Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 2

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt. Sorry to hear about the PRR cabin car breakage. I'd send it back to the manufacturer and ask for a new one.

I have some errands this morning and the my plan is to edge and cut the grass.

Have a safe day everyone.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Curt, Mike, Larry, ACLTom, and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt, sorry to hear about the cabin car kit, that must have been very disappointing.  Hope the SW kit comes soon.

Mike, hope you make it upstairs today.

Larry, Hope Br. B is getting better.

Tom, don't work too hard outside today.

Currently 14c (57f) and partly cloudy today.  Managed some bench time where I started a few mini projects for the bridge build.  Going to process the photos and post some updates in my thread.

Have a great day everyone.

[jbvb]

Good morning, all. I'll put some more Summercrisp pears on the counter to go with breakfast.

Dave Swirk, the public face of the Conway Scenic RR gave an interesting speech at the Concord Flyer convention's banquet last night. His history includes involvement with several short lines, with considerable success at finding traffic that the big RRs were unable to hold onto.  CSRR has been buying track machinery and related equipment. It'll be interesting to watch as their MEC Mountain Division revival continues with the line between Fryeburg and Portland.

Yesterday's judging let me take a close look at a lot of models, but there were enough I didn't take any pictures.  At the banquet I sat next to an N scale modeler from New York City who'd entered several large laser-cut structures from Manhattan, including the B&O's West 26th St. freight terminal.  We talked a lot about urban landscapes and modeling.

Next year's NER convention was announced for Southbridge, MA, just far enough from my house that I'll probably book a hotel room.  And the Rochester NY area will host the 2028 NMRA National. With a 6 hour drive, I won't be doing much hands-on before or after the convention, but I'll attend and volunteer if at all possible.

Today my B&M Eastern Route layout will be open to visitors 12-4 PM as people drive home from the Concord NH convention. If I don't draw too much of a crowd, I'll have time to make some layout progress.

[KentuckySouthern]

Summer returning to MI this week. 

-Place Holder- more to come after morning 'chores.

Pt II:

TomO says "Karl, the exhaust system sounds exhausting have fun with it"

I must say, it's been a gas... could be done by now but I've over engineered it and have a bit yet to do before it is declared done. Pix I took 'too large' 

Dinner last night didn't happen as planned, mid afternoon I asked what time...got a quizzical response Whatchu talking about about, boy???" relief was instant as I'd fussed about it internally all week. Had a weeklong a$$umtion come full circle. I was enabled to get more done on the 3d enclosure.

My Spartans won but the local sports know it all says they still suck. Since cutting the cord on DirecTV we have to take his word on it. The Blue Bullies from down the road, true to form, humiliated a lesser team rubbing their faces in a sound defeat. Done without a coach, on NCAA suspension, a holdover from magical Jim's sullied reign. 

Lawn work and more vent work today. Then, we DO have a gathering with friends this evening (I'm pretty sure, don't dare ask... )

Have a great Page 100 everyone see you in the next chapter.

KSinMI


KS

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning Crew from extremely fogged in So Central Wisconsin. High temperature later should be 82

James, have a great open layout tour

Karl, the exhaust system sounds exhausting have fun with it

Ron, looking forward to the bridge updates

Curt, tough luck on your cabin car build

The grandson plays soccer at 10:45 and I might take the family to lunch after

Golf is at 2:30 today and dinner after. I hope to do better than yesterday's outing which was a fair showing. The brother and 3 buds are leaving after dinner for Arizona. Monday's golf is cancelled as they didn't want to drive 90 minutes.

The brother has on Tuesday his physical for his hip surgery in Phoenix/Scottsdale at the Mayo Clinic there. Surgery after that is whatever date fits the surgeon's schedule. Terry plans to be home for our 49th anniversary on the 18th. She and the girls are heading to Nevada today. If the brother has his surgery this week I will go out there and meet up with Terry. It's day to day planning, something that is normal around here

Be well
TomO

[deemery]

It's supposed to be sunny, but there's a layer of low clouds that will probably burn off. 77 today up from 51 this morning.  There are a couple of layouts open today that I'd like to visit, including James' and the Union NH RR Museum, but I think it would be better for household relations if I stay home.  Yesterday's concert was very good!  The Gardner space is 'in the round', although it's actually a square, with 2 rows of seat along 4 walls at stage level, and then 3 balconies.  It's great for chamber music and small groups.  The trumpet and 2 French horns were all 'natural' valveless period instruments, much harder to play (I've been told).  

Anyway, unless I get out, today will be putting away stuff from my Tips clinic (nothing to put away from the Architecture clinic, where James was my 'color commentator' providing his observations on period architecture.)  Then maybe I'll do a bit of work on the DCC test track. 

dave
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[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

A mix of clouds and sun with a high of 60 in the north west corner of Washington.

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
I think Tom is correct about asking the manufacturer to replace the kit.

Dave, have fun putting things away and working on the DCC track.

TomO, enjoy the soccer game and lunch if you decide to go.

Karl, hope the chores list isn't too long.

James, enjoy your open house today.

Ron, your bridge is looking real good.

Larry, sorry to read about Mr. B and hope he improves.

Mike, I'm sure you'll tune in to watch your 'Boys today.

Where's Jerry?

How's everyone else doing?

I hiked to the Hole in the Wall yesterday.
Glad I brought my sliders with be because even though I got there at low tide there was some water I had to wade through.
Today I'll drive to Port Angeles and the Olympic NP visitors center.

Just a quick note on the RAW file I posted yesterday.
I under exposed that shot by 2 stops because I didn't want to blow out the highlights in the sky.
I knew I could recover what was in the shadows in post processing.
Clicking the shutter is only half the job in taking pictures.

Looks like we're on page 100 again.
I'll start a new lounge when I'm done here.

A short video of Rialto Beach: https://youtube.com/shorts/3LFJNGSc44U

And a photo from Cascade Pass.



Have a great day everyone.

[deemery]

On Canon DSLRs, the advice was to always under-expose by about 2/3 stop.  I found, though, on the new mirrorless cameras, they've 'fixed' that.  it was easy to set "under-expose by 2/3" and forget about it for 'snapshots'.  But for serious photos, I always shoot 3 exposure brackets (another thing that's easy to set up, 'one shutter push, quickly take 3 photos at the different exposures')  Of course, that produces LOTS of junky photos that fill up the camera card and the computer hard drive quickly. Mostly I'm too lazy to go back and cull the large number of bad photos...  

dave