To those of you who come here often, you’ll notice that the past few days has been unusually quiet around the Meddling Kids site. A quick post on shower urination, and then nothing for days.

Normally, I try to keep my weekends to myself. If I see something on a weekend that makes me want to write then that’s a separate matter, but as a general rule I prefer to fill them in other ways. This means that Mondays are often big days for Meddling Kids, with all my thoughts thunked over the weekend to process. But this week, I started things off differently.

It was laundry. Clearly, laundry is to blame.

I got up in the morning and was switching a load from the washer to the dryer. I was leaning over awkwardly and pushing wet clothes in with one hand, when suddenly my back let me know that it hated me, and wished a variety of ills upon me. And then it just quit.

I’m not entirely sure how I got upstairs and made the decision to lie down and see how this played out, but it was a good thing. I couldn’t even stand for the rest of the day, and on into the next day. Finally, around 4:00 of day-the-second, I managed to stand (much to the pleasure of my bladder). This led to walking, which led me to a walk-in massage appointment, and now I’m doing a lot better.

Today will be a “read through the 3000 top priority emails out of the 10000 total emails for the 12 emails that are actually worth reading” day, plus I’ve arranged a job interview. All things being equal, I’ll be back to the regular grind of posts today or tomorrow. Thanks for the patience.

Jim