I’ve spent the last two days in bed with a backache. I’m finally able to shuffle around the house like an old man but it’ll take some time to get back to normal. Good thing I have a massage scheduled for next Sunday.

I didn’t get all that much done while in bed. I read another book by Ian Rankin, The Naming of the Dead which I would recommend to mystery readers, watched Afterlife and North by Northwest and found out that Vicodin doesn’t do that much for me. I wasn’t expecting to do cartwheels, but being able to get up to go to the bathroom would have been nice. It might have made me a bit too maudlin to watch Afterlife which was a sweet movie but about dying. Worth seeing, but I think for now I’m going to stick to comedies and things like watching Matt Damon kick a lot of ass.