In case you're wondering where I've been, I have been busy helping move Aerva to a new office. The new place is awesome -- it's a huge improvement over our current office, which feels like a closet after spending a few minutes in the new place. Since I'm the only person with a truck, I helped transport all the new furniture from IKEA. We went to IKEA on Sunday but the new office wasn't going to be finished until Tuesday afternoon, so we needed a place to temporarily store all the boxes of furniture. Since I have lots of extra space, I offered to be the storage room:
Speaking of IKEA, wow. I had no idea they carried such high quality stuff. This past weekend was my first time going there and I was amazed at not only how big it was, but also by how much traffic it created (we went on the weekend). Apparently it's like that every weekend because a store employee remarked, "You guys are brave coming here on the weekend!".
Earlier this week I helped my neighbor and her niece bring a very heavy washing machine and dryer into the third floor of her apartment. My neighbor has metal plates in her back from surgery and her niece was 5'1 and maybe 120LBS -- basically I did the majority of the work while they watched and asked if I needed help.
At some point that evening I pulled something in my lower back. It didn't hurt so much right away, but it got a lot worse the next day. It got so bad that I wasn't able to walk without pain. This was probably the worst week to hurt my back, since I needed to move loads of furniture to the new office. But, I threw on some icyhot patches, took two Aleve, and toughed it out.