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Afternoon fugee's. :D

The fugee world has been very quiet for a while. Never would of believed this group would run out of things to say :giggle:


Would like a moment of silence for one of my Ijoy Solo mods that didnt survive its last fall :( It was a good and faithful 26650 mod.......

And my original Smok M80 is on its way out too. Think the battery is dying in it. I got maybe 20 months of usage out of it and have an older one in the spare parts junk box I can always steal the battery out of it if I really want to :teehee: If the ass hats with the disability insurance company ever gets off their ass and approves my claim then I want to order a few 26650 spares and some new batteries.
 
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I was a bad wheedle boy today. I bought a pack of cigarettes and now they are all gone. Dextrose has that effect on me. Can not let it be for a second.

Spoke with mom in the past week or so. I had avoided talking to her as she posted one of those things of "post this or never talk to me again", I didn't post it. She explained that it was okay. So our talk drifted to my grandma. Mom told me they had trouble with her. "Benny's mad. He pulled a Pap on me, "Mother, you'll eat better.'," grandma told mom I had said. Well she is eating better and it's because she heard me tell her that.

Sometimes "old timers" needs used for the better. :) Well need to scoot on.
 

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Narda, narda, narda, narda! Keep them cloudza brah rolling. Hitch 'em up, move 'em out! Narda, narda, narda! Kanthal coil! Narda, narda!

:zombie::cloud::tunez: need :coffee2::coffee2::coffee::coffee::coffee: *slids Lucy a :coffee::coffee:*

Better watch out for me, I'm :bingo:ing around. Got some good news yesterday. :)

We got bumped to the list for the H.U.D housing. We need to attend a meeting wherein they give you "common sense" :giggle: "Here's how to be a good renter ..." We've already completed a course and passed what's needed for the USDA rural development home buying loan. Needed a score 80%+ I think we got 83-88%, it was stuff we knew but didn't know we actually knew it. That was an eight hour course we took in one swoop. We got told weought to have broken it up over 10 days or so. We laughed. So we're closer toward renting an apartment, then onward to save for down payment. No carts before the horses though, still kind of waiting on the other shoe.
 

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Narda, narda, narda, narda! Keep them cloudza brah rolling. Hitch 'em up, move 'em out! Narda, narda, narda! Kanthal coil! Narda, narda!

:zombie::cloud::tunez: need :coffee2::coffee2::coffee::coffee::coffee: *slids Lucy a :coffee::coffee:*

Better watch out for me, I'm :bingo:ing around. Got some good news yesterday. :)

We got bumped to the list for the H.U.D housing. We need to attend a meeting wherein they give you "common sense" :giggle: "Here's how to be a good renter ..." We've already completed a course and passed what's needed for the USDA rural development home buying loan. Needed a score 80%+ I think we got 83-88%, it was stuff we knew but didn't know we actually knew it. That was an eight hour course we took in one swoop. We got told weought to have broken it up over 10 days or so. We laughed. So we're closer toward renting an apartment, then onward to save for down payment. No carts before the horses though, still kind of waiting on the other shoe.



Here is hoping good fortune for you Morely. :D With luck you will get a place where all the fur babies can become well spoiled couch potatoes :giggle:
 

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Narda, narda, narda, narda! Keep them cloudza brah rolling. Hitch 'em up, move 'em out! Narda, narda, narda! Kanthal coil! Narda, narda!

:zombie::cloud::tunez: need :coffee2::coffee2::coffee::coffee::coffee: *slids Lucy a :coffee::coffee:*

Better watch out for me, I'm :bingo:ing around. Got some good news yesterday. :)

We got bumped to the list for the H.U.D housing. We need to attend a meeting wherein they give you "common sense" :giggle: "Here's how to be a good renter ..." We've already completed a course and passed what's needed for the USDA rural development home buying loan. Needed a score 80%+ I think we got 83-88%, it was stuff we knew but didn't know we actually knew it. That was an eight hour course we took in one swoop. We got told weought to have broken it up over 10 days or so. We laughed. So we're closer toward renting an apartment, then onward to save for down payment. No carts before the horses though, still kind of waiting on the other shoe.

