Hey hey, it's Saturday. (Now with 100% less blackface. And 100% more Saturday.)

Dear God Livejournal, my back hurts.

I don't know if it's from tossing and turning the other night when I actually tried to sleep in my bed, from trying to sleep on the couch, from crouching over my laptop all the time instead of alternating between it and the desktop, from my tired back muscles finding painful new ways to spasm... actually, it's probably all of the above. It's been a pretty epic pinching sort of pain for going on 12 hours now. I've got heat on it. I don't know what else I can do except for sitting tight. I'm plugging away at MoarMU, but the pain is a bit distracting.

My lack of time sense snuck up on me last night when I noticed Jack was online and decided to pop onto AIM to talk to him for "just a little bit". Five hours later... gah. I need to set an alarm if I do things like that. This is unfamiliar territory for me.

The good news is that I'm exhausted. This is good news because I'm used to it taking several more days of sleeplessness before I feel like this. I'll probably crash sometime today and sleep for real, and then I'll be able to rebuild my sleep cycle.

New desktop computer is on a truck for delivery today... I didn't know FedEx ground deliveries were made on Saturdays, and I almost didn't believe the initial ETA, but it says on truck for delivery. I doubt I'll do anything with it today, the way my back is. But it's on the way. And my newsmart phone should get here Monday. The computer's important in the long run but I sorely miss having a working smart phone to help me keep track of things. Google Calendar is helpful, but... well, I'm anxious to see how the Palm webOS integration with it works.

Arriving along with the computer is an external hard drive that I'm going to have my dead computer's contents dumped onto. It's network accessible, which should make it so much easier for me to switch between working on my lappy and working on the new compy as needed. And as much as I love my sturdy little netbook, there are just some things it's not very well suited for, like layout work and such. I'm not even going to try messing with the Fantasy In Miniature site before I can do it on there.

Thanks to everyone who's made these equipment replacements possible. I've been able to get these big purchases out of the way much faster thanks to some help from my roommate with the computer. To all the new sponsors, I'll be adding your names to the appropriate lists in the next few days, once I get my spreadsheet of sponsors pulled from my dead desktop.

Gah, I almost put "next few years". I'm really having a hard time focusing here, so I think I'll just stop this entry here.

Things that are less than fun.

When all the muscles up and down your back decide what your life really needs is more painful spasms.

When your newly refurbished fresh out of the box computer from Geeks.com promptly crashes at the end of set-up. Not only will it not finish booting, but ever since the original crash the display is messed up (pixelated and with flickering lines, and with everything displayed in ghostly double images... half your pixels hither, half your pixels thither) so I can't even read the error messages.

My back problem has subsided on its own. The computer is not being that gracious. I wasn't even going to monkey around with it... just get it powered on so I could verify that it's working, because it is a refurb. I've sent a message to geeks.com customer service... though looks like they won't be in until Monday. I'm expecting that I'll have to return it.

This has just been a super special day so far.

I have a lot of thanks to give, but there are two people I don't thank often enough.

First, my mother. It is because of her superb vacation planning skills that I have any muscle cream to rub on my back. Second, popelizbet, whose natural problem solviness helped me to recall that yes, yes I did have some of that stuff in the apartment after all.

Thanks.