Running Bear's November 2023 Coffee Shop
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I thought my Pentium-III desktop was great, with a 750mhz clock speed, and something like 256Mb RAM. And I thought I'd never fill up that huge 2GB HDD...
55 and supposed to be 78 and total sunny.
FLO - need help, please - cup is empty!
Swal
Swal
Swal
Guess it's time to get the snowblower ready.
As for the wife getting moved to another church, if that would happen she will commute. But our current church has a long history of keeping pastors a long time. If history keeps true this should be the church that she retires from.
This home is our forever home.
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It was, when it was. Then it wasn't, when more better stuff came out.
I thought my Pentium-III desktop was great, with a 750mhz clock speed, and something like 256Mb RAM. And I thought I'd never fill up that huge 2GB HDD...
I thought that was what it was, then I ran a Mb-KB converter, and it came out to what I posted. Maybe the converter is wonky. I do know way back, I thought 56K was great. And it was--for 1996...
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Please note that I have added another update to my layout thread shown below. Some of it was recently documented here in the Coffee Shop.
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BBL
NorthBrit
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TLOC
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Good snowy white morning from the So Central Wisconsin. Kind of a surprise when opening the blinds this morning. The white stuff is all over but 90 minutes later at sunrise it’s 41f degrees and melting fast. I let the 3 horses out in the covered arena as I am in no mood to have to give them a shower and rub down if they played in the muck today. Terry and friends are due back after 4PM but the Son in Law is playing chauffeur today. He’ll be in real close to the airport as he is picking up his meat to smoke for the next 3 weeks. Their house the next 3 weekends plus Thanksgiving Day will be party central.
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of trains and weathering. It turned into another inventory day and at noon I got talked into going golfing at a local “newly remodeled” golf center hitting into a simulator. 8 of us played Spyglass and Pebble Beach on the screen and thankfully I played well. Looking at the receipts from yesterday, it was over $300 spent. Way too long a time there when snacks and dinner were included I got home last night and showered. Feeling refreshed I sat in my chair near the fireplace to finish the inventory record keeping and promptly woke up 2+ hours late at 1:30. Went to bed then. I did tell the guys in the car on the way home that if they ever want to play again like we did in the simulator I have one at home. After a tour of the simulator 3 are coming next Tuesday!
Today is a last minute check and clean the house. Then because yesterday turned into a golf instead of weathering afternoon/evening I will do that today.
enjoy the day
WALTHERS 12 days of Sales, day 9
Yesterday was supposed to be a day of trains and weathering. It turned into another inventory day and at noon I got talked into going golfing at a local “newly remodeled” golf center hitting into a simulator. 8 of us played Spyglass and Pebble Beach on the screen and thankfully I played well. Looking at the receipts from yesterday, it was over $300 spent. Way too long a time there when snacks and dinner were included I got home last night and showered. Feeling refreshed I sat in my chair near the fireplace to finish the inventory record keeping and promptly woke up 2+ hours late at 1:30. Went to bed then. I did tell the guys in the car on the way home that if they ever want to play again like we did in the simulator I have one at home. After a tour of the simulator 3 are coming next Tuesday!
Today is a last minute check and clean the house. Then because yesterday turned into a golf instead of weathering afternoon/evening I will do that today.
enjoy the day
WALTHERS 12 days of Sales, day 9
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Not worth a damn if you can't remember what's on it?
55 and supposed to be 78 and total sunny.
FLO - need help, please - cup is empty!
I had to be selective a few minutes ago when I was putting music on my iPod, since it’s “only” 2GB…
kbkchooch
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I find that to be quite the truth! I "find" stuff that I didn't know I had at times!
NYC_George
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Tom a friend of mine who builds horse pole barns built his own golf simulator in his shop. I was there a few times but it's nothing like real golf. His horse barn business is booming. He says I would like to retire but people keep calling and the money their paying me is hard to refuse.
Swal
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good morning! (Interurban depot, south view, Tipton IN)
Interurban depot, south view
Interurban depot, south view
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Cloudy and 49°, with a stiff steady 15 mph wind out of the north. Thanks Patrick, you all could have closed the damn door. It looks like cooler weather for all of the ten day forecast, highs near 60°±, lows in the mid-30's. It actually looks like Thanksgiving Thursday will be the best day upcoming.
Fall is am interesting time of year here on the SFW estate. Some trees are losing their leaves,, but the native ones are not. I have a beautiful view across the road 125' away, of the neighboring farmer's wheat field, back-dropped by the woods along the dry runoff creek.
Meanwhile what's left of the tree row between the road and the field looks like this.
This is where he had the trees cleared because they were overgrown and scratching the sides of his fairly new high-dollar John Deere equipment. Because these are Hackberry trees, each of those 3' high trunks will sprout multiple shoots next spring and fill in our windbreak. Those trees are going to be my heating firewood in winter of 2024-2025.
There's a bunch here, probably more than one whole season's worth. The shredded branch ends and leaves will make a lot of mulch and compost for the garden. Right now, it is providing a lot of food (Hackberries) for the resident bird population.
Granddogs seem to be doing well, after the ground dried up yesterday (about noon), they ran around for over 4 hours, chasing my lone squirrel and whatever other hoodoo is out there. They slept soundly last night and already into this morning. Me, I shredded more leaves with the mower and shredded more brush, all eventually destined for the garden. Inside, I mopped the kitchen floor again and scrubbed out a part of the fridge; only found one container of expired food that we lost in there.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I temporarily moved the figures aside since I was bored with them. But not before I finished re-working the third one of the Chinese men. But I forgot to take a picture so I'll show that tomorrow.
