my stemsetup is similar to OTA, but my piece of thicker silicone is shorter, so that it still slides off the glass stem easily. I leave the glass stem in the bong, lift downstem for clearing, and only remove the thick piece of silicone(and the dog itself ofcourse) when I'm putting it away.
I also sometimes use one similar to the one in SD_hazes video, but I probably have the older silicone. downside to this is that the screen is dislodged pretty easily, and removing the stem from the dog is a bit more tricky since I flipped the upside over to make it sturdier at that point
and sometimes I'm using a ministem from thick silicone, actually a leftover piece, at first I had adapted both my silicone stems for connecting to my bong, then I started cutting one up for bowls for the glass stem, was left with the endpiece that fits into my downstem, but just a little too short to act as a bowl fpr the glass stem. with that stem there is only a little room between the downstem and dog, the airflow is still good but the dog rests on the downstem so I can hit it with one hand(only holding the bong, except for clearing when I still need the other hand unless I use my knee to assist)
I also have multiple bowls for the glass stem, so I can vape multiple strains at the same time, or when at one point I want some nice thick clouds but there's still some hash in my bowl wich will keep giving whispy vapor for a while, I can save that for later and load a new one for thick clouds
and I'm enjoying my dog now too, I had a birthdayparty yesterday, and drank a little too much.
first I forgot my hash, VG, pipe, lighters and cellphone, I had put them in the pocket of my jacket already, hung it on the hanger while I was waiting for a friend to pick me up, when he arrived I quickly grabbed my stuff to leave but forgot my jacket. and then I had a little too much to drink, was fine at night but now the next day I have only managed to keep water down, but not any food. worst part was getting home, since I'm prone to getting carsick, I had considered going on my bicycle, but it was a little far and last time I drove my bicycle in that area I got lost. (only realised I had gone too far when I reached the sea)(for people knowing the area, the area I speak of is het bildt)
but now I'm home, in my comfy chair, and the dog is warm, all is good again.
edit: my session awoke my appetite again, eating some delicious dry bread now, and my stmach feels good except a bit empty. also went to the garden to make some pics, just started raining as I was making them. here a show of my pride:
my strawberries, started from seed last year. too much slugs last year so at the end I didn't keep it up since there was nothing I could harvest anyway, when removing the weeds this year my strawberries turned out to have survived, and had great growth this year, spreading new ones around them(strangely it seems this variety doesn't make aboveground runners, the plants just appear so I suspect belowground runners)these just started a 2nd wave of fruits
this are 3 plants btw(part of my usual morningroutine is walking into the garden and see if there are any ripe strawberries, wich I then eat straight from the plant)
some tomatoes, don't pay attention to the plant itself since it looks horrible, but the few tomatoes look fine.
then here is a tomatoplant I can be proud of
some tomatoes from the plant above
some more pics, don't want to put too many pics in my post since I often have trouble loading pages like that
http://i.imgur.com/q8f0A.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/KBjkI.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/H1yHL.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/eHxzL.jpg?1
learned plenty this year, so I can do better next year, a lot went wrong, like all my carrots bolting. tomatoes turn out to be a lot of fun, never grew them before, got them all for free(first some for my birthday, then a week later or so I got a whole load of brocolliplants and some tomatoes for free). also want to start a compost pile, supposedly the soil here is poor(sand) so compost could add to that.
Ready when I am. No fuss. Load a stem, put it on the UD, attach the GonG end to the beaker, and away I go. I can have a session in under a minute from set up to break down. Fits my lifestyle perfectly.
. I tried to get one in a shop here and they wanted to charge me 20 bucks and they only had 18mm.
then again, its hard to think with all this fogginess...
