Daily Update, November 17, 2023

    I'm feeling less concerned about needing more care as I get older. I've talked to a few folks who feel that's not assured by any means. That's a real relief. {Smile}

   Today, I tried calling my doctor two or three times, but didn't get past their answering machine. I tried to leave a message, but no one called back. {small smile}

   Auntie Barbara called after dinner, and we had a nice talk. We even made tentative Thanksgiving plans, or after-Thanksgiving plans. It won't be on the day, but we're planning a picnic lunch for the following Saturday. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast, lunch, dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. (I ate lunch as well as dinner with her yesterday; I think I forgot to say that.) Her eyes were mostly open today, though she barely talked. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with a birthday card from her sister, and Christmas cards from her cousin's granddaughter and her niece. After that, I read the back cover and the first few pages from _1960's Memory Lane_. Next, I read some poems and a story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with the 17th of November's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "A Secret Lodger." The narrator says a lodger has come to live at their house, and only they know about him. A few nights ago, they crept into the kitchen for a glass of milk and saw a little brown mouse on the floor by the fridge. The mouse ran off, wriggling through a small hole in the wall. The narrator saw the mouse was thin. So, they put a small piece of cheese on the floor by the hole. Soon the mouse came out nose first and ate up the cheese before running back into his hole. The narrator now comes down every evening to feed the mouse and asks the reader not to tell. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises and my leg exercises after teaming and such. Then I did my warmup salsa dancing set. After a break, I did my full less structured salsa dancing set. After a longer break than I meant to take, I did my arm resistance exercises, my arm swinging exercises, and my head exercises. Not one of my better nights these days, but better than last night. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics in the morning and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming a while after lunch. I got into the second half of the early short, large-group event. Then teamed up with Paradox. I said hi to Pierogies, too, and invited them to come, but they wanted to catch the early long, large group event, while Paradox and I wanted to run missions. I picked one of my higher but not really high characters, and we ran a few missions. Then Pierogies joined us, and we ran some more missions until it was time to read to Mom.

   After dinner, Paradox wanted to start a series of story arcs they had. We did two or three missions before Paradox decided he'd played this game enough for one day. Paradox does want to continue at another time. I tried to find someone else to team with, and even tried to join a pickup group before I realized it was time to start my exercises, but I ended up talking to Ulty in the game, Nox and Radio in one conversation on the chat server, and Paradox and Kitten another conversation on the chat server, even after I started my exercises and salsa dancing. I also checked out a web novel Paradox recommended. After they left, I checked out comics, and did some paperwork on City of Heroes: Homecoming. {Smile}