A couple of days ago after a little internet searching I found the last new 2019 Ford Taurus in San Diego County. I really want to buy it even though money wise it isn't all that smart of a thing to do. My 2018 Fusion hasn't got but 18,000 miles on it. I owe less than it's worth but I'm sure they would want me to about just give it to them. But with these trying times I will just sit tight (and wish). It is my last chance for a new Taurus, oh well. Window sticker is $34,6 and the asking price is $26,6
I understand, back in January I was looking hard at buying a new vehicle. Monthly budget was in good shape and I could have easily swung it. I ended passing on it because the model I had my eyes on was a 1st generation, I didnt want to be one of the beta testers for a 1st gen vehicle so I decided to wait a year.
Now, I am sooooo glad I did. After 19 years on this job I never would have dreamed I would get terminated, unless I really screwed up. But then Covid happened.... In 2 weeks I will join the ranks of the unemployed.
My 2009 Sonata is paid for, I am REALLY glad I dont have a new car payment now!
Wise man. I bought a used 2005 Nissan Frontier. It was quite good to 100,000 miles and then in three months I spent $6500. It was a first year new generation. I fell for the idea that the new models were so thoroughly tested and "modeled" by computers that the first generation is as good as any other. That was not my experience. I dumped it and got a used 2015 Tacoma, it was in the ninth year of the second generation. It was a wiser decision.
I find your employment situation to be unconscionable, if loyalty and commitment ever meant anything in the business world then those traits are gone today.
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Probably best to wait! With this year shaping up like it is, when the 2021’s. Start rolling in in August. I bet there will be a few. Good deals. To be. Had!
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Being a big time fan of DNA chips myself for their accuracy and having over 50 DNA mods. I think we might be missing something. As just the other day I had taken one of my Atlantis EVO tanks with a Triton Ni200 0.15Ω coil off of one of my Odin DNA250C mods and threw it on one of my Aegis X mods and I was shocked! Far more vapor and flavor. Even while chain vaping, the tank even stayed much cooler. So was the vapor as it was cooler than the DNA, both set to 440°F.
We already know some juices has complex flavors to them. We also know that most of these flavors peek at different temperatures. And the way we capture the majority of them is by controlling the ramp up time. Say for example:
While I haven't scoped any of my Aegis X (v1.08 firmware) yet. It vapes like instead of going for a nice steady temperature like the DNA, Geek Vape went more with temperature control sweeping (I just made up that term TCS). That would explain the wide range of flavor notes I am experiencing from my Yeti Vape Haze Cap e-juice. It would so explain why the tank is staying much cooler. Some e-juices only has one flavor note and that is it and you won't notice anything special. For those you might as well just hit that temperature and just stay there.
I tried tweaking the ramp time on the DNA trying to duplicate the flavor I was experiencing on the Aegis X. I could get it somewhat like the flavors I was experiencing from the X, but the X was still doing it better. Maybe someone should contact John and Nick to have them investigate this. Maybe it might be incorporated into a later firmware update if John believes it is a good idea.
We already know some juices has complex flavors to them. We also know that most of these flavors peek at different temperatures. And the way we capture the majority of them is by controlling the ramp up time. Say for example:
- Flavor 1 peeks at 400°F
- Flavor 2 peeks at 410°F
- Flavor 3 peeks at 420°F
- Flavor 4 peeks at 430°F
- Flavor 5 peeks at 440°F
While I haven't scoped any of my Aegis X (v1.08 firmware) yet. It vapes like instead of going for a nice steady temperature like the DNA, Geek Vape went more with temperature control sweeping (I just made up that term TCS). That would explain the wide range of flavor notes I am experiencing from my Yeti Vape Haze Cap e-juice. It would so explain why the tank is staying much cooler. Some e-juices only has one flavor note and that is it and you won't notice anything special. For those you might as well just hit that temperature and just stay there.
I tried tweaking the ramp time on the DNA trying to duplicate the flavor I was experiencing on the Aegis X. I could get it somewhat like the flavors I was experiencing from the X, but the X was still doing it better. Maybe someone should contact John and Nick to have them investigate this. Maybe it might be incorporated into a later firmware update if John believes it is a good idea.
Our modern society has no respect for the elders! Experience is worth a lot! When did we decide young know it all's are better than older & Wiser!
Aren't you close to retirement age Mike? I dream of retiring! When My kids are done with their education hopefully I can retire
I'l sell off my equipment & live off good intentions & Craft Dinner 
Nick left? Where did he go? He isn't working at Wismec, is he? And Replay helps a lot. As it makes things much easier with a lot less fiddling. But that Aegis TC vape was something else. Later I threw the tank on an Aegis Legend to see if it was the same there. And it was just a little bit, but nothing like the X. I tried other flavors and it was pretty all of the same results.
I've been thinking of building an adapter that feeds out the positive side so I can connect up a scope. I looked for adapter already made for this purpose and I can't find anything. I thought about one like taking a RDA removing the cap and mounting a 510 on top and running a wire out of one of the air holes of the RDA, etc.
But I am thinking now of thinking more like this:
Then drilling a hole in the side to tap a long screw into the 510 pin. That way it would be easy to scope just about anything with a 510.
I have 5 years before I am eligible. That 5 years will make the difference between just making ends meet, or actually having some cash to enjoy a few bucket list items.Our modern society has no respect for the elders! Experience is worth a lot! When did we decide young know it all's are better than older & Wiser!
Aren't you close to retirement age Mike? I dream of retiring! When My kids are done with their education hopefully I can retire
I don't think it is society so much, but more from the people at the controls. They don't want experienced people around. They want everybody compartmentalize and thus clueless to what is really going on. It probably started earlier, but I remember this starting in the late 70's.
If things get bad for Mike, maybe we could start a go fund me for him. Gee, I am talking like he can't see our posts.
We need more old school thinking! I have a friend who worked the pipe lines most of his life, in his seventies now. For the last few years they kept him working year round, he amassed a fortune! It was the industries way of sending him off with what he needed! We need more of that!
They did that to a number of us too. A competitor bought out our company and thought why should almost ready for retirement people get the pension when they could just eliminate their positions so they could collect the pensions instead. And that is what they did. I only had 18 more months to go before I could collect. Most of the others had 2 to 5 more years to go. I know it sucks. But things are ok now, although it could have been better.
He left towards the end of 2018, November IIRC. The last I spoke with him was around March 2019. He's out there on his own, self described as a Brand Ambassador working with/for LV. And he left on very good terms. Who knows now, but if you want, a quick check would be to expose the 510 on that Centurion and if you see anything other than clean threads securing it from underneath then I'd guess no.
BTW, here's a snippet of a snippet I posted at the official place. Quoting from the book of John about Replay.
"Now (or during the birth of Replay), the brain trust at Evolv said this "As for flavor, different flavor molecules boil and are primarily tasted at different temperatures. .... Temperature control, by contrast, tends to taste 'muted', because the vast majority of the puff is at a fixed, instead of changing, temperature"
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