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[FranC]

If I had a dime for every time a person of French decent asked me if I knew my last name meant glue in the French language I would be rich. My wife has a French first name so it all kind of worked out.

Translated she is young glue.

No glue here. I’m Beautiful Flower. If a had a dime for everyone that asked me if I’m from Indian descent I would be rich also.

 

[FranC]

Ya'll so posty! I can't keep up! I must do yoga. The husband's mom is on her way out. She had lung cancer (environmental not smoking) and now she had a stroke. A small one. Sigh.

I really hate funerals but cannot let the husband face it alone.

To be fair, l can cope, I hate her, she is incredibly hatable bossy and rude. When she visited the husband got this insane needlepoint thing I got crocheted dish rags. I had to actually ask what they were. Then I said, "I would rather have nothing than these. Maybe you could have another DIL to give them to or someone else you hate." You can't beat about the bush with her. Granted I am hatable at times but I ALSO took care of her PTSD psycho son for five years until he got better so she should be THANKING me.

Also, at the wedding, she yelled at my kid for being barefoot. He, being a smart kid, RAN barefoot away and never approached her again. I did. I said, "Listen MIL, I have given MY soon to be husband permission to instruct my child, but I have TRAINED him and LET ME JUST SAY the amount of negative programming I had to REMOVE was insane. You do NOT have permission to instruct my son in ANYTHING besides how to escape a crowded theater on fire but that is IT. I don't like you, you don't like me and we can live with it. But you stay out of my kid's life FOREVER or I will make sure as your son's wife he never speaks to you again. And, let me tell you, this wife ALWAYS wins because *I* am the vagina he is attached to, so I have a GREAT advantage, that and I am not so nice. But, you are WORSE."

She took it. To be fair if I told that story at the funeral people would, ah, agree. She is the WORST.

Oooh I don't want to have to deal with the manic sister and the brother in law who .........es surreptitiously. Just NO.; Sigh. So, of course I am praying hard for her continued survival dude, and I don't think the motivation matters THAT much.

Work was chill. I HAVE to do yoga now. I realize that was a mean story but I have about a billion of them and I avoid her at all COSTS. GOlly.

I have no clue how the husband will react SERIOUSLY. No clue.

Anna

Yeah, you’ve mentioned her before. Very unpleasant person.

 

[*RJ*]

I missed my 6 year quitting anniversary last week. 5 years was a big deal. I guess after that it's like birthdays after 60, oh well, there goes another one. If I make it to 10 years that one will be another celebration.

Congrats! It is a big deal.

 

[*RJ*]

Well congrats anyway. My 6 year vanniversary is tomorrow and I'm a little excited, but I agree with you about the birthday thing. Except it was 50 for me instead of 60. I'll be 51 next month and I'll just consider it to be another day.

Congrats on six years!

 

[FranC]

My name is actually of French descent and means Free.

 

[*RJ*]

Curious question, do you use drop in coils or build your own.
I use strictly drop ins.

I use premades or dropins but I’m 99% mesh right now. I haven’t built a coil in over 6 or 7 years. I was strictly dropin for five years. Mesh has spoiled me.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

I'm ready as well. I live North of Milwaukee by Wurst Bend aka West Bend.

I'm a little less than a mile northwest of Brewers stadium. And I pass West Bend on 41 when I head up to Campbellsport and Lomira to visit friends. I'll wave next time!

 

[FranC]

I use premades or dropins but I’m 99% mesh right now. I haven’t built a coil in over 6 or 7 years. I was strictly dropin for five years. Mesh has spoiled me.

What mesh coils do you use?

 

[*RJ*]

What mesh coils do you use?

I use the mesh strips on my Zeus x mesh rta. With mesh you don’t have to change as often as coils. I’m on my second mesh strip after like two months, and that was only because pulling the spent cotton out of my first one bent it pretty badly. I’ve learned now to just unscrew one side and take the cotton out to prevent mangling the mesh. It still worked it was just bent, and I have a ton of mesh.

 

[Zazie]

Curious question, do you use drop in coils or build your own.
I use strictly drop ins.

I haven't used a drop-in since I started to build last year (wow, only a year ago). And I likely won't use one again till I can't build anymore.

 

[FranC]

I use the mesh strips on my Zeus x mesh rta. With mesh you don’t have to change as often as coils. I’m on my second mesh strip after like two months, and that was only because pulling the spent cotton out of my first one bent it pretty badly. I’ve learned now to just unscrew one side and take the cotton out to prevent mangling the mesh. It still worked it was just bent, and I have a ton of mesh.

All for dL?

 

[Skeebo]

And I likely won't use one again till I can't build anymore.

And I really hope those days are a long ways off for you Zazie.

 

[Zazie]

How are you doing the MF sft’s? One drop of flavor? I’m still on the fence about getting any. Still very pricey at half price. It’s looking like I may have some extra Christmas money. Soooooo maybe.

I had been planning on one drop in 10mls, but I have all these little 8ml bottles, so I'll be using those instead.

I figure if MF flavors are as potent as the hype goes, a 15ml bottle should go a long way.

 

[Krazys karma]

Honestly, l tried mixing by weight, and I hated it. I mix by volume and depending on how intense my recipes are (they're all around 10 ml though) I just freaking mix up some base pour it into the bottles and then get a 10 ml syringe and like line up all my flavors with number of drops rarer these days) and/or shove them bit by bit, (I write down the amounts) and then empty the syringe into the bottle.

I find it infinitely faster and there is a LEVEL of precision you aren't going to taste, honest. Well., I won't.

I get you are invested in the scale I was lucky to hate mine immediately.

Anna

Ty well I found one it reads spot on. But it only reads up to 1000g that is fine with me. I can use this one for the lower amounts and use the other scale for the vg/pg and nic. So the one I got yesterday can go back.

I used a syringe last night on a small batch. But if feel more comfortable using a scale. EXPECALLY with nic.
Thank you for other options

 

[FranC]

I had been planning on one drop in 10mls, but I have all these little 8ml bottles, so I'll be using those instead.

I figure if MF flavors are as potent as the hype goes, a 15ml bottle should go a long way.

Yes, if they are. If I have available 15 ml glass bottles I use them for 10 ml sft’s. If not I use plastic.

 

[uthinkofsomething]

Me four.

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[FranC]

Ty well I found one it reads spot on. But it only reads up to 1000g that is fine with me. I can use this one for the lower amounts and use the other scale for the vg/pg and nic. So the one I got yesterday can go back.

I used a syringe last night on a small batch. But if feel more comfortable using a scale. EXPECALLY with nic.
Thank you for other options

Glad you finally found one

 

[Zazie]

So sorry about your eyes, @Territoo.

 

[FranC]

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Great minds

 

[Krazys karma]

Glad you finally found one

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