Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 3

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Today is Pearl Harbor day.

Thank's for opening and breakfast Rick. I forgot to mention what an excellent photo that was yesterday. Enjoy the birthday party today.

A little slow getting up this morning. The sky is gray this morning and it's forecast to rain more than 12 hours today! Still better than snow.

After chores I'll continue on detail painting. All I have left are 4 castings like workbench. MOH probably won't be home until evening.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[jbvb]

Good morning, Rick, Curt and later arrivals. The first day of the NEMTE show was pretty good, though I left late and spent a few minutes in line with my stuff on my shoulder.  Sold most of it, after a glance at the 'net I'll take a quick look upstairs for more.  Bought 3 vehicles and a crossing signal, which I will need to add gates to at some point.

Lower Merrimack valley weather is 20s, headed for 35F, maybe a snow shower tonight.

[Larry C]

Good Morning,

Rick thanks for the coffee and breakfast. Yup ginger bread hoses are no joke; I think I've watched too many baking shows. The 1:1 stuff is finished so maybe onto the 1:48 things today.

Curt have fun with the details since you are the "king of your castle" today; just don't tell the Mrs.

James nice you were able to do so well on your sales; hope today is as productive.

What's everyone else doing.

It's 32 which is about it for today in New York. Going to be cold tonight then Monday we go back into the "deep freeze". Hopefully I'll make it to the bench later. Not much else happening here.

Have a great day!! Be well and keep warm.

[friscomike]

Good morning folks,

Rick, thanks for opening, coffee, and a burrito.  Sounds like another fun day.

Curt, congrats on the detail painting progress.

James, congrats on the sales and purchases.

Larry, have fun at the bench.

How is the rest of the group?

It's an overcast and foggy morning in the 30s.  I stayed up late watching the Big 10 game.  What a battle. Yesterday I worked on the oil derrick.  I hope to mount the wheels and other bits today.

Have fun,
mike

[KentuckySouthern]

Another quite wintry day here in Michigan, 20s and snowing.  We may get over 2" more of the white mess from above by mid afternoon.

Rick, bought an LG OLED 55" tv.  The Doll's daughter and grand daughter were here yesterday and helped or rather took over and we got it all set up and running.  Not a bad picture quality, the remote absolutely sucks.  The MUTE function isn't a separate button, you have to direct the sound level down for a couple seconds before it goes into U  then "up" on the sound to return to where you were.  We have a kill the messenger (mute commercials) habit and this feature is very disappointing. Probably some fine tuning remains.  Overall nice but not the huge upgrade you imagine with all the in store display tvs.  Our biggest problem with the older Samsung, also 55", was many of the functions with streaming, etc. were difficult and we had 3 "sunspots" in the picture.

The Big 10 game was real entertaining last night, and VERY satisfying to anyone from Michigan, the buck's nuts are not appreciated in the mitten by either Big 10 school.

Plans to work on the layout....but even the best laid/layed often are disappointed.   No football today, and SPARTAN hoops was on yesterday.  A valient effort but not quite able to overcome Duke in the final 2 minutes.  Good team should be fun to watch, if they stay healthy, this season.  The "U" already had a $400 million donation to their 'capital improvement' fund.    Thats a lot of bucks to buy ringside seats.  Doesn't cure cancer.

Lots of good modeling going on in the forum, keep it up everyone.

Forget not, December 7, and our veterans.

[TomO/Tloc]

Good Sunday morning from Wisconsin. Less than the 3" to 6" advisory regarding overnight WGFA. If there's 1" on the driveway it's a lot. Next blast is now Tuesday.

The OPS session yesterday was great. Everything went so well it had the owner worried. 2 current professional railroaders were the yard masters in the 2 big yards and they had those yards running like clock work. No newbies yesterday which is strangely unusual but there were 3 OPS sessions scheduled yesterday in the 2 groups I belong to across the state. The only issue is I dropped my glucose monitoring kit somewhere. Either in the train room lounge or 1 of the 2 cars taken yesterday. Texts were sent this morning even though I knew it last night.

Groceries, Packer game, some modeling time all on hold because I maybe making a 3 hour round trip.

Be well
TomO

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Rick, Curt, James, Larry, Mike, Karl, TomO and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Rick, I'm also looking forward to watching the race today.  Have fun celebrating your grandson's birthday today.

Curt, sounds like you have the run of the house today, hope you get the last of the details parts painted today.

James, sounds like yesterday was a great day at the train show, have fun today.

Larry, hope you make it to the bench today.

Mike, have fun working on the derrick.

Karl, have fun working on the layout today. 

TomO, Glad the Ops session went well.

Well I have to admit, winter is here for good.  The current temperature -13c (7f) and overcast.  Had a productive day at the3 bench yesterday as I finally finished the breaking systems on the boxcars.  I'll post an update later today on my build thread.  Today's plan is to watch the F1 race, do a grocery run, gets new winter boots, Laundry and hopefully get some time at the bench.

Have a great day everyone.

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Rick thanks for the coffee & breakfast.

Running late again this am.  Seems like that every morning.
Weather here in South Jersey is sunny/36.  Later on 43.
Then another cold front moves in.
Hopefully I can get another hour or two at the 1:48 stuff today!!

Curt glad you're almost done with the details.

James sounds like you had a good day selling stuff.

Larry 1:48 stuff today???

Mike looking looking forward to the update.

Karl yes the football game was a good one last night.
Hope you make the bench today.

TomO glad your OPS session went well.  And you find your kit!

Ron should be an interesting race today.
Looking forward to the update.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Rick. Breakfast burrito is good for me and the OJ in fresh, and cold.

Glad you had a great hike and fun time with the family.

I made it back from Georgia and my cousins service. It was a very rainy day in Georgia. I'm happy to be home.

Pam is back to normal and feeling great. The house is beginning to look like Christmas.

TomO - fantastic looking bridge.

James - Sounds like you had a good day.

Karl-nice 3d truck.

Curt- Looking forward to the update.

Larry- I hope I never see 32 unless its in my freezer.

Mike- It was rainy and foggy Friday in GA also.

Ron- Way to cold for me.

Jerry- You may be late but not the last!

Have a safe and warm day everyone!

Tom