ATM, co-op's cloudy lemonade, cheap and rather nice. Just finished my second carton of their rhubarb and custard milkshake, they make it in liter cartons and two of those just disappeared as fast as they could be taken from the fridge and opened. Two big long gulps each and gone

that stuff is fucking gooooood shit :D
Last night-ethanol, diluted to concentration insufficient to cause physical burning. I'd guess about 75 to 80 percent EtOH, flavoured with a little cloudy lemonade and same used as diluent, after just needing some downtime and avoiding last-minute opioid or GABA agonist WD or seizures, (or all three) after no sleep in 3 days and nights or so, maybe a little longer or less but not much either way, and subsequently having about 6-7 hours to wait whilst it would get worse, so I decided that I'd institute a heavy duty adrenergic/noradrenergic blockade to prevent abrupt resurgence of consciousness in a nasty state at that, using tizanidine and clonidine, and anaesthetize myself with EtOH. Doesn't take much either at such concentrations, one cup of 'vodka' at 75%> give or take, just a small teacup, rendered down to that concentration from pure ethanol, proved sufficient in one gulp for what would take several mugs of off-the-shelf vodka to perform and being intended as high-grade stuff for chemistry, it lacks the traces of other, higher 'fusel' alcohols etc/ present in cheap spirit liquor. Lacks the foul taste of the latter, hot and stinging (served at room temperature since I don't keep that in the hazmat fridge, which is reserved for nasties like ICl, and volatile solvents like THF, ether, dichloromethane, as well as keeping my iodine cold and helping preventing its escape from the container it came in (iodine is a real master escape artist, and when I bought my last kg, the damn container the seller sent it to me in was PLASTIC ffs!) I'd have paid extra happily for a glass bottle and teflon cap and secondary seal, which would have assisted greatly in keeping my I2 where its meant to be longer.
Can't remember who I bought my last I2 from, got a good price per kg, but for fucks sake, all the same, who sends halogens of any kind in PLASTIC! me, drunk to the point of oblivion last night for hours? they must have been pretty bloody close to do that. Especially not even offering glass vessels as an optional purchase. Not the first time I've gotten it in plastic vessels from other sources either. Means that I tend to buy it when I plan to use it, and because I like to buy my reagents and solvents in lab-scale bulk (I.e sufficient for end user rather than factory or plant production, but enough that I don't have to buy whatever it is again unless its something used extremely intensely and unrecyclable or that I go through like there is no tomorrow, like say, hydrochloric acid or concentrated sulfuric) but to distribute something in a vessel that it is permeable to....
Not clever. Not the first time it has happened either. I've had somebody else send me THF, diethyl ether and dichloromethane, and lost many liters of each due to evaporation through the damn walls of the bottle, including an ENTIRE bottle of tetrahydrofuran and of dichloromethane, bar the first few times that the THF was used. Went back to it, and in the heat, before I had my hazmat dedicated (mostly, my old man keeps his fish-bait there on a separate shelf though, he bought it just for the space to keep maggots and bits of squished bread in, cut up meat scraps, whilst giving over the entire rests of the space within to keep those of my things of high volatility which need to be kept cold to keep them confined or stable. Paid nothing for it myself, just found out it was there one day and got told to use it as I wish, just leave him enough space for a couple of pots of fish baits. That, suits me just fine, I was going to buy one myself at the time, timing couldn't have been better
Although I am still looking for one of those large chest-freezers that lie flat on the ground and can keep things down to -30 or less ideally, especially if I were to modify some parts of the heat exchanger network and coolant supply. Something I could keep say, a bottle of chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ammonia gas (anhydrous), nitrogen dioxide, anhydrous HCl gas, HBr, all in liquid forms, pressurize hydrogen in tanks by pumping it whilst under intense cooling, in a freezer like that whilst submerged in dry ice/acetone or liquid nitrogen, pumping compressed gas into tanks for catalytic reductions etc. and then letting it self-pressurize under ambient temperatures causing the pressure to increase since the coolant immersion used whilst compressing a cylinder with a H2 feed is removed and it heats up to ambient temperatures, the pressure thus also increases.
Would love to have Cl2 and proper longterm hydrogen tanks, anhydrous ammonia, HCl, HBr etc. 'on tap', as well as inert gases, nitrogen and argon, all nicely securely bolted to the lab walls so all thats needed are lengths of tubing and to direct them where I want them to go. Oh boy, that'd be what santa could bring me best.