Model Train Journal

Nice to see the fire is warm and things are proceeding. I have some hooch, and if you have a tin cup I am pouring.

San

Petey,

For some curious reason, I am not allowed to email you. Well said here and in our other transaction.

Thank you,

San

Indeed, Happy Easter.

San (shaking away, but all is well).

Happy birthday Marty and congratulations, Daisy. The AK is an awesome weapon. Fired it in an AF Weapons of the World class years ago (gotta use what you can pick up if you lose your nice airplane, live through it. and the M1911 is out of ammo). I swear they'll fire with water and sand in the barrel....

Hi Wayne, They are called Zertz insets and can be easily bonded with carbon fiber. Do they do any good? Don't know. I would have to ride same frame construction and geometry without them. The white bike is a Roubaix Expert Compact and it is very comfortable on long rides. Some of that, I am sure, co...

http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv211/Carmel_Valley/2009%20Christmas/IMG_2751_edited.jpg Winter is ebbing and the fixie will soon go back on it's garage hanger. Good ride in the dark of winter after walking the dog, but DST is too weeks away and I am looking forward for the lightness of being on...

Tramp,

A wonderful Scotch saga. What would you give for just a taste of one of those?

I know it is pretty serious everywhere else, but tequila and lime weather here. Louie licked the condensation from my Pacificos and is just plain tuckered out tonight. Lazy dog.

San

...save his insults for his California friends Digging the hole deeper are we? zonie An Arizonian who comes to the West Coast beach cities every year and generally irritates all locals. Easily recognized by their rash guards, smashball games, and general disregard for beach etiquette. I suppose you...

That Earl's a fine boy, ain't he? Hand/eye coordination of a fighter pilot, steady as a rock, and a keen sense for business. Madge and Flo are a bit beyond the milf stage, but I reckon it's fun to drink with them.

San

Ah, Murph. I would love to have that pizza parlor session with the bo's. I have actually met Wayne and his wonderful wife, Mary, talked with the Dirt on the phone, and had further conversation with HRJ's wife while he was on duty during Katrina. At several critical junctures in the evolution of MTJ,...

Murph, I am afraid you will need to expand the envelop of your imagination. The images that you see from time to time are a bogus persona that, by necessity, I have had to create for the internet. I even had to hire a ringer to go up and meet Mary and Wayne in L.A. one Christmas. Circa November 15, ...

I just went along with it and didn't inhale. Suffered through two hours of Sexual Harassment Training this morning. (How to avoid it, liability for me, liability for QC, not how to perpetrate it.) Left coast law mandates that we take it every two years. Last time they had a troupe of actors that did...

Yeah, Roger, on the price of the thing and Jon's inherent sense of economy. But if you need to move your horizontal axis, front loading washing system through a neighborhood with enterprises like "Pick up Pieces" (looks like an Amsterdam hemp and tobacco shop), you will need the bakfiets. ...

Jon, get serious.



It's called a "bakfiets" and weighs about 300 kg.

San

Besides heavy rain and thunderstorms soaking the flatlands, snow blanketing the mountains and 12- to 18-foot waves battering the beaches, today could bring waterspouts, tornadoes, hail and the rarely seen graupel, which forms when supercooled water droplets coat snowflakes. graupel. I have never he...