:stars2:

And everyone please, GFY
 

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Same to ya, Lucy dear, and all the rest of you fuggers too. :hug: How's the great white north this morning?

Andria

Wet and dreary, lol

How's the sunny south???
 

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Wet and dreary, lol

How's the sunny south???

Actually sunny and really nice, now that the Irma bitch has gone -- my husband will be cleaning up the yard all weekend, from the "salad shooter run amok" appearance that Irma left behind. :) We're now getting into the most pleasant time of year, in ATL -- nice warm (even hot) days, cooler nights, and unlike spring, none of that damn pollen coating everything. :) It'll be pretty nice for the next 3 months or so -- couple yrs ago, there were people out doing their xmas shopping in mid-Dec, in SHORTS. :facepalm: It doesn't generally get too cold till after the first of the year.

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Afternoon fugee's and GFY :D

Its frickin hot outside. 87 they say. Was enjoying the last few weeks of upper 70's low 80's and it just had to get hot again. :(
 

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Afternoon fugee's and GFY :D

Its frickin hot outside. 87 they say. Was enjoying the last few weeks of upper 70's low 80's and it just had to get hot again. :(

How's y'all's humidity? It's about 83 here, and the humidity only 49%, which AFAIC, is just about freakin PERFECT -- warm, almost hot, very low humidity! YES! That's also another reason I prefer fall to spring, besides the lack of pollen -- in the spring the humidity can get pretty bad, though not as bad as July-August.

We do have a lot of goldenrod here, blooming in late summer/early fall, but mercifully, I'm not allergic to it.

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How's y'all's humidity? It's about 83 here, and the humidity only 49%, which AFAIC, is just about freakin PERFECT -- warm, almost hot, very low humidity! YES! That's also another reason I prefer fall to spring, besides the lack of pollen -- in the spring the humidity can get pretty bad, though not as bad as July-August.

We do have a lot of goldenrod here, blooming in late summer/early fall, but mercifully, I'm not allergic to it.

Andria


At the moment its %70. Getting cooler and feeling better at 82. Went out to burn my trash earlier today and damn, it was stifling but some showers moved thru and helped it a lot.
 

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Wind is kicking up here :eek:

55 degrees 100% humidity

Feels a little chilly
 

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Well that was a revolting development :eek:

Wind started tearing the tarp apart that was covering our latent garage sale crap stuff
 

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Bad wind! Bad Wind!

An ill wind indeed :tantrum:

God damn it - two things I had no intention of doing today: going outside or resuming a running argument with Mr Juicy to just letting go of the junk and selling the good shit to the consignment store

So now I'm doubly mad because this shit woulda been out of here two weeks ago if I'd had my way

Soooo - my formerly clean and uncluttered house now looks like this:

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And have lost my sense of humor :mad:

Anyone wanna buy that wheelchair of $10?

Maybe I should keep it. Mr Juicy might need it if he doesn't listen to me and just let this crap go away!!!
 

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An ill wind indeed :tantrum:
God damn it - two things I had no intention of doing today: going outside or resuming a running argument with Mr Juicy to just letting go of the junk and selling the good shit to the consignment store
So now I'm doubly mad because this shit woulda been out of here two weeks ago if I'd had my way

