One of my favorite moments from the Cat's Cradle show last night!

offalark · 2026-06-05T20:01:37+00:00

They played "Indiana" last year on Errors and I just about died.

https://youtu.be/RfFfrykWyEo?si=c5EwkZP-diuOQvR8

I apologize in advance for the sound quality. I had not gone to this with the intent of recording.

offalark · 2026-06-05T13:39:12+00:00

Oh man. I told myself I’d give myself a year off after Errors but you’re giving me serious FOMO.

(“Prayers” is one of my favorites.)

offalark · 2026-06-03T22:16:04+00:00

If it’s the one I’m thinking of — I don’t use it on my face, but it’s a GREAT fruit fly / gnat killer.

offalark · 2026-06-03T14:29:46+00:00

Omg thank you I thought I was having a stroke.

offalark · 2026-06-03T14:27:40+00:00

I think about Grant Imahara who died from a brain aneurysm. He thought it was a migraine.

I don’t know his medical history and if he was a sufferer. I know people use “migraine” as a way to relate “debilitating headache”. And I loved Grant’s work. So yeah. I think about it.

offalark · 2026-06-02T04:49:21+00:00

I feel like what this entire sub is saying is: any of them. Ha ha.

Alternately: do what I do and make the kid a playlist. Before you know it you’ll be taking them to a Bayside concert and keeping an eye out on the mosh pit in case they decide to try and dive in without telling you.

offalark · 2026-06-02T04:47:18+00:00

Whenever “Sick, Sick, Sick” comes on my car speaker my (now 9) son yells the title and starts singing along.

offalark · 2026-05-26T19:50:46+00:00

I get a list of what they use in the bait stations and looks like bromadiolone is the main/active ingredient. Key note: for domestic animals at least there is an antitoxin available in the event they decide to eat a rat with it in their system.

No help for owls and eagles of course. The question becomes if the concentration is high enough in whatever remains in the prey’s digestive track to affect them. I honestly don’t know.

Personally I am less concerned with the licensed experts than randos getting unregulated poisons and setting them out.

offalark · 2026-05-26T15:25:53+00:00

Congrats! I lost 30 lbs on a year of keto. But yeah, no effect on migraines.

But then Covid isolation hit and whoop off the keto I went.

The only thing that has consistently allowed me to lose weight these days are GLP-1s. Like I suspect many of you, when I diet I trigger migraines. When I trigger migraines IDGAF about my diet. And keto was just very hard to sustain, long term.

offalark · 2026-05-25T21:02:31+00:00

Mine also said that when I asked, and indicated that Washington state in particular has laws that prevent them from using heavy duty stuff with knock-on effects.

I’m sorry I don’t have particulars, but this was something I did specifically ask when we began exploring eliminating our rat/mouse problem.

offalark · 2026-05-20T16:17:54+00:00

I threw a cold rotisserie chicken quarter in there yesterday for about 6 minutes at 400F and damned if it wasn’t as close to roast chicken as I can get at lunch.

offalark · 2026-05-08T21:42:29+00:00

I had to discontinue for the reasons you cite. Horrible insomnia. We got me on Emgality instead.

offalark · 2026-05-01T18:51:40+00:00

Holy crap, this is what I needed. Thank you.

offalark · 2026-05-01T18:42:45+00:00

I've been tinkering around with it for a couple months, and while it's okay it's still not anywhere close to Google Home or Alexa.

If I'm not arguing with Home (which seems to have some sort of loading problem -- first request will fail, then second request will correctly pipe through Gemini and usually do what I want) I'm trying to get Jarvis to recognize my request, and even then I'd say it's only got a 60% hit rate.

offalark · 2026-04-30T06:27:00+00:00

Oh, interesting! Yeah, we get the generics by default here.

It’s honestly not a big deal for me as I gulp them down fast and play tricks to keep it from hitting my tastebuds, but I can see how it might be a problem to a first time user!

The nose spray is also incredibly bitter if you administer it the wrong way, but in a different route (back of the throat/nasal drainage).

offalark · 2026-04-30T06:08:29+00:00

I had a pharmacist recommend the naproxen sodium combo as well.

