Daily Update, August 22, 2025

On Friday after breakfast, my main nurse took me down to Kamana Senior Center for my Ballroom Dancing Cha-Cha class. Not as many came, but the ones who did were enthusiastic. I started dancing with one gal. It's a little tricky for two follows to dance together, but we made it work. Then the gal who wants to learn to lead came late. We got a laugh, as usual, because she was helping me learn the cha-cha, while I was teaching her how to lead some of the steps, but it worked for us. This was my exercise for the day. After class, I sat and waited for my main nurse to pick me up, first in the padded chair where he usually sits while I finished my water, then on a bench where I could see the cars come into the parking lot. He came and took me home after a bit. {Smile}

After I got home, I browsed the web over lunch and read web comics. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on my friends, then worked on the auction house on a few different characters, finishing just as it was time to start the villain supergroup meeting. I went to the meeting on my moderately high-level member. We first talked about how we want more members, but aren't sure how to find folks who would fit in. We hoped four were coming but one got confused. He thought it was cancelled, so he didn't come. Not having enough for the 4-person trial, we did a story arc my character had instead. We finished up and disbanded in time for me to do storage, auction house, and crafting before dinner. {Smile}

I tried to read Forward Day by Day during dinner, but the TV distracted me too much again. Reading it right after dinner went beautifully again. Then I browsed on the web, especially reading web comics, around writing up my daily update. Next, I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked the auction house. Then I checked on my friends in City of Heroes: Homecoming. I chatted with Ulty and talked with Nox on Discord, the chat server. I mentioned the villain supergroup to Nox, but they have a conflict at the time we meet. I went back to the game and started thinking about playing by myself when Azurette said hi, and that they wanted to play. They mentioned a taskforce and a type of individual mission. I picked the taskforce. We ran it with half a team and finished earlier than I expected. Then I talked with Azurette until they left. After that, I made notes in this, with a little web browsing and some checking characters and storage in City of Heroes: Homecoming. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 22, 2025

On Thursday, a while after lunch, my main nurse and I looked over the forms Mom's attorney had me print out. I set one aside as something to be dealt with at the office and started filling out the next for me. Then I realized they wanted Mom's information instead of mine. "Decedant" made me think of "descendant," but when I hit the part of "date of death," I realized they must mean "deceased." So, we decided to go down to the office to get them to help me. I expect this will involve making an appointment/ Hopefully they'll replace the two ruined pages and catch me before I make similar mistakes. {smile}

I didn't do any exercise, but between Zumba Gold the day before, and ballroom dancing expected the day after, I hope a day off isn't bad. {Smile}

In the morning, I browsed the web before I cleaned myself up with my main nurse's help. I showed him a little infection I'd found. We'll keep an eye on it, and dose it with topical antibiotics, and hope that fixes it. After that, I wrote up my daily update over lunch. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming unusually early for me. I worked on badges and the auction house and checked on friends. Then I broke to tackle the paperwork for Mom's lawyer, though that didn't work out. I went back to the game and checked my friends. Then I spotted a taskforce I knew a particular character needed. I joined it, and the group ran it particularly quickly, or so it felt to me. I got a few badges for doing it and picked up a couple more that were quick and easy. Then I worked on auction house and storage. Next, I switched to the character Kitten designed and started to hunt. Pierogies came on and said hi. He helped a little with the hunt, but I suggested doing a mission. It was set too difficult for just us at first. I cut back... I don't think quite enough, since Pierogies switched to a better character to finish. The mission ended right before dinner, so we said goodnight, and I squeezed in a bit of crafting right at the end. {Smile}

I tried to read Forward Day by Day over dinner, but it really helped to read it again afterwards, when I wasn't near the TV, which kept distracting me from my reading. Next, I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked my friends and chatted briefly with Ulty. I also did auction house, storage, and crafting. Then I finished up the hunts I found on the character Kitten designed. I'll get more when they go up in level, but it's all missions that I see for now. After that, I browsed the web and began chatting with Nox. Back in the game, I began chatting with Azurette. I toured the base she's still building. It's coming along nicely but has a way to go still. Eventually, she left. I noticed a badge I could work on a little and got back barely in time. I didn't finish it, but it's well started now. Then I checked a few characters. I remembered and ran a mostly-talk tutorial story arc on the character Kitten designed. Then I did more auction house, storage and crafting. I did a little editing on the story I share in my Creative Writing class. Then I made notes in this with a little checking on City of Heroes: Homecoming, Cross Stitch World, and Amazon. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 20, 2025

