Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

[amoret]

RUN - Do Not Pass Go - Just Go Directly to get what Ya' NEED . . .

Well, now you did it. I had figured I had enough on hand to last me, but just added another 4 250ml. It's 50/50 when I usually go straight PG - but that's what my calculator is for. (I did annoy Smiley cat when I needed to use my left arm to get at my CC.)

It didn't even cost enough to get me free shipping.

I just checked and they're now out of the 250ml and 1 liter PG unflavored nicotine base. Oh well, I've already just purchased enough nicotine to last me a couple of years.

I just went ahead with 50/50 instead of PG.

 

[amoret]

Thank you for signing! The guy that started the petition hasn't been seen in a while but he did share the stats of it with one or two people who could make a difference. At this point it may be outdated, I'm not sure. I fear vaping is in a death spiral for those that aren't educated and stocked. Then there are the shop owners and their employees, all because of vaping illegal drugs. Many, many more are going to die as they revert/convert to smoking.

Unlikely anyone will tag me in the coming days but we're going into a possible five day blackout because PG&E doesn't know/care how to properly string/maintain power lines. They're killing power to 800,000 customers. Charged up every mod and battery I have, even those in the stash.

What's not funny at all is all the people that depend on medical devices driven by electricity to simply survive. People will likely die because of the blackout. Remind anybody of BT and BP? There are some safeguards in place but not enough. Keep the young people alive so they can pay taxes, let them die early enough that "we" will only have to pay out minimal medical/SS/other benefits to the "elderly" Win win right?

Sorry for such a dark post. To each and every one of you:

Love you guys.

That's their backhanded admission that their wires have been causing fires, right?

 

[Blitzdonlife]

I have been trying for years to convince a dear friend of mine to delve more into vaping. She insisted on vaping with Ego batteries and Evods, and never progressed into external battery mods or tried DIY.

Well, with the recent events, I tried one more time, and now she's scared that she won't be able to vape! Talk about denial in thinking that she would always be able to get her commercial juice and Ego type internal batteries!

She said she didn't know what to buy or the first thing about DIY even though we talked about it often! So, she gave me the green light to purchase hardware that I thought she'd find relatively easy and would somewhat mimic the EGO type batteries she's been vaping with all these years. So, as we go, I purchase, then she reimburses me.

So, to start her off, I purchased her nic, some Aspire CF mods that take an 18650, the Helix mod, a two port Intellicharger and some other various devices.....no frills, just basic stuff that would be simple and straightforward.

Working on a recipe (with the help of a friend here at ECF) that would mimic the 'Churro' she has purchased all these years....have told her time and time again how much cheaper it would be, but NOW she is convinced.....going to introduce some fruit flavors so that the coils would be less likely to gunk up so quickly.

DIYing is limited cause of Parkinson's disease, but until I can't, I'll be helping her!

Was going to introduce the Zenith to her, but the cost of the coils is prohibitive, so we had to bypass that one.....a shame!!

I can't tell you how happy I am that finally, the light has dawned for her!!!

What a wonderful thing to do for your friend.

 

[Spydro]

More reminiscing... (click on thumbnails, enlarge and click on image for full size version).




I still have my Peace and Fire, still wear it sometimes.

 

[Blitzdonlife]

More reminiscing... (click on thumbnails, enlarge and click on image for full size version).

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I still have my Peace and Fire, still wear it sometimes.
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That must have been a blast, I was born in the wrong generation. Are those mostly your own pictures?

 

[HappyCamper]

As posted elsewhere, but just in case ya' didn't see the post . . .

FYI - For Everyone . . .

On Sale

50% - 75% OFF + an additional 10% Off some items w/ Code: SAVINGMONEY (including some of those items already discounted)

Save 10%
Valid on most items throughout the ecigexpress.com website.
Offer excludes Capella.
Use code: SAVINGMONEY
Expires: October 11th, 2019


Additional - FYI:

Actually, they have been Out of Stock - In Stock - Out of Stock - In Stock of many products for days now . . . Just kept going back and checking all weekend . . . Matter of fact, I just got 4 - 1 liter bottles of 100 mg pg base at 50% OFF + the additional 10% using the code: SAVINGMONEY (each total just over $31.00) . . . w/ a few other items this past Monday and it is was shipped FREE yesturday . . .

I also just checked their website again and they have 250 ml & 1 Litter bottles of 100mg Unflavored NIC available on their website . . . Just Sayin' . . .

100mg Unflavored Nicotine Base​

RUN - Do Not Pass Go - Just Go Directly to get what Ya' NEED . . .

