Cranky!

Man, I’m just having a cranky-ass day. We’re getting our rain (see yesterday’s entry), but not nearly enough to help the drought situation. Not even enough to really do anything about the fire danger. But try telling that to the great unwashed masses (and you can read whatever you like into that phrase and probably not land too far from the truth).
I’m rapidly developing an urge to cut and run where my web hosting service is concerned. It seems like Globat’s been going down and coming back online every five minutes. I can’t FTP anything up to the server (and I have a bunch of updates ready to go), and can’t even access Globat’s web-based upload tool. Something has got to give with these guys, and soon. The amount of downtime, SQL server failures and other problems lately has been incredibly irritating. I’ve got a lot of cool new Phosphor Dot Fossils video segments to show you guys, but if I can’t send the new pages up…well, it doesn’t do anyone any good.
At the same time, I seem to be unsuccessfully dodging a cold bug, and my left knee has been killing me for about a week and a half anytime I have to hike it up to put on pants or anything of that nature. Walking and sitting and driving aren’t a problem. Having to draw the knee up any higher that anything normally required by those activities, however, is getting to be an incredibly painful problem. I don’t think I did anything to myself on the farm, so I have no idea where that pain is coming from, unless it falls under the heading of “I’m gettin’ old.”
So perhaps you can see where I might be just a little bit cranky.
Here’s a picture of my dog to cheer everyone up. Or maybe just to cheer me up.