A is for the applesauce you eat that tastes so yummy. :)
B is for the bouncing rubber ball you can toss at a wall.
C is for the contraption which presses shirts.
D is for the driving that you do.
E is for the equinox that happens every year.
F is for the full belly you can get by eating half a plate of fruits and veggies.
G is for the gladness a husband can bring when you let him.
H is for the home you keep with love in mind.
I is for the inner self which gets nourished in silence.
J is the joy held ever close knowing we're all made of stars. :)
K is the soft kisses of rain dropping on your head and saying "hello".
L is is living, loving, learning, light that we all need to find within ourselves.
M and we share minutes upon minutes in pure togetherness despite all the evils trying to divide us.
N for the noise of little children playing and exploring the rivet.
O is the order in which you put your socks in their drawer.
P for the perfection of a human being ever so imperfect.
Q is the quiet time spent alone, contemplating all manner of riddles.
R the red in the even sky as the sun sets.
S bring shells from along the beaches walked endlessly.
T sees us traveling over moutains and hills.
U is the unity of humanity which is completing soon, thanks to the InterWebs.
V brings victory as truth sets us all free.
W the wild things teaching us it's alright being different.
X the means of seeing about our bones, broken or not, x-rays.
Y you and me, him and her, him and him, her and her, the butterfly people going from him to her or her to him.
Z a zoo filled with our little brothers and sisters.

All these I'm grateful to have in life. This is my ABC song/mantra, each time I need it it changes. I use it when I feel anxious, or need to sleep. I think of what I'm grateful to have and often it lets me become less frustrated, less anxious. It helps with anger too. You might want to try using funny stuff for each letter, in fact I dare you. :) You might get a kick out of trying it, or maybe not, but at least consider it. I'm asking nicely as a friend. :)

If you get through the alphabet once, start again, keep going until you can't keep going. :) By then you'll hopefully feel a little better.


This is not a Cognative Behavior Training exercise despite it maybe seeming to be. It is an exercise offered by a religious guru, not the mainstream Western religions though. He was asked how he stayed so blissfully at peace. His response was to list all he was grateful for each night before falling asleep, in alphabetical order.

Yes, I've gome through quite a number of CBT courses, getting so familiar with CBT I ought to soon have a masters or doctoral degree in it. *chuckles* I first met up with it in elementry to juniour high school. At the time such stuff was considered "negative" as in being thought of as brainwashing. Well, it is in one sense yet it also isn't. No one can control your mind but yourself, unless you allow otherwise. Always recall that, along with it isn't the incident but our response to it that matters. We're always able to make a choice how to respond.

Well I need to scoot, nature call. :)
 
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No one can control your mind but yourself, unless you allow otherwise. Always recall that, along with it isn't the incident but our response to it that matters. We're always able to make a choice how to respond.

Very, very few westerners ever realize this, even if it's explained to them. When you say something like "you make me so mad!", you've just handed control of your mind and emotions over to the person who is acting in a way you find intolerable. Very, very few westerners understand that they have ALLOWED this to happen, and if you explain it to them, they get mad all over again, because this kind of external-blaming is endemic in modern society -- it's always someone else's fault, always because of something outside oneself, never the "fault" of the internal control -- even though the fault is precisely because there IS no internal control. Everyone is a victim, these days, not willing to undertake responsibility for their own life and circumstances -- i.e., children.

I'm a believer in karma; a distinctly eastern school of thought, though even the christian bible makes mention of reaping what one sows -- but then the christians think they can get out of enjoying those consequences simply by saying "sorry!" and believing some other guy is bearing the cost of their error, the "get out of hell free card." I don't believe that at all, I take full responsibility for my own life, behavior, and circumstances -- so when some horrible shit happens to me, I ask "What did I do to deserve this?" Not sarcastically, as most mean those words -- I really want to know what I did, so I can avoid doing it again! I'm human, I make mistakes, and I daresay in previous lives, I made some real doozies, considering the karma I had to face in my family and early life... but I also try to learn from those mistakes, and try not to make them repeatedly.

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Dos Equis from the Philippines

Very classy!

I'll be getting that new 24mm Berserker tank in a couple weeks, and the only mods I have that it won't overhang are my CF4s... so I've been shopping bargains, trying to find something with a slighter fatter width that won't break the bank. Wouldn't mind a 2-batt mod, that would give me great battery life, at my tootle puffer wattage, but I'm concerned about the weight of it. My son's new Revenger isn't heavy at all, but 200w? Seriously? Drastic overkill, for me -- I'd like to keep it under 100w if at all possible. Really want one of those new Aegis mods, wouldn't have to be so damn careful to dry my hands thoroughly when I'm cooking or doing dishes and want a quick vape... but they're still a bit more costly than I'd prefer.

