After breakfast, I contacted Uber, and asked them to take me to the Veterinarian. I had a nice chat with the driver on the way down. There, I picked up capsules to replace one of Val's liquid medicines which he doesn't like getting squirted down his throat. Next, I contacted Uber, and they took me to Hilo Shopping Center. He dropped me by the bank, where I did a little banking with Mom's account before walking over to Island naturals, where I got some peanuts, raisins, and currants. I needed peanuts, raisins, and cranberries, but their cranberries were organic, and expensive enough, I ordered regular from Amazon later. I thought I'd try the currants. They're fine, but so similar to the raisins, they don't really give me the greater variety I was hoping for. then I contacted Uber, and walked back to the bank, where they like to have their pickup. If I wasn't concerned about food int eh bank, I'd do this the other way around. Anyway, Alan picked me up, and we had a nice talk all the way home. {Smile}
I got a nice call from Auntie Barbara in the late afternoon. We've barely talked since she started her trip back home, but we got to talk today. We did so for a while before she got tired enough to head to bed; she's in one of the Carolinas, so several hours ahead of us.
Before dinner, I got a call from our former nurse. It was great to hear from his again. I'd missed talking with him. {Smile}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with Christmas cards from Mom's niece and our friend, and a birthday card from me. After that, I showed her the first several pages of pictures in _A Picture Book of kids and Animals_. She was really interested in them today. She always has loved kids, and likes animals, too. Then I read her several poems and a short story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with "three Apples," The 12th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Three ripe apples hung on the tree after all the other fruit had been picked. They were afraid of falling and bruising themselves as the nights grew cooler. Then Jill and her Daddy came, bearing a backet and a step ladder. Daddy climbed the ladder, and picked the apples, admiring how perfect they were. Jill put them carefully in the basket. The apples thought they would be eaten that day, but mummy wanted to wrap them in paper and keep them in the attic for Christmas. The apples were so proud! {Smile}
I walked around Hilo Shopping Center, first from the bank to Island naturals, then back again for my Uber pickup. Then i did my walking exercises after qworty left for the evening, and I'd done some paperwork and such. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup. However, when I tried a second set, I was just too tired. Maybe the walking at Hilo Shopping center was more than I realized, of maybe I was hypoglycemic. I'm really not certain. {smile}
I read articles and comics after lunch. Then I finished and shared my daily update. I only hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming when that was done. There, I chatted with Ulty, as I actually had a bit on the chat server earlier. I wished her a good time when I found out she was almost ready to leave. I looked around, and realized qworty was in the group for the later short, large-group event, which would start in a few minutes if it didn't fill early, so I quickly switched to a character to do it. After I ran the event, I finally got qworty's attention. He'd been focused on the event, like you have to be to do it well. Perogies came on and said hi too, and the three of us visited a while, admiring a newly refurbished character Perogies had made. Then we teamed up to do a mission one of my characters had. That took us up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I started writing this update and read some articles. I also tried talking to Radio, the friend who brought Nox and me together, but he didn't really get to talking until later in the evening. I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming and started to talk with qworty. Then Perogies came on, and the three of us got together and started talking. Then we did another mission, the direct sequel to the one before dinner. We might have done a second mission before Perogies said goodnight and left. Somewhere in there, Nox and I started talking, and Radio joined us. We continued to talk slowly through the evening. I'm glad the chat server we were using makes slow conversations easy; I think that's what let Radio keep talking to us for as long as he did. In the game, after perogies left, I wanted to switch to another character, so I did. After one mission, qworty switched, too. We ran two or three more missions before qworty admitted he really needed to go to bed. I pointed out that with him being three hours ahead of me, he was going to bed about the time I usually do. Then I did some paperwork, and what exercises I got done. I also finished talking to Radio and Nox, saying goodnight to Nox, and read a bit more of the webnovel. I also finished reading some articles. {Smile}