On Wednesday, I spent most of the morning setting up automatic payment with my cell phone provider. I had to pay this month separate, but future months will get paid automatically. I'd had this all set up for years, but that stopped when the card accidentally got drained. {smile}

I myself really felt drained afterwards, enough so I only texted the gal who has been guiding me through discernment. She called me that afternoon, actually while my main nurse was taking me down to Auntie Sally's Luau Hale for my Zumba Gold. She suggested starting with _Forward Day by Day_, which is the "scripture and thoughts about it" that I used to read to Mom daily. I never thought that counted as prayer. It's a scripture reading with a short homily on it, which isn't what I think of as a prayer. If that counts, that's a tremendous weight off my mind. It's the one daily religious practice I kept up for years. I stopped when Mom died, and honestly, I've missed it. So, before dinner, I took it up again. I read the day's entry twice before dinner and really enjoyed returning to it. I realized I have more time to think about it now that it doesn't need to be followed immediately with other readings. {Smile}

As I mentioned, in the late afternoon, my main nurse took me down to Auntie Sally's Luau Hale for my Zumba Gold class. I talked before, after, and during the breaks with two other women. I hope I'm making friends, though this class is not continuing next quarter, so I'm not sure we'll stay in touch. I also talked with my teacher before class and confirmed that the guy who will be teaching a class overlapping with our current time slot is the one I struggled to keep up with when my teacher was sick. My teacher will have another class instead, but unfortunately, it's too early int he morning to be easy to start attending. I think I'll look for another mid-week dance class, possibly hosted elsewhere. After class, my main nurse took me home. {Smile}

Over lunch, I browsed the web and read web comics. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked my friends, then the auction house and storage while working on some badges until I got ready to go down to Zumba Gold. I got the phone call at the beginning of my ride down to Zumba Gold, then played Cross Stitch World the rest of the way over. On the way back, I watched scenery for a while, then played Cross Stitch World again. After I got home, I fit in Forward Day by Day before dinner. {Smile}

After dinner I wrote up Tuesday's daily update, with web browsing and web comics in the breaks. Then I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I worked on badges and the auction house. then I checked friends and talked with Ulty and Azurette. I also chatted with Nox on Discord, the chat server. Then I got the character Kitten designed for me and reinstalled the program she set them up on. I made sure she had as much of the design as I could implement at this level. Then I ran a few hunts on that character when I realized they had some. It's good to get back to that character. I feel bad about neglecting them, even accidentally, especially when I think of how much work Kitten put into designing them. When I was done hunting, I worked on storage, auction house, and crafting that it had produced. Then I made notes in this, with breaks to play Cross Stitch World and browse on the web before I finished the notes. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 19, 2025

On Tuesday, I was reminded about the monthly meeting right before breakfast. So, after breakfast, my relief nurse took me down to park where the meeting was held. We visited while eating brunch, then played word games. They were deciding whether to switch to Bingo or Yahtzee when I had to leave.

 

My relief nurse took me to my creative writing class next. We told what we'd written during the week. In my case, that was little but included significant fact-checking while writing. Then we read a piece and went around the class, hearing folk's responses to it. After that came a freewriting exercise, followed by reading what we wrote, and responding a bit to each other's writing. After class, I got into a long discussion with a couple of other students and only left when they did. I did leave with an invitation to the tsunami museum downtown, and the promise that as a relative of a survivor of a tsunami, admission will be free. {Smile}

I ate brunch at the picnic, and lunch near the end of my writing class. I played Cross Stitch World in the car between stops. When I got home, I found the housekeeper hard at work. The house is definitely better for her attentions. After getting home, I settled in online, quickly going into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked a few characters and my friends before going to the teen supergroup meeting. We started with roleplaying. Then we ran a taskforce with light roleplaying, meaning we talked in character while playing. An old friend of mine joined us for the taskforce. They invited him many months ago without my knowledge. We only discovered we were both in the group a few months later. He didn't feel his character was ready to go to the base, where we started the roleplaying, so we met him at the taskforce contact. The taskforce ran into dinner, so I left right after it was done. {Smile}

