[PRCo] Re: November get-together

Tue Oct 9 21:22:36 EDT 2007

Forget that.   This has nothing to do with anything.   Delete it.   I  
sent a message to the wrong person.
On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> I may end up buying a turkey sandwich on the turnpike and eating it
> in Motel 5 15/16ths.
>
> On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>>> 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 !
>>>
>>>
>>>    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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>>>> Might I suggest a trip to Reno, NV rather than Europe.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is the 'caboose' at PTM available for rental ?? That would actually
>>>> be a fun place to stay.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 10/8/07 --- Cleveland Indians-6 New York Yankees-4
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Cleveland Indians For A Great Win -- Now, On To Boston
>>>> For Another Victory
>>>> GO TRIBE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>>>> No one has made reservations here yet!
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> So there's something for all tastes and finances.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Bob
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>>>> Herb Brannon
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>>> Herb Brannon
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