Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 47° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 60° with partly cloudy skies. Never warmed up yesterday as was forecast. Did do some bike riding. Drove around area looking at Christmas lights in the evening. One place had a train layout in his back yard.
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Drew, glad party turned out good.
Good Morning All.

 

[sseelhoff]

Happy day, all.

Morning chores done, and the coffee is made. Watching some news, then off to the grocery. Need to get some office work done today for a jump start on a busy week.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning everyone! 55 degrees here this morning in Colorado County. That's about 15 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. Pastures still swishy from recent rains so, tractors still parked.

Forecast is for 75 degrees on Christmas Day and tomorrow is first day of winter???

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[lostcreekranch]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 47° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 60° with partly cloudy skies. Never warmed up yesterday as was forecast. Did do some bike riding. Drove around area looking at Christmas lights in the evening. One place had a train layout in his back yard. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/rural-living/451106-good-morning-img_1056-jpg"/><img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/rural-living/451107-good-morning-img_1071-jpg"/> Drew, glad party turned out good. Good Morning All.

That train layout is awesome! I assume it's permanent and not something just set up for Christmas?

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[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning all, had my wifey made coffee. Two kids are in the church's Christmas play this morning. Got to get going to be there on time for rehearsal,

Have a blessed day.

 

[ronjhall]

That train layout is awesome! I assume it's permanent and not something just set up for Christmas? Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Yes, it is permanent. Owner is from Ogden, UT. Many of the buildings are replicas from there.

 

[300UGUY]

32 here, going to 42. Anything above 32 is a gift this time of year. Wife made a great bfast, using our own eggs, local bacon, and coffee from Costco. Potatoes and squash that grew up in a compost pile! Of course our dogs each got some scrambled eggs, and a little bit of bacon. Yes, they are spoiled.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG I'm sure you can crack it if you want to. In your developer days was the best bit the money, or was it the satisfaction, when things finally go well, that was directly proportional to the problems that had to be solved along the way (although that doesn't hold for working with Microsoft products, that's simple frustration) ?

Eric, it was good having sufficient money to cover my needs, and even some of my wants, but the most satisfaction came in providing a solution that made many people's jobs easier and more productive. I wouldn't necessarily say that was in proportion to the number of hurdles to be overcome, as in some cases there were so many it took much of the enjoyment out of the task. One of my chief grievances was and apparently still is the sorry state of most documentation that accompanies SDKs and components, leaving the potential user to run a series of little tests to figure it out for themselves. That was the case for most of the day yesterday, with many trials and just enough successes to keep me at it. php has its own way of doing date arithmetic, and now having at least determined both the algorithm and solution in that language, I get to ferret out the riddle in SQL. Unlike the old days, where I'd have three or four fingers holding different pages open in books, now it's web pages found by google and flipping between windows. But in this Joomla/php/SQL world, there's no actual access to the file structure, no debugger, and not even something as simple as inserting print statements to drop pebbles along the way. These things that have been designed to make it simpler for non-developers to produce dynamic web pages have made it very difficult to accomplish exactly what the application calls for, especially if the framework developers did not foresee the need or were too shortsighted to make their tools difficult to extend.:soapbox::soapbox:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Kentucky windage ? My loader only curls and dumps, you and RedNeck must have deluxe models, just how much horizontal adjustment do you have ?

I used to faff around resetting the level indicator when changing from bucket to forks to bale spike. Now I leave it fixed and aim off too. Anyone mark the rod with a band to use as the other reference points ? WaxMan showed some very fancy indicators a while ago, this is one of his.

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Kentucky is a very hilly state, and the windage there apparently goes up and down, Eric. I can't imagine tape or sharpie marks lasting long on the chromed steel rod that serves as the indicator on my tractor, and use it so infrequently now it's difficult to remember how much allowance to make for the forks. So I just end up standing up and sitting down a lot, and sometimes even getting out of the seat to go out front and see just where the tips have gotten.

 

[rswyan]

32.1F and clear @ 11:00 ... high today predicted to be around 50F ...

The Squeak is back in action and bouncing off the walls ... her eyes appear to be clearing up and there's much less coughing and sneezing.

Might try to get some stuff moved into the polebarn today.