Santa done brought you...

[John]

Dunder Mifflin Paper Company would be a good online customer for finished paper products...

There are a bunch of logo's online .. this one would make a good one for a plant

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fih1.redbubble.net%2Fimage.196218291.6566%2Fsticker%2C375x360-bg%2Cffffff.u1.png&f=1&nofb=1

[packers#1]

Never could get into the office; I’ll actually be using two of my former employers as customers. There’ll be a PCA corrugated plant in the roundy round and a Sonoco Film plant in the industrial park. There will be a build thread forthcoming this week to start organizing my thoughts!

[peteski]

I’m really out of it. I had to look up both Rose Apothecary and a 3 in 1 machine. I thought it would slice, dice, and purée. Anyway, I need all the help I can get soldering.

Welcome to the dark PACE side!  We have another convert.    It will not magically teach you how to become good at soldering, but it will make precision soldering easier.  You'll still need to practice.   And it can easily handle all sorts of tasks: from miniature decoder work to soldering track.  You will need appropriate tip (cartridge) for different tasks, but those are usually around $13 a piece.

[Jim Starbuck]

When your girlfriend collaborates with her graphic artist daughter and they whip up some cool Hiawatha shirts.

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[Philip H]

Milwaukee road bay window caboose from the new Bluford run.
Rapido GMD-1#1439. Really need to figure out how to subletting it for Puddington.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Didn’t ask for anything train related from Santa this year but I got loaded up on Packers and Clemson swag for the playoffs! (My girlfriend is the best)

I DID get a Micro Mark pin vise and drill bit set from my siblings.

@Ed Kapuscinski your mug has made me decide that my next layout once we buy a house in SC is going to be the Wisconsin and Southern Schitt’s Creek branch

I love it!

I've been thinking about how to do the Rosebud. It's the perfect subject for a TTRAK module.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

In keeping with the Canadian "TV" theme. From my brother:
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[wazzou]

Nice!

[cjm413]

I love it!

I've been thinking about how to do the Rosebud. It's the perfect subject for a TTRAK module.

https://robonlocation.com/tv/schitts-creek/

[packers#1]

I love it!

I've been thinking about how to do the Rosebud. It's the perfect subject for a TTRAK module.

That would be a perfect subject! I don’t know if I need a Shoresy jersey, but I definitely need a Letterkenny Irish hat. Wheel Snipe Celly boys

[JMaurer1]

...all I got is a rock.
- Charlie Brown

No, me and my SO agreed back when we first met that we wouldn't do presents...not for birthdays, Christmas, Valentines Day, etc. If we find something that we want to get for the other, we buy it and give it to them. No pressure then on getting the 'right' gift. With the passing of my father two month's ago, the entire family decided to switch to this same thing. Why wait when any day can be special by giving a present? Also, you never know if they will be there for the next special day. So, for Christmas, I got exactly want I wanted... no pressure about buying gifts, having to fight the crowds (or lack of crowds as some stores limited the number of people in a store), having to look happy about getting something I didn't want or need, etc. Instead, we just appreciated being able to still share memories and good times without the stress. Kind of makes you remember what the season is about and that has nothing to do with what you got.

[randgust]

I'd put something on my Christmas list hoping it would be worth it....

A small-room air purifier.  Huh?  Well, even though my train room is door-sealed, hot-water heated, and environmentally controlled with a dehumidifier, I've been getting progressively more annoyed about a growing accumulation of 15 years or so of dust, evident about everywhere.    Vacuuming it seems to touch off a dust storm from the exhaust and it just resettles elsewhere.    So I got a little one of these PartU air purifiers from my oldest son - it's slightly bigger than a cannister thermos and runs on a 12V adapter.

I cleaned off some black passenger car roofs as a 'control group' and fired it up, and it proved my point after 48 hours; a nice gray accumulation of inbound dust on the intake screen and not so much as a new particle on the control group.   Seems to work very well,  so I went to work cleaning off about 150 cars with a soft brush right in front of the intake screen.  Did not seem to be an exercise in futility this time.

I'd highly recommend one of these devices as a result.   There are a lot of them, this is just what I ended up with and I'm pretty happy with it:
https://hvac.ninja/reviews/partu-hepa-air-purifier/

[thbguy]

Well, I had yet another crazy rail and water module idea, and I told @hegstad1 about it rather enthusiastically. Turns out if you say, “Gee, I think this might just fit on a HCD”, sure enough, Santa will bring you one!

Now I’m committed to doing a stretch of the Welland canal! 
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[MK]

Randy, get a vacuum that has a HEPA fi!ter.  Almost all portable vacs, with or without a bag, spews the finer dust back out while trapping the bigger particles, as you have found out.

The best is a central vac where the exhaust is spewed to the outdoors.  Of course if your house isn't built with one, it would be a project putting one in, having to open up walls and ceilings to put in the pipes.

[randgust]

I've got a good vacuum.   The problem is that the high-velocity exhaust from the thing creates as many problems as it solves - it kicks dust up from everywhere it points, puts it in the air, and resettles it.   Running a constant air filter will help that drifting particle issue.  An air filter won't dislodge and lift what's already settled like a vacuum, but once you do vacuum, you're attacking the problem at the source.