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[Khala]

Good morning, MBV peeps!

Jumping onto a conference call here in a couple of minutes, then going to clear the piles of snow off the driveway (I fell asleep last night before getting out there).

Then a couple of hours of work before getting ready to head out to a funeral.

Haven't started vaping yet - just started digging through the box trying to decide what to vape.

It's easier when I'm running an ADV than when I'm trying ignored juice again!

 

[Seanchai]

as long as you can refrain from being OCD on making juices, it's easy peasy. if you get into a "everything's gotta perfect" mode, then not so much. try to think of it a making soup instead of baking. you can always agjust the flavor later!

That metaphor occurred to me, so thanks for confirming my suspicions! I have a feeling I'll quite enjoy it; the biggest factor will be how often I have the energy to pull everything out and get a-mixing, so I suspect my ventures will be incremental and infrequent at first and progress to large but occasional batches once I've got it down.

it is hard to learn! even when i had my heart attack, it was a buddy who brought me to the hospital. he thinks i'm having a heart attack, is what i told them. after the doc's did some checking, they're like "look dude, you're gonna die!" i was like, "and?" no biggie! one guy got smart and told me how i could suffer a lot of brain injury and still live! well then, what the f--k are you waiting for?

Eh, living with a brain injury ain't so bad! I kid, I kid - *further* brain injury scares the out of me, too. Last time I got myself in deep trouble medically, I suspected I was in trouble but didn't want to go to the ER on Labor Day, so I waited till the day after so that I could go to my regular doc... when I gasped this excuse to my GP, she replied acidly, "So you'd prefer to *die* the day after Labor Day, instead?" Yeah yeah, touche. Even when I got to the hospital, the staff was fairly calm in dealing with me till the pulmo walked in... he took one look at me and jumped into the action personally, asking them why they were all just screwing around. (They weren't - they just weren't particularly rushing, either.) I told him I was okay, and he said, "Yeah, I know your type, you're okay right up until the second you code on me." Well.... yes, in fact, well spotted! I might not be here now if he hadn't happened to be the doc who caught my case... I didn't have a current pulmo at the time so that was our "introduction," and I'm lucky he handled it so well. Had he taken his cue from *me*, they probably would have just loaded me up with asthma meds and sent me home. Needless to say, I got a call from him yesterday congratulating me on my PFTs (again) and sternly reminding me that he'd see me next month, anyway, thank you very much, and we'd be redoing PFTs... in other words, "don't think I'm letting you out of my sight, buster." I'm both amused and relieved by this, mind you... makes it much easier that he knows how to "read" me, even though it also means he's being a little more cautious than I think is warranted.

i look at it this way, this is your chance to be an actor! and all you have to do, is play yourself! so, go out there and give a performance worthy of an academy award! that's what i do. course i feel awful doing it, but i'm just pretending i feel the way that i feel. just consider it method acting!

Method acting it is! The chair does help in situations like that... usually I hate the preconceived notions that a wheelchair tends to trigger in people, but when I'm having to ask for help, it's a bonus that the chair speaks "for" me to a certain extent. I can save up for hand controls myself if necessary - they're not that expensive - but what I'm hoping will come out of this visit is a *relationship* such that I can trade in a ton of old medical equipment my sister and I have outgrown (which is still useable and in good condition) in exchange for a lift van. This place is basically a refurbisher of donated medical/adaptive equipment that they then sell on for labor costs plus a bit, so if I can talk them into a lift van for 6k of medical equipment and a little cash, I can finally get my gimpy self on the road. "Checking on hand controls" is mostly an excuse to sweettalk my way into "so can we do a trade?"... we'll see what happens. Not expecting any fruits to come to bear for at least a few months, but gotta start somewhere.

Good luck with the move, vapnstuff. Top of my list to never have to do again, that's for sure - unlikely as that is!

Rodsky, you're welcome, let us know how that tiramisu turns out for you in the end... I've looked at that one several times but it's never made it into the cart.

 

[Seanchai]

Morning uno and khala, hope you both have a good day. Sorry for your loss, khala... and I hope some of that ignored juice has come around for you!

 

[Criticalmass]

Good Morning. It is one of those mornings where I woke up and felt like I just DID this a few minutes ago. I need to figure out why that happens and stop it, because it bums me out a little too much. I laid off Kinnabun for a couple days and went back to it. Yum. Still my favorite. I think it has risen above my small selection of premium vendor liquids too.

Ordering has become difficult for me because I want to try so much, but I had to sit myself down last night and remind myself that the goal is not flavor-chasing, it's to stay off cigarettes, and I am doing that quite nicely. So I need to stick to stocking up on the few that I have that I really like for a few more months. So that's what I will be doing.