Don't forget to check out some other "Stuff" there, especially what is on sale for 75% Off + 10% Code = VERY INEXPENSIVE Prices . . .


BTW: I was told via chat that they find out today if the DOH is going to Ban e-liquids / ecig products in their state/area - The reason for the huge sale . . . Hope this information is helpful . . . Just Sayin' . . .



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Thank you so much Uncle.
I was able to purchase my last two liters this morning, they shipped it right away.
I can taper my nic down slowly now.
I have been at 12 mg for years but a few weeks ago went down to 10mg and 0 nic when I was feeling stressed and chain vaping (To stretch my nic)
I’ve been a bit on edge.
Now I can take a bit more time to taper down. Again, I thank you soooooo mucho!!!

 

[Spydro]

That must have been a blast, I was born in the wrong generation. Are those mostly your own pictures?

Unfortunately as an avid photog for much of my life most of the pictures of my life were lost over the years. So only about a third are mine (the rest are representative ones from other sources of the exact time and place that are period correct ones).

I do have others from the past, but most of what I have left is maybe 5% of the 1,000's of slides I had taken with SLR film cameras since the early 70's rather than the snapshots or enlargements that most of were lost. At one time I tried to scan some of the slides with mixed results. I have also taken some pictures of some of my original pictures that I do still have with a digital camera to make them easier to post online. Anyway, on this end of my life (and ever decreasing interest in forums) they have never mattered enough to me to have the slides or prints digitized professionally.

I didn't get my first digital camera until 1995... a Casio QV-10. Have had a bunch of them since from simple point ans shoot to expensive with mixed results. I don't really need them anymore, so the only one I have that is usable now was bought in 2006. I didn't like it from the start, so had never used it until some months back when a third A495 died. It's a Canon S3 IS SLR 6MP with way to many accessories to list. I only dig it out IF I really do want to make a new picture (IOW, seldom).

 

[pwmeek]

At one time I tried to scan some of the slides with mixed results.

Yeah, at any reasonable scanning resolution, the digital file will never be as good as the original slide or negative. I've scanned 35mm slides and negatives at 4000 dpi and the results, when looked at closely, are just not as good as the original film images. To be even close to the original 35mm film requires a digital file of around 500 gigabytes to provide enough resolution in both pixels and color depth.

The best you can hope for with a scan is to make an image to share with family and friends, or on the web. The original film must be preserved as best you can, in hopes that some future technology will be able to make a digital copy as good as film.

 

[Myrany]

I am going to be honest I am photographically challenged.

My dad however was a photographer in the infantry during WWII. When He died Mom found a huge box of photos from the war. I convinced her not to throw them out. When she died I got them.

They were horrific. He was with an infantry group that liberated one of the concentration camps. I realized immediately that no matter how horrible they were to look at they were history and needed preserved. Being totally clueless what to do I took the only route I could think of and donated all of them to the National Holocaust Museum in Dad's name.

 

[bnrkwest]

More reminiscing... (click on thumbnails, enlarge and click on image for full size version).

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I still have my Peace and Fire, still wear it sometimes.
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I was in SF during the Summer of Luv '67 what an experience I was on vacation and never expected all the people there with flowers in their hair. I still have a hippy news paper I bought on the Wharf

 

[Iffy]

I spent the 'summer of luv 67' at Da Nang AB, RVN. What an experience!

 

[Spydro]

Yeah, at any reasonable scanning resolution, the digital file will never be as good as the original slide or negative. I've scanned 35mm slides and negatives at 4000 dpi and the results, when looked at closely, are just not as good as the original film images. To be even close to the original 35mm film requires a digital file of around 500 gigabytes to provide enough resolution in both pixels and color depth.

The best you can hope for with a scan is to make an image to share with family and friends, or on the web. The original film must be preserved as best you can, in hopes that some future technology will be able to make a digital copy as good as film.

The purpose was to share on line years ago. As you say good enough but nothing stellar. The equipment I was using on the slides didn't help the situation much any either... a HP ScanJet 4470c with a HP Scanjet XPA slide scanner attachment. IOW, a jury rigged set up with many limitations. I still have it though I don't know why IAMA I have not used it since.

An example of 4 slides from the late 80's that I scanned and made into a collage... (click to enlarge).

 

[Spydro]

I am going to be honest I am photographically challenged.

My dad however was a photographer in the infantry during WWII. When He died Mom found a huge box of photos from the war. I convinced her not to throw them out. When she died I got them.

