Daily Update, March 30, 2024

    Happy Easter if you celebrate! Or happy beginning of the Merrie Monarch Weekend if you follow Hilo's hula festival! {Wink, SMILE}

   I called Uber after breakfast, and got a few exercises done while I waited for them. a gal came and too me to church, where the egg dying and egg stuffing in preparation for the egg hunt after the late service on Easter Sunday were beginning to wind down, but not done yet. I started with some egg stuffing, then did a little egg dying. When that was done, I went back to egg stuffing, which had a special project of taking the choking hazard treats out and putting regular candy in instead. {Smile}

   When it was over, Auntie Barbara took me home. There, she came in to visit with Mom. After an initial hesitation, Mom sang several songs with us. It was a nice visit. {Smile}

   Our housekeeper came after I got home, and Auntie Barbara had left. Our house is much better for her attentions. I finally remembered to talk to her about a few projects. One she did that day, one she'll do next time because I remembered too late for her to do it today, and one will be for after the supplies arrive. {Smile}

   I ate breakfast dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. (I should have said yesterday that I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with Mom, not just dinner.) Mom was just sitting when I got there. She looked at the pictures I showed her but didn't say much. First, I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2023. Then I continued _Cats Galore: A Compendium of Cultured Cats_. After that, I read "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" in _Five-Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables_. Lastly, I finished with the 30th of March's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "The Blue Feather." {Smile}

   I did my head exercises and four of my arm-swinging exercises while waiting for Uber to come take me to church in the morning. Then I did my other eight arm swinging exercises and my arm resistance exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. Misreading the clock, I did my first salsa dancing set during a break in teaming for the night. Then I did the second salsa dancing set after teaming for the evening. I still didn't get more done, though i meant to, and even got some of the weights out for my weight training exercises. Hopefully I'll get the hang of doing more soon. {Smile}

   After coming back from Easter preparations at church, I wound down with Cross Stitch World. Then I finished writing and shared Friday's daily update over lunch. Next, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming to check some paperwork while chatting with a friend on the chat server. I said hi to Kitten and Pierogies. then I left to clean myself up. After that, I shared a couple of things with the housekeeper, since cleaning myself up while she was here managed to remind me of stuff I usually forget. When that was done, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming to find Kitten gone, and pierogies in a farm. He invited me to a farm he was doing, where we chatted and fooled around until Homecoming went down for maintenance. They'd hoped to start sooner. Pierogies and I watched a couple of short parody videos until it was high time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I came back to learn that the server was back up after being down longer than they'd hoped. I started writing and making notes for this update, then hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Kitten and Pierogies in a farm and we did that until I got bored and asked about doing something. They picked a badge we were all curious about, where you're supposed to run a taskforce or strike force (villainous taskforce) with all the same kind of character. I picked a particularly short and easy task force to get it with, and we went to the contact for it. Someone was there, and asked if we were going to run that taskforce. One of my friends must have explained which type of character we wanted, because they switched to the right type of character and joined us. I asked about recruiting a few more, and even started to invite Dr. Faustus. However, Pierogies wanted to start before he got too sleepy, so we didn't wait. Then Dr. Faustus replied, and I explained what we'd wanted, but that we'd started. He's interested in doing it some other time, which works for me. We finished with relatively little trouble, partly because I tried not to make it too challenging... and we got the badge. My friends suspect 4 is enough, from a number on the badge, and we had five, since Pierogies brought two. Then the player who'd joined us left, and after saying goodnight, so did Pierogies. I switched characters, and Kitten and I did a few missions. Then I misread the clock and, thinking it was an hour later, I stopped to do my salsa dancing warmup. During the warmup, I realized it was an hour earlier. I finished that set, then told Kitten, and they hopped back into the game. We did a few more missions, then said goodnight. I followed that with my second set of salsa dancing. Then I checked out a couple of videos. I also wrote a little more of this and made a lot of notes to write from the next day. {Smile}