Jay Fenster

So even though I’m going back to the drawing board in an obsessive-compulsive attempt to get this exactly right with a limited and rusty web design skill set, the good news is that I’ve come up with names for three of the four blogs that I will launch as part of the Swina Disinformation Network. The bad news is, I can’t for the life of me come up with a name for the fourth.

more++ is the sandbox for now. I’m using it as a development playground for now, but that’ll be the first one I stand up and tinker with and break down and stand up again and so on and so forth. Then I’ll clone it.

neontubes will be the Vegas and gaming blog, picking up where Open Road’s Best of Las Vegas Blog left off.

ooh, shiny! covers diversions of all kinds. If a subject is a waste of time, chances are you’ll find it here. Music, movies, television, food, wine and other hobby type interest sort of things get their due. We like to keep it light.

The fourth blog is the one for which I can’t figure out a name. The original Swina blog focused primarily on news and politics, specifically progressive politics. I can already tell that I won’t be posting much on this one. Everything I care to say is being said better in other places. So I’m guessing this blog is going to mostly be links to other content. But oh well.

Anyone got any spare ideas for blog names? Some sort of secret formula, like how you figured out your porno name by combining the street you grew up with and the name of your first pet (Hi there, Coco Polly. Nice to meet you.).

UPDATE: OK, I spoke too soon. The politics/news/current events blog is going to be called debriefing.

I’ve upgraded the site to WordPress 2.7.

So in attempting to zazz up more++, I wound up screwing up something and having no idea how to fix it, so I’m once again hitting the reset button on that project.  I wish I had enough time to actually devote to my websites and various other projects. But even with a full featured CMS at my fingertips I’m just not writing.

I wonder if it’s a similar situation to what would happen if you worked as a porn star, and didn’t want to have sex at home at the end of the night because you’d been doing it all day on the clock.

That’s clock. C… L…

I somehow managed to give myself yet another bizarre freak injury today. I was getting ready for work, putting on my clothes in the walk-in closet off my bathroom. I braced myself against the wall with my right hand as I pulled the second sock onto my left foot.

I felt as if my back was cramping up, but only for a split second – then it was like a dam bursting, lighting me up with pain like a Christmas tree, radiating from near my kidney all the way down to my knee, all the way up to my armpit and straight through my abdomen.

Now, I’ve had back issues for about a decade or so at this point, but they’ve always been pretty much confined to my upper back and environs – my neck and shoulders. I’d never had pain in my lower back before, and I’d never felt anything like this – anywhere. I knew right away that something was wrong and told Casey I needed to see a doctor – today.

I called my doctor; their response was “go to the ER.” I called my company’s health clinic, they told me to go to an urgent care center. I opted for the latter.  It was the right choice, as there was nobody in the waiting room. I was examined and x-rayed. The verdict: a pinched sciatic nerve, causing acute lower back pain and muscle spasms. Great. Even better, the doctor tells me not to expect much improvement for 3 to 4 days and advises me not to return to work until Thursday.

I’m medicated to the point of comfort right now, thankfully this didn’t happen last week or the week before. As it is, I’ve been taking care of loose ends and miscellaneous projects from home as my condition permits.

Moral of the story: never wear socks.