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It's about time something was done about our roads. I did hear rumours that the EU (bleh) gave the Council a grant and 5 years to do all the roads. How true that is I don't know, but there have been some mighty improvements, as most roads just got a top dressing and that was it.

I was born on the Island at Bonchurch, and suitably for me, it was called the Unique Nursing Home, way back in Dec 1945.............yep, a celebration end of war baby. 

I joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant aged 15.5 years, and did 18 months training at RAF Cosford at Wolverhampton...........waaaaay up north !!
So I was away from the Island for some 25 years in England (or North Island as we call it) and a couple of overseas postings.
Whilst in Cyprus my parents sodded off to Australia...for good, which made me homeless, so when I finished in Cyprus I stayed with my sister and family in Alton Hants.
Then they pushed off to Australia, so I got married, and got an MoD married quarters....

Came back to live on the Island in 1989 with family. 

Geez, how have I got into my family history ?!!......sorry about that.

Anyway, book your holiday for next year, and even more roads should be smoothed over for our driving pleasure...

A bit difficult to vote for me really, as I use around 20W or so on my .5ohm tanks - iSub and Atlantis V1 and V2's.
Or, 8-9W with the iClear 30 and 30S tanks.

It really sort of depends on what mod I fancy using.

So my usage is low to medium.

Just to poke my nose in but No. 2 son and wife (who is S. Korean American) emigrated to Irvine Ca. about 3 years ago, and he loves it, and got a job after all the faffing about getting work visa and stuff, but job is now permanent (but keeping eye out for another one) after the 6 month work ban ended, with a travel Firm that advises on holidays in Europe and USA etc.
They live in her fathers house, and bought a Nissan Leaf -electrickery car - for local and work runs, but swaps the Nissan for her Dad's large saloon for long trips, and boy have they made some, Hawaii (her Mother lives there) Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, and goodness knows where else when they can.

I can't add to any vaping tips because neither of them smoke, so I had better shut up and leave now...

Well my Doc. says I have Type 2, not that I notice it, but have a blood sugar meter, and found that the plastic tubs that the testing strips come in, when empty make very good 'stands' to put my tanks in when changing a coil, or for some other reason where I unscrew the base and need to put the tank with juice in it somewhere.

Works for me. 

Not really on topic, but just a quiet sulky whine....just checked Gearbest and see that the MPV3 Pro 60W selling for £29.06, whereas I bought mine from Myepack June 8th 2015 (wanted it quick time) for £47.24...*sigh.

I got fed up of waiting for my Win10 download to actually arrive. I kept checking the little 'window' icon in the system tray, but it just told me to check later.
I found that I could download it from MS using the 'media creation tool' which offers either 32bit/64bit.

I have Win8.1 installed on two separate HDD's, one for daily use, and the other as a 'master copy' which I could clone over (WD True Image - free version) if the daily OS went rotten. To clone over only takes about 30-40 minutes to complete which saves me about 2-3 days in a fresh install, all the MS updates, installing software and games etc.

So using the 'mct' I downloaded and installed the 64bit version on to the HDD that is in daily use, which only took about 55 minutes or so, then a few more minutes for some extra updates, and it all went smoothly for me.
Then I knocked it into shape by disabling a lot of apps, uninstalled ones I didn't want, and disabled that Cortana, and OneDrive, and the new version of IE, which I don't like at all.

I still use 'notepad' for little notes I like to keep on the desktop, as I don't like that 'OneNote' thingy, it seems far too flashy and complicated for my addled brain.
Once done and now looking just like Win8.1 but with a few extra icons in the task bar, I rather like it to use, as it appears to be a little faster to boot up/shut down than Win 8.1.

But for my back up, I have cloned Win10 onto another HDD for safe keeping, so now it is available to boot up on two HDD's, but Win 8.1 now is only on one HDD, so I must get another drive to clone it on to so that I am covered should things go wrong.

I also run Vista 64, which is stable (I know the whole world hates it) and rarely gives me a problem, and that is also cloned onto another spare HDD.

I hate doing fresh installs, as it takes so much time to do, whereas cloning makes life easier.
I just boot up the drives and update them about once a month to keep them fresh, should the need arise.
The I just disconnect the 'master' copies (paranoia of getting infected drives  ) until connecting them for the next updates, not that I have had a virus since my Windows 98/SE days, downloading free screen savers and such.

I use Vista for some things like copying over photo's or videos off my Nexus 7 2012 and 2013 tablets, as I cannot get Win8.1 or Win10 to recognise them.
This has been a problem for many people I believe, but good 'ole Vista accepted some software to recognise both versions of the tablet, years ago.

My machine dates back to 2009 when I built it, and still going strong, which means that I can play World of Tanks on line with some very nice people from the UK, Germany, Greece, Sweden, and Denmark so far.
But as I am coming quickly to 70 years (December) my poor reflexes are not as good as they used to be, but I manage.

So sorry, have I rambled on far too long ? Thought so, but I like Win10.

Forgot to mention mine are all 18650's.

I bought a battery power pack for the wifes' laptop, but found it was the wrong type, so had to spend more money getting the correct one....*sigh.
But thinking that I now had a source of a lot of spare rechargeables I took it all apart to find that they were not suitable at all - maybe for powering an electric clock or something.
A bit miffed I was....