Complaining is a Polish national pastitme

It keeps being unseasonably cool (certainly the coldest June I remember here and people who live here for over a decade say the same) with temperatures barely going above 30^oC and it seems to be connected to unusually high amounts of rain. It's nowhere near the disaster level like in Central Europe earlier this month but with streams of rain water coming down the streets regularly there is no drought water shortage danger in whole state. There were couple of days without rain last week but before that there were days when it rained most of the day. The forecast for this week and the next one says we can expect rain every day and so far it's true. This means it pretty cloudy too (and very humid which makes any advantages of lower temperatures disappear) and the clouds seem to be responsible for the lack of truly hot weather. It feels more like Polish summer. The Polish humid hot version (we also have humid cold and hot dry and they come randomly) which is not as bad as humid hot normally here so I cans till stand being outside and when there's a little bit of wing it's even pleasant. So I hope it stays like this but just because the alternative is much worse. The 80-90% humidity it's easier to bare with temperatures below 30 then above 30 (or even, pink unicorn forbid, 40). If I got to decide we would keep the temperature and drop the humidity.

I usually don't care much about LJ changes. I even like some of them (new entry editor). However, the new main page lost all the features I used - comments, birthdays, store. Instead it's been replaced with some useless junk (why would I care about statistics about most popular journals and communities - it's not like they change often and don't contain anything new and most popular post are, unsurprisingly, all ontd). And the help that shows up every time you go to that page tells you all the obvious stuff about what is there (it's not that hard to figure out that Top Journals pane shows most popular journals) but is no help in trying to find out where all the personal stuff went. Does birthdays and comment links even exist any more? Does anyone know how to find them?

I pulled a muscle or got a cramp in my back. But in a very weird place. Not in the neck or lower back or even anywhere near the spine which is usually the most painful and movement restricting. It's on the side of my back. and it doesn't hurt bad and doesn't restrict movement. It's just located right under bra band and pressuring a nerve there so it gets worse and worse during the day. I cannot walk around without (very solid) bra. I just want this to go away. My Swedish friend says Swedes use a mat with spikes for pains like these ans she says laying on it it only hurts for a little while.I'm almost tempted to try but for now I'm just trying a heating mat. And magnesium/potassium/zinc supplements.