Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

[Kenna]

But I could go back to my STM's these K5's really have a way of putting out alot of condensed flavor. Never had that problem with them.

Better flavor from a K5 isn't a problem in my book. Just lower your vg & flavor. Save some on your flavoring!

 

[Kenna]

In my case, oh so true! I've had several 'discussions' re mixin' test recipes with/without nic in da past.

Moi, I use nic in testing. Why go thru da effort to perfect a Nirvana non-nic recipe only to find out it's no longer within your 'sweet spot' after addin' nic?

Must ask, what is anyone's costliest recipe ingredient? Ummm...

No way I'm going to figure up all my flavorings & nic per ml. It depends on the recipe.

 

[Bea-FL]

You know I've been wondering about my cardiologist whether he is telling me the whole story so I requested a cd of my last echo and to my surprise they will mail it to me in 2 days. Now I can get a second opinion if I want without getting another echo. I'd go to the VA but not sure how good the guy is.

Glad to hear you requested it. As a patient you have the right to your records and most doctors are goid about giving you one copy free.

Hub and I always get a copy of EVERYTHING anytime we have a doctor visit. Bloodwork results, x-rays on CD, doctor notes, everything.

 

[Bolivar]

I'm sitting in a no smoking hotel room in Kansas City vaping and watching tv. If I still smoked, I'd be outside smoking in a thundershower trying to stay dry and knowing I'd be back out there in 20-30 minutes doing it all again.

Life is good.

 

[2legsshrt]

Here is a link to a mobile app on Hurricane Matthew
Mobile App | FEMA.gov

 

[Diver9543]

I am a day behind, so will be commenting before I forget.

o/t-- post hurricane/disaster advice:
if you are offering help,, that seriously really cool.. bring cleaning rags, cleaner/bleach and some of those huge rubbermaid bins.--and your mouth zipped shut. a disaster person wont be thinking logically,, many try to save every thing or items everyone else would never put a value on.......its ok,, just help them collect, clean and pack those items. hopefully you are also able to provide some muscles.. you wouldnt believe how heavy a loveseat full of water & mud weighs.

please dont bring foods,, unless its ready to eat 'right now'.. even then,, rethink that... you see every church and the redcross/govt show up with more food than any one can eat much less store properly. the food becomes a burden to also care for.

if you are the victim of a disaster,, try to accept you cant save everything,,, and thats ok,, because memories last longer than physical items.. it was time for that item to leave your life---this is pretty hard considering you likely had it because it meant something to you.

i had a house full of antiques,, i loved those items... but what did i spend all of my spare moments doing?--i was flipping pages one by one of my son's 'Marine Corp' year book thing,, trying to save a book i had only owned for a few years. there were drawers in dressers and armoires that were so swollen we couldnt open them without an ax. (for insurance photos).

you are going to lose items that never got wet,,its ambient humidity.. we had leather bike jackets that grew incredible amounts of mold just hanging in the closet. --it happens,, again,, grab the camera... take panoramic photos often,, especially when you start getting overwhelmed.,, take them slow and very overlapping. insurance adjusters ask for the oddest photos.. in our case they wanted a pic of our shoes, our guitar and drumset,==thats it,, that is all they wanted. now,, list your items by replacement value... our adjuster broke the law telling us to list at garage sale values. (among other things.. i have to believe karma will get her harshly for her greed & deceit).

when we finally believed we had saved all we could, we put it in a rental storage building.........well a year later we discovered we had been paying rent to store items that molded anyways. --make sure you really want to save that item.

keep in mind that a fire could have taken your stuff just as easily as a hurricane.. and you still wouldnt have this stuff. --to me a fire is the very worst,, i hate fire,, i fear fire.

i am trying to prepare you for major stuff loss,, hopefully you can adjust and be ok. i never cried over losing my stuff... it is what it is.. i will tell you i was quite an angry person at the insurance company for all of the games they played to avoid paying our claim.

This is all great information. I would like to add something that should be done before disaster strikes, take pictures of items before the storm. We were involved with an F5 tornado in '99. One of the families that my wife worked with lost everything. Before they could get their insurance estimator to their house, they were also victims of scavengers. There were items they could not include in their loss claim because they were stolen and could not prove they owned the items that were stolen. Even a walk through of the house with a video made with a smartphone would help in filling a claim.

