Daily Update, August 3, 2024

    On Saturday, I found a text from nurse when I got up, before breakfast, asking me to call. I called after breakfast, since, with the relief nurse here, I was eating with Mom and the nurse, which has the worst cell reception in the house. I just waited until afterwards. When I was in a room with more reasonable reception, I called, and we had a nice, fairly long talk. It was good to hear from him, but he's back from a trip, so talking is easier again. The trip involved areas with worse reception than the room I ate breakfast in, so we didn't try. {chuckles}

   I ate breakfast and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. I left the game around my old regular time again, in hopes she'd be more awake. Sure enough, she was resting but responsive, and willingly cracked her eyes to look at things when prompted. I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. After that, I read a card from her niece, and each of her sisters. Next, I continued _Picture Book: Babies_, I described each picture and read the facts about babies provided on each page. She seemed more interested in those pictures than most I showed her today. then I read a longer story from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I ended with reading the 3rd of August's story, "The Timid Fawn," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my arm resistance exercises between reading to Mom and dinner, and my leg exercises after dinner. Then I did my standing arm weight training exercises after a short break. After playing much of the evening, I did my salsa dancing warmup set. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set. After another break, I tried to do my walking exercises, but I needed to stop and readjust the corset a few times, finally starting all over with it to get it comfortable. Then I continued my walking exercises, but only got eight of the fourteen done before I got too winded and had to stop. It was too late to finish up later. {rueful smile}

   After breakfast and the phone call and played Cross Stitch World and read articles before I cleaned myself up. Then I had a slightly late lunch. I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming during lunch, and found Div. We teamed up to do a few missions. Pierogies joined us. Then Div said one more and proceeded to do three more missions to finish a story arc Pierogies had. After that story arc, Div left. Pierogies and I continued to do missions, and Dennis joined us. Then Kitten joined us, too. I slipped in finishing writing, then sharing my daily update between missions, trying for pauses. We switched to villains at some point, and stopped slightly earlier again, since it worked so well last time. It worked again, which was nice. {Smile}

   After dinner and exercises. I read a comic. Then I began writing this up and taking notes. After that, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Dennis. I teamed up with him, and we ran a mission of his. I also started talking with Nox on the chat server. We chatted off and on for much of the evening. After our first mission, Dennis spotted a strike force, and we joined it. Unfortunately, it was one with enough unusual tricks, it really needs a good leader well-versed in its quirks and idiosyncrasies. That was not the type of leader we had. I managed okay for the most part, but he really struggled. H complained of not enjoying it afterwards. We talked for a while before he left to try to calm down before bed. Just after he left, Michiel said hi. We teamed up, chose the characters we wanted to play, and ran a mission. It was trickier than I expected, but we pulled it off, and even kept going for a while after the mission was officially done. Afterwards, Michiel said goodnight and left the game. So, I did some paperwork, followed by some salsa dancing. Then I wrote more of this and took more notes in it. I also played a little Cross Stitch World before doing more salsa dancing. After that, I wrote more of this and took more notes in it and browsed on Amazon and the Public Library's websites before doing my walking exercises. I finished out the night by browsing on Amazon and the Public Library's websites some more and finishing up writing and taking notes in this. {Smile}