This morning I woke up and found my left shoulder mildly dislocated. I’m not sure how it happened, but I been noticing that over the last two weeks my left arm has become more and more sore. From what I can tell, I’ve been favoring my right side. This has begun to stress my left side and in particular my left upper arm. There’s a lot of strange popping/rubbing in my shoulder that I don’t remember. By the end of my work shift my left arm was in more discomfort/pain than my right. That in itself is concerning.  I’ll try to speak with the orthopedist tomorrow, but I’m sure it’s fatigue related and that I may have unfortunately discovered an existing issue I just never knew about.

I spent some of today working with JDiddy during break time bringing up a new Linux LAMP (web page) server. For those of you who know me, this will come as no big surprise. I’m a huge Linux nerd and love bringing up/working on servers. We’re trying to get him a decent platform to launch his new web site on and it’s given me a chance to coach him on setting the system up. It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to coach any one at any thing in such a regimented manner and honestly it reminded me how much I like teaching others new things especially when they’re excited about what they’re learning. Good stuff. I can’t wait to see what JDiddy does with the new site and I’m pretty excited to pass on the new skills I’ve learned over the last six months building this one.

Fall is definitely here in downstate New York. The morning and nighttime temperature is in the low 40s. I came out to frost on the Stang this evening. I can definitely feel a cold draft drifting through my walls. I had to cave and turn on the heat earlier last week. It’s just too cold this year (some five degrees on average) to not do that. The summer was very mild (some ten degrees on average) than last year so it would make sense that fall/winter will follow suit. If that holds true though we’re definitely in for a very cold wet (read: lots of snow and ice) winter. My hope is my shoulder heals before the major snow falls in December.

Minor issue with my plan to roll out Pirate Radio– my main hard drive is slowly failing. I’m hoping it holds out long enough to kick out a new episode, but if not I do have a spare (though arguably slower and smaller IDE verse the existing SATA) hard drive to fall back on. I rue the thought of reinstalling Windows XP and all my applications, but it is what it is at this point. Quick flashback, over the summer it appears I may have run my PC too hard during 90 degree temperatures and cooked the hard drive platter. Not good, but the HD is some ten year old (bought in 2001) and way beyond the eight year meantime to failure average. Again– it is what it is.

Finally, today’s “Random Picture of the Day” is a pirate mime. I had no clue until my recent search of the WikiCommons that such a beast existed, but here he(?) is in all his wondrous mime glory. He would say “ARRR!” but he’s a mime. Alas, he can say nothing. He can merely glare at you with his buggy eyes and wave his dull short short in anger. It’s sad really and I’m sure Sally Struthers will soon start some sort of charity to help pirate mimes out. For now though– he suffers in silence while we mock him over the Internet. We rock so much indeed.