Running Bear's September 2026 Coffee Shop

[bnsf971]

WTH is Fortinet???

Our company’s internet security company.

 

[Marlin39]

It's not a "NO X,Y or Z" - We have to have all the hoops jumped through to trigger it. A LOT of plans have moved that way in the past few years. The ACA made insurance more expensive, and the other side's counterpoint lessened some of the restrictions, but costs didn't come down for the consumer. Once a company has increased prices, why decrease? Oh, and now they don't have to cover as much as the ACA.

To be fair, we could go for the Cadillac plan at about 10x the current cost. But that would put a dent in what she's throwing into retirement. She'll do the math on what we spent this year, and see if it's worth double the monthly premium cost to have a lower deductible without much more benefit.

Ok, it sound like you're on Obamacare. That explains the difficulty. You have my sympathy. BTDT I was on it for about 6 months after I retired at 62 and it was a total Charlie Foxtrot. I found it easier to work 28hrs/wk at Trader Joe's and get full "normal" medical coverage until I hit 65.

If you are 65+ take full advantage of Medicare and a supplemental plan. Nicki's 12 hours in the ER, with MRI, CT, Xrays, specialists, etc., was fully covered. Her surgery and 5 days in ICU was covered. All the post-op PT, nephrology appts, post surgical follow ups, blood work, etc is all covered.

 

[santafewillie]

Well, Fortinet has decided anything with “train” or “railroad” in the site name is a phishing site, and has been blocked. I can’t even search for those items on Fleabay or Scamazon, it gets blocked.
I’m currently on my phone with wifi off, using my cell data to post here.

So just disable or remove it!
EDIT:
Oh! Never mind now that you have posted that it's on the company system.

 

[kbkchooch]

They didn't have colored guns when I bought one for my wife for times when I wasn't home. She chose the HK USP9.

My wife like the pink ones

 

[troyphoto]

Ok, it sound like you're on Obamacare. That explains the difficulty. You have my sympathy. BTDT I was on it for about 6 months after I retired at 62 and it was a total Charlie Foxtrot. I found it easier to work 28hrs/wk at Trader Joe's and get full "normal" medical coverage until I hit 65.

If you are 65+ take full advantage of Medicare and a supplemental plan. Nicki's 12 hours in the ER, with MRI, CT, Xrays, specialists, etc., was fully covered. Her surgery and 5 days in ICU was covered. All the post-op PT, nephrology appts, post surgical follow ups, blood work, etc is all covered.

Nope… Not on any of the plans through the marketplace. This is employer provided, by one of the biggest names in medical lab testing. The employers pay the same toward the plan no matter which one we choose.

I just turned 62. It would be nice to get on single payer (Medicare isn’t quite single payer, but outside of the VA, it’s the closest thing in the US.

To. Be fair, all of our lab tests are covered 100% if ordered by a health care provider and it’s done by the wife’s employer.

 

[chadbag]

WTH is Fortinet???

security provider for ISPs and companies

 

[Kusojiji]

Wife makes something like that somewhat regularly using whatever pork we have. It is pretty good.

Years ago, I wouldn't have thought of eating that big chunk of pure fat, but now, love it!

This piece of pork belly that I bought had about 50% meat, which is much more than I've found before.

 

[Kusojiji]

wife’s yaki buta

Man, that looks good! I had to zoom in on the pic. She put that in the oven after browning? Yeah, I bet that's good in ramen. Make big chunk, cut it up and eat it as kinda like a condiment. nice!

 

[Kusojiji]

Medicare. I have to start paying for that at 65 as it is required if I want to get TRICARE for life. Can't use medicare overseas so that's just money in the trashcan.

 

[chadbag]

Years ago, I wouldn't have thought of eating that big chunk of pure fat, but now, love it!

This piece of pork belly that I bought had about 50% meat, which is much more than I've found before.

There is a reason we use pork belly to make God’s food. Bacon.

I told the wife about your pork and she immediately said it was the fatty belly part before I even got to describing it. Just the name.

Everything in Japan seems to be soy sauce, mirin or sake or both, and a little sugar.

What she makes isn’t as fatty, which is too bad. Pork and fat go together.

 

[westtexjohn]

Good afternoon to all........

Forum seems to go from zero to 60 then back.

I have managed to get all 5 of my new turnouts operational with servo controllers installed, fascia panels with track plan, switches and LEDs installed. All I have left is hooking up the frog power at each turnout. I'd post a photo (maybe later) but the forum is trying my patience as it is.
I have two more turnouts on the upper level to do and thats it. I'm looking forward to that and moving on to the next step.

I have eight turnouts to wire on the staging (lower) level. These are twin coil, capacitive discharge units.....very solid and a positive throw action.
These also will have power routed frogs and a control panel with toggle switches and LEDs.

later on, I'm cooking a pot of Pasta Faggioli soup and a pot of black-eyed peas with some cornbread to boot. Maybe an odd combo but I couldn't decide on one or the other so I'm going for both. Spell check says "Faggioli" with two letter g's. Internet speller says one g, ggo figure.

Willie....I agree. The old gal is guilty as she confessed. It seems there was a poor vetting of jurors in my opinion. Should have at least an equal balance of men & women selected.

