and they say the weather will be getting warmer

[incandescens]

A problem with having an ache in the small of your lumbar spine and putting a heat patch on it is that it then becomes difficult to sit back in things if it means sitting in such a way that you're putting pressure directly on the heat patch. OTOH, my back does definitely feel better now.

Work tomorrow, and QA meeting, and other fun stuff. Where did the weekend go? Oh yes.

But there's the Eurovision Song Contest this week for entertainment value. I have a big armchair in front of the television, and I have knitting and binding-sewing to work on while I watch. That'll be neat.

---

Lament for Yin Yao

We followed you back for your burial
on Mount Shihlo

And then through the greens of oaks and pines
we rode away home

Your bones are there under the white clouds
until the end of time

And there is only the stream that flows
down to the world of men.

-- Wang Wei, translated by GW Robinson

Comments

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

My lower back started bothering me terribly today, as well. I considered the heating pad, but it is warmish, and terribly humid (raining at the moment), and I just couldn't face it at the moment.

And this weekend did disappear rather quickly, didn't it? O__o

(The poem is lovely, btw. Thanks for that.)

[incandescens]

Weekends have a bad habit of doing that. Sympathy on your lower back.

And I'm glad you like the poem. Thanks.

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

Oof. Back pain is no fun at all. I hope you get some relief.

[incandescens]

Thanks. It is feeling better. To be honest, spending a lot of yesterday leaning over fabric at the show might not have actually been the best idea in terms of non-stressing it. But then again, it might have been good exercise for it. Ah, backs. :)

[archangelbeth]

Ah, backs! I hope that you get enough sleep tonight to help it heal.

[incandescens]

Slept like a log, thank you. :)