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Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
 
santafewillie said:
Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
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Oh no Willie! Prayers for speedy recovery my friend!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
 


santafewillie said:
Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
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I hope you feel better and get home soon.
 
PRR Modeler said:
Afternoon All,

Started out with a walk at 78F and very humid but luckily there was a slight breeze. After breakfast we headed north to pick up the newest family member. We made it home around 2 pm. At least we made it home before the lightning and thunder going on now. Hopefully we will finally get some rain here. I'm not sure what's on the agenda for tomorrow. Thursday, I have to take Dad to the VA and Friday and Saturday I'm visiting friends.

Mac- Nice catch. I hope you enjoyed the excursion.

Louis- I believe that Garry had a converted diner car to a chapel car.

Joe- Great photo. The RS1 is my favorite diesel loco.

Troy- It looks like you are a paragon of 3-D printing.

Bob- Poor Rocky.

TomO- If you are putting water tubes on the roof to heat water for the pool you really need to keep an eye on them. That kind of set up is what caused the 40K worth of water damage to the house and it required me to tear down the old layout.

Here is the newest addition to the household. This is Stormy, a classic B&W female skunk.

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I hope everyone has a good night.
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Skunks are cute. Had an encounter once near Horseshoe Curve. My friend and i were walking the tracks toward our car and there was a mother with five little ones crossing the tracks. The little ones didn't have much experience i guess and three of them got stuck inside the gauge between rails not knowing what to do. Mother with two crossed and was watching us from the distance and we were trying to guide the three to open spots between ties where the ballast was low enough for them to squeeze under the rail. The three little ones sometimes would stuck their asses toward us, then they changed their minds and were thinking we were daddys and would come to our feet. After some time we managed to guide them under the rail and thankfully no train came.
 
Willie,

Get better soon.

On a side note, the first of the "real" tomatoes have been harvested:

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Small one is about the size of a handball, the other would cover a hamburger bun. I also got 2 more cucumbers and another 1\2 pound of the yellow pear tomatoes. Wife doesn't consider the yellow ones as real 🤭.
 
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santafewillie said:
Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
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Get better Willie! Looking forward to you being back at modelling!
 


santafewillie said:
Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
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Get well soon Willie.
 
Holy Mackeral, Willie.
So sad to hear you've fallen ill. Hope they fix you up lickity split.

Where I come from, it's customary to bring a hospitalized friend a gift to give them some joy in recovery. It's not appropriate for one man to bring another man flowers, though. So, here's some fish:
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Hope you get better soon!
 
PRR Modeler said:
Afternoon All,

Started out with a walk at 78F and very humid but luckily there was a slight breeze. After breakfast we headed north to pick up the newest family member. We made it home around 2 pm. At least we made it home before the lightning and thunder going on now. Hopefully we will finally get some rain here. I'm not sure what's on the agenda for tomorrow. Thursday, I have to take Dad to the VA and Friday and Saturday I'm visiting friends.

Mac- Nice catch. I hope you enjoyed the excursion.

Louis- I believe that Garry had a converted diner car to a chapel car.

Joe- Great photo. The RS1 is my favorite diesel loco.

Troy- It looks like you are a paragon of 3-D printing.

Bob- Poor Rocky.

TomO- If you are putting water tubes on the roof to heat water for the pool you really need to keep an eye on them. That kind of set up is what caused the 40K worth of water damage to the house and it required me to tear down the old layout.

Here is the newest addition to the household. This is Stormy, a classic B&W female skunk.

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I hope everyone has a good night.
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Curt. No water tubes on the roof of any buildings. The lap pool is 8‘ above the panels on the south facing hillside below. Those panels have the tubes running through them. We did need a few extra horse power on the pump to push the water back uphill. The pump is run off battery power as is the whole property including the stables. This is the third house off grid (minus fiber internet connections) we have had. This will be the 1st of the 3 houses without Mr. Hucksters (elon) solar tiles that just never seemed to work right. The Powerwalls though are wonderful!
 
chadbag said:
So, "yes".

That technology usually uses "evacuated" tubes (vacuum based IIRC) and allows the sun to heat up the water even on a cold day. I don't quite understand how it works but I looked into it for our household water. But the plumber said that the tech didn't catch on. He was one of the main guys doing installs in this area and had it on his own house but said t never reached critical mass and was hard to find parts for and competent people to work on it -- few of his current crew could do it -- he said if he were to do it again he'd use extra PV solar panels (normal electric ones) to drive an electric hot water heater as that tech was getting cheaper and better year by year while the evacuated tube tech was stagnating.

Here is one vendor in Australia that explains in general how it works: https://apricus.com.au/evacuated-tube-solar-hot-water-systems/
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We had a choice for flat plate collection. Water enters at top of the units in a tube like a sprinkler hose. Openly pours down the collector plate to a bottom trough then flows to the filters and pumps. The sun will heat the water directly.

The other option is what we chose. Water goes through the tubes on a flat plate. The water will heat up as it flows through the long run of tubing. It then empties into a collector cistern before it reaches the filters and pumps. If the temperature drops below freezing the system shuts itself down and drains so nothing SHOULD freeze.

We have had systems up north for heating water and they IMO were very inefficient. They used other fluids to heat up and the heat then was pumped to where the water was for heating.

The Australian method of evacuated tubes is interesting, thanks
 
santafewillie said:
Good afternoon from hospital bed somewhere in Texas. Went to the ER at 2000 last night with chest pain
Moved to another location at 0400 this morning. Good news is it's not a heart attack. Bad news is that I'm still here. Suspected bleeding ulcer. I was given 2 liters of blood. Upper GI tomorrow.
Can't type on this small keyboard. Will update when I get home.
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Wow, Willie! Not good no matter the cause is. Hospitals suck, I know I have stayed enough times. Listen to what they say and follow directions. Get well, get home
 
Well, DARN, WILLIE! Whatcha go and do that for?
Saying a short prayer for you tonight, so get better and back on the job -those tomatoes need you!

BOB - That's too bad about Rocky - poor guy! Seems a weird injury for a kitty cat.

GUY - Too Funny! I never thought about trout for a gift! If Willie doesn't want them - pack some ice and send them here?

ION - Middle daughter has landed in Seattle (from Okinawa) and will be on Alaska Flight arriving San Diego 8:45 am with two G-sons, 8&10, and a lab-mix dog to live with us for "who knows".
I may or may not be on in the morning, so everyone play nice!

Temp outdood it self today and reached 95.
Sure wish we had a pool, TLOC, hint-hint?
 


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