Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

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The aircraft can be programmed to auto-land, but in almost all cases it's better to have it programmed to Return To Home. The aircraft knows where it took off from and, using GPS, will return and land within about 6 feet of that spot. The technology is amazing. Return To Home can be cancelled at any time once the quad copter regains contact with the remote control. Additional sensors on this latest DJI Phantom 4 Pro quad copter have reduced the "within 5 feet" to "within a couple of inches". The aircraft memorizes the features of the exact spot it took off from and matches them to land precisely.
I hope you didn't think I was belittling your quad when I referred to it as 'your toy'. I think it's great, and I'd probably have something like it if I had the money to spare. I call things I own, which I have no practical use for but enjoy nevertheless, my toys.
Return to Home IS amazing, the whole thing is.
 

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I hope you didn't think I was belittling your quad when I referred to it as 'your toy'.
Heck no, the thought never crossed my mind. Like the old saying goes, the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
 

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Some of us break ribs easily for some reason. I've broken a rib leaning over the arm of a chair and another leaning on a truck fender to work under the hood. One of my brothers has broken ribs in similar ways that seem unfathomable to most people, including medical professionals.

One time I went to the doctor and told him I'd broken a rib. At this point, having broken about 7 of them, I know what it feels like. It happened when I sneezed. The doctor told me he was sure that I had not broken a rib. The x-ray showed it.
Yep I took a fall about 9 months ago thought for sure I broke one but didn't. This one though when I fell I had my back toward the and cracked my back against the edge where the toilet seat is. Good thing I missed my spine by about 2"
 

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I did some color editing on this 35-second section of a previously posted drone video. The original video was quite a bit overexposed. For "Where's Waldo?" aficionados, can you find the white horse? She's off-white (somewhat grayish), and camouflages herself pretty well. I didn't even see she was there until I'd watched the video umpteen times.

Here's the description I put on YouTube:
"No, I don't know what I'm doing with the color corrections in the video editing software.... wait, that sounds careless. How about: I'm learning by doing rather than learning ahead of time.... yeah, that's the ticket!"

 

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When I want a coke, my fave is a Coke. I think I recall hearing that in some places, just about any kind of soda is called a coke.
Where I grew up, all soft drinks are referred to as a coke. If you tell someone you want a coke, they'll most likely ask you what kind. I truly cannot remember any southerner asking for a soda, a pop or a soft drink. I had some Yankee cousins who called it pop. Made us giggle. We never knew that we were actually the odd balls for calling everything a coke.
 

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Where I grew up, all soft drinks are referred to as a coke. If you tell someone you want a coke, they'll most likely ask you what kind. I truly cannot remember any southerner asking for a soda, a pop or a soft drink. I had some Yankee cousins who called it pop. Made us giggle. We never knew that we were actually the odd balls for calling everything a coke.
Maybe my southern youth was skewed because we were a military family, and lots of my friends came from military families as well. But, for whatever the reason, we seem to have had a hybrid of soda-pop.

As I mentioned previously, I've never been a big soda drinker. But I clearly recall searching the ditches for deposit bottles. 5¢ per bottle, and 25¢ would get'cha a bag of chips and a 16oz soda (I liked Pepsi, RC-Cola & Red Pop).
Sometimes we'd get the single serving bags of salted peanuts instead of chips, and pour the whole thing into the soda-pop. That's probably a southern 'thang', or maybe it was a kid thing ... I haven't seen anyone do it in decades.

Florida has since done away with the deposit bottle law, and the state vehicle inspections. Both bad moves IMO.
 

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Here's the description I put on YouTube:
"No, I don't know what I'm doing with the color corrections in the video editing software.... wait, that sounds careless. How about: I'm learning by doing rather than learning ahead of time.... yeah, that's the ticket!"
Hopefully you don't have a color vision problem like I do. I know when I'm editing photos, I can crop, rotate, resize, flip, lighten, darken ... lots of stuff, but I avoid color modifications as much as I can handle.

You've gotta have a pretty beefy PC to do your 4K editing. Mine handles 1080p just fine, but I don't think it would be up to the task of 4K. That would be a good excuse to upgrade to a new computer though! ;~)
 

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Hopefully you don't have a color vision problem like I do. I know when I'm editing photos, I can crop, rotate, resize, flip, lighten, darken ... lots of stuff, but I avoid color modifications as much as I can handle.

