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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Yes, that one too. Another one starts something like this: This is Peabody from Medicare Benefits (or, the Health Insurance Billing Dept, or NC Blue Cross, or the Free Government Insurance Carrier Selection Assistance Program, or... endless variations on that theme). Whether I ever have...
  2. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    "This is the security department for your bank Visa card. We have important information regarding a change in your interest rate." I get that one pretty often on the phone. Gmail's spam filter saves me from about 12 spam messages per day, based on the 357 spam messages automatically put in the...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    That is definitely true. I'll try to remember to take an illustrative picture. Centipede is neat. So is St Augustine. My lawn is 100% Laissez Faire.
  4. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I don't have fast internet, but for some reason my water, which comes from my narrow (6") bore well drilled hundreds of feet down, into rock, has water that's both delicious and soft. General hardness and carbonate hardness are both quite low. People who drink the water from my well invariably...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Update on my TV and Internet adventures: Despite the fact that CenturyLink says 25 Mbps speed is available at my location, it is not. 10 Mbps is the fastest available service. Even if I was getting a full 10 Mbps, which I'm not, that is not fast enough to support HD streaming with any kind of...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Salt mixed with water and sprayed on the unwanted growth does a marvelous job. Add a little dishwashing soap for adhesion. Once or twice a year will do it.
  7. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    That sounds different from the "NC Real ID" that I can get, which is designed to meet stricter identification requirements that start in 2020 for domestic flights and entering Federal facilities. New "regular" NC licenses now say "not for Federal identification" across the top. I'm not at all...
  8. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    At a lake while the sun was shining? You mean The Phillies. This question I am asking for a friend. If someone has a drivers licence that expired on his birthday 2 days ago, and he studiously gathered up all the required documentation to get the new "smart" license which will meet new...
  9. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    When Colonial Penn first started selling life insurance on TV (a zillion years ago, give or take), the mechanics of the sales gimmick was not immediately apparent to me. Once I figured it out, I put Colonial Penn in a special Sleazier Than The Rest category. A few years back Liberty Mutual...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I'm pretty sure Siri is less capable for my uses than either Alexa or Google Assistant. Siri fits into the same category as Cortana. I'm a Windows guy, so I like Cortana better. I have my Windows computers and my Android devices synced with each other. Since Google Assistant has no name, I'm...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I indulged my weakness for General Tso's Chicken last night at a little place next to Food Lion grocery. Any votes for Google Home Mini or Amazon Dot? I'm thinking of getting one or the other.
  12. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Mary Ellis, a British military pilot during WWII, died today at 101. WW2 Spitfire pilot Mary Ellis dies
  13. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Don't shoot the messenger, but it's my understanding that gray or white hair is used for purposes other than wigs. Please let me know if I'm wrong about that.
  14. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    The feeling of accomplishment I got out of it made it major for me, I will freely admit. My niece has been good lately about keeping the family supplied with pictures of the newest members. Here, from Le Quatorze Juillet (July 14th) is my great-niece Lida at 5 months, 5 days. A joyful picture!
  15. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    I bought my Kenmore washer and dryer along with the new doublewide in 1993. I'm not gonna kick either one of them out easily, since they've been good to me. The washer actually developed a problem less than 2 months ago, for which I devised a temporary workaround. Now I've received a new water...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    A small triumph: My electric dryer stopped stopping. As soon as it was on the end part of a cycle, where no heat was being applied, the timer knob would not advance, so the drying would just keep tumbling the clothes endlessly, albeit without heat. For a while (no, I'm not going to tell you...
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Miralax= Polyethelene Glycol. The dilutant commonly used in ejuice= Propylene Glycol. 2 different animals, both with the same acronym.
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    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    Sweet success! After a trip to Lowes, this baby plus some high-velocity elbow grease got my toilet unclogged. Shop Liquid-Plumr 6.75-in dia Rubber Plunger with 9.75-in Handle at Lowes.com
  19. bigbells

    Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

    A toilet in my house developed the same condition two days ago. In my whole life I have never before been unable to fix a stopped-up toilet, but this one has so far resisted my best efforts with plunger and augers. May you do better than that!
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    I hate flys

    That's all you got for dessert? This thread appeared in "Latest Replies" on the right side of the page. With the misspelling of flies, I thought is was a thread started by @MikeE3, a vaping fisherman I gave a hard time for his identical misspelling. Shhhh... keep it down... everybody will want...
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