[PRCo] Re: November get-together

[Fred Schneider]

When you have a very good friend who hands you a business class  
ticket to Munich and says, in effect, Lets take a vacation together,  
only a fool turns that down.   Besides, you guys all know me well  
enough to know that, after roughly 42 months of my life spent  
wandering around Europe, I really like it.   They are not paranoid if  
you want to take a picture of a transit vehicle.   They do a much  
better job recognizing a terrorist.   We wouldn't know one if it bit us.

I dissolved the first marriage in Mexico, in that interim period when  
Mexico demanded that party A file and party B show up to agree to the  
filing.   My first wife's boy friend moved in.   I suggested that he  
pay for the divorce or I would under terms he didn't like.   He  
borrowed on his life insurance and sent me for a weekend vacation in  
Juarez.   The court appointment was 9 AM.   By 10 AM I was single and  
my Mamiya was aimed on trolleys.   I finished the day having a  
Mexican dinner with the late Henry Leinbach.

This one will be a lot more difficult.   Reno you say?   Well, Herb,  
Nevada actually contributed to the breakup.   She absolutely loathed  
the drive across U. S. 50 from Lake Tahoe to Carson City to Fallon,  
Austin, Eureka and Ely.   I thought the loneliest highway in the U.  
S. was actually pretty ... I would actually drive that road again.   
It is probably the shortest route from San Francisco to Denver (U. S.  
50 and then I-70) but it is unused because Americans believe that   
only Interstate highways are suitable for going anywhere.

I still like the blue highways.

On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

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> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:     Herb:
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> There is a rather crazy member of the museum that sleeps there.
> There is no way on God's green earth that I would stay in the same
> caboose with that character. I am not prejudiced about people by
> race, ethnicity, national origin, etc., but I reserve the right to
> dislike certain individuals just because they are stranger than  
> fiction.
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>>>> I know who you are speaking of. He does, however, like PCC cars ;-)
>>>> Surely he doesn't sleep there year round..............then maybe  
>>>> he is stranger than fiction.
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> Well, I popped in on my granddaughter yesterday. She was a little
> sullen. I asked where her live in lover was, i.e. the father of my
> great grandchild. Amyne Mohammed, it turns out, didn't understand
> the song lyrics that go, "You gotta know when to hold, and know when
> to fold." He didn't fold. He made the mistake of drinking in a
> rural, small town bar in northern Lancaster County.
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>>>> What Kenny Rogers said was, "you gotta know when to hold em, you  
>>>> gotta know when to fold em, and most of all you gotta know when  
>>>> to walk away............He forgot about the 'walking away' part.  
>>>> After all, discretion is the better part of valor !
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>    He is now in Lancaster County Prison in default of $200,000
> bail which Shannon doesn't have. She also cannot afford an
> attorney. I'm fighting my wife so I really cannot afford any
> additional attorney bills She said she can't go to Grandma because  
> she "will probably have a nervous breakdown." I can see her stone  
> drunk over it. And she
> can't go to her mom (my daughter) because she is the other alcoholic
> in the family.
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> I'm really glad, Herb, that Marie's father isn't living to see
> this. It would kill the man to see this. He was the opposite
> pole ... a self made man who rose to be one of the highest regarded
> thorasic surgeons in Lancaster County in spite of an Italian
> background at a time when the German's did not suffer Italians
> gladly. His father's surgical partner was my school board president
> back in the 1950s.I understand my wife has been doing a lot of  
> crying over this. Then I guess we can dissolve the marriage and  
> sell the house.Of course, if she has been crying, why did she start  
> all this?
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>>>> Might I suggest a trip to Reno, NV rather than Europe.
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> On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:
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>> Is the 'caboose' at PTM available for rental ?? That would actually
>> be a fun place to stay.
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>> 10/8/07 --- Cleveland Indians-6 New York Yankees-4
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>> Thanks Cleveland Indians For A Great Win -- Now, On To Boston
>> For Another Victory
>> GO TRIBE
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>> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>> No one has made reservations here yet!
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>> Race Track Road area has a Holiday Inn, a Comfort Inn and a brand-new
>> Hampton Inn.
>> Murtland Avenue area has a Motel 6 and a smallish Hampton Inn.
>> Off Route 19 by Wal-Mart is a Spring Hill Suites.
>> W Chestnut Street interchange area has a Red Roof Inn, a Ramada Inn
>> and a
>> Days Inn, plus a new Comfort Suites.
>> Near the Canonsburg exit there is a Super 8.
>> Off the Southpointe exit is a Hilton Garden Inn.
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>> So there's something for all tastes and finances.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
>> Bob
>> Dietrich
>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:04 AM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] November get-together
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>> Our planned get-together is but a few weeks away and I haven't heard
>> anything about making room accommodations. Have you folks made
>> arrangements
>> other than staying at Ed's place? If so please clue me in. If not
>> should
>> we try to get into the same place? How many of us need rooms? I
>> know there
>> are a few places on Race Track Road, I can call for rates. Any other
>> suggestions?
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>> Bob
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