Daily Update, July 26, 2022

    Yesterday was physical therapy, so I contacted Uber, and a fairly chatty driver came and took me over. He actually wanted to visit a friend in the nursing home when we go there. I was able to tell him how to find the office where they can help him find the friend's room. {Smile}

   Physical therapy went well. I only had to cut back on salsa dancing at the end a bit because of my foot. We added several more exercises for home. With all the other exercises I'm doing now, my therapist said I only need to do 20 minutes salsa dancing or 30 minutes walking a day. He also said 30 minutes salsa or 40 minutes walking in one day would give me the next day off, which sounds very nice. An hour walking in a day would give me two days off like I have after physical therapy. My therapist doesn't recommend salsa dancing for 2 days off. {Smile}

   After therapy, I contacted Uber, and a fairly chatty fellow took me home. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I followed that with more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. Then I read the next few pages of _1960s Memory Lane_. Next, I read "The Golden Goose," from _Five-Minute Fairy Tales_. I finished with the July 26th story "Off into Space," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. It told about a boy who was having trouble going to sleep. He didn't want to count sheep like his mother first suggested, but then she got him thinking about flying in space, and he drifted off thinking about that. {Smile}

   No exercise beyond physical therapy. {Smile}

   I read articles over breakfast, then comics and articles over lunch and afterwards. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started with a little paperwork, but I found Kitten and Perogies pretty quickly. Perogies is still struggling with a balky computer, but he was able to play. Yes, the three of us teamed up. Perogies left after a complex mission or two; they had mini missions as well as the main mission in them. Kitten and I kept doing that particular kind of complex mission until I got the last badge my best badge collector could get from them. Then we switched to a similarly complex mission and did one more before I read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, and teamed up with Kitten for more of the second type of complex missions. I got the last of the really easy badges from them in maybe three missions, but there are five moderately hard ones and a sixth for getting the other five plus a badge I have already. The moderately hard ones don't always count that I've done them when we expect them to, either. We worked on them until a friend invited us to a task force. We joined that and got my fourth best badge collector a couple of badges. Then they wanted to do that pair of high-level task forces. I did and tried for more badges for my fourth best badge collector, but we didn't get them this time around. One's really tricky, and the others depend on the tricky one. Then kitten spotted a guy asking for help with a timed mission. We helped, and then he accidentally got another timed mission. After helping him with the second timed mission, I helped him find another contact, but they gave a timed mission too. Kitten helped with the third as well, but I had to leave to make notes for this so I could write it up properly the next day. {smile}