Daily Update, June 23, 2024

    On Sunday, after breakfast, I contacted Uber. They assigned Alan to come get me, so we had a great time catching up on the way down to church. {Smile}

   The church service went well, as did the lunch afterwards. I did enjoy talking with people at lunch, too. {Smile}

   Afterwards, I went home with Auntie Barbara. She said folks had offered, but it had been weeks since she'd visited with Mom. I was very happy; riding with her is some of the best time to talk, between fewer interruptions, better focus on us, and more privacy. It took persistent trying on Auntie Barbara's part to get Mom to sing a couple of songs with us. Then Mom stopped before the rest of us were ready. {smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was sleeping when I went in. She was very reluctant about opening her eyes, and only really responded a couple of times.  Still, I began my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. Then I read the next part of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2023. After that, I tried _The 40 Cutest Babies in the World_, but she was reluctant enough about opening her eyes, I decided to save it for a day when she could enjoy it more. So next, I read a longish story, "That's Not My Brother!" from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I ended with the 23rd of June's story, "A Fairy Story," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises while waiting for Uber. Then I'm not sure if I did my arm resistance exercises between reading to Mom and dinner, so I did them when I was done playing City of Heroes for the evening. After a short break, I did my arm swinging exercises, too. Then I was tired, and it was getting late, so I quit. {Smile}

   After church, I played Cross Stitch World and read articles, thinking home communion might come. When they didn't, I started writing Saturday's daily update up. then I read some comics. Next, I cleaned myself up. then I remembered to finish writing Saturday's daily update up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Pierogies, and we teamed up. We tried to get Kitten to join us, but they didn't respond. So, we ran a couple of missions. Then Kitten responded and joined us. We shared gifs and videos on the chat server while running a few more missions. This lasted until it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Dennis teaming with Kitten. Dennis was on a villain, so I got one too, and we ran several missions. Dr. Faustus joined us after most of those, and we ran a couple more. Then Dennis left for bed. Dr. Faustus, Kitten, and I ran a mission or two of mine before Dr. Faustus left to attend to work. Then I switched to the low-level character who'd gained two important levels last night. Kitten and I ran a story arc I wanted to get done before they gained another level. Pierogies joined us part way through the last mission. Then we ran a mission in a story arc I'd started a while back, and not finished. Pierogies disappeared after that mission. Kitten waited while I talked to several non-player characters to continue the story arc. I actually gained a level at the end of those talks, to my surprise. Then Kitten and I ran the last mission of that story arc. It was set higher than I meant, but Kitten is so tough, we managed with some difficulty. After that, I worked on the paperwork I'd just made, and checked on some Paperwork I'd done earlier. Then I exercised before I wrote a little of this and made a lot of notes to write from the next day, with hopefully short breaks for a little more paperwork. {Smile}