Yes, I have been pampering my back today . . . and just about everything else. I have not been thinking, just reading light-weight stuff. The problem with that is the telling of the basic story isn’t bad, but when the author tries to tie it up in an ending, you do think. You think, “YUCK.” Oh, well, on to the next one.

Speaking of endings, it appears the author of the Jerry Series, to whom I served as an assistant has abandoned the project. Sooooo… That seems to leave it open for some anonymous person to pick up the story and wander around with it and then wait for the original author to go ACK!!!! or GRANDMA!!!!!!

Right off the bat, I can tell you that Jerry has six toes. Well, he had six toes; surgeons amputated the littlest one when he was learning math and insisted on Base 11. And it wasn’t the “little toe” that was taken; Jerry’s littlest toe was actually the second one over from the big toe – in other words, what would be our middle toe. That was very trying on the toe on the end. Before the operation, he had been the little piggy who had to do nothing; now he has to to WHEE WHEE WHEE all the way home.

As an aside, do you know there are little people out there who think the little toe when wee, wee, wee all the way home because his wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom before they left for home?

I should not have started thinking, right?

I am thinking I strained my lower back muscles because of pain; I made it bold because it is more than a little ache, but not nearly a big PAIN. So I took an Aleve and then I threw caution to the wind and took two aspirin – Hey, I’m got a strong stomach, and now I am slowly stretching around.

When Crate & Barrel ships some glasses, they wrap a bubble wrap around the order that consists not of the little bubbles we all know and love, but square inch pockets of air . . . and last night I folded up a piece of it and put it under the small of my back. It helped quite a bit. I may have to order more glasses – an odd number, dontcha, so they just can’t ship them in the 12 pack boxes, but need the amazing square bubble wrap.

I should have kept my mouth shut – they will probably start selling it now.