Rockhoppers Presents Trilogy

Last night Trilogy played for a nice crowd. We love our local musicians! Here's the video.

Music on Whidbey Island.

Rockhoppers Presents Lizzardz

Craig Stevenzz and Julezz Robertson are Lizzardz. They're here every other Thursday night, so if you're a fan of hard-charging guitar rock, come check them out. Here's the videos of their set from Thursday night.

Music on Whidbey Island.

Photoblog Friday

Today's photoblog is not as prolific as some of the others I feature, however it uses it's spare selection to great effect. Besides focusing on photos from the world's great bicycle races, Information Junk carries wonderful photos with a wide variety.

Photos on Whidbey Island.

Comic Tuesday

The Joy of Tech comic lives on an annoying, ad-filled webpage, and is the primary comic feature of a site that both is, and intends to be, much more than just a comic. That said, the pithy observations of technology and culture are excellent, and once you figure out how to navigate you can't stop checking out the archive.

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June is Here

Happy Happy June!!! As you can see we have a few Saturdays open so if you want to help fill them with music or an event please let me know!

Rockhoppers is going to do something radical this summer. Beginning today June 1, Rockhoppers will be open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 2:00PM to 10:00PM. We will also be open Saturdays 9:00AM to 10:00PM and Sundays from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. Rockhoppers is closed on Wednesdays. If you have an event that you want to hold during the times we are closed Rockhoppers will gladly work with your schedule and see if we can accomodate you.

It is almost summer here and it truly does not get any better so enjoy and hopefully we will see you in the shop! Bring on the music and the art and we will have a ball!!!

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The Migraine

I have been afflicted with migraines off and on for over 25 years. I'm lucky, generally they're mild headaches and last only a short time (less than 24 hours). Unfortunately, my body has decided to be really confused, and has created "female problems" for me. UGH! Because the hormones are all out of whack, I've been getting more migraines than normal, and they have been far more severe. The first doozy was 3 weeks ago and my head ached for 5 days, and four of those I was overly sensitive to light and sound. Luckily, the one that hit me yesterday was more normal, visual disturbance followed by a mild headache and this morning, I'm pretty much back to normal.

I didn't start writing this to complain about my health, really! What I wanted to share with you was the fact that, if not for the headache that often follows, the visual disturbance is kind of cool. If you've experienced it, need I say more? If not, there's no real good way for me to describe it. I did find a web site that has images drawn by artistic migraine sufferers depicting what they see. Just surfing around at this site was interesting.

I also found this video at Mayo clinic with a description of the migraine aura (what I call the visual disturbance). Video: Migraine aura You probably won't want to watch it all, but the section on the aura has a video depicting a typical aura. Unless of course, you wish to further educate yourself!

Then these You-tube videos describe it pretty well, too!

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Thought for the Week

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse
Anon

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