me, has a nasty habit of turning into a septic cyst, ie pus pocket.

Good grief, that's gross.

 

[rhoward]

Sheesh........ I thought I posted here this morning??????

Oh well! Gooooooooood Afternoon everyone!

Not a bad day out but a bit on the chilly side. We are at the high of the day right now at 52°F. Expected low tonight is 35°F so i guess I will see if there is anything worth bringing in before evening. strong likelyhood of a killing frost if they are predicting 35°.....

I have been downstairs puttering with a couple things while doing a couple of loads of wash. I have to run through my presentation one more time, make sure I have everything packed and ready to go for the Lakeshores Division Meet tomorrow. They have some great layouts to visit during the afternoon so I hope to have some photos on Sunday.

Have a great day!

 

[Steve B]

Just bought some new shoes

Hey Rex, we DO drive on the correct side of the road

 

[rhoward]

Steve ROFLMAO!

BTW, I thought you drove on the Left side, you mean you drive on the ....... Never mind! I used to use some of that stuff as examples of Culture. Few people know why the conga drums have the low drum on the right hand side of the performer. It's because it is of African origin and in Africa unlike in Europe, low is on the Right not the Left (Like on the piano). Just a matter of what we grow up with and not a matter of right or wrong.

 

[Steve B]

Correct Ray, if you grow up with something it's the right way, whatever anyone else does.

Just cut down a tree from next door's garden but another guy two door's down is sulking as he is a tree hugger,,,, but if the tree root's were eating into his brickwork i bet he'd do the same thing. He'll get over it,,, if he doesn't tough. the truck was fantastic and straight and is going to a woodturning friend to be made into whatever.

 

[RexHea]

Hey Steve: while I lived in Bangkok, I not only drove on the leftside, but in an American car. That's not so bad for the driver, but it scares the S out of the passenger...particularly when a huge Mercedes truck and driven by a Thai kamikaze is hugging the center line.

 

[Steve B]

I had a left hand drive land rover, same here !!!