THE TYPICAL TIMING

Good God!

I finally received a parcel containing vape juices I was waiting for yesterday.

I managed to finally get out to a market that was not actually on, limping all the way to the first bus bloody stop to do it too!

When I finally got home I enjoyed my new juices and for once got a 100% success rate with more than one flavour juice in a single purchase.

I now have Loaded Glazed Donuts, by Ruthless, and thanks to Kav at the London Vape Co for directing me towards that one. It is the best donut juice I have had by some way.

I also ordered something else I had wondered about previously and wanted to try for some time now called Cloud Batter, by Cloud Vapory. Weird ... just looked at the bottle and cannot find the flavour name but it is the one with vanilla in it. It is also 95% VG, I am told nothing is ever completely 100%VG, and listed as 'competition grade'.

The Cloud Batter is very nice but it is a subtle flavour. I have been vaping it on my Velocity dripper, not good for tanks apparently, on my Snow Wolf 200W. Seems to have a sweet spot between around 35W and 60W. The doughnut juice I have in a Kangertech Top Tank Nano.

So there I am, back indoors and ended up wasting another day anyway when all of s sudden I got this sharp stinging pain in my throat and wondered what in the hell it was. I also noticed that the juice flavour was fading in and out.

About an hour later I realised what it was.

Typically after getting two very nice vape juices I have contracted flu, from a friend of mine who turned out to have a cold no doubt? What is annoying is this is the first time in about two years, maybe longer, I have had it. Had to be now?!

It is Sunday today, thee weather has been crap for getting out on my bike, taking photos, doing some filming and tomorrow is going to have sunshine for the first time in weeks. My first ever proper doughnut tasting vape juice. And I have the God damn Flu!

You could not plan things so badly if you tried!

I also forgot about that email I spotted last night from the PHSO.

I very simply cannot believe that they actually contacted me and requested I remove their emails from my blog? Something to hide, much?

I also do not think that they realise that there is actually several ... groups higher up the chain than they are and I have one I have to contact. I had to wait until the PHSO came to naught and then contact them as it would not be sensible to do so beforehand.

I have also been contacted by one other organisation regarding this but will not divulge this here just yet. Well not much to say right now but I will get in contact with some details about the contents of this blog, the fact that the PHSO requested I remove stuff, after taking to years and conveniently losing all the files I gave them.

It things do develop into actions then I will give out what information I can, in other words what is sensible to do so when the time comes.

Damn it! I hope this flu works through quickly and is not one that lingers for days or weeks?! I really, really do not need this right now.

Will end up being stuck indoors doing nothing more than waiting for two hospital appointment letters I am really not looking forward to!

On appointment is going to lead onto something that is going be involve an extremely uncomfortable and very embarrassing test.

That test could end up academic if they find something really bad from a scan I have to do which is not a problem to do. It is just the outcome that could be ... unpleasant.

Ooh and I just remembered. I was told yesterday that there had been some sort of trouble, riots or protests oing on in France that apparently has been totally ignored by the big British news networks.

Oh wow? Ignored by the British news networks? Yeah like that has never happened before?! Lol.

I need to go and look this up.

THE COUNTRY COOLING EFFECT

I do not know about 'global' but as of right now I am experiencing what must be the coldest June I can ever remember?

Funny that not that long ago they were stating it was the warmest April on record. Funny that as I remember an April just a couple years back where I was riding around in a vest and shorts on my bike! Yesterday I went out with a thin jumper, a waistcoat and a thin coat.

I have to apologise ... it is all my fault, if your currently in the east of the UK. Because I purchased not one but TWO cameras and of course as is always the way the weather has turned to crap for days and days on end!

It is just funny how it always goes like that with me and being the scientist I wonder if I am actually picking up on something and misreading it?

Perhaps in future if I suddenly get the urge to buy a camera ... I should instead buy a damn boat?!

One of the two cameras I purchased two weeks ago has only been to one of the intended areas of use just once and another one not at all.

The other one I have had around ... hmmm ... six days has not even been used once! Looking out of the window I doubt it will be used today and the weekends I would not normally be able to find the peace and quiet to use it either. There is some hope for early next week but even then I need to spot the right situation where I could actually acquire something usable. Not that easy, believe me. I have to keep doing circuits and circuits and circuits and keep alert and spot something.

So a day of good weather here and there is a bloody nightmare!

All I keep thinking is 'please do not let the whole summer be like this?!' and 'please let the weather improve soon!'

*SIGH* if things had turned out different then this would not really be a problem. I wwould be able to go where the weather was perfect and everything there would be totally new as far as my blogs and YouTube channel was concerned.

As of right now, or the time  of typing, I am trying to get over the fact that a tracked parcel is being delivered and the Royal Mails idea of tracking is to say its been sent and to state that I have signed for it. Oh my fecking God! How useful is that? Just in case I forgot I signed for it and my Fibrofog confuses me I can check on-line and see that I have?!

All I hear is that everything is purchased on-line these days and shops are disappearing but other than the odd mad and wasteful research of stupidly sending out robots and drones with your packages ... nothing ever changes.

Very rarely are things despatched when they say they will despatch them, delivery takes far longer than they state, even for the higher paid forms, and when they turn up and provided the parcel has not been used as a football by morons you open up the package and find out immediately or up to a year that you got screwed as the item is refurbished and faulty. A bit like this £150 Roccat Ryos MK Pro keyboard I am typing on I purchased from PC World?! It adds an extra keystroke now and then, sometimes even TWO, and misses some now and then.

My next keyboard will not be a Roccat and it will NOT be sourced from PC World as like my camera I do not want to collapse in a tube station trying to get to Tottenham Court Road to make sure I get a brand new one that works!

All I am waiting for is two bottles of vape juice for my e-cigarettes to arrive, one a particularly big bottle for a good price, 120ml for £35, and another one for what they call 'dripping'.

