No, I haven't missed it, my b/day is today.
And don't worry, I'm wearing goggles and a full face shield. Especially since what is planned for my little...birthday treat, so to speak, is going to involve a reduction using sodium metal in dried, boiling hot alcohol. And I'll have to open up a 100g block of the Na (a chunk about the size of a fist)
Later observation from a moment ago-needed my pain meds, and looked in the wrong med bag, an old one. Found 40 oxy pills (a strong opiate painkiller) that must have been from last week or the week before. No idea I had those. Since they were surplus to requirements medically speaking, just treated myself to a large shot of the stuff, a strong tranq and a dose of an enzyme inhibitor to prolong and intensify its action and duration, grabbing a couple of frosty beers from the fridge on my way out whilst the adduct compound with one of the main (harmless, but not wanted in there since it will interfere with my synthesis, and the thing which the adduct is made from is recoverable and indeed after recovery by treatment with strong base, and purification by distillation of the impurity (it counts as an impurity only because it isn't meant to be there. Its rubbish in a specific context only, but once purified, useful once again. A leftover from the first step of the synthesis of one of the main reagents used, so one that may as well be had back once removed and saved as leftover-grade (the original reagent I forked out for ACS grade stuff [american chemical society] certified, and of excellent quality. A step below analytical reference sample grade, for calibration of extremely sensitive equipment such as NMR machines, mass spectrometers and the like, but for synthetic procedures, those are not needed and are extremely expensive. ACS grade is excellent quality and this would be suitable for medicinal applications IMO. Perhaps big pharma might have better, but not as if they would NEED it to produce something perfectly acceptable. And nobody uses analar-grade stuff except for analyses generally, or for demanding things like semiconductor fabrication (for that particular application as close to atomic precision as possible is sought for and the work done in clean-rooms without so much as a speck of dust allowed to settle on things like silicon wafers for CPUs and other ICs)
So this won't be returned to my bottles of what the adduct is of, but marked down as seconds if that makes sense, but re-used when sufficient is accumulated.
And my b/day is the 29th, wolfy, may his soul find peace and Raxy comfort, started the thread a day beforehand, like the damn good guy he is.
