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Contest ends May first, doesn't it? That gives us both three days to submit.

He is busy moving books and throwing out paper because of stupid health inspectors who make rules based on the lowest common denominator. Give him a break, ya weenie.

Just saw this.  Sorry it took so long for me to get to you.  The delay would depend on the timing of the overdose. Found this on Drugs.com. I would aim for a 'sleeping pill' that would have existed back then. I chose Valium (This only becaume available in 1985, but it is a good example of what you need to know to answer this question)  Here is the duration of onset that I think you are looking for. Note that a heavy meal (with fat in it)  delays the onset and causes the peak efffect to be more than an hour longer. Hope this helped.

After oral administration >90% of diazepam (valium)  is absorbed and the average time to achieve peak plasma concentrations is 1 – 1.5 hours with a range of 0.25 to 2.5 hours. Absorption is delayed and decreased when administered with a moderate fat meal. In the presence of food mean lag times are approximately 45 minutes as compared with 15 minutes when fasting. There is also an increase in the average time to achieve peak concentrations to about 2.5 hours in the presence of food as compared with 1.25 hours when fasting.

To answer your question, it is absolutely possible that she could 'walk away in the morning' as long as the pills had worn off and she was alert enough to pass the doc's inspection. Since she has a tolerance already (you said she is addicted to these pills) this may be what saves her. She wakes up after the murder (the Valium has worn off during the night) and she isn't due for a dose until she goes to sleep that night, then it makes sense that someone trying to kill her would give a too-small dose that only makes her sleepy but doesn't kill. 

Here is info on barbituates available in 1950's.  Found this on the National Institute of Health website.
Amobarbital, butabarbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital are used as sedatives and hypnotics and not as anticonvulsants.  These and several other barbiturates were introduced into medical use in the United States in the 1950s as sedatives, hypnotics (short term treatment of insomnia) and preanesthetic agents.  They are now rarely used, having been largely replaced by more effective and better tolerated sedatives and hypnotics such as the benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine receptor agonists.  Amobarbital (am" oh bar' bi tal) and butabarbital (bue' ta bar' bi tal) are currently available, but only as solutions for parenteral administration, being used largely as preanesthetic agents.  Secobarbital is available as a 100 mg capsule generically and under the brand name Seconal.  Pentobarbital is no longer available in the United States.  Current indications for the barbiturates include short term treatment of insomnia and as a preanesthetic agent.  The recommended dose of secobarbital in adults is 100 mg at bedtime or 200 to 300 mg 1 to 2 hours before surgery.  Barbiturates that are no longer available in the United States include butalbital, mephobarbital, methohexital and pentobarbital.  Secobarbital is classified as a Schedule II substance, indicating that it has definite potential for physical and psychological dependence and abuse.  Frequent side effects include drowsiness, sedation, hypotension, nausea, headache and skin rash.

In other words, I don't think you went over the top on this at all.

FYI, I'm still fighting to finish my submission for the contest. I've got more than half of the story finished but (go figure) I'm stalling to a halt on the crime. I don't think I'd make a very good criminal :-)  I keep thinking of things that might happen and then change the plan. Either way, I've given myself a deadline and plan to get that stinker up on the contest page within three days. 

It may come down to the wire.  Or the eleventh hour,  But (I think I can, I think I can...) I'll see what I can do to wrangle this stinker into shape in time :-)

Missing Copper.  Gotcha:-)  I've been working a ton of shifts, but should have a bit more time open up soon.  Hopefully sooner than later!

You like to chew your beer?

Wonderful trivia, but I'm wondering if Book Gardens Florist rents out any apartments (grumble). Face it, the insulation for the place would be spectacular.

Simple solution. Narrow down the work area (stay an optimist and tell yourself that you are starting to minimize the board for your mom's actual device) THen store it under your bed and slide it out to work on it.

I suggest moving the lab to your bedroom, telling him that you've dismantled it, and then moving it back the next day. (I realize this is clearly a huge undertaking, so take this as tongue in cheek and realize I'm only half serious. However, having a set of locks changed and keeping your frigging landlord out of the apartment from now on seems like a stellar idea. Either that, or find a new apartment for 100 bucks more a month (the cost you would have to apply to the storage locker). That way, the landlord gets what he wants but loses the best renter that he's ever had.  Lose-lose. The perfect revenge. Served cold, just for the sake of it.

The other alternative is to flood the basement and give him something else to worry about. All you need is a hose hooked to a sink. Just kidding, but it's a nice thought. You can't fix that kind of ignorance.

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I remember when my dad was kept from installing a ham radio tower in the back yard because the old lady next door thought it interfered with her television signal.

Janet,

Tell me the name of the vinter again. I've perused the wine section of the local store and have enough selections that I don't dare picking at random. I want to get the kind that has the Janet-seal-of-approval.

I entered the poem contest just for chuckles. I figured I'd see how much beer $50 will buy.

Enter something, ya weenie. Quit thinking of statistics and lets see some wordage!

How often do you disagree with me? Hmmmm? Ya old coot!

Techincally, a melee is what you have after the line of battle (or other proper order) has broken down.

You're correct on this.  There is a golden five or ten minutes before one or the other side will dominate a medieval-style combat and break through the wall.  When my friends use this term though, I just use 'chaos' as a synonym, but a more proper word would be 'free-for-all.'

Adrian joins the fray!  Welcome to our home!  Put up your feet!  Stay a while!  Join us in throwing popcorn at the computer screen!