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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. I can't find any of the close pictures that I took that day but this is from my wife's phone. It looks like UP 844 was the locomotive that came to our town.
  2. You are correct. I'm trying to find the cellphone pictures that I took to confirm the engine number. As I recall, the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita brought it in to help celebrate their Grand Opening. They gave rides from Wichita to Herington and back with stops in several of the small communities along the way.
  3. Close. Maybe 500 students. With the religious leanings of the school, I was surprised that I wasn't told the rock was less than 4000 years old. The professor wasn't a geology prof. Chemistry with a geology background. I don't think they like to discuss with their students how rocks were most likely formed.
  4. FIFY. small school.
  5. I play golf with half of the faculty and I'm related to the other half. It's not a big deal. We aren't talking about K-State or UT here. My Great Grandfather founded the school.
  6. Scroll up to KC and check out the maneuver they will go through to turn and go west. It looks like they have to do some fancy driving in Houston and Little Rock as well. I will follow it as it makes it's way across Kansas. Damn shame that I don't have any photography chops. I'm pretty sure it was BigBoy that came through my hometown 20 years or so ago and stopped right outside my office for a couple of hours. The crowd brought our little town to a standstill. It amazes me how many people are active railfans.
  7. I had hoped that new ownership would allow KC to move on from the Dayton Moore Trust the Process ways. That was a fun couple of days.
  8. Thanks for sharing, Lid. That is a moving tribute to your Dad and your Daughter.
  9. Yes. Yes I did. You gotta love small town living.
  10. To be honest, I don't really know how it ended up on the deck. We have coons that come up to eat catfood and a rat terrier that spends the day outside so it could have been either, I suppose. Or aliens.
  11. Best of both worlds
  12. Ok, a professor at the local college tells me that I have a hematite nodule. Even though hematite contains iron oxide, it is not magnetic. I am not going to glow. Horn4life wins his choice from the bottom shelf.
  13. Cool. I'm old anyway. Not @Armybrat old, but close.
  14. Here's a better view. It seems to be heavy for it's size.
  15. Found this on my covered deck this morning. It's nonmagnetic and spherical. Looks like it has about a .06 thick crust that appears crystalline. Reddish color makes me think iron oxide but,again, it is not magnetic. It would be valuable if it is a meteorite so we can rule that out. My luck doesn't run that way. We have lots of geodes in the area but most that I have seen are hollow and much rougher texture on the outside. My house backs up to an abandoned limestone quarry. There isn't a hole in the deck roof so it must have been dropped there by a critter? I haven't mowed in a couple weeks so I don't think it was tossed by the mower. I go out that door often, I doubt it has been laying there long. Any of you geology types know what I have?
  16. The slideshow cycled before I could get my head around "Papahanaumokuakea" I am fascinated whenever they release the pictures of their latest find.
  17. I must have kicked it. It was across the room from my bench. Of course I had already cut another pin to length. It's uncanny how small parts always scurry away when dropped.
  18. I made a couple modifications to a benchrest trigger. Putting it all back together, a couple of slave pins to hold it together while I get it into place in the receiver. I dropped one of the final assembly pins. I saw it land by my feet and bounce to the left but I'll be damned if I can find it. I ran a magnet-on-a-stick under the bench and all over the floor without any luck. Shit. I'm sure it will show up after I've already made a replacement.
  19. Thanks Nedi. Hello Matheny. Fuck Dayton Moore.
  20. Just a reminder to the Spotify users that this was a thing on Shaggy. I've been listening at work all week long. There is some really good music here, and some that I skip past quickly. But that's OK. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6b5v3CQU3CxamHRxfZjXLs?si=i407Q6flTpe2jvZB9aryQA It's been a long time since anything new was added, I would welcome some fresh tunes.
  21. I'm rural as well with the same issue. I don't kill the coons that were live-trapped. We relocate them to a more remote area and let somebody else deal with the fallout. Actually we haven't trapped one in years. We leave a radio, tuned to a country station, playing all night and it seems to do the trick. We don't bring in the cat food every night like we used to do. Our hummingbird feeders are hung from climb-proof poles in the garden as are the regular bird feeding stations around the yard. Killing the critters that are just doing critter things is something I try to avoid. I made the attractive nuisance, the least I can do is take responsibility for keeping it out of their reach.
  22. I will always rec "What God Wants".
  23. The wife and I drive 15 miles just to get fucking pancakes on Saturday morning. I'm not asking for fine dining although that would be nice. I just want a good farmer Cafe for breakfast and lunch. We got spoiled , I guess, with two places in town but both owners got old and couldn't find a buyer. Rumor has it that our 1880s hotel has hired a chef for weekend suppers. Curious how that will be received.
  24. The place I live is small but we are the county seat. It means we have several lawyers and a district judge in our community. We have a 30 bed hospital with full lab so we have a couple MDs and several nurses and technicians. KDOT has a regional headquarters here so we have several civil engineers in town. We are always looking for school teachers but the administration seems pretty stable. We have two manufacturing companies that provide jobs for 60 or so people. Many of those are skilled positions. Just because a place is small doesn't mean that there aren't opportunities for professionals. Our pressing need right now is for someone to fill the dining void. Subway and Casey's isn't getting it done. We have a couple of shuttered cafes downtown that need somebody to take over. One of them was recently remodeled. Great opportunity for the right person.
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