The larger bottle is one someone asked me to smell recently as I am always moaning that of the top doughnut ones I have tried none are really any good, despite the prices they want for them.

I Luv Donuts, Donut Juices, Wick Liquor Carnival and a few others have all been OK to nice but not really amazing doughnut, not donut, flavours.

So I liked the smell of Loaded's Glazed Donuts and thought I would order a bottle. Thought it was some cheeeap brand but turns out it is by Ruthless to my susprise.

As many seem to have put the free delivery limits up from £20 to £40 I ordered something else that sounds really nice called Cloud Batter. Otherwise I would have to pay almost £5.00 for postage so might as well pay an extra £10 and get a decent amount of juice of another variety to try?

Still deliberating what to vote for where Europe is concerned. Wondering whether to even bother?

I seriously doubt that whether we remain or leave it will change anything for the better?

I am, however, more interested in later on if it turns out being reported on that people were being paid in politics to back this way or that way for money or privileges? Or both?

If wee stay in Europe and David Cameron gets some eastern Europe envoy position after he quits being Prime Minister I will shout my head off!

If we leave and Boris gets a East Anglia envoy position after he fails becoming Prime Minister I will ... umm, well laugh my head off! Lol.

Now where is this bloody first class signed for delivery I ordered two days ago?!

THREE OF MY BAD DAYS

Going two better there than one Roger Waters, from his and Pink Floyd's lyrics to the track One Of My Turns, if I remember correctly, from The Wall album.

Good job with the live alum of the latest live concert to The Wall, Roger, but about time you did a follow up to the very good Amused To death? Maybe? Lol.

Anyhoo on to my bad days.

I agreed, though I shouldn't have done really, to look after some pets for a friend while they was in Italy. Odd as they always lectured me on how to spend money and one is broke and the other not worked for 18 months but have been to both Norway and Italy this year alone.

I have no doubts that there annual 3 week visit to Crete is only a couple of months away too?

Well the day before my first visit to feed both aquariums, four ponds, five tortoises, a Goldfinch Muel, Canary and one talking Budgerigar I got tired in the afternoon, despite doing very little. I had to return home but had a GP appointment to get to and I had a print-out I wanted to give him, as my memeory causes me to forget to mention things to him. I had so many now that some might be important, crucial or even life threatening. Unless we, or rather you, are a Doctor you simply do not know. Funny how the government expects us all to be Doctors though? Lol.

At home I was drained, still intending to make my appointment and went to go upstairs to get something and my right ankle, or Achilles tendon, clicked badly and I jerked in pain and then fell onto my wooden stairs. Ouch!

Fell asleep on the sofa and never made my appointment. First time that has happened in a few years, do not know if I am going to be charged that £10 they talked about for that.

The following day I was waiting for a package to arrive, from the UK E-CIG store, a bit odd, of e-liquids for my ... ahem, well e-cigarettes of Marshmallow Man, Suicide Bunny's Original Bunny and Donuts Juices ... umm Donuts. I had a quick run through all the major vape stores websites when I spotted something at the Juice Shop's website.

A Smok TFV4 micro atomiser!

I had wanted one of these since finding out they existed but thus far they only seemed to come in a kit with a box mod. I own two box mods and really did not want another one. As I have Joyetech's Cuboid and Laisimo's Snow Wolf 200W why would I need another one? No one locally stocked the kit anyway and just the day before I ended up buying a Smok TFV4 Mini. Yes smaller than my TFV4 Full but not quite as small as I wanted.

So the Juice Shop in Edmonton had them ... except they were also part of a kit ... but with a difference.

These ones came with a cylindrical battery and I like these designs. Added to that it was a lot cheaper than the box mod kit, around £15 to £20 cheaper.

So I got my three e-juices and promptly jumped on a bus.

Scott at the shop must have heard me and come out to chat but the Smok One Sticks, as they are called, were not on show. Think they were surprised I had spotted them and come down for one as they were pretty new and not long had them.

There were four colours and I was interested in the black tank so bought the black kit. There was silver too .. just checking .. dumb-arse, yeah red forgot about that and white.

Saw a Pipe design battery, I think by Smok also, had a look at the other Stick one with a Nano TFV4 too and eventually left.

Bus back to Sainsburys, bought some Warburton's Hot Dog Rolls, as all I had were in my freezer, then headed for my friends house. Not that far to go but I started feeling tired again as I had done the afternoon before. It got worse rather rapidly too.

Doing the chores expected of me wore ou any energy I had. I put their TV on to watch something and tried to relax for a bit to recuperate.

I was reminded of doing stuff like this when were previously friends four years beforehand.

I also realised that doing my own stuff was going to get hard and become stressful and was already stressing. Even right now I have run out of one of those things that will make others cringe.

Toilet roll! LMAO!

When I eventually got home about 6pm I went um my stairs, feeling really rough at this point, and crashed out on my bed, asleep almost immediately. Woke up wondering where I was.

On my second visit to the house I fell asleep on their sofa and woke up thinking I was at home, before then groaning and then realising I had other things to do before I could even leave to go home.

Doing my own stuff is a pain in the arse due to rushing and/or forgetting, due to both a list of pains I experience and my short term memory losses that drive me to distraction.

Doing things like this for someone else I am quite literally losing half of my time foing favours for others.

I am now reminded that I will be asked to do this for three weeks ion a couple of months and I am going to have to say, no.

When I woke up at home in the evening on my second day of feeling rough I suddenly realised something else and something that was extremely vital to all that I had said and done and the points made on here. The same points I have made to my GP in a print-out he never received last week...

..I had forgotten to take my pills for two days running. I first realised I had forgotten them that morning and as I was feeling like crap the day before it made me think about how I left the house the day before and where I was going when I realised that I had also forgotten them the morning before as well. Going back three days is impossible for me.

In the Juice Shop Scott had experienced having a cold or flu virus. I told him that I never really get them and co go several years without contracting anything. That was that morning of my second bad day and had not taken any pills.

