It actually started 2 days ago when a shipment arrived with a very leaky 30ml bottle. It was initially low by about 3ml but by the time I figured out it wasn't a loose cap it was 10ml low. Last night is when the big trouble started though.
My new carts are crap. How this is possible is beyond me, they're the same as the carts I ordered last time. Same packaging, same everything, they're standard 901 whistletips that I use for my 510. The first batch was amazing, perfect first fill, perfect wicking, perfect top-offs. This new batch (and I ordered 50 of them) so far is useless. They act "full" after 3-4 drops and as for topping them off... forget it. I get 2 or 3 decent drags and then it's dry. When I finally ripped the filler out and soaked it in juice the blasted stuff refused to wick!
This isn't the end of the world, I have other carts I can stuff with fluval. For some strange reason the fluval carts are doing the same thing, they won't wick for ****. I get a couple great hits then nothing, when I pull the fluval out it's totally soaked with juice, it's just not getting from the fluval to the bridge of the atomizer.
If it was just the new carts or just the fluval that was acting goofy I wouldn't be bothered, but BOTH doing the same thing at the same time? It's enough to make me paranoid.
The nightmare though is that my passthru button is acting up and we're leaving for the beach on Sunday... with all five kids and my parents. I wouldn't have even considered taking this trip if I was still stuck on analogs, a five hour drive in a van full of screaming children while I try to make sure I don't lose my 70 year old parents on the highway followed by a week in a non-smoking beach house? Be serious, I'd be front page news by the second day.
I do have five batteries for my 510 and a usb charger I can use in the van so it's probably not the end of the world but that passthru has been my lifeline for over 40 days and the idea of not having it already has me craving a freaking analog! If the passthru had died yesterday then at least I could have found someone to overnight a replacement for peace of mind (which I'm going to need in abundance next week, remember: five children and two parents in a beach house... good grief what was I drinking when I agreed to THAT?!)
It doesn't help that my batteries don't last for more than half an hour before they need to be recharged. Somehow I'm also going through about 10ml of juice a day, I don't know how, but the levels in the bottles don't lie. Based on the amount of juice I went through last month I planned accordingly and have enough juice to last through this month... at least I THOUGHT I did. Looking at things now I should have enough to last til the day after we get back from the beach... which means I'll fall short by at least a week.
None of this would be a crisis if it wasn't time for the parental visit, twice a year (August and Christmas) I go completely out of my mind. I may be almost 42 but every time they show up I'm a teenager again... wait... hold it, everything may be okay...
The mailman just dropped off my stuff from ecigsmokestore... there's chocolate, cheesecake, cinnamon roll, kalula and cream and irish cream in that package. Dawn you may have just saved my life and you definitely saved my sanity (well, such as it is). What was shaping up to be a really rotten vacation just got a lot better.
My new carts are crap. How this is possible is beyond me, they're the same as the carts I ordered last time. Same packaging, same everything, they're standard 901 whistletips that I use for my 510. The first batch was amazing, perfect first fill, perfect wicking, perfect top-offs. This new batch (and I ordered 50 of them) so far is useless. They act "full" after 3-4 drops and as for topping them off... forget it. I get 2 or 3 decent drags and then it's dry. When I finally ripped the filler out and soaked it in juice the blasted stuff refused to wick!
This isn't the end of the world, I have other carts I can stuff with fluval. For some strange reason the fluval carts are doing the same thing, they won't wick for ****. I get a couple great hits then nothing, when I pull the fluval out it's totally soaked with juice, it's just not getting from the fluval to the bridge of the atomizer.
If it was just the new carts or just the fluval that was acting goofy I wouldn't be bothered, but BOTH doing the same thing at the same time? It's enough to make me paranoid.
The nightmare though is that my passthru button is acting up and we're leaving for the beach on Sunday... with all five kids and my parents. I wouldn't have even considered taking this trip if I was still stuck on analogs, a five hour drive in a van full of screaming children while I try to make sure I don't lose my 70 year old parents on the highway followed by a week in a non-smoking beach house? Be serious, I'd be front page news by the second day.
I do have five batteries for my 510 and a usb charger I can use in the van so it's probably not the end of the world but that passthru has been my lifeline for over 40 days and the idea of not having it already has me craving a freaking analog! If the passthru had died yesterday then at least I could have found someone to overnight a replacement for peace of mind (which I'm going to need in abundance next week, remember: five children and two parents in a beach house... good grief what was I drinking when I agreed to THAT?!)
It doesn't help that my batteries don't last for more than half an hour before they need to be recharged. Somehow I'm also going through about 10ml of juice a day, I don't know how, but the levels in the bottles don't lie. Based on the amount of juice I went through last month I planned accordingly and have enough juice to last through this month... at least I THOUGHT I did. Looking at things now I should have enough to last til the day after we get back from the beach... which means I'll fall short by at least a week.
None of this would be a crisis if it wasn't time for the parental visit, twice a year (August and Christmas) I go completely out of my mind. I may be almost 42 but every time they show up I'm a teenager again... wait... hold it, everything may be okay...
The mailman just dropped off my stuff from ecigsmokestore... there's chocolate, cheesecake, cinnamon roll, kalula and cream and irish cream in that package. Dawn you may have just saved my life and you definitely saved my sanity (well, such as it is). What was shaping up to be a really rotten vacation just got a lot better.
( The Hangover)
