The Hydralite is for when you're doing heavy activities wher you need the extra potasium and sodium.
Yeah I think Coconut Bliss is the brand I had mentioned.
I feel you on the separtion anxiety missing the lemonade. On a 40 day fast you experience unprecedented chances that you have never experienced before. A large portion of your daily energy alotment is spend just in digestion. when you fast it opens all kinds of avenues for exploration and selfdiscovery.
Neato on the color guard thing. Sound like you really enjoy it. I'm sure you gotta stay in decent physical conditioning. Not anything like what you do but I was in the drill team when I spent a year in military school (high school).
I don't quite understand what you mean about "missing info around the title" on the experimental stop action piece.