Would you believe that when I woke up on the third day my head was banging a little, I had a very sore throat and felt very whoozy and a burning nose?! Damn it! Bocked myself there?!

But the I had not taken my pills and as a result was very run down and so probably why I had contracted the flu?

A third day not good enough for you?

Then how about this?

I took the pills on the third morning I had forgotten for at least two mornings previously. Now I have always maintained to various Doctors that there is something up with my nasal passages and have had difficulties for years. The last two years I had thought there was something wrong at the back of my throat and like a hole or a gap or something. this was due to the way air moved through it as one day it just felt different. This was a few years back now.

Well ... one of my pills felt like it was in an odd and unusual place at the back of my throat and as I washed them down with milk it felt like it went somewhere it shouldn't. I thought it was my imagination.

Except as I was sipping my mug of tea suddenly I started to get a burning sensation at the back of my throat and realise this was a pills that was dissolving and must be in some hole somewhere?

I drank more tea to wash it away and the burning only got worse, I guess from ore of whatever pill it was dissolving. I ended up snorting to try to move it and BAM!

Suddenly  the burning became painful and I felt something go into my lungs that did not feel right!

Now this continued on for over an hour and in that time I resisted the temptation to dial '999' several times and probably not wise due to a potential problem with a lung?

Anyway I got over that period, thank God.

But I ended up with some kind of cold like virus and has played havoc with my taste and smell as food and drink I love tastes like crap and those e-juices of Donuts by Donut Juice, Marshmallow Man and Suicide Bunny's Original Bunny all tasted the bloody same!

Well either that or someone is faking or repackaging empty bottles with the exact same e-juices?!

LMAO!

I doubt that of course, hopefully my taste will return soon. But then the same company did try and sell an e-cigarette known as a Vicious Ant Vari-Ant for a lot more than the already ridiculous price £500 on an eBay auction. Lol.

I never made it out today either, Monday now, not even to rebook my GP appointment.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get out and hopefully I will finally remember to get some BLOODY BOG ROLL?!

LMAO!

THE BUNGLES AT THE BUMBLES

This afternoon I sat somewhere I was not expecting to, nor was heading to nor even intended to be at all, sitting on a grass patch, in a village just outside London. I was there over an hour after a mile walk, or rather hobble, avoiding trucks, cars and vans as I was forced to walk on the road!

I wondered if I was ever going to get back!

Let me explain ..

I had visited a vape store to pick up a couple of things and a 30ml bottle of Barbed Custard. Only waiting at the usual bus stop I got on the bus only for it to not go straight at a large roundabout at Waltham Abbey, so heading for Waltham Cross, it turned ... RIGHT!

Odd as I thought all the buses going that way went through Waltham Abbey going the opposite way.

It seems not!

I thought I mist be going to Upshire then and when it reached the Crooked Mile roundabout it turned ... LEFT! Instead of going straight across.

It gets better ... and then it gets unbelievably better!

I then think I will stay on the bus to see where it goes, now heading up roads that used to be my local roads years ago, towards Nazeing. Then I realise there are no bus stops and I think 'no matter, it will likely go left towards Nazeing and then to Broxborne and I can get a bus back from there.

Except ... NO! The bus goes straight on towards a place I have not been through in likely twenty years, Bumbles Green. So I decide I better get off the bus and ring the bell, only as I am heading towards the front of the bus with me thinking the bus is going a bit fast to be stopping for that bus stop, it goes straight past it!

"Excuse me, you was supposed to stop there, I did press the bell!"

"Oh, sorry!" he replies and asks me where he wants me to be dropped off. I see a pull in and point "THERE!"

He pulls over, I alight the bus and he pulls away as I look around and realise I now have to walk about a mile IN THE ROAD!!

Trucks, vans and cars go past me as I limp back towards Bumbles Green. I walk through the village looking for the bus stop on the other side to get back to Waltham Abbey ... except there isn't one!

Eventually I come to a roundabout and see a road heading west off it, a bus stop on this road and know this will take me to Broxborne and therefore the buses must take me there. Except on studying the four routes only two go there and the next one is an hour away! I just missed one, apparently.

So there I am ... sitting on this patch of grass wondering how in the hell I ended up there and just how things can go horribly wrong.

You sit there for so long you wonder if a bus is going to come at all? You then start wondering that there may be a strike you do not know about? Or the buses have broken down? All the things that may prevent you form getting home, or at least getting back in a reasonable time.

I had something on me I was supposed to drop of at a mates, I asked me to order him something.

Once again I realise only too well that people without motorise transport are taken for granted, or everyone and everything is built to expect you to have your own transport.

I think it is just being registered disabled these days that puts this things more into focus?

It also is a sore reminder of what goes wrong when my Fibrofog causes me to lose focus on what I am doing.

Luckily it only added around two hours to my journey, maybe slightly more, and I put off dropping a parcel off at a friend's until tomorrow.

Then I went to put a new Smok TFV4 Atomiser tank on one of my box mods to vape on and the darn thing leaks everywhere! The last 5mls of my favourite flavour, Wick Liquor's Carnival, goes everywhere.

Thinking there must be a dodgey o-ring on the OCC (pre-made Organic Cotton Coil) I take the RBA (Re-Buildable Atomiser where you only have to change the cotton and not the coil too) out and put that in. Only when I fire it up I get no vape?! I try again and nothing. I then fire it while looking at the screen and it says ... 'Check Atomiser'?!

Oh great! This is just ... GREAT!

What a day. I change it back to the original coil, the RBS was only a single coil anyway and I prefer at least a dual coil and three at most, tightened everything really tight and ... no bloody leaks!

It must have just been installed by a cack-handed moron?

So after travelling and seeing a third of Essex, unintentional, I do not have to go back with the atomiser tomorrow and do it all again! Phhhheeeeew! Lol.

