08/20/2011
Another event where my head did not hurt but I was photophobic. Again a single does of Treximet abated the symptoms without a headache forming.
08/19/2011
Not a true headache but strong photophobia, that made me think it was leading to a migraine. Took a single does of treximet and the symptoms abated.
There will not be very many ujpdates from the worldcon as the networks are jammed. Brad calls it Geek Gridlock. Too many wireless devices on the sam,e network.
That said the con is rocking and we’re being kept very busy.
So in about 25 minutes we will be hitting the road for the ten hour drive to Reno and the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention. I am excited and looking forward to the convention but this one will also have an undercurrent of sadness for me.
My friend Pat, who lived in Reno and introduced me to fanfic and Blake’s 7 passed away last year after a battle with cancer. Going to a worldocn in her town without her will be a sad affair. I will soldier on and enjoy myself, it is what she would have wanted, but ..well there it is.
08/08/11
Headache w photophobia. Took 1 treximet about 9;30 am
Awake w headache and mild photophobia. Took 1 treximet at 8:45am
So Saturday I worked 5 hours of OT at my day job. Nice money but tiring. Sunday I saw Cowboys & Aliens, decent flick but not good enough to add to my library when it is released on blu-ray. I love Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in the movie, frankly the whole cast was hitting their strong performance. The weakness is the aliens, the more you think about them the less sense they make.
I was pretty tired by the end of Sunday so there was no Sunday night movie.
I printed up copies of Love and Loyalty for the beta read and I will handing them out tomorrow. Here’s hoping that this novel will be the one that sells.
Mid morning headache with photphobia caused by stress at work. Took 1 treximet and headache subsided.
I’m nowhere near Pink Floyd’s biggest fan. I own several albums, (The Wall, Dark Side of The Moon, and Wish You Were Here) and enjoy them very much, but as you can see there is a lot I do not have. What this story is about is how I first listened to Pink Floyd.
It was the mid 1980s and I was an usher at a movie theater, UA Glasshouse 6 – no defunct and long out of business. I was involved with a lovely redhead and she and I were going through rough times. My shift had ended at the theater, but I really did not want to go home. I suffer from depression, and already in a black mood I knew it would get worse because she was not going to be there.
A life lobe love of movies had given me the avenue of escape through film. A good movie was my preferred method of getting away from my troubles and out of my head. It was late at the theater and the midnight movies would be starting soon. Free movies as an usher was the best benefit for working at the theater. I scanned the titles and found nothing I knew and flt strongly about, still I knew I did not want to go home.
hmmm, The Wall, My pal ray had told me that The Wall was a very good film and he and I tended to have similar tastes, so The Wall it was.
I was not prepared for a film that was entirely music and visual, but I settled in and let the film wash over me. Quickly disturbing parallels between ‘Pink’ the subject of The Wall and myself revealed themselves. We both lost our father’s when we were young, a devastating event, we were both artistically inclined, we both kept most people at a distance, had lovely redheaded girlfriends, but relationship troubles, and both given to wild mood swings. (ahh yes, One Of My Turns is a song I very much identify with.)
This movie was NOT cheering me up. I felt like I was drowning in a sea of depression and that to quote another song, “he was killing me softly.”
I made it through the screening with my wrists intact, and my head throughly spinning. The music stuck with me. The songs reverberated in my skull and while my depression lifted, as it always will do given enough time, the impact of that film and those songs did not.
Being horribly depressed is not my recommended introduction to Pink Floyd and The Wall, but it did work for me.