Welcome to my Blog
"Brian's View of the Shore" is my first website. Built using Word Press. A fellow student (Thanks, Kaushal!) in my "Technical Communications" class (Fall/2012) at Saint Thomas did a presentation on "Blogging with Tumblr", stirring my creative juices. I decided to teach myself WordPress and started development of this website in mid-Nov, 2012. The intent is for it to be more of a complete personal website and not just a blog. If you want to see a list of the various topics and pages, click on "Site Map" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar. If you just want to read my Blog, click on "The Blog" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar, or any of the following Links, otherwise, … [Otherwise]
Summary of Recent Posts:
- Modrl Railroading – structure building summary for 2023 January 31, 2024
- Model Railroading – kit building – LaserKutModels June 7, 2023
- Model Railroading – recent thoughts – motivation March 29, 2023
- Being down – and how I (temporarily) fixed it. March 13, 2022
- Model Railroading – FSM – Swakhammer’s Welding Co. December 10, 2020
- Hertz bankruptcy May 24, 2020
- Thrivent reflections – followup to a post from 2019-05-24 May 24, 2020
- Reading, and Wikipedia May 24, 2020
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Recent Post Excerpts:
Modrl Railroading – structure building summary for 2023
Since late last summer I’ve been beating myself up with regard to my model railroading ‘structure building’ hobby. It all had to do with me finally getting motivated last yr around this time (Feb/2023), getting back to my hobby table building my “kits” (I hadn’t done anything project-wise during all of 2021 nor 2022). So, it was a big deal to getting back and start making things again. Then, something (I believe) … [More...]
Model Railroading – kit building – LaserKutModels
It’s pretty tough starting a mom & pop business out of your garage these days. Decades ago, you could put an ad into the various hobby related mags, announcing your new model railroad kit manufacturing company, and hopefully, via these magazine ads, as well as by word of mouth, your mom & pop business just might get enough customers to make your start-up a successful one, like Art’s Bar Mills Scale Model Works, … [More...]
Model Railroading – recent thoughts – motivation
So…as some of you have noticed, I’ve been sharing my recent builds (after almost two yrs of being in a funk and not having any motivation to work at my project table). And, I’ve been getting the “likes” as well as some nice comments. But, the following comment this morning truly surprised me: “I am never going to be a great scale modeler but your work is inspiring.” This following (after the “=====“) is what I wrote … [More...]
Being down – and how I (temporarily) fixed it.
Several weeks now, I’ve been kinda down. Lots of reasons. But, once I knew BFF Rick was going to come over (originally yesterday but we moved it today), I got my stupid, sorry, depressed ass off the couch, out of bed, out of the funk, out of the mope, whatever, and started cleaning and tidying; I’m the type who doesn’t make the bed each day; and I sometimes ‘laugh’ (or, roll my eyes) when I see someone’s response to … [More...]
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