I tell ya, just the short term memory issues of Fibromyalgia alone, let alone the dozen areas of pain and the few embarrassing things, is a .. fecking .. pain ... in the arse! (Father Ted accent)

At least I now have my RBA for my Smok TFV4 Full, dual coil of course, and now have a Smok TFV4 Mini and though it is nice I did want a Smok TFV4 Micro but no one seems to have them. When they do they appear to be with a kit and a 80W, I think it was, Smok Box Mod.

"We don't stock them" said Craig in the Puff Dad E store when they do the full and mini and O pointed out that no one does! They are always with the kit and God help anyone who has a kit and breaks their atomiser 'cos you cannot buy another one. Not in the UK, lol.

No, no, no I am NOT buying another box mod! Lol, I have the Snow Wolf and the Cuboid, I do not need any more ... no pausing and thinking about it, no!

Lol.

Oh yeah and I picked up my free 30ml of Barbed Custard by Vapemunki, which is one of my top four flavours.

I have been through three dozen and I have three new ones on the way, Suicide Bunny OB, Marshmallow Man (as I got fed up waiting weeks for London Vape Company to get them in) and .. umm .. something else .. cannot remember ... ooh a new doughnut flavour by thjose guys actuall called the Doughnuts Juice company...oh sorry Donuts Juice Co, lol. AMericans cannot spell, I forgot, hehe.

Repeat after me ... (in a Stewie Griffin voice) Cookie .. Dough ... Dough .. Nuts?! Lol.

Anyway they do three doughnut flavours and I ordered one and no not the strawberry and blueberry! I said in a recent post that americans seem to think that Waffles is a Strawberry flavour, Dougnuts taste of strawberry or blueberries and all cereals taste of granola!

Good God, thankfully they did not invent them as they would have thought they all tasted like shit without half an vineyard, orchard or half a punnet is dumped on everything?

I just love waffles on their own, a little maple syrup at most.

Pancakes with sugar and a touch of lemon.

If its gonna taste of a bloody fruit or berry then bloody well call it that!

If you want doughnuts without the over bearing fruit ... Wick Liquor's Carnival!

Their Boulevard flavour is a nice vape too.

FROM SMOKE INTO THE CLOUDS

I said I was distracted recently?

How about something a bit different from all the corruption, what I have done, proof I have recently got and all that? Let us step away from this momentarily to something I am finding a big help, a pleasure and gotten me off cigarettes?

Yeah, well what happened was that one day I was in a local chemist, picking up my prescription meds and I was looking at the E-Cigarettes they have in their they source from Liberty Flights. I normally look at the cheap slim things in there but one day I picked up a leaflet that had much beefier e-cigs. One was called the 'Cloud Chaser' and I wondered why it had such a cool sounding name.

One time I was in their I asked if they actually worked, as after three years of quitting I found myself smoking again.

I had a little stress due to a loss of communication with someone and had started smoking, much to the annoyance and surprise of family and friends after staying off tobacco for so long.

Behind me was a couple and they started to give me a run-down of how good they are and how to use them.

I purchased one called the Premier, but despite the name it was a bottom of the ladder e-cigarette. I asked if they had a better one and they said 'no' but next time I was in there they did in fact have a better one! Dumb-arses.

Anyhoo after a few weeks I walked into Mirage E-Cigarette's store in Waltham Cross and saw something looking like the Cloud Chaser of Liberty Flights, except this had a black tank atomiser and a neater design. I bought it.

Then I decided I wanted one to take out with me but my new E-Stogie was too nice. So I bought a small subvod kit. Battery did not last long enough and then I spotted an even BIGGER E-Stogie, called the Aspire Elite Kit, Aspire CF Maxx Battery and an Aspire Atlantis Mega tank on special offer, normally £95 but was same price as I paid for my smaller E-Stogie, about £60.

In this time the guys in the various shops, like the Juice Shop in Edmonton and Puff Dad E in Waltham Abbey, were remarking about getting a box mod. Except I did not like the look of them and thought they looked like bad 1980's mobile phones! I told them all so too! Lol.

I then bought a Sigelei Legend only I wanted the 30 Watt version and they sold me the 15 Watt version. SO when I took it back they did not have one and I ended up paying more and swapping it for a damned box mod, the Joyetech Cuboid 150W, though it operates up to 200 watts, lol.

I was told before I bought it that it was not metal but plastic ... wrong, when I got the damn thing out it was like a small steel brick! Nice.

I had heard of some laws coming in and read on the Internet of a series of, completely pointless and obviously biased in favour of the tobacco industry, laws coming in. One was restricting the atomiser tanks to hold just 2 millilitres of juice. Yes, you read that right they do not want tanks bigger than two MILLILITRES! A little over a third of that a teaspoon holds! With many tanks being 3.5 to around 6 millilitres many of the tanks would become illegal in just two months time.

I had been told and was reading into dripper atomisers. Technically these leak but in actual fact they do not unless you put too much in them. You take off the lid of the atomiser, held in place by o-rings, and literally drip enough juice just to soak the wicks which are made of cotton.

You guessed it, another law they want to bring in is tanks that do not leak. Great if it applies to tanks only but I just have this nagging feeling it will apply to dripping atomisers. Well they DO look like tanks and I doubt a corrupt government working with the tobacco industry will even bother differentiating between the two. Even when pointed out.

This is something I am going to be very interested in.

Another thing is them using exploding e-cigs or ones that catch fire? Because they do not and it is the batteries that do. A combination of companies buying batteries of the big five Sony/Sanyo/Samsung/LG and one other that do not make their 20A target and actually re-wrapping them and claiming they are 30Amps or 40, even, Amp batteries.

A bunch of idiots, not nerds as 'nerds' know their stuff, who want to brag about using low ohm coils under 0.1 even, fail to realise the laws of electricity, notably Ohm's Law. At low Ohm's your drawing far greater amps and if the battery cannot take it, especially so if they are badged 40 Amps and are only 15 Amps in reality, eventually the batteries will start to fail. The will fracture and before long, rupture. When they do you will get a small explosion or catching fire. With a lot of heat being given off and gases venting out.

