Wednesday, I mostly took things easy. I didn't go out, though I did call Auntie Barbara after dinner. We had a nice chat, which was great. {Smile}
I thought a lot about the shorter story... I don't think it's nearly as finished as I thought it was. I think the beginning is earlier, and the end has another whole section to go. Now I just have to work out some part of it enough to start writing it out. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with more from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Then I started _Memories 1940's_, showing her pictures and reading what captions there were, and maybe saying a bit more if I felt moved to. After that, I read a story and three poems from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. Then I finished with _The Helper_, the September 13th story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Mrs. Mouse just loved to help others. One day, she found a frog limping because he'd strained the springs in his back. Then she found a snail trying to protect his horns from the cold, which made them hurt. Next, she found a lizard hiding because his tail had broken off, and he didn't want folks to see before it grew back. She went home and knitted a hat for the snail, and a made a tail coast to the lizard, and loaned the frog her best walking stick, because she does like to help people. {Smile}
I did my arm resistance exercises, walking exercises, head exercises and arm swinging exercises when the base touring turned into chatting in the base. Then I did salsa dancing, starting with the warmup set, then doing a less structured set. The second included the extra fast piece, so I'm not sure if it was over 20 minutes, or just close, but I suspect it wasn't that many fewer steps. No, I didn't count then; that would be a lot of steps still. After that, I did my leg exercises, my standing arm weight training exercises, and my sitting arm weight training exercises. So, I did them all again. {Smile}
I read articles and comics in the morning and over lunch and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after cleaning myself up, which somehow ended up later than usual. I started with paperwork, and then got some badges to make the least developed of the characters I'm developing better prepared for play. Then Perogies said hi and was sounding even more like himself. That is such a relief! We met up for him to show me a new character he's starting. Then we teamed up and ran two of the high-level individual missions. We also chatted, and the last of the three characters I'm developing got enough of the rare and honestly rarely useful currency I needed to get a badge. That meant a little paperwork at the end actually getting that badge. {Smile}
After supper, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did some paperwork, and checked who was around. Owl Girl was, and I spotted them advertising a group that was running a less commonly advertised type of individual missions. I switched to the best developed of the characters I'm particularly trying to develop and joined them. We ran several missions with a team of four - not full, that's 8, but a nice bunch. One left, and the three of us ran a couple more. Then the third character was ready to switch, but Owl Girls wanted to do something else. Owl Girl invited them to be Global Friends, and I did likewise. Owl Girl got an invitation from Azurette to see her base. I and the new fellow went with them. I also started chatting with Nox on the chat server, and with a fellow there who's trying to get me into a game he's developing. Our new friend had never seen it, so we got a pretty full tour, only stopping when they left, since we'd started with the new part, then started looking at the rest. We started chatting. I started my exercises but kept chatting in between until we really split up when I was ready to start salsa dancing. I worked on writing this around the dancing and exercises, and read a comic in there, too. I switched to making notes to finish writing this up from the next day a little after I finished the last of the exercises. {Smile}
