Michael Cash wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:21:52 +0900, Declan Murphy
> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
> with:
> 
>>Michael Cash wrote:
> 
>>>Fuck no. I get my caffeine in tablet form. Much more efficient and
>>>inexpensive that way.
>>
>>Wonderful things they are too. I've still got about a 1/4 of the bottle 
>>left. Getting a little worried about them though - expiration period?
> 
> I dunno. I get the bottles of 500 and they last about 4 months, so it
> has never been a problem.

I'm usually a little reluctant to take them when driving, even when I'm 
tired. Unless I'm absolutely exhausted and worried about alertness, they 
stay in the bottle. Plus I don't drive any where near as much as you. 
The two vans have about 75000 kms on them since April last year - only 
about 50-55K of that is me.

>>And should such tablets be left inside a van where the internal 
>>temperatures resemble an oven every time I leave it parked for an hour 
>>or more in the sun?
> 
> Man, there must be quite a difference in climate between BF Aichi and
> BF Gunma.

I usually drive 10 seater vans (1 Nissan, 1 Hi-Ace). From Okazaki I 
guess I range as far as Okayama, Kanazawa, Kii Katsuura down 
Wakayama-ken way and bloody Disneyland up in Chiba. Lots of windows of 
course. As late as October the internal temperature inside the van when 
we got back inside just blasts me when I enter. The students tend to 
hang around outside for a minute or two while I fire up the 
airconditioning. Shouldn't be a problem again until March or April.



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