Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 5

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The flavor issue is (erroniously) aimed at reducing teen vaping.

As a teen yummy flavors did not stop us from underage drinking. I never once drank liquor for the taste. I never heard any of my teenage drinking buddies say "don't you just love the taste of gin?" or "Kool Milds taste yummy". And have you tried those so called Juul flavors? Ugh! They're not yummy at all.

My beer guzzling, tobacco chewing, dope smoking colleague said recently he caught his 15 year old kid vaping. He was shocked. "Wuthhell is wrong with these kids today?" he wailed as he loaded his face with a plug, lit a joint and guzzled a 40.

"Uh, got me" I replied.
 

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@r77r7r since you're into them.....
I found another old picture I have of a couple of VA-56 A7's flying off the newly retrofitted USS Midway's on its first cruise in early 1971 on the way back to Vietnam for another WestPac. The squadrons prior WestPac '69-'70 with the new to them A7's had been on the USS Ranger (on the '66-'68 WestPac's they flew A-4C's and E's off the USS Enterprise). The squadron was active in the West Pacific for 30 years from 1956-1986 flying Panther's, Cougar's, the Fury, Skyhawk's and the Corsair II's.
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Good for you for preserving them, & good for your Dad for the documentation! Never forget. Not for a second! Do you know what camps?

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No unfortunately. Dad would never talk about his war experiences at all. I am sure the historians at the museum can figure out for at least some of the photos. From landmarks if nothing else.
 

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@r77r7r since you're into them.....
I found another old picture I have of a couple of VA-56 A7's flying off the newly retrofitted USS Midway's on its first cruise in early 1971 on the way back to Vietnam for another WestPac. The squadrons prior WestPac '69-'70 with the new to them A7's had been on the USS Ranger (on the '66-'68 WestPac's they flew A-4C's and E's off the USS Enterprise). The squadron was active in the West Pacific for 30 years from 1956-1986 flying Panther's, Cougar's, the Fury, Skyhawk's and the Corsair II's.
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We toured the Midway on a trip to San Diego. What a marvelous old war ship. I couldn't get over all the external wiring running about the ship as well as banks of open to the air single throw double pole switches. Yikes! State of the art back then, but oh so crude compared to today's technology.

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    Texas A&M bans vaping across system

    Texas A&M has instituted a system wide vaping ban. I'm going there in a couple of weeks to visit my daughter and see a football game. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I can't vape in the hotel room, I can't vape in my sister's car, I can't vape at the game, now I can't even vape in between the car and the stadium. It's beginning to look like I'm going to have to go the whole weekend without being able to vape when I need to. Help!
     

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    Texas A&M bans vaping across system

    Texas A&M has instituted a system wide vaping ban. I'm going there in a couple of weeks to visit my daughter and see a football game. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I can't vape in the hotel room, I can't vape in my sister's car, I can't vape at the game, now I can't even vape in between the car and the stadium. It's beginning to look like I'm going to have to go the whole weekend without being able to vape when I need to. Help!

    There are two types of smoke detectors, ionization and photoelectric. The later can be a PITA when vaping. They explain it here Types of Smoke Detectors and Their Differences

    Don't know if your hotel will have a shower cap provided so might want to take one with you, just put it over the detector and you'll be good to go. I vape in every motel/hotel we stay in and also the room we get at my parents' retirement buildings where they've banned smoking/vaping on their property. Not going to walk two blocks for a hit of my mod with unflavored juice in it. Never once set of a detector and I've yet to put a shower cap on one of the detectors.

    At the game or in the car, if you need a nic fix you can put a drop(s) of juice on your hand and lick it off or drop it under your tongue. You could also get nic gum or lozenges.

    Remember when they had doctor recommended cigarettes? And they just expect us to quit? :-x

    Hope this helps some, good luck and do have fun!
     

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    5 days? Really? Maybe they expect the job to take that long, but outages will be here and there and not just totally out for 5 days. I hope it's not as bad as you think it will be. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best!!

    They cut the power because they haven't properly maintained the lines and clearances around them. Low humidity and high winds (that never materialized here locally) were the reason for killing it. (My only beef is with overhead, not the workers on the streets.)

    One person died 12 minutes after they cut his power and his oxygen machine stopped working. Last year their equipment started a fire in Paradise, CA that killed 85 people when the winds kicked up.

