Daily Update, August 17, 2023

    Today started with a short phone call from our former nurse first thing int he morning, and another short phone call from him not long into breakfast. It was nice hearing from him again. {Smile}

   I had my online counseling appointment this morning. It went pretty well, I think. We covered a variety of subjects, including the most important ones, I think. {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner, right on time again. I started by reading scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with a Christmas letter from a friend we met through her sister. Next, I read the rest of _1940's Memory Lane_, including the last few pages, both passages and picture captions, and then the blurb on the back of the book, and yes, I showed her the pictures, too. After that, I read a few illustrated poems from _Mother Goose Treasury_. I finished with the August 17th story, "The Lonely Spring," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. A spring sprung at the base of a pink flowering bush. The spring kept the bush healthy, giving it enough water on the hottest day, but the spring was lonely for someone to talk to it. the bush could only drop petals in sadness at the spring's loneliness. Then a stork dropped the frog it was carrying right into the spring. The frog swam out, croaking happily, and the spring was happy too. The frog was talking to it. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises, arm resistance exercises, arm swinging exercises, and leg exercises after Ulty left in the evening. Then I started writing this before doing my standing arm weight training exercises and wrote a bit more before doing my sitting arm weight training exercises. then I paused before doing my salsa dancing, first the warmup set, then the less structured set. After that, I cooled down with my head exercises. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics after the counselling appointment until lunch time. I also did some research into dance in Hilo. After lunch, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Ulty was just leaving, and Perogies was busy in the early long, large-group event. I might have joined that, but a high-level trial caught my eye. Turned out my second-best badge collector could get a couple of badges from it, so she did. The leader followed it with another high-level trial. My second-best badge collector had all the badges from it, but my third best badge collector had never done it. So, she ran it and got all six badges from it her first time through it. Then I started collecting much simpler badges on the same character. She'd never gotten around to getting them before. After a while, Perogies said he was free, and asked me to join him in hunting some badges. I did so, and we did that until it was time for me to go read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner I hopped back online, and started chatting with Ulty as I got back into Coty of Heroes: Homecoming. She was busy with a roleplay with the fellow we met yesterday. It seemed to be private. She spoke of getting together afterwards if she had the energy, so I continued to collect badges on my third best badge collector. However, when the time came, she just spoke of roleplays we might do in the future, and said goodnight, heading to bed. I continued collecting badges for a little while, then looked around for something to join, but not much was happening. I did try to join one thing, but the leader didn't get back to me. So, I did some of my exercises, and continued hunting badges. Then I started chatting with Nox on the chat server. We actually had time for a good chat before they left for bed. I continued a little with more badge hunting, and other exercises, then salsa, writing this up, and reading articles. Oh, and I also did more research into dance in Hilo. Somehow, I seem to have stayed on task enough, I'm actually getting done slightly earlier. {Smile}