Daily Update, January 26, 2024

    Friday, I tried to contact my financial advisers but kept getting the answering machine. I suspect they aren't just on the other line, as the answering machine suggests, but out of the office, since I'm not even reaching the office staff. I'll have to keep trying after the weekend. {smile}

   I also started looking at Ko-fi, a website that helps creators connect with followers who may choose to support them. I'm slowly getting it worked up, but there's so much to decide and arrange for. {Smile}

   Friday evening, I got a phone call from Auntie Barbara. We both talked about what we've been doing recently. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was sleepy when I went in, and part of the time I was reading, but she seemed to wake up when the pictures were particularly interesting to her, especially the ones of her and her sisters. She answered a question or two, too. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I read a birthday card from her sister, and a Christmas card from a friend. After that, I finished "The Picture Book of Vintage Vogue," describing the pictures and reading the dates and titles. Then I started reading a book simply called _Fairy Tales_ that I gave her for her birthday. Except I started with the second story, "Cinderella," because it started with "The Gingerbread Man," and I wasn't sure she'd like him getting eaten by the fox at the end. I finished off with the 26th of January's story-poem from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Magic Hat." Two mice jumped into the conjurer's hat to get away from the cat. They thought they could hide there, but the conjurer came along and changed them into rabbits. They ran off to play in the meadow. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises right after dinner. Then I did my head exercises during lulls in the game. After finishing teaming in the evening, I did my salsa dancing warmup before it got too late, all 8 1/2 minutes of it. I know I need to try harder to do more earlier, but at least I did some. {Smile}

   I read articles and played a phone game in the morning. After lunch I cleaned myself up before getting into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I looked around for friends, but the ones I am close to were busy. I ended up doing a lot of paperwork that's been waiting for the weekend. Then I looked around. My friends were still busy, so I looked for a task force, and finally spotted one I wanted. I ran it on my 4th best badger, and finally got a badge I've been working towards for months. Then it was more paperwork and a bit of chatting on the chat server until I went to read to Mom later than I meant to. {Smile}

   After dinner, I squeezed in the one set of exercises I did and began writing up today's daily update. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Darkthough1 on, and we chatted, and teamed up. We ran a story arc some of our mid-level characters needed. We started with a mission to catch me up with them. We paused for the phone call from Auntie Barbara. Otherwise, we worked through it pretty steadily through the evening. I also talked with Nox on the chat server. We did paus for a talk which I needed with Darkthough1. He helped me work out something that was weighing on my mind. Then I forgot to turn in a mission, so we had to do it twice. Near the end of our second time through, Pierogies showed up. We had just one more mission, but he joined us for it. The three of us enjoyed talking afterwards. Then I did my salsa dancing, some paperwork in City of Heroes: Homecoming. I also made notes to write the rest of this from the next day. {Smile}