Personally, the worst 2016/69 combination was my dear cousin's wife. Back in July she was feeling unwell one evening and went for a lie down on the couch. Sometime in the next five hours she had a heart attack & never woke up.

And another 340ml cup of hot tea (not Earl Grey) is disposed of in double-quick time.

It's a brute-force fix. I want something more subtle. Bring on the nanobots.

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dry now.

Walking any sort of distance is difficult enough with the osteoarthritis in one knee & sciatica affecting all of the other leg when it strikes, but now I've strained a muscle in my lower back on the sciatica side. No idea what or how, but any movement is now feeble & painful. I twitch & lurch more than I walk.

Only light rain now. The cat has come inside from taking a dump in the back yard & her fur is only slightly damp.

An nation with its priorities properly sorted.

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Git orf ma lawn.

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Yesterday was hot enough that when I got home I left the car windows down 50mm to cool it down some while parked in the shade of a feral lemon tree.
Then we had heavy rain during the night. Which got in through those partly opened windows. Annoying cis the driver's seat was damp & the steering wheel slippery & wet.