Sunday last week I started feeling a dull pain in my back. By Monday morning, it was hardcore. I spent most of the week nursing my back and taking PM strength painkillers to endure. By Sunday I was ok enough to walk to the grocery store without feeling too much pain. Here it is Monday morning and I feel ok, with just that dull pressure feeling in the lower back, but no real pain. I missed out on a lot this week, but maybe it's for the best. Pain is the body's way of saying "relax" and that is how I spent the week. I saw way more reality TV than a decent person should, but that's the way it goes.

I'll have to try and make it up this week. I saw nobody, I went nowhere... it just didn't feel as much like a summer vacation as it did a week in a rest home.

Ah well... I still have three more weeks of Summer Vacation.