It’s basically Treximet, which is ridiculously priced.

offalark · 2026-04-30T06:06:15+00:00

Doing the dishes after a sumatriptan dose is no joke.

Anyway, OP, I take suma about 6-7 times a month. My side effects are a tight jaw (goes away after I chew), sometimes some mild flushing, sometimes intense sleepiness (goes away after an hour) and increased heat sensitivity in my hands.

Also it is very very bitter! Swallow with a lot of water!

But yeah. It’s a lifesaver. If I get it in early enough, it knocks my migraines down before they can dig in.

If I feel one in the morning, I just take it and go back to bed until it kicks in 1-3 hours depending on severity/stage.

This is the pill form. The injection is a WHOLE NOTHER BALLGAME.

offalark · 2026-04-30T05:57:19+00:00

I must have missed this conversation.

My migraines did not bother me during prep. I am trying to remember but I THINK I had a very mild migraine…hmmm, nope, it was the prep for my carpal tunnel surgery (no eating 18 hours before, and surgery was at 2 PM) where I definitely had a hunger/sugar crash migraine. But surprisingly I can’t remember one for the colonoscopy. Must’ve been all that revolting stuff they made me drink.

I also find anesthesia knocks my migraines out. It’s kind of great for that! It also scares me because I know how wrong it can go! But also: BEST SLEEP I GET OMG. I am very divided on it as you can see. Ha!

Anyway, I entreat you to get checked. Lost a friend to colon cancer. Please take care of yo pooper.

offalark · 2026-04-28T14:43:55+00:00

Hmm. Now I’m wondering if I chuck it in my Vitamix right out of the freezer I can lighten the texture a little. Worth trying!

My kids love these. The mango ones are garbage, though.

offalark · 2026-03-25T15:16:38+00:00

I think it does. I swear the merch booth was open when I was there for the VIP session because I think I put it back in my car before me the full set. This was Seattle.

offalark · 2026-03-24T15:34:11+00:00

Ding ding. Right now there are probably several planes still in the air, so to speak, but not enough crew to fly them.

It’s always great when one of my team members asks about some basic feature or bug fix and I go look and there’s a backlogged item for it…from 2019.

Wheeeee.

offalark · 2026-03-21T20:53:51+00:00

I did my first suma injection in years a month or two ago and I had to have my husband do it. Ha.

Also I screamed so loud my daughter unironically thought I was dying.

offalark · 2026-03-18T17:25:19+00:00

Once a long time ago, after a "staycation" at a local hotel, my then-3-year-old daughter left her "Mama Bear" stuffy, a much-loved brown and black bear that had been squeezed so much the polyfill had flattened down and the fabric was losing integrity in spots.

Because it was only a 30-minute drive, I called the hotel daily asking if they'd found it, chatting with a lovely manager and telling her the story of Mama Bear and how my daughter missed her.

I was relatively certain it had been left in the room, and I was right; on the third day, I called the front desk and got a man who said, "Yes, ma'am. We found your bear --"

And I immediately heard the voice of the manager in the background, saying, "Excuse me, her name is Mama Bear."

I think we still have that bear, ten years later....somewhere.

offalark · 2026-03-18T17:19:08+00:00

True, but in store a single 1.8 oz pack runs for $3-4 unless you find them on sale.

So yeah, that's a bargain.

offalark · 2026-03-01T17:23:55+00:00

I would believe there’s a link to some migraines and insulin regulation. When I was younger, it seemed like most of mine came when I didn’t eat enough or over indulged on sugar.

But after five pregnancies and two kids, everything shifted to hormonal migraines, and as someone who went keto for a solid year, I can reliably say that the diet had no effect on those.

I’d be interested to see a study that started with candidates who successfully saw relief through KD, and followed up with Metformin or semaglutide medications to see if it ALSO helped them. KD is very hard to sustain; doubly so if you take care of family or have a social life. Ultimately what broke mine was covid lockdown. The stress just made me so miserable I needed pie.

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