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Brew1961

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Yes, I might have interest in vape Bash if I knew our members and one of the glass masters was going to be there. However we have a fairly busy schedule so it might have to be an up and back thing. I'm being very cautious about the B&M because I still need to keep the day job so a dear friend of mine is the one to throw caution to the wind. He's ready to drop his job to open and run the shop should we decide to move forward. For that reason, I cannot go into this without knowing that our biggest hurdle will be making money and not fighting the government for survival. At the moment, we both have jobs and this can continue to be a neat idea without anybody getting hurt. Startups are iffy to begin with but starting something without knowing more about the FDA's plans would be fool-hearty.

That's exciting Brew, I am on pins and needles myself to see what the FDA has to say, and how the community responds. Is there any chance you could make it to Vape Bash in Chicago in mid April? Is anyone else going to Vape Bash? If you all are going to Vegas I might be able to justify making it out there as well!

Welcome scotiwis!! Nice place with nice people. We are a community of interesting people who really dig art glass. Bert, Freddy, Dave, Matt and other artists put together some pretty remarkable pieces and they invoke an addictive reaction. Must have Trippys!!

I think at this point it is just best to jump right in. The water's fine! I would be happy to answer any questions you have. Let me be the first second (PMoraldo beat me to it) to say Welcome to the thread scotiwis!
 

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Morning all! Hope y'all are off to a great day!
Great news Coralie, darlin!
Welcome to the funhouse, Scotis!

I'm off to Bestbuy after class today to checkout the Note 2. I'm irritated though; this weekend I could have gotten it for $199; now it's $249! Still, with any luck, I can keep my existing plan with Verizon. According to the website, I have to go to a Share Anything plan, meaning no more unlimited data. However, when ordering it on Bestbuy, it appears I can keep my unlimited data plan. Otherwise, I'm off to Sprint; I can get the same minutes and unilimted data for the same price 2gig of data would cost me on verizon.
 

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Morning all! Hope y'all are off to a great day!
Great news Coralie, darlin!
Welcome to the funhouse, Scotis!

I'm off to Bestbuy after class today to checkout the Note 2. I'm irritated though; this weekend I could have gotten it for $199; now it's $249! Still, with any luck, I can keep my existing plan with Verizon. According to the website, I have to go to a Share Anything plan, meaning no more unlimited data. However, when ordering it on Bestbuy, it appears I can keep my unlimited data plan. Otherwise, I'm off to Sprint; I can get the same minutes and unilimted data for the same price 2gig of data would cost me on verizon.

Good morning Reidvery interested in the Note 2 myself as I'm quickly approaching my 2 year mark and ready for an upgrade also LOVE my sprint plan @ $95 all taxes, fees, and insurance included inthat price for unlimited everything! Just last month my stepson ran up an eatra $90 in data overages with AT&T lucky for us he's on his dads phone plan :)
 

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Morning all! Hope y'all are off to a great day!
Great news Coralie, darlin!
Welcome to the funhouse, Scotis!

I'm off to Bestbuy after class today to checkout the Note 2. I'm irritated though; this weekend I could have gotten it for $199; now it's $249! Still, with any luck, I can keep my existing plan with Verizon. According to the website, I have to go to a Share Anything plan, meaning no more unlimited data. However, when ordering it on Bestbuy, it appears I can keep my unlimited data plan. Otherwise, I'm off to Sprint; I can get the same minutes and unilimted data for the same price 2gig of data would cost me on verizon.

Don't forget that this is the one time the tables are turned on the cell company. I have been with T-Mobile for over 12 years and they do un-mentionable things for me whenever my 2 year contract is up in order to keep my business. For example they paid me $200 in bill credits and gave me AND Beata both Nexus 4's (like the note 2 but without the bloated OS and small enough to fit in your pocket) for $50 less than retail price. They also threw in a couple of screen protectors. Of course once you sign on the dotted line you go from being a valued customer to chopped liver for the next couple years, so don't feel bad about it. Take advantage and strike while the iron is hot! Verizon knows that you have the choice to go to ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile, Cricket, US Wireless, etc....with no penalty to you right now.

edit: The key is to talk to the cancellations department. They have the power to give SERIOUS discounts when they think they could lose a customer.
 

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It's overcast and snowy this morning, but the sun is supposed to make an appearance later. I made some dragons, dark emerald, and bright green TrippyTips yesterday that I look forward to sharing with everyone when that happens!
Can't wait to see! Love me some Dragons and especially that dark emerald color.

These are the first Dark Emeralds I have made by the way, and I am now officially in love with this art glass!
Nice! I love that color scheme too :)

That's exciting Brew, I am on pins and needles myself to see what the FDA has to say, and how the community responds. Is there any chance you could make it to Vape Bash in Chicago in mid April? Is anyone else going to Vape Bash? If you all are going to Vegas I might be able to justify making it out there as well!
We are planning on going to the Vegas one in September. Vegas is a cheap price for flight + Hotel compared to other places we'd have to fly to.

Morning all! Hope y'all are off to a great day!
Great news Coralie, darlin!
Welcome to the funhouse, Scotis!

