Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 73°; might hit 90° today for the first time this July! Rather unusual to go this long. Scattered thunderstorms are in the forecast for this afternoon. A short burst of rain yesterday just after noon left 0.15" in the gauge. Same forecast for the next ten days, low 90's in the day, low 70's at night. Cooler than our average summer so far.
Tele-Doc appointment with my PCP yesterday went OK despite some technical issues. End result is an adjustment in one medication. Wife's eye procedure went OK later in the afternoon. She goes back today for a follow-up and she convinced the ophthalmologist to go ahead and schedule my laser surgery for my right eye while we are in town today. My surgery is to remove scar tissue resulting from the cataract surgery a few years ago. It is only in my right eye and I didn't even realize that it was an issue until I went in last week for the routine follow-up.
I'll mow this morning and rake up some grass clippings for mulch in the garden. I have some heavy "hay rows" in the NW part of the yard where I couldn't get to due to rainy conditions for two weeks. Hell! Even the Bermuda Grass was 8" tall.
While I did get out to the train shed yesterday, I didn't do much. In an effort to liven up the next "operating" session", I pulled out my maintenance train to start moving from location to location to get in the way of other operations, for a few sessions. However since it has been probably 5 years since I used it, I have to do a bit of maintenance on many of the cars. Since it is not a frequent runner, most of the cars still have their stock plastic wheels and at least two still have McHenry couplers on them. The couplers will be replaced, but I will just clean the wheels rather than change them. Especially since I use it so rarely. It is 9 cars in length, including 2 tool cars, 2 flatcars with stuff, a tanker with diesel, a gondola with scrap, a dining/sleeper car, a 250 ton crane and a crane tender/caboose. I will take some pictures when I am done cleaning the cobwebs and dust off them.
Kusojiji - When I go for an MRI, they let me bring in a Pink Floyd CD to play on the headset while I am in the tube. Very relaxing for me at least. One of the techs told me that they played it over the speakers in the room, which they normally turn off. I think that the CT scan with the intravenous shot is a chemical stress test, done in lieu of walking on a treadmill. I've had a couple in the last 15 years. It might have been something different for you though.
Tom O - I enjoy being a lone operator on my layout, both out of necessity and the desire to be this way. But I do envy the fact that you have so many other layouts that you can enjoy (building and operating) besides your own. Keeps things from becoming stale.
Marlin - Hoffman farms looks like a great place to visit. Too bad that you can't drive the train, or can you?
Louis - A bit of a follow up to your queries yesterday regarding "A" sides and "B" sides of 45 singles. More frequently than A's and B's being from different albums, B sides later being released as A sides was more common. Two that come to mind immediately are Elvis Presley's
Hound Dog which was originally the B side of
Don't Be Cruel. Another one that I can think of without researching is the Beach Boys'
Don't Worry Baby, which was first released as the B side of
I Get Around. It proved to be more popular and was re-released as the A side.
Troy - Isn't Outback a little out of your comfort zone? I don't recall seeing pizza on their menu.
While not in my usual genre of music, today is the late Toby Keith's birthday.
Everyone have a terrific Tuesday.
