Daily Update, August 15, 2024

    On Thursday, I stayed home and took it easy. My only notable phone call was from the podiatrist, confirming my Monday appointment to get the toenail removed, fungus and all. {Smile}

   I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. I left the game later again. Mom was resting when I went in. She did rouse, but she rarely answered. I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2020. Next, I continued _The Happy Book Babies_. She was interested enough in the baby pictures, I read a fair bit to her. then I read a story and six short poems from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with reading the 15th of August's story, "Toby's Concert," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. then I did my arm swinging exercises and my arm resistance exercises after dinner. After playing on City of Heroes: Homecoming most of the evening, I did my warmup set for salas dancing all in one go. then, after a longer break than I meant to. I did try another piece, but only got three-and-a-quarter minutes into it before I admitted I was tiring too quickly to continue. Still, that meant I'd done almost twelve minutes of salsa dancing, which is a distinct improvement over just over eight and a half. So, I'm still improving. {Smile}

   Over breakfast, I read articles. Sometime after breakfast, I switched to Cross Stitch World while I thought about stuff. Eventually I realized it was time to break to clean myself up. After that, I had lunch with Mom. Then I checked City of Heroes: Homecoming, checking who was on and doing some paperwork. Then I wrote up Wednesday's daily update. Next, I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I did more paperwork. Pierogies said hi but left quickly due to just not feeling up to playing. So, I continued the paperwork. Then Dennis came in. He warned me he'd be going to bed earlier. We teamed up and did a mission or two of his before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner and exercises, I began writing this up. Then I played a little Cross Stitch World before I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started with soloing some particularly low-level characters. I also said hi to Ulty and to Jenny's player. They invited me to join them for a couple of missions. I switched to a much higher-level character for that. Direct X joined us too. Then Ulty and Jenny's player both left. I said goodnight to Nox on the chat server. I began arranging to roleplay with Direct X when Dennis came in and invited me to team. I realized I really needed more time to think about the roleplay scenario with Direct, so apologetically pulled out and teamed up with Dennis. I suggested a story arc he was ready to start. I found a character who didn't have it and got it so we'd both get credit. We ran a mission. Then I got invited to a giant monster fight. I know Dennis loves them, too, so we joined that on the same characters. Neither of us got the badge, but some other time. Afterwards, Dennis invited Azurette to join us, and we ran two more missions in that story arc. Next, Dennis left for bed, and Azurette and I talked until I left to exercise. I started my salsa dancing, wrote some of this, and played some Cross Stitch World. Then I did more salsa dancing. Afterwards, I wrote more of this and made notes, with a break for Cross Stitch World and City of Heroes: Homecoming paperwork. {Smile}