Saturday, Nov 6th

[cuse]

Morning All,


Yesterday, I dove into the rabbit hole of re-organizing all of my train stuff storage. I didn't throw out much, but I've got it all nicely organized in labeled storage crates beneath the layout and on a couple of shelves in the closet. The biggest improvement was clearing off the workbench (in my layout room -really more of a glass desk) to prepare for some kit building. Based on what I see on here, most of us thrive on organized chaos at our workbenches, but I'm drawn to a more clean, undistracted work area as my mind is already a chaotic beehive. So, I'm trying to limit what's at hand (and in obvious sight) to what I use often and hiding away things like replacement blades and duplicate tools or rarely used specialized stuff. Everything is nearby and easily accessible, just not in my face. Again, nothing revolutionary, I just figured it might be kind of unusual to most of you...Most of the pics show racks and racks of paints, clamps, dozens of tweezers, strip wood, etc...which is a beautiful thing, but I'd spend too much time staring lovingly at them all and remembering other projects I have forgotten or delayed. To each his own.


Have a great weekend...John

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning, all.

Up and ready to start a four day work siege.  At least the weekends are only (hopefully) seven hours.  John, I don't see any pics, you have HEIC images instead of jpeg. 

Jeff

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Cold, for Florida - 51 and raining. I'm in the train shed ready for another day.

John, you are definitely organized, now get the area messy with some modeling! 

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom 

C. Powers Fallen Flag -

[MAP]

Good morning!  A refreshing 28 here.  A few indoor chores after walking the dog, then some train time this afternoon.

[vinceg]

Good morning.

[MartyO]

Morning,

I was on my knees all day worshiping the house, taking out the old baseboards. The reconstruction will begin shortly.

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Have the annual HOA meeting this morning at 10. I have to attend since my wife is the president. Have my weekly chores and train time later hopefully.

[S&S RR]

Good morning! I'm spending the day with the Grandkids - they are making their lists for Santa. Apparently, the big germ messed up Santa's workshop and the elves have supply chain problems. Getting their requests in early. I hope everyone has a great day. From the F&SM:

[deemery]

John, you need to convert your pictures from .HEIC to .JPG.  The best thing to do is to set the default format for pictures on your phone.  See https://www.handlebar-online.com/other/what-is-the-default-format-for-iphone-photos/  You can convert the existing photos in Preview.app, open the .HEIC file and then do "Export" to save as a JPG.

My new Mac laptop arrived yesterday, so I'm still working out the bugs in the transfer of my files, etc.  https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2848.html   Later today, I'm off to an operating session on James Van Bokkelen's layout. 

dave 

[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

Friends coming over tonight for dinner so the house is being prepped and dinner cooked.  I have to move my work stuff off of the dining room table and into the spare bedroom.  Ditto my workbench.  First I'll put together the spin cycle that my better half bought to replace the recently departed treadmill.    Aside from that I'll stay out of her way.

Have a great one!

[bparrish]

Mornin' all....

Scattered rain here today. No yard work........ translation............bench time.


I did find out why I had trouble loading photos yesterday.  I had filled up my gallery file and it didn't tell me.  It just timed out.

So I dropped off some older files of projects and am now chugging along again.   I think this may be why John Siekirk is on his fourth railroad project file.

I'm away for a few days starting tomorrow so not sure how much I can put up about my house project before that.


see ya
Bob

[Rollin]

Noon in November, where has the time been going? We've been preoccupied with other things; the railroad was dismantled during the last month and my modules packed into a POD!

When I built my shelf layout, I did it in sections, and while they are awkward, it was possible to disassemble it.



Two modules face to face make a square unit:



And now, the house is under contract and we have more packing to do.  WOW!

[cuse]

John, you need to convert your pictures from .HEIC to .JPG.  The best thing to do is to set the default format for pictures on your phone.  See https://www.handlebar-online.com/other/what-is-the-default-format-for-iphone-photos/  You can convert the existing photos in Preview.app, open the .HEIC file and then do "Export" to save as a JPG.

My new Mac laptop arrived yesterday, so I'm still working out the bugs in the transfer of my files, etc.  https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2848.html   Later today, I'm off to an operating session on James Van Bokkelen's layout. 

dave

Thanks Dave...I'm on it.

[cuse]

Let me test my implementation of Dave's advice...

[S&S RR]

John


That is one clean workbench! Looks great - it will look better with a model under construction.