Running Bear's June 2024 Coffee Shop

[NorthBrit]

f Win or lose in either case we’re screwed.

Much the same here.

 

[Patrick]

Morning all,

73° and cloudy, although the weather app says it's clear. Early morning thundershowers brought about 1/4 inch of rain, so mowing will be delayed. Grandkids will mow it after it dries a bit.

Have PT in a couple of hours.

BBL

 

[migalyto]

Good morning everyone.

A kind of gloomy morning out there this morning. Got some rain last night.

Got to suit up and head down to Home Depot this morning. We have a leaky faucet in the main bathroom. The original ones are dis-continued so since its a double sink, of course both will have to be replaced.

On the train front, I started last night putting together the second wet/dry storage bin/

Other than that, not much happening in my part of the world.

Have a great Friday everyone!

 

[migalyto]

Much the same here.

Yea, pretty much the whole world is screwed anymore!

 

[santafewillie]

Good Morning All. Clear and a warm 79°. Same old, same old, hot and dry with a heat advisory until September. I guess on the bright side, it hasn't been getting quite as hot as the weather geeks have been predicting, barely reaching 95° again yesterday. But the lack of noticeable wind has made it seem hotter.

Weekly grocery trek went as planned yesterday, no real surprises at the checkout. Gasoline hasn't changed anywhere, remaining between $3.19/gal and $3.29/gal. I think that I posted a couple of years ago that they were replacing a 5 mile section of a rural state highway that I drive on to get to town, 2 lane blacktop to a 4 lane w/turn lanes. They have completed part of it over a portion of the way and we have been rerouted over nice new concrete lanes. But get this, the whole part that I use goes through totally rural pastureland and they are putting in sidewalks!!! Most of the homes which are 750' - 1250' back from the road itself, are also very far spaced. I can't see the logic here, especially with traffic moving at 55 mph just a few feet away!The cows and horses can't use them since they are all behind fences. I'll have to take the time to get a picture for you guys.

I am being told that the debate last night that I didn't watch, was somewhat boring. Glad that I didn't waste the time. My source did say that there appeared to be a winner though.

I do have a list of tasks that I hope to complete today, but how many get done is questionable. I just can't take the heat as much as I could when younger. None really pressing.

I'm still painting figures out in the train shed, although I took an extended break yesterday to run trains. While I didn't add any more headstones to the cemetery, I did take a progress picture.

I want to add about 25 or 30 more before calling it complete. Since it is an active cemetery, there is a lot of not yet available area and there are a lot of unsold plots remaining. Next I plan to get back to the other scene in the town of Charlottesville and complete the alley behind Garner's Market, distribute some more details and add some weeds along the RR ROW.

Tom O - Our baby rabbit population succumbed to the bobcat a few weeks ago.
Patrick - I don't fly unless there's no other choice. It's just too much hassle. I remember my first flight in the late 50's, when the airline actually removed and turned a row of seats around so we could face the rest of the family! And the food was actually good!
Hughie - I might have actually voted for Kinky Friedman when he ran for governor.

Well, time to get moving, everybody have a great Friday.

 

[TLOC]

Good morning. After the rain started at 7pm and chased me inside I headed for the train. There is no TV in there therefore no debate for me. I was looking to see who the NHL rookie was so I did make the mistake of of going online later and the info news headlines were all over the map…

It’s raining now with high percentages of rain on/off throughout the day. I did cut 2/3rd’s of the grass during still high humidity yesterday afternoon. Finished up the final 20 minutes after 6pm as the front moved in and dropped both the temperature and humidity.

I had a pleasant breakfast out yesterday with the neighbor.

I looked at the names drafted in the NBA draft. No clue…

I could ring off the top 10 players expected to go in the NHL draft tonight though…

I know who cares?

I have the Geek squad large appliance guys coming out today to look ($138 trip charge) at the dead light in the refrigerator purchased 2/2023. It’s an LED board in a Whirlpool refrigerator and it’s not covered under warranty that the manual says can only be changed out by authorized service people. I know they won’t have it in the truck. I had a whole rant for this but have been holding off. Maybe after it’s fixed. I haven’t heard yet though what time the 4 hour window is.

