This episode of Roderick Online was recorded on Monday, January 22nd, 2018.

It's a good one.

Hi, Merlin.

How's it going?

Slow.

Slow and low.

Mm-hmm.

That is my tempo.

Mm.

Yeah, me too.

I had a migraine last night.

Oh, Merlin.

Yes, yes.

I'm sorry.

Oh, you know, I'd complain, but who'd listen?

Me!

I ate the booger.

I've discovered that I really enjoy some herbal teas, like a celestial seasoning. So I've been drinking a lot of that. And apparently, I think I neglected to drink anything with caffeine in it all day yesterday. Oh, oh. Which I didn't notice until about nine o'clock last night. Uh, uh, mm-hmm. I thought, oh, 9 o'clock headache. Nine o'clock headache, you'll clear right up. I'll just go to bed. Uh-oh, tinky, winky, wimsy-dupsy. I woke up at midnight and no. Oh, shit. Yeah, no, but you know, it's, it's sometimes I can talk myself out of it. I'm no John Roderick, but sometimes I can say to myself, I am feeling this pain, but the pain's not going to bother me. I will just feel the pain as a thing, and I'm not going to let it trouble me. I'm going to power through this or unpower through this. I will be mellow about this and not stress about this and that will be okay. And I eventually got to sleep. It worked. It kind of works. I mean, I got up and I did the usual thing of like, you know, don't, they say don't stay in bed if you can't sleep. So I got up and I took a shower, took a hot shower and I moaned. I did this lot. Oh, no. Yeah, and I put it on that special thunderous setting, you know, where it hits you really hard on the neck. Yeah, sometimes if you've got a normal headache, that can actually help a lot. Because I think part of it is when you're feeling this is super interesting. Whenever you've got like a pain or a headache or a something, I think your body overcompensates and tightens up, and then that just makes it worse.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you don't experience pain.

Uh, well.

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