Tornadoes are scarier.

After we were hit by the F5 tornado, I had a "wimp cellar" installed. I hope it is the bigest waste of money I have ever spent.

Yup the front porch is the place to discuss or maybe argue points.

Kross, send me your antiques, I will take good care of them. : )

In 10 years, vapers have learned an immense amount of good information, and we have chosen to educate others about it. We vapers , and especially suppliers have voluntarily jumped up and used child proof caps, wrapping, warnings, ingredients, and warnings on their websites. No one made them do it. It was the right thing to do. As well as all the support on ECF we give and get. We can also freely warn others about carppy suppliers and good suppliers.

Cigarettes and alcohol are the A-1 worst habits to give up. It's a living hell as my kids watched me smoked. I am still in awe of the fact that I quit smoking. Many of us are diehards and nothing else had saved us from smoking until vaping. I do feel great when another newbie joins and quits smoking. There are still so many people out there who will die from smoking, and as long as we're around the chances are good of helping more people join the vaping revolution and live.

We are one of the few who have self policed, warned eachother about harmful chemicals, and preached safe vaping- and it was all done "by the people" with no government involvement. I'll be darned if I let someone including the .gov forbid me from continuing on my path of doing what's right by people who have done right by me. I will not quit contributing. Black Market is okay with me. All the members on this board are worth far more than the risk of not following a bad law by bad people. .Gov is the one who started the lies about e-liquid. We did not.

IMO, I do think that cloud chasers are better than going back to smoking. However, cloud chasers need to accept some responsibility for how we as a group appear to the public. It's been 10 years for some of us . No matter what personal opinions some have, we need to be polite in public. You have to give respect to get it.

I have learned so much from being a member of these forums. I am a flavor chaser vice a cloud chaser. It is just that I have found that the best flavor for me includes clouds.
Well, bedtime for me. Everyone have a good night and I wish all of my friends on the east coast safe travels.

 

[DancingHeretik]

Good-night, Diver!

 

[Vape?]

You're likely all asleep, time zones, but if I want to get my diy juice supplies and implements in one fell swoop, which one? I save on shipping that way. Don't know what brand of flavours to try. Guess I could order everything except the Nic from here. I'll have to look. Any suggestions on one stop shops at best prices?

 

[seminolewind]

Thank you, Bea! {{{{{{{{{{Hugs}}}}}}}}}}

The trial drugs are basically supposed to shrink/eliminate tumors and hopefully buy us some more time together. She is in fairly advanced Stage 4 with metastasis. The original tumor was colo-rectal and was located in the rectum very near the sphincter. It metastasized to the lungs. Surgery was done to remove the tumor from the rectum, and a permanent colostomy was placed. A second surgery was done later on to remove mets from the lungs. The mets have returned to the right lung with quite a few more in the chest wall and near the liver. She has already been through all of the standard protocol treatments (radiation, chemotherapy, surgery) and none of it has worked, and that is why we are looking at clinical trials at this point. The doctors say that remission is highly unlikely, and they just want to improve her quality of life and give her as much time as they can.

Thank you for following along with us. That is the main reason that I have been so open about sharing our journey. We both want others to know her story, and we hope that the sharing of it will help someone in some way or another. My Bride is 46 years old and has no history of cancer in her family. Her grandmother had Type 1 Diabetes and Alzheimer's, so I am fully aware of the fear that you feel from it and the nightmares that it can cause. My Bride also has Type 1 Diabetes, and she constantly worries that she may very well inherit the Alzheimer's that her grandmother suffered from. I'm right there with you on being the "fixer", and I so wish that I could tell you that everything is going to be okay, and that you will definitely be spared from that awful disease. All that I can offer, though, is the knowledge that love and faith can carry us through many, many things that we wouldn't otherwise believe ourselves capable of enduring.

I am so sorry that you and your bride are going thru this. She's so young. I would certainly take experimental drugs too if I had to. Why not.

 

[seminolewind]

@MattB101 was trying to sell his before moving back to Florida.


thanks darlin. this one won't be so bad. The first ones they did were 8 at a time, 4 on each side. Only a local anesthetic which probably burned more than if they had just done the shots. lol This one is only 3 on one side, but he asked if I wanted to do it under anesthesia. At first I said no........then said why the heck not if the ins will pay for it. lol I had 3 series of em the first time and finally stopped doing them because even though they helped with some of the pain and made me more flexible, they made the sciatic pain near unbearable! Dunno why I said they're tomorrow, it's actually at 1 pm today. The others really didn't hurt much, but I'll try it with anesthesia this time since he's going into a deeper place than they did before. They do it with xray in real time.


