Daily Update, February 16, 2024

    On Friday between working on my new bank's web, phoning my new bank, and working on PayPal's website, I got PayPal and my new bank to work together. I even got them to start transferring a little money to my bank. I think they said the free way takes 1-3 working days. That should mean Tuesday to Thursday next week. I could have gotten it faster, but they would have charged a fee for speed. That doesn't sound like it would take most of the morning, but somehow it did. {smile}

   In the afternoon, I got a call from the secretary of the nursing company. She wanted to straighten out some possible misunderstandings. it was good to get things straight. {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake and liked the pictures and stories today. I started with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I started her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Next, I continued 1950's Fashion in Pictures_. After that, I read the next two stories in _Richard Scarry's 5-minute Stories_ , "The Birthday Party," and "Pig Won't's Decision" Again, one just wasn't enough. I finished with the 16th of February's poem from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Old Copper Kettle." The poem asked an old copper kettle to tell of the old days when it was new, asking about the people who might have had tea parties with it. It ended by asking if it could tell, or just bubble. {Smile}

   I did my salsa dancing warm-up after watching the movie Nimona with Kitten and Pierogies in the evening. Then I did my head exercises and my less structured salsa dancing set. Then it got too late to do more. I really need to start earlier. {smile}

   I did a little Cross Stitch World before a late lunch. Then I read comics and finished writing this up after the nursing secretary's call after lunch. Next, I cleaned myself up. Somehow this meant I got into City of heroes: Homecoming very late after that. There, I talked with Pierogies until he went quiet. I tried to team up with kitten, but they were too tired. I got a story arc started with two talky missions. Then I did some badge-collecting done on my... on Ana, the character who has been my sixth best badge collector, but just moved past my fifth best badge collector today. They are currently very close - it would be easy for them to switch back. Anyway, then I broke to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, looked around, and worked on collecting a few more badges for Ana. Then Kitten came on, followed closely by Pierogies. We got together, and they helped me finish the story arc I'd barely begun before dinner with those talky missions. Then we settled in to watch the movie Nimona together. We got done, and squeezed in a little talk about it before I started my exercises. We talked more about it during my pauses because it begs to be talked about. After that, I wrote this up, mostly taking notes to write from the next day. {Smile}