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Title: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: ReadingBob on October 22, 2025, 08:26:47 AM
Happy Birthday to John Mancuso (Cuse)!

I'm heading out for breakfast with a friend/former co-worker shortly. After that the day is mine as I took care of the yard work yesterday (violating my never do today what you can put off until tomorrow rule).

I'll have to think about what I want to put on the TV while I'm sitting at the workbench later. Old movie, concert, train video, etc.

Have a great one!
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: KentuckySouthern on October 22, 2025, 08:34:23 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! John aka Cuse!!

Rain is 100% and it's cold in the mid 40s going to upper 40s.

Inside things to do today, no reason to go out too far.

Enjoy the day all.

KS
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: Rick on October 22, 2025, 09:05:30 AM
Good morning everyone.

Mid 40's now and cloudy with a high in the mid 50's later here in the CA. Sierras.

Happy Birthday John.

More hiking today for Star and me.

Have a great day everyone.
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: deemery on October 22, 2025, 09:16:41 AM
A miracle!  It's raining again.  Twice in 3 days, that feels like a record.  It's still relatively warm, 53 heading to 62, with some sun possible this afternoon.

Another free day, I'll work on both the machine shop and the DCC testbed.  If I get ambitious, I'll do the 'minimal hook-up' of the DCC-EX to the HO standard gauge track and see if I can actually run the one loco that I tested on DCC last month.  (At the NMRA NER convention, a group was setting up their modules and running some stuff.  I asked if they could put this loco on the track, dial it in, and see if it works.  Debugging works best when you've limited the possible points of failure.  ;D )  

dave
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: Zephyrus52246 on October 22, 2025, 09:25:23 AM
Morning all,

Happy B-D to John!

It's really cooled down here, only a high of 57 today.

 Tomorrow I leave for Las Vegas for my last medical continuing education trip.  I need to renew my license one more time until retirement in (hopefully) March. 

Need to pack later, when it's light out I'll look to see if I need to mow (doubtful).

I took a lot of pictures of rivers/streams on layouts at the Narrow Gauge Convention as eventually I'll need to add some to the layout.

Jeff
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: deemery on October 22, 2025, 09:34:59 AM
My computer standards group met quarterly, it was several hundred people and we needed a hotel with lots of breakout rooms.  One year we went to the Hyatt (I think) on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.  A few gambled, but most of us tossed a quarter or two into a slot machine, just to say we did it.  At the next quarterly meeting, the conference coordinator reported on locations.  "We're not invited back to Lake Tahoe.  When I asked why, they told us, 'Your people don't gamble enough and eat too many desserts from the buffet.'  I responded, 'It's a conference of computer nerds, what did you expect?' "

dave

Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: PRR Modeler on October 22, 2025, 09:41:00 AM
Happy Birthday John.
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: cuse on October 22, 2025, 09:55:13 AM
Thank you guys...I'm celebrating my 58th by going back to Jiu Jitsu next week  ;D and, not coincidentally, upgrading my health insurance first of the year.

Nothing new on the layout...but I am thinking about it a LOT.
Title: Re: Wednesday - October 22, 2025 - Happy Birthday Cuse!
Post by: GPdemayo on October 22, 2025, 04:50:42 PM
Afternoon all.....