The Cincinnati shooting was two blocks from my work, and I know someone who works in the Fifth Third building, but we were almost entirely unaffected. Found out from the news after the shooting was over, and didn't close or anything.

I would check a site like Rxlist. com to see what the starting dose is, and then split the pill accordingly (if possible).

Rxlist, cool...for my friend.

I'm sure that's the best possible way to spend a shooting, ignorant of it. Glad you're all okay.

And if you had never taken this particular preparation before, how small would you try to get the dose do you imagine? Or would you not risk it and just dispose of them? Asking for a friend.

Though Teppy has more applicable credentials than I do, I would try a quarter to a half. If it's an older pill, maybe half, a newer one a quarter. You do seriously have to have years of training to take regular full doses and still be functional. Hubby had a briefcase full of different things.

Ugh -- my car is not getting repaired until at least Monday. (Very good mechanic, one of his guys is out due to illness, I am slotted in on a FIFO basis.) So it looks like I'll take a short-term rental in order to at least have some money coming in over the weekend. Le Sigh.

You do seriously have to have years of training to take regular full doses and still be functional. Hubby had a briefcase full of different things.

Yes, my mom was like Tep's dad. She'd been on them a loooong time and had quite the tolerance.

That's a bummer. Do you have some sort of agreement to get the price discounted at least, Theo?

I'm sure that's the best possible way to spend a shooting, ignorant of it. Glad you're all okay.

Agreed. On both points.

Ugh -- my car is not getting repaired until at least Monday. (Very good mechanic, one of his guys is out due to illness, I am slotted in on a FIFO basis.) So it looks like I'll take a short-term rental in order to at least have some money coming in over the weekend. Le Sigh.

Oh man, that sucks! I'm sorry.

he good news is, the thing that I was pretty sure I hadn't fucked up? I hadn't fucked up! (Intimidating coworker: "I've asked and asked to be copied on these things!" Me, internally, "Ugh, I guess I fucked up yet again..." [time passes, I get back to my desk and search my email] Me, via email: Here's the email chain you were in fact copied on!!!!)

I love/hate that sort of thing. I just got off the phone with someone who wanted to dictate an email to say she should have been on a chain but wasn't. It's true she should have and I am investigating why (it was a large mass email) but lady I'm not going to type the exact apology you want.

Cory Booker and Kamala Harris: YES

I knew I was happy to see people with a "D" next to their name engage in that time-honored practice of fighting for us, but it seems I was even more thrilled than I let myself realize.

Someone on MSNBC (Ali Velshi, maybe) was recapping Booker's release of the documents. I already knew about it, and I needed a glass of water, so it seemed like a good time to step away from the TV.

Halfway from my office to the kitchen, I realized I was doing white-people-wedding-Conga-line-dancing, and singing aloud, "Call their fucking bluh-uff. Call their fucking bluh-uff. Call their fucking bluh-uff."

Awww, Burt Reynolds died. I knew quite a lot of people that worked with him at his dinner theater in Florida. Without exception they loved him. At the end of the shows they were blown away by the personal gifts he gave them that showed he really listened to them when they chatted. He remembered that they had a cat or dog or sick sibling. They would go into battle mode if anyone said anything bad about him.

Cory Booker and Kamala Harris: YES

Come on Dems! Make me proud! Shake it up!