A man once said : In general, women make decisions based on emotions while men base decisions on common sense. Just saying......your choice to agree or not.

have a great evening....John

 

[westtexjohn]

There is a reason we use pork belly to make God’s food. Bacon.

I told the wife about your pork and she immediately said it was the fatty belly part before I even got to describing it. Just the name.

Everything in Japan seems to be soy sauce, mirin or sake or both, and a little sugar.

What she makes isn’t as fatty, which is too bad. Pork and fat go together.

Four foods at the top of the food chain :

Bacon....butter.....salt.....cheese

 

[Kusojiji]

soy sauce, mirin or sake or both, and a little sugar.

Yeah, I'd say about 50% of all meat dishes use that combo. Usually equal parts of shoyu, mirin, sake and a little sugar if needed. Since we use that a lot, there was enough for me to make the dish. I keep forgetting to check to make sure, but we had unopened bottles in the storage. I even screwed up and used the wrong side of the measuring cup. I used the gradients used for sugar instead of liquid, so I had added more than two times the amount of sake to the mirin, so had to dump it all and start again.

 

[Bill Tidler Jr.]

Good Sunday morning, Coffee Shop! Its 66°F (19°C) and hazy in Tipton.

Have a great day!

 

[troyphoto]

I'm up
waiting on the pain pills to kick in

Family reunion on the wife's side is today.

More later

 

[PNKFLOYD]

Forum still hesitated a few seconds when I signed in this morning, but it is much better than last night.

Was preparing for a Sunday school lesson this morning where Joshua led the Israelites out of the desert.
As they crossed the Jordan river,, the water stopped and they crossed on dry land. I did not know that.

In 1927, a 150 high embankment fell into the river and stopped water flow for 21 hours.
Timing is everything.

Have a good Sunday!

 

[Kusojiji]

Good luck, hope the pain is low enough to allow for an enjoyable reunion.

 

[TLOC]

Good morning from my part of Wisconsin. It’s 53f degrees now and maybe 66 later. It’s been a beautiful group of days but that seems to be over. The 10 day forecast has nothing over 73 degrees for a high. A few good % chances of rain which we really could use. But that’s man’s guess against Mother Nature.

Today starts my final push on the UP of Michigan trees I am responsible for a 10/14 operating session. I still want to install them by 10/7 but looking at where the scenery progress is I’m doubting 10/7. I dislike last minute installs but that’s what it’s looking at. At least 44 birch will be done. The Maples are already made and are mostly recycled from Version 1.0 of the layout. We need about 50 trees. I am going to clean those up and sort them today. New foliage will be needed on many but until I sort I really don’t know. Some may just get a spray of paint to refresh them. The Weeping Aspen have the trunks being worked on . There will be between 30 and 50 of those. The Conifer lady has 100 done and they are completed on my shelf in the shop for delivery. She also did many unexpected sisal bushes that we will use and those are on the shelf ready. She is now working on Maples with her husband. They are shooting for 100 but those may be held for the PNW layout. That depends on the amount of landform that is completed. All tree people and the layout owner will meet in my shop Monday at 7pm.

There was an OPS Session yesterday at the UP layout. One of my friends dropped off my template that he double checked for me. There are 2 swamps I am working on. I am going to build them at my bench and take them up on Monday 9/21. I have what I need for this. These are separate from the area the trees are going in so there will be no interference. I also have sisal bushes and rock faces for the swamp areas that I made years ago and are surplus to my needs. I have a bunch of tree parts that will be in and around the swamp. The only thing I am leery of is the Woodland Scenics instant water. I’ve never used it before.

I agreed to be part of videos on creating the swamps and Weeping Aspen trees. There is about an hour so far on the Aspens. The video is a creation of a local military modeler’s son and a friend in a combined project for their high school media class. Last year they did a video on the daughter’s dollhouses she builds. She suggested they talk to me!

The NFL and NCAA volleyball collide this afternoon. The Badger Women play Texas at 2 in Austin on ESPN. The Packers play someone at 3:35 on FOX.

Some of the real outdoor trees are starting to turn colors! The dry Summer is accelerating the change.

The wife did ask me yesterday at dinner about if “I” still wanted to build! Not really…

To be continued

 

[rgeiter]

Am I right?

 

[Espeefan]

Morning All! a brisk 54 in the Brew City this morning, going to just 65. The first break in the temperature is here this week. As Tom said, nothing much above the low to mid 70's this week. The trees here are already just starting to turn. You can see they are ready. Hopefully, we'll get an Indian Summer this year, but you never know. I filled up the mower can yesterday. 10 bucks for 2.5 gallons. I won't say more at the risk of rules violations. I have a feeling most of that will end up being snow blower gas! The Fall Fest was nice. Live music, the beer tent (I hate the coupon method, so I didn't partake). We had a nice dinner in town and got in about four miles of walking. We bought a few things from the vendors. Some Organic no sugar added ketchup, and to make up for the no added sugar, some bourbon flavored toffee. A pleasant afternoon. The errands are done, the grass is mown, and today looks to be a slow easy one. Some modeling time, and other light activity. Enjoy your day!