So yeah, stop idiots from re-wrapping batteries and other idiots from fucking about being braggers without brains as well as stopping the sale of tanks that leak like sieves, yes. But do NOT use it as an excuse to get people off e-cigs and back on fags because your mates work in the tobacco indsustry and your missing a black hole equivalent in the way of taxes.

You see? This is what I have ALWAYS had an issue with!

They do not add taxes to something to convince you to not do it, use it or eat it because it is unhealthy, it is just a lame excuse for money.

Then this money is used NOT in the area it is taken, like health and a corrupt NHS, no! It gets used to fund something it should not be. Now everyone is going over to vaping as it is much healthier and you can still get your nicotine fix as well as completely control your nicotine amount as well as drop it in increments, as I have done. So now they have been missing a whole bunch of money, because people are now literally giving up smoking which is what government said they wanted. So I was expecting something really, really lame to be announced that made the whole thing look completely and utterly obvious.

BAM!! SUGAR TAX!!

LMAO!!

Anyhoo, back on track. I bought another to go out with, thought it was too nice, but something else, but the batteries they make are naff, even the top ones, and didn't last.

I also wanted a box mod called a Snow Wolf and thought if I ever bought one it would be that one. I ended up with that Joyetech Cuboid and then bought a Snow Wolf anyway!

I started buying different tank atomisers, like two Kanger Subtank Minis, an Aspire Mega Atlantis and an Aspire Triton 2, which is currently doing something wrong. Then a Kanger TopTank Nano and then I started worrying about not getting a dripper. So I buy a Tesla Clapton Dripper! Then I buy a Mutation X V4 dripper. Then I read about something called a Velocity. By this time I am watching an American dude called Rip Tripper I really like to watch on these things and I order a mini Velocity in silver. Then Puff Dad E, who previously told me they had no Velocities in stock, had a full velocity in black in a cabinet. Hmm ... better get a back up?! LMAO!

Just as I was buying my very last piece of hardware I see this Mephisto dripper, all copper and gold with engravings and shit and I say, 'oh that is pretty!' and remember that Mephisto was the arch enemy of one of my favourite Marvel heroes, the Silver Surfer .... you see what I am doing here? Coming up with lame reasons to buy one, and I did and I did. LOL.

Then there was all the e-juice flavours!

Oh my God ... a Charlie's Chalk Dust, two Wick Liquors, three bottles and flavour of Ruthless later along with a Pancake Man, SY4 from Mirage, Zeus Juice Dimpleberry an Avant Garde and a whole bevvy of others and then WHAM! Vaper's Tongue ...

Just waiting ...

Just waiting a bit longer ...

just waiting for idiots to flip and start typing comments about how it is nothing to do with your tongue and to not call it that before I point out that my Fibromyalgia means 'painful muscle tendons' and that is it's official name but has nothing to do with those things and to stop being offensive to others just to attempt to make yourself look brainy.

Your not, your only succeeding in making yourself sound like a rude and arrogant idiot.

Anyway ... those just into it or thinking about vaping, especially from cigarettes I have typed this out, have done a couple of videos too, see below.

Word of warning. Nicotine strengths go from zero through 0.3 (or 3), 0.6 (or 6), 1.2 (or 12), 1.8 (or 18) and some finish at 2.0 (or 20) and even 2.4 and 3.6 (24 and 36 respectively.

The decimal point is only there if it is labelled in percentages or milligrams. Just remember the number as they work out the same, three or six and so on.

Also if your going to go straight to a sub ohm ... you miiight want to stay away from 20mg and higher, lol. You will feel the nicotine on your throat, they call this a throat hit. Stronger ones are more for like cigar smokers, lol.

I started on 18 and 24 but am now on 3 and 6, but do have one bottle that is 12.

I have been to the Juice Shop, Puff Dad E, Vape Co or London Vape Co (two of them), Vaporium Cafe, Vape and Green and Krayzee Vape Cafe. I think that is all, lol oh and Mirage E-Cigarettes in Waltham Cross.

More in the videos ;) ...

Hardware ...

E-JUICES ...

THE DOUBLE X-RAY

I apologise for being a bit ... distracted of late.

I typed out a few posts on my word processor with the intention of posting them up in a few days time but have not done this thus far. They are several days late but will go up in the next week.

As of right now I have been pre-occupied. With ... other ... things. One of these is vaping.

Though this is not going to be about vaping I will state that something on that is coming soon, as I have acquired several more things and tried several more flavours. I am also planning on a couple more things and several more flavours over the next week and the week after.

So I am not sure whether to do something now and then do another or leave it until I have acquired my planned bits and pieces.

There will also be included a funny story about my loss of taste as far as vaping is concerned that was quite bad. I will also throw sarcastic comments towards those that like to think they are experts and simply have to see themselves sound intelligent by coming up with solutions which turn out to be statements of fact. Oops!

No today I just want to explain briefly that I have indeed been tied up with the NHS once again and that I have had an odd comment I have expected more communication from. The latter has not occurred just yet but I am half expecting ... something.

No, I went for an x-ray of my neck and back and of course me being suspicious expected foul play and foul play was exactly what I got.

When I attended a GP appointment I said that I 'know' what the answer will bve for the x-ray but let me have it anyway.

Now I will just say that an x-ray of my neck was performed while standing up and then I was walked over to a bed and another x-ray machine, laid on my back in a foetal position, so my back is even more stretched out than normal, and had another x-ray performed. Well ... there was a series of x-rays and the radiologist actually said "Well, I have a shopping list for you today" which I found odd especially as my back was not x-rayed while standing.

I pointed this out and he said that they only do "weight bearing back x-rays if it is requested". Thereby passing the buck, so to speak. A lot of that happens so they can get away with their crap.

