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ordinary mind said:
Haven't slept for many hours. Feeling so sleepy I've started drifting off uncontrollably, including one occasion about an hour ago where I must have drifted off while playing my elected drumkit as I awoke with a start huddled over the snare haha.

Now I'm gonna crawl into bed into a blissful slumber. Goodnight bl =D
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Had not seen your post OM. Sleeping for me comes with several snaps. Have never really succeeded in sleeping more than 2 or three hours per night. So I literally sleep whenever I get a chance.
 
Smoking a rollup, drinking a mug of britvic lime cordial. About to go and reheat the most of a double 3/4 pounder cheeseburger from last night with enough extra cheese to fill the gullets of a moderate sized american state, with a large loadup of oxy and morphine in me busily keeping the thundering eyeball-ache left behind after my burn at bay.

Earlier had several dr appointments just after picking up my refills and just having time to make it back home to fill my tank with morphia and oxy, knock back a couple of chlormethiazole caps and a moggie, and take the tizanidine, clonidine, GI meds and antacids needed, have a several rollup-long cigarette break before going to the appointmets then whilst waiting for the last appt, had to be woken by the social worker that came to see me, after ending up dozing off in the waiting room sat on me comfy chair in there, did bring along of a copy of 'oxford handbook of clinical immunology and allergy' to read but the meds sent me off to a jolly satisfying catnap, after being up all of last night, and all the previous night busy tinkering with an electrolytic cell and group I/II metal salt eutectics. Had been busy slaving away in the cloying heat of the room, warmed by the red-glowing hotplate, electric arcs and molten caustic&salts baths of electrolyte and after several days at that without sleep and very little pain meds in you, one gets to be a very, very sleepy LC indeed.
 
Trying to sleep. :\ It's late here (02h47) and I have to wake up in 3 hours.
 
Trying to get my pieces all together so I can go to work after having slept just a little bit. :\
 
Nice.
I always picture you in one of those "sexy nurse" costumes.

Speaking of which, *ahem* - you still got a trip to melbs on the cards, mister consumer?
I'd like to make a trip up to visit you sometime, newcastle sounds rather nice.
I gotta go back to Perth to play a gig in a couple of weeks though, to launch a record i made that is getting a vinyl release on some new label...which will depletes my funds-for-adventures for the time being (worth it tho)
 
Waking up in the dark with Bluelight (EADD first!;)), buttered toast and coffee with chocolate and milk. So I guess that qualifies as a mocha?

P.S. Sj, that is fantastic about the record!
 
Thanks herby - it's exciting! We've been sitting on this record for a while (and had all left town) but a guy we know is starting a label and really wants us on it - so it worked out amazingly well (and we don't have to self-finance the release for once!)
 
Hey stee man, same, hope shits going decently.

Hadn't been posting recently that much, partly due to the computer screen currently forced to use being far enough even without the accident to give me some thumping great unclefuckers of eyestrain-induced headaches, and its hard-mounted, built in to the very fabric of the room, and isn't of a mind to spill out its guts easily. but the distance from 'good' eye the distance to the screen leaves gives me rotten eyestrain, and the eyeball itself still stings like fuck.

Although thankfully my GP gave me some extra oxy for the pain, which is helping at least some, and I don't have to be saturating my fucking eyeball with tons of different drops, just using hyluronate sodium 0.2% now along with steroid drops, which have been switched to a less potent one, less frequently (from dex 6xdaily to pred BD and using either oxybuprocaine (the best if the three opthalmic local preparations bought on the five finger discount card), proxymetacaine in just behind that or tetracaine, which stings a fair bit for a while after application and seems to be the least effective of the three. Did have some benzocaine and lidocaine but those were a nuisance, needing reconstitution in sterile saline, perfect adjustment of PH and running the synth from scratch. Trivial enough, especially benzocaine but benzocaine is both weak shite and very short lasting. Was glad of having some around when I actually hurt my eyes though as it allowed me to properly irrigate the damn fucking cunt, whilst I was waiting for the ambulance, and it proved enough to let me locate my keys to the house and let them in.