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I used to love alcohol, but became allergic to it... I break out in a drunk. :giggle:

I loved Dos Equis beer, but always had to drink it in its dark bottle.... if I see dark beer in a clear glass, my mind thinks "cola"... then it tastes like beer, and I'm like WTF???? :eek:

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Very classy!

I'll be getting that new 24mm Berserker tank in a couple weeks, and the only mods I have that it won't overhang are my CF4s... so I've been shopping bargains, trying to find something with a slighter fatter width that won't break the bank. Wouldn't mind a 2-batt mod, that would give me great battery life, at my tootle puffer wattage, but I'm concerned about the weight of it. My son's new Revenger isn't heavy at all, but 200w? Seriously? Drastic overkill, for me -- I'd like to keep it under 100w if at all possible. Really want one of those new Aegis mods, wouldn't have to be so damn careful to dry my hands thoroughly when I'm cooking or doing dishes and want a quick vape... but they're still a bit more costly than I'd prefer.

Andria

If you are willing to pay that much for a Aegis, you might look at the Asmodus line - they are very solid. Have almost bought one numerous times, just can't justify it for the amount of use it would get from me

https://cloudypeakvapes.com/collections/mods-and-devices/products/asmodus-minikin-2
 

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Nah, I'm really not willing to pay that much. I'll wait, and see if the price drops below $50 in a few months. I really prefer not to spend over $40 for a mod, though I went to about $45 for the CF4 18650s, so for the Aegis, being waterproof and shockproof, I could justify $50-ish... but really not more. The curse of tightwaddery. :giggle:

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Maaannn - simply must get off my ass but this is an almost epic extended-stay-in-bed morning featuring out of this world squonking, swilling excellent coffee and plenty of VU blather

Life is good :cloud:
 

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I take full responsibility for my own life, behavior, and circumstances -- so when some horrible shit happens to me, I ask "What did I do to deserve this?" Not sarcastically, as most mean those words -- I really want to know what I did, so I can avoid doing it again! I'm human, I make mistakes, and I daresay in previous lives, I made some real doozies, considering the karma I had to face in my family and early life... but I also try to learn from those mistakes, and try not to make them repeatedly.

Very much attempt the same as well. Although, I can also see where in life I did face some adversity which indeed was beyond my control. A 250+lb grown man beating the shit out of a 50 lb - five year old boy being one of those times. When old enough, I stayed away from him. I did so not because I couldn't take being beat, yet I couldn't take it and would have done regretable harm.

There are still things in my life a bit out of my control. I'm also learning the fine art of not giving a fuck, or rather selective caring. :) If I got no control over it, then I'm not responsible. it'll be what it'll be. But yes, I do try to keep a lot of control and stay in control. Had a pyschologist suggest I let my gaurd down, let my 'anger' out at times. I stared a hole through him, he revised his words adding, "or not." Me and anger don't mix and I'm quite aware of that. I've come a long way in controlling it, like any other emotion, a visitor only.

Anger as a visitor, even as a visitor is why I find relaxing difficult. I know I must mind myself. :)

Everyone makes mistakes, our imperfection perfects us. :) And bringing back to Western thought, you never step in the same stream twice. :)
 

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Eh, a little beer but needs to be the darker stout kind for me. I like whiskey, rum, scotch, moonshine if I'm into having a knock down drunk. No point doing it half way. :)

Pfft, been years since I did that though. Doubt I even drink as much as a pint of hard liquor in two years now, maybe half a beer. Not quite T-totaler but fairly close.
 

