Decided to catch up with family in the middle of the state in a magnificent inland gold mining city. Settled on a Monday/Tuesday as it suits my schedule & is easier on the hip-pocket nerve. There's my mother's brother & his wife in one family, their daughter & her family in another location plus another cousin & her husband & teenage kids.
I've not seen Jacqui & Jamie for about 5 years, and Uncle Mike for 2 years. The other cousin I met up with a few months ago.
Cousin Jacqui didn't have to change her maiden name when she married Jamie, his parents had separated quite early in his life & his father was no real father-figure to him. So he asked Uncle Mike if he had any objections to him (Jamie) taking on Jacqui's surname when they married.
No objection recorded, quite the reverse.

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Just realised I've made it through another winter without needing an influenza injection.

That's what spoils tourism: too many ignorant tourists.

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Highway patrol wagon pulled into the driveway just in front of me when I got home. I took the opportunity to go out the front & bring in the mail. Cops were talking to one of the new residents of Unit 7 about some family-related domestic issue.

yep.

Back home after taking Mother for her quarterly checkup. My troublesome knee & back came good with the aid of painkillers & anti-inflammatories, both oral & topical. Slighty sore back, a bit more than is the normal state of affairs.

Oddly, it wasn't until my sciatica & lumbar stenosis were diagnosed two years ago, that I realised I have a small degree of permanent pain in the lumbar region.

The first thing I dump under such circumstances is Safari data, then Safari's reading list.

Not really. It’s merely a 50% increase on 140.

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According to Wikipedia, Plurks can be up to 210 characters, which ain't 212.

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