Daily Update, November 12, 2023

    Today was Sunday, so I called Uber, and a fellow who knew I was going to church as soon as he saw my name picked me up and took me right down to church. I arrived a bit early, so I tried to say hi to a few folks before the service. {Smile}

   It was a nice service. We had a guest who was a Rabbi - the youngest Rabbi in the country, and maybe the world, they said. She had a lot to say about the Middle East, and the atmosphere it produces for Jews. I went to talk to her afterwards, asking how to help. She said the biggest thing is speak up when you hear people talking against Jews. I tend to already, I hope, but I'll try to be more mindful of that, with any minority that gets blamed for stuff. She also said to look for her on the web and get on her mailing list. She is Rabbi Rachel Short, and yes, that's easy to find. {Smile}

   Then I ate lunch. While I did, Auntie Barbara found me, and said she couldn't find me earlier, so I explained where I was. I also talked to Ed, who often takes me how when Auntie Barbara can't. He's leaving soon, so this seems like a good time to make him a lei like I've been meaning to "someday." He said he likes blue. I just found a few shades of blue ribbon of the right type and picked two I hope he'll like. {Smile}

   Auntie Barbara drove me home by way of the natural food store. She wanted to take advantage of the second Sunday's sale, but I only needed almonds, and the ones I found were beyond my price range, so I found a package online later. Then she took me home and came in to say hi to Mom, who sang two songs and a partial song with us and our main nurse. A fourth song, she just looked at us. Still, that's better than often while Auntie Barbara was away. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Her eyes were wide open at first, but later closed more, so I tried not ot make it too long. I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021. Next, I tried more from _Music Stars 1940-1960 Memory Lane_. Mom's eyes closed, and didn't open much for that, so I switched to reading some poems from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. She wanted a story, too, so I read one from there, but she didn't seem as interested in a second story. So I finished with the 12th of November's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Going Sliding," since the stories from that book are always pretty short. Two rabbit brothers encouraged their friend, Dandy the fawn, to come slide on the ice with them. Dandy wanted to watch them do it first. The rabbits ran down the snowy bank of the lake, jumped on the ice, crouching low, and slid right across. Dandy tried it, running down the bank and springing high into the air. But his legs shot out from under him when he landed, and he arrived at the other bank with his legs waving in the air. He laughed and said that he seemed to be better at jumping and sliding before asking them to show him again. {Smile}

   I did my arm swinging exercises and my head exercises while waiting for Uber before church. Then, after teaming for the evening, I did my walking exercises and my arm resistance exercises. Then I did my warmup salsa dancing set before I took a break. After the break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set. Then I got sidetracked, and only got my standing arm weight training done before it got too late, so I missed both my leg exercises and my sitting arm weight training exercises, but there's always tomorrow to do better again, and I did walk around the natural food store a fair bit with Auntie Barbara. Taht should compensate at least somewhat. {Smile}

   I looked at some articles before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming after I got home. There, I found Pierogies and Paradox unresponsive, but Kitten was busy on a team. I found out it was a story arc one character needed, so I switched to her and joined. We got what I needed for the fourth and final statistic-improving badge that could help her, which I am delighted with. Pierogies came and joined us partway through, which was nice, too. I established contact with the leader, too, so we might become friends. Eventually the leader left after most got what they needed, and Kitten, Pierogies and I stayed on the team, and did a little more of my character's stuff, finishing off one contact, and starting to make progress with another's story arc.  {Smile}

   After dinner, I started writing this, and checked my webcomics I got excited to see that one of the webcomics I like seems to have come off hiatus. I had to read that, including a three-part section before the new one to make sure I got back into the story well. It's so good to have it back. It's "The Cursed Princess Club" on Webtoons. {SMILE}

 Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Paradox and Kitten teaming and joined them. We did one or two of my missions, then Paradox left. Kitten joined a pair of high level task forces I spotted, so i switched to the next character who need it. Turns out they already had five of the badges they can get from that pair, but I got one more, with four to go. Then we did a couple of missions that character had before I quit to do my exercises. I also chatted with Nox and Radio, and with Kitten and Paradox in two small-group conversations on the chat world, as well as Kitten in a private conversation there. {Smile}