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

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Breakfast today is coffee, cereal, Buccee's muffins, bagels, yogurt, and soda.

Very wet night with thunderstorms although  without the usual downpours. The sky is still black when the sun should be rising. Still better than that white crap.

Yesterday I finished the detail painting. Next up is putting down the initial ground cover layer on the base. There is still crane work to do but it comes later.

Not much else happening this way.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

46 now and sunshine and mid 70's later.

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
Congratulations on finishing the detail painting.

ACLTom, great news about Pam and your safe travels.

Jerry, hope you're running on time today. 

Ron, good news on the boxcar progress.
I think if there were one more race we'd have a different champion.

TomO, hope you found your monitor.
Saw the photos from the ops and that's a nice layout.

Karl, good luck with the new TV and it's crazy that they removed the mute button.
Pressure from advertisers to not mute their commercials?

Mike, more oil derrick work today?

Larry, stay warm.

James, buy anything else at the show yesterday?

How's the rest of the crew today?

Spent most of the day with kids yesterday.
The birthday grandson was at his grandmother's yesterday.
I'll see him and my daughter at lunch today.
I might drive to Lake Havasu after lunch.
If not, then tomorrow morning for sure.
Going down there to do some hikes.

Last Wednesday's hike in Golden Valley, AZ.



Have a great day everyone.

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from Wisconsin where it is +5f degrees, feels like +5 and may get to a warmish 25 later this afternoon. No WGFA today but wake up Tuesday could be fun. Depending on the app <3" which is ok or >5" which becomes a "serious" snowfall.

I did leave my glucose monitoring kit in the train lounge 90 minutes away. Because I'm not fond of night driving and after some miscommunications yesterday I told him I'd drive up today. Turns out he had a friend watching the game yesterday who works 3 miles from me. I will call him at 8 and arrange to pick it up. That may work out great. I need the kit as I have labs today and they take my monitor and have the computer read my daily results. Not quite like my last monitor that connected to my computer via WiFi and I'd send those numbers in weekly. This is the old school way because of insurance cutting costs

Rick, I always have a good time at OPS sessions but the BN Maria's Pass layout is just one of those exceptional experiences. It starts with the owner and I have to say Alan is one of the nicest people I know

Karl, that is just plain nuts there is no mute button! 

Be well
TomO

[elwoodblues]

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

Curt, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.

Rick, you're right, if there was another race we might have had a different champion.

TomO, glad the monitor issue got cleared up without a long drive to get it.

Another cold day here with the current temperature of -19c (-2f) and overcast.  I didn't get a chance to make it to the workbench yesterday as my wife had chest pains yesterday so I ended up spending the evening and night at the hospital.  The good news is that it wasn't heart related but it looks like she has an infection.  Before all that "excitement" I did manage to post an update on my boxcar build.

Have a great day everyone.

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt. I  had hot chocolate this morning and now I'm good to go.

TomO - good to hear you got the kit back.

Rick - enjoy the time with the children and the hike.

Ron, - very happy to hear your wife didn't have a heart issue, now just the infection cleared.

I'm waiting on the electrician to call so I can set up an appointment. Two of the outside GSI sockets aren't working.
The one in front controls the outside Christmas lights.

It's wet and rainy here in Central Fla. And, I'm in my happy place, the train shed.

Have a safe, healthy and warm day everyone.

Tom

[KentuckySouthern]

4⁰ at wake up this morning, going to remain cold but moderate weather wise.  GRapids weather guy said this is some sort of record cold start to December at this date.  It will continue to stay cold for the next 10 days. 

We had a quiet day yesterday, until the evening when we went to friends and played a card game until it was over.  I seem to have dexterity issues with the cards, especially my turn to shuffle/deal  The game, (5 Crowns?) uses a strange double deck and is a real trip.  The group seem to enjoy it so I go along to get along.

Today, bench/layout are both calling my name.  I have a couple batches of 3d details to run in the UV cure machine.  55 gallon barrels and pallets. 

Enjoy the day all, stay warm, dry and safe. Watch what you post so you don't get 'warning' texts. 

KSinMI