Daily Update, July 8, 2023

    Yesterday I had physical therapy, so I contacted Uber. The driver came, and greeted by name, which was nice. We chatted a bit on the way over. {Smile}

   Physical therapy went pretty well, including using the squishy thing and the new exercises. I'm improving at stamina with eh faster salsa dancing, but I can't do a whole song at that speed while concentrating on my most energetic moves. I enjoyed talking with my therapist. At the end I brought up the question of what to do when my insurance no longer covers my therapy, and he thinks I should join a dance club. He's going to ask another patient who belongs to a line dance club. That would be nice if we could stick to the moves I can do or fake. {Smile}

   I contacted Uber, and a less chatty driver took me home again. {Smile}

   I had dinner with Mom. Before that, I read to her. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I read more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. After that, I covered the last few pages of _Memories 1950's_, sharing both pictures and captions. Then, I read "Hansel and Gretel," from _Five-Minute Fairy Tales_, showing Mom the illustrations for that story. I finished with the July 8th story, "The Circus Clown," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. It was a boy who went to the circus when it came to town. He enjoyed all the acts. The clown had asked if he was coming while the circus was setting up, though he wasn't in costume, so you didn't know he was the clown. When he spotted the boy in the audience, he tossed him his hat. {Smile}

   No exercise yesterday beyond physical therapy. That was quite enough! {Smile}

   I read comics over lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after that. I said hi to Perogies, and we started to get together. However, I ran into the leader of the late-night Hami raids, and we had a long talk. Perogies left; I really should have included him in the conversation. The raid leader - who's quitting leading - and I established easy contact. Perogies came back after, and we finished a story arc we'd started a couple of days ago. After he left, I did paperwork until it was time to read to Mom. Near the end of that, Minde Bender asked about teaming, but it was too close to time to read to Mom by then. I apologized and promised to return after dinner. {Smile}

After dinner I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming and joined Minde Bender and a friend of theirs. They got me to join them in a voice channel on the chat server, and we played a few missions. They claimed my audio was bad until I turned off the in-game music. Then it was fine according to them. bowlofdro asked if he could join me, and I checked with the others. They invited him, and we finished the story arc. Then Minde Bender, his friend, and bowlofdro all left. So, I checked my friends online. Spotting Phonso, I said hi, and learned he was getting a task force together, and still had two spaces. I joined, and the another did, so we started it soon, and ran it. He had me lead, and he and another told me go ahead and read the mission dialog, which I never have time to do on task forces, strike forces, and trials. It was wonderful to finally learn the story and see how ti fits with the missions. Folks say you can usually learn it by reading the wiki, but it's just not the same without the missions mixed in. I don't get to see how they fit together then, not really. Afterwards, we stayed to clear out the last mission, which I've never seen done so thoroughly. Then the team broke up, and I did a lot of paperwork. I meant to write this up, but somehow started researching dance clubs in town. I learned that I have a lot to figure out. Then I wrote a little and made a lot of notes so I could write this up the next day, which I did after church. {Smile}