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 Posted - April 04 2008 : 5:59:56 PM
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... I can sign in here and I get to leave my frustrations and diabetic issues at the LOGIN prompt! [:D]
The last few years, health-wise, have been a nasty roller coaster of ups and downs, disappointments, setbacks, lifestyle changes, and a constant fight to overcome my lifelong terror of shots.
I guess the thing that hurts the most, is that I can still remember a carefree time when I could do anything I wanted, eat whatever I wanted to eat, stay up to all hours of the night (and still get to work on time in the morning), and jump in the car for a road trip to anywhere without any limitations or considerations.
That life's gone now. My one regret, I guess, is that I should have ate more pieces of triple layer chocolate cake ... REAL chocolate cake, not this Spleda sugarfree sawdust tasting stuff they try to pass off as cake.
BUT ... I still have my trains (both HO and O) ... they've always been there for me. Diabetes may have ripped most of the things I enjoyed in the past away and robbed me of most of my energy - but it couldn't take away the trains. :^) And it couldn't take away this forum and all the people here.
Thanks!
[:D]
I like caffeine and a chainsaw ...
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 Posted - April 04 2008 : 6:32:22 PM
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| good on ya,dont we all wish we could be twenty,anyway,sooner have the trains then the cake you describe,ken
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Posted - April 04 2008 : 9:07:21 PM
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You're right, HOSMrr, this is a nice place to visit.....if only for the fun of the vintage trains, or for the added human touch that comes with many who post here (Yes, I know that all of us posters are HUMAN....you know what I mean!). On days when we've had a surfeit of work, stress,etc., it's fun to see what's new here. [Note: for Catfordken, the above word 'surfeit,' meaning 'excess,' is not heard too often in America, but as I am well into a new phase of interest in British rails, I've actually discovered a new language....English!] In the pic below, the crew of the "Lobo Local" has had a 'surfeit' of work for the day, and can't believe they just can't get the switch ahead lined for them. When will that red turn green?!!! I bet that dispatcher is all cozy in his chair, drinking coffee! "Hey, Bill, why don't you run over to the HoJo's and get us some coffee?" I promise I won't leave without you IF we get a green." If Fred makes it home tonight, after tucking the kids into bed, I bet he'll be logging on here (or just dreaming of going fishing, hard to say!).
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Posted - April 04 2008 : 10:20:03 PM
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| I hear you on the Splenda--that crap is nasty to me. Triple chocolate cake--belly ache-but good with a glass of milk. I'm with you on signing in and leaving frustrations and hectic grind of daily life and conversing with a great group of people and sharing the same common interest of trains.[:D]
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Posted - April 04 2008 : 10:47:37 PM
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It's great to have an escape for awhile here and it does not cost a fortune like a vacation...
Actually a vacation can be more stressfull than work!!! [}:)]
Where are we meeting for the chocolate cake again?
Mike
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 Posted - April 04 2008 : 11:20:42 PM
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Hi All,
I'm with you on this one. I'm up for some cake too.
Mike
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 Posted - April 05 2008 : 02:27:05 AM
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Let's see... Cake: eggs, milk, sugar... hey, looks like breakfast to me.
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 05:14:39 AM
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"HoJo's" is a new one to me. I think we have, or had, Howard Johnsons in L.A., but they don't have the same importance they have in other parts of the country.
On another note, I think they have new treatments for anglophilia now. [;)]
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 09:43:31 AM
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| I'm not sure they have much importance in any part of the country any more....much of what's on my layout is what exists in my mind....Howard Johnson's was a dependable place to stop when my family would take our cross-country trips in the 60's-70's. I really like the Tyco model. It's lighted, and I put in an interior--chairs, tables, waitress. As far as my admitted condition of possibly becoming an Anglophile....well, with a name like Adams, it might be a genetic inevitability!
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Posted - April 05 2008 : 10:43:48 AM
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expanding your mind is a good thing,i have learnt a lot from the members on this site,great people i would not have done that had i stuck to uk railways,as regards cafes,restaurants,nothing to remember here they were very expensive badly cooked places,so to my mind i will pass ken
check the link out to see american locos in uk
http://alcoworld.railfan.net/alco_gb.htm
also the br diesel electric class 66 was built by emd
Edited by - catfordken on April 05 2008 10:54:17 AM
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