Daily Update, December 7, 2023

    The tooth is still mostly almost normal... but kind of considered flaring during one meal, before settling down again. Later, I tried chewing on the other side. It's awkward because the other side is pretty short, so not as easy to chew much on. I'll try some more and think about talking with my dentist about possibilities. {Smile}

   I got a call from the podiatrist's office today. They were happy to reschedule the recheck of the toenail that separated from my big toe for early January. I think the receptionist agreed that the root canal was more urgent. That's so much better than making a root canal wait until mid-January! Untreated root canals can turn nasty! I have much higher hopes for it getting seen next Monday than January 15th! {Smile}

   Our housekeeper came today, and the house is better for her attentions. She even put up the tree, but the middle lights don't light. She's going to come back to finish up and add strings of lights. She said she'll get my bed at the same time. {Smile}

   I got Mom's Christmas ornaments up. It was relatively easy, since I'd never gotten around to undecorating the trees; I just stashed the m on the porch. So, I just took them back and made room for them and a creche, and a tree music box. {Smile}

   I'm still thinking about series to write... I'm wondering what sorts of stories everyone is fondest of, if I might ask? {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She opened her eyes to look at things, sometimes when reminded, but she did look. She responded a couple of times. I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with two cards: one from each of her sisters. After that, I showed her the last few pages of _1940s Fashion in Pictures_. Then I read the next story in _My Little Pony: 5 Minute Stories_. "Equestria." All about the ponies' land and the communities in it. I finished with the 7th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Making Presents." Jane wrote DO NOT DISTURB in big letters on a piece of paper and hung it on her bedroom door. Then she got out a big box with colored paper, cardboard, beads, shells from last summer, and glue. She was going to make presents. She decided to make a frame for Mummy, with yellow shells around the edge of some blue cardboard, and a cut out collage for Daddy. Then the door opened. Jane tried to cover everything, but it was only Tigger, the cat, who couldn't read. He jumped up on the table scattering everything in his curiosity.  Jane said he didn't deserve a present. {Smile}

   Still no exercise. The tooth isn't quite normal, and I don't want to upset it like exercise seemed to Monday. {Smile}

   I read articles in the morning, and wrote yesterday's daily update, too. Then I hopped into City of Heroes around lunch time. Soothing Darkness was on and invited me to join her for a story arc that introduces high level content. I started to accept, switching characters, then realized I hadn't cleaned myself up. So, I took a break to do that, missing the beginning. She invited me when I got back and shared it with me and another friend who left for a while about the time that I came in. I think non-computer stuff called them away, as it will. They came back, we finished that arc, did a follow up that's all story, and started a regular story arc that follows that. Later, Pierogies said hi, and we started chatting. I asked Soothing Darkness to invite him. She handed me the team, but we kept doing her missions. We didn't quite finish that story arc by the time I wanted to read to Mom. The others might have left then, too; I'm not sure. {Smile}

   After dinner, I joined the late-night short, large group event. That character is now almost to 50, the level where you can start accessing a different style of play and especially tough content. She also got really close to a badge. Hopefully she'll get both the badge and the level the next time she runs the short, large group event. Then I started writing this up. Next, I spotted that pair of high-level task forces that are individually short enough, folks like to run them back-to-back. I got out the character who's working on those, and she got a couple of badges, and that much closer to getting a particular series completed. Then I worked on paperwork and chatted with Nox and Owl Girl on the chat server. Kitten and Paradox joined me and Owl Girl for a while. I also hunted badges some, and did some research into web fiction, and especially ways to supplement income from that.