Daily Update, November 22, 2023

    A friend suggested to me that I take a few days off of my arm exercises to give my arm and shoulder time to heal. Then, if it still isn't healing, see a doctor. That makes a whole lot of sense, so that's what I did. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Her eyes were closed a lot, but she opened them a couple of times, and even answered me. I began with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that, I continued with the next part of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Then I skipped _1960's Memory Lane_. and went straight to _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_, which I read two stories from. I tried to keep it short, and not demand that she look at too many pictures, since she seemed particularly tired. I finished with the 22nd of November's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Burglary." Pipkin the Squirrel came home one evening to find his house had been burgled, and all his precious stores for the winter had been taken. He started to cry, asking what would become of himself, when it's frosty, and will be worse with snow. A kind owl came over, and pointed out a house where they put seeds, bread, and other tidbits out for the animals daily. When the little girl who lived there saw Pipkin, she put nuts on the windowsill for him, and they became good friends. {Smile}

   So, I was able to modify my walking exercises to only use the other arm, so I did them when I finished with the teaming and paperwork. Then I did two of my head exercises, which just loosen up the shoulder, and seems good for it. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set, followed by a break, followed by my less structured salsa dancing set. I did my other three head exercises later, two of them too late, really, but I felt I was doing little enough, I shouldn't skip. {Smile}

   I read articles and some comics in the morning and over lunch. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after cleaning myself up. Pierogies was working on the early long, large-group event, I think, so we chatted while I badge-reward hunted for a while. Then we teamed up. We ran a story arc, with time out for him to solo the part that has to be done solo. Then we ran the first half of another story arc. That took us almost up to time to read to Mom, with just a bit of badge-reward hunting on my own first. {Smile}

   Right after dinner, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, and spotted the late-night short, large-group event, so I joined it. Then I read some comics I remembered. I also started chatting with Radio's boyfriend. Nox and Radio joined us after a while. Then I got back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started chatting with Ulty, and we teamed up, doing a couple of missions before she went to bed. I did some paperwork until I started my exercises. I also started talking with Paradox and Owl girl in our group chat. Then Owl Girl and switched to private for an animated discussion. Near the end of my break, I did some more paperwork, and Pierogies came in and wanted to team up. I did my second salsa dancing set, while he got a hunt my character needed out of the way. Then we started on a mission, but it ran longer than expected, and we quit before finishing. We'll have to start over some other day. {Smile}