Daily Update, February 8, 2024

    On Thursday, I had a nice phone call from our former nurse. We enjoyed touching base and chatting. {Smile}

   I checked, but my financial adviser still seems to be unavailable. {small smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake when I came in and stayed awake. She did look at the pictures I showed her. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I finished her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021. Next, I continued _Visions of Scotland_ showing her the pictures and reading the captions. After that, I continued reading _Richard Scarry's 5-minute Stories_ with "Good Friends and Neighbors." It gave examples of those. I finished with the 8th of February's poem from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Marmalade Kitten." It told about a marmalade kitten's troubles with strong winds. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises while the evening's taskforce was getting going. Then I did my head exercises followed by my salsa dancing warmup set after the taskforce and some soloing were done. Then I tried to do my salsa dancing, but soon started stumbling. So, I stopped and did my arm swinging exercises. Then I tried my walking exercises but felt unsteady almost immediately. So, I walked around the hallway, living room, dining room, and kitchen 10 or 11 times in 9 minutes before it was late enough and I was tired enough, I figured I could stop. 15 minutes would be more equivalent to my second salsa dancing set, but when I'm too tried, I'm too tired. {smile}

   I read articles, watched videos, and played Cross-Stitch World in the morning. After lunch, I played Cross-Stitch world some more before cleaning myself up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I was checking some of my characters when I spotted a trial that has some nice badge. I checked who needed it, and grabbed my third best badge collector, since my first and second had all the badges. As I took off to join the trial, someone said hi. It was Pierogies. He said to go along when i told him what I was up to. I did, though we ended up running another trial because the leader turned out to be low for it, despite being able to set it up initially. So, we ran a lower-level trial, then the one we all wanted, and got all the badges. I tried to learn what Pierogies wanted but ended up running it again before he answered. After that, the group broke up, and Pierogies and I got together. He was mostly interested in showing off new costumes, and discussing the character, which he wants to try role-playing. We did watch an episode of RWBY before I left to read to Mom. {Smile}

   I tried to get into the late-night short, large-group event after dinner, but even though I was early, the zone was already full. then I started writing this up. I checked the game a few times, an eventually saw Azurette, but she left before I said hi. So, I caught a TF. The participants were not at all chatty, but we did get things done. Then I badge hunted on the same character for a while. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server a little. Then I started my exercises. The earlier part went better than the later part. I'm not quite sure why. I checked the game some more, wrote a little more of this, and made enough notes to finish writing it the next day. {Smile}