Daily Update, July 9, 2023

    Today was Sunday, and I was running late, so I contacted Uber before I was quite ready, and had to dash right out; they were only 2 minutes away! That's the fastest yet, especially at our house. It's normally slow to our house, because we're in a residential area, not a more popular part of town. That's why I figured I'd contact them then finish up. {Smile}

   Because of that, I actually got to church early. I checked with Auntie Barbara before the service and sat with her during it. I had lunch with her too, though she sat down late because she was one of the servers. Then we went to Island Naturals together. They have a nice sale every second Sunday of the month, so we stocked up, though for me that was only a couple of bags of seeds. They were out of bulk dried cranberries again. After that, Auntie Barbara took me home. She had a quick visit with Mom. We sang one song together, Mom was tired, and just wouldn't get into a second. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom. I read to her before that. First, I read scripture and thoughts about it. After that, I read more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Next were the first few pages of _1950's Fashion in pictures_. I shared both pictures and captions with her. Then, I read "Rapunzel," from _Five-Minute Fairy Tales_, showing Mom the illustrations for that story as well as reading it. I finished with the July 9th story, "The Enchanted Mill," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. A water mill in the forest was abandoned, but people loved to picnic there, and kept leaving their trash. Taht is until a sympathetic forest fairy cast a spell that prevented people from coming, so the animals were free to enjoy it by themselves. {Smile}

   I slipped the head exercises in while role-playing. We're always typing, sending then waiting for them to red, type, and send back. One exercise at a time doesn't slow things down much if at all. {Grin}

   After Auntie Barbara left, I finished yesterday's daily update. Then after a break for personal grooming, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. There, I found Kitten, and we got together. I also started chatting with bowlofdro and Soothing Darkness. They were teaming, along with a third person. Kitten and I joined them. The leader left to get some food as we joined, so out of boredom I phoned in a mission, and got one closer to the group than I expected. I couldn't show them it, not being the leader, so I led the others to it, and we started it. The leader joined us when they got back, and we finished it together. We continued with a mission the leader had, since they were back. Then Soothing darkness left, and we did another mission. Then all three of the others left, and I did some paperwork before reading to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I spotted the person I roleplayed with the other night and said hi. They were busy, so when I mentioned eyeing a pair of high-level task forces, they said to go ahead. So, I did. When they were done, we got together, and ran a couple of missions in-character. Then we settled down for some after-mission talk and quieter time together. That's really a nice RP date, especially for a first date. After we faded to black, Kitten started talking on the chat server. They weren't up to playing, so I shared several videos instead. We'd shared videos earlier, and these were kind-of sort-of vaguely related. {Smile}