I thought I said yes to a op session at a nearby layout today. So when I went online to cancel yesterday because of the appliance I found out it’s the 30th.

I had a friend stop over last week asking if I can paint and weather a diesel for him. It’s for a friend’s 300th and last op session on the guys layout. He’s tearing it out and starting over. The friend dropped the model off yesterday. I really don’t fully paint models anymore, I just do weathering. But it is an easy scheme and I actually a few weeks ago test painted a transfer caboose for myself trying out my new paint scheme. So I have some new experience. He had it apart and stripped already. He will do the decal work at my bench so I can then clear coat it when he’s done. I sprayed the primer last night. I can tell you that there is a difference in painting and just weathering. It’s a mindset but the mixes are very different. I may not have fully painted a model train since I stopped doing brass locomotives in the late 80’s. That was solvent paints on brass. This is Arcylics on plastic. Because I had the primer out I also sprayed one of my undecorated Gp40-2W’s for my new Wisconsin Interstate railroad…

Enjoy the day

 

[kbkchooch]

Good Morning All. Clear and a warm 79°. Same old, same old, hot and dry with a heat advisory until September. I guess on the bright side, it hasn't been getting quite as hot as the weather geeks have been predicting, barely reaching 95° again yesterday. But the lack of noticeable wind has made it seem hotter.

Weekly grocery trek went as planned yesterday, no real surprises at the checkout. Gasoline hasn't changed anywhere, remaining between $3.19/gal and $3.29/gal. I think that I posted a couple of years ago that they were replacing a 5 mile section of a rural state highway that I drive on to get to town, 2 lane blacktop to a 4 lane w/turn lanes. They have completed part of it over a portion of the way and we have been rerouted over nice new concrete lanes. But get this, the whole part that I use goes through totally rural pastureland and they are putting in sidewalks!!! Most of the homes which are 750' - 1250' back from the road itself, are also very far spaced. I can't see the logic here, especially with traffic moving at 55 mph just a few feet away!The cows and horses can't use them since they are all behind fences. I'll have to take the time to get a picture for you guys.

I am being told that the debate last night that I didn't watch, was somewhat boring. Glad that I didn't waste the time. My source did say that there appeared to be a winner though.

I do have a list of tasks that I hope to complete today, but how many get done is questionable. I just can't take the heat as much as I could when younger. None really pressing.

I'm still painting figures out in the train shed, although I took an extended break yesterday to run trains. While I didn't add any more headstones to the cemetery, I did take a progress picture.
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I want to add about 25 or 30 more before calling it complete. Since it is an active cemetery, there is a lot of not yet available area and there are a lot of unsold plots remaining. Next I plan to get back to the other scene in the town of Charlottesville and complete the alley behind Garner's Market, distribute some more details and add some weeds along the RR ROW.

Tom O - Our baby rabbit population succumbed to the bobcat a few weeks ago.
Patrick - I don't fly unless there's no other choice. It's just too much hassle. I remember my first flight in the late 50's, when the airline actually removed and turned a row of seats around so we could face the rest of the family! And the food was actually good!
Hughie - I might have actually voted for Kinky Friedman when he ran for governor.

Well, time to get moving, everybody have a great Friday.

Great progress on the cemetery Willie, it appears that people are just dying to get in there!

 

[TLOC]

Good Morning All. Clear and a warm 79°. Same old, same old, hot and dry with a heat advisory until September. I guess on the bright side, it hasn't been getting quite as hot as the weather geeks have been predicting, barely reaching 95° again yesterday. But the lack of noticeable wind has made it seem hotter.

Weekly grocery trek went as planned yesterday, no real surprises at the checkout. Gasoline hasn't changed anywhere, remaining between $3.19/gal and $3.29/gal. I think that I posted a couple of years ago that they were replacing a 5 mile section of a rural state highway that I drive on to get to town, 2 lane blacktop to a 4 lane w/turn lanes. They have completed part of it over a portion of the way and we have been rerouted over nice new concrete lanes. But get this, the whole part that I use goes through totally rural pastureland and they are putting in sidewalks!!! Most of the homes which are 750' - 1250' back from the road itself, are also very far spaced. I can't see the logic here, especially with traffic moving at 55 mph just a few feet away!The cows and horses can't use them since they are all behind fences. I'll have to take the time to get a picture for you guys.

