Daily Update, October 10, 2023

    Today, I stayed home and took it easy. I didn't even have any notable phone calls, though I did leave messages for the vet, and I had a text conversation with our housekeeper, but that's about it beyond the usual. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that.  I read scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I read more of Mom's niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. then I showed her a few pages of pictures in _Visions of Scotland_. She was more awake today, so we did more than sometimes. Then I read her a few short poems, a short story, and one more poem from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Two of the early ones were ones I know as songs, so I sang them. I finished with "Hungry Rusty!" The 10th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Rusty was a brown squirrel who lived int eh middle of a forest. He spent all his time playing in the trees. Right through summer, he practiced climbing and jumping from branch to branch until he was the finest acrobat in the forest. When autumn came, and the other squirrels started collecting nuts, mushrooms, and acorns for winter, Rusty just kept playing and showing off. Winter came and Rusty got very hungry. His friends offered to share this year, but insisted he get his own next year. Rusty offered to get some for them, too, then. {Smile} 

   Today, I did my walking exercises, my arm swinging exercises, and my arm resistance exercises between playing Coity of Heroes and my salsa dancing. Yes, I did salsa dancing, both my usual warmup set, and, after a break, a less structured set, for a bit over 20 minutes of salsa dancing. After too long a break, I squeezed in my head exercises before bed, too. {Smile}

   I read articles and a few comics in the morning and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after cleaning up after lunch. I found Perogies, and we began to talk. Then we teamed up to run some things, and I invited qworty to join us, which he did. Then Perogies left because he felt a need to, and qworty and I shifted to the characters we've been doing the low-level stuff on. We squeezed in a couple of hunts before time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I found Kitten on, and Perogies, too. We teamed up on the warshades. I asked if I could invite qworty. He didn't have a warshade, so he brought another kind of character. We teamed all evening and finished the warshade themed story arc. Then we tried to find something else and settled on an individual mission after some aborted attempts because that's what I had time for before my exercises. I also talked to Nox, which was great. Then I read articles and comics and checked paperwork in City of heroes around and after my exercises, as well as writing this up. {Smile}