friday random elevenish: “opposite of afterglow” edition
On Wednesday evening, I was driving my lovely spouse and youngest child back from a recreational activity involving frozen water, and my head started throbbing. Started in the sinuses, and progressed from there; lights of oncoming cars appearing extra intense, noise starting to bother me, all that crap.
We made it home, I took my regular pills and some extra pain killers and went straight away to bed in the dark.
Waking up the next morning, I had that unmistakable hung over feeling, even if I hadn’t had any alcohol enter my system since I enjoyed that single ale on Sunday evening while cooking dinner. I’m not sure if the headache was a full-on migraine, though the experience was so identical as to make no difference.
That said, I limped my way through the work day and its litany of meetings and got my stuff done, but did very little else the rest of the day.
Feeling mostly better this morning; let’s hope it sticks. I’ve got nothing really on the agenda for the weekend, which is, I think, for the best. The weather looks a bit shit anyway, although it looks a bit more that way to the northeast.
Apart from the cranial business, I got a few things of note done this week. It took less than a minute to complete my begging brief to get one of my programs funded for the year, and took my first bike ride of the year on Tuesday when the weather was sort of decent; that felt good. I’ll take successes where I can get ’em.
So tunes – kind of all over the place this week – couple of great indie signature guitar licks in tracks #5 (excellent local fellow I’ll catch in a club one day) and #10 (until recently, the only tune from these guys you’d ever hear on the radio), then settling into mostly 90s AAA rock, which, sure…fine.
- “Expectations” – Katie Pruitt
- “Drive Me, Crazy” – Orville Pick
- “Never Get Ahead” – Bobby Conn
- “Too Good” – Arlo Parks
- “Genuine Hesitation” – Matthew E. White
- “Won’t Stand Down” – Muse
- “Bite Me” – Avril Lavigne
- “Howlin’ For You” – The Black Keys
- “Never Let You Go” – Third Eye Blind
- “Float On” – Modest Mouse
- “Wake Up” – Rage Against The Machine
- “Til I Hear It From You” – Gin Blossoms
- “I Want You To Want Me” – Cheap Trick
- “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” – The Darkness
- “Alive” – Pearl Jam
