@ Chris : I'd forgotten Never Say Never Again! I was thinking more along the lines of Johnny English.
@ Zalster : I dread to guess what you have requested there, but I'll go for spicy and Indian?
@ Bill/Magic : Sean delivered the best in all respects I reckon, close second was Roger. After that maybe Pierce .... as for Dan Craig, well 007 is quite a different character now.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
@ Zalster : I dread to guess what you have requested there, but I'll go for spicy and Indian?
Cheers, Mike.
Spicy maybe (very mild), Indian no, lol...Mexican
It's actually huevos con chorizo or Scrambled eggs with beef spiced sausage served with flour tortillas. This pic also has some beans on the side. Used to eat it every day when I was growing up.
@ Zalster : I dread to guess what you have requested there, but I'll go for spicy and Indian?
Cheers, Mike.
Spicy maybe (very mild), Indian no, lol...Mexican
It's actually huevos con chorizo or Scrambled eggs with beef spiced sausage served with flour tortillas. This pic also has some beans on the side. Used to eat it every day when I was growing up.
Ah. Mexican. That explains it. We had that once but OH&S requirements ( multi-megalitre water dousing system, asbestos suits ) ruled it out. Just too many flare ups, patrons exploding into balls of flame. Bad for business. We said 'no reason' but that wore thin after a while. But we're having a consultant look into serving it within a hypoxic booth. Tests are continuing ..... on the upside SpaceX is helping to fund our research.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Uh oh. Looks like I may need it again, as of today.
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Then on Saturday I did another stint as student conductor. Busy day and no problems with the engine, once they finally brought it out. Ran five trips, one in the rain. Did fairly well. Just need more practice before I try to qualify. I think I'll go again this Sunday.
Big newses. I did indeed go again on Sunday (June 28)... and QUALIFIED! I am now a conductor on mainline trains at Illinois Railway Museum!
Even better, the following Friday (July 3), two of us were trained and qualified on Vera Cruz 19, our open-sided streetcar. Then we ran it Saturday afternoon for the Trolley Pageant. But before that happened, I spent the morning training someone else on CTA 3142, the first streetcar I qualified on. Very unusual for someone as new as me to be training someone, but I was the one assigned to run the car on the day she showed up and wanted to train.
After that, I felt the need to take another weekend off (plus there were no open positions I wanted). Then I headed out of town for a week's tour of railroad museums and hot spots in Ohio, seeing most of what I planned and meeting an old internet friend (from long before Facebook). This culminated with riding the NKP 765 train from Ft. Wayne to Lafayette, IN on Saturday (July 18). After sleeping late the next morning, I took the whole day to drive home across Indiana. Learned that when the AC has been off all week in hot weather, telling the new wifi thermostat to turn it on when I'm at Valparaiso is not soon enough; the house was only down to 79F when I got home.
After that, I needed a whole week to recover from my vacation. This led to my first official day (July 25) as conductor of the steam train, and it was a hell of a day for it. It should have been a slow day: no special events or anything, just hot and sunny. The crowd was unusually large for a slow day, though, and included at least half a dozen people who needed the hand-cranked wheelchair lift to get on and off the trains. That was what really wore me out. Plus the first two trips were completely packed, to the point that I had to ask people to wait for the next one. And I had no assigned trainmen, either. First trip, the motorman off the L train handled two cars for me, second trip the guy training on 3142 did it, and the third trip one of the students from the air brake class did it. As soon as we returned from that, 1630 cut off and went to bed, and someone brought out a diesel to take all the students out for a practice run, saving me some of the responsibility of securing the train. I'm still worn out from that day. Darn near dehydrated myself too.
If you're interested, here's a picture of me on the tailhose on the last trip. It's a rather large picture, 11MB, which is why I didn't just put it inline.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Congrats to your transcendence ( or should that be trainsendense ? ) to approved quality functionoid status! :-)
Nice pic. You seem to have a great PTSD 1000 yard stare going there. Is that the self-destruct trigger you are fingering, or is it that you are really a hydraulic sort of person just topping up a bit ? :-0
Does that really say LACKAWANNA on the carriage ?? Some kind of can't be stuffed with it motto or what ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Just as well this place is here *droop right eyelid balefully at tlpttllptlpsomenumberorother thread* helps guard against rule-shattering double posts ... y-e-e-s... Oh.
Apparently you can get duck slippers that quack.
*wait for excited murmuring to die down* Yes people. It's at times like this we realise just how much there is still out there to experience :) Thought I'd share - and demonstrate just why these words:
Quote:
British Intelligence
...can sometimes be put - you know - together :)
Awwwwww... Scarlett and Matilda are so CUTE!!! :) Nice colour co-ordination with the birds too :)
Sorry to read about the bouts of under-the-weatherness people have been suffering from :/ I notice things have gone a little quiet on that topic since Mike suggested he make rocket propelled house calls though.
[/cackle at own quip]
Oh - and congratulations on all the train-related promotions/qualifications by the way :)
Off on a sausage hunt now :)
which reminds me... I must sort out an avatar here...
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Nice pic. You seem to have a great PTSD 1000 yard stare going there. Is that the self-destruct trigger you are fingering, or is it that you are really a hydraulic sort of person just topping up a bit ? :-0
Cheers, Mike.
