Low of Mood
It's been a pretty mediocre first three months of 2026 if I'm honest.
At the end of last year I cut out most caffeine and dairy in an attempt to pin down a increase in gut and migraine problems, and while it seemed to help a bit in the short term it's been grim for the last couple of months. I've been given sumatriptan and taken it a couple of times to try to manage them, and it's been... mixed. The peak of pain seems blunted, but replaced by a malaise that feels warm and heavy like a weighted blanket around my shoulders. That migraine hangover of feeling like I got kicked inside the brain still comes about, but less pain is probably better.
Big problem is that I can kind of work through a medicated migraine, so I got fuck-all rest today.
I'm pretty confident still that there's no sinister major problem causing all this - I just hate rolling the dice on "having a day" while I wait for test results and appointments. I'm to keep a headache diary but habitually filling out a form every day? Couldn't be me.
To be honest, I just learned that an extremely formative musician of my teens is dying and I won't be able to see them live again and it's got me morose. It's a bit of a kick in the gut. This post serves as a little woe-is-me beacon to say I'm still about even when I'm not posting.
I have a couple of posts half-formed, but it's been difficult to get them together. Going to start going back to my Blaugust approach of smaller posts when the fog clears to get back going, but that's still a few weeks away most likely.
Oh, one good thing - Slay the Spire 2 is good, and the multiplayer fucking rules?? That's been cool.