Daily Update, October 23, 2023

    This morning, I cleaned myself up right after breakfast, so the cable company wouldn't catch me in the shower when they call. I wasn't out long when they called and said he was coming up. He did come in a little while and asked about the problem. he looked at it and got a new modem from the truck. He hooked it up, and confirmed it was working before he left. He said it was no extra charge. {Smile}

   The first thing I did was try to straighten out an app I have on the phone for the chat server that I talk to several friends on. the phone has been very difficult about letting me sign in ever since I got it. I only managed once, and eventually it logged me out, and didn't let me back in. So, I was delighted when a new password fixed it easily. I was even done around lunchtime. {Smile}

   I texted Aunti Barbara a bit in the morning to let her know my internet was back. She was happy to hear that. She knows how lost I am without it, I think. {Smile}

   I somehow forgot to also text our former nurse about that until supper. After my first text, he called, and we had a nice conversation, not just about my internet being out and back, but other stuff, too. I really enjoyed talking to him. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I first read scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read some more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022 next. After that, I showed and read her the next few pages of _1950's Fashion in Pictures_. Next, I read her a few poems and a story from 365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes. I finished with “The Young Deer,” the 23rd of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. Every day for five days, a little fawn trotted out of the forest and into a meadow next to Tom's house, where the grass was sweet and tender. At first it was shy, but now it ran up to Tom, nuzzling his hand for food, and playing beside him. On the sixth day, Tom managed to hitch a cart to the little fawn, who gave him rides in it. They didn't notice how late it was getting until a butterfly came from the mother deer to call him home. The fawn ran off, but looked back as if to say, "See you tomorrow!" {Smile}

   After I was done teaming on City of Heroes: Homecoming for the evening, I did two head exercises, my walking exercises, my arm resistance exercises, and my leg exercises. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set, trying to mix it up slightly more than usual. Then, after a shorter break, I did my other three head exercises. I wanted to do my arm swinging exercises, too, but I rushed the exercises before salsa dancing, and felt tired after my head exercises. {rueful smile}

   I read some comics before the guy from my cable provider brought the new modem. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming not long after lunch, eager to get back to it after not being able to play for over half a day. I found Kitten and Pierogies. Pierogies was eager to do the early long, large-group event, so Kitten and I joined him. We ran the event, and hoped to team up afterwards on our warshades, but Kitten faded out not long afterwards. Figuring they'd fallen asleep again, Pierogies said he wanted to work on a low-level character. I found one who hadn't started the stuff he wanted to do, and invited Meroa and qworty to join us. Meroa came first, and a zombie invasion started not long after. We started fighting zombies. It seemed easier than fighting zombies and the enemies we'd just been asked to fight. Since the latter was a hunt in the open, it would be both. qworty joined us. This went on just a little uncomfortably long, like most zombie invasions caught at the beginning. Then we started the missions we'd meant to do, running through that contact, and starting the next contact before Pierogies left for bed. I continued with more from that contact with Meroa and qworty, but just reached the introduction to the last part. I plan to do Pierogies's missions with him before finishing the arc. {Smile}

   After dinner, I found a note from Kitten complaining about falling asleep. I told them I thought so, and that I was going back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. We met up, and I said hi to Meroa and Mysty, too. Meroa responded first, saying they were trick-or-treating with Mysty, and invited us to join. Kitten and I both did, and we trick or treated for most of the evening. Then I ran a couple of Halloween-themed missions with some of the trick-or-treaters before leaving the group out of boredom. Trick-or-treating in that game is a great way to get stuff, but it can be pretty repetitive. Only Kitten left to join me at first, but Meroa joined us not long after we started a mission, saying the group had broken up not long after we left. We did more of that mission, and Meroa asked me to add someone else who turned out to have been one of the trick-or-treat leaders. We finished that mission and ran another mission with a talk in between before I left to start my exercises. I wrote this and read one of the web novels during the breaks and after wards. I also went back to City of Heroes homecoming for some paperwork that had piled up while I played today. {Smile}