Well, here's a complaint I haven't had in a while...

(At least since I started tracking my mental and physical condition from day to day.)

My bad shoulder is acting up. In a big way. At least I think it's the shoulder that's the cause... the pain is not exactly in the neighborhood of the socket itself but is in the area of the upper arm just beneath it. It hurts to move the arm, especially to try to lift it any. There's a very "bruised" feeling about it, for lack of a better term. I'm typing right now by having the keyboard and elbows sitting on my pile of blankets (I haven't gotten up yet) in such a way that my arms don't have to be raised at all. Thank heaven for a giant pile of blankets. I'm having to mouse with my left hand, though.

I just woke up so it's much to early to say whether this pain will persist or swiftly fade. I'm hoping for the latter. If it doesn't, today might end up being a light writing day instead of a heavy technical one. I can navigate windows and type without moving my arm overmuch, but the sorts of things I had in mind to do today will be difficult without a mouse. Well, I guess I'll still be able to read and research what I need to do.

I'm going to post the Fantasy In Miniature for today and then probably draw a hot bath. At least we have a bathtub here where soaking one's shoulder is an easy exercise.

Also, since I'm in a comfortable typing position and don't want to forget: last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again that I was traveling around in a big blue van for high school Quiz Bowl competitions with a team of people from central casting. The Flabberghast (from csecooney's The Big Bah-Ha was the team sponsor/coach, and after we won our last tournament he announced that I and my co-captain would be rewarded with a trip to Disney World and we could each invite one other person from the team. This was a five person team, so another way of saying this would be "Everybody on the team gets to go to Disney World except one person and you have to pick who." It was a very awkward reward.

Separately from all this, I got to introduce Jack to my family in the dream. The Flabberghast was there, too.

It's very odd. Before I came upstairs last night I said to Jack "I wonder if I'm going to dream about Baba Yaga again tonight." The Flabberghast just had to be the combobreaker, I guess.

On a final note, meeksp painted this in honor of the start of volume 2:

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Update on arm and plans.

Okay, it's official. My arm's useless. It should be okay with rest and disuse. Computering's not really much of an option... even when I arrange myself so I can use the keyboard without moving my arm, as soon as I get into the zone I end up reaching for the mouse again and then OWWWWWWWW. So today I'm going to spend mostly AFK. Tomorrow I'll be writing Friday's chapter (which will be a mouse-light activity in case my arm needs a bit more rest) and Friday I'll be doing the site-related stuff I'd planned on doing today... I can do technical stuff in a non-empty house easier than I can write, so that should work out okay.

Well, I'm going to update the fundraising totals before I sign out completely. If the lead hadn't changed I'd probably let it go until tomorrow, but given the size of the contribution Dee's folk just got I expect the contributor would like to see some effect.

Also very close to the first milestone now.

My first entry...

...that is only being made here because Livejournal is down at the moment and it must be said:

The truest thing I know right now is that pain is tiring.

I'll be getting it set up properly on Friday...

...but since Livejournal's so up-and-down* lately, here's my Dreamwidth account:

http://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org

Chances are I'll be using it for my construction post tomorrow.

*Yes, I know about the denial of service attacks. Knowing the cause of the outage doesn't make the site more usable.