How are you doing with the 77 fresh mint? I don’t know that I could make the switch from general with just those. I think I could with the Jakobsson mint and just use the nic pouches as filler in between.
I can't believe it's been a month since the horrid news hit about General Mint. Somebody wants us to pay US prices. It almost sounds like buying pharma pills from Canada. Anyway.
I like the 77 but, as you say, they are not snus. I don't think nic pouches will ever work for those that need the other alkaloids available in tobacco. They are tasty. I'll be trying out the Jake snus if I outlive my current supply. Don't want to get ahead of myself. You don't know when you're foing to get that last smoke, if you get my drift. Wait! Writing this just hit me. In November, I'll turn 77. Maybe I should order some just so I have it for my birthday. lol My dad passed a little after he turned that age.
I've got to open up the kitchen drain again after it gets a little later this morning. I've got water that won't drain. It seems to be a once every six months project. Not that I'm going to do it, but running a new lateral might end that issue. I have to think that nearly 50 years of stuff flowing down that pipe just doesn't get cleaned up well with a snake. My old legs don't like getting up and down from the floor anymore. To think I was athletic in my life.
I also learned about the Ford and GMC lugnut curse this past week. They couldn't get them off at the dealership and it's a known problem, I know now, that isn't covered by warranty. Big surprise. They quoted over $250 for the set and that was just for the parts. I told them I'd hold off.
I immedialy hit the internet. $150 plus shipping for originals that I wouldn't buy anyway because the same issue would happen again with their two part lugnuts. I found them on Amazon for $27 that thousands have reviewed and raved about, a socket set for $51 with a 19.5mm socket that should have fit over the expanded 19mm Ford lugs and a 20mm socket for $9 for the three lugs they really mangled trying to get them off. Less than 45 minutes later, I had eliminated the problem.
Finally, what do you think of that Stolen Valor VP candidate that Harris is selling us? As a veteran, his act doesn't sit well with me at all. My uncle was a sgt major in the Air Force during WWII, Korea and Nam. I was in the Nam era and was next in line to be deployed when the Army decided they were wasting too much money sending meteorologists they trained for half a year to replace those with 2 weeks training, only to need to replace them. Sending guys out two miles in front of the artillary to send up giant ballons wasn't a real safe occupation.
Anyway, he always said, when asked, that he never saw any action and never even stationed in a war zone (how are you not in a war zone in WWII?) and I always quote myself as a Viet Nam era vet whose closest involvement was in Aberdeen, Md. Some of the stuff I did there I was sworn not to talk about but I wasn't "carrying a weapon of war in a war zone".