That aside its just taking high dose vitamin C, and keeping out of any bright lights, as well as a pair of welding goggles and covering up the affected eye totally anywhere other than in complete darkness. Even going out at night at first I was wearing the welding goggles, with a piece of foil over the lens on the affected side. Just as well I'm pretty much nocturnal anyway, I've always been very much the night owl type. Can't help but laugh at whatever anyone seeing me must have been thinking though at the sight of someone using yet further darkened welding goggles as shades at 5 in the morning haha.

And how does one juggle otters on a skateboard? I'd have thought their little legs too short to wrap around the bottom of the board so they can keep hold when the juggling goes through the inverted portion of the trajectory of the otters/skateboards.


And yes, stee not a bad combination, although I'd sooner have had some prope rather than plain morphine, but I figured I couldn't get away with anything too sedating on top of the opiates already used, nitrazepam and the chlormethiazole, since I needed to make sure I stayed alert and awake. Ever seen what happens when a fair sized current gets passed through a blob of molten sodium-calcium alloy floating about on molten caustic/CaCl eutectic electrolyte and shorts between the electrodes? it can be rather loud, and would not, IMO, be the ideal moment for one to nod off. But shaking hands would have been as bad or worse, and sure as hell wasn't going to try it without opioids in my system, or it would have been shorting way more than once in a while. And try doing it one handed using the other to aim a flow of argon at the forming beads of molten metal, and using other hand to manage both the other electrode (decided to make the vessel itself conductive and use the container for the NaOH/CaCl2 eutectic as one of the electrodes)

At a few hundred 'C, even moderated (one assumes it did anyhow) by the presence of calcium metal, molten Na is an awful lot nippier than it is at room temperature (althoigh subjected to a heavy stream of inert gas flow, whatever I2 did get passed was usually enough to get it to take up hang-gliding for a hobby.

I think though that I might build a proper dedicated Castner or Downs' type cell, electrically heated and temp-controlled via thermocouple and a mix of peltier stacks for rapid cooling and asbestos cloth-wrapped michrome wire for heating control to within 5 degrees 'C or so. Seeing as how cheaply Na, K, Ca and Mg salts come and how especially the alkali metals are always some of the elements most popular and sought out by hobbyist chemists a dedicated setup capable of flow, rather than batch processing would I reckon prove a great investment as well as a fun engineering project.

Just been pondering the materials to use for construction at the moment and testing various conductors for coating such cells, because when going to be run longer than a single run and for making larger quantities than, to borrow a phrase more common for far different kinds of substance here, 'personal use' quantities so as to have some to trade for reagents and equipment and more goodies for building yet more neat bits and pieces, make a bit of xmas £££ etc. then the materials used in construction are going to need to be of professional quality and endurance; for whilst aqueous caustic soda isn't terribly nasty, caustic potash is worse by quite a lot, and when fused into the molten anhydrous state requisite for electrolysis when seeking to dig the metals lurking within out of their salty burrows, at the temperatures needed to keep the stuff molten, then they are altogether different beasts, and one goes up from needing a trained ferret to dig 'em out of their holes to needing a pack of rough and nasty biker-gangbanger ratel armed with machetes and autocannon wearing stab vests and from hiding rabbit down hole to miniaturized pit-bulls where the corrosive and aggressive nature of the molten electrolytes are concerned. a bit of aq. NaOH on the skin, as long as its not in the eyes or some other such tender areas is one thing and not the end of the world if washed off promptly, but molten caustic potash at 360 'C (beginning of melting point) would inflict some damned NASTY injuries on contact.

But confining the melt is the easy bit, its selecting materials that will resist the corrosive nature of such electrolytes for prolonged periods and high temperatures that needs the TLC (for once, that abbreviation isn't referring to chromatography in the field of chemistry =D...see what I did there), iron and at least some steels are attacked although somewhat slowly by molten NaOH/CaCl2 mixture, they left the container tested pretty badly brutalized after a two-night-long session going at it with the proverbial (and literal) hammer and tongs.
 
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