two hot dogs, because today has been doubly dumb 🐶❤️🌭🌭

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POV: you said “walk” while on the phone 🦮🚶‍♂️

The Chihuahua Pacifico H-16-44 goes for a test run. It's ex-Erie Lackawanna 1930, sold to them in 1966-7.

I hate MS Teams so much. Laptop can run multiple VMs and a million Chrome tabs without issue, but join a Teams meeting with nothing else running and laptop suddenly slams to a crawl and/or totally locks up 🫠

Thanks, I dislike it. (Doesn’t even go to gold country!!) At least people will be able to spell it and pronounce it properly 🤷‍♂️

should've confirmed when I was hired for this contracting work what my hourly rate was, as they gave me a range, but I was so stoked to get an offer that I didn't ask what my rate would be 😅 (thankfully, as I'm finally receiving my first check, it turns out it was the top of the range, WOOHOO! 🥳)

Dog sitting for my mom at her house this week and working remotely and SO GLAD I have a portable monitor to bring with me. It’s painful going from an ultrawide monitor to this setup for work, but if I had just the single screen it’d be so much worse 😩

haven’t reset the MPG trip tracker on my SUV since I got it 4 years ago, and while it’s fun to see how many miles I’ve put on it since, not so much to see the miles per gallon 😅⛽️💸

Finally tried the Japanese restaurant (Rantei) that replaced Hatcho in Santa Clara after they closed many years ago, and glad to see they still have private rooms AND the food is good! 🐶❤️🍣🍱 Accidentally scavenged someone’s food and intentionally scavenged another’s food and now I’m SO FULL 🐶💦

It's a beautiful day in the model train neighborhood, and you are a giant animal.

Here's a "consist of all time", coming back from 1991 railfair. You can model this entire train in HO: -Athearn Genesis DD40AX -Rapido or IMRC EMC FT's -OMI Brass 4-6-0+flatcar -Whatever is on that flat -Tangent Caboose -Brass obscar www.flickr.com/photos/15108...

Califurnians - not too late to get your vote in, if you haven’t already!!! ✅

New neighbors aren’t loud, which is nice, but not to thrilled they seem to have a habit of smoking cannabis on their porch, bleh. 😷🚭

I like to imagine today was the day years ago when the SP decided to repaint all locomotives that they had painted in the short-lived "Halloween" black and orange paint scheme (it was very plain, but would make for a good Halloween-themed ghost train today! 👻🚂)

Great job, everyone, we did it again

And the final two signal masts mounted! The Showcase Miniature kit uses wood walkways, which is a bit too oldschool for what I’m doing, so cut up some NJ Accessories N Scale laser cut steel walkways which look perfect I think! (Ladders/handrails to be mounted later!)

What if… MOAR TRACKS! 🛤️🛤️🛤️🛤️ Might be a masochist, but lengthened the signal bridge to fit 4 tracks and got two signal masts mounted, think I should be able to fit 3 signals per mast like Caltrain uses for speed & route signaling

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

hope my costume isn’t TOO spooky, but went with the scariest thing to see on a train platform!!! 😱

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

watching a Halloween special…. #fursuitfriday 📸: @tavfox.bsky.social 🧵🪡: @sarahcatfursuits.com

Always feel like I’m walking through a spaceship when going between Caltrain EMU cars 🛸🚊

All you can eat KBBQ AND hot pot?! It’s more likely than you think! It’s also Super….. HOT 🐶💦💦💦🥘🍖🍗

Halloween party tomorrow so it’s bath and blowjob time~!!

Neat! 🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠

okay, studied my alphabet and practiced saying “1” and “2”, so think I’m prepared for this eye exam!!! 💪🐶

Bottom 13th, let’s goooooo! 💪🐶🌱 (coincidentally, 13 is also my record for bottoming 🤭) www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/...

you’re not dreaming, so no need to be pinched, but feel free to grab hold since it may get ruff~ 🐶❤️

It’s a tacos and Taskmaster night (All the food you need is on the table ✉️🌮🌮)

I watched a styrene scratch building video that recommended using a PCB nibbling tool to cut door/window holes, and OH MY DOG it’s soooooo much easier and quicker! Trying to create a series of south SF-esque rowhomes and was NOT looking forward to repetitive scoring/cutting by hand of styrene

"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy

phew, glad my state doesn't force you to get a REAL ID because I TOTALLY spaced on getting my docs together for it, and realize my driver's license expires in a few weeks on my birthday (glad I can just pay the renewal on my non-REAL ID driver's license to get that ASAP 🐶💦)

off to a great start, dentist I submitted information to two weeks ago, FINALLY got back to me that they're not accepting new patients at this time (after I called them to see why I hadn't heard back) not great attention to detail so probably for the best, but UGH I just want to get it over with 😭

me, examining a video thumbnail and caption from an Instagram/TikTok/FB link sent to me, to figure out an appropriate reaction instead of explaining I don't use those sites, and can't watch what they sent me 🐶💭

Fun fact that NetJets, originally known as Executive Jet Airways, had a majority of their shares at one point owned by Pennsylvania Railroad

had the Knight Rider and Super Mario Bros theme and thought it was cool as HECK 🎶 it's now been over a decade since I've heard ANY noise from my phone(s), as the first customization I do is put it on silent 🔕🔇

More progress on the Anchor Bay project layout! Filling out the creek with much more vegetation to match its California prototype.

I want: money to pay things off You want: to be a wolf or coyote If this interests you I’m considering offers starting at 1500. Haven’t really worn in years, has basically unused hands and a beautiful tail, fits my big 25” head. I believe it was made my Freakhound years ago.

Did you know that street trees can reduce ambient temperatures by as much as 15°F (~8°C) and save up to 60% in street resurfacing costs?

Another N Scale house complete! 🏠 Came out good enough, although kind of bummed that because it’s an old IHC kit (found on FleaBay), a lot of the pieces were warped. The geometry issues are super visible when lit internally, with a lot of light bleeds, so she’ll have to remain dark 😢

random thought: there is a courage that transfolk have to be proud of their hormone therapy that I wish some cis men on the same would try to emulate, as personally think it's a whole lot more masc to be honest about it, than tout some LiverKing-esque explanation of your "great genetics" and diet

paws are currently full, but give me a tummy and I’ll be happy to rub at the drop of a hat~ 🐶❤️

I am seeing more advertisements for Walther’s railroad-themed trading cards in model train videos on YouTube, and no thank you ❌ (Also I’m pretty sure the logo for this product is AI generated? Really adds to the overt cash grab vibe)

HELL YEAH, spooky milestone 🤘🐶

The train to Osaka.

RV There Yet is fun! But…. sometimes the physics freak out, which is less fun 😭

Proud of my pumpkin child I created 🐶❤️🎃

Pumpkin carving with friends, behold our pumpkin family!!!

To give a better idea of how teensy these N scale signals are: here’s the signal head, the LED assembly and the control board for it (an NCE Light-It, which can be issued signal commands via DCC) next to a dime 🚦🔍