Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 3

[Dave Buchholz]

Chillin under cloudy skies on the North Coast, 90 miles West of Larry C


Waiting to hear from the hospital dermatologist office to get treatment for Hailey Hailey Disease, a rare genetic skin disorder. Im suffering. Keep me in your prayers.

On a lighter note. Bring out of work gives me modeling time in the basement.

Fifth Dave to the right.

[Rick]

Dave, all the best for a successful treatment.

Philip, I found the review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m14WZk3nLqE

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt thanks for the coffee & breakfast.

Tom sounds like bowling went well yesterday.

TomO nice looking engine shed good luck with it.

Mike I'll be looking for the update.

Larry good luck being the plumber.

Nice picture Rick that scenery out there this time of year is beautiful.

Karl good luck with the tractor.

Ron I hope you get sometime in modeling tonight.

Dave I hope the treatment helps.

Weather in South Jersey is P. sunny/58.  Later on 65.
Diane's Dr. visit was fine.
Not sure what the day will bring.
Hopefully some bench time later which hasn't happened lately.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[KentuckySouthern]

TomO, the Grand Elk / WAMX took your plans...




Built a new engine house at Newberry in the UP. Former CN/DSSA branch there.

KS

[jbvb]

Good morning, all. Wishing for the best outcome, Dave the fifth.

Karl, that loco shed's pit looks a lot like the one Seashore Trolley Museum built a couple of years ago. It's maybe 20 feet long by the framing shadows.  Looks like they plan to pour a 6-8" concrete floor too. Door maybe 18' high, interior 15-18' wide.

[KentuckySouthern]

This one is pretty big, it has a service pit.  It actually looks like a tight work area.

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Today for breakfast is coffee, cereal, bagels, yogurt, OJ, and soda.

Started out the day with a walk at a pleasant 62F. Yesterday the work on the roof water tank was completed and mounted. It was very fiddly and took almost 2 hours from start to finish.

Today after chores I'll head to the workbench today. Next up is adding smoke stacks.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt.

I need to finish a few small projects so I can feel better about starting another one.

Have a safe and healthy day everyone.

Tom 

Zane layout -

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

Vegas weather: 78 and sunny

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast and hope the stacks are mounted easily.

ACLTom, have fun with the small projects.

Karl, any updated photos on that engine house?

Jerry, hope bench time happened yesterday and today.

Dave, hope it's all good news from the dermatologist.

Ron, we have another race to look forward to this weekend.

Dave, did Don reply to your plea?

TomO, what's new?

Philip, Larry, Mike, Greg, James and everyone else looking in, how are you?

Drove more than I like to yesterday but made it to Vegas.
Made a quick Walmart stop and treated myself to some Cold Stone ice cream.
Star and I will do a long walk around a lake here today.

One more Yosemite photo.



Have a great day everyone.

[friscomike]

Good morning folks,

Curt, thanks for opening, coffee, and yogurt.  Sounds like the little hammers are pounding on the structures.

How is the rest of the crew?

It's a bright morning at a crisp 45°F, high forecast for 76°F.  

Still working on the derrick.  Finished decaling one side, and the other is in the works.

Have fun,
mike

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning. 30f/-1c at 6am heading to 57/13 this afternoon. The winds though as they have the past week are strong in the high teens but gusting into the high 20's.

Wisconsin Badger volleyball on campus was another win 3-1 over Minnesota. Tougher than the set/match indicates. They should at #11 make the NCAA volleyball tournament but if they squeak in I doubt they host a 1st round game. Every year since 2013 they have

The grandson texted last night if I could pick him up after practice tonight. He wants to talk about making some changes to the slot track.

Nothing in my PayPal this morning so no trip to the post office this morning is required. The weathered diesels are packaged and labeled ready to go.

Terry has a physical this morning at 10:35. I will do a McDonalds (hates Starbucks) coffee run for her so she has a coffee waiting when she gets out. It's a fasting physical and she was bitc.... I mean complaining last night already. Then it being Thursday, about the only repeatable thing we do together (NO NOT THAT) is breakfast on Thursday. Today it's a brunch and my wallet is going to regret this adventure. Coach and his wife will join us as we go to a well recommended hard to get reservations high end brunch. Only prepared to a limited amount of people on Thursday between 10 and 3. Done by a Michelin rated chef as is the restaurant one of only 3 in the Madison area. Those types of snobby places we usually avoid. Neither of us are keen to go but it took 3 months with Coach using connections to get us in. I'm not sure I'll be able to get a 1/2 size meat lovers skillet

I have been using ChatGPT for 2 weeks today. It is helping me with the Paper Mill project. But especially with data of the paper making processes, then dimensions and sketches for the structures. Let's say things are not as smooth or consistent as it should be. Revisions have become very frustratingly. Part of it is (I think) I'm being stubborn by not paying the $20 per month fee and I'm using the cheapy person's free version. You get what you pay for type of thing.

Karl, ChatGPT the Ai app I've settled on does do STL files. I however will not jump down that rabbit hole and buy a 3d resin printer

Thanks for the comments and encouragement on the Ai adventure.

Enjoy the day

[TomO/Tloc]

Chillin under cloudy skies on the North Coast, 90 miles West of Larry C


Waiting to hear from the hospital dermatologist office to get treatment for Hailey Hailey Disease, a rare genetic skin disorder. Im suffering. Keep me in your prayers.

On a lighter note. Bring out of work gives me modeling time in the basement.

Fifth Dave to the right.

Best to you, medical issues suck!

TomO

[TomO/Tloc]

TomO, the Grand Elk / WAMX took your plans...




Built a new engine house at Newberry in the UP. Former CN/DSSA branch there.

KS

A little too high for my 1965 era PNW paper mill build but would look good on my own 2000+ era. Maybe...

TomO

[KentuckySouthern]

I've not taken any pics of the finished building, was by there a few weeks ago on the road to Paradise.  I believe they have 2 used GP locos in Newberry.  Here's one


Something I noticed when I first was at that site was all the vertical boards are treated up to a point and non-treated above that.  No idea why they aren't all the same measure...points off from the judges, I'm sure..."No one would do it like that!!!"  If I recall, the exterior of the place is metal.  I sits just far enough off the main drag that I haven't really noticed it since it was done, out of my peripheral vision while driving.

I did get the tractor running yesterday, it actually went pretty well for the old hands, it got sort of chilly working outside. 

Put in a new battery and cables, they're a tight fit.  I managed to get it done while my "assistant" was off elsewhere. I get clumsy when "over assisted" iffn ya know...  


HARD Frost in Michigan and now sun!  Still invoking the "S" word for the weekend. Farmers have had a heck of a run of nice weather and busted a$$ harvesting the soybeans and corn.  Still working long hours, with the wind much of the color is fading away.

Enuf for now.  Be safe.

KSinMI

[deemery]

Sunny and windy in SE NH.  Our landscape guys are doing some work removing old planter boxes in the back yard.  It's too windy to do leaf collecting, the stuff will just blow back on the cleared lawn.  

The dermatologist visit was amusing.  Mostly for me it was to check on the wart on my knuckle, which they hit with some liquid nitrogen.  But they also wanted to do the full body checkup, and standing in front of 3 women in my skivvies was a new experience for me.   Nothing worrying was seen, and PA doing the check-up agreed that, particularly with limited exposure and no family history, there's no need to do a routine full body examination.

dave