My hair hurts. There's weather coming and I'm pretty sure that's what causing this.

Yeah, I woke up with a migraine, and we definitely have weather coming overnight.

But I am so damn sick of these migraines that I'm going to see about getting my daith pierced this weekend. I have a lot of friends with migraines who've done it, and all of them say it's helped, ranging from virtually no more migraines to lessening the intensity and/or length of their migraines.

Unlike with meds, there are no side effects. The worst thing that could happen is that my migraines remain the same, plus I have an extra piercing. (I mean, technically, the worst that could happen is that the piercing gets infected and then my ear turns gangrenous and eventually half my face falls off, but I think that has a low probability.) For $40, I'm ready to try it.

I'm late to the game, but Mental Floss always has some great nerdy rather than geeky tees. (I have "When life gives you scurvy, make lemonade!", "Idioms are for the birds," and "Whoever believes in telekinesis, raise my hand," myself and I've bought mathy ones for friends who are so inclined).

edit: Oh yeah, and "Hyperbole is the best thing ever!" I might have a problem.

Never knew what that piercing was called, Steph. Seems like it's worth the try though.

I am generally not in favor of piercing things, but I would like fewer migraines. I should mention it to the headache doctor when I see her in a couple of weeks.

OMG, I just had half an avocado on toast, topped with two strips of bacon. Hugely successful dinner. Also, I think I'm a millenial.

What with the socks. Signed, Team sock golem

I am generally not in favor of piercing things, but I would like fewer migraines.

Yeah, I haven't gotten a piercing since 1985, when I was 15 and got 1 extra piercing in my left ear (so, 1 in the right earlobe, 2 in the left) because Molly Ringwald did it.

But if piercing some weird part of my ear will mitigate my migraines, then let's do it.

Nom, Dana! Some of those millennial priorities are right on.

Of course, I almost immediately started worrying about the ethical and moral consequences of my hypothetical sock golem. Do I need to figure out how to give it free will? Will it be pissed I use electronic devices on Shabbat? Will I lose control of it and have it go on some kind of rampage because mortals shouldn't be messing with creation like that?

I am willing to test these hypotheses experimentally.

Goddamnit, I'm going to miss Brian. He tells me the buyer is nice and will be a good fit. New guy was pleased to hear his nextdoor neighbor was a football fan (not me. Poor Anna tried to watch a Super Bowl with us. We exasperated her.) And that he lit up about alley firepit.

But Brian took me to urgent care and then diner food after, to the er, gave me my bathroom sink, countless bits of nice furniture, my cats' tent...many firepit, rants, bagged leaves, dragged me out to replant the neighborhood sign, Halloween porch nights, let me take care of him & his wee dog when his foot was broke. Gawd that first winter here when I formally met him marching up his stairs with a bucket of hot water to break our ice dams across 5 houses and then we all got drunk and made pizza because his visiting boytoy had a 4 wheeler and Trinacaria was open. 2 lbs of pepperoni. We still had pepperoni a year later.

Will give new guy the full welcome.

But really gonna miss Brian. A lot.

I've offered to store/list anything he can't fit in truck/wants to sell. Partly because I can, no big, can handle it.Partly to drag him back down here.

Aw, sarameg, that's gotta be hard.