Daily Update, August 16, 2022

    I called Melanie after breakfast, and we had a nice chat. However, she is busy Wednesdays, and can't help me take Val to the vet next week Wednesday, So I called Alan the Uber and Lyft driver, and he plans to be working then. He said to call and remind him the day before, and I actually set a reminder in my phone for that. {Smile}

   I tried calling my church a few times, to ask if they could help me donate some cat food I have to the folks on Maui, and also ask about a Zumba class I saw something about, but once I go their answering machine, and two or three times I just got dead air... I think I need to tell them about the dead air. {small smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that, though later than I meant to, because I lost track of time while playing City of Heroes. I read scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I continued with a birthday card from her sister, and a Christmas letter from her niece. After that, I read more from _1940's Memory Lane_. I read passages and picture captions and showed her the pictures. Then I read a few illustrated poems from _Mother Goose Treasury_. I finished with the August 16th story, "Planting Roses," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Robbie Rabbit got soem roses from a neighbor and tried to plan them in his garden. but the birds warned him they'd just shrivel up and die in the sun, so he took them back inside, put them in a vase, and went to ask his neighbor how he grew such fine roses. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises, arm resistance exercises, arm swinging exercises, leg exercises, and one sitting arm weight training exercise between the evening roleplaying session and the evening task force. I did my standing arm weight training exercises and the other three sitting arm weight training exercises between the evening task force and the salsa dancing. Yes, I did salsa dancing at the usual time, first a warmup set, then a less structured set. for over 20 minutes of salsa dancing. After the salsa dancing, I did my head exercises, so I got everything done again today. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics in the morning and over lunch, when I wasn't making phone calls. More comics, and fewer articles, I think which I am happy with. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after I cleaned myself up after lunch. I found Ulty, and joined her. We teamed up on Different characters than usual. Then Perogies joined us, and we teamed until a while before reading to Mom. Then I started working on a badge, and somehow, I didn't watch the time. Suddenly it was almost half an hour after I usually read to Mom, so I dashed off to do that. {Smile}

   After dinner, I came back, and found Ulty in a pickup roleplay with someone new. I joined them, and we toured the new fellow's base until Ulty had to leave, and the other guy did, too. Then I did some of my exercises. Then i took a break at the computer and noticed a taskforce I decided to join. I wanted my best badge collector to join, but ended up using my second-best badge collector, because the best badge collector is still doing something with Kitten's second character that I can't leave and go back to. Neither of them got what I was hoping for anyway, except one of the players helped me get it on my second-best badge collector later. Then I did some paperwork that got her one more badge and set my best badge collector to getting another while I worked on my exercises and salsa dancing. Then i wrote this up adn read articles and comics. {Smile}