I want $1 MILLION DOLLARS.

Oh yeah. I want >$26 million dollars paid in 26 annual installments. Also known as the lottery win.

oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine

That's a scary sounding cocktail

That's a lot of cones and pams. I thought they only let you have one of each at a time!

Got any recipes for soup/stew?

I do chicken thighs in red wine (thick broth, potatoes, carrots), which are awesome but require red wine. It's also possible to roast the chicken, de-bone it, and use it in stone soup: onion, carrots, frozen peas, couple of bouillion cubes, some barley or rice, and shredded chicken in a big pot. I do honey-glazed chicken a lot, too, roasted in the oven, but just remember: tin foil is your friend (or else the sugar in the honey burns and your oven catches fire). Minestrone might be an avenue to investigate as well.

And how can you tell a suicide mixing all those from an accident?

The combination of being sick with pneumonia and dopey from any of these could result in accidental overdose. But, if the drugs weren't there...

Dana, Shannon and her family are probably all right. Right?

Right. But maybe some checking of local newspapers is in order.

Chances are slim those were all his legal prescriptions, for starters. And how can you tell a suicide mixing all those from an accident? Lack of note? Dinner reservations for the next day?

Depends on the dates of the scripts. If he was travelling a lot and seeing different doctors, it wouldn't have been difficult to get a prescription from a couple of different doctors--especially if they were in different countries. But you've got A LOT more experience with different doctors and drug prescriptions so I'll defer to your opinion.

I think people judge "accidental" by the person's behavior--and yeah, if they had plans or were behaving normally it would point to an accident, rather than suicide.

Suicides usually follow behavioral patterns--wrapping up unfinished business, cancelling appointments, etc.

The combination of being sick with pneumonia and dopey from any of these could result in accidental overdose.

I'm not saying it couldn't be accidental. Once you've started down the road of narcotics all sorts of things suddenly start to seem reasonable that were not before. However, he might have intended to take all that off the bat, and I'm wondering how they told the difference.

I would think that a suicidal overdose would involve great handfuls of one kind of pill, but what do I know.

I asked my students what the deal was with the Hillary-hate, and a bunch of them said they thought electing her would be basically electing Bill again. Mind you, most of them then said they liked Bill Clinton, and wouldn't mind him being president. Which would seem to contradict the hatred, but okay.

It's kind of odd, though. I'm sure he'd have a lot of input, just as she did when he was president, but it would never occur to me to think that she'd, what, be the shy little missus and let him govern through her? That really doesn't fit with the image I have of her.

Accidental or not, still a sad loss.