I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been wondering on and off about catfood. What makes that stuff so addictive in the first place? Is it the presence of refined meat coupled with preservatives, or is it just the chemicals themselves?Even though I really don't know what I'm doing, I've been conducting my own little experiments and trying to find out the main ingredient that causes this effect.

Last night I borrowed a couple of pots from the Nevada base, set up a Bunsen-burner kind of thing and began boiling it down. The setup was pretty simple: a pot on a heat source with an oversized lid on top, tilted down with a bowl under the lip. The 'steam' rose up, hit the cooler metal, condensed and dripped into the bowl, leaving the solid stuff in the pot. Unfortunately it overheated and exploded, but not before I got a cupful of this foul-smelling greyish stuff. I won't go into detail, but I found out that this was NOT the part that acted as a narcotic.

So now I've got a little setup in my room. I'm going to 'bake' the catfood (extract the liquid, heat it and distill it into a concentrated powder) and then see if the science people at the Nevada base can analyze it for the most active chemical components. I was actually able to 'rent' some 'baking' equipment for a pretty good price--only about 30 bucks--from my supplier. The one catch? I have to tell the guy how I concentrated the catfood. If you can believe it, this guy (I'm not saying his name, because he'd cut off my supply or worse if I did) wants to actually sell this 'super-catfood' (that's what he called it) to the poleepkwa and human population in America. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that...I think I'll simply give him my original results and pray to god that he doesn't find out that it doesn't work. I'm not going to inadvertantly help get others addicted on something worse then regular catfood, even if I think drugs aren't as bad as people say they are.

In the meantime, I'm going to use this stuff and maybe make a duplicate set so I don't owe him. So far, I've got about...half a pot of liquid. The smell coming from it is unbearable--it doesn't even smell like meat anymore, it just smells like putrification and chemicals, even through the cheap little gas mask I'm wearing. Right now I'm trying to make sure it only stinks in here; I've got cloth shoved in the frame of the door so I don't accidentally gas the entire base and I'm not going to open the door until I'm done baking the stuff. I don't know if I should open a window, though--will people outside notice? I think so, but goddamn it smells so bad in here...I think I just may have to.