Jup I vaped in my son's room for 3 days. 3rd day as we were being discharged, nurse saw me holding it and said...... you know you can't use that in here, right! I said.......I'm just holding it. cuz that's all I was doing at the time. Wanted so bad to tell her I'd been vaping in there for 3 days and none of em had a clue.

Now I'm rolling on the floor! What you said makes me feel like carrying mine everywhere I go.

I remember back in the 80's my daughter was flying back from Europe and that was in the days you had those jumbo jets that had the cocktail bar upstairs. At 16, she was up there smoking and drinking. I thought it was funny at the time.

Now she's 37 and her and her husband were smokers and had 3 kids. That's the hell when you need to smoke but don't want your kids to and you pray they never do but they do. Now it's great. Her and hubby vape and there is nothing in the world I like better than all of us not smoking in front of the kids-AND I certainly don't mind setting an example for vaping.

I was an RN until 2012 and I quit smoking and vaped in the bathroom, the break room, the supply room and the kitchen whenever no one was around.

 

[seminolewind]

Tubing is really popular on the Guadelupe & nearby tributaries around Austin. There's a whole tourist industry built up around it. I've never been but the rest of my family has. Don't forget an ice chest sized tube for water or beer! And no littering in the river!

Thanks! Tubing seems to be my new interest. Nothing better than floating no where fast. I have found one place in Florida so far. Rainbow springs?

 

[seminolewind]

Ugh! Just found out that my brother, who lives in Orlando with his wife and two kids, is staying to ride out the storm. Stubborn...

Don't worry about it. They will get rain and maybe a little wind. They may lose their electric for a bit. I think the biggest danger (aside from these weather reporters) is people near the coast and the storm surge. And a lot of rain and strong wind do not make trees very happy. The typical present day house in florida is built with concrete blocks reinforced by dropping rebar and cement down the holes every few feet. The worst case scenario to me would be all the rain making my house get swallowed up by a sink hole.

The worst hurricane I lived thru was Hurricane Gloria on Long Island in the 80's. The eye went right over our house. We spent the day in the basement. I kept wondering why there was all this green outside the little basement window. Well Gloria had taken my weeping willow down. And 4 days without electric and making coffee on a charcoal grill.

 

[seminolewind]

My singles are numbered & I use them in numerical order. My married batts are marked alphabetically & stored in their pairs in marked cases. I use them in order also.

Funny. I spent a few years with using rechargeable batteries. Now I have eleaf isticks (4) because my 1st one is over 2 years old and still working hard. 2 are in storage. One other is used on occasion. Never had a problem.

 

[seminolewind]

I totally agree about chickens. I love my hens. We broyght them to FL with us when we moved from up north. Wouldn't think of leaving them behind.

Awww that's sweet. I won't leave mine behind either. Yes I'm a crazy chicken lady. Yes I do share a glass of wine with my 9 year old. However, does anyone but me notice that the older you get the less you worry about what other people think?

 

[seminolewind]

Sure are a lot of Floridians here on the porch.

 

[Vape?]

Any reason not to buy the pg/vg blend at my preferred ratio? Then I could just add flavour and Nic, couldn't I ?

 

[Ken_A]

I got more wind than rain right now... being on the west side of the storm is definitely the better choice

 

[kross8]

Any reason not to buy the pg/vg blend at my preferred ratio? Then I could just add flavour and Nic, couldn't I ?

depends how picky you are and if you consider that when you add your nic & flavors your pg value will go up some. ie,,, when i mix my base i mix it at 65vg/35pg to allow my nic and flavors to bring it down close to 50/50 (not exact but good enough for me)

(assuming your nic is pg and flavors based----adjust dif'ly if they are vg based)

 

[kross8]

I got more wind than rain right now... being on the west side of the storm is definitely the better choice
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we call that the dirty side,, wind and rain,,, and possibly Noah sightings

 

[Vape?]

I got more wind than rain right now... being on the west side of the storm is definitely the better choice
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Hard to like that picture, is it current?