Instead, I moved on to rehabbing another of the structures that I got from Chet, a Saloon called The Dusty Saddle. Since all of his sidewalks were cut from plastic "For Sale" yard signs, and attached directly to the layout table, there are no sidewalks with most of his structures, so that's where I started.
Note that one of the signs above the entrance is missing, and didn't make the trip from Montana. Easy fix, as I will make a copy of the remaining one using the computer and printer to fix that.
He was also very specific about his structure's locations on his layout and he didn't put glass in the windows that weren't facing out. Most of my structures have at least three visible sides, so I will be adding glazing to the saloon. First though was the sidewalk.
It will be ready for painting after the solvent worked it's magic overnight
Swal - There's more drawers on your floor than I have in the entire kitchen!
Louis/Troy - The noise level at Texas Roadhouse's that we have visited while on vacation trips is just as loud as the Texas location that is nearest us. It's too loud to even hold a conversation with my wife, even when I set my hearing aids to the "restaurant level" of noise suppression.
Mike - I am so glad to be done with dealing with OSHA now that I am retired. I had to take the extremely boring 30-hour training certification three times in my career, and the 10-hour training more times than I can remember. It was not something that I was allowed to skip.
David -
Everyone have a terrific Tuesday.
Fall is am interesting time of year here on the SFW estate. Some trees are losing their leaves,, but the native ones are not. I have a beautiful view across the road 125' away, of the neighboring farmer's wheat field, back-dropped by the woods along the dry runoff creek.
Meanwhile what's left of the tree row between the road and the field looks like this.
This is where he had the trees cleared because they were overgrown and scratching the sides of his fairly new high-dollar John Deere equipment. Because these are Hackberry trees, each of those 3' high trunks will sprout multiple shoots next spring and fill in our windbreak. Those trees are going to be my heating firewood in winter of 2024-2025.
There's a bunch here, probably more than one whole season's worth. The shredded branch ends and leaves will make a lot of mulch and compost for the garden. Right now, it is providing a lot of food (Hackberries) for the resident bird population.
Granddogs seem to be doing well, after the ground dried up yesterday (about noon), they ran around for over 4 hours, chasing my lone squirrel and whatever other hoodoo is out there. They slept soundly last night and already into this morning. Me, I shredded more leaves with the mower and shredded more brush, all eventually destined for the garden. Inside, I mopped the kitchen floor again and scrubbed out a part of the fridge; only found one container of expired food that we lost in there.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I temporarily moved the figures aside since I was bored with them. But not before I finished re-working the third one of the Chinese men. But I forgot to take a picture so I'll show that tomorrow.
Instead, I moved on to rehabbing another of the structures that I got from Chet, a Saloon called The Dusty Saddle. Since all of his sidewalks were cut from plastic "For Sale" yard signs, and attached directly to the layout table, there are no sidewalks with most of his structures, so that's where I started.
Note that one of the signs above the entrance is missing, and didn't make the trip from Montana. Easy fix, as I will make a copy of the remaining one using the computer and printer to fix that.
He was also very specific about his structure's locations on his layout and he didn't put glass in the windows that weren't facing out. Most of my structures have at least three visible sides, so I will be adding glazing to the saloon. First though was the sidewalk.
It will be ready for painting after the solvent worked it's magic overnight
Swal - There's more drawers on your floor than I have in the entire kitchen!
Louis/Troy - The noise level at Texas Roadhouse's that we have visited while on vacation trips is just as loud as the Texas location that is nearest us. It's too loud to even hold a conversation with my wife, even when I set my hearing aids to the "restaurant level" of noise suppression.
Mike - I am so glad to be done with dealing with OSHA now that I am retired. I had to take the extremely boring 30-hour training certification three times in my career, and the 10-hour training more times than I can remember. It was not something that I was allowed to skip.
David -
Most everything is out of date before I buy it except food!
Everyone have a terrific Tuesday.
Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
GEORGE - Our daughter and SIL over in Newport run a home remodeling business and they are our "go too" for the cabinets, flooring, and everything else.
She had us get Z-line appliances - I think they came from Lowes - said they have had good luck with them. cabinets will be custom done and have the self closing doors as yours.
Island will be roughly 4 x 10 foot quartz. (it's her money, thank God!)
DAVID - So sorry to hear of DAWN's issues - prayers!
KARL - that's classic!
She had us get Z-line appliances - I think they came from Lowes - said they have had good luck with them. cabinets will be custom done and have the self closing doors as yours.
Island will be roughly 4 x 10 foot quartz. (it's her money, thank God!)
DAVID - So sorry to hear of DAWN's issues - prayers!
KARL - that's classic!
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NYC_George
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Willie those are the draws that we had to take out to screw the cabinets together. There are 13 total draws.
Swal
NYC_George
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Sherrel I have 49 sq ft of granite counter top to be installed and they're here right now making up the template. They'll be back tomorrow to install it. Fast turn around. I will be paying for it. $4,300.00
Swal
migalyto
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We were lucky all ours fell as rain. Had it been 4-5 degrees cooler ours would of been white as well!
Guess it's time to get the snowblower ready.
rgeiter
Conrail Quality
Would LOVE to have a garden railroad! REALLY would love to have one! But…not now. Want to build my dream railroad in my basement first.
As for the wife getting moved to another church, if that would happen she will commute. But our current church has a long history of keeping pastors a long time. If history keeps true this should be the church that she retires from.
This home is our forever home.
migalyto
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Boxes in the train room are notoriously famous for re-discovering treasure you had long forgot you purchased.
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