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Eh, a little beer but needs to be the darker stout kind for me. I like whiskey, rum, scotch, moonshine if I'm into having a knock down drunk. No point doing it half way. :)

Pfft, been years since I did that though. Doubt I even drink as much as a pint of hard liquor in two years now, maybe half a beer. Not quite T-totaler but fairly close.
Pretty much the same here I think I have drank maybe 1 liter of beer plus a bit of apple pie moonshine in the past few years.
 

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Very much attempt the same as well. Although, I can also see where in life I did face some adversity which indeed was beyond my control. A 250+lb grown man beating the shit out of a 50 lb - five year old boy being one of those times. When old enough, I stayed away from him. I did so not because I couldn't take being beat, yet I couldn't take it and would have done regretable harm.

There are still things in my life a bit out of my control. I'm also learning the fine art of not giving a fuck, or rather selective caring. :) If I got no control over it, then I'm not responsible. it'll be what it'll be. But yes, I do try to keep a lot of control and stay in control. Had a pyschologist suggest I let my gaurd down, let my 'anger' out at times. I stared a hole through him, he revised his words adding, "or not." Me and anger don't mix and I'm quite aware of that. I've come a long way in controlling it, like any other emotion, a visitor only.

Anger as a visitor, even as a visitor is why I find relaxing difficult. I know I must mind myself. :)

Everyone makes mistakes, our imperfection perfects us. :) And bringing back to Western thought, you never step in the same stream twice. :)

Yeah those things which seem to just come along as part of life, that's karma... for mistakes made in past lives, and/or things one needs to learn. I can't say I had a *terrible* childhood; I had a wonderful, loving, extended family; grandparents that would literally give you the shirt off their backs if they thought you needed it; and even my parents, hurtful as they were, I don't think did any of it maliciously -- they were simply ignorant and misguided, and I got to enjoy that ignorance and misguidedness until I was old enough to escape from it.

Anger can useful; it prompted me to get the hell away! And later in life, in my 40s, when I'd been sober 12 yrs and was finally strong enough to deal with it, the rage I'd suppressed for so long with depression can storming thru and demanded to be heard and reckoned with. There was some rapprochement, perhaps a little understanding of certain ways they had failed me, but they being who they were, and me being who I am, I don't think it's possible to completely forgive, or ever forget... but at least I've learned that parenthood is one of the hardest things one ever undertakes, so itr's only natural that mistakes are made.

But it's very obvious to me that I made some serious mistakes in past lives, and had a great deal to learn. I hope this life has paid some of that karma, and that I have finally learned a few hard lessons -- recovery from my various addictions has been hard at times, but so completely worth it. I really hope that's a condition I won't need to revisit, in future. Cigarettes were the last one.... ;)

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This is a good video ...

Yes it is a good one. :) Me & wife are working on the moving out bit. Her sister in our opinion is a total drama queen and then some. It'll be a lot better for us to be on our own. We did it for about ten years, granted her grandfather did help out just a wee smidge. He took it out of my hide what he wasn't otherwise repaid, ergo we didn't feel and he never said we were burdensome or freeloading. He also didn't help at times, thought it better we figure something out, sometimes not helping like that is the greatest help. :)

Hm, cut off the news. *drags heels* Fine, reckon no more Drudge report either. I'll switch to FetchNews & GoodGopher. These will keep me abrreast of more positive developments instead of all the hogwash that's negative. Been enjoying KickAssFacts and various differing counter-culture sites. Got some howto sites marked as well.

A little :cloud: then out to piddle.
 

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:wave:

Slept really late today, to make up for leg cramps, the weekend mornings, so not too much to say. Yet. :D

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In a million years, I would never expect something as mealy-mouthed as "nice" from The Cromwell. :D Nice is one of those words like "Fine" or "Average"... what do they call 'em... oh yeah, "wibble words". :D

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You forget that I am married?
 

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You forget that I am married?

So? My husband's been married to me for 30 yrs now.... I suspect if anyone called him "nice," after standing there puzzled for a minute or two, he'd slap 'em. :D

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