Daily Update, August 27, 2024

    In the middle of breakfast, Auntie Barbara came to pick me up and do our errands. I quickly finished and got ready while Auntie Barbara tried to visit with Mom. But before 10 might be too early to get a song out of Mom; at least she didn't manage to. {smile}

   Auntie Barbara and Michelle took me to Home Depot, where I went washing machine shopping. Home Depot had a few Maytags in stock. I am impressed with how little maintenance our Maytag refrigerator has needed, and their reputation says it's for other appliances too, so I wanted to try them if they weren't too expensive, and surprisingly they aren't. I chose the smallest, since it wasn't too small for our nurse, and cheaper than the others. I ordered it, arranging for delivery plus taking away the old one on Saturday. They will call before coming between 6am and 8pm and deliver it. Or so they say. If they call before I get up, I don't think my phone will be turned on; it almost never is. {rueful smile}

   After Auntie Barbara and Michelle took me to Hearing solutions Hawai'i, where I got my hearing aids checked, dried, and working great. We were a little late, but I called ahead to warn them. After wards, I contacted Uber, and a driver came and took me home. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I came in around my usual time. Mom was awake, but didn't respond much. I began my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I read three cards, one from her niece, her cousin, and a friend. After that, I started reading _The 40 Cutest Babies in the World_. Next, I read a medium-length story and two longer poems from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with reading the 27th of August's story, "Rudy is Lost," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises and my head exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. It got too late before I did more. I'll have to work harder at doing more sooner. {Smile}

   When I got back from my errands, I had lunch immediately. I read articles during most of it. Near the end, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Div. We teamed up, with me on the character who's trying to finish content and go up in level. Pierogies soon joined us, and Kitten not long after. We started doing my character's missions. We did most of a story arc he had, and another mission or two from that contact, finishing that contact. Then we went on to next contact. Kitten fell asleep, and had to be kicked so we could continue. I forgot to lower the difficulty, which was high but doable with them. We did finish, but we struggled, and Div announced he was tired of helping this character. I apologized for the difficulty being too high. Div and Pierogies left, it being very late for Div, and a typical time for Pierogies to leave. Then I did some paperwork and a little solo play before leaving to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I wrote up Monday's daily update and started this update. This made me later than usual going into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I talked with Ulty and Jenny's player and said hi to Divi. I learned that Divi was recruiting for a taskforce and joined them. We ran it together, with one disconnecting partway through. then I said goodnight to Divi. I also chatted with Nox on chart server. After the taskforce, I did some paperwork and a little badge hunting on my own. Then Kitten said hi and apologized for falling asleep earlier. We hunted for a badge we both needed, with a pause to fight a trio of giant monsters with a few other volunteers. That took the rest of the evening, in part because I was more interested in chatting with Kitten than being efficient. After that, I quickly made notes here, because it was really late, and somehow managed to make it to bed at a more acceptable time than usual. {Smile}