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FranC

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    I use the FA version to tame the FW. The FW is a little bit on the candy side so the FA brings it back to the middle.
    Good to know also. I like raspberry. Trying to give strawberry a break for awhile.
     

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    The ONLY way I could get tp was to go to Walmart and Sams during their senior times @ 6am in the morning on Tuesdays. I feel that walmart is forcing people out of their homes for this item and for those in high risk groups I find that unforgivable and totally irresponsible.
    I said the same thing. Making people go "out there" to get tp instead of sheltering in place. Places like walmart could always limit the amount people order instead of making everyone go to the store in hopes of getting any.
     

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    When I started mixing there was a giant TFA thread here. Haven't seen it for a while. Pretty much any TFA flavor you were interested in you could search that thread and find opinions and suggestions. That made it easy to get up and running so I used all TFA for a long time. Been branching out a little lately but I still mainly use TFA. Plus a few OSDIY and Chefs Flavors one shots that @JCinFLA turned me on to.

    I had a bit of excitement. On Sunday a kid got in a fight with his girlfriend in the local CVS, stole a car and tried to run from the cops and ended up in my neighborhood. There’s only one way in or out, a bridge over the canal, any other way you go you hit the river, so he was trapped. He kept driving around at high speed for a while. Almost hit a kid on a bicycle who had to ride into a yard to escape and crashed into a bush. He went past my house which is on a bend and ran off the road. Knocked down several mailboxes and hit a utility pole. The top of the pole broke off and took down the power lines. He flattened several street signs and some fences on the next block. In the end he went into someone's yard and hit a tree. He staggered off on foot but didn't get far.

    My mailbox was lying in the road undamaged but the post was destroyed. So yesterday I picked up some wood from Lowes and dug a hole and replaced it.

    There was a live cable lying across the top of my neighbor's gravel driveway and it was producing a shower of sparks ten feet high for a while. Afterwards the end of the driveway was covered in this green glassy stuff where the sand had been fused by the heat.

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    Crazy kids. One day they won't have all that energy to fight over stupid stuff and get in trouble. He'll have so many charges on his record for that dealio. I hate your mailbox post was broken and you had to go "out there" to replace it. And that is crazy about the sand making that green rock. WOW!
     

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    When I started mixing there was a giant TFA thread here. Haven't seen it for a while. Pretty much any TFA flavor you were interested in you could search that thread and find opinions and suggestions. That made it easy to get up and running so I used all TFA for a long time. Been branching out a little lately but I still mainly use TFA. Plus a few OSDIY and Chefs Flavors one shots that @JCinFLA turned me on to.

    I had a bit of excitement. On Sunday a kid got in a fight with his girlfriend in the local CVS, stole a car and tried to run from the cops and ended up in my neighborhood. There’s only one way in or out, a bridge over the canal, any other way you go you hit the river, so he was trapped. He kept driving around at high speed for a while. Almost hit a kid on a bicycle who had to ride into a yard to escape and crashed into a bush. He went past my house which is on a bend and ran off the road. Knocked down several mailboxes and hit a utility pole. The top of the pole broke off and took down the power lines. He flattened several street signs and some fences on the next block. In the end he went into someone's yard and hit a tree. He staggered off on foot but didn't get far.

    My mailbox was lying in the road undamaged but the post was destroyed. So yesterday I picked up some wood from Lowes and dug a hole and replaced it.

    There was a live cable lying across the top of my neighbor's gravel driveway and it was producing a shower of sparks ten feet high for a while. Afterwards the end of the driveway was covered in this green glassy stuff where the sand had been fused by the heat.

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    I'm guessing that this is the thread that you were talking about.

    The Flavor Apprentice Flavoring Thread

    It's where I got started in mixing. Good people and good advice there.
     

    Zazie

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    My poor mother. Last night she noticed she didn't have any hot water. She was too tired to investigate then but this morning discovered her furnace wasn't working at all. My sister braved the cellar to see if she could identify the problem, and it turned out the hoses connected to the sump pump had sprung leaks and water was spraying directly on the furnace's motor. The repair guys have already come and gone, and it seems as though the furnace will be okay, but it was stress and worry that my old mum doesn't need. Or my tired sister, for that matter.

    I think all of life's problems should be suspended till this pandemic business is over and done with. That can be arranged, right?
     

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    @Bronze When I used up my bottle of cheesecake awhile back I mixed a plain raspberry cheesecake using INW and WF raspberry. I ended up really liking the mix and I’d like to try it with FA and FW Raspberry. Can you suggest percentages?
     

