Since I'm already fussing with the blog I went ahead and did something I've been meaning to do for a while: installed WP Super Cache. This was triggered mainly because some of the sidebar stuff seems to take forever to load, so I wanted to make sure there wasn't any weird load on my end. Every so often I see some sort of comment to the effect of "If you're running WordPress you should have Super Cache" and it finally sunk in. Everything should be fine but if you see oddness let me know.