Ahh....first time in ages that there is zero pain in my hip, knee and lower leg. Even the nerve damage isn't playing up. Oh boy, I am severing this moment.
Just scoured the kitchen cupboards, and yay! sweet! I FINALLY found my lithium aluminium hydride. And my pyrogallol and benzoyl and propionyl chloride. I've been searching like a madman for that LiAlH4 for bloodyfucking well ages, and finally found it. I should top up the inert gas in the container I keep the tightly wrapped container in though, the results of a fire in a room full of flammable solvents would NOT be pretty.
Damn...that would be nasty. I think I will give the jar I keep the container of LAH in a good squirt of dried argon just to be on the safe side. Ar is a really heavy gas that forms a blanket of sorts wherever its put, and the jar is tightly sealed, and already filled with argon, so it should be all well and good anyway,,,but there is no harm in refilling the inert gas blanket. My tank of argon is fairly full I think, but even if I need to buy a fresh tank, its better to spend the little over £10 or so than have that LAH get exposed to the moisture in the air and start a fire.
I've left a small erlenmeyer flask full of methylated spirits, to clean out the dregs of what was last in there, leaving it to soak until morning, when I'll go to the lab, refill the argon over my LiAlH4, stuff some silica gel packets in with it, and finish cleaning out that erlenmeyer.
What else am I doing...I'm about to bang up 20mg of oxy, roll a smoke, and relax in bed.
