After Thursday, it was a relief to have a quiet day at home Friday. I did get a phone call from Auntie Barbara. We hope to meet up at church next Sunday, but I should expect to make my own way home due to her having house guests. {Smile}
I ate breakfast lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake and seemed to enjoy the pictures, though she rested when I was reading the first two, which have no pictures most days. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. Next, I finished _Classic Christmas: Vintage Fine Art Picture Book Volume 2_ next, describing each picture, since there are particularly few words in this series. After that, I read a story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_. I made sure to describe each picture as I went along. I finished with the 29th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Old Trunk." Bridget and Tony crept into their grandmother's attic while she was resting. Tony suggested they try opening an old trunk. They fiddled and twiddled with the knobs and catches until a lock flew open with a snap. They heaved up the lid, and found old-fashioned clothes to dress up in. Then Bridget heard a thin voice say "Momma," and asked Tony if it was a ghost He went to the chest and pulled out a talking doll. Then their grandma came in, thanking them for finding Emily, who she'd lost. {Smile}
I did my head exercises during lulls while teaming with Dr. Faustus. Then I did 3 minutes and 15 second of salsa dance. That left me a bit winded, so I thought a rest was in order, and it was too late to try more of that later. Still, I'm back to my salsa dancing, which feels great! Next, I did my arm resistance exercises and my standing arm weight training exercises with the lower weight I dropped to for the sitting exercises that didn't bother my shoulder anyway, and they didn't bother my shoulder either. After a short break, I did my walking exercises. After another short break, I did my leg exercises and my sitting arm weight training exercises with the power weights, including 6 repetitions of the one that can bother my shoulder. Then my arm said it was a good time to stop, so I did, but I'm hoping to work up to the full 15 repetitions with that one, too. {Smile}
I read articles and comics and played the cross-stitch game between breakfast and lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after cleaning myself up. There I found Pierogies, who greeted me with a request for help with a mission. I told him a tip a friend gave me for that mission, and with it firmly in mind, we managed much better than he did alone without the tip. Next. Pierogies offered to help me with something. I wanted to test a power, so we ran a couple of my missions. However, they weren't a good test. The power is an infrequent but powerful team heal, and he had a healer who was good enough, I didn't really get a chance to test it in those missions. When I managed to explain the problem, he suggested a farm. He had to hold back sometimes, but we finally got an idea of how that power works, and it looks good. By the time we decided that the heal was good, it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming in time to sort of join the late-night short, large-group event. The group was full, but I could tag along, attack things, and get the rewards, so I did. Then I started to write this up and read some comics. After that, I let friends know I was in City of Heroes: Homecoming and did some paperwork. Then I spotted a giant monster hunting team, so I joined it. The leader did two regular giant monsters, then left, along with a couple of members, but I spoke up about doing more, and the rest stayed. I did three more regular giant monsters who can be summoned by attacking enough related regular enemies. Some characters switched because two were in villain territory when we'd started out in hero territory. I also chatted with Paradox, Kitten and Owl Girl in our small group conversation (just us four). Back in the game, I suggested going after one more critter who's, larger than most giant monster critters. It took a long time to get, but we got it. Then half the team left, one went quiet, and the other three of us chatted. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server. After Nox said goodnight, and about the time the others left, Dr Faustus said hi, and invited me to a story arc with a nice badge at the end. I ran it, and just had time for the salsa dancing I was able to do afterwards. Then I did the rest of my exercises, and wrote this up, making a fair number of notes to write from properly the next day. {Smile}
