Open Bar: Subpoenaed by Congress, but still refusing to testify

[Freeky]

vegetables are fucking expensive, and it might prove to be equally expensive to grow our own but we could theoretically sell excess at a farmer's market.

tbh the acreage would be for the horses. we're both dead set on having a couple

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

horses are good companions, and vegetables aren't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[altered]

Could be either, it sounds like. What helps me with cluster headaches...

Get the room as cold as possible to withstand without extra clothes. I have been setting the temperature to about 68F, YMMV.

Eat some high fat dairy or meat foods. Especially good is ice cream, it's also cold. This was inspired by learning that animal fats very efficiently produce DHA for the brain and nervous system to do basic maintenance on itself, but I imagine it works for other reasons too. Lots of reasons for this to have a useful effect.

Brush your teeth. The focus takes away from the agony, so it's easier for pain reduction tactics to actually work. Better still, tooth sensation is on the trigeminal nerve, so it interferes with the pain signals in the case of cluster headaches directly (cluster headaches are a kind of trigeminal neuralgia).

This goes with all the usual stuff: dark quiet spaces, lay down comfortably, etc. But I've had limited to no success with those, these (especially combined) work wonders.

Have you tried the ice pack behind the neck trick? I've had some luck.

That only helps if I don't actually put it behind the neck but on the throat, and it's very ... I don't know the word for it, in game design we call it "swingy". Either you wait a second too long with it there and you start to feel like you're dying of fever and your brain is shutting down or you wait a second too long to put it back and all the pain restarts in an eye blink.

Behind the neck just does nothing but distract for other pain relief methods to kick in for me. That's why I prefer cooling the room to just past the point where my fingers and toes are unhappy with me. Granted, I'm also currently in a hotel, so I'm not paying those utility bills.

[Freeky]

Could be either, it sounds like. What helps me with cluster headaches...

Get the room as cold as possible to withstand without extra clothes. I have been setting the temperature to about 68F, YMMV.

Eat some high fat dairy or meat foods. Especially good is ice cream, it's also cold. This was inspired by learning that animal fats very efficiently produce DHA for the brain and nervous system to do basic maintenance on itself, but I imagine it works for other reasons too. Lots of reasons for this to have a useful effect.

Brush your teeth. The focus takes away from the agony, so it's easier for pain reduction tactics to actually work. Better still, tooth sensation is on the trigeminal nerve, so it interferes with the pain signals in the case of cluster headaches directly (cluster headaches are a kind of trigeminal neuralgia).

This goes with all the usual stuff: dark quiet spaces, lay down comfortably, etc. But I've had limited to no success with those, these (especially combined) work wonders.

Have you tried the ice pack behind the neck trick? I've had some luck.

That only helps if I don't actually put it behind the neck but on the throat, and it's very ... I don't know the word for it, in game design we call it "swingy". Either you wait a second too long with it there and you start to feel like you're dying of fever and your brain is shutting down or you wait a second too long to put it back and all the pain restarts in an eye blink.

'finnicky?'

[chaotic neutral observer]

That only helps if I don't actually put it behind the neck but on the throat, and it's very ... I don't know the word for it, in game design we call it "swingy". Either you wait a second too long with it there and you start to feel like you're dying of fever and your brain is shutting down or you wait a second too long to put it back and all the pain restarts in an eye blink.

"Metastable"?

[Suu]

That only helps if I don't actually put it behind the neck but on the throat, and it's very ... I don't know the word for it, in game design we call it "swingy". Either you wait a second too long with it there and you start to feel like you're dying of fever and your brain is shutting down or you wait a second too long to put it back and all the pain restarts in an eye blink.

"Metastable"?

Bethesda?

[Doktor Howl]

vegetables are fucking expensive, and it might prove to be equally expensive to grow our own but we could theoretically sell excess at a farmer's market.

tbh the acreage would be for the horses. we're both dead set on having a couple

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

Experience life in FreekyVision.

[Suu]

vegetables are fucking expensive, and it might prove to be equally expensive to grow our own but we could theoretically sell excess at a farmer's market.

tbh the acreage would be for the horses. we're both dead set on having a couple

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

Experience life in FreekyVision.

C O M P A N I O N S

[Suu]

Five kingdoms in the SCA just tossed racists out. This has been a long time coming.

This latest round of protests, plus everybody being stuck at home, really is bringing out the best in people. I have a whole new appreciation for who my friends are, and aren't, that's for fucking sure.

[chaotic neutral observer]

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

horses are good companions, and vegetables aren't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Does grass grow during the winter?

[The Johnny]

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

horses are good companions, and vegetables aren't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Does grass grow during the winter?

I read in a blog that horses do tho.

[minuspace]

Who said Furry?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM5x7lFSw4w

[The Johnny]

Who said Furry?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM5x7lFSw4w

So that's what happened to Phantogram.

[minuspace]

Who said Furry?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM5x7lFSw4w

So that's what happened to Phantogram.

Yeah, I told him to never, ever go outside... But nooo.

[Junkenstein]

vegetables are fucking expensive, and it might prove to be equally expensive to grow our own but we could theoretically sell excess at a farmer's market.

tbh the acreage would be for the horses. we're both dead set on having a couple

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

Experience life in FreekyVision.

C O M P A N I O N S

No one's even bringing up the literal shit shoveling required? Seriously, I know horse people and they live in perpetual shit. Their lives revolve around dung removal.

[altered]

vegetables are fucking expensive, and it might prove to be equally expensive to grow our own but we could theoretically sell excess at a farmer's market.

tbh the acreage would be for the horses. we're both dead set on having a couple

I am somewhat curious about the context in which vegetables are prohibitively expensive, but horses aren't.

Experience life in FreekyVision.

C O M P A N I O N S

No one's even bringing up the literal shit shoveling required? Seriously, I know horse people and they live in perpetual shit. Their lives revolve around dung removal.

My first relationship was with a horse girl. She was built like a fantasy dwarf, carried hundreds of pounds one handed without help, and couldn't wear half of her clothes to her uni classes because they were either goofy goth-industrial cosplay things or permanently shit-stained from mucking the stables at home — some six months prior.

There were two closets. One was for "grocery shopping and casual errands" and you could tell which one even without opening it.

To be clear, these clothes were very washed. Horse dung is just fucking tenacious.