Migraines are such fun.  In case you didn't realize it, that's sarcasm.  I guess that's all I can be at the moment.  I either need to do that or whine and I think I whine too much.  Gee, I even got a whine smiley made for me by a friend.

My left temple should explode at any moment.  I need a pressure relief device installed on that vein on my left temple.  It feels like a piece of rubber tubing under the skin.  And the iminent explosion will knock the windows out of the house when it happens.  Okay, it's wishful thinking that it will happen 'cause that would surely bring relief.  God knows that I want relief, but I don't get everything that I ask for.  So maybe just some temporary oblivion, maybe?

Is that what it can be called when you take time off from something/anything?  I did take a weekend and go to a Sanuces Ryu Summit.  I met alot of higher ups in the Sanuces Ryu Ju-Jitsu world.  It was great to meet them and talk with them.  A really great weekend.  Then I came home after a few days away and my perpetual migraine exploded.

A couple of bad episodes with the migraine, and I take a week off of the computer.  Now the withdrawals are killing me....along with the headache.  Oh well.

I haven't really found out what I'm good at, but I must be good at something.  Or maybe it's just this time in the morning that's telling me otherwise and I'm being sarcastic.  I dunno'!

Whinning King

The last couple of weeks have been really hard.  The barometric pressure changes so much and just seems to magnify the migraines.  It's interesting because in the last week I told two people that I thought knew something about me that I still continue to have migraines everyday.  They both acted shocked.  One of them is my family doctor.  I don't have a clue what's up with that, but I kinda' feel that he don't have a clue either.  Well, I have had 29 days without a migraine since the car accident, so I shouldn't be whinning.  Hmm, the wreck was only in '98.  Now I'm still a wreck in '06.

But I'm trying hard to help my mind and physical body.  I think the Tai Chi Chuan is helping both.  And I'm trying to read more.  However, there's just those days, like right now, at this early hours.  I've only slept for about 2 days solid, now I'm awake.  But, I'm having a hard time staying awake even as I type this.

Gee, this is why I sometimes, lots of times don't write.  I want to say something useful, but instead I blog a "whine".  Geemyknee.

Something Useful

Kinda' make up your own paragraph here.  I just can't think of something at the moment.  Too many things that I can't seem to handle keep me trying to stay in the second paragraph.... the whine one.

Type in 2 or 3 words and watch a blog start being created.  The code works when I type it in the post box, but not always on my site.  So if it doesn't work, go here and play with it yourself.

Meds

My Hunni had already diagnosed it a long time ago, but now it's official.... I have Restless Leg Syndrome.  She's always touching my leg while we're sitting together to remind me to stop "vibrating".  I usually stop, well, as long as I'm thinking about NOT doing it.  But, after a little while, it's back to doing it.  My leg has a little voice in it that says move, and who am I to argue.  Night time is even worse with all the movement.  The very worse part is that feeling of something crawling on the inside of my calf, not like a cramp, but like some liquid snake easing along about an inch deep in my leg.  I've grabbed it to capture it, but it vanishes.  I thought of sticking it one night with one of my knives, but then thought better of it.

So, after the doc finally told me what it was, he prescribed a couple of meds: Requip and Soma.  I have a two week packet that gets consecutively stronger of the Requip and I started Monday.  I might have expected too much, but I've been really tired everyday this week, sick feeling, and the migraines continue.  If this is helping, this really sucks!

I think I'm going to try for a record of the most Syndromes for Ripley's book.  Nah, as much as I whine around, there's always someone less fortunate than me.

MY Hunni

I've been blessed, greatly blessed, to have my Hunni that sticks in there with me (falling apart and all, me that is falling apart) even when she's been advised to leave me.  It's great that she's there for me.  I don't know where I'd be without her.  BTW, I find it hard to believe that people would tell one partner to leave when the other partner has physical problems.  It seems that it happens all too often.

Storming Again

We got one hayfield, alias our front yard, mowed before the thunder and lightening.  Next came the rain.  Next came the no mowing of the other hayfield.  Geemyknee!  It's gonna' be to my waist by the time we get it mowed, then it will be time to mow it again.  Hmm, the lights just dimmed right after I typed that.  I guess that's a warning to shutdown for now.  Okay, I'll take the hint.

I know, I look at when people post, but what makes one post in the morning and another post in the evening?  I generally posted in the evening, told about the days events or whatever was on my mind for the day, and that was it.  But lately, the evenings have not been kind to me, so it seems I post in the morning, tell about yesterdays events, and maybe whine about migraines.

