Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 6

[Rick]

Curt, thanks for the reminder.
Happy Birthday Pam and Tom.

[TomO/Tloc]

Happy birthday to Pam and Tom. Thanks Curt for opening

Was my post yesterday deleted?

Good morning from a household returning closer (not there yet) to normal. 52f degrees now 74 later as this string of beautiful days continues.

I feel better and Terry feels good. Medicals are scheduled for 2 days next week. Thursday and Friday for additional testing (got to make money) and doctor consults. After that it's a trip starting Sunday 11/1 and then every other day for the next 5 weeks.

I went out yesterday to vote and then went with the grandson and purchased 2 more hockey sticks. (Wore the mask) He's grown and he busted one at practice Thursday. His 1st game as a AA bantam is against Minnesota teams in Winona, Mn on Sunday. It's a decently good old railroad town on the Mississippi River though I prefer Red Wing north up the river about an hour driving. Terry and I love the entire area and would loved to have made the 3 hour trip over if things were normal health wise. The Minnesota Equine and Equestrian Center is located outside the city and Terry has friends who are still working there.. There are still plenty of older now unserved railroad industries along the river to photograph. It's also a good college town so it's a vibrant not a dead river town. We were downriver 6 weeks ago in Clinton, Iowa another old river city and except for the 4 trolls was a dead river town with no vibrancy except the wooden trolls. So that tells you something

The other reason is we are going to game 2 tonight in Milwaukee. We did not go last night and gave the tickets to 2 of the grandson's hockey teammates. They will leave Sunday morning for Winona as they stayed at the SIL's dad's house last night and will again tonight after the game. 3 boys and 2 dads so it's a boys weekend for them. We are traveling 30 minutes after the game to spend the night at Terry's best friend's. Pat will then join us for the ride home Sunday. She's staying as long as she and Terry want.

Much to the daughter's dismay we are not tailgating before the game. She is driving over with us and tailgating before any game is a must for her and their friends as the boys will be set up. She was looking for another ride over. I pissed her off when she asked if she could have another ticket and I said no. They have 7 tickets tonight. Told her not giving her another ticket they say if I sold it is worth $3000 so she could hitch a ride to tailgate to have an extra beer or 2. We gave the last ticket to Terry's friend who will meet us at the game. Terry's youngest brother and his girlfriend of 28 years will pick Pat up and bring her. (The g/f refuses to ever marry again though they've lived together all those years).

Told the pissy daughter to watch her step because I have not decided game 6 or 7 tickets yet. I've been ornery the last month or so with her because she has a slight smell of entitlement around her and she was raised better than that. My tolerance levels for stupidity this month at at a very low level!

Be well

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Curt.

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes for Pam and me. We have a few plans today to pass the day away.

I do feel much better this morning after taking the pill yesterday afternoon. I only got up twice last night, normally 5 times. However, there still is some moderate burning, but not a bad as it has been. I'm happy about that.

Have a safe, happy and wonderful Saturday everyone.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Happy Birthday to Tom & Pam!

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt thanks for the coffee & breakfast.
Looking forward to the update.

Nice picture Rick.
I hope you do good in the hunt.
Sounds like a lot of fun.

Mike have fun running trains.

Larry space the final frontier I guess it's never ending!!

Morning Terry.

TomO I hope everything gets back to nornmal soon.

Weather in South Jersey is sunny/45.  Later mid 60's.
Rick this shingled building is just giving me fits!!!
So I will work on something else for a little while.
Then go back to it.
Our dryer comes today no more laundromat!!

Happy Birthday to Pam & Tom!!

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[Philip]

Morning gang!

Glad your feeling better Tom and happy birthday to you all.

A bit cooler today. I'll take it! I'm sealing the chimney and mowing today.

Have a great week-end!

[elwoodblues]

Good morning everyone,

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Curt, hope you get the scaffolding finished.  Looking forward to your update.

Rick, Monday's explanation sounds interesting as well as the photo scavenger hunt , have a great day.

Mike, have fun running trains today.

Larry, the AI rabbit hole usually takes more time than expected.  Hope you make it to the bench today.

Terry, have a great day.

TomO, enjoy the hockey games.  Got to love the family drama, it seems that we all have that in one way or another. 😊

Tom, enjoy your plans with Pam today, glad to hear that the new meds seem to be working.

Jerry, Sometimes working on something else clears the mind so that when you go back to the "problem" build a solution appears.

Philip, have fun with the mowing, hopefully it's the last one of the season.

Current weather here is 2c (36f) and mostly sunny, high is expected to be 13c (55f)  I did make it to the bench yesterday while watching the hockey game.  Didn't do any modeling as I converted an old PC power supply to provide  +12v and +5V accessory power supplies for the layout.  Was interesting as when I tested the voltages with my usual digital tester the voltages I was getting was around 20v on the 12v rail and 9.6volts on the 5 volt rail.   I also have an "old" needle type tester that I uses instead and with it the voltages read correctly.  It turns out that the battery needed changing on the digital tester, it now reads the correct voltage.

Note sure what today will bring, maybe I'll start stringing the low voltage accessory wiring or work with the planetary stepper motors that I plan to use for the staging yard turnouts or maybe work on the mountains.  Choices, choices, choices.

Have a great day everyone.

[KentuckySouthern]

Nice hazy sun  as we sail along headed South. 63^o with moderate traffic.

Enjoy the day ahead. 

[deemery]

Karl, are those all dead/distressed pine trees in your photo?  Doesn't look good, if that's the case.

dave