    You won't find many people in CA that like PG&E. Remember Erin Brockovich? Julia Roberts played her in the movie of the same name. Those deaths were at PG&E's hands. San Bruno gas line explosions were caused by shoddy PG&E gas lines. The list goes on. Right before they started killing power, PG&E ececs and their biggest customers were having a wine tasting and dinner party in the North Bay area, two years after their equipment caused a deadly fire in the same area that killed many. I-TEAM: PG&E facing intense criticism for holding wine-tasting this week while planning blackouts

    :-x

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

    Bingo! ;)

    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.

    What a fantastic thing to do, thank you, thank you, thank you! :wub:


    Made through three days without power and barely dented my charged collection of mods. :) And yes, while I was awake, I chain vaped. :blush:
     

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    There are two types of smoke detectors, ionization and photoelectric. The later can be a PITA when vaping. They explain it here Types of Smoke Detectors and Their Differences

    Don't know if your hotel will have a shower cap provided so might want to take one with you, just put it over the detector and you'll be good to go. I vape in every motel/hotel we stay in and also the room we get at my parents' retirement buildings where they've banned smoking/vaping on their property. Not going to walk two blocks for a hit of my mod with unflavored juice in it. Never once set of a detector and I've yet to put a shower cap on one of the detectors.

    At the game or in the car, if you need a nic fix you can put a drop(s) of juice on your hand and lick it off or drop it under your tongue. You could also get nic gum or lozenges.

    Remember when they had doctor recommended cigarettes? And they just expect us to quit? :-x

    Hope this helps some, good luck and do have fun!

    I usually vape at hotels but this time I'm sharing a room with the family. Money is kinda tight for me to get my own room this year. I guess I'll be walking my dad's service dog a lot.
     

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    No unfortunately. Dad would never talk about his war experiences at all. I am sure the historians at the museum can figure out for at least some of the photos. From landmarks if nothing else.

    Other than that one day that he spent with me I never heard my father ever mention his war years to anyone else either, not with family or otherwise. But I fully understood why after seeing what he saw in the pictures he had taken. I have never shared his field journals of the battles he fought with anyone either, and never plan to. He didn't want them shared with anyone else except me. Since I never had to be concerned about a son ever going to war, they too will vanish unread by anyone else before my last day in respect of his wishes.
     

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    I was 2 in 1967 when my mum drove us on our annual 100km trip from Sydney to my grandparents' home in the bush 100km NW of Brewarrina in outback NSW. Near the QLD border.
    All 4 kids (oldest was a 5 yo in 1967) fit in the back of a blue VW bug. No seatbelts of course but the games of "I spy" and "Animal/Vegetable/Mineral" kept us going.
    Mum used to do that drive in one long day even though the last 1000km leg is a combination of red and black soil where you've gotta stay sharp or the gidgee trees will jump out and grab the car.

    The sheep station is still in the family. I took my 29yo daughter and 13yo son on that same one day road trip just this April. Beautiful old old country. We may not be original inhabitants out there but 5 generations soak up the dirt and stamp the genes.

    Times are tough in the Bush right now. Worst drought in living memory but somehow most of the families hang on. Don't know how long if the rain doesn't come soon.
    I've been smashed with an avalanche of Optimistic here! Lol. Maybe I'm too young or just posted the wrong vibe for this thread.
    Still it's my story and I'm proud of it. I love my family and even though we've made mistakes we keep going and stick together.

    Edit: its a 600 mile/1000km trip from Sydney. Not 100km!
     
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    I've been smashed with an avalanche of Optimistic here! Lol. Maybe I'm too young or just posted the wrong vibe for this thread.
    Still it's my story and I'm proud of it. I love my family and even though we've made mistakes we keep going and stick together.

    Edit: its a 600 mile/1000km trip from Sydney. Not 100km!
    I think people are optimistic that rain will come. Drought is so devastating to both the lands and the people that tend it.
     

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    I think people are optimistic that rain will come. Drought is so devastating to both the lands and the people that tend it.
    Oh ok! I'm pretty new to ecf and sometimes it seems like Optomistic is a polite way of disagreeing.
    The rain always comes eventually NolaMel but it's broken my heart to see all the native animals - little and big- thinning out. In some cases disappearing.
    Still it's amazing to see the life come surging back when the drought eventually breaks. Ive seen it before and hope to see it again soon but a long hot summer looms and the good people out there are already at breaking point
     
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