Daily Update, October 11, 2023

    Today, the housekeeper came, though she was late due to the car trouble she had yesterday continuing into today. The house is definitely better for her attentions, though we both think it needs another catchup day. She's planning to come back for that soon. {smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started a bit late, so tried not to go too long. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with the last of Mom's niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. Next, I showed her the last few pages of pictures in _Visions of Scotland_, along with three postcards that came with with the books, adn got slipped into it. She was reasonably awake for them today. Then I read her a a short story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with "Alex's Moon Flag," The 10th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Alex's mother called him to get his attention, even though they were together. She complained that he was miles away, and asked what he was dreaming about. Alex declined to say that he was thinking about being an astronaut, and landing on the moon, where he'd plant a flag. His mother called him again before he could quite finish that thought. {Smile} 

   I did my walking exercises, then my salsa dancing warm-up. Then, after a break, I did my less structured set. Partway through the second piece, the music stopped. I'd disconnected from the internet and had to restart my computer. When I go back, the easiest way was to start the second piece over again... so while I had expected to not do quite 20 minutes, I did more than usual, and don't feel too guilty about not getting more other exercises done. {Smile}

   I read comics, a web novel, and articles in the morning. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch. I found the early long, large-group event recruiting, and joined up and ran it. Perogies said hi around the time it was ending. We teamed up. He wanted to work on a particular task force, so we did the first two missions. Then he needed to rest. I just did some paperwork and hunted for rewards by myself until I realized I was slightly late to read to Mom, and hadn't even fed Val. That's why I kept things not-too-long with Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I read the web novel a little more, opening a few chapters. I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming later than usual and teamed up with qworty. We ran one of his missions, then finished a high-level story arc that I'd started. I also started talking with Nox on the chat server. That was nice. Then I showed qworty a character I thought he might like to see, just before we said goodnight. I talked with Nox some more, then said goodnight to them, too. I wrote this a bit, but then got sidetracked looking into web novels some more. I'm wondering if this might be a way to gain readers, especially at first. So, I ended up making notes to finish the next day.