Daily Update, April 18, 2022

    I expected to do the monthly picnic today, but it must have been cancelled because the leader is on a trip. I'm not as disappointed as i might have been, because I needed time to get medicine for Val. A while after breakfast, I called up Uber, and a nice, chatty fellow took me down to the vet. The driver spoke of waiting, but I was a lot longer in there than I expected. I eventually came away with a couple of weeks of medicine, so that was okay, but he was gone when I got out. So, I just called up Uber, and a different fellow picked me up. He was chatty, too. {Smile}

   I had a short text conversation with our former nurse before going to the vet. He'd spoken of maybe taking me there or home or something if he wasn't busy, but of course he was busy right then. We had a nice phone call between reading to Mom and dinner tonight. I do enjoy talking to him. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. I started with scripture and thoughts about it and continued with three cards, from Mom's niece, her sister, and me. After that, I read the last few pages of _Music stars 1940-1960 Memory Lane_ as well as the back of the books. it was a little short, but I just let it be short. After that, I read the tenth and eleventh stories from _100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors_ They were "Teen's Uplifting Notes on Bridge Save Six Lives," and "Budweiser Misses Superbowl: Uses Marketing Money for Vaccine Awareness Instead." Then I finished with the April 18th story from 366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year. Mom was dozing when I got there, but she woke up when I settled in, and seemed to like it all. {Smile}

   I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing tonight, including both warmup and less structured dancing. {Smile}

   I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch, looked around, and saw my RWBY friend, but they didn't respond when I tried to talk to them. So, I joined a fairly high-level task force that helped me work on the badges I worked on last night - it was the same task force. Then I tried to talk to folks again, and even tried talking to my RWBY friend on Facebook messenger. I ended up doing the paperwork the task force had made. Then I looked around, and joined the later long, large-group event. After it had started, my RWBY friend came in and said hi. I encouraged him to join us, which he did, since we still had a fair bit to do. We talked afterwards until it was time to read to Mom, since it was close to that time. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I tried talking to a few friends, but they were unresponsive. So, I ended up doing the paperwork from the later long, large group event. Then I tried talking with folks again, and did begin talking with Azurette in the game, and Nox on the chat server. I joined Azurette, who'd joined a group that was doing a whole bunch of one-off missions. I talked with Shen Dragon in the game for a bit, too. When the one-off missions ended, half the group stayed for the fairly high-level task force. I ran it with them again, and it finished just a little before I needed to start my exercises. The others went on to do something else, but I started salsa dancing instead. {Smile}