Author: Teel

I just wanted to let everyone know I’m having a migraine, so you can see that i really don’t get them very often. This is the first one I’ve had since the last time i posted about the subject. Also, the pre-headache blindness was primarily on the right side of my vision this time, so it probably isn’t some nasty tumor on the right side of my brain. If it’s a tumor, it’s probably taken over my whole brain.

Luckily for me, when I mentioned to someone that I had a weird blind spot in the middle of my vision, they reminded me that I should probably take a handfull of pills and lay down for a while; I would have missed the meaning until it was perhaps too late. So, because I took plenty of the appropriate over-the-counter medicine before the pain even started, and proceeded to lay still with my eyes closed in a cool room for about an hour, hour-and-a-half, the pain only ever reached the level of the worst sinus headache a non-migraine-sufferer can get. Hooray!

I didn’t get much done this weekend by way of results most of you can see. I spent several hours yesterday finalizing my playlist for the Burn, Baby Burn! CDs I will be mailing out today (Today is the deadline to have them put in the mail. Go figure.) I may post the playlist in a few days, once the CDs have had a chance to get where they’re going. I had hoped to get work finished on Modern Evil this weekend, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t do ANYTHING to it since I left work Friday, so … soon, but .. not yet.

I did get a lot done otherwise. I saw four movies, all of which I enjoyed (though some of the people that joined be didn’t think as highly of them). I was particularly busy all day Saturday, and have almost nothing to show for it. I did my laundry. Let’s see.. what else?

Did any of you see the Brak show last night? Hilarious. And Insomniac was in Tempe, so that was good, too. *yawn* I should probably have gone to bed sooner, but between late night TV & folding laundry, I felt compelled to stay up until it was over. I’m going to go work on Modern Evil some more, and hopefully when I finish that, I’ll post more here.

I just thought I’d remind everyone that today is 1.1.10.-1, meaning that exactly 30 days from now it will be 1.1.1.0. The paranoid among you will want to be sure to have rations, clean water, and perhaps some weapons onhand, because from the various descriptions I’ve heard, you may need to be able to fend for yourself after this month. The spiritual among you will want to be sure to make your peace with God before the month is out; from what I hear, the end of the world, the 2nd coming of Christ, or some other general apocalypse is supposed to occur in 30 days. I don’t actually know what/if the rest of you think about the beginning of the zero year of a calendar I have been counting up to for eight or nine of your calendar years, but take heed: I know I have plans for after that particular calendar date.

My family has a traditional holiday food, Baccala, that is only made one or two days a year, usually on Christmas eve/Christmas morning. I often want to have some at other times of the year (such as right now, today), but my mother refuses to make it any other time. So, I decided that I should just break down and make my own. The ingredients for it are available year-round, so the only thing really standing between me and my Baccala is my lack of a deep fryer.

I thought I’d take a gander online to see what was available before I ventured out into the world to see what was on sale in actual brick-and-mortar stores, and … let me show you. I thought I was looking for something small and traditional, like this, and I did eventually find it, and it was the price I expected, but first I found .. well … I found something that … it still doesn’t look like a deep fryer to me, here … and I guess you’re paying for … design. And before I found that normal, cheap one at Amazon, I found this much more expensive one, with … all sorts of interesting features. That one reminds my of my Maytag Neptune washing machine; it tumbles the food over and over in a low volume of fluid & claims that this process is better than the conventional process and uses less raw materials to make crispier, lower-fat foods.

So, I’ll probably either just go down to the local store and buy a $40 cheap fryer, or save up and buy the Maytag Neptune of deep fryers, the Deluxe Cool-Touch Roto Deep Fryer from DeLonghi. Because that’s just how I do things, sometimes.