Daily Update, February 2, 2024

    Friday morning, after breakfast, I got an envelope from my health insurance with a big enough rebate, I contacted Uber, and had them take me down to the credit union and deposit it. The driver was chatty, and happy to wait for me to come back out. I wasn't too long, and we tried Uber, and she got me very quickly, and took me back home. I did like doing it that way, though if it had tried to give me someone else, I could have just cancelled and paid her directly. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was largely awake through most of the reading. I began with scripture and thoughts about it from my phone first. I will be glad when I pick up the paper copy the next time I got to church. Then I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021. Next, I continued _Girl's Day/Boys Day_, finishing off Girl's Day, and briefly showing her Boy's Day, which will really start next time. After that, I started reading _Richard Scarry's 5-minute Stories_ with "The Busy Day." Last, I finished off with the 2nd of February's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "Tibby's Busy Day." Tibby was a Tabby cat who lived with Olivia. After the early morning run, she got busy indoors. She ate the breakfast her mistress, Olivia, served, then watched Olivia go off to school through the window. Then she guarded the house from rats and mice while curled up on Olivia's bed. Lunch was fresh fish skins. then she stayed away from the vacuum, watching for mice by the fire. That's where Olivia found her after school and asked about Tibby's busy day. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises and arm swinging exercises while waiting for Uber to take me to the bank. Then I did my salsa dancing warmup set after lunch. In the evening, I did my arm resistance exercises while waiting for Phonso's taskforce. After teaming and visiting for the night, I did my less structured set of salsa dancing, including the extra fast piece that isn't quite as long as most, but probably has as many steps. {Smile}

   I read comics and articles in the morning and before lunch. After lunch, I finished writing the day before's update and salsa danced, then cleaned myself up before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I saw Dr. Faustus on and said hi. We chatted a little, but he was busy. So, I got the character I'd made the day before and gotten partway through the tutorial and got them the rest of the way through the tutorial. Then I got the other character I'd made the day before and got them all the way through the tutorial. I realized they hadn't gotten the experience for the tutorial, probably because it was turned off at first, though I thought I'd turned it on well before the end. So, I worked them up to 2nd level in the second safest part of the game I know of for such a low-level character. Then I did a little paperwork and badge hunting, too, before reading to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Dark and Pierogies and chatted with each separately. The three of us got together for a quick mission before Pierogies left for bed. Then I showed Dark my new and newly revamped characters. We teamed up on one of the ones I just got out of the tutorial that afternoon, doing a few missions. Then Phonso popped on and invited us to a taskforce that would get an item that Dark had mentioned wanting on one character earlier. We switched characters and ran the taskforce. I also chatted with Nox and Radio on the chat server in the conversation we share. And I chatted on the group Radio set up on the chat server, with Radio and another member. I visited with a few of the participants of Phonso's taskforce afterwards, especially Dark, and badge hunted with Dark until we said goodnight. Then I went to do my salsa dancing, followed by some more badge hunting before writing more of this and making notes to finish it from the next day. {Smile}