I could start off bitching. I won’t. Little ashamed of myself for getting jacked up in the first. You really should treat demented old folks like dogs; do NOT bap them on the nose with a newspaper and it’s utterly futile to try to explain something after the fact. My bitching has to do with a nurse coming and going without noticing this, though, apparently (I was in the shower) she did notice blood on my dad’s nose and asked if he hurt himself. You can’t ask the demented or dogs a direct question and expect an answer. He had gotten into the thawing Omaha steaks and had eaten half a raw steak. The nurse didn’t seem to notice the raw meat.
I am not bitching. The upside being that didn’t set the house afire throwing a steak on a burner or something.
So, given my lack of bitching, lack of adventure and lack of creativity (hence no flash) and surplus of time (at least for now; I have minutes that feel like hours and, like in the raw meat episode, seconds that seem to use up a day’s worth of adrenaline) I’m going to go with the safe and dull exploration into my obsessive vaping thingy.
So I found a good review blog. It reviewed solely American made ejuice and even before I read through to the end of the blog (I was more interested in the scroll down review menus) I agreed on the two main points;
1) You don’t really know what the fuck is actually in the Chinese made juice
2) You have no idea of the shipping conditions
I disagreed with one of his points which was the age of the shipped juice. You are supposed to age fresh stuff, they call it steeping. That’s where I think I’m going with this entry; the insiders vocabulary. I already covered the e-cig/PV thing. It’s not me, it’s the consumers and industry, I’m just using the vocabulary. If I had to make an honest guess it’s because e-cig has the word cig in it. The distinction, however, has to be more verbose and so it goes into the whole cig shaped cheap ass fad thing vs. exquisite high end personal vaper with variable voltage and variable wattage controls.
I guess I’ve avoided that whole bit, voltage, wattage and ohm impedance. It might be the only part interesting to some of y’all. I could tell you about the fancy Mods (it’s what the call a PV with vv/vw and Oled screens) I have, but, honestly, without a voltage meter, ohm meter I’m not sure those things actually do what they claim. I’m a compulsive hobbyist and, in general, I know a little bit about a lot of things. I’m loathe to make a statement about electric current without knowing for sure, but, it’s one of the things some people are very into in the vaping community and one reason why one battery costs fifteen bucks and another 150. It has nothing to do with the products ability to help you quit smoking.
Oh, yeah, vocabulary. Again most of this community is people who are using this to quit smoking. In that respect it seems to be a rousing success. Um, there are people who quit smoking three years ago and very much into vaping; in that respect they haven’t really quit at all.
The good review site I read struck me as a sort of common man’s tobacco review site. I mean it used similar sort of ways to describe flavor, which, honestly is not easy to do. I could pick on wine reviews as I find those really fucking pretentious but, to be fair, I don’t like wine, so that whole language they use --- I don’t taste or smell any of that shit, just stale vinegar. I think the guy might even have been a bit conscious of the idea that he was veering a bit towards the tobacco review type language and avoided it on purpose.
It does strike me, and I certainly see this in my self, that the appeal to vaping is counter-productive to quitting nicotine. Although you can get most of the juices with zero nicotine content. I mean you can when you order from an online American made shop as they are making it to order. Even the local head will dilute to order as well, though I think they get all their stuff pre-mixed, probably from china, and mark up. So when I ran across one review I went to buy the product.
The product is all herbal and distilled, explaining in great detail what amounts to a homeopathic process, and using only a vegetable glycerin base. Not only no nicotine but, and I forget which herbs, but herbs to promote lung health. I’ll likely mix it with some poison at first as did the reviewer but I’ll also try it on it’s on also as the reviewer did. Given this guy’s predilection for tobacco flavored juices it was a hell of a recommendation to even mention an herbal no nicotine juice. And no it doesn’t look like the reviewer is being paid and the herbal juice company doesn’t look like it would pay anyhow. The reviews of the products I’ve tried already I would agree with guy 99 percent. Oh, there aren’t bad reviews, it’s more of a blog and he’s not a reviewer, it’s more of a guide of his favorite American made juices.
It’s a multi-billion dollar industry. America is in some serious economic trouble. If you are going to vape buy American. If you do vape you’ll find American better and a bit less expensive too. I’m not sure if there are American companies that make a PV itself in a reasonable price range, the only one I know of at all is ridiculously overpriced. It’s supposed to be very high quality, but, still; I burn juice and make vapor and it keeps me from smoking cigarettes. I don’t need a BMW when a stripped down bug will work. I’m not trying to impress chicks with my PV. That I have a PV at all already impressed the only chick I’m interested in or rather the lack of a burning smoke did, does, will henceforth. But I do think I will buy the American juice exclusively and look forward to smoking homeopathic.
Yeah, boy, I started off spent and now I’m spentier.
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