When I got back, the meeting had adjourned. I was quite surprised, since they usually go for over an hour after I return from dinner. I talked to Ulty, who leads the group, and my old friend. Between them I learned that Ulty and Jenny's Player, her very good friend, and assistant leader of the group, had another roleplaying engagement with a limited window of opportunity. My old friend had gotten busy talking with other friends, so I worked with the auction house storage and a few badges. Then I began writing Monday's daily update but spent more time browsing the web and reading web comics until I treated my blood sugar. Then I concentrated on finishing my daily update before I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I spotted Dr. Faustus while checking my friends. So, I said hi and we teamed up with me on my moderately low-level villain supergroup member. We did one short story arc where I gained a level and started a longer story arc before Dr. Faustus had to leave. Then I worked on storage, the auction house, crafting, and badges. Next, I played Cross Stitch World and browsed on the web, especially reading web comics. I finished my evening. by making notes in this. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 18, 2025

On Monday my relief nurse took me down to Auntie Sally's Luau Hale where my line dancing class was just starting. I got right in there and followed the leader, dancing to every number. That was my exercise for the day. My relief nurse took me home again afterwards. {Smile}

Also, at the class, I learned about a social at a church on Friday. I'll have to think about it. It might make me cut my villain supergroup meeting short, which seems a shame. It would also double up with ballroom dancing: cha-cha for a LOT of exercise in one day. I'm not entirely sure I'll have the energy at that point. {smile}

After I got home, I had lunch, followed by a nap, because I was really tired. After my nap, I got onto my computer. I browsed the web and read web comics until I felt enough like myself to go into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on friends. Then I worked with the auction house and storage, but I struggled to get into the game. I did some correspondence with friends elsewhere, especially on Discord, the chat server. Then I thought to fix my blood sugar. After that, I could focus on the game enough, I went back to it and played by myself until dinner. {Smile}

After dinner, I wrote up my daily update with many breaks for web browsing and correspondence with friends. After that, I got into City of Heroes: Homecoming a little late. I checked on friends there, talking with Phonso and Ulty a bit as I began to play by myself. I stopped playing by myself and joined Phonso when he got done with the taskforce he was in and was ready to start a strike force. I joined that and ran it with the nearly full team he recruited. Then I worked with the auction house and storage, followed by playing by myself on a low-level character until I gave up and did a little crafting. I worked a little more with the auction house, then made notes in this. I browsed the web, played Cross Stitch World, and corresponded with friends in breaks. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 17, 2025

On Sunday after breakfast, main nurse took me to church. I rested in car on the way down due to too little sleep. I think we arrived in the middle of the sermon. We sat with Auntie Barbara. I enjoyed the nice service. Afterwards. I ate with my head nurse and other parishioners. Near the end, I talked with the head of the Daughters of the King chapter, mainly about trying to live up to the vows before committing. I'm hoping a little practice will reassure me that I can continue to live up to the vows over the years. {Smile}

After lunch, I left with Auntie Barbra. We talked in the car on the way to visit Charlotte. It was nice seeing and talking with her. We even met her current cat. Afterwards, Auntie Barbara took me home. {Smile}

I didn't get any real exercise done. However, I walked around the mall Saturday, and my lain dancing class is Monday. I hope a day off in between is okay, or even good. {Smile}

When I got home, I finished printing out stuff for Mom's lawyers and set everything where my main nurse can help me start working on them Wednesday, when he gets back after his days off. Then I browsed on the web, watching some videos until I took a nap. After my nap, I browsed web a little while I woke up. When I was mostly awake, I started to write up some of my daily update. When I was fairly sure I felt up to playing, I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked on friends. I also left a note in discord for Kitten, Pierogies, and Dennis. Then I worked on the auction house and storage until Pierogies and Kitten said hi. Dennis said hi as we were getting together, saying he was with his best friend. He invited us to join them. We did and ran a couple of missions with them. Then his best friend left, and we ended up hunting giant monsters until I left for dinner late. {Smile}

After dinner, I wrote up my daily update before I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and worked with the auction house and storage. Then I found Kitten, and we talked a fair while before they helped me get two more pairs of badges on my best badge collector. Then they left, and I worked on more auction house and storage. After that, I played by myself, working on badges on lower-level characters. I played a little Cross Stitch World, but not much. Then I made notes in this, playing by myself in City of Heroes: Homecoming, and browsing the web, especially web comics, during breaks. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 16, 2025

On Saturday, in the morning, my nurse suggested I try using his printer. We got it to work, first on a one-page file, then, after downloading a reader, a longer PDF. I'm hoping this should work, though I don't quite promise to get something printed out for my writing class on Tuesday. I'll try, but we'll see. {Smile}

