kbkchooch
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Careful what you pinch.
I got booted from Facebook yesterday for posting this,
I won’t be returning.
Running Bear's December 2022 Coffee Shop
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I won’t be returning.
Best to go down fighting!
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I got booted from Facebook yesterday for posting this,
I won’t be returning.
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
You never know... cold be that, a poem about snowflakes, or a friend posted a vid with a certain German dictator... and the bots spied a swastika in it. He got a no-videos ban for three weeks. Problem is, he does a weekly update on FB vid for his job selling games...
Trussrod-2
Well-Known Member
Sherrill wrote: "Moral: There isn’t no moral to this story. It is what this world has become because of a bunch of snowflakes !"
LAMO ROTF, That's just about how re-Dickulous our society has become, too !
LAMO ROTF, That's just about how re-Dickulous our society has become, too !
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there internet peeps, and those still warm despite our climate's attempts to change that.
It's Troy again.
Currently -7° f in NE Indiana... winds expected to hit 50mph later today.
Good news. I've dumped the cold that I came home from the cruise with.
Bad news. In one of those nose blows, standing up, or just existing, I tweaked a muscle in my back. Tried sleeping it off, but that didn't help. So the cat and I are on the recliner all day. I've got the heating pad fired up, and have taken the first round of ibuprofen.
Wife wants potato soup in the crock pot today. That may be my only time upright that isn't a trip to the shower or the loo.
More updates to follow, as warranted... or not. I may take a nap once the coffee wears off.
It's Troy again.
Currently -7° f in NE Indiana... winds expected to hit 50mph later today.
Good news. I've dumped the cold that I came home from the cruise with.
Bad news. In one of those nose blows, standing up, or just existing, I tweaked a muscle in my back. Tried sleeping it off, but that didn't help. So the cat and I are on the recliner all day. I've got the heating pad fired up, and have taken the first round of ibuprofen.
Wife wants potato soup in the crock pot today. That may be my only time upright that isn't a trip to the shower or the loo.
More updates to follow, as warranted... or not. I may take a nap once the coffee wears off.
TLOC
Well-Known Member
If that’s the reason lots of folks got booted from FB. It was reposted it seemed like every where
TLOC
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Good morning from a chilly So. Central Wisconsin. It has warmed up 1 degree since I posted at 1AM but the wind chill remains the same.
The scary thing is the winds are “only” moving at 19 mph. The forecast now says winds 25-30 instead of the 50+ they have been saying all week. Maybe the son can fly in tonight as scheduled. His flight is Austin to Dallas and then direct to Madison landing at 11PM. Fingers crossed. The sister flies Saturday from Burbank, Ca. to Dallas and then direct to Madison at 12 noon. All depends now if the planes grounded the last couple days can get moving to where they are needed.
I set up my paint booth and workbench yesterday and Terry laughed when she saw it. Seems I put almost everything in the same spots on this bench as the previous bench. I did move the location of the IPod station 2‘ further left. That’s change isn’t it?
The scary thing is the winds are “only” moving at 19 mph. The forecast now says winds 25-30 instead of the 50+ they have been saying all week. Maybe the son can fly in tonight as scheduled. His flight is Austin to Dallas and then direct to Madison landing at 11PM. Fingers crossed. The sister flies Saturday from Burbank, Ca. to Dallas and then direct to Madison at 12 noon. All depends now if the planes grounded the last couple days can get moving to where they are needed.
I set up my paint booth and workbench yesterday and Terry laughed when she saw it. Seems I put almost everything in the same spots on this bench as the previous bench. I did move the location of the IPod station 2‘ further left. That’s change isn’t it?
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TrucTrain55
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Good Morning all. A brutal-7 degrees in the Ozark Foothills not as cold as some but we’re not used to this kinda cold weather had about 3 inches of snow yesterday now time for a good cold snow pack for awhile.
Sherill. has a good point this morning people take just the simple things and blow them up into a giant Political thing that’s why I don’t have Facebook or all the other Social stuff I’m sure I would be banned for life if I ever would decide to voice my views on things. So I’ve stop watching the news and when I here things these people take to extreme I sit quietly and chew my tongue because if you say what you feel these days it could get you 10-20 years people have tried for years now to change this and have gotten nowhere. Sometimes it’s best to sit back and let people hang them selves Opps did I say Hang.
Sherill. has a good point this morning people take just the simple things and blow them up into a giant Political thing that’s why I don’t have Facebook or all the other Social stuff I’m sure I would be banned for life if I ever would decide to voice my views on things. So I’ve stop watching the news and when I here things these people take to extreme I sit quietly and chew my tongue because if you say what you feel these days it could get you 10-20 years people have tried for years now to change this and have gotten nowhere. Sometimes it’s best to sit back and let people hang them selves Opps did I say Hang.
BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
Good morning all, just holding the fort here at work today. Quieting down but still have to be manned and ready. Cant wait to start a weeks vacation tomorrow. We are expecting just heavy winds and rain tonight as these weather bombs collide over our part of the country.
I hope you all have a great day and I love reading your stories and seeing pictures of your great work when I get the chance!
I hope you all have a great day and I love reading your stories and seeing pictures of your great work when I get the chance!
chadbag
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Today was our bonus day in Tokyo. It was a little overcast and less overcast later in the day. Mid 40s last I looked though it felt colder due to a brisk cold wind.
We got up and went to the hotel’s breakfast. Definitely not in the same league as the Hilton’s. But also cost about 25-30% of the Hilton breakfast…. Needless to say I ate a lot less here than at the Hilton.
After breakfast, and a shower, I had to work online with one of our junior programmers a couple hours. Helping him work through some simplifications of some stuff he wrote. Finally around 1:30pm we were done and we left to go to the Imperial Palace. You can’t go in our anything though some days they do run a morning and an afternoon tour but you either have to try and pre-register for it or show up and get a number and hope your number is drawn. We missed the times to even try. They do have a publicly open “East Garden“ we thought we‘d try to find and see before its 4pm close. We took a subway to one of the “gates” and walked around the outside gardens and moat. We didn’t reach the East Garden but did find a map with it and decided that by the time we walked around to where the entrance seems to be it would be close to the closing time and we were getting hungry for our late lunch at Tsukiji outer market,.
The Imperial Palace, if I understand it correctly, was built on the land that had housed the Edo Castle that the Shoguns had built up and ruled from. At one time one of the largest such compounds in the world. After the Shoguns fell the government used the castle for office but it burned down or something. A lot of outer gates and walls still exist or have been rebuilt but the inner castle buildings were not and a new small set of buildings for the Emperor and his household and the household offices. That is the palace today on the grounds of the former Edo Castle.
We stopped walking around the Imperial palace grounds when we were opposite the renovated Tokyo Station (the main JR Railroad station was renovated in the last 10 years to bring the front of it back to its old glory). We walked to the Tokyo Station in order to get our reserved seat tickets for the trip back home to Kobe. Everyone’s health is good enough that they want us to come back so we’ve (at least temporarily) canceled the Nagasaki excursion.
We then walk to the Keiyo Line. This is one of the lines that leave from Tokyo Station, but in reality it should probably be its own small station as it is a bit always through underground passages to where it leaves from. It is not at all connected to any of the other lines. From when we started a walking to it it was like 680m away down a few long halls and down a few sets of escalators. I am well acquainted with this walk as it is the train that goes east out to Disneyland and past out to Chiba and the stuff to the east of Tokyo. On a few of our trips our hotels were out at the same stop as Disneyland (whether we were visiting Disneyland or not). The walk is long but we made it
. We only went one station to Hatchobori where we took a subway one stop and got off at Tsukiji. The Tsukiji fish market was the famous commercial fish auction and market where the fresh catches are sold to restaurants etc. Outside of the commercial market is the “outer market” where all the vendor stalls, restaurants, etc are located for normal people. The commercial market was moved a few years ago to a regenerated industrial area a few miles away to a brand new built modern commercial market from the old market. But the Tsukiji out market is still alive and well and there are a bunch of sushi restaurants that are kind of famous. Some of which have multiple outlets in the same area. The fish is really fresh.We’ve been to Sushi Zanmai a few times in the past and wanted to go again. The owner of this restaurant (with 7 or more various outlets in that area from full restaurants to “Tuna on the GO” fast pickup for lunch etc) is the guy who you read about who usually buys the first Tuna of the catch on the 1st night of the New Year (the early morning auction on Jan 1). He pays a million or two dollars for it and it is supposed to bring good luck and its also his way of supporting fishermen. The US news always reports on this event and the owner of the restaurant we went to is that guy.
We got there and had no wait outside though we waited about 10 min inside to see where they wanted to seat us. We ate a bunch of sushi and a few fried dishes as well (fried tuna and fried puffer fish — both good and interesting).
