Note: Some of this blogrant will have been rendered obsolete by the discovery of Colory Cartomizer Hats, explained HERE.
I've left it in for people who can't see, or can't see colors, and for people who need to fill cartomizers while they wait for their colory hats to arrive.
Once you've cobbled together some sort of sketchy conglomeration of items like an pair of old sugar tongs and leftover hush puppy, you're ready to fill cartomizers!
Line up your cartomizers and use your nerddriver, hair pin or fish fork to take their hats off.
Put the hats somewhere and tell somebody, or write down where, unless, of course, that's the kind of thing you'd have no trouble remembering, and if so, how nice for you. Hmmmph.
Whatever labeling system you've chosen, pick up a cartomizer and label it with the kind of juice you'll be putting in.
You may also want to put the nicotine number on it, or you may not need to, for instance, if you only have that juice in 18. If you do need to put the numbers, you can use a different color sticky label, or pen to make those easier to see, so when you're looking for something with 24 when you wake up, or if you're coughing a lot and want to rest with 0, it will be easy to find what you need.
If you plan to fix up several different flavors, resist the temptation to label them all at once.
That's because it's so easy to lose focus, or our pills can kick in, and before you know it, you'll get them mixed up, and not realize it until three days from now when you get frustrated when you think your taste buds have really jumped off the deep end today, and you keep feeling like you really really need a cigarette even though you've been puffing on your 36 nicotine CitrusWakeyWakeyFunFun for hours, or wonder why your 0 nicotine cappuccinno tastes so fruity today, and why you have such an awful headache and feel so dizzy, even though you've been puffing nothing but that since this morning, when you first noticed you had such an awful headache and felt dizzy, nor will you ... OK you get the picture. Label one at a time.
Now take out ONLY the juice you're going to put in that cartomizer. Again, don't line them all up thinking you're being efficient. That boat sailed before the discovery of the microwave oven.
Look at the label on the bottle, using all the magnification devices at your command, and do the same with your newly-labeled cartomizer. Take a minute to really think about what each one says. Say it out loud. Even type it, or write it if you need to.
Because the available real estate on the cartomizer is so small, and juice names can be very long, the cartomizer probably isn't going to contain the exact same text string that is on the bottle, so take another minute, say, write, and reflect on what the writing on the cartomizer will mean to you, in a day or so, at a time when your pills have totally kicked in, and if asked to name the current resident of Buckingham Palace you would answer without hesitation "His Majesty King Edward VIII" or "Patrice Lumumba!"
Example: The juice bottle says CountChocumentheToastBerrySupreme. The flavor of the juice is perceived by you to be chocolate mint with a touch of raspberry.
Obviously, you can't write all that on the cartomizer, and even if you could, you certainly wouldn't be able to read it without a jeweler's loupe, and those are real pains to use, so put something like ChocRasMint, or ChMintRa, or CCTBS, depending on how your mind works, even when it's on break.
As a failsafe, make a text file, and type the whole name on the bottle, and out by the side, type exactly what you did end up putting on the cartomizer. Save the text file.
This way, even if you forget, you'll have a reference to check so that when your body says it wants chocolate mint with a touch of raspberry, you'll be able to make sure it gets that and not some apple, bacon and cinnabon concoction that only got included in cartomizer practice because you didn't have very many flavors that fall into that gray area between love and hate.
Double, triple check, and make sure that the cartomizer label will provide you some kind of information that has a direct relationship to the juice in the bottle.
I've left it in for people who can't see, or can't see colors, and for people who need to fill cartomizers while they wait for their colory hats to arrive.
Once you've cobbled together some sort of sketchy conglomeration of items like an pair of old sugar tongs and leftover hush puppy, you're ready to fill cartomizers!
Line up your cartomizers and use your nerddriver, hair pin or fish fork to take their hats off.
Put the hats somewhere and tell somebody, or write down where, unless, of course, that's the kind of thing you'd have no trouble remembering, and if so, how nice for you. Hmmmph.
Whatever labeling system you've chosen, pick up a cartomizer and label it with the kind of juice you'll be putting in.
You may also want to put the nicotine number on it, or you may not need to, for instance, if you only have that juice in 18. If you do need to put the numbers, you can use a different color sticky label, or pen to make those easier to see, so when you're looking for something with 24 when you wake up, or if you're coughing a lot and want to rest with 0, it will be easy to find what you need.
If you plan to fix up several different flavors, resist the temptation to label them all at once.
That's because it's so easy to lose focus, or our pills can kick in, and before you know it, you'll get them mixed up, and not realize it until three days from now when you get frustrated when you think your taste buds have really jumped off the deep end today, and you keep feeling like you really really need a cigarette even though you've been puffing on your 36 nicotine CitrusWakeyWakeyFunFun for hours, or wonder why your 0 nicotine cappuccinno tastes so fruity today, and why you have such an awful headache and feel so dizzy, even though you've been puffing nothing but that since this morning, when you first noticed you had such an awful headache and felt dizzy, nor will you ... OK you get the picture. Label one at a time.
Now take out ONLY the juice you're going to put in that cartomizer. Again, don't line them all up thinking you're being efficient. That boat sailed before the discovery of the microwave oven.
Look at the label on the bottle, using all the magnification devices at your command, and do the same with your newly-labeled cartomizer. Take a minute to really think about what each one says. Say it out loud. Even type it, or write it if you need to.
Because the available real estate on the cartomizer is so small, and juice names can be very long, the cartomizer probably isn't going to contain the exact same text string that is on the bottle, so take another minute, say, write, and reflect on what the writing on the cartomizer will mean to you, in a day or so, at a time when your pills have totally kicked in, and if asked to name the current resident of Buckingham Palace you would answer without hesitation "His Majesty King Edward VIII" or "Patrice Lumumba!"
Example: The juice bottle says CountChocumentheToastBerrySupreme. The flavor of the juice is perceived by you to be chocolate mint with a touch of raspberry.
Obviously, you can't write all that on the cartomizer, and even if you could, you certainly wouldn't be able to read it without a jeweler's loupe, and those are real pains to use, so put something like ChocRasMint, or ChMintRa, or CCTBS, depending on how your mind works, even when it's on break.
As a failsafe, make a text file, and type the whole name on the bottle, and out by the side, type exactly what you did end up putting on the cartomizer. Save the text file.
This way, even if you forget, you'll have a reference to check so that when your body says it wants chocolate mint with a touch of raspberry, you'll be able to make sure it gets that and not some apple, bacon and cinnabon concoction that only got included in cartomizer practice because you didn't have very many flavors that fall into that gray area between love and hate.
Double, triple check, and make sure that the cartomizer label will provide you some kind of information that has a direct relationship to the juice in the bottle.
