Daily Update, October 8, 2023

    On Sunday, I contacted Uber after breakfast. They came and took me down to church. I actually arrived a little early. There seem to be more drivers. Their prices dropped, and they're much more likely to be close to our house. {Smile}

   Church went well. I liked the service, and it's nice to have our priest back from maternity leave. After the service, we had lunch on the lanai. I enjoyed talking with some of the folks there. Ed took me home again, this time with BJ. She's his frequent passenger, since she lives near him. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that.  I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued with more of Mom's niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. After that, I showed her a few pages of pictures in _Visions of Scotland_. She was fairly awake for this, and even said a few times that she liked certain pictures, especially the larger scenic ones. Next, I read a short story and a long poem from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Then I finished with "Morris's House," The 8th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Morris Mouse decided to move house. The corner of the shed was fine for summer, but the nights were getting colder, and he wanted some place warmer. He found a way into the attic and loved looking around at the boxes and old furniture. He found an old box with a dome on top with a handle he could push round and round, and drawer underneath. He thought it was perfect. He could keep his stores under the roof, sleep in the drawer, and even ride the handle round and round when he was bored. He brought his nuts and cheese to store and invited his friend Millie to ride the handle. He found grated nuts and cheese to sleep on when he went to bed. It was Grandma's old coffee mill. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises and two of my four sitting arm weight training exercises while teaming with qworty in the evening; there are slower parts to the game, especially the way we play, which they fit into nicely. Then I did my walking exercises and my other two sitting arm weight training exercises after we finished teaming for the night. I followed that with my salsa dancing warmup. However, when I started the less structured salsa dancing set, I soon got too dizzy and was stumbling too much to continue safely. I had to stop before I'd done 10 minutes including the eight-and-a-half-minute warmup. I treated myself for hypoglycemia when I sat down, but there was no good way to continue salsa dancing in time. At least I should see my doctor tomorrow; I can bring up the frequent dizziness, and how it seems to be hypoglycemia or at least unstable blood sugar then. Maybe he can help. {Smile}

   I finished yesterday's daily update after Ed and BJ brought me home. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started by joining Trick-or-Treat, which I actually have done very little of so far. I also chatted with Perogies while I triak-or-treated. Then I teamed up with Perogies and qworty, doing a couple of Halloween special missions before Perogies left because he was tired. Qworty and I did one more Halloween special mission, since he'd gotten the character who had it. Then we switched characters, and I slowly shared a low-level story arc I really love with him. That took us up to time to read to Mom, so I left to do that and eat dinner. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back on5o City of Heroes: Home coming and found qworty. We teamed up and ran a tutorial type of story arc together, slowly, I admit. Then we started the story arc that followed the one we did before dinner. We only got a hunt and one regular mission in before I had to stop to do my exercises. I soloed to finish the tutorial arc for my character after stopping my exercises, since the way we did it didn't count for my character. Then I made notes to write this up from the next day. {Smile}