After we ate and settled the bill (which was high but a lot less than the same stuff would have cost at home and not been as fresh) we walked to Ginza. A 15 min walk. Ginza is the swanky high end shopping area in Tokyo. I suspect like 5th Ave in NYC though I’ve not been to NYC since forever so don’t remember what that was like. Ginza is tall buildings and lots of lights. And flagship stores for every luxury brand you’ve ever heard of in almost any category (perfume, clothes/fashion, watches, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and every other category) line the streets. Luxury brands from France, Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, NY / USA, Japan, and every other place in the world. Some of them have multiple big flagship stores in Ginza. The Luis Vutton brand had two very large multi store buildings a few blocks apart. We also found a large multi story mall where every store was a luxury brand store. And for every brand you’ve heard of there were 5-10 you’ve not heard of. It was crazy. I saw a couple handbag stores that just had 20-30 handbags on display. That was it. In a normal street level store front 30 or more fewest wide with big glass walls and doors. With a guy in an expensive suit standing there or a lady in expensive dress waiting for THAT customer to come in. Very conspicuous consumption.
We then took a subway home and have been decompressing and getting ready for bed so we can get up and have breakfast and get packed and be ready for the shuttle bus to the local station. We have one hour to get to Tokyo Station and on our bullet train from the time the shuttle bus leaves to take us to the local subway stop. From there about 5 or 6 stops and then we transfer to a commuter train for one stop and then we are there. But we may have a longer walk to the Shinkansen tracks.
Anyway, it was an interesting day!
We got up and went to the hotel’s breakfast. Definitely not in the same league as the Hilton’s. But also cost about 25-30% of the Hilton breakfast…. Needless to say I ate a lot less here than at the Hilton.
After breakfast, and a shower, I had to work online with one of our junior programmers a couple hours. Helping him work through some simplifications of some stuff he wrote. Finally around 1:30pm we were done and we left to go to the Imperial Palace. You can’t go in our anything though some days they do run a morning and an afternoon tour but you either have to try and pre-register for it or show up and get a number and hope your number is drawn. We missed the times to even try. They do have a publicly open “East Garden“ we thought we‘d try to find and see before its 4pm close. We took a subway to one of the “gates” and walked around the outside gardens and moat. We didn’t reach the East Garden but did find a map with it and decided that by the time we walked around to where the entrance seems to be it would be close to the closing time and we were getting hungry for our late lunch at Tsukiji outer market,.
The Imperial Palace, if I understand it correctly, was built on the land that had housed the Edo Castle that the Shoguns had built up and ruled from. At one time one of the largest such compounds in the world. After the Shoguns fell the government used the castle for office but it burned down or something. A lot of outer gates and walls still exist or have been rebuilt but the inner castle buildings were not and a new small set of buildings for the Emperor and his household and the household offices. That is the palace today on the grounds of the former Edo Castle.
We stopped walking around the Imperial palace grounds when we were opposite the renovated Tokyo Station (the main JR Railroad station was renovated in the last 10 years to bring the front of it back to its old glory). We walked to the Tokyo Station in order to get our reserved seat tickets for the trip back home to Kobe. Everyone’s health is good enough that they want us to come back so we’ve (at least temporarily) canceled the Nagasaki excursion.
We then walk to the Keiyo Line. This is one of the lines that leave from Tokyo Station, but in reality it should probably be its own small station as it is a bit always through underground passages to where it leaves from. It is not at all connected to any of the other lines. From when we started a walking to it it was like 680m away down a few long halls and down a few sets of escalators. I am well acquainted with this walk as it is the train that goes east out to Disneyland and past out to Chiba and the stuff to the east of Tokyo. On a few of our trips our hotels were out at the same stop as Disneyland (whether we were visiting Disneyland or not). The walk is long but we made it
. We only went one station to Hatchobori where we took a subway one stop and got off at Tsukiji. The Tsukiji fish market was the famous commercial fish auction and market where the fresh catches are sold to restaurants etc. Outside of the commercial market is the “outer market” where all the vendor stalls, restaurants, etc are located for normal people. The commercial market was moved a few years ago to a regenerated industrial area a few miles away to a brand new built modern commercial market from the old market. But the Tsukiji out market is still alive and well and there are a bunch of sushi restaurants that are kind of famous. Some of which have multiple outlets in the same area. The fish is really fresh.We’ve been to Sushi Zanmai a few times in the past and wanted to go again. The owner of this restaurant (with 7 or more various outlets in that area from full restaurants to “Tuna on the GO” fast pickup for lunch etc) is the guy who you read about who usually buys the first Tuna of the catch on the 1st night of the New Year (the early morning auction on Jan 1). He pays a million or two dollars for it and it is supposed to bring good luck and its also his way of supporting fishermen. The US news always reports on this event and the owner of the restaurant we went to is that guy.We got there and had no wait outside though we waited about 10 min inside to see where they wanted to seat us. We ate a bunch of sushi and a few fried dishes as well (fried tuna and fried puffer fish — both good and interesting).