I am being told that the debate last night that I didn't watch, was somewhat boring. Glad that I didn't waste the time. My source did say that there appeared to be a winner though.

I do have a list of tasks that I hope to complete today, but how many get done is questionable. I just can't take the heat as much as I could when younger. None really pressing.

I'm still painting figures out in the train shed, although I took an extended break yesterday to run trains. While I didn't add any more headstones to the cemetery, I did take a progress picture.
View attachment 192766
I want to add about 25 or 30 more before calling it complete. Since it is an active cemetery, there is a lot of not yet available area and there are a lot of unsold plots remaining. Next I plan to get back to the other scene in the town of Charlottesville and complete the alley behind Garner's Market, distribute some more details and add some weeds along the RR ROW.

Tom O - Our baby rabbit population succumbed to the bobcat a few weeks ago.
Patrick - I don't fly unless there's no other choice. It's just too much hassle. I remember my first flight in the late 50's, when the airline actually removed and turned a row of seats around so we could face the rest of the family! And the food was actually good!
Hughie - I might have actually voted for Kinky Friedman when he ran for governor.

Well, time to get moving, everybody have a great Friday.

Speaking to my very very progressive leaning spouse while she would disagree about a winner, her ending analyst to me is we are screwed no matter what. That to me is finally a great admission on her part. Maybe her rose colored glasses fell off finally….

 

[Boris]

Good Morning. 70°, clear and sunny with winds from the North.

 

[ctclibby]

Good Morning All!

53F @76% with more rain today. Still should get to 68F later.

Maria and I did a 'house date' last night to enjoy the circus.

Forgot to put out the sliced summer sausage and 3 cheeses: Sharp Cheddar, Swiss and Gouda ( dumb sh.t me, so not shown ). You can see the 2 bowls of chips, that lower one holds Chicken in a Biscuit. Plate is teriyaki chicken and bacon wrapped scallops. Had a few 'tall blondes' along with. Cookie Dough ice cream for dessert - dogs got to prewash those. That stuff got us through the 1st hour and neither of us were hungry when the plates shined. Kinda gave up after that as there was an obvious looser.

As you can see, Jake is tired after chewing on that toy. He has gotten most of the back split up the seam. I has a squeak ball in it to be out soon.

Boy, our backyard has become pretty quiet. We changed our strategy and got new automatic dog collars and a pump pellet gun. The collar mode we set ( so far ) is 'beep', 'vibrate' then 'shock'. When they bark, the beep happens first, then if another bark, vibrate happens, if yet another - bingo. We can put up with one or two barks; with these the barking all the time has stopped.

Pellet gun has 0.17 bore, single shot and fires flat nose pellets; muzzle velocity with 3 pumps is 350Ft/Sec. Does not do very good at 250Ft, so 4 pumps to get the pellet out there. That would be somewhere more than 350Ft/Sec and less than 525Ft/Sec. Neither penetrate. We have a Doe that runs the dogs up and down the fence line. Actually, it is pretty much a 1/2 to 3/4 of the way around our property; bout 1.5 acres fenced. She challenges them as she comes right up to the fence and stomps at them. Pellet in the butt pretty much quells that. We found out that she has a fawn in the tall grass outside of the north fence line. Yesterday I saw it playing - the little guy is pretty much a crotch rocket and can run!

Later

 

[Jim 68cuda]

This Sinclair station in Cassopolis, MI popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. Perhaps I shoulda built the Walthers Cornerstone Service Station kit as a Sinclair station rather than as a Standard Oil station and a Phillips 66 station.

 

[ctclibby]

This Sinclair station in Cassopolis, MI popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. Perhaps I shoulda built the Walthers Cornerstone Service Station kit as a Sinclair station rather than as a Standard Oil station and a Phillips 66 station.

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Don't tell Christian about that dino!

 

[troyphoto]

Well, howdy there internet people and those with debate club experience.

In 1966 Gay Talese wrote one of the greatest pieces of long-form journalism ever. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.

