u/Prof_PW

Ok, please don't rush to tell me that I already have done 🤣

But my TM is buzzing a bit, not sure if that is normal, but I could imagine it is trying to send Morse code to me 🤣

I can only record it if the TM2 is touching my phone directly, it is very quiet. Once upon a time, I didn't need to write it down like a first year student, so either my skills are not up to scratch or I cannot decide it in my head because it is just random noises 😁

I now have a nice little desk caddy.

I do need to give it a polish and get rid of the support marks, but it keeps everything together 👍😁

It has been a while since I have been here for a few reasons.

One was a 'dead' TM2, the other reasons are all tied in to house hunting, retiring and life getting in the way of everything....

Oh, and due to my tendancy to keep knocking my TM2 onto the floor and breaking stems, it got put on one side.....

The reason for the 'death' of my TM2 was obviously my clumsiness and I was sad, but I was little tied up. I have spent the last couple of months trying to find my dream home, and that has been proving to be a bit of a pain. I have been looking for a property that needs some work, has a garage where I can look after my car, and space for my dog, and a small workshop.

Auctions seemed to be a good place to start. Ah, no, they are not somewhere an ND person should go, and if they suffer from social anxiety as well, then really no 🤣 they seem to be a hive of non-productive activity, and you are always at risk from those who get auction fever.

So long dives, stressful days and by the time I was getting home, the idea of looking into the problem with my TM2 was just not on the radar. But, as it turns out, there is a reason why I have a case full of earlier devices, and why I never bought another portable vape after my TM2. I just hadn't realised.

The other distraction has been preparing some of the first issues for my upcoming podcast series. That will be related to the house to begin with, but the subject material will be a little varied 🤣

Anyhow, back to the TM2...

It was odd, the lights lit up, the vibration motor vibrated. I could feel the heat in the body... No vapour.

Then yesterday I decided, my little Dynavap has its uses, my Starry V4 is a brilliant backup but I decided to send my TM2 away for repair. But a quick Google of the symptoms brought me back here, and a post mentioned a loose PCB, and so I looked, and it was loose. I tightened it up, and then felt like a proper udder 🤣

Vapour, and lots of it 😁👍

I had to turn my temperature down....

It was like that magical day that I unboxed it. I was so excited, I forgot who wrote the post, but whoever it was, thank you 👍👋🤝

I was going to be honest, pay the repair cost, and this saved me the cost, and also stopped me looking a bit daft 😁

Now my stem choice is limited....

I have a Grav Upline, and it is nearly perfect. But the shaped mouthpiece annoys me a bit, and it can get a bit hot, certainly when you haven't used a TM2 for a while, and so it is getting a bit of a hammering 🤣

I got an XL ball stem, but it is too cold, although it could be a good one for a serious session.....

But at least now, my TM2 will do justice to whatever the next stem is that I buy 😁👍

(My backup vaporisers are now back in their storage case).

I have been having a bit of fun with AI and changing history slightly.... I was doing some tidying up, and I had half a tin of AVB laying around and generally needing to be tidied away. I was chatting with a friend and came out with a profound statement. I said "The world has got it all wrong, you can have your cake and smoke it too 😁".

That sent my brain down the path of history. I got thinking about the most famous words that Marie Antoinette probably never really said. And my poor frazzled brain gave me an image....

It is a bit hard to describe, but when I started in engineering I drew all of my designs using a drawing board and my set of rotring pens. And I would typically 'copy' what I could see in my mind. When CAD became affordable for normal people, and not just in the realms of BNFL or NASA, and I got my first 3d printer for rapid prototyping, it felt like the world had finally caught up with what I was doing in my head. AI is getting close to that model, and so I created a picture of Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI and Robespierre and I got thinking about how different the world would be if they really did 'let then eat cake' 🤣 Just imagine world history if the Reign of Terror never happened. Would that have stopped WW1 and 2? Just imagine how the world would be today

And then I hit the limits of what AI can currently achieve at a free level. For my inspiration I had my table 😁 and so I tried to have Louis XVI with an Arizer XQ2 and Robespierre with a TM2 PHE. It is close, and really good, but not perfect yet.

Sorry, I haven't had a proper ramble at you all for a while 🤣