And stupid.
Green is often done using barium salts (depending on the shade of green wanted, although copper is used also. Ba gives a lighter, clearer green. Boron salts can be used too, but barium is useful as it readily forms a chlorate and perchlorate salt, which is an oxidizer in its own right as well as a dye for flames). Ba salts that can be absorbed by the body are highly toxic, primarily affecting the cardiovascular system.
Good stuff for today...I JUST this moment found my chlormethiazole caps. I haven't had any since the day I picked them up, last monday, been using herbs to stave off any chance of seizure, but I felt pretty fucking shite without it. The withdrawal is downright nasty. I'd taken my first dose immediately after getting my scripts on monday morning, got home, put it down, and I must have dropped the bottle, because I hadn't been able to find them since. So there is almost a full bottle left, and I was really starting to feel the lack of it bite pretty hard. They had dropped off my bed I presume, when I poured everything out of the bag from the pharmacy to sort through and take what I then needed, then rolled out of sight.
Just found them about 30s ago. Thankfully they act fast. Although a shot of a couple of oxy 80s certainly helped take the edge off
But I would have been completely unable to sleep, and feeling rough as shit without them, as they are a barbiturate-like sedative (in terms of action, rather than structure that is, actually its a derivative of vitamin B1 [thiamine], and is indeed, not difficult to prepare starting from B1 [2 steps, plus isolation of product])
Seeing as how I had to go without for a fair few days, I now have some surplus, which means I'll definitely get a few good uninterrupted nights of deep sleep.
After taking time for a quick supper of fresh strawberries, sprinkled with a light dusting of sugar, a pre-bed rollup and a few nice, icy cold, frosty bottled lagers, straight from the fridge I fan feel those starting to kick in already.
And just caught a neat looking spider, crawling up the walls. Some sort of fairly large araneomorph, genus is Dysdera, the woodlouse-hunting spiders, although I haven't as yet identified it to species level. I may perhaps keep it as a pet. They are not dangerous (unless you happen to be a woodlouse, upon which many species within the genus Dysdera prey exclusively, or almost so, although some will also take beetles). They are aggressive however, and have massive fangs, the venom isn't medically significant, excepting cases of allergy of course, but it is apparently fairly painful; and in any case, they really do have a whopping pair of chelicera on the business end with which to deliver it, so I will not be picking it up and taking it walkies on a lead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysdera_crocata The most common member of Dysdera, wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be this one. They feed exclusively upon woodlice, although perhaps occasionally taking other prey in an opportunistic manner; their massive fangs allow them to crack the armored shells of woodlice with ease.