Last night, as I watched the debate, after the first question to each, I started thinking "that's how I look and sound when I have a cold." I turned off the debate, and switched to social media. It was a better way to experience it.

About five minutes later, "Yep, he has a cold" and the "Drug Test positive: It's Nyquil" jokes began.

Let's just say that social media is LIT today, and there are two definite sides to the issue. So far, those two sides both deal with blue.

My one takeaway other than the issue of the Cold, was that the journo moderators weren't doing very well on fact checking. As in, not at all. They have a responsibility to do so as they ask the questions. And it was rarer than chicken lips last night. Another reason I turned the show off.

 

[Grizzled]

Morning folks

49F and apparently headed for a blistering 63 for the day's high. Love it.

Another that watches very little TV and forewent the debate.

I did get one of my projects back together yesterday, another purchased as a "basket case" with some major mechanical issues even though it appeared to have never been on the rails. Run well now.

 

[Bruette]

Win or lose in either case we’re screwed.

Don't worry!

No matter which side it is, they like to take credit for our "consumer" driven economey. They forget us consumers go out and work hard every day to have the money to keep spending. Hard working Americans get-r-done!

 

[Texas Hobo]

You mean the debate was last night! Oh crap, I missed another one.

 

[santafewillie]

Well, howdy there internet people and those with debate club experience.

In 1966 Gay Talese wrote one of the greatest pieces of long-form journalism ever. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.

Last night, as I watched the debate, after the first question to each, I started thinking "that's how I look and sound when I have a cold." I turned off the debate, and switched to social media. It was a better way to experience it.

About five minutes later, "Yep, he has a cold" and the "Drug Test positive: It's Nyquil" jokes began.

Let's just say that social media is LIT today, and there are two definite sides to the issue. So far, those two sides both deal with blue.

My one takeaway other than the issue of the Cold, was that the journo moderators weren't doing very well on fact checking. As in, not at all. They have a responsibility to do so as they ask the questions. And it was rarer than chicken lips last night. Another reason I turned the show off.

I believe that one of the rules to last night's debate was that there was to be no on-air fact-checking by the moderators. I didn't watch so I don't know if they followed up or not. I think that it was done that way to avoid some of the raucous behavior displayed during the 2020 debates. Right or wrong, here's a quote from CNN's political director.

Earlier this week, CNN’s political director said not to expect much fact-checking, if any, from moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash during Thursday’s debate.
“The venue of a presidential debate between these two candidates is not the ideal venue for a live fact-checking exercise,” David Chalian told The Washington Post.

 

[Smudge617]

Well that's 4 1/2 hours of my life I'll never get back, why you ask, simple, JMRI decided to lose its memory, in that when I started it up to add the new loco, it was blank as in, never been used before, that's weird ?????

I tried unplugging everything, closed it down several times etc. re-started it, but nope, nothing. Not wanting to re-load everything I remembered that I had on various occasions done a backup of the roster, so no problem, I can import the roster from the backup, if I can find where on my various hard drives I stored it, took a while but found the file, great except it's not quite as simple as the instructions on JMRI make you believe, so further searches on Google I found a little more info, it still took me over three hours to finally import the roster, and don't ask me how, I have no idea it looked like I would have to import each loco individually, I didn't as it turned out, but man what a PITA.

And to add insult to injury, yesterday (Thursday) was my last official work day till the end of September, well it should have been, seems one of our drivers has decided to leave at short notice, and as I'm the only spare driver that has experience of both Coach and Bus work, (and no, they're not the same) muggins is now working, so all my plans, few that I had anyway, are now out the window for the foreseeable future.

Rant Over.

 

[chadbag]

The original ones are dis-continued so since its a double sink, of course both will have to be replaced.

While the faucet has been discongtinued, have the internal mixing cartridges been discontinued? From my meager experience those are where they usually leak and a lot of faucets from a given brand share the same internals.

 

[chadbag]

I wouldn't want the debate moerators "fact checking" the candidates. They don't fact check -- they litmus test check it against their biases. On either side. Post debate commentary can "fact check".

They should, however fact check their own questions and the validity of them...