XWord Muggles Forum

BethA wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:55 pm Hey everyone! I missed you! Finally on the beach! 🏖

Late last Sunday I stopped at Admonition Beach. Was really surprised at how many were there! Fell asleep and woke up Monday to find I’d been swept out to sea...

Yesterday I had the perfect day planned: run my first virtual 5K (originally set for St Patrick on Mar 14, postponed to Mar 28, then converted to Virtual), have a Guinness to celebrate, while simultaneously solving the meta. Parts 1 and 2 were fine, but the meta wouldn’t come. So relieved just now to discover I haven’t lost my mojo!

Bob cruise director wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:36 pm Barbara - how about if we take a vote for either Have Gun, Will Travel from the 50's TV show or have Spacesuit, Will Travel from the SF novel. I will put my money on the TV show -

Natalie wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:58 pm

Hector wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:09 pm Went very enjoyably (week 2-ish, MG-wise), after wasting much of the day (instead of doing the puzzle) working with four separate heating firms to diagnose a broken furnace. I'll celebrate this fun meta sitting in front of the . . . oh, yeah, we're out of firewood, too.

As a Californian, I need to know: approximately how many Manhattan cocktails does your body require to prevent freezing solid with extended exposure to temps in the 50s?

RE: your question: the absolute number of cocktails does not matter. One simply must maintain a constant level integrated over the desired time span of about one drink in the system. (One drink, in this case = 1 Manhattan made with standard beverages.) (For fellow geeks among Muggles, alcohol metabolism is steady-state, aka. zeroth order.) Bottom line. Have a Manhattan. An hour or so later, have another. Repeat. Enjoy. Stay warm. Wash your hands and don't touch your face. Remember Winston Churchill: "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." Cheers ....

DrTom wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:01 pm

Natalie wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:58 pm

Hector wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:09 pm Went very enjoyably (week 2-ish, MG-wise), after wasting much of the day (instead of doing the puzzle) working with four separate heating firms to diagnose a broken furnace. I'll celebrate this fun meta sitting in front of the . . . oh, yeah, we're out of firewood, too.

As a Californian, I need to know: approximately how many Manhattan cocktails does your body require to prevent freezing solid with extended exposure to temps in the 50s?

RE: your question: the absolute number of cocktails does not matter. One simply must maintain a constant level integrated over the desired time span of about one drink in the system. (One drink, in this case = 1 Manhattan made with standard beverages.) (For fellow geeks among Muggles, alcohol metabolism is steady-state, aka. zeroth order.) Bottom line. Have a Manhattan. An hour or so later, have another. Repeat. Enjoy. Stay warm. Wash your hands and don't touch your face. Remember Winston Churchill: "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." Cheers ....

Well be careful because zero order comes with some tricky parts.

So. Let’s say you are at 100 mg% (well buzzed and probably at the level you do not feel pain) and zero level elimination (which is about 15 +/- 4 mg% per hour in a “social drinker”) means your elimination profile would look like this:
BAC.jpg
BUT, since zero order is also saturable, if you take another drink in 1 hour and then another in another hour (all highly reasonable!) you could hit an asymptotic rise in blood alcohol.
Asym.jpg

Then zero order is NOT your friend because you don’t get back to the approx. 17 mg% until first you crunch through all the excess alcohol. The simplest example of this is the “day after” a particularly hard party (that wine taste with your friends, that football homecoming) even after you have slept 7 hours or so and you are STILL buzzed. I believe at that point you have made an Asymptote out of yourself.

michaelm wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:19 pm On Shore.
RIP BIll Withers.
Aptly, "Ain't No Sunshine" in the local forecast this weekend.