Inspiration

[urbpan]

It was a chilly morning dogwalk today--44 degrees F. Soon 44 will feel like short pants weather. If I start to find myself whining about riding my bike in the cold, I'll just click on this link and shut up.

On Saturday (day 9 of our rain storms), a coworker who I will refer to as "Mrs. There'sNoSuchThingAsBadWeatherOnlyBadClothes" (she admitted to wearing 3 pairs of socks during our brutal 2003-2004 winter) complained about the wet. Well, then, wear a wetsuit.

Now the sun is out, and it looks to be a grand time to run my errands--with head full of cold symptoms and pseudofed.

Comments

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Can you still get pseudephedrine easily in Massachusetts? Here, they all but require a blood sample before they'll sell you a single dinky box, and it's kept locked behind the pharmacy counter.

all this to ostensibly prevent meth use, but what it really does is make me snot-nosed and cranky because I won't release my personal information to buy OTC drugs.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's still the standard. I have the Walgreens (pharmacy chain) brand Loratadine with Pheudoephedrine here, as well as just plain sudafed.

there's an idiotic commercial in rotation these days, where moaning cold sufferers all come to a pharmacy counter, a disembodied voice tells them "Aisle 5, Sudafed" over and over again. Maybe they should have a Californian version, with meth-heads coming in to the store.

I'm amazed they would do that. do you have to give id for robitussin too? I also didn't know you could make meth with it--I assumed you needed ephedrine proper, which they just banned. Shows what I know about making drugs out of drugs.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I've seen it in particular stores. At StopNShop I had to ask at the pharmacy counter (no id needed, just had to wait in line behind the old lady with too many prescriptions), but Big Y didn't care.

I did read somewhere recently that you can't make meth out of sudaphed mixed with certain things (like tylenol), so those mixes might be more easily available.

You've gotta watch out now, Sudafed is selling a decongestant now that doesn't even contain pseudoephedrine, but the package looks the same. Bastards. Damn allergies. Grrr.

Everything I really needed to know about meth....

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

I learned in the Las Vegas Mercury.

http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Dec-04-Thu-2003/22691158.html

Fun fact: If you look at the pictures you'll notice that former Penthouse Pets turned Legal Prostitutes turned meth dealers prefer Klingon Lawyers.

The Mercury Website isn't set up that conveniently, so I'll give you the look to the simply brilliant cover that accompanied this story. http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Dec-04-Thu-2003/