i JUST SPENT ANOTHER $30 ON JUICE. TWICE. TODAY. At MINIMUM.
I also had caps lock on. fingers too tired to re-type. Sorry for shouting.
Oh, I forgot to mention an item I left out of my account of my ongoing shopping spree, which began in a haze this past week when I killed my Coolfire IV T100 after 6 days' use and was left w/ nothing to vape but 2 Joyetech EGO AIOs, a number of South Beach Smoke cig-a-likes I actually once kind-a-liked, & a Smoant 8 pod; all of which, thanks to my trying my real tank 7 months after staring at it in fear, I can never be content with again. I didn't realize I could never taste my juice. The financial bliss of ignorance; shattered. And because the FDA's Doomsday clock is the best-ever excuse for shopping addiction. (I was surely in a run of fugue states when I bought an Aegis Mini--for less weight for my poor hands to heft plus WATERPROOF so not only I but nobody can ever kill it the way I just did my Coolfire (ok, ok, I tried to get juice off it with a wet paper towel--I was vaguely thinking that water & electronics don't mix, but did it anyway; possibly that urge one gets to stand to close to abysses; possibly because we've all knowingly done something moronic, or at least I do), & military-grade shockproof, because one or more of my mods hits the floor at least daily, because neuropathy in my hands; Falcon King tank for flavor, which I am realizing is huge with me now I can sorta taste my juice; Geekvape Nova Kit w/ Cerberus tank because it was ridiculously cheap at eightvape, & I wanted something I was sure the Falcon would work on, plus the Cerberus tank to put on the Aegis Mini (I read somewhere they pair well); another vape pen today, the Freemax Twister, not because I'm going back to the farm team, but because I'm finding, to my despair, that I can't heft the big mods for long without pain, because neuropathy, & one spec never listed is weight, but at least this pen gets to 80W & comes with the Fireluke 2 tank, which means at least I'll get another good tank out of it; and, hey, it was cheap on eightvape (I'm realizing that I can't keep enabling myself with that phrase, as eightvape has such silly-low prices, I suspect their merch falls off the back of trucks in Jersey); & it's got the predecessor to the Freemax Mesh Pro tank in the box. And juice juice juice.)
Anyway, the point of my long-winded little account is that I DID also learn that for me personally, it is a bad idea to go to the B&M vape shop. Because I ask the clerk a lot of questions and then feel guilted into buying something from her that I didn't research. (OK, I was also desperate, because eightvape's order processing takes forever, & I was totally mod-less.)
So I let myself be sold a Wismec Active. Which I can only recommend if your mod MUST double as a Bluetooth audio player. (I can see that as heaven if it were a vape for, uh, plant-based medicine, but 'tis not.) Anyway, the battery in this thing drains so fast, I can practically see the level dropping between puffs. Thanks to the battery-life indicator on the display, which is nice if one is a masochist, and as a warning that once again the thing must be paired with a USB port. Which, given the frequency with which one must access the charging port, makes it more of a bug than a feature that the thing is water-resistant, i.e., everything including the charge port is covered with silicon or rubber or water seals that have to be pried off. And sturdy. (Hence the "Active," I guess.)
I kind of *want* to kill this one, but it's much too durable & water-resistant to make that feel like an accident. It's probably going to follow me to my grave, all the while reproachfully saying (it is after all a Bluetooth speaker), "Now, why, again, did you just pony up $40 for something that holds a charge shorter than the rubber-band-powered bathtub 'motorboats' you used to make out of Popsicle sticks? Because you were too wimpy to not buy anything from the severe-looking Japanese clerk* after she certified the death of the mod you just admitted to wiping down with a wet paper towel, and was rewarded by your asking how one *does* clean vape juice off a mod.** Right? RIGHT?" Uh, right to all the above. I can only hope it doesn't spontaneously start talking. Because it can. That too could be a bug not a feature.
(Actually, in writing the above account, I only just now realized why she sold it in particular to me. The store has a limited selection, and that was probably their only waterproof mod. She was so underwhelmed by the display I put on of my intellectual/mechanical prowess, she figured the only way a mod would survive any cleaning efforts on my part was if it were waterproof. So actually that was kind of a nice encounter with altruism. She could have made a lot more off commissions if I kept having to buy new mods after slaughtering each with wet paper towels. That actually makes me feel better. OK, so this post did me some good if nobody else.)
* I have absolutely nothing against Japanese women except that they remind me of my Korean mother, who is terrifying.
** She suggested Clorox wet wipes, like for cleaning one's sink. I am dubious about all the chemicals in those. If anyone has a better idea for cleaning off juice that has soaked the outside of a mod--paper towels with isopropyl alcohol?--and/or cleaning a tank and all its parts (except the coils), like the inside, without poisoning myself, please let me know. Lots of contradictory info on the Internet. (I can't use Everclear/cheap vodka, which sound like the most fun, because ... beverage alcohol sounds too fun.)