 

[Miarose]

Morning all. We got snow last night. Oh how I hate snow

 

[olwildbill]

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[olwildbill]

Getting ready to head out this AM will check back later.............hope everyone has a good day

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

Goood Mornin all.........yup yup its Friday, alla samey same to me

We got about a foot o snow over the last 24 hr and now it's as windy as my mother in laws breath. brrrr -10°

stay in where its warm. Hope ya all have a safe warm day ! If you have to go out in this stuff, be carefull !!

 

[Seanchai]

Morning Doug, Mia, olwildbill, and Uncle Ralphie!

Ordering has become difficult for me because I want to try so much, but I had to sit myself down last night and remind myself that the goal is not flavor-chasing, it's to stay off cigarettes, and I am doing that quite nicely. So I need to stick to stocking up on the few that I have that I really like for a few more months. So that's what I will be doing.

I hear you, Doug. I've got a little stable of three vendors and a nice variety of flavors I enjoy, so I'm sticking with the staples for a while... I'll throw in one new to me MBV flavor every order or so, but that's all the "sampling" I can afford (i.e. the free ones!). I'm good with that... I probably could have stopped trying new flavors long ago, but I'm cursed with an easily bored tongue, so I had to find about ten to fifteen flavors I enjoy, cause I easily cycle through that many in a day. I've done that now, so no need to make myself and my wallet crazy trying to find fifty more.

 

[Sambuca]

Morning Doug, Mia, olwildbill, and Uncle Ralphie!

^^^that!

applied for ssi and ssdi by phone this morning. got my interview next friday. i was only on hold for 25 minutes! which is cool, cuz it said an hour and 40 minutes when i started!
next stop, medicaid by phone!

never ends.

vaping peanut butter, dulce de leche and some "almost there", "really close" root beer!

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

Sean, i have zero success yesterday! mostly due to timing and idiots. who do i need to focus on to get SSI? medicaid is going to be hit and miss due to the high volume of calls they are still getting caused by the sign up for "Obamacare".

In a word, get an attorney that specializes in SSI.

 

[Butch]

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Good mornin' Bill, that pig reminds me of Gus in Lonsome Dove.

 

[Butch]

Mornin'MBV friends.

 

[vapnstuff]

there could be a whole "moving sucks" forum!

good luck with that!

It does but it'll give me a chance to get rid of some stuff I haven't used, touched or looked at for the past 15 years ... not that I'll do anything about it but I'll have the chance.

I've been draggin around a Nintendo 16 for years just because I've got games for it and it still works. Maybe I'll unplug the grand-kiddies Sega's and Xbox and let them see what real graphics are all about. (I can hear the screams already)

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

It does but it'll give me a chance to get rid of some stuff I haven't used, touched or looked at for the past 15 years ... not that I'll do anything about it but I'll have the chance.

I've been draggin around a Nintendo 16 for years just because I've got games for it and it still works. Maybe I'll unplug the grand-kiddies Sega's and Xbox and let them see what real graphics are all about. (I can hear the screams already)

throw it on E Bay. Some collector will snag it up. Ya never know

 

[Sambuca]

In a word, get an attorney that specializes in SSI.

that's 6 words!

as long as i can get ssi (pretty much welfare), i'm not gonna sweat the ssdi, too much (yet). i'd like a nice little backchech (providing i live long enuff to get it). my hearts been shredded for 8 years now. i prolly could have got ssdi years ago, but i was trying to go down swinging. they won't let me work anymore. they can test me all they want, my heart is on the way out.

 

[Ozwald]

Morning folks. Sean, I hear ya on getting low on that 1 trusty juice when you've got a small stockpile of others. I just ordered 222mL a couple days ago... and 150mL were of 1 flavor!

I do the same thing, budget vaping. Since I had my cigs budgeted out for what I'd need for the month, I dropped that by $100 & just roll with it. Same as you, that's juice & gear, so if I'm low on juice no new gear for me, no matter how much I want another KFL+. Actually after I get that 2nd KFL+, I can't really think of any other gear that I really want... maybe other than a good pipe mod, but I'm really not itching to pull the trigger on that. Maybe when the $ saved is $200 above breaking even I'll go for it, but until then I'm happy with what I've got.

 

[Butch]

throw it on E Bay. Some collector will snag it up. Ya never know

Good way to get extra vape money.

 

[Uncle Ralphie]

that's 6 words!

as long as i can get ssi (pretty much welfare), i'm not gonna sweat the ssdi, too much (yet). i'd like a nice little backchech (providing i live long enuff to get it). my hearts been shredded for 8 years now. i prolly could have got ssdi years ago, but i was trying to go down swinging. they won't let me work anymore. they can test me all they want, my heart is on the way out.

You will get SSDI from the date that you first filed. So the sooner the better. just my