However the reply I got from my GP was nothing short of a surprise.

Other than arthritis, yeah, yeah, I also was told that in the neck x-ray they picked up on Osteopenia and that I would need to attend a scan called a DEXA, Double Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry.

Osteopenia is a bone thinning and what they call the intermediate stage between normal bone density and ... errr BRITTLE BONE!

Now if you have read enough of my posts you will note that way, way back and several times I have mentioned how not only me but many family members have never broken bones?

I have been hit by a car quite badly, up bonnet then windscreen and along the roof and off the side onto the tarmac, and fallen off roofs as a child and never broken anything. Well another branch of my family is quite the opposite and all suffer with brittle bone! I always remember one limb or other being in plaster and we did not see them that regularly!

I also explained that when I saw the film called Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson it made me think about my own bones and that of my second cousins. It seemed to be a mirror image of that of the films storyline but except took place within the same family.

So when my GP asked me if I had heard of brittle bone disease I replied "Your joking, right?!"

I then went on to explain that which I have told him previously as well as several other previous Doctors of both GP surgeries and hospitals. Really, really good at taking vital and important notes these people. Though are really good at doing the wrong scans, performing scans the wrong way and scanning the wrong areas. All of which I have since proved several times each.

So I am a little ... confused ... well not actually. Though I do have a theory I will not get into right hear and right now. Just want to state that I do indeed have a theory on this.

Now I have a DEXA scan coming up and I have already been wondering exactly what they will scan?

I mean to say that if they are worried enough to send me for this scan and it is linked to my back then it stands to reason that they would scan my whole back?

In fact going on first hand experience with family members with brittle bone you would think thata they would scan every single inch of me? After all they only did my back.

Now here is where it gets a little ... weirder. Where exactly was this Osteopenia location? The base of my neck!!

I will repeat, the base of my neck. Anyone care to hazard a guess, except for those of a particular ailment who will be all over this already, what the significance is of this location?

The base of the neck is where the kick in the central nervous system is that causes Fibromyalgia Syndrome that stops us sleeping correctly, non-restorative, and gives us pains anywhere in our bodies, causes memory lapses (Fibrofog) and all manner of other conditions and symptoms including that of the skin.

There are a possible and I should say 'KNOWN' symptoms of which I have around 120 and a couple not mentioned absolutely anywhere I believe is down to Fibromyalgia.

Now do you see my confusion?

I have a possible condition that never has inflicted my family branch in any way not even close but does badly affect another.

The location is in the base of the neck where the source of my Fibromyalgia Syndrome.

Both my back pains and my Fibromyalgia pains I have complained about for well over 15 years and got so bad that I approached a private chiropractor and that must have been over 5 years ago now?

Hmm? I have droaned on longer than I thought! Lol.

So here is the letter ...

Oddly enough I never imagined in a million years I would be doing this or have gotten this far.

I thought that in March of this year, 2016, I would be off moving somewhere some distance away and be approaching private Doctors to repair the damage that the NHS have done?

However that appears to have not taken place and nor looks to be happening so a few months ago I thought I would take another stab at getting the NHS to look at some things and see where that goes.

Despite the fact that I have stopped smoking and vastly reduced my nicotine intake and taking 10mg of Ramipril my blood pressure is still testing high. Seems to be between 140 and 170 Systolic and that is ALWAYS after resting a while. But it does not seem to be enough to worry anyone and I am told it is because of the Fibromyalgia it occurs and why I have not been referred.

It is funny because I thought that a high blood pressure kills you eventually regardless of what causes it and I know it is what killed my father in hid mid fifties and I suspect my Uncle who died about the same age as my father.

Factor that along with being stuck in because the weather is cold, miserable and bored out of my mind with nothing to do, cannot cycle and need a new Nikon P900 bridge camera, at the very least, to continue my photography and filing for all my blogs and YouTube account and you can imagine things are ... frustrating, somewhat?

Oooh I do not believe it, the sun is shining! Not for long, I bet?

FORCING YOU TO SMOKE

When I started vaping I wondered about a great many things.

One of these was why nicotine gum was so expensive, plus only get for a short time on NHS prescriptions.

I never touched a roll up since I started vaping and did try a couple of times and hated the taste, normally because my single battery ran out.

I also asked myself how the tobacco companies and government had not attacked the vaping community due to loss of profits and taxes.

Note I have started and well known for being against taxes for one thing be used to finance or run something completely different.

For example taxes on tobacco were brought about because tobacco was bad for you, your health and those around you. Except this high tax on tobacco lasted decades. Billions were paid in taxes each year that the government would get used to having lying around. But wait? This was to stop us smoking? What if it worked? No money. But instead they did get money, lots of it and for a very long time indeed.

A recipe for disaster.

But what was to happen if suddenly and quickly that money evaporated?

For the longest time I waited fruit for a single example of this happening and without realising it was about to stumble across this in the process of taking place when I started vaping.

I had barely been vaping two weeks when someone mentioned that laws were coming in. At first I thought 'well, alright. There are idiots that will blow off their own hands by not taking into account Ohm's law. But you could do that with electronics bought from Maplin.'

Today I heard of more things they are going to bring in and I said out loud "Your joking? Noo?! How can they do that?"

What got me was that they wanted to ban the sale of atomiser tanks you put your e-liquid juice in?! I simply could not believe what I was hearing.

Tonight I looked up what was going to come into effect and to my dismay something I have not even been into a month is going to be screwed up by government, as send to be the case with anything I have done for the last twenty five years, I kid you not.

If you limit the size of tanks the only thing they will succeed in doing is getting literally gallons of e-liquid all over the fucking place because you will have to refill every five minutes. Then they will be moaning about the cleaning costs.

It occurred to me also that they will have to tax something else, I hoped would be ludicrous and obvious, because of the numbers of people jumping from smoking to vaping.

Then I heard about the 'sugar tax' and thought "Oh! HERE we go!!"

Lmao!

