Sunday brunch

[KentuckySouthern]

Bright overcast and mid 20s in Michigan. Jim, this weekend we had a slight warmup so you could enjoy your visit. I hope the wedding went well. Come back next summer, mid July for the NMRA conclave. A fair number of my friends are hard at work putting that together.  We expect another 6-8 weeks of similar weather. Feel free to take some home with you!

Late morning brunch with boiler wash blend and hot tea with all the red, white, blue colors of diet pop, OJ and sausage egg and cheese muffins. 

I had a good time at the OPS session I was at yesterday. Today my RR calls my name.

What's on your agendas?

Be well, dry, warm as can be.

Karl in mid Michigan

[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

Not much on my agenda today.  Hope to muster up some enthusiasm for the workbench and I'll probably turn on one of the football games (assuming they're not on a premium channel).

Have a great one!

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[ACL1504]

Afternoon all,

Started working on the flat iron and forgot to check in.

Hope to catch some football, unless what Bob said, a  premium channel.

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom 

[deemery]

Today's tasks will be unpacking the bag of stuff I brought home from Springfield yesterday, and then doing more on the Lamson roof. 

Over on Railroad-Line, there's been some discussions among those who have been willing to pony up money as to whether the system can be saved.  There's concern that we'd be 'throwing good money after bad', if  we don't understand what it takes to run the forum and survive the onslaught of robot web crawlers.  I'm hoping for an in-depth look at the system with the current owner/operator.  But at this point, the kinds of information I think we need has not been particularly forthcoming, and my own investigations into the underlying forum software hasn't been encouraging, either. 

It'll be important to capture what went wrong at Railroad-Line to provide those lessons to keep the same thing from happening here.

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Good Afternoon,

Been busy with chores and train room time. A family friend is here now drying clothes because his dryer isn't working.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[Bernd]

It'll be important to capture what went wrong at Railroad-Line to provide those lessons to keep the same thing from happening here.

dave

Afternoon all.

Dave, I still believe it's because it is being run off a private server and not a commercial one. I still can't believe that those are robots. I don't see them here on this form or the Railroad Model Hobbyist. That's just my opinion and is probably worth as much our dollar is today.

Finished up the Suydam Engine House thread. Hope I didn't put anyone to sleep on that one. 

A bit of modeling the rest of the afternoon. Might be down in the shop until the wife gets done screaming at the TV on tonight's football game. She's a Bill's fan.

Bernd

[Mr. Critter]

Finished up the Suydam Engine House thread. Hope I didn't put anyone to sleep on that one.

Not me.  That was an object lesson in problem-solving and perseverance.

[Mr. Critter]

Yesterday afternoon was five hours of trying to correct a fit problem on a tiny brass critter that may have been caused by my custom painter or a previous owner scrambling the screws during re-assembly.  Or it may have been a design flaw.  Didn't notice it before it came in from the dealer and I sent it off to him, but it was glaring once it came back.  The deck wasn't straight! Thought it'd be a half-hour job.  Hah.  Ended up solving the problem with styrene shim-washers that look like the've been cut with an axe.  My upper back's still sore from all that time spent peering through the Opti-Visor.  (Which I'm very glad to have.  Job would've been impossible without it.)

Today:  Brainstorming a pierhead diorama while cooking-up a huge pot of baked beans for frozen lunches (salt pork, bacon, onion, dry vermouth, laurel, herbes de provence, and slow, steady heat)  and facing a monstrous pile of overdue dishwashing.

[Jim Donovan]

Good Afternoon Folks;

We are back in Florida from our quick trip to Detroit. Karl the weather really was better than I expected. It was cold but sunny and that makes a big difference. The wedding was at the Platt Street Ford factory and was great. We were all able to see some of the original cars of 1900 period as well as enjoy a great reception.

However I am back where I belong, currently the house windows are open, temp 72 and the football game is on TV. I will be up again this summer so might indeed make the NMRA.

Dave and Bernd, not really sure what are the computer issues at R.R. Lines. I do know the program makes a big difference. The one we are using, Simple Machines, is pretty slim and straight forward. Our site is running on a Hostinger server and they keep us notified of any issues, so far not a few. Craig does a great job keeping everything running on the rails. When JimmyD ran the site it was on a commercial server I believe but most of space leased was needed for his business. Simple Machines was our original platform but had been changed to php, small problems became big problems at that point. Craig was able to work with Jimmy, get us back on Simple Machines and with some programming help recovered everything that we thought might be lost.He did an amazing job.

Anyhow, some football and bridge design for rest of day. Hope it is a great one for everyone.

Jim

[Mr. Critter]

Those chairs in the background.  I have a couple, though mine are swivelers on casters. They're a nodal point of design art, somehow.

[deemery]

A trip to the Henry Ford Museum and a ride on the train there pulled by the Mason Bogie "Torch Lake" is an experience worth the trip.

dave