When the wife was away

Armchair Marathon

My last marathon lasted for months and has finally been suspended. Thank you Rick. Your new project has inspired  me to get building. 

Randy

Master Procraster

Randy, that marathon was on

If it wasn't for the "Last Minute", nothing would get done...

Dear Peter,

72 hour non-stop wiring session 15 years ago to get a local train-club sectional layout ready for it's debut show.
(UK outline quad-main <> dual-main junction onstage + 10 track dbl-ended staging yard
First time on Gurana Energy drink, can only be chalked-up to youthful exuberance, naivety, and a misguided-belief that said that the clubmembers actually cared if the layout made it to the show operable or not...

Next 72-hour marathon was the last 3 days to get an On30 Aussie logging show layout ready for it's debut. Out in the garage in the cold of winter, layout "ambience" soundtrack playing and freaking out the local wildlife (birds trying to sleep, but hearing other birds calling to them @ 02;30?!?!?).

2003 brought the Sydney leg of the Aust NG Convention. That was a back-to-back run of 10-hours-sleep-in-5-continuous-days leading up to the event, and then 72 hours non-stop actually running and packing-down the event. Photographic evidence of my state at the end of the show have been distroyed, as it was deemed to be examples of "cruel and unusual" punishment.

"Brooklyn : 3AM" managed to avoid the last-minute-before-debut rush as far as the modelling went, but the entire scratchbuilt Layout Sound soundtrack was completed in a 36-hour marathon session (Thurs and Fri), just before pack-down for it's debut show. (the quietness of o-dark-hundred made mixing sub-60dB SPL "scale sound" sooo much easier!).

2009 brought another Aust NG Convention to Sydney, and unfortunately, those who do not learn their lessons from "last time" are doomed to repeat them. Such was the issue here, with a similar lack-of-sleep to the 2003 event occuring again. Thankfully, this time round, my now-wife was onsite and in-the-thick-of-it alongside me, and went to extraordinary lengths to make sure I stayed fed and watered, if not actually taking 5(sec?) breaks every soo often. (I love my wife, and she loves me _and_ my hobby...)

The next major project is forming as we speak, and has a firm deadline of 28th Feb next, for a one-and-only show in early March. Anyone taking bets on whether this one will prompt another "marathon"?

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Last Fall my wife went away

Last Fall my wife went away for the weekend with her mom and sister so I had the house to myself.  It rained all weekend and I spent Saturday in the train room from around 9 AM to around 3 AM Sunday.  The time flew by.  I had the hockey game on and drank a few beers that night, lol. 

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