Daily Update, August 14, 2024

    On Wednesday afternoon I had a telehealth appointment with the nutritionist. A bit early, I tried to get into the online appointment. I signed in and waited for the nutritionist to join. And I waited, and I waited. Finally, I tried phoning and got her answering machine. I left a message. She finally came online, but we barely said hi before her picture froze, and I stopped hearing her talk. I tried to call again. On my third try, she answered, and we conducted our appointment by phone. She blamed the website for the trouble, which makes sense to me. We did start late because of trying to get online working first, though I actually started that early. Anyway, we had a productive appointment. She suggested some vegetable snacks I'll have to try, between her recommendation and the surgeon's. We decided to use my health insurance's system next time. We've both used their video appointments and like them. I think it's only gotten messed up enough to need a backup system once for me, and it's the usual system for my online counselling. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I left the game slightly earlier again. Mom was sitting up when I went in but didn't always answer. First, I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. After that, I finished _The Picture Book of Babies_. She was definitely interested in those cute babies. Also, there wasn't much left in that book, so I got out _The Happy Book Babies_ next, and starting it. Next, I read a longish story from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I ended with reading the 14th of August's story, "The Bumble Bee," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   A little while after finishing Tuesday's daily update, I did my head exercises. then, after playing on City of Heroes: Homecoming much of the evening, I did my first warmup piece. Then I took a break and did the rest of my warmup for 8 1/2 minutes of salsa dancing. I was more winded than I expected after the second part of the salsa dancing, so I took a short break, and did my arm swinging exercises. Then I had to admit today had been hard enough, that was enough somehow. {Smile}

   Over breakfast and a bit after that, I read articles. Then I played Cross Stitch World and read comics until late morning, when I cleaned myself up. Next came lunch, during which I checked City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I did some paperwork. Then I played Cross Stitch World until my online appointment. After the appointment, I played Cross Stitch World while I calmed down from the stress of not getting the online appointment to work. Then I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Pierogies. We teamed up and ran missions together. Dennis joined us. The three of us ran up to time to read to Mom that way. {smile}

   After dinner, I wrote up Tuesday's daily update. Then I did some exercises and started today's daily update. Next, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I started with paperwork as I talked with Jenny's player and Owl Girl. I joined Owl girl for a mission, then switched characters for another mission. Then the team broke up, so I did some more paperwork. When I spotted Phonso, I said hi. I joined him for a taskforce he was just starting to get together. I started talking with Nox on the chat server while waiting. Then Dennis said hi and joined Phonso's taskforce, too, so I introduced Dennis and Phonso to each other. Then we ran the taskforce. Afterwards, most of the team left. Dennis, one other and I started hunting giant monsters. We got a good team going that grew to a small league which Dennis had me lead. I kept at it until Dennis and I both had to leave, him for bed, and me for dancing and exercises before bed. I did find someone else to take the league, since it was going strong. Then I did my salsa dancing and exercise, playing Cross Stitch World and writing in this and talking notes here during the breaks. Afterwards, I continued to write and take notes here, with a break to check a couple of comics. {Smile}