Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 2

[deemery]

Another hot & humid day, not quite as hot as yesterday, and the humidity has been in the "yuk" range, fortunately not reaching "awful".  Cold front coming through tomorrow, so the weekend looks great.

Speaking of 'doggy downers', one of my dogs is at the vet today for dental cleaning and hopefully NO extractions.  He got some doggy downers last night, he tends to be more anxious than the other dog.  But as people with more than one dog know, the remaining dog is unhappy her packmate is missing.  

I should get some more time on the machine shop, hopefully do a couple more machine drive shafts.

dave

[tom.boyd.125]

 Morning, have not checked in for some time this year...spouse has completed her treatments and now its a wait to see how it's going forward...good news is the hospital has not named a wing after us...Tommy

[KentuckySouthern]

Cloudy humid and warm in the mid Michigan area.

1:1 stuff will dominate today. The shelf repair took most of my day. The Doll soldiered on with first cutting of thehayfield lawn. 95⁰ at times.

It was announced officially at 0700 today that Union Pacific is buying Norfolk Southern     It will be called Union Pacific. Lots of zeros after the $250 in the Railway Age email I read. I should've kept the 4 shares of UP Preferred I bought in high school. I'd be rich!   

Well, the 1:1 is piling up. Time to move along.

KS

[deemery]

Berkshire Hathaway will be under a lot of pressure to buy CSX and merge it with BNSF.  Warren Buffett tends to not like those high pressure situations, so it'll be interesting to see how they handle it.  Arguably, this is a big test for the new Berkshire CEO.

dave

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Larry, Mike, Rick, Curt, Jerry, ACLTom, Dave, Tommy, Karl and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Larry, thanks for the coffee and breakfast Larry, good luck at the dentist.

Mike, don't spend too much at Costco. 

Rick, no modeling last night and safe travels.

Curt, Sounds like a trying day with your dad, good thing you have lots of patience.

Jerry, sounds like the wall rebuild is going well.

ACLTom, sounds like a successful day bowling.

Dave, hope you get to work on the machine shop today.

Tommy, nice to hear from you again, hope the spouses treatments were successful.

Karl, hope the 1:1 stuff isn't too difficult.

Well it's currently 23C (73F) and partly cloudy, it's shaping up to be a great day weather wise.  No modeling last night as other projects are distracting me right now, probably won't get to the layout till the weekend.

Have a great day everyone.

[elwoodblues]

Berkshire Hathaway will be under a lot of pressure to buy CSX and merge it with BNSF.  Warren Buffett tends to not like those high pressure situations, so it'll be interesting to see how they handle it.  Arguably, this is a big test for the new Berkshire CEO.

dave

if that were to happen, would ir be called BNSFCSX? 

[Philip]

Morning crew, It's break time. Pass the pint!

Great news Mr. Tommy and I bet your itching to do some modeling? God Speed!

One more dental visit and I'll be done on Aug 6.

Still blazing hot.

Have a great Wednesday. Out

[deemery]

Vet called.  Titus will lose 2 more teeth, the same as Livia earlier this month.  Sigh...  She said "dental problems are common in senior small dogs.  Their jaws don't have the room for all the teeth."   

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

Berkshire Hathaway will be under a lot of pressure to buy CSX and merge it with BNSF.
dave

if that were to happen, would ir be called BNSFCSX? 

• I heard it's a done deal, calling it
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