Buggering hell, I really can't sleep right now. I just don't feel at all tired or sleepy.
Just took two sleeping tablets, in the hope of getting some shut-eye; two 5mg nitrazepam tablets, quite a strong, long acting and very hypnotic type benzo, taste nice too, minty for some reason. Just took one to begin with about 15 minutes ago, and a second still dissolving in my mouth.
Going to smoke a cigar lying on the sofa, while I wait and see if they do the trick, if not, then two more. I'm prescribed enough that I'm told by my doc to take them every day, twice a day. Not a chance of that happening, since they can be horrendously physically addictive. And to some, psychologically habit forming. Everyone would be affected in the physical sense, I myself have no compulsive tendencies with them psychologically thankfully. I keep a damn close eye on how often I take any at all, and certainly not daily. Rather, I'll use higher doses, enough to actually put me to sleep, once or twice a week, three times maybe, and space them out, just more per dose.
If I really can't get any rest, I'll take a dose of chlormethiazole as well as the nitrazepam, together, although VERY carefully, as the chlormethiazole is notorious for knocking people off if mishandled; the two together, using a single capsule of chlormethiazole and a couple of nitrazepam tabs, that I KNOW will reliably and certainly put me out like a light, usually in 10 minutes or slightly more.
Just enough time to smoke a cigar, suck on a blackcurrant and liquorice, got quite a few bags full of those cheaply a while back, a favourite of mine. Hard blackcurrant candy outer shell, and in the center, a stick of hardish, toughly chewy liquorice extract running right down the middle. Delish.
While I curl up on the sofa, eyeshade down ready to pull over my eyes, whilst I wait for the meds to kick in enough so I know I'm about to be knocked out, and get in to a rather long treatise I printed off the net about inorganic sulfur and phosphorus chemistry. Got some interesting info from the real oldschool of inorganic chemistry, those who paved the way and had to do all the work themselves, inventing as many routes as possible. Looking into a synthesis based on phosphorus pentachloride, which I can make, from red phosphorus and chlorine gas, as a suspension of powdered red phosphorus in an inert chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent, along with distillation in a dry atmosphere, that if I can pull it off successfully, will provide a mixture of SOCl2 (thionyl chloride, a very valuable, versatile chlorinating reagent, and a real favourite of mine, as the byproducts are all gaseous, and their leaving the reaction and the HCl and sulfur dioxide fumes being driven off help drive the reaction equilibrium forwards, and the being gaseous, rather than as with phosphorus halides, leave no solid byproducts behind to have to clean up after me. Very fast to get to work too, SOCl2. Love it) and POCl3, phosphorus oxychloride, as a mixture that will need fractional distillation in a very dry atmosphere, as well as keeping the toxic fumes from both at bay, on a tight leash. POCl3 certainly has plenty uses too, as does the PCl5, and PCl3 they are talking of synthesis of in the paper I'm reading.
So if the pills knock me out soon, good, if they don't, then a dose of chlormethiazole along with them will certainly do the job. Probably before I can finish reading my paper and planning my synthesis experiments
Either way, lazing on the sofa with a good bedtime read, eyeshade mask and a cigar, then a blackcurrant and liquorice. Can of cold coke on the lounge table by my side for if I get thirsty at night. And another if I finish it. Diet coke, but better diet coke than no coke,
