Dear Gummy,
I believe I may be suffering from a new disease. However, it may only be a minor variation of MuM Fever, or possibly a new set of symptoms resulting from the cross-pollination of MuM and Procrastinitis, or maybe even a temporary cure for one or both of those, so I figured I'd better check in and get a proper diagnosis.
From the day I started vaping, I knew (or thought I knew) I had Stage 1 MuM. Everything I saw looked like a candidate for modding, or at least like a candidate to donate parts for modding. I should note that this is still the case - every time I look at nearly anything, I wonder about how it or parts of it could be incorporated into a mod.
Since then, I have built several simple box mods - one for me (3AA box), one for my wife (3AAA box), one for my brother (3AA box), another one for me to replace the first one I melted down by accident (4AA box this time), another (3AA) box to replace the one my brother melted down, and my favorite so far: the Vaprophone - a 510 on a gooseneck with a clamp hard-wired to a footswitch for hands-free vaping while playing with my band
Since I am a working musician, funds are *very* scarce to be able to feed the fever. Fortunately, I'm also quite the geek, and distracted myself from the need to mod by moving on to Stage 2 (though I still occasionally suffer from Stage 1 symptoms). I have spent countless hours reading here in the forums and elsewhere studying all manner of materials manipulation techniques, circuit theory and design, etc. etc. Given the financial situation, this quickly has run on to the borderline of Stage 3, as I regularly get asked about my vapes at shows, including if I will build one for the inquirer. While I haven't actually committed to it yet (due to Procrastinitis), it's only a matter of time.
Now, during my studies, I realized something. While I still suffer from Stage 1 and 2 symptoms, I often find that browsing through the Modder forums here will satiate my desires, to the point where I have successfully managed to avoid doing any sort of actual modding for almost 6 months. I have begun referring to this as Your-Mod-u-Must-Vicariouslyitus, or YMMV for short. I also considered calling it Mod-u-Must-Voyeurism's-All-I-Gotitus (or Mum Vag for short) but thought that was tacky, so YMMV it is.
What do you think, is this a new treatment methodology, or a new variant of the disease, or something else?
Hambone
PS - sorry for the long post, but I also suffer from Ramblonaria
( an email to Dr Gummy)Dear Doc Gummy Nurse Cratchet kicked me out of the office again...I modded another taser and then started on the pens...The good news most of your pens now vape and have raidy atties in them...the bad news most of the 510 connectors in the bowl are gone and the pens may have a day of ink in them...
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