Then a while after lunch my main nurse picked up a friend and came back for me. We went down to the ice cream stand first. His friend got two scoops of ice cream, while I got a chocolate peanut butter popsicle. I was hoping for chocolate fudge, but they were out, so I got my next most favorite chocolate. Then we dropped his friend off at the airport, before going to the mall to walk around. I stopped by Enjoy Comics. It's looking distinctly emptier, but it's still there for now. I think their lease ends later this month. For health reasons, they are not renewing. I seriously considered two books but put back one. I bought the other and started reading it. So far, I'm enjoying it. After that, my main nurse took me home again. {Smile}

After breakfast, I browsed on the web, read web comics and played Cross Stitch World. Then I cleaned myself up with the help of my main nurse. Next, I had lunch while I browsed on the web and played Cross Stitch World. After that, I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on friends, then worked with the auction house, crafting, and storage until our trip out. On the ride, I played Cross Stitch World between stops until my phone's battery ran low. Then I watched the scenery. After we came back, I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on friends, then worked with the auction house, crafting and storage until dinner. {Smile}

After dinner I checked Discord, the chat server, and found Dennis wanted to team up. So, I went right into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where Dennis soon found me, and we did team up. We did two missions two missions together, one his, and one mine. Then we said goodnight. After that, I began writing up Friday's daily update. Then Kitten said hi. I finished writing up Saturday's daily update while we arranged to team up. He was already in a team with someone who was caught up in work. When he got back, it turned out to be Jag. I joined them and helped them with a mission. Then Jag left, so we said goodnight. Kitten stayed and suggested working on badges. She helped me get 11 badges surprisingly easily. During that, I noticed that I had missed sharing the end of my daily update with Nox, Radio, and Haiden on Discord, so I shared the rest/ I chatted with Nox for a while on Discord while continuing to work on the badges with Kitten. Then Kitten and I tried to get another badge, but the contact wouldn't talk to me. So, we tried the story arc that usually introduces him but only got not quite two missions in before I needed stop. Kitten was tired by then anyway. We'll have to start over again, but that's okay. we said goodnight. Then I made notes in this, browsing on the web and chatting on Discord during breaks. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 15, 2025

On Friday after breakfast my main nurse took me down to the Kamana Senior Center, expecting to drop me off for my Ballroom Dance: Cha-cha class. However, they were closed. I did insist on checking the classroom, even when the rest looked closed, because of experience with a club that met there on weekends, when the rest looked closed. However, this time the classroom was closed, too. So went to Safeway, where I got some prescriptions. Then I checked on my shots. I needed a flu shot, so I got it. While I did this, my purse picked up some groceries. Then we went to Target, where I checked the printers, but didn't quite get one. Then my main nurse took me home. We did walk around a bit at Safeway, and much more at Target, so I got some exercise, though not as much as Ballroom Dancing gives me. {Smile}

On the trip, I played Cross Stitch World. After the trip, I played more Cross Stitch World and browsed on the web, including watching some videos, right over lunch. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked my two villain supergroup members before our weekly meeting, trying to work on some badges. Three worked fine, but one wasn't working for either character. I went to the supergroup meeting on my moderately low-level character. Dr. Faustus and a gal who's pretty regular were there before me. They didn't think anyone else was coming, and no one did. We did a story arc my character had, and I actually gained a level, since I was ready to and remembered to turn on experience points. ((I tend to run with experience turned off to avoid missing content, since there are far more contacts and story arcs than you can get through while gaining XP the whole time, unless you use a system that doesn't let you add to the group after you've begun. After that arc, the gal left. Dr. Faustus brought in a second character to suggest another story arc. We squeezed it in before dinner, running into dinnertime a bit. {Smile}

After dinner, I browsed the web a lot, and played a lot of Cross Stitch World too, while I tried to write up my daily update. I finally finished it and went into City of Heroes: Homecoming, I think I must have been mildly sick not to get my cat together sooner. I started checking characters and working with the auction house. I also started chatting with Nox on Discord, the chat server. Soon Kitten said hi, and we teamed up. I looked for a way to get a particular mission, and Kitten finally let me use their base for it. We ran the mission and had trouble finding a guy. We finally found him, then finished the mission and even mopped up afterwards. That mission got me a badge my best badge collector was missing, which feels particularly big. It's getting harder to get badges on her, but they added a badge tracker which should help. Next, we went to the new zone. I started a contact, but I wanted to spend more time with it than I had right then. So, we moved on. Kitten helped me get a second badge. Then we finished up with a more straight-forward mission. After that, I checked some things in the game and made notes in this. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 14, 2025

On Thursday, not long after I got up, I got a call from a fellow with a self-publishing school. He asked some questions, since they'd noticed me looking into it recently. After a while I asked him to call me back around lunch time. {smile}

