Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Daily Update, July 22, 2025

On Tuesday before breakