Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

[garyoa1]

 

[therussellv]

@clnire

Sent from a dark, twisted corner of the back porch, covered in cobwebs and slightly damp.

 

[Sterno]

good morning porchers

 

[Semiretired]

good morning porchers

Morning Sterno and everyone else of course.

Definitely cold today...

 

[bigbells]

Yesterday's quad copter flight, with a visit to the quarry especially for @umanbean, some places the drone had never visited before, and Xmas music. No dancing, but when I fly today, I promise a dance... I'll have to, to keep warm.

 

[clnire]

@clnire

Sent from a dark, twisted corner of the back porch, covered in cobwebs and slightly damp.

Where is the LOVE button? Oh, here it is!

 

[Janet H]

The saga of the house/money pit continues...
So today was the plumber's turn. What we thought was the main shut off only shut off part of the house. Plumber was going to shut off at the meter to replace some faucet shutoffs. The meter had a bad leak going, he said the shut off looked pretty sketchy and suggested I call the water company to have a look see, and let them shut it off. So I called, the guy came out, called in to schedule the repair and shut off the water(or so he said he did).

Plumber cuts into line under sink to start replacing shut off and I hear "Uh Oh that's not good" from under my kitchen sink. Ma'am could you call the water co back, tell them that the water was not shut off all the way. His helper is now charging back and forth emptying buckets full of water into the bathroom. Kid looked like he was running sprints.

Plumber gave me the choice of cutting the line in the crawl and flooding or flooding the kitchen, and I said do whatever you would do if it was your house so he headed for the crawl space to relocate the newly installed water feature to the crawl space. Water co finally came back out and ended the flood. Plumber went back to finding/fixing leaks and drips. Then had me call to get the water co to come turn on their leaky meter.

Then he went to check under the house for the minor leaks in a couple of the drain lines the home inspector had mentioned. "Ma'am I know you can't get under the house, but you might want to come lean down and look under the house. Your home inspector grossly understated the "minor" leaks he noted. Every time his helper turned on a sink or flushed a toilet it started to rain in the crawl space... sigh.

That inspector didn't bother going under the house, but he got paid anyway! Geez, I can see a book in your future - The joys of home ownership. This would be chapter 4 or 5?

Another good one Dave, but I really like the P3P flight on 11/24 to the quarry.

I''l try to make this short as possible...

I met a farmer at a Sat. night get-together several months ago. After we both found out each other's love of flying, we spent most of the night talking and sippin' - and I even helped him smoke one of his expensive cigars. He told me he owned a 1946 Piper PA-12 and he'd take me up sometime... also said his computer needed work, so I gladly gave him a business card.

He called me last Friday morning and I went to his place that afternoon. After the computer work, we walked out back to a nondescript metal building, and inside was the most gorgeous old airplane I'd seen outside of an airshow... 70 years old but in immaculate condition -inside and out! He said it had won 'Best of Show' awards several times over the years. He also has a 2500 ft. grass strip through the middle of a huge field out back... push the plane out of the hanger, pivot it 90 degrees to the right, pre-flight check, fire it up, mag check, firewall the throttle, take off! He wanted to take me up, and I wanted to go, but didn't have time! It was a perfect day too - cool, calm, high cumulus clouds punctuating intense blue skies... sigh... We agreed to get back together soon - and I'll tell ya, today wouldn't be soon enough for me!

Between the time I met the farmer and the day I went to his place, I worked on a computer for a man at our local airport who is an Aircraft A&P (Airframe and Powerplant) mechanic. Turns out he's the mechanic for my new farmer friend - he did part of the restoration of the PA-12, and has done the Annual inspections and other work for years. He told me Mr. Farmer used to fly over his fields and take pictures with a 35mm camera, blow the pictures up and study the fields for problems---

BINGO! A perfect candidate to pitch for drone inspections of his fields!

Mr. Farmer and I talked about that and he seemed very interested. I told him I'd need to line up several farmers and enough work to make the investment worthwhile. That really piqued his interest. I can hardly wait to see where this goes...

Gorgeous plane!! Isn't it funny how some things in life just connect together? Here's hoping for a prosperous future coming from this!!

Good news at the Dr office, glucose, a1c, and insulin are much better and triglycerides are normal.

Yay Russell!! That's great news!! See, maybe that corner isn't quite as dark and twisted as you thought!

 

[Janet H]

Ok vapers...

Surgeon General report release today re e-cigarettes :
CDC - 2016 Surgeon General's Report - Smoking & Tobacco Use

Clive Bates response :
Bad science, poor insights and likely to do harm – rapid reaction to the Surgeon General’s terrible e-cigarette report


Edit to add :
and Michael Siegel response
The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary: Surgeon General’s Report on E-Cigarettes is Scientifically Dishonest

Vaping is not going to go away. I can't wait to be able to point back at this nonsense and the people who perpetrated these lies as one more example of the total lack of common sense of the experts. Just follow the money.

 

[Kenna]

Morning everyone!

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[classwife]

Vaping is not going to go away. I can't wait to be able to point back at this nonsense and the people who perpetrated these lies as one more example of the total lack of common sense of the experts. Just follow the money.

Yeppers...I hope they like crow


It's just shameful !

 

[Kenna]

Yesterday's quad copter flight, with a visit to the quarry especially for @umanbean, some places the drone had never visited before, and Xmas music. No dancing, but when I fly today, I promise a dance... I'll have to, to keep warm.

Nice! New scenery, too. The distance you get is amazing! It's nice to see the changes in seasons & weather. I feel like I got to take a little road trip!

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[oldbroad]

Leave it to youngsters to add to the mix of giving vaping a bad name.....I just found out that my GD and her boyfriend are now " vaping"...no nic, just flavors...neither one has ever smoked. Looks like it's becoming the latest fad...pitiful...

 

[classwife]

Like I said in the other thread...

I am thankful that there is a choice for kids !
Thankful that they aren't trying out cigarettes and getting hooked on them.
Thankful that they have the option that we never had.


If a kid is gonna 'smoke' they are gonna 'smoke'...nothing is going to stop them.
( nothing would have stopped us ! )
This is the way that I see the future - being able to choose the least harmful product.

 

[oldbroad]

Like I said in the other thread...

I am thankful that there is a choice for kids !
Thankful that they aren't trying out cigarettes and getting hooked on them.
Thankful that they have the option that we never had.


If a kid is gonna 'smoke' they are gonna 'smoke'...nothing is going to stop them.
( nothing would have stopped us ! )
This is the way that I see the future - being able to choose the least harmful product.

my thought is that if they were gonna smoke, as they're in their middly 20's , they all ready would be smoking.

I AM glad that they never took up smoking...and even if they play with vaping, as the latest fad, that still wouldn't deter them...any youngsters... from smoking somewhere down the road.
Too many young ones are giving vaping a bad name by pushing the limits and blowing things up. Vaping is not the latest n greatest fad...it'a a life-saving alternate to smoking.

 

[Sterno]

my thought is that if they were gonna smoke, as they're in their middly 20's , they all ready would be smoking.

I AM glad that they never took up smoking...and even if they play with vaping, as the latest fad, that still wouldn't deter them...any youngsters... from smoking somewhere down the road.
Too many young ones are giving vaping a bad name by pushing the limits and blowing things up. Vaping is not the latest n greatest fad...it'a a life-saving alternate to smoking.

i agree

 

[Sterno]

Like I said in the other thread...

I am thankful that there is a choice for kids !
Thankful that they aren't trying out cigarettes and getting hooked on them.
Thankful that they have the option that we never had.


If a kid is gonna 'smoke' they are gonna 'smoke'...nothing is going to stop them.
( nothing would have stopped us ! )
This is the way that I see the future - being able to choose the least harmful product.

well said Cindy

 

[Iffy]

Yeppers...I hope they like crow

Actually, I hope dey don't!

 

[classwife]

My never smoker brother in law has taken up vaping...
He is using it instead of eating so much sweet stuff to knock some of his weight off - and it's helping him. ( No nic)
DH's family has a big problem with sweets...all of them do.


...remember those diet flavor puffer things they had in the 1960's ?
Same line.

 

[umanbean]

Actually, I hope dey don't!

Same here. I hope crow makes the Anti's gag.

I and many others here would be a perfect case study in 'vaping-helps-to-quit-smoking'.

For the first time in many months, I just looked at the 'quit smoking' app on my smarty-phone. I quit 1322 days and 19:56 hrs. ago and have NOT smoked approximately 37039.28 cancer sticks!

 

[classwife]

But WE are brushed off as "anecdotal"...smh...