Daily Update, January 29, 2024

    Monday, after breakfast, I called my financial adviser. The answering machine still answered. I'll try again later. {resigned look}

   Then I called church and arranged for them to hold a copy of the scripture and thoughts about it I like to read to Mom. I also arranged to drop off payment to cover the replacement of my grandparents' plaques. All four grandparents had plaques on pews, but we can only find Mom's father and Dad's mother now. So, they'll order new plaques and put them on their spouses' pews. That was very specifically my grandmother's wish. It wasn't for my grandfather but at this point, every pew has at least one plaque on it. He simply has to share, so he might as well share his wife's {Smile}

   Late that morning, the power went out, and my internet went with it. I traced the power cord, and found it plugged into one of the surge-protection-only outlets on my battery backup. I managed to juggle cords, and get it plugged into a battery enabled plug. Those are now all full. I hope this both explains and fixed the occasional disconnecting that has been happening since they brought me a new modem. When the power came back on, the internet didn't reconnect until I turned the computer off and back on, just like all the disconnects. I now suspect those disconnects were little blips in the power supply, too brief to be detected otherwise. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was awake most of the time. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. After that, I read Christmas cards from a friend and her sister. Then I continued _Memories 1960's_, showing the pictures and reading their brief captions. Next, I continued reading _Fairy Tales_ with "Snow White." I finished off with the 28th of January's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Peto the Polar Bear." Peto, a little polar bear cub, was playing with his penguin friends in their icy playground. He boasted that he could catch fish with his paw. They said they used their beaks. Peto announced he'd catch a big fish and ran off. His friends warned him not to go too far. He stopped by the edge of the icefloe, made a hole, and started fishing. He was so busy with that, he didn't hear the ice crack as it broke, and started floating away with him. But his friends, the penguins, heard, and scurried across the ice and in the water to rescue him. He greeted them by showing off his big fish. {Smile}

   I got my arm resistance exercises and my head exercises done between and after a couple of missions in the evening. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing. by then it was too late to do more, abut at least I got that much done. {Smile}

   I read articles and comics in the morning and over lunch. Then I finished writing yesterday's daily update after lunch. Next, I cleaned myself up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I chatted with Pierogies, but he apologized for not being in a mood to team up. I also chatted with Ulty, who was busy. I said hi to Kitten, but they apologized for having to leave for a while. So, I looked around and spotted a high-level trial that I joined on a character who was missing a couple of badges from it. We ran it and finished but didn't get the badges I wanted. Maybe some other time. Then Kitten said hi, and I got a high but not very high-level character who might be the next to reach the endgame. We ran a couple of missions before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming again. I said hi to Dr. Faustus, who was busy.  I also said hi to Dark and found out what they were working on. I got someone working on something they needed. and we started running missions together. Kitten said hi too, and they joined Dark and me. We ran through a story arc Dark and I had started and finished it. Then Dark left for bed, since it's a weeknight. Kitten said someone was on who we met recently. I said hi, established a lasting connection, and invited them to one mission - my last before salsa dancing. We ran it. Then I broke for salsa dancing. I watched videos and talked with Kitten between the sets. Afterwards, I talked with Kitten and wrote this up and made notes to write from the next day. {Smile}