My brain hurts!

Did you ever have one of those headaches that feels like your skull is being torn in half?  That is my head (X 10) right now.  I've had this headache all day; it just lingers and taunts me.  It's like my mind has a mind of its own.

At times like these, I like to embrace the comfort of comedy.  Simple phrases like "My brain hurts!" can add levity to my day and give me a small break from the monster ache in my head.

I had a co-worker once that would always laugh when I said that my brain hurt.  He said:  "That's impossible.  There are no nerve endings in your brain.  It can feel pain."

That pissed me off and he knew it.  Come on... it's classic Monty Python for Pete's sake.

I've tried everything today:

• Lots of water
• Herbal teas
• That so called pressure point (between your thumb and index finger)
• Cold compress
• Parsley
• Resting my eyes
• Closing my ears
• Getting fresh air
• Airing my grievences
• Threatening my brain
• Writing with my left hand
• Misdirection
• Bounce laundry fabric
• Intergalactic meditation

Nothing helped.  MY BRAIN STILL HURTS!  I'm sure it's not a migraine... I'm told I'd be sensitive to everything and crying like a little girl.

A better description of my Irritated Medulla Oblongata would be that scene in Dead Snow.  One of the guys was being pulled out of a window by a group of undeads.  His head didn't quite fit through the opening.  After a vigorous volley of pulling and twisting, guess what popped out and schplopped on the floor?  You guessed it.


Makes my brain hurt even more thinking about it.

Popcorn Ceilings

How could someone associate a textured ceiling mess to popcorn?

I'm not a huge fan of popcorn, but the odd handful can be quite nice.  That buttery (or liquid topping as it is called here in Canada*) sloppy mess you get in theatres is something to be desired.  Especially when you finish the whole thing during the "Coming Soon" lineup.

By the time the movie starts your stomach is aching and no amount of pop can get rid of that taste.  You stand in line for the movie, you stand in line for the treats, you sit through 20 minutes of features, and then you're uncomfortable during the whole movie.

Prepared correctly, popcorn can be a fine treat.  Air popping is the best; keep away from Jiffy Pop and such though.  I don't know if there is a defacto popcorn kernel out there.  If there is I'm sure Alton Brown would know of it.

I decided to investigate the history of popcorn ceilings and found THIS.  That's all I found; I didn't want to put too much effort into it.

The stuff is horrible to work with.  Especially when it is dry.  Painting it leaves flaky little dust-like globs everywhere.  Breathing it in is a pain.  Removing it is touted as EASY, but come on... Saturate it with water and scrape it off?  Truth be told, it would then most likely have the same consistency and taste of sloppy movie theatre popcorn.


* I had to footnote Canada just to emphasize the fact

Sandpaper

That sound! That horrible sound!

Dry sandpaper on a dry wall.  (Can you tell that we're renovating?)  How do people do that without cringing?  It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

According to many a scientist, the repulsion we feel when we hear sounds like these are a product of evolution.  The repulsion keeps us away.  The sound is more than likely linked to a warning call; hearing it would repulse the receptor, allowing (it, him, her?) to be repulsed another day.

That sound is apparently not the worst thing we hear.  It ranks 16th in the list of bad sounds.  Vomiting is the number one sound found to be most repulsive.  I personally think fingernails on a chalkboard is worse (vomitting sounds have become so passe now on cartoons and sitcoms).

The most classic fingernail on the chalkboard scene in a movie has to be in Jaws.  That movie scared the bejesus out of me back in the day.  I was practically a toddler back then when I saw it in the theater.  Now, like many horrors of those days, it's a comedy.

How did we get so desensitized to horror?  Movies like It's Alive, The Exorcist, Grizzly... Thise were scary back then.  Now you see that same genre on regular TV.

I'm not complaining.  I think it's healthy for people to be able to face their fears in some form or another.  I just wish I could truly appreciate the comedy in those movies back then.

Another annoying sound is hamster poop rolling around in the hamster balls.  You let those things loose in the protective bubble of a hard plastic ball and they immediately fill it up with their poopie mcnuggets.

SUNDAY

Drats... The weekend is over.

I didn't even notice it go by.

Oh well.  Hello Monday.

The planet

Not this planet... The other one... Saturn.

Today is Saturday.  This has something to do with the planet Saturn.  Sort of like how Monday is a shortened form of Moonday.

If this is indeed Saturn day, I wish it would have some effect on my Saturn Ion.

I am learning to hate that car.  Yes, it is old, but come on....... Is it healthy for the engine to rev that high?

Friday at last

So.  Today.  BEING FRIDAY.  I noticed the following news stories:

CANADA FX DEBT-C$ in tight range ahead of US data
Canadian Dollar Shows Mixed Trading Against Majors
Business owners eye US real estate investments
Zimbabwe: Stock Exchange Suffers Big Losses over Indigenization Law
Drake Debuts First “Thank Me Now” Single “Over”
Your search - vatican scandal - did not match any documents.
Your search - news - did not match any documents.

WOW.  Hard news for a Friday (which is today and NOT actually yesterday).

Through the magic of the internet, this entry MAY seem to have been posted on Saturday, but it WASN'T.

TODAY IS FRIDAY!

BOW BEFORE MY AWESOME POWER!!!!

Today's number

Today's number is 15.

Why? You ask.  Would you question a website like this:  http://www.todaysnumberis.com/ ?