They were horrific. He was with an infantry group that liberated one of the concentration camps. I realized immediately that no matter how horrible they were to look at they were history and needed preserved. Being totally clueless what to do I took the only route I could think of and donated all of them to the National Holocaust Museum in Dad's name.

I can certainly relate. My father took many horrific pictures during his WWII experiences with a 1930's Kodak Bullet Camera. He was a Seabee in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, was attached to the 5th Marines to take Iwo Jima, then he occupied Nagasaki, Japan after Fat Man was dropped on it. When I started 7th grade we spent a day together alone with him telling me what war was all about, what his experiences had been. Then he opened a locked closet in the basement I had never seen open before and showed me all of his war keepsakes and all of those horrific pictures from Iwo and Nagasaki that he had saved just in case he had a son that might have to go to war some day. No one else in the family had ever seen them. He gave me a Japanese sniper rifle he had brought back from Iwo, then afterwards, almost like a ritual, together we burned all of the pictures because they had done what he had saved them for. I also now have all of his 'war' memorabilia that was in that closet, including the journals he kept daily during his experiences. I still have that camera that I also used when it was my turn to serve this country. But I was far smarter when I volunteered than he had been. While it was during the five deadliest years of Vietnam that camera never had to take anymore horrific pictures .

Dad on Iwo Jima, the camera.

 

[Spydro]

I was in SF during the Summer of Luv '67 what an experience I was on vacation and never expected all the people there with flowers in their hair. I still have a hippy news paper I bought on the Wharf

A magical time in my life, but I had no flowers in my hair even though it was much longer than 'standard' for that era in most places in the country. I wasn't a hippie, I didn't use drugs. The longer hair was because I played lead guitar in bands. But I did side with some of their beliefs, including the antiwar movement. The Peace and Fire medallion I sometimes still wear instead of just a peace sign is because the full draft was on in the SOL'67, so I had already volunteered to have some control over my destiny in the military and knew that fall that I was going into the USN and probably to Vietnam (on an aircraft carrier).

Attack Squadron 56 eventually won the toss...

 

[Myrany]

Summer of 67 I was in Detroit and that is all I remember of it. I was 3.

Ducks and hides

 

[pwmeek]

Summer of '67 I had just finished 4 years of hitchhiking back and forth across the US (estimated quarter million miles) and voluntary homelessness, and was about to begin a year of doing machine work for my dad to help with a project he was working on. Thereupon I moved to Ann Arbor, MI where the summer of love (or at least hippiedom) was arriving a year or two late. I (with a partner) opened a clothing store with bell-bottoms, fringed leather jackets, and the like. We had a good run for a few years until the big chain stores jumped on the bandwagon. Then I had a Fixit business repairing electronics with a side in mechanical repair. "The unusual is my specialty," was my tagline. Among other things I restored jukeboxes (old Wurlitzers) and other electro-mechanical antiques, and built stage props for a magician friend.
EDIT: Oh, yeah, somewhere in there I got married for the first time. EDIT2: And had a daughter.

 

[DaveP]

I was in 10th grade during the summer of 1967. Our rock band played all over the state on weekends and life was good. I was also in a local junior college during that time. I got married at 19 and found a full time job.

 

[r77r7r]

A magical time in my life, but I had no flowers in my hair even though it was much longer than 'standard' for that era in most places in the country. I wasn't a hippie, I didn't use drugs. The longer hair was because I played lead guitar in bands. But I did side with some of their beliefs, including the antiwar movement. The Peace and Fire medallion I sometimes still wear instead of just a peace sign is because the full draft was on in the SOL'67, so I had already volunteered to have some control over my destiny in the military and knew that fall that I was going into the USN and probably to Vietnam (on an aircraft carrier).

Attack Squadron 56 eventually won the toss...
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A7 Corsair? Funny, never worked on that particular jet but named it instantly on sight lol. I specialized on the F4 mostly.

 

[Spydro]

Summer of 67 I was in Detroit and that is all I remember of it. I was 3.

Ducks and hides

It was said after it that if you remembered the SOL'67 then you didn't really experience it. That was the drug heads talking, I beg to differ. I remember it well, and three important music icons who were lost in '70 & '71 because of them (all at the ripe old age of 27)... Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

 

[Spydro]

A7 Corsair? Funny, never worked on that particular jet but named it instantly on sight lol. I specialized on the F4 mostly.

There were not any F-4's at the duty stations I was assigned to, but I caught a ride on a Marine F-4 once when TAD for 10 days to one that did. Mostly I was involved with TA-4 Skyhawk's, A-6 Intruder's and the 15 A-7B Corsair II's my squadron had.