Tehachapi Train Trip (Episode 1)

On the way...




A milestone...9,999 miles. One more tick to 10,000.




i had no idea any of these still ran.



the TL's navi said this was uncharted territory, so this wasnt much of a surprise. (said nothing about a desert isle, however.) no gilligan, skipper, millionaire, his wife, movie star, professor or mary ann sightings, unfortunately.



The aforementioned TL at the Tehachapi wind farm. Looks like a brochure picture, eh?

New art for the office...

It's a (sorta) sad time. Another one of my haunts is going out of business. It's the local military/technological/miscellaneous...surplus store. Aisles and aisles of...stuff. You could spend hours...looking at...stuff. But it's closing. So, on a day off, i went to wander the aisles for one of the last times. Just to look for...something. I found a box with various screws, lockwashers, and electrical connectors. $4.00. Cool. I wandered down into the back room where the real fun stuff is. Old military electronic gear, power cables, knobs, switches, meters, nuts, bolts, equipment cases...and...stuff.

Then I saw...it. The perfect addition to my office wall. It's an old sign. It would go perfectly on the wall of my office. A perfect pice of random...stuff. I quickly found an employee, who added the sign to my bill. He quotes me $2.50, (and it would have been a bargain at twice the price)
points me towards a phillips screwdriver, and down it comes. I'll put it up this weekend, likely. i know just where. But until then,

Here it is:



A little more history...on the back.



What it says:




No, i didnt take it off. it's still on there, for the next owner to find.

New (to me) truck

Another one bites the dust...

another one of the remaining "76 globes" (in Sierra Madre CA) is replaced with a boring flat sign. you'd think the name recognition alone would be reason to retain them...