Good morning,

Best of luck to you today, Jim.  Take it easy the rest of the day and enjoy the pot roast this evening.

Hump day!  The countdown is at 3.  Earlier this week I put together a training class that I'll giving tomorrow.  The last presentation I plan on giving.  At least related to banking software.  Who knows, maybe someday someone will want to hear me babble on about something model railroad related.   

Have a great one!  

That's shaping up to be quite something!  Keep up the great work.  

Afternoon all,

Best of luck to you, Jim.  I'm on the 3-year plan and I have one coming up this summer.  I don't mind the actual procedure.  I load up the DVD player with long movie that I can snooze through when I get home.  It's getting ready for the procedure I don't like.  

Sitting here listening to the planning meetings (Agile/SAFE) and all the things that management wants to change has more than convinced me that it's time to move on and let the young'uns have their shot at things.  Got a virtual retirement part tomorrow afternoon, a diner Friday evening at the Cheesecake Factory and lunch on Monday.

Have a great one!

Morning all,

Breakfast bowl being served this morning.  Scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, sausage gravy and a bit of pepper to top it off.  Hot water for tea and the Keurig is available for coffee drinkers.  Sorry, no fruit this a.m.

First of two days of PI planning so lots of meetings today.  Guess I'll put a DVD in and watch that while they talk about things I won't be here to work on during these meetings.   

Yesterday was a bust.  I had the time, but no the inclination, to pull out the workbench.  No worries though.  I'll have plenty of time soon enough.

Have a great one!  

Morning all,

Just got our power back after a brief outage.  Supposed to get up to the mid 80's today.  I'll be inside, at the workbench, this afternoon.  

Have a great one!

Morning all,

Day started out too slow to make it down to Tom's.  Dang, these weekends are too short. (Sorry, I had to slip that one in.  This is the last weekend I get to make that claim.)

Workbench time this afternoon.  Perhaps after a trip to the grocery store depending upon whether my better half wants me to accompany her there.  Game night tonight at our friend's house.

Have a great one!  

Morning all,

T.G.I.F!  Looking forward to the weekend and some workbench time.  I'm roughly 70% of the way through painting all the detail castings on the current build (there are a lot).  I hope to finish that task up this weekend though it's becoming a little more challenging.  The old A&I wash after painting has to be abandoned.  It'll just wash off some of the newer paints I'm using.  I'm going to try Dr. Jeff's trick of hitting the castings with a flat finish (DullCoat or similar) and then using an oil paint wash in lieu of the A&I.

Have a great one!

Morning all,

Planning meeting at work this morning.  We'll discuss the projects that are slated for the next PI, how difficult they're going to be, etc.  I'll be here for grand total of two days in the next PI so I hope they don't expect much involvement from me.  

I'm looking forward to getting back to the workbench this weekend.  Maybe I can squeeze a few minutes in tonight or at lunch.  Maybe. 

Have a great one!

Quote from: restocarp on April 18, 2024, 05:11:04 AMThe newspapers are just the same papers that I use for detailing rubbish on my dioramas. I used Kathy Millatt's method of downloading images of actual newspapers from Baltimore, 1952 into MS Word and then scaling them down. I then generated an entire sheet of them and printed out multiple copies. I usually just cut them out and place them on sidewalks, etc, but for this I gave parts of the printout sheets a wash of an ugly yellow/brown. Once that dried I cut out the individual newspapers and glued them to the face of a piece of acetate. I then glued any signage that I want visible on the window on top of them. I applied a bit of weathering powders here and there. Not a lot. That decorated acetate was then glued to the back of the clear acetate that is installed into the window so that the newspapers and signs are captured between the two pieces.  I think that it turned out to be very effective.

That's simply a great method and your results with are spectacular.  I have to give that a try one of these days!  Thanks for explaining.

Quote from: BandOGuy on April 17, 2024, 07:53:07 AMThursday. I'll save all the rolling stock checkups for our late June presentation at Strasburg, PA

Dang it.  If I get to Strasburg on our trip up this summer it'll be early June.  My timing stinks. 

Good morning all,

Hump day here.  Lots of meetings today.  None that I give a rip about.  I have to cut out a little early today to go submit our applications for passports.  Once we have those in hand we'll start planning an oversea trip.

Nothing to report on the workbench front.

Have a great one!

Wow!  That's really impressive!  Thanks for sharing the journey.  

Amazing!  Simply amazing!

Morning all,

Hot water for the morning tea is ready.  We have a selection of English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, Earl Gray and a few others.  Scrapple with maple syrup for those so inclined.  

Our new windows are getting inspected today.  Of course, the only thing they can tell me, in terms of what time, is "today".  Hope they pass the inspection.  Then the final trim can be installed to cover up the screw holes.  This has project started back in September.  And not last September.  The one before that.    

I have some photo's ready to go to start a new build thread.  Just need some time on my own PC, not this work PC, to get that going.

Have a great one!

Morning all,

If you haven't filed your income tax return yet (in the US) today is the day!  I already have my refund.  It'll partially replace one of the pays I won't be getting next month while I'm waiting for my first Social Security Deposit to hit my account.  

John asked how many meetings I have left.  Good question.  I'm in my final two weeks of work.  Today I have meetings at 8:30, 9:00, 9:30 and 9:45.  So far.  There are always those last-minute meeting invites.  Next week, my final week, is PI planning week.  A whole slew of really boring meetings to plan the next 12 weeks' worth of work.  I won't have too much to say during those planning sessions.  Instead, I'll be planning what I'm going to do to get in better shape and which kits I'm going to work on next. 

Have a great one!