Daily Update, October 15, 2023

    Well, time to face it: Val is sick again. First, I noticed he started hiding under the desk near mine. Then I noticed some loose movements late last week, but he was still eating well, so I didn't worry. Then yesterday he started eating poorly, and today he's hardly eating at all, and may have stopped eating entirely; it's hard to tell. I'm getting concerned... okay, worried about him now. He'll have to turn around awfully fast to keep me from calling the veterinarian about this tomorrow. {small smile}

   {later} Okay, Val is eating. Stopping eating may have been a bad can of cat food. He's still not finishing what I serve him, even when it's a modest amount, but he's eating some, and might be eating more than he was for a while. I'm still planning to call the vet, but I'll be sleeping more easily tonight than I feared. {smile}

   Today was Sunday, so I contacted Uber after church, and a nice fellow came and got me. We had a nice talk most of the way down. It's continuing to be quicker at the house, and I'm glad. {Smile}

   I got there before the service again, which was nice, since I had a little time to settle in. It was a nice service, though I missed the music. We didn't have an organist or other keyboard player, so the only music we had was the doxology, which we sang acapella. {smile}

   After the service, I stayed for lunch, and tried to hold back on the desserts. I suspect that too many desserts might have been why I suddenly had trouble with hypoglycemia after a few weeks without it. I didn't have dessert when I was sick, since I stayed home, and the next Sunday, there wasn't much by the time I got to it. I had a nice chat with a few of my table mates, tough honestly, a lot was me listening. One of them offered to take me home afterwards, though we had to wait a fair while. The driver of the car had a presentation to give to the vestry, which was meeting afterwards, and why Ed and some of my other frequent rides couldn't take me home. {Smile}

   On Sunday I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with the start of a long family Christmas letter from her niece from last year. Next, I showed the front and back covers and the first few pages of _Memories 1950's_. After that, I read her a story and a long poem from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Last, I finished with "Hazelnuts," The 15th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. It was cold and grey, and Corinna didn't want to put on a coat and go out. Instead, she asked Mummy if they could make chocolate buns with chopped nuts, saying she hadn't cooked in ages. Mummy checked the ingredients, and found they were out of nuts. the stores were all closed that day, so they couldn't buy more. Corinna told her to wait, adn dashed into the garden without putting on her coat. She was back in a few minutes with her hands full of hazel nuts. She remembered seeing them on their hazel tree the other day. Corinna cracked them open, and her mother chopped them. They had the best chocolate buns they'd ever tasted. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises, my walking exercises, and my standing arm weight training exercises after we stopped teaming for the evening. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup, and after a break, my less structured set, for over 20 minutes of salsa dancing in all. I was relieved that I seem pretty steady tonight, at least so far. Maybe holding back on the desserts helped, though I think I could do better, especially with practice. {Smile}

   After I got home, I hopped onto my computer and found a note from Kitten. however, they weren't in the game when I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. However, Meroa was, and Soothign Darkness, and soon qworty. I talked to all three, and tried to find a character to join the task force that qworty was planning to join, but it filled about the time I found someone, despite them asking the leader to save me a place. So I teamed up with Meroa, Soothing Darkness and ran most of a story arc one character who I'd like to see reach 50 soon had. Perogies came in, said hi, and joined us after a few missions, and qworty joined when his task force was done. I'm not sure if Azurette joined us at some point, too. I thought I was almost done, but twice the next mission turned out not to be the last. This took me up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After supper, I found a note from Kitten. They'd slept longer than they meant to - a few hours straight. I'd figured as much. I hopped into the game and found them trick-or-treating. I talked to them, and qworty, and Meroa, and then Azurette, and we all teamed up. The story arc took several more mission, but we finished it, and did a hunt, which got interrupted by a zombie apocalypse - this whole month is the season for extra zombie apocalypses. Then we did a door mission from that contact, which turned out to be the start of a "mini-story-arc," since that mission was followed by another. It has to wait for another day, though, because I had to start my exercises. Oh! I also talked with Owl Girl and Nox on the chat server. I did some paperwork and talking with Paradox on the chat server around the exercises and salsa dance, and I also wrote this up. {Smile}