Daily Update, January 27, 2024

    Well, I fiddled with Ko-fi some more today. I realized because of some things Owl Girl said that I may not be happy sharing stories on the net, or not as happy as I thought. It can be a cheap way to share, and there are ways to still get compensated for my work, but you really need to publish at least once a week, and that severely limits how much revising I could do. {bite lips}

   I'm wondering how feasible writing is after all, but I'm trying not to change anything too quickly. {smile}

   I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake but didn't talk much. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read a Christmas card from her niece, and a birthday card from me. Next, I started _Memories 1960's,_ showing the pictures and reading their brief captions. After that, I continued reading the book simply called _Fairy Tales_ that I gave her for her birthday, with Goldilocks and the Three Bears." I finished off with the 27th of January's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Chip's Adventure." Chip's mother reminded the little sparrow to wear his hat and scarf as he was leaving his nest. He grumbled that he wasn't cold but flew back to put them on. He flew around, saying hello to his friends, then settled down to sleep on some dry leaves. He woke to find it had been snowing. He shook some snow off his head but couldn't move his wings. Luckily, his mother found him, cleared snow off his wings, and helped him home. When he asked how she found him, she said she saw his hat. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises during a lull in the game. Then I took a break to do my salsa dancing warmup. After a couple more missions, I did my less structured salsa dancing, for over 20 minutes of salsa dancing between them. So, I got all my salsa dancing done, though not much else. At least it's better than last night, and I can try to improve further. {Smile}

   I read comics and articles in the morning when I wasn't working on Ko-fi. I cleaned myself up after lunch and hopped into City of Heroes: homecoming. I found Darkthough1, and we teamed up on slightly lower ones than the day before. We ran several missions. Pierogies joined us partway through. We had enough trouble in one mission, Dark brought a tough, high-level character to help us, though the game tries to adjust them so game is still balanced. We continued to play after that. Pierogies left for bed a mission or so before I left to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner I came back onto City of Heroes: Homecoming and teamed up with Darkthough1 on the characters we played the previous night. We ran several missions in three different story arcs, bouncing back and forth between them. I also chatted with Kitten privately on the chat server, as well as the two of us talking with Owl Girl in a group conversation on that chat server that we share with Paradox. I talked with Nox on the chat server, too. Radio - Nik - joined us, since we were in a group conversation the three of us share with Hayden, Nik's boyfriend. Radio and I continued to talk after Nox left for bed. Radio even got me into a larger group conversation about a project they're working on. Eventually I did a little exercise, then broke for salsa dancing twice. The first time, I rejoined Dark for two more missions. Then we said goodnight. Later, Pierogies came on and let me sit in a farm while I wrote parts of this and made notes. I also worked on Ko-fi a bit more. {Smile}