4928 X 3264 that is a Huge pic !
Is that a Kenwood or an Icom handmic clipped to your shirt ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t1_usmB30s
Pussy Galore.....shaken,not stirred
@ Chris : I'd forgotten Never
)
@ Chris : I'd forgotten Never Say Never Again! I was thinking more along the lines of Johnny English.
@ Zalster : I dread to guess what you have requested there, but I'll go for spicy and Indian?
@ Bill/Magic : Sean delivered the best in all respects I reckon, close second was Roger. After that maybe Pierce .... as for Dan Craig, well 007 is quite a different character now.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: @ Zalster : I dread to
)
Spicy maybe (very mild), Indian no, lol...Mexican
It's actually huevos con chorizo or Scrambled eggs with beef spiced sausage served with flour tortillas. This pic also has some beans on the side. Used to eat it every day when I was growing up.
RE: RE: @ Zalster : I
)
Ah. Mexican. That explains it. We had that once but OH&S requirements ( multi-megalitre water dousing system, asbestos suits ) ruled it out. Just too many flare ups, patrons exploding into balls of flame. Bad for business. We said 'no reason' but that wore thin after a while. But we're having a consultant look into serving it within a hypoxic booth. Tests are continuing ..... on the upside SpaceX is helping to fund our research.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Gee, it's been a long time
)
Gee, it's been a long time since I posted.
Uh oh. Looks like I may need it again, as of today.
Big newses. I did indeed go again on Sunday (June 28)... and QUALIFIED! I am now a conductor on mainline trains at Illinois Railway Museum!
Even better, the following Friday (July 3), two of us were trained and qualified on Vera Cruz 19, our open-sided streetcar. Then we ran it Saturday afternoon for the Trolley Pageant. But before that happened, I spent the morning training someone else on CTA 3142, the first streetcar I qualified on. Very unusual for someone as new as me to be training someone, but I was the one assigned to run the car on the day she showed up and wanted to train.
After that, I felt the need to take another weekend off (plus there were no open positions I wanted). Then I headed out of town for a week's tour of railroad museums and hot spots in Ohio, seeing most of what I planned and meeting an old internet friend (from long before Facebook). This culminated with riding the NKP 765 train from Ft. Wayne to Lafayette, IN on Saturday (July 18). After sleeping late the next morning, I took the whole day to drive home across Indiana. Learned that when the AC has been off all week in hot weather, telling the new wifi thermostat to turn it on when I'm at Valparaiso is not soon enough; the house was only down to 79F when I got home.
After that, I needed a whole week to recover from my vacation. This led to my first official day (July 25) as conductor of the steam train, and it was a hell of a day for it. It should have been a slow day: no special events or anything, just hot and sunny. The crowd was unusually large for a slow day, though, and included at least half a dozen people who needed the hand-cranked wheelchair lift to get on and off the trains. That was what really wore me out. Plus the first two trips were completely packed, to the point that I had to ask people to wait for the next one. And I had no assigned trainmen, either. First trip, the motorman off the L train handled two cars for me, second trip the guy training on 3142 did it, and the third trip one of the students from the air brake class did it. As soon as we returned from that, 1630 cut off and went to bed, and someone brought out a diesel to take all the students out for a practice run, saving me some of the responsibility of securing the train. I'm still worn out from that day. Darn near dehydrated myself too.
If you're interested, here's a picture of me on the tailhose on the last trip. It's a rather large picture, 11MB, which is why I didn't just put it inline.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Congrats to your
)
Congrats to your transcendence ( or should that be trainsendense ? ) to approved quality functionoid status! :-)
Nice pic. You seem to have a great PTSD 1000 yard stare going there. Is that the self-destruct trigger you are fingering, or is it that you are really a hydraulic sort of person just topping up a bit ? :-0
Does that really say LACKAWANNA on the carriage ?? Some kind of can't be stuffed with it motto or what ?
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Just as well this place is
)
Just as well this place is here *droop right eyelid balefully at tlpttllptlpsomenumberorother thread* helps guard against rule-shattering double posts ... y-e-e-s... Oh.
Apparently you can get duck slippers that quack.
*wait for excited murmuring to die down* Yes people. It's at times like this we realise just how much there is still out there to experience :) Thought I'd share - and demonstrate just why these words:
...can sometimes be put - you know - together :)
Awwwwww... Scarlett and Matilda are so CUTE!!! :) Nice colour co-ordination with the birds too :)
Sorry to read about the bouts of under-the-weatherness people have been suffering from :/ I notice things have gone a little quiet on that topic since Mike suggested he make rocket propelled house calls though.
[/cackle at own quip]
Oh - and congratulations on all the train-related promotions/qualifications by the way :)
Off on a sausage hunt now :)
which reminds me... I must sort out an avatar here...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: [/cackle at own
)
Umm is that allowable?
Err why not ....
Hi Annie :-)))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: Nice pic. You seem to
)
4928 X 3264 that is a Huge pic !
Is that a Kenwood or an Icom handmic clipped to your shirt ?
Bill
Slides in quietly and picks
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Slides in quietly and picks the best seat at the bar for the outrage :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now