After we ate and settled the bill (which was high but a lot less than the same stuff would have cost at home and not been as fresh) we walked to Ginza. A 15 min walk. Ginza is the swanky high end shopping area in Tokyo. I suspect like 5th Ave in NYC though I’ve not been to NYC since forever so don’t remember what that was like. Ginza is tall buildings and lots of lights. And flagship stores for every luxury brand you’ve ever heard of in almost any category (perfume, clothes/fashion, watches, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and every other category) line the streets. Luxury brands from France, Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, NY / USA, Japan, and every other place in the world. Some of them have multiple big flagship stores in Ginza. The Luis Vutton brand had two very large multi store buildings a few blocks apart. We also found a large multi story mall where every store was a luxury brand store. And for every brand you’ve heard of there were 5-10 you’ve not heard of. It was crazy. I saw a couple handbag stores that just had 20-30 handbags on display. That was it. In a normal street level store front 30 or more fewest wide with big glass walls and doors. With a guy in an expensive suit standing there or a lady in expensive dress waiting for THAT customer to come in. Very conspicuous consumption.
We then took a subway home and have been decompressing and getting ready for bed so we can get up and have breakfast and get packed and be ready for the shuttle bus to the local station. We have one hour to get to Tokyo Station and on our bullet train from the time the shuttle bus leaves to take us to the local subway stop. From there about 5 or 6 stops and then we transfer to a commuter train for one stop and then we are there. But we may have a longer walk to the Shinkansen tracks.
Anyway, it was an interesting day!
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Unfortunately, those who elect to say nothing are the first to board the trains.
Best to go down fighting!
chadbag
Well-Known Member
More pics for the above travelogue
Tokyo station:
Not sure where I saw this but this is a normal truck you see with standard Japanese freight containers. While they do have larger containers in use, and also ISO 40’ and ISO 20’ are used for international trade, the loading gauge is such that the larger containers are restricted to certain lines and the ones you see here are the common size. JRF is JR Freight, the freight line that was spun off from the national railways in the late 80s when the multiple JR passenger lines were also spun off.
Some of the various subways or trains we took toay. The one with the dual headlights up Tipp and red band below is the JR Keiyo line (orange stripe open the platform). The others are Tokyo Metro subway lines.
This is a Buddhist temple I believe that we passed while walking to the restaurant.
Tokyo station:
Not sure where I saw this but this is a normal truck you see with standard Japanese freight containers. While they do have larger containers in use, and also ISO 40’ and ISO 20’ are used for international trade, the loading gauge is such that the larger containers are restricted to certain lines and the ones you see here are the common size. JRF is JR Freight, the freight line that was spun off from the national railways in the late 80s when the multiple JR passenger lines were also spun off.
Some of the various subways or trains we took toay. The one with the dual headlights up Tipp and red band below is the JR Keiyo line (orange stripe open the platform). The others are Tokyo Metro subway lines.
This is a Buddhist temple I believe that we passed while walking to the restaurant.
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rgeiter
Conrail Quality
Now that’s funny!!
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TrucTrain55
Guest
Don’t plan on ever purchasing a ticket for this train. I’ve went down fighting Stupid People for years I’m finding out the older I get I really don’t care anymore my life is to short to fight with people who has low IQs.
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
CHAD -- Daughter and Marine husband, with two Gsons are on Okinawa for a couple more years.
Thanks for the photos and tour guide. I am going to forward your "stuff" to them!
Thanks for the photos and tour guide. I am going to forward your "stuff" to them!
rgeiter
Conrail Quality
Facebook sucks. I deleted my account over 3 years ago. Best decision I’ve ever made!
logandsawman
Northern Pacific history enthusiast
Good morning from east central Minnesota,
Temp is -10F with -33 wind chill. The sun is out was out all day yesterday, kind of a funny "blizzard" I guess they missed the call for our location.
You guys down south for us this weather is expected, we hunker down and play with trains after shoveling is done.
Lee: "Do not speak in the ear of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words". Looks like you figured out that one on your own!!
Train room- I got the windmill assembled also planted 13 birch trees along with the grass and shrubs. I finished shoveling early and will have to shovel at the church today otherwise trains and hot cocoa. Will post pics later
Hughie - I really like the looks of those buildings you have been posting, even though the instructions are bad
back later with pics
Dave LASM
Temp is -10F with -33 wind chill. The sun is out was out all day yesterday, kind of a funny "blizzard" I guess they missed the call for our location.
You guys down south for us this weather is expected, we hunker down and play with trains after shoveling is done.
Lee: "Do not speak in the ear of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words". Looks like you figured out that one on your own!!
Train room- I got the windmill assembled also planted 13 birch trees along with the grass and shrubs. I finished shoveling early and will have to shovel at the church today otherwise trains and hot cocoa. Will post pics later
Hughie - I really like the looks of those buildings you have been posting, even though the instructions are bad
back later with pics
Dave LASM
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