And, I've almost been consistent with posting everyday!  Right...  No, don't look at the calendar.

DMo224.com

I still can't get an answer about my DMo224.com.  That used to be my site url, instead of the Xanga/username one.  Why can't I get it now?  Well, I got the name via GoDaddy the last time instead of going thru Xanga.  Xanga was more expensive, so I went with the cheaper price.  But for some reason, I can't get the DNS from Xanga for it to point to this weblog.  So what do I do?  I guess I'll just make it redirect here? 

I haven't checked in awhile, but the guy that received my email about it really didn't understand what I want.  After more emails, the reply was that they couldn't do that because of their domain name purchasing service.  Hmm, that's amazing since I can buy a domain name anywhere and usually set the DNS up anywhere else.  Come on, I've got a lifetime Xanga home, give me a break!

Maybe I need to bother John again.  I know that he's busy, but he's the one that got my only other issue answered in the past.

Exciting Tuesday?

I was really beat up from the migraine.  I was no longer at a number 10 migraine, but down to a number 5.  However, my body was so sore and aching that it was a rough day.  I got up and moved around to work out all this soreness.

Around 4:30pm, I was talking on my phone to a friend.  I generally walk back and forth while talking.  I walked out of my home office and some guy was standing just inside of my front door.  Admittedly, I had left the door open, but the storm door was closed.  How many people walk inside of a stranger's house without knocking, ringing the doorbell, or just whatever?  I dropped the phone and brought my .40 pistol to bear on this intruder (yes, round chambered, safety off, and hammer cocked).  Then I started yelling, which included for him to get his @$$ out of my house (I usually don't use any expletives like that).  He was stammering around about hanging political flyers on doorknobs and he did have his hands full with some papers.  He quickly backed out of the house and ran down the driveway out of sight.  Now, my hearts going about a zillion miles per hour.

Then I remembered to pick my phone up.  My friend was still on there and wondering what all the yelling was.  I told him what had just happened while trying to get my voice down to normal tones and to get my heart rate down in the 100s again.  Geemyknee.  It's a strange world we live in, and there's way too many criminals walking around.....and it seems like to many stupid people walking around, too.

You know, the wrong movement on his behalf, and a 1/8" movement on my behalf, and you would be reading this in the paper.  Come to think of it, I didn't see the dog and the cats until a half hour later....guess I was kinda' noisey!

Today, well, it started raining last night.  This morning has had some thunderstorms with lots of lightening.  And with the lightening came little blinks of the electricity.  So it was time to shutdown some computers to keep them from constantly re-booting from the outages.  It's just raining right now and I'm online.  Woot!

Plans

I've got alot to do.....I'm always behind...or else I've got it in my mind that I'm behind since I can't make up the days that I lost due to migraines.  Migraine today?  Yes, but I can answer yes to that every day (only at number 6 and rising today).  So, pay some more bills, admin some forums, pay more bills, check some sites, pay bills.....hmm, there's a pattern here.  The biggest plan.......survive!

It's Rough

I've got everyone fed this morning, except me.  I don't feel much like eating.  A number 9 migraine is kicking my butt and I'm whining again.  You ever have a time when you can't think?  Or don't want to think?  Or just find it painful to think?  That's today.

My son had a pretty good report from the doctor.  His seizures are less often (now only once every 2 months on the average), and that's really good.  He's also a candidate for more surgery that could be even more beneficial, but we're going to take the next 6 months to talk and think about that.

As Good As Being in the Craftsman Tools Section

My Dad, Matt, and I left WVU to drive to the Cabella's in Wheeling, WV.  Cabella's is really a great place to visit, right up there with the Craftsman tool department in Sears!!!   It's got more than just hunting and fishing stuff, and it has lots of animals to see (if you like looking at the taxidermied type).  We come away with 3 free hats and UnderArmor shirts, and I got a new tent.  Some of us can't afford campers and the vehicles to pull them with, so we still do the tent "thing"!  My new one is the Big Horn II tent, with more space and better to handle the harsher weather than my old tent.  I guess it's time to sell my old tent and my backpack tent.

We put in around 500 miles and went through 3 states yesterday with our running around.  It was a really enjoyable day.  The best part was that my migraine was at a minimum.  By late evening, it was killing me again, but that may have been due to some of the last 3+ hours of driving west and southwest into the bright sun (which bright lights kill me anyway).

Today, I just slept in and tried to shake that migraine that seems to be worsening.  Seems like it might be getting ready to storm some more.