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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
And you are right! The actor's name is David Tennant. I didn't recognize him as the same actor until you mentioned it.
I sketched out a minor character last nite. She's a gifted IT gal who is a wiz at scripts and little programs. One little program she wrote and uses in the story is a "legend generator", legend being a UK spin on "cover". It generates a first name, last name, city, and occupation based on all sorts of statical weighting to produce a plausible combination. It checks the combo against reality (just to make sure there aren't two James Bonds managing a retail shop in Carlisle...) and if you like the cover, it will set up a myspace/facebook/whatever account backdated by 18 months. Its flaw is that sometimes it comes up with very strange combinations and the MC of this subplot is never really happy with the result. Moderate humor ensues.
He’s a cutie. I saw him on the Grahm Norton Show a couple weeks ago. Funny guy!
When taking Gypsy for a walk last night, we were stopped by a very slow moving train. The lead engine was a nasty shade of primer grey, and TFM was painted on the side. When I came home I googled up TFM and found out that the engine is from the Mexican part of Kansas City Southern de Mexico. I guess the engineer was getting familiar with the tracks, as opposed to the engineer that came flying through town about 60 mph a couple of days ago. (sigh)
Drive in circles for a while... or use it on the morning commute...
Hmmm....why am I thinking “put a penny on the track”?
We see kids doing that occassionally. It's always fun to see 'em searching for the penny once the train has gone through.
The engine may be from the Mexican side of the railroad company but that does not mean the engineer is. Stretches of railroad are broken down into “subdivisions” and each subdivision has a pool of train engineers and conductors that work that subdivision. They drive a train from one side of the subdivision to another and hand it off to the next subdivision’s team, then drive a train back the other direction to their home base.
Good morning! Another chilly one here - it’s about 42 out there, which may be a good number, but it isn’t quite so meaningful when it’s the temperature...
I’m driving to work today and doing the Coldeez / fluids thing in hopes of nipping this cold in the bud.
Fall is too nice a time of year to feel lousy. Mmm...fall.
Good morning :~)
Chilly indeed. Cold? That’s a bummer.
I think it’s unavoidable any time you spend two days in a week in a plane breathing recirculated air. :-\ But a lot of times Coldeez stop it from going any farther than a day of feeling a little blah.
I want to bike tomorrow, so I gotta get better. They’re going to have Lilly Road torn up, and traffic will be a nightmare.
Lots of hot tea and keep those sinuses clear! Hope you feel better soon.
Well, that's good to know! We have 20+ trains through here a day, mostly coal, but the mixed freight trains do include tanks cars of noxious chemicals. The ones that I find most curious are the ones that come through around midnight and don't blow their whistle. Just what are they carrying? Things that make you go hmmmm. LSA
Brrr!
Hope you feel better soon. We dropped down to 46 degrees Saturday so OB had a fire going most of the day. Then yesterday I had to turn on the air conditioners again. It’s suppose to hit 90 degrees tomorrow. LSA
Certain crossings have rules about times of day for blowing whistles or not. It might be that the crossing they’re passing has ‘quiet hours’.
Also the speed is not totally up to the engineer - track sections have speed limits and those vary based on length of train, load, how hot it is....
Considering we’re only about 200 feet from the RR crossing, I can only wish they had quiet hours. Actually, not, because we are so used to the 3:00 a.m. trains, we wake up when we’re away from home and don’t hear the whistles.
The speed limit through our town is 35 mph, but sometimes the trains really roll!! It’s cool, though. We’ve lived in this house for 31 years and have just gotten used to increase in train traffic over the years. It does tend to drive visitors a little crazy though. :-)
SirKit and I are both suffering from the effects of pollen. It's always worse for us in the Fall. You're right; it's a lousy time to be sick!
I was extremely congested again last night, so I took some more of that mucus relief stuff. It was the BJ's brand of Mucinex, I guess, but it sure did the trick! I don't like decongestants because they dry me out too much, so just addressing the clogged lungs helps tremendously!
We had a fire going a few times while I was home. Didn’t keep one going for long, but it made for a cozy atmosphere on a few of the chillier mornings!
They’re getting warm weather now...now that I’m gone. Go figger.
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