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Good morning all!

Happy Hump Day!

Kind of a cloudy morning but that's supposed to burn off and become mostly sunny by mid morning. Currently its 57F with the high
of 89F. No rain predicted, This should help the pool water to warm up.

As always, usual stuff around the house today.

Time to hit the coffee and enjoy the quiet before everyone gets up.

Have a safe day everyone!
 
NYC_George said:
I was trying to copy a 30 minute video from my phone to my computer via the USB port to my computer but keep on having this Drive One Cloud problem. Everything goes to the Microsoft Drive One now and then to the computer's file system? No more direct copying anymore? I really don't understand this. Anyone here know what's happening? Swal
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Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!
 


bnsf971 said:
Basically, Microsoft is forcing you to store everything in the cloud in One Drive, whether you want to or not.
Without going into another rant, it’s still possible to just upload to your computer, but it’s been deliberately configured to make the process complicated enough the average user will just give up, and do it Microsoft’s way.
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I deleted One Drive on my computers. I don't use the 'Cloud' and never will.

Good morning folks. 68°F this morning and partly sunny. Rain expected on and off today. Hit the rack at 2200 last night after my 0500 rising yesterday morning. I turned the bedroom A/C on and didn't wake up at all until 0630. Best sleep I've had in weeks.

FedEx finally decided to put my package on a truck for delivery today. Unless he changes his mind again and takes it back to Sauget for another trip out tomorrow. We'll see.

Wasted an entire day waiting on that package yesterday and didn't find out with certainty that it wasn't coming until after 1900 yesterday. They are almost as bad as the USPS with no accountability and no one you can speak to that knows anything.

Light laundry load today and I may throw some hamburger on the grill between rain showers.

Have a great hump day! Servus!

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Good morning Crew from cloudy Wisconsin! 67f degrees now and heading to 88. Yesterday did hit 90 locally but officially only 89! But it was gorgeous. Even though the sun was strong the grandson’s soccer game at 87 degrees was great. A breeze of 5mph and humidity of 28% added up to a beautiful weather event, plus his team won and he got a goal. I was on the front porch last night till 9:30 as it was so nice. Cypurrently on the south facing deck but with no sun it’s fairly nice back here.

I am missing a special OPS session today and this morning received a text telling me to just come over. A guest from Europe is in attendance but I promised myself no more sessions till my health is better.

But I did find out we have company coming for dinner. I was told to get another propane tank as mine is just about out based on the Weber grill device that is showing red. The Son in Law is the grill chef tonight and that generally means too many people are coming.

I see Rapido is coming out with a working EoT device for HO. Looks like they are beating MacRail LLC to market for lit EoTs.

Enjoy the day
 
Good Morning All. Cloudy and 65°; there may be rain nearby (2-3 miles) and coming this way...maybe not! It's just that kind of pattern. We did have a short thunderstorm around 5:00 pm yesterday along with some brief showers two other times; there was .7" in the gauge from yesterday when I emptied it a few minutes ago.

Busy day with yardwork yesterday, after starting with the usual dishwasher chore. I FINALLY took the cover off the pool. Warm and murky right now. The cover tore in a wind storm last October and debris infiltrated. I let it all settle overnight. Today I will decide whether to clean what's there or drain it and scrub and start over. Hate to waste the 10k gallons of water currently in it...it will require 14k gallons to refill it. Water temperature is currently 74° after being under that black cover. The 5:00 pm thunderstorm only lasted 25 minutes, so I was still able to grill burgers on the charcoal grill. No roof over my grilling porch!
Today starts with another never-ending trip to the PCP for another follow-up and blood draw. The weather will decide what I do for the remainder of the day.
Laptops and tablets are just not for me, I'm too used to my 23' monitor. Forget about using the phone! I am a holdout with Win10, nice not to have to deal with all of the hassles resetting my stuff after an update.

Out in the train shed yesterday, I glued down the remaining stuff on the double grade crossing and started the ground cover and ballast. I have some tidying up to do on the north side and a ground throw to install, so that is next.

Kusojiji -
Kusojiji said:
Haha, no worries. Sometimes I'm the only one who knows what I'm talking about.
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No kidding!;) I fall into that mode every so often!
Tom O - In my brothers' neighborhood in Dallas (and all of Dallas for that matter), no door removal is required. They have monthly bulk item pickup, but most stuff disappears long before the truck comes down the street. No cost for either!

Everybody have a wonderful Wednesday.
 
Good Morning All!
60F @ 82% raining. Got to 75F yesterday.

Printers: WiFi printer is just a network printer. If it won't print via WiFi - suspect something with the WiFi AP, the printers WiFi config or both. Can you ping the printer or AP from your windoz box? If you can connect via USB and it prints, not a driver problem. If it is some sort of driver problem, you should be able set it up as generic Postscript printer of which windoz *should* have a proper driver - Postscript works just fine if you are printing simple stuff. I am used to HP, been a long time since I had a Cannon - I suspect that there are generic drivers for those too.

