Went & got my soda, had nice chat with proprietress about the local soda biz, didn't get any Polish specialties as shop was closed, any Portuguese ones because I didn't feel like it. Took a nice drive in the country after in the course of which I had an unexpected conference call with network service provider. Home now & sleepy. Just got off the phone with my mom, she's been having some very severe back pain this past week, sounds like it's maybe nothing that serious, probably won't need to have more surgery.