amoret;14415168 said:Preparation (or lack thereof):
- Manage to not notice that you are running out of your main flavor
- Go to fill your clearo
- Realize that you are out of your main flavor
- Realize that you haven't made up a new batch of base
- Realize that you have not transferred that recipe into the calculator you are now using
- See that you have two versions of the base you use in the ingredient list, and pick one at random, without looking at the details
- It's a simple recipe, so enter it in a hurry, and don't think about whether it looks like it makes sense
- Decide that it's not worth it to clean off the table - it's just one bottle, right - so set up right next to your laptop
Production:
- Get out your new scale that you haven't used yet
- Get out the last of your old batch of base - it looks like about the right amount
- Start weighing out the base
- Completely ignore the fact that the amount doesn't look right
- Remove cat from chair arm
- Use up all of the base when you haven't gotten to the amount you were planning yet
- Decide to add VG - you were thinking of lowering your nic, right?
- Pour VG directly from large bottle into small bottle, over scale
- Clean up spilled VG
- Let the dog out
- Tare the scale, then remember to get out the flavoring
- Eyeball the amount of flavoring left in the open bottle and decide that it looks like plenty
- Turn the scale back on, tare it again (30 ml is about 3/4 of a 60 ml bottle, isn't it?)
- Start adding the flavoring
- Drop the flavoring bottle (not empty yet) into your lap
- Clean up lap, chair, etc. without noting how much flavoring you've added yet
- Turn scale back on
- Realize that you really do have way more than 30 ml in that bottle
- Look at ingredient list and realize that the specific gravity of your second nic base is way off, and you are using that entry
- Let the dog back in
- Figure out how much you really have in the bottle, using the correct entry for nic base
- Remove cat from chair arm
- Adjust the recipe for the actual amount
- Try to remember how much flavoring you had already added
- Start adding what you think you still need, empty the bottle
- Dig through all of your flavorings to find the new bottle that you did get, thank goodness
- Remove cat from chair arm
- Vow to get yet another scale - one without auto shutoff
- Try to remember how much flavoring you had already added - guesstimate and add
- Close bottle, shake, label, and clean up
- Finish filling clearo - it actually isn't too bad
In the future I will, really I will:
- Keep track of how much made up liquid I have on hand, no matter how distracting life is being
- Really look at the recipe to be sure it makes sense
- Not ignore any nagging little feeling that something's not right
- Obey all those silly rules about getting the pets out of the way, clearing a good workspace, getting all of the ingredients out before starting
It could have been worse:
- I do make my base up in advance, so I wasn't dealing with 100 mg nic, but in the future I won't let my supply of it get so low
- I only spilled VG and flavoring - my chair smells like Earl Grey Tea on steroids, but no people or animals were harmed
- The juice isn't bad - a little over flavored, but it's had less than 10 minutes steeping
- I was planning on trying a lower nicotine batch anyhow (really, I was)
- The scale, laptop and table have a nice shine to them - who knew VG is a good furniture polish
- I didn't lose my temper, my sanity (what there is of it) or my sense of humor
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