Headache cure

 Last night, among other things, I cooked up a shrimp curry using S&B curry powder that comes in a little can. It was good, but right after eating it my headache kicked in and got worse and worse. I eventually went to bed and could barely get any sleep due to the headache. 

I eventually decided that every time I pee, I'll drink a mug of water. I went on this way for a few hours and the headache went away. I have to conclude that there's something in S&B curry powder that makes me likely to have a headache, a property it shares, at least for me, with Miller beer, and that my headaches are probably the result of not drinking enough water. 

I finally got up at 5 in the afternoon, headache gone. I had coffee and a Lipovitan and set out a bit before 6, to go up to Lowe's for a gallon of Windex and some paper towels. First I stopped at the veggie dumpster and fished out some zucchini's, keeping one for myself. I went to Tom's and gave him a bag with 3-4 zucchini's in it and said Now I have time to see your "new crib". He's wanted to show me this yesterday. 

So I stashed the bike inside and we went to the loft in back which is now the "entertainment room". Tom has put paneling up, painted, put a couch in, etc. We sat on the couch and talked about stuff, and I suggested we go eat somewhere. He wanted to go to this Japanese place he'd recently discovered, so we got in his truck and went there. 

We sat down and ordered, myself the scallop appetizer and the tempura dinner, and Tom the scallop appetizer and the salmon dinner. Thank goodness the waitress only brought one scallop appetizer because it was big! The food was pretty good, and the way Tom went through his I gave him my rice, which I wasn't going to eat anyway, and some of my tempura too. We talked about random things and I talked up Yu-Ai-Kai which is a senior citizens type thing in Japantown with a lot of neat classes and stuff. You only have to be over 55 to join. 

There were yuppies talking about big corporation type stuff all around us, and I joked with Tom that a person could sit there and collect all kinds of information, and put on "glass ceiling", a web site where you can dish the dirt on your workplace. 

All in all it was a pretty nice dinner. It came to about $50, I put $20 in and Tom put $40 and told the waitress to keep the change. I pointed out on the way back that Tom could walk out to the light rail station and take it up a few stops and be right there so he'd not even need to drive his truck. 

We got back to Tom's and I got my bike out and we said our farewells to Colin, who's leaving tonight for the Pacific Northwest somewhere in his van. He's got new tires and money saved up and everything. 

After I said Bye to them both I rode up to Lowe's and got a gallon of Windex, and while looking at the grills realized I could take one of those little charcoal starter things and use it as a small grill. I just want something small and cheap and easy to use and store, and one of those would work pretty well. I just want to be able to grill a few shrimp and veggies. 

I went over to H Mart and got a small cabbage, purple as it turns out because for some reason they cost a lot less than the pale green ones. And a cucumber. I had $2 in my wallet left plus a bunch of change, then I realized I might have enough points to get a $10 gift certificate and I did, so I got that and got some things including some kim chee gyoza which are half-price in the evening. You have to spend all of the $10 certificate, but in my own case I only ever think to use one when I'm skint, so I have to go just barely over $10. 

I rode back here; I'd been out until 8 which is like being out until 11 in the before times.