Well that was bloody obvious, well except for one idiot I know who doesn't pay taxes but somehow likes to defend all the idiotic and obviously corrupt things the government do.

Even after agreeing that taxes paid on one thing, supposedly to stop something unhealthy, for something else entirely.

I cannot believe that the government are going to be quite that obvious and despite the fact I would like to vote for leaving Europe in the referendum I cannot help but wonder if the British government will take even more liberties than they already have from the British born people?!

I will now be paying close attention to the laws bought out in May of this year and I will email them demanding an explanation after accusing them of mire corruption.

Governing is what they are paid to do and if they failed to see what I have done for twenty years ... well that's their fault and no one else's.

While searching online I found a petition to sign that goes to the government basically telling then where to get off.

You don't have to be a vaper to let the government know what they are up to and to say 'no!' Enough is enough and you cannot treat the British public like they are all idiots, fuck things up year after year and expect us to pay for it and therefore bail you out time after time. Until you've retired and gone off to a make believe job paying you millions and then write autobiographies paying you millions.

Well there are enough idiots out there to buy their drivel and make them millions.

I commiserate with anyone intelligent and fed up with the state of things.

Lol!

The petition link ...

http://100thousand.com/take-part/

CLOUD CHASING THE E-STOGIES

Well now, finally I get to type this out and there is now plenty to talk about, or type rather.

This all started one day in my local pharmacist while collecting my long list of prescription medication. In this store I had noticed some time beforehand that they sold these electronic cigarettes and had wondered if they really worked?

I was not completely oblivious to vaping at this juncture because a friend of mine, whose on my Facebook list, had shown me his kit a few times and stated that I should try it.

Now I had stopped smoking for two years and I am not sure whether or not he informed me about the vaping while I was off cigarettes or not. If I was off the smokes it might be why I did not look into it at the time?

So there I was and I made the fatal error of asking if they worked while pointing at the Liberty-Flights starter kit. I had already picked up a couple of leaflets, one with all the different e-cigs and one with all the flavour e-liquids. There were a couple in the store right behind me who both had one of these each in their hands. They were very chatty and friendly, if somewhat seemingly spaced out, and started to explain to me how it all worked. I was told that if I purchased one I would feel it was the best thing I ever bought.

Something of an over-statement.

However, it did not turn out to be too far from the truth!

So I decided to purchase one, asked if they had any higher up models and was told no and bought the £19.99 Liberty-Flights Premium starter kit. I thought then that 'Premium' was an odd name for a starter kit. I think it is downright laughable right now!

Anyway I got it home, with its free charger and Tobacco flavoured e-liquid, charged it up, filled up what I was told was the cartomizer and a couple hours later I was puffing away.

Now to get anything out of it was something of a struggle but even so I never lit up a rolly all night until the battery died. I was told the battery would last all day. It did not. I then looked into the matter and discovered that the e-Go battery with the starter kit was a paltry 650mah battery. Making the kit cost somewhat pricey for what you got in all honesty.

I started to look around for a better one and intended to end up using the Liberty-Flight one as a back up, or one that I take out with me during the day.

I returned to the pharmacist the following day with a friend and asked about one in the leaflet called a Liberty-Flights Cloud Chaser. Me being into Mountain Bikes, and Fishing Rods, I like the lightness and the look of carbon fibre. This model they called the Cloud Chaser had a battery 3.5 times more powerful that the Premium model and was wrapped in carbon fibre.

They explained to me that they had had one up until the day I had bought one and had sent it back because no one was showing an interest in the dearer models. Typical. I was also in there because a flange had come loose on the one I had bought and the e-liquid had leaked all over my hands. While the pharmacist was changing the cartomizer over for me a man behind me suggested that I went to a proper vapour store to see to my cartomizer until I explained I had just bought the e-cig in the pharmacy the day before. I said that I would look around though in the coming weeks.

The pharmacist said that they would get the Cloud Chaser model back in the store and I gave them my phone number. They did not call.

A couple off days later I was in Waltham Cross with the intention of buying some tubs of Earthworms, not for my sandwiches you understand but for my Fire Salamanders, when I decided to cut through the shopping precinct. As I walked into the rear of the precinct I spotted a shop immediately on the right hand-side that looked like it could be a vape shop, with rows of little bottles on a shelf behind the man in the store.

Looking like it could be a very small 'Body Shop' type store aimed at women I decided to give it a close inspection before I decided to enter. It was called Mirage and right under the name it stated 'Electronic Cigarettes'. Cool. I wandered in.

There was this black guy behind the counter talking to a very old gentleman who certainly did not look like someone who vaped. At the back of the store was a glass cabinet complete with different types of vape kits and I gravitated over to it. Rigght there on the right hand-side was something similar to the Cloud Chaser by Liberty-Flights I was waiting for a phone-call for! Except this one had a tank and atomiser on it that was black and not silver like the Cloud Chaser. I liked the look of this one, a KangerTech Sub Tank Mini, but wished it was in silver.

I waited for the old man to leave the store and then said to the sales guy, called Owen, “surely he is not into vaping?” gesturing at the guy pigeon footing across the mall. “Oh yeah” was the reply and I showed a surprised look on my face. He laughed.

I got talking, the vapour kit was bought out and I ended up shelling out money I had not planned to spend.

A young lady walked in and showed some interest, pointing out that her boss had quit smoking by going over to vaping. I explained I had only been doing it fort a few days but was already back in the store spending £60 on a better one. She was reluctant to take a puff on one when offered, poiting out she did not want to look like a twit to the two of us by coughing. We told her she would not, not realising we were both about to prove this would be the case.