Where do you take someone injured in a peek-a-boo accident?

ICU

L8r
 
I discovered something about Fedex that I don’t know if I was supposed to be told. Monday and Tuesday are generally reserved to commercial deliveries, and individuals most likely won’t get their stuff until Wednesday or possibly Thursday.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s “out for delivery” or “loaded on truck for delivery”, you still won’t get it.
 
bnsf971 said:
I discovered something about Fedex that I don’t know if I was supposed to be told. Monday and Tuesday are generally reserved to commercial deliveries, and individuals most likely won’t get their stuff until Wednesday or possibly Thursday.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s “out for delivery” or “loaded on truck for delivery”, you still won’t get it.
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Terry: That all depends on where you are at and where the package is coming from. When we did Fedex and UPS a few years back, the metro areas were pretty much all commercial on Monday's, no Tuesday's at that time. Found that out from the drivers. We did dock to dock, nothing out to the world. I still laugh at how stuff gets loaded in the delivery trucks - can you say cluster..... Amazon is probably the worst of the bunch.

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Good morning folks, 76 here ans muggy! Lots of sunshine and the hummingbirds are working hard on the feeder. Gonna clean the van today as we are heading to Branson, MO tomorrow to have a few days with family from here, Iowa and Texas. It's an annual thing we do and it is always a great time. There is a nice hobby shop there I always hit, hoping they have some N scale ladders. They have a large selection of Woodland Scenics' stuff, so might grab some of that foam stuff and try it.
Raising my coffee cup to you all.
 
bnsf971 said:
I discovered something about Fedex that I don’t know if I was supposed to be told. Monday and Tuesday are generally reserved to commercial deliveries, and individuals most likely won’t get their stuff until Wednesday or possibly Thursday.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s “out for delivery” or “loaded on truck for delivery”, you still won’t get it.
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Maybe in your area. Doesn’t seem to hold around here.

But more importantly, there are three FedEx organizations and it depends on which one is bringing your stuff.

There is the express arm. Their trucks have a purple and red logo. They bring everything but the slow ground. In my experience they meet their deadlines.

There is FedEx Ground, but it has two separate orgs that maintain their own trucks and hubs.

There is Fedex Ground with purple and green logos trucks. They’re primarily a commercial delivery service. They do residential too if someone doesn’t check the residential box when sending. This may have restrictions in days in some areas.

Then there is FedEx Home Delivery. Also purple and green logo since it’s a division of Ground. They do residential only and what should be bringing stuff to most of us. As long as the sender checked that RESIDENTIAL box. And there is an incentive for them to do it as a Ground residential deliver costs more than a Home Delivery one.

It’s possible in some rural areas that the ground and home delivery are run by the same guys, but in most areas are separate, with separate trucks and even hubs the trucks load up at and leave from. (Home delivery stuff goes cross country on the same Ground semis and then when it arrives at the Ground hub is sent on further to the Home Delivery hub).

Another difference is that the Express drivers are unionized company employees driving company trucks. The Ground and Home Delivery guys are independent contractors who buy routes, their own trucks, etc.

FedEx Ground started some 25+ years ago when FedEx bought the former commercial-only ground shipping company RPS, which worked on this independent contractor model. They re-labeled it FedEx Ground. It’s become more integrated since but that’s its roots and why the operations are basically separated.
 
Well, howdy there internet peeps and those with packages.

It's Troy again.

I just started listing the stuff from my N Scale layout over in the sales threads

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Thread 'Troy's N-Scale Sell OFF'

Greetings.
I decided to switch to HO, and am selling off what I have in N-scale.

I'll do several posts, so scroll down to see more. My Direct Messages are open, so hit me up if you want to purchase:

Rules:
Offers considered, be reasonable.
Buyer pays shipping, taxes etc
Payment via PayPal preferred. Will also accept Venmo

Prefer to ship within the Continental US. Outside of that, buyer will pay all fees etc for importing.
I will pay shipping (within Continental US) on orders totally $200 or more.

Note: I never had an operating layout, so "how's it run" questions cannot be...

Which is good because I made some purchases today (or they showed up today)

First, hit the hobby store after I got my ears lowered. Found a few Bachman Orange box cars in the used aisle. One stuck out as a potential zombie fighting car. Then I looked in the new section, and found a 50 ft boxcar in a pretty green color.

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This afternoon, the UPS guy brought me a nice new loco
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I had never paid attention to the cab interiors before... I had to go look at the N-scale locos. No crew members visible...
What is this???
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Tomorrow, I need to work on running the outlets for the new freezer, and the hobby desk. After that it will probably be back to working on the layout.
 


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