    Blitzdonlife

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    Good Morning!

    I have a question. When a recipe calls for sweetener, what do all of you use? I know marshmallow is a sweetener but anything else is just escaping me at the moment.
    I haven't used sweetener in a long, long time. If a recipe calls for it, I just leave it out. Doesn't seem to hurt anything, flavors are sweet enough by themselves to me, sometimes too sweet. VG imparts rnough sweetness to my mixes, I mix 70VG most of the time.
     

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    When you guys and gals are nearing the end of a tank, and want to clean out, rewick, and change flavors.. do you vape it until the bitter end, or just dump it? I usually vape to the bitter end(I hate wasting any juice), so I don't have to completely disassemble my RTA if I don't have to. If the wick is still saturated, it seems to want to make it's way down the air hole when I remove it.. but sometimes I'll remove the wick with the RTA upside down, so no juice goes down the hole.
     

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    When you guys and gals are nearing the end of a tank, and want to clean out, rewick, and change flavors.. do you vape it until the bitter end, or just dump it? I usually do, so I don't have to completely disassemble my RTA if I don't have to. If the wick is still saturated, it seems to want to make it's way down the air hole when I remove it.. but sometimes I'll remove the wick with the RTA upside down, so no juice goes down the hole.
    Whatever works best for you is good.
     

    PJReid

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    My poor mother. Last night she noticed she didn't have any hot water. She was too tired to investigate then but this morning discovered her furnace wasn't working at all. My sister braved the cellar to see if she could identify the problem, and it turned out the hoses connected to the sump pump had sprung leaks and water was spraying directly on the furnace's motor. The repair guys have already come and gone, and it seems as though the furnace will be okay, but it was stress and worry that my old mum doesn't need. Or my tired sister, for that matter.

    I think all of life's problems should be suspended till this pandemic business is over and done with. That can be arranged, right?

    Not nearly as bad as your poor mother's hot water and furnace problem but we had a head lice outbreak here. Brit and I were up until 3am Sunday morning treating the kids' heads. I changed their sheets and vacuumed before we would let them go back to bed. She ran out Sunday morning, after a few hours of sleep, and got the professional lice treatment, so we did everyone's head again. I changed the sheets and vacuumed again. You should see the piles of pillows, sheets, comforters, etc. still piled up in the hallway to wash. :w00t:

    I have to get that finished up because the realtor is coming on Monday to take pictures of the house. I am SO tired!!! On a positive note, neither Brit or I had any signs of the lice. We did the treatment anyway.
     

    NolaMel

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    Not nearly as bad as your poor mother's hot water and furnace problem but we had a head lice outbreak here. Brit and I were up until 3am Sunday morning treating the kids' heads. I changed their sheets and vacuumed before we would let them go back to bed. She ran out Sunday morning, after a few hours of sleep, and got the professional lice treatment, so we did everyone's head again. I changed the sheets and vacuumed again. You should see the piles of pillows, sheets, comforters, etc. still piled up in the hallway to wash. :w00t:

    I have to get that finished up because the realtor is coming on Monday to take pictures of the house. I am SO tired!!! On a positive note, neither Brit or I had any signs of the lice. We did the treatment anyway.
    Do y’all wear hairspray? That or rosemary repels them (ask a teacher)
     

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    When you guys and gals are nearing the end of a tank, and want to clean out, rewick, and change flavors.. do you vape it until the bitter end, or just dump it? I usually vape to the bitter end(I hate wasting any juice), so I don't have to completely disassemble my RTA if I don't have to. If the wick is still saturated, it seems to want to make it's way down the air hole when I remove it.. but sometimes I'll remove the wick with the RTA upside down, so no juice goes down the hole.
    I vape until the bitter end.
     

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    I'm guessing that this is the thread that you were talking about.

    The Flavor Apprentice Flavoring Thread

    It's where I got started in mixing. Good people and good advice there.
    Lots of old timers on that thread. I wonder what happened to them? I see some resting in peace. Like Bivie. He was a friend of mine and a huge contributor to the HHV thread. So sad.
     

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    Waiting for regular ol packages is just as painful as waiting for ecig paraphernalia and supplies. Damn you UPS for getting my hope up with an estimated delivery of today and then pulling the rug out and saying tomorrow instead. Usually they're spot on every time in my experience.
    I noticed my mail lady ran at 6:30 pm last night! Crazy hours.
     

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