Owen asked me what flavour I wanted and I said Tobacco, as I had already had that and it had a sweet kind of butterscotch flavour to it. He asked what strength nicotine I wanted and I asked what strengths he had. One of them was 2.4% and I asked for that and he asked if I was sure as it was very strong. I said I was on 1.8% currently and it did not feel enough. He put the juice in the tank for me and asked to me take a chug on it to see. I did and it was extremely strong in flavour as well as bitter and I coughed and spluttered all over the shop to the sound of laughter. I laughed too and said “bloody hell, man! That IS strong!” Owen decided to place one of those rubber mouth pieces on it and give it a go. He said he did not use nicotine any more having come off it many months before but would see how he found it. He took a chug and ended up coughing and spluttering all over the shop and we all laughed. I turned to the young girl and said “see? You can't feel silly now for trying it?”

I grabbed my stuff and made my farewells and left with my new gadget...here it is...

I had a look around on the Internet to see what other stores were around that catered for vaping.

I found a number of them about the place and after ending up back in Mirage's store in Waltham Cross, because charger's do not come with the batteries for some reason, and ended up at one in Edmonton near the North Circular Road and A10, Great Cambridge Road junction.

I had previously been in a store in Enfield called Krayzee who prevviously did computer parts but not very good at that, now into vaping gear and not very good at that either, getting a “oh its just a disposable one” when I showed them my Liberty-Flight Premium and after the carbon fibre wrapped ones. Despite the fact that the carbon wrapped bit I now know to be the Aspire CF VV, Aspire CF Sub, Aspire CF Maxx and Aspire CF MOD andd very popular they had never heard of any carbon fibre batteries.

And as for their so-called website? The less said about that the better! I have been scratching my head trying to figure out just how they got started and how they made enough cash to expand?!

The mind boggles but I had a theory or two.

Yes so, I digress.

I should point out at this stage I tried two other flavours and went back to Liberty-Flight for this as I liked their Tobacco. I purchased Twisted Melon, French Vanilla and another Tobacco. The Twisted Melon did taste like Melon, to be fair, but its twist was that it was a little bitter. OK, but not mind-blowing. I love Vanilla but found their French Vanilla far too strong and overpowering. Oh dear.

So I ended up at this shop in Edmonton called the Juice Shop. Not much to the store but it really did not need to be. After a customer was dealt with got chatting to a guy called Scott, if my Fibrofog allows me to remember correctly? They offered for me to try several flavours of tobacco and after that bitter stuff at Mirage I was a bit weary. However I was surprised when after trying several none of them was as awful as the Oasis Tobacco at Mirage's store! Next I was handed one to try I was expecting to be another Tobacco, took a chug on it and actually spoke out loud “Oh..my..God!”

That was their Cosmic Cloud Champeach!

Cosmic Cloud is their variety juice that has a higher content of vegetable glycerol to poly...whatshernames. With this ratio of the two, 70 to 30, you get more vapour which is kind of something I was chasing! A little a any rate.

I was having a bloody bottle of that!

I also spotted a carbon tip and decided to get a bottle each of the RY4, Black Honey Tobacco and the Champeach flavour of their Cosmic Clouds.

We got chatting and I told the sstore guy about what I do, about my corruption blogs and other subjects. He said “Oh? Your a bit of a conspiracy theorist then?” and I pointed out that I am but on the factual side of things. He said “Wait there!” and disappeared momentarily before returning with a tablet PC.

He had a web-page of his own regarding the same kinds of things I cover.

His page can be found at …

www.youthinkitsajoke.com

Nice title, I like that. Grabs naïve people by the short and curlies. Nice.

I wrote down my details for him and said I would write a piece on my corruption blog about going in their, their stuff, and the chat we had.

Here it is! Lol!

Oh, I want tea...

Kettle on!

I explained that despite the fact I had not done much of late that I was working on a couple of things at that time and that I had nearly reached 300,000 visitors in total and .. CRAP! Forgot to upload something!

So yeah I explained that I had secretly recorded almost everything, got several Doctors lying on tape and had amassed over 100GB of data and that the passport office grinding to a halt was over us and went through what happened.

It was at that point he slid a complimentary slip towards me and a pen! Lol.

I paid for my stuff and said I would probably be back and he said that sounded disappointing so I corrected myself and said I would definitely be back. He had wanted me to buy one of those mods that make you look like your carrying a very bad mid nineties phone! I am not really into that look and like the carbon fibre e-stogie look myself. The Kangertech SubBox is not too bad, if I am honest but I am not entering any competitions for chasing clouds, I only started ten days beforehand for Christ's sake! Lol.

I did later discover there was something they did not have on show, despite the fact I rather liked the look of the Aspire Triton Tank/Atomiser there was something else they had. Something on 'special offer' too!

I called my Aspire CF Sub paired with my KangerTech Sub Tank Mini the E-Stogie due to its size and colour. What I was later to discover was they had something … bigger and better!

Something I had failed to realise existed because I simply did not spot it!

I was about to fall in love!

Umm, well after I found myself back at that Juice Shop two days or so later!

It seems that Aspire made a bigger battery than my 2000mah Sub ohm battery and was a whopping 3000mah battery called the CF Maxx. This came in a kit with an Aspire Atlantis, ohh the name, Mega Tank and Atomiser! Ooh boy!!

Promising myself no more money on vape kit for at least two weeks I was back in a very packed Juice Shop a few days later...hmm two to be precise!

The E-Stogie Mega …

After screwing up priming and forgetting to place drops down the side I got the thing gowing and I am pretty sure this is what they used and the smoke exhaust on the train in the children's Christmas film, The Polar Express! LMAO!

Ten days later and I simply cannot believe how this past time has taken me by the scruff of the neck and refuses to let go!

No more smoking, well not normal cigarettes, no more tobacco drenched clothes, house, tooth stains, lung cancer and much more cash in my pocket!! Umm … well once I manage to stop purchasing bloody vape harddware?!

Well I have … umm … except for that Aspire Triton Tank … which really should have its own battery …

God darn it!!

EDIT: Forgot to mention and it did not occur to me, being a die-hard fan and all, but a friend's wife said "It looks like the Doctors sonic screwdriver!" LOL!