Daily Update, July 7, 2023

    I called Melanie after breakfast. I told her about Val's appointment next week, but she's busy the day I have to take him in. So I called Alan next, and he'll be happy to take me. Just call to remind him at the time. {Smile}

   I got a text from our housekeeper. The problem she had yesterday was still getting worked on, so she couldn't come today, either. She hopes to come tomorrow. {Smile}

   I looked over the shorter story that's in late revisions and realized that if I I think of a different character as the main character, I don't have to switch characters at the end. I started revising with that in mind... so far, I haven't had to make many changes, but I didn't get to the part where I'd expect more changes yet. {Smile}

   I had dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. I read more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020 next. Then, I covered the next few pages of _Memories 1950's_, sharing both pictures and captions. After that, I read "The Elves and the Shoemaker," from _Five-Minute Fairy Tales_, showing Mom the illustrations for that story. I finished with the July 7th story, or rather poem "Breakfast Time!" from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. It was a poem about a sparrow mooching a breakfast of left over crumbs from a girl. They even got bacon rinds. {Smile}

   I did my walking, arm resistance, arm swinging, and standing arm weight training exercises after dinner. I did my head and sitting arm weight training exercises during lulls in roleplaying and the game, and after I was done playing. {Smile}

   I read comics over lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming afterwards. There, I found Kitten, who wanted to get together. Kitten spotted a team, but I was looking something up when they said. It was full by the time I got back. I switched to the character I wanted to join, and waited, watching it. I joined when I spotted that they had a spot clear.   We played a few missions before Perogies came on. I tried to point out when we had openings, but they kept filling before he responded. I left when it got close to time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, my usual friends I team with were all gone, well, except for Mysty and a maybe one or two others who were on full teams already. The game won't let you add more when a team reaches 8. I found someone in the role-playing group I met my roleplaying partner in, and we got together. We started role-playing, and our characters clicked. I might just have another roleplaying partner. We'll see. Eventually they went off to bed. Looked around for someone else, and spotted Laine, a relatively new friend. We did 2 missions with a talk with an NPC in between, and he went off to bed. I finished with a bunch of paperwork, and working on making notes about most I hadn't written about already. I finished writing it up the next day. {Smile}