Daily Update, September 26, 2023

    I had a few text conversations, but that was it Tuesday. {Smile} 

   The nursing company still didn't want me eating with Mom, and I admit I woke up feeling like it really should be at least one more day to be sure, myself. I mis it, and I miss her, and just hope she remembers me when I can finally get back to it. {resigned smile}

   I thought that yesterday, maybe part of the reason I didn't get more exercises done was that I started with my walking exercises, which are probably the most exercises after the salsa dancing. So today, I started with the easiest, and tried to work up, though there were breaks to talk with Kitten and Phonso, which made "too late" come before I'd done as much as hoped. I started with the easiest, and worked up, more or less, which means I did my head exercises, then my arm swinging exercises, my arm resistance exercises, my leg exercises, my standing arm exercises, and 2 of my 4 sitting arm weight training exercises before it got too late. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics in the morning and over lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming when Kitten said hi after lunch, a little earlier than usual. I did a little paperwork, then joined Kitten and Perogies on the low-level characters we're working up together. I learned that Perogies had gotten two rewards, and a particularly nice reward for getting those and three other rewards. The particularly nice reward permanently improves the character. I thought we had to be a few levels higher, but he definitely had it. We teamed up, and I asked about improving our characters, too, but Perogies just wanted to run mission, so we did. {Smile}

   We ran missions together and chatted until suddenly my power went out. I looked things over, glad it was still late afternoon, with sunlight to light the room. As I was beginning to wonder about turning off my computer, the power came back on. My internet connection didn't come back until I turned my computer off and back on. While I was waiting for it to come back on fully, my phone beeped enough, I checked it. One of those beeps was a text message from our power company notifying us that power had gone out in our area but should be back by almost three hours from then. I just had to tell our nurse that before I got the computer running and got back into the game just in time for Kitten to tell me that Perogies had just left. I tried to message him, but he wasn't checking his phone. Knowing him, he was probably heading to bed. {Smile}

   Kitten also told me Perogies had made the next level while I was offline. We "street swept," meaning found enemies loose on the streets, and earned enough experience for both of us to reach Perogies's level. Then I got one of my high-level characters to help Kitten's low-level character get the badges Perogies had gotten, since Perogies had teamed with a couple of his own high-level characters on his other accounts. (Perogies has three accounts, though Kitten and I only one each.) Then we switched. I got my low-level character, Kitten got their favorite high-level character, and we got the rewards for me. {Smile}

   By then it was dinner time for me, so when I asked for something to do with a fork in one hand, Kitten suggested watching a couple of My Little Pony episodes. They meant to pick a two-part at the end of a season, but they picked the season shortened by a writer's strike, which ended with two unrelated episodes. That's okay. the first episode was about a part I'm particularly interested in, and the second was as challenging to the main characters as I'm learning to expect the beginning or end of a season to be.

   Then we teamed up on the slightly higher characters and finished the story arc we'd started last night. I meant to do one more mission, but between feeding Val and talking to Kitten, it really got too late. I started my exercises, and Phonso started talking to me. We got kind of involved, which slowed my exercises more than I meant it to. I wrote this and made notes, but this ran late, too. So, I was late to bed, and wrote most and shared it the next day. {smile}