You've gotta have a pretty beefy PC to do your 4K editing. Mine handles 1080p just fine, but I don't think it would be up to the task of 4K. That would be a good excuse to upgrade to a new computer though! ;~)
Last week I added two RAM cards of 4 GB each to the two empty slots in my Dell XPS 8900. Video editing and rendering in 4K was just barely possible and got hung up a lot when I had 8 total GB of RAM... it's MUCH better now that I've got 16 GB.

I'm fortunate to have fairly acute color vision. Whether I've got enough artistic sense is in the eye of the beholder, but I was happy with that little piece of video. The film editor I use is called Wondershare Filmora. I'll be danged if I'm going to spend what it costs for a continuing subscription to Adobe Premiere, and think I hit on a pretty capable much-lower-cost editor with Filmora.
 

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Sometimes we'd get the single serving bags of salted peanuts instead of chips, and pour the whole thing into the soda-pop. That's probably a southern 'thang', or maybe it was a kid thing ... I haven't seen anyone do it in decades.

A small bag of Tom's salted peanuts within an RC Cola was my Boy's Club treat as a kid during da summers! Either dat or a Duchess Pecan Pie and an Yoo-hoo...
 

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LEAVE it to a FARMER

A farmer died leaving his 17 horses to his 3 sons.
When his sons opened up the Will it read:
My eldest son should get 1/2 (half) of total horses;
My middle son should be given 1/3rd (one-third) of the total horses;
My youngest son should be given 1/9th (one-ninth) of the total horses.
As it’s impossible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9, the three sons started to fight with each other.
So, they decided to go to a farmer friend who they considered quite smart, to see if he could work it out for them.
The farmer friend read the Will patiently, and after giving due thought, he brought one of his own horses over and added it to the 17.
That increased the total to 18 horses.
Now, he divided the horses according to their father’s will.
Half of 18 = 9. So he gave the eldest son 9 horses.
1/3rd of 18 = 6. So he gave the middle son 6 horses.
1/9th of 18 = 2. So he gave the youngest son 2 horses.
Now add up how many horses they have:
Eldest son- 9
Middle son- 6
Youngest son- 2
TOTAL = 17
Now this leaves one horse, so the farmer friend takes his horse back to his farm……
Problem solved! Just leave it to a farmer!
 

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LEAVE it to a FARMER

The farmer friend read the Will patiently, and after giving due thought, he brought one of his own horses over and added it to the 17.
That increased the total to 18 horses.
Now, he divided the horses according to their father’s will.
Half of 18 = 9. So he gave the eldest son 9 horses.
1/3rd of 18 = 6. So he gave the middle son 6 horses.
1/9th of 18 = 2. So he gave the youngest son 2 horses.
Now add up how many horses they have:
Eldest son- 9
Middle son- 6
Youngest son- 2
TOTAL = 17
Now this leaves one horse, so the farmer friend takes his horse back to his farm……
Problem solved! Just leave it to a farmer!
The will of the deceased farmer only gave away 94% of the horses, but the farmer friend decided to give 100% of the horses to the deceased farmer's sons. I heard that the farmer's daughter is contesting the division of the estate.
 

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Yay to you too! When this thread first started we were making a big deal about celebrating 1 year and just look at us now! We've come a long way baby!! Feels great!
JUP! Even though ALL vapeversaries are fantastic, I still think someone's first year is the very best one, but I often think when I see the years increasing for some of us, how wonderful it's been to share this journey for so long. It's truly amazing how each of us have grown, and how vaping has grown. Even for folks who have chosen to stay pretty much with the equipment they started with, it's growth. They've usually tried some other things, and know that they like something very simple. If they haven't tried other things, they are still quite content with what they use and it's kept them off cigs for a long time! I suppose it's because I enjoyed smoking and never wanted to quit.....but it still just absolutely amazes me how well vaping just works!

One time I went to the doctor and told him I'd broken a rib. At this point, having broken about 7 of them, I know what it feels like. It happened when I sneezed. The doctor told me he was sure that I had not broken a rib. The x-ray showed it.
oh dang. Only bones I've ever broken have been a couple vertebrae. But I was told many years ago that I could literally sneeze wrong and rupture some discs that were bulging.

Their burgers were good too. I remember going there when I was in my early 20's like 20 and they still had the girls that would bring you your food and stuff to the car and hang the tray on your window.
I don't recall if the one that was a drive up and had burgers or not. I know that we'd sometimes get an extra treat and get a lil bag of tater chips to go with our root beer. As a young adult, I lived in a town that had an A&W restaurant. The food was good, but the rootbeer while still good, just wasn't as creamy as the mugs at the drive up one when I was a teenager.

For "Where's Waldo?" aficionados, can you find the white horse? She's off-white (somewhat grayish), and camouflages herself pretty well. I didn't even see she was there until I'd watched the video umpteen times.
newp, I saw only 4. At one point I saw some hind quarters that looked that color for a nano second, but am pretty sure it was just the sun glinting off the slightly lighter colored horse of the main 4.

@DancingHeretik; I'm hearing that severe storms and a possible tornado went through your city, and that thousands are without power. Here's hoping that you and yours are all OK!
oh dang.......hope she's ok. Our power blinked off then back on. Nothing serious, but quite a bit of wind and rain last night for awhile. Frankie isn't too scared of storms usually, but he was getting a bit antsy. They have an awning out back and it was whipping and creaking a lot, so I shut the back door when he seemed to be getting a bit nervous about it.

Where I grew up, all soft drinks are referred to as a coke. If you tell someone you want a coke, they'll most likely ask you what kind. I truly cannot remember any southerner asking for a soda, a pop or a soft drink. I had some Yankee cousins who called it pop. Made us giggle. We never knew that we were actually the odd balls for calling everything a coke.
Jup. Pop sounds odd. That's what balloons do when ya poke em with a pin. Traveling up north somewhere I remember goin in a quicky mart and seeing pop on the neon sign above the cooler. Most folks here don't call everything coke, I think usually it's soda. But what can I say, I'm weird. lol Not that that is news to anyone here :D

Sometimes we'd get the single serving bags of salted peanuts instead of chips, and pour the whole thing into the soda-pop. That's probably a southern 'thang', or maybe it was a kid thing ... I haven't seen anyone do it in decades.
Haven't done it in awhile, but JUP iffy is correct.......salted peanuts in an RC!!! My favs are Dr Pepper and root beer, but if I'm gonna drink a cola, I still prefer RC. Don't like pepsi at all. And yes, I did pick out all 3 in a blind taste test once at a grocery store. The guy was surprised. he said most folks got em wrong or couldn't tell he difference.

I worked for peanuts until I proved my salt. Then I got salted peanuts.
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newp, I saw only 4. At one point I saw some hind quarters that looked that color for a nano second

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in your close up I see her/him. But even going back to the vid with it full screen, I still wouldn't have been able to pick out that was a horse even knowing what it was. Of course the 13" laptop I have doesn't help with that. lol Thanks for pointing it out.
 

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OK, I said on the front porch I have a brag for Geordi. This weekend in Lakeland Florida he earned his CAT title. No, that's no like a kitty cat, it's Coursing Ability Test. It's chasing, full out, a couple of plastic bags on a device attached to a line that zooms around a big field. Turns, straight lines, 600 yds (for his size dog, smaller dogs only run 300 yards). After he had so much fun at the Doggie Fun Zone, I decided to enter him. Well, he is now an official Coursing dog. My husband says he has his CBC - Champion Bag Chaser. I told him "Hey, it's not every dog that will run full out in a big open field at top speed chasing plastic bags on a track then come back to the owner when called." Actually, they don't have to return to the handler, they get to rip at the bags until the handler goes and gets them, but Geordi was a good boy and came right to me when I called him. Some were very funny, they would take off, zooming around this huge field. One Boston Terrier took 6 people to corner him before someone could catch him. Others just zoom from the start - the heck with the plastic bags, I'm FREE!!!! It was actually much fun to watch. By his third run (2 on Saturday, 1 on Sunday - it takes 3 successful runs for the title), I had all I could do to hold him back getting to the starting line. Oh, they run individually, not as a group.

I could not video or take pictures, he was too far away to even make it make sense with my phone camera. There was a photographer on Saturday, however, so hopefully he got some good pictures.

So here he is, Bijou Luisant Kontinuing Mission, CAT CGC. The rosette is a New Title ribbon.

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