On Friday, just as I was finishing a mission with Pierogies, Kitten, Dennis, and Dennis's friend, something made a fritzing noise, and my screen went blank. Tapping a few keys did nothing and turning the monitor off and on only got the logo to display before the monitor went into sleep mode. I tried Dad's old monitor, and a different plug. None helped. {Sigh}
So, I turned on my phone, and called up the chat sever, where I let Kitten, Dennis, and Pierogies know. Pierogies and Kitten were sympathetic. Dennis was full of questions. He doesn't just use computers, he fixes them. From my description, he thinks it is my video card. He thinks it needs to be replaced, and probably the rest of the computer should be checked while the technician can. I checked online and found a place where I know the owner and her work. It was closed but would open Saturday at 10am. I planned to call her and see what she says at least. {smile}
Thursday's daily update is on my desktop, which I can't access until it's fixed. I'll get it when I can. Yesterday, I was so busy fixing what I could of this, I didn't finish writing this up. Yesterday's is ready to be written after this one. I'll get to it when I can. {smile}
Our housekeeper came and left before all that happened. The house is definitely better for her attentions. {Smile}
I texted Auntie Barbara and our former nurse after dinner just asking to talk. All this was too much for texting. A little later, I called our former nurse. He wanted to help me take it in and get it fixed the next day. Later, Auntie Barbara called me. I told her what happened and about the nurse's offer to help. We also talked about church plans. {Smile}
I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Mom, and read to her before dinner. Mom was quiet, though not asleep, maybe because I started late. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I started her niece's long family Christmas letter. Next, I restarted _Picture Book of Happy Babies _. After that, I read a story and a poem almost as long as the story from 365 _Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I ended with the 30th of August's story, "Magic Butterfly." {Smile}
Before I cleaned myself up, I did my arm swinging exercises and my arm resistance exercises. A fair while after cleaning myself up, I did my head exercises. Later, I did three of my walking exercises in a row before I got tired enough to stop. {Smile}
After breakfast, I read articles. Then I played Cross Stitch World until I took a nap. Next came lunch with Mom. Then I wrote up most but not quite all of Thursday's daily update before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I found Div. We talked and teamed up. I started a story arc on the character trying to go up in level. We did three missions, with Pierogies joining part way through. Then Div left and Kitten joined us. We did another mission. Then came a bunch of talk-missions, a hunt, and another talk. I'm sure Pierogies and Kitten were bored, but I didn't know what else to do. Then Dennis said hi. I jumped at the chance to join him and his friend for a mission. Just as that ended was when the computer trouble started. When I realized that was at an impasse, I stopped to read to Mom. {smile}
After dinner, I did some journaling in a paper journal I've started as a more adaptable way to use some workbooks than writing in the space provided. Those never know how much or how little space I'll need. Next, I sent the texts. Then I caught up on some comics I follow and talked with Nox on chat server. Then came the phone calls, followed by more talking with Nox. After that I did some exercises before I cleaned myself up. When I got done, I said goodnight to Nox. Then I read more comics and played some Cross Stitch World before I thought to begin writing this up in my blog, instead of in email like I usually do. It was slower on my phone than with full keyboard, even with extensive use of auto-complete. I paused to exercise a couple of times but got back to writing and making notes in this both times. {Smile}