I had to get ready for my online counselling appointment, which started during breakfast. It was a good session. We talked about some things that seemed important, including how to proceed with Daughters of the King, We also discussed my writing, and that phone call a bit. {Smile}

Closer to lunch, the guy called back and mentioned rates that sounded pretty high. However, when I looked into editing rates after he hung up, they seemed more typical than I expected. Later I found lower rates elsewhere, but not as much lower as I could wish. I can still hope for a better deal, but it's beginning to look like publishing without losing money on getting the book ready may be trickier than I thought, especially through self-publishing, where editing, design, advertising, and such costs are taken on the author. Traditional publishing takes on most of those costs in exchange for a share of the profit. {smile}

Then in the middle of the afternoon my main nurse took me out for errands. I dropped off books at library and stopped by the bank for some cash. Then we went to Target. Walking around it was my main exercise but with Zumba Gold the day before, I hope a light day is okay. I priced printers but didn't buy one. I just moved on to the books when my nurse suggested I leave the printer for another day.  I did buy a couple of books after looking them over. Then my main nurse took me back home. 

After my online counselling, I browsed on the web and read web comics around the second phone call, the research into editing rates it prompted, and lunch as well. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on my friends, then worked on auction house, crafting, and storage until our trip out. During the trip out, I played Cross Stitch World a lot in the car. After we got back, I played a bit more Cross Stitch World and browsed on the web before I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked n friends. Then I checked the badges on my best badge collector. I found a badge I could work on by myself, though it will take a while to get. I began to work on it before dinner. {Smile}

After dinner, I played Cross Stitch World and wrote up Wednesday's daily update. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked on my friends. Then I worked on that badge again. I also chatted with Nox on Discord. Then I suddenly got invited to a team hunting a giant monster in the zone I was in. I joined it and got it. Then we got a few other giant monsters, too. After that, I worked on that badge again, until I wound down sorting out the auction house, crafting, and storage. After that, I made notes in this before bed. {Smile}

Daily Update, August 14, 2025

On Wednesday I got a couple of emails reminding me that I need to sort out Mom's estate. I called her lawyer's office, and learned I'd gotten as far as letting them know back in February. Their secretary said they'd sent me an email in February. I did find it, but she resent it, too. I am so glad! It is SO much easier to find something on page one or two of my email than on page 20-something. I've looked it over, and the next step is getting a printer to print out what they say I need to. Some students in my creative writing class wanted me to use a printer anyway. {Smile}

Then late in the afternoon my main nurse took me to Auntie Sally's Luau Hale for my Zumba Gold class. It went well. I talked with a couple of gals during most of the breaks and learned - or perhaps was reminded - that a fellow is taking over our time slot next session. Our teacher will get a class at a different time, but 8:30 am is too early for me. The other gals were concerned that the fellow is far too vigorous for them. I suggested looking into the YMCA, or possibly line dancing. I'll have to look into them myself. If the fellow is who they thought it was, I had trouble keeping up with him, too. After class, my main nurse took me home again. {smile}

After breakfast. I browsed on the web and followed up on the emails from my financial adviser by calling Mom's lawyer's office. Then I cleaned myself up with the help of my main nurse before lunch. During and after lunch, I browsed the web and played Cross Stitch World. Then I began writing up Tuesday's daily update. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on friends, then started working on auction house and storage. I also talked with Pierogis, who was getting called away, but said he'd be back. So, I continued working on auction house and storage. Next, I set up keeping better track of badges my third best badge collector hasn't gotten yet. I have this set up for my best badge collector and second-best badge collector already. I noticed some easy-to-get badges my second-best badge collector didn't have and worked on getting them. Then I started some slightly more complicated badges and got one of those before Pierogis came back. We talked until my main nurse said it was time to leave for my Zumba Gold class. I played a lot of Cross Stitch World both down to Zumba Gold and back from it. {Smile}

After Zumba Gold, I had dinner. After dinner, I finished writing up Tuesday's daily update. Then I read web comics before I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on friends and said hi to Ulty and Azurette. I talked with Ulty while I continued getting two more slightly more complicated badges on my second-best badge collector. Azurette said hi-back near the end of the last badge. When it was done, she gave me a tour of the base she's begun recently, though she complained - with justification - about me multitasking a couple of times. Then we talked at some length. Next, we joined a hunt for two giant monsters. After that, we said goodnight. Then I updated my record of my second-best badge collector's badges, and did some storage stuff. Next, I made notes in this, playing a little Cross Stitch World as breaks and afterwards. {Smile}