Daily Update, October 26, 2023

    Thursday, I had a little text conversation with Auntie Barbara, and another one with the secretary from Helping Hands Healthcare, the nursing company that takes care of mom and me. Otherwise, it was a quiet day. {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom on Thursday and read to her before dinner. She was more awake than yesterday, though quiet, which is typical these days. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then, I read a birthday card from Church, an Christmas card from her cousin's granddaughter, and an Easter card from me. Next, I got back to reading a few pages of _1950's Fashion in Pictures_, which she seemed to like. Then I read two storied from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with “Flop-Ears' Treat,” the 26th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. Flop ears, a young rabbit was very bored, recovering in the hospital from a rash and a temperature. A kind nurse tried to help his eat his lunch, but the vegetable soup was not his favorite. Then Daddy came to visit with a bag of scrubbed baby carrots, radishes, and fresh lettuce leaves: his favorites. Daddy said he was coming home tomorrow. Later, Flop-Ears went around the ward, giving a carrot or radish to all his friends, since he would have more at home tomorrow. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises, standing arm weight training exercises, and one sitting arm weight training exercise after playing on Homecoming for the evening. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set before resting. Then I did my less structured salsa dancing set. After another rest, I did my head exercises. {Smile}

   I read comics and articles in the morning and looked into books on writing serial fiction. The public library had nothing. Amazon had a couple of books, one of which looked much more helpful than the other. I'm thinking about getting the more helpful looking one. {Smile}

   After lunch I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Pierogies, Div, and Paradox were all on. Pierogies wanted to do the early long, large group event, while Div and Paradox were interested in teaming right away. So, I wished Pierogies well, and Div, Paradox, and I teamed up for a hunt and one admittedly long mission. Then Div left to avoid overdoing it. I think Paradox and I did another mission. Then Pierogies joined us after the early long large group event was done. Kitten came on and joined us a little while later. The three of us teamed for most of the afternoon. Then Pierogies left, and maybe Paradox. Kitten, Paradox if they didn't leave when Pierogies did, and I did one more mission before it was time to read to Mom.

   After dinner, I came back on. Of the folks I often team with, Azurette was on. We chatted for a while. Then I asked about teaming up. She wanted to do a long taskforce. Just then, Meroa came on and asked to join us, so we invited them, and gathered near the contact who gives the missions for the taskforce. The contact promptly ran off. I ran after him, wondering what was going on. they're non-player characters that Homecoming, the host of the server, made able to fight, but what was he going after? It turned out that a zombie apocalypse was starting, so he was going after zombies, quite enthusiastically, too. Azurette, Meroa, and I fought zombies, and I admired how enthusiastic the contact was at fighting them alongside us. Eventually the zombies stopped, and Azurette collected a team for the taskforce. We ran it together, and it went right up to time to do my exercises. I also talked at some length with Nox on the chat server. It was wonderful to get a good, long talk in. I did paperwork in the game, and watched videos between and after the exercises, and read a little of one of the web novels, too. Which meant I ran out of time and took notes to finish writing this up the next day. {Smile}