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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-08-2013
Good morning. It's 51° with 76% humidity. The high will be 65°.
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Well I guess today I can get started on Oliver's (his name for now) great train adventure. It starts with a string of passenger cars being pulled by a trio of GP40's. I plan for him to find that he's locked in a sub-basement trunk compartment under the observation car at the end of the train. Since it's locked from the outside the only way out is up. Now whether or not these compartments opened into the cars interior I don't know, but this one does. He's going to have to dodge possible harm from those on board (it's mostly dead-head equipment but there's about a dozen possible bad guys) while at the same time try to find objects (keys, tools, manuals, etc) that he can use to stop the train somehow and get out of this twilight zone world he's found himself trapped in.
I've never written one quite like this so it should be a challenge to create.
I hope everyone has a good day. After all, what could possibly go wrong? It's Friday!
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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - tompm - 11-08-2013
Good evening folks
It was 41 F this morning as I rolled out of the driveway. Our high will be 51 F.
We are continuing to notify coaches of my daughter’s decision. It has been a little rough since she has developed relationships with many of them. In some ways it is like losing a friend. She is down to the last few and these will be extremely tough. They were the other schools in her top 5 and several of the coaches she has been talking with for 3 years. These will be all phone calls.
This weekend will be busy. Saturday begins club volleyball try-outs. She will have them for the next week and a half. This week is try-outs in Delaware and next week is Pennsylvania. She has one Saturday, one on Sunday, and then Tuesday night. This year will be different since she has committed. It won’t be about going with a club that is attending the tournaments that the college coaches will be recruiting at. It will be about staying in shape, getting touches, and getting more training.
I plan on inventorying my model railroad collection over the next few weeks. Anything that I am not going to use I will probably sell or trade. I need to lessen the pile some. I also have to go through my supplies and she what needs to be replaced. I now there are quite a few bottles of dried up paint. I also need to track down some tools that others in the house have borrowed.
I hope everybody has a good day.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - BR60103 - 11-08-2013
tompm Wrote:she what needs to be replaced
Does She know about this?
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-08-2013
Well I didn't make any headway on Oliver's train adventure. Didn't put the first line to paper even. Instead I got some other things done. Small things but they still took up more than their share of time. I was getting tired of having to change out diskettes on the //e every time I wanted to play another game or copy some diskettes or use one of my word processor programs. So I pulled the drive controller out of my mothers old IIe and put it in my //e and added two more disk drives. Now I can work on Native Fury and keep a backup copy on drives one & two on slot five and I can use drives one & two on slot six for the other stuff I mentioned earlier. Plus slot six is the only one the CP/M utilities will run on.
I also picked up some stuff I ran across. A new drive controller for my mothers old IIe ($15.41). They normally run $20-$25 or more, sometimes $40+ so when I saw that one I snatched it. I also picked up a 25-pack of Arvey single sided, double density 5.25" diskettes with labels, write protect tabs and sleeves included. There are probably some people who don't even know what a 5.25" floppy disk looks like without looking it up. And I picked up five games. Load Runner, Big Quest, Kid's Adventure, Earthquest and Grungy Towers (a Commodore game rewritten for Apple). In all I spent less than $50. These days I could spend close to that on one RTR freight car and not get near the same amount of enjoyment from it.
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It's past time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Chief Eagles - 11-09-2013
A sunny and cold good morning. Warming fast. Hope all have a great weekend. Taking the youngest "Grandson" to towy train show this AM.
Later
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - sir james - 11-09-2013
Good Morning Blue
We have clear skies and 46 degrees this morning.
Our D3R club meeting is tonight. Until then I will just goof off.
I will sip my coffee and read the newspaper, yes I still get a paper each morning.
S.J.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - ezdays - 11-09-2013
Good morning all. Yet another nice day in store for here. We're looking at mid-80's, a good five degrees above average. The forecast looks like we'll be pushing 90 by Tuesday, still not a record, but about as high as we'd like to see.
sir james Wrote:...I will sip my coffee and read the newspaper, yes I still get a paper each morning.
S.J.
Yes, I too get the newspaper delivered every day. I've been getting it continuously now since I was in college and I'd be lost without it. Back then it was around a nickle at the newsstand and like a dollar a month for home delivery. Right now, the Arizona Republic runs $1.00 at the newsstand and $24 a month, but it also gets you full access to their web site... big deal. I'm just afraid that one day they'll stop the print edition altogether, just like many of the magazines that I've subscribed to over the years.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-09-2013
Good morning. It's 49° with 95% humidity. The high will be 67° and feel like 71°.
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I might need some help. Anybody here know how the rebuild a Franklin Ace10 BVI floppy disk drive? Just kidding. The day I can't rebuild one of those things with my eyes closed and one hand behind my back is a bad day. I had to take my old Franklin disk drive out of the stack this morning because it was showing verification errors on diskettes that have no errors, mostly in the higher tracks. Electronically there's nothing wrong. It's problem is strictly mechanical. In the bottom of the drive there's a stepper motor. Forget it, it's too large for most model railroad applications. On top of this is what I term the tracking disk. This is a flat platform with a spiral groove in it going from the outer edge to the central shaft. On this is mounted a metal apparatus that has a small ball bearing that rides in the groove. As the tracking disk rotates back and forth (yes it's bi-directional) it causes the apparatus with it's bearing to move back and forth and thus move the read/write head back and forth. When all this can happen smoothly things go very well. The problem is the groove is quite worn and is allowing the ball bearing to wiggle. This causes the metal apparatus to wiggle or shake and effects the alignment of the read/write head and can and often does skew data. This can be fixed by replacing the grooved disk. Problem is I don't have a parts drive at this time. I used the parts from it to rebuild a Mitac drive to take the place in the stack that the Franklin drive had occupied.
Today I hope to get started on the initial stage of Oliver's train adventure. I'm also watching for the mail delivery. My Happy Potter Deathly Hallows 2 DVD is coming today. In my spare time today I'm watching a rather long show called 'The Lost Room'.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - TX_CUMMINS_6BT - 11-09-2013
good morning yall. hope yall have a fun filled day. im stuck at the dirty 4 letter word place that starts with a W lol while my wife is at home with my lil girl. she told me she was gona go to the train show in fort worth so lets hope she brings me back some good stuff. anyways have a good one.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - FiatFan - 11-09-2013
Greetings, gang.
Sunny, 45 degrees, and very windy at about 30-35 mph. High for today is supposed to be in the mid 50s.
Still haven't got the attic chores done. Nor did I harvest any leaves. instead we supervised the removal of a flowering crab apple tree from the back yard. It looks very pretty for about 4 days in the spring. Other than that it's a nuisance - constantly shedding branches and then in the fall come the apples. It was sad to see it leave, though. Our youngest daughter brought it home from school in the 5th grade. She's now 38.
Today my wife is getting serious about going to the attic so I guess that's what will get accomplished. Other than that there will be college football at 2:30. The leaves can wait for another day as it's too windy today.
All stay safe.
Tom
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-09-2013
Glad I decided to take the Franklin drive apart before tossing it. The problem was easier to fix than I thought. In fact it wasn't being caused by what I thought it was. Well not quite. A reinforcing ring (looks like a large thin washer) from a diskette had worked it's way up under the tracking disk and was partially wrapped around the stepper motor shaft. I removed it and now the drive functions normally again. It cuts up a bit with CP/M but it always did that.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-09-2013
Been working on an idea for the beginning of Oliver's adventure.
It's best to let what's in the computer so for tell the story. It's not much but it's a start.
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That's all I have so far. Bet'cha can't wait to see what happens when he leaves the room can ya?. Frankly neither can I.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Running Bear - 11-09-2013
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
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Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - Chief Eagles - 11-10-2013
Morning. Getting ready to go to deer camp. Sinus thingy seems over. Warm today but turning colder each day until Thursday PM. Probably back Tuesday night. Train show was great. I was not impressed with the massive HO operation. Scenery was great. Trains were constantly hands on. Derailing cars and engines needing to be hand pushed to keep going. Now on the other hand. The massive N gauge layout was great. Long trains running with no problems and scenery was great. Nothing big in O. Mainly small ones with buttons for kids to make accessories work.
My "adopted" son-in-law, owner of Hunters Haven, got me 95% of my reloading equipment for 1/2 the price of new. Used but excellent shape. Now I will soon be reloading all of my used rifle brass.
Have a great week.
Re: The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!! - FiatFan - 11-10-2013
Greetings, gang.
Sunny and cold this morning with a temperature at 21 degrees. The high for today is supposed to be 48. Chance of show for tomorrow along with falling temperatures. The low on Tuesday morning is supposed to be about 16. I am preparing a special package of cold air to be shipped to the Chief.
Not much accomplished yesterday. Today I plan to get the storm windows on the front porch and get the leaves picked up. Tomorrow we head over to Webster City to perform some household chores for our son's mother-in-law.
All stay safe.
Tom