I'm off to Bestbuy after class today to checkout the Note 2. I'm irritated though; this weekend I could have gotten it for $199; now it's $249! Still, with any luck, I can keep my existing plan with Verizon. According to the website, I have to go to a Share Anything plan, meaning no more unlimited data. However, when ordering it on Bestbuy, it appears I can keep my unlimited data plan. Otherwise, I'm off to Sprint; I can get the same minutes and unilimted data for the same price 2gig of data would cost me on verizon.
If you haven't purchased yet make your purchase online to be picked up in store that day, and use a coupon code. I believe "25OFFPROMO" will still work on that phone and save you roughly $30 :)
 

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Bert there is no way I would have got this far without the support of you, Freddy and all of Trippyville, the donations were a Godsend when this first started and somethingI will NEVER FORGET.
I also think I will keep the name DRAGON WARRIOR for a long time. Ralf now tells everyone I am the Dragon Warrior and they look at him rather strange. Just finished night shift, I have 3 hours sleep then four more hours of work and HOME TO BED.:rickroll:
Dragon Warrior
It was a bit too early to give this a proper response when I read it earlier. Now I have some coffee in me and would like to say that this news brings joy to my heart. Thank you to all that have given, prayed, and and sent healing vibes to our Dragon Warrior Coralie! There will be some more dragon prayers in glass made today for you Dragon Warrior! Thanks for hanging in there and being strong and kicking some serious cancer .... It is inspirational to us all.
~Bert
 

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Can't wait to see! Love me some Dragons and especially that dark emerald color.


Nice! I love that color scheme too :)


We are planning on going to the Vegas one in September. Vegas is a cheap price for flight + Hotel compared to other places we'd have to fly to.


If you haven't purchased yet make your purchase online to be picked up in store that day, and use a coupon code. I believe "25OFFPROMO" will still work on that phone and save you roughly $30 :)

Damn! Too late! :mad:

It's been interesting: I didn't physically go to BB; one of my students had the Note 2 and let me check it out. It's awesome!!! Anyway, I came back home after and got online; I went to Verizon and questioned them about having to change plans. The first person I chatted with said I had to change to a new plan. And get this; all new plans require a $40/month line access fee, on top of any plan costs; apparently we have to pay monthly for the privilege of using Verizon! I got ...... and looked at the other large carriers; apparently they're doing the same, except Sprint's only $10. Can anybody say "Monopoly?"
So I went back to the Verizon site and checked out the forums. Apparently, since I'm changing from one smartphone to another, and I've had my current plan since before July 2011, they have to grandfather me in. I confirmed it with yet another support person, so I"m sticking with my 450 minutes talk and text and unlimited data. And no surcharge for the honor of using Verizon!
So now I"m waiting on the email from BB saying my phone's ready for pick-up. I need a drink!
 

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Damn! Too late! :mad:

It's been interesting: I didn't physically go to BB; one of my students had the Note 2 and let me check it out. It's awesome!!! Anyway, I came back home after and got online; I went to Verizon and questioned them about having to change plans. The first person I chatted with said I had to change to a new plan. And get this; all new plans require a $40/month line access fee, on top of any plan costs; apparently we have to pay monthly for the privilege of using Verizon! I got ...... and looked at the other large carriers; apparently they're doing the same, except Sprint's only $10. Can anybody say "Monopoly?"
So I went back to the Verizon site and checked out the forums. Apparently, since I'm changing from one smartphone to another, and I've had my current plan since before July 2011, they have to grandfather me in. I confirmed it with yet another support person, so I"m sticking with my 450 minutes talk and text and unlimited data. And no surcharge for the honor of using Verizon!
So now I"m waiting on the email from BB saying my phone's ready for pick-up. I need a drink!
Whatever you do make sure they grandfather you in! They may try to switch it up on you to get your out of it so be wary. Otherwise data is way more expensive and the overage charges if you do go over your allowance is crazy. My younger brother was using his data package for internet in his house and had been letting his roomates do so as well. Well they racked up way too much data in a month or two and now he owes Verizon $1200
 

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Here's another new design...
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4 already? Geez, looks like they're taking a page from Apple's book with the new version release dates. Not that I plan to keep up, anyway, my Galaxy S doesn't have a number after it and I'm fine with that :lol:

Evening, all :) Forum's running really slow for me tonight. I've just been lurking and waiting for the Amp tanks to go up at Avid Vaper. Looks like there's still some left in black if anybody is interested
Now I gotta figure out which Trippy to use on it when it gets here, I'm thinking my black emerald peanut from a few sales back would suit ;-)
 

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Whatever you do make sure they grandfather you in! They may try to switch it up on you to get your out of it so be wary. Otherwise data is way more expensive and the overage charges if you do go over your allowance is crazy. My younger brother was using his data package for internet in his house and had been letting his roomates do so as well. Well they racked up way too much data in a month or two and now he owes Verizon $1200

Ouch! I've got my phone home where he belongs. I've got him charging atm, then I'm gonna play! I already used the S-pen to call Tara: 1 swipe, #Tara and I"m talking away! I'm gonna love this, I can already tell!
As far as data goes, as soon as it finished charging, I'm gonna set it up on my network here. Tomorrow, I'll set it up on the network at school. I shouldn't need a lot of data, even though it's unlimited. Yes I made sure I was grandfathered in.

BTW, love the new designs, Bert.
 
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