Rotten Tanx wrote:Migraine last night. Real migraine. Not like the people who have a headache and say "Oh, I've got this migraine and now I have to go out clubbing, ho hum."

Today I'm hypersensitive to high pitched sounds. As I was late for work the bus was full of middled aged and elderly women and all I could hear was ss....c...sh...p...t...ch...shhh..tss..k...sss...

Migraines are terrible and people that say they have "migraines" when they actually have headaches are worse.

Mandroid is right, but I have to say that a controlled amount of caffeine actually helps with my migraines rather than causes them - say, one or two cups of coffee day.

Having said that though, my migraines tend to be triggered by hormones and light patterns rather than allergies and are characterised by visual aura, mental confusion and numbness of the hands rather than headaches and vomiting (although that happens occasionally).

I find that aspirin at the onset helps more than anything and avoiding sleeping near vertical blinds and not being around flashing lights helps too.
Apparently the "nightshade" group of vegetables can be a trigger for some people - citrus, tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes.

Damn. I wish that my first post wasn't about migraines.

Actually, I think that a lot of migraine specific medications include a bit of caffeine. It has the same effect as niacin does with one's blood vessels, and most doctors that I've had have suggested a bit of caffeine for my migraines.

The major problem with caffeine is that, with regular use, it decreases absorption of nutrients because it is a diuretic. There's a reason that cigarettes and coffee are the favourite meals of models and eating disorder patients. Both make you poo or piss your nutrients out before your body can absorb anything useful and use those nutrients/calories for things like, oh...a non-skeletal body, normal brain function and regular circulatory patterns.

Parsley wrote:Having said that though, my migraines tend to be triggered by hormones and light patterns rather than allergies and are characterised by visual aura, mental confusion and numbness of the hands rather than headaches and vomiting (although that happens occasionally).

I get those exact symptoms as well, luckily only about once a year and only during really high stress times. Dear migraines, burn in hell.

My detail:
Someone tractor-trailed a horrific fart into the train today just as I got on. I had to not breathe for about a minute while it dissipated. Jesus it was awful. Like someone emptied a diaper in the seat next to me.

Sock OR Muffin? wrote: My detail:
Someone tractor-trailed a horrific fart into the train today just as I got on. I had to not breathe for about a minute while it dissipated. Jesus it was awful. Like someone emptied a diaper in the seat next to me.

tractor trailed? we refer to it as crop dusting.

and i think there's a different term for leaving one in an enclosed area.

Welcome aboard parsley. Have you got a question for Tim? (Steve is yesterday's news)


My head's slowly getting worse again. I should have stayed home today but I want to buy a moogerfooger after work.

And god damnit I will.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Welcome aboard parsley. Have you got a question for Tim? (Steve is yesterday's news)


My head's slowly getting worse again. I should have stayed home today but I want to buy a moogerfooger after work.

And god damnit I will.

sucks about the head hurt. i have no advice.

what moogerfooger, you lucky prick? those pedals are the absolute noise making awesomest.

that damned fly wrote:

Rotten Tanx wrote:Welcome aboard parsley. Have you got a question for Tim? (Steve is yesterday's news)


My head's slowly getting worse again. I should have stayed home today but I want to buy a moogerfooger after work.

And god damnit I will.

sucks about the head hurt. i have no advice.

what moogerfooger, you lucky prick? those pedals are the absolute noise making awesomest.

It's not luck, you douchepotato, you just take a bunch of money into the shop and they hand you one. If you're poor like me you have to sell all your other pedals to do this.

It's the "freqbox" and I can't wait til my band find out I sold all the effects that made my guitar playing passable to buy something that basically just fucks your shit up worse.

Rotten Tanx wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

Rotten Tanx wrote:Welcome aboard parsley. Have you got a question for Tim? (Steve is yesterday's news)


My head's slowly getting worse again. I should have stayed home today but I want to buy a moogerfooger after work.

And god damnit I will.

sucks about the head hurt. i have no advice.

what moogerfooger, you lucky prick? those pedals are the absolute noise making awesomest.

It's not luck, you douchepotato, you just take a bunch of money into the shop and they hand you one. If you're poor like me you have to sell all your other pedals to do this.

It's the "freqbox" and I can't wait til my band find out I sold all the effects that made my guitar playing passable to buy something that basically just fucks your shit up worse.

point taken. still, it's nice to be able to snatch up such an awesome little box. when i read you were after a moogerfooger, i thought in my head, "man...i hope he goes for the freqbox."

i'm looking into ring modulators and hope they do all the awesome shit i'm hoping they do. the demos i've seen make them seem like they will.

honeyisfunny wrote:Yesterday I super-glued my hand to a bright red high-heeled ladies shoe. Surprisingly, this wasn't a fetish practise but rather a piece of friendly repair work but I still wouldn't have fancied explaining it at the hospital. Luckily a quick sprint to the hot tap and some flaking of my skin sorted the problem...

How can I say that I would have paid good money to see this without sounding like even more perverse than you?

At lunchtime a dog tried to steal my steak sandwich.

I was all ready to book plane tickets for Primavera this morning when I received notification that my car insurance is due for renewal in the next fortnight which is exactly when my friend needs me to put my flight money into her bank. No can do. Gah.

I have since decided to spend July in NYC/Brooklyn. 2 or so weeks. Yep.

My cat AKA The Fugitive still spends all her time behind the sofa. A few minutes ago I caught her peeking at me while I was eating, she them retreated. I just want her to snuggle dammit!

I was in France last week traveling and driving with Enablers. I met some truly splendid people there, particularly in Tours and I ate a shit load of amazing cheese, drank good wine, ate nice cake and listened to good records back at peoples houses.

We then went to Rhaaa Lovely which was ace. The people who organize and run the festival are super sweet, on top of everything and fun. The bands were great too in particular, The CJ Boyd Sexxtet who played in the nude; despite that, I really enjoyed the music. Hung out with them, couldn't not imagine/wish them naked.

Sleeping People were great too and thoroughly nice folks also. Rien from France was the 1st band I saw that day and I really enjoyed their set. Dead Meadow were repetitive, fun to watch though and funny to watch backstage. Sooooo Grateful Dead maaan.

When I was driving out of Paris, I encountered 4 fender benders before we even reached the periph!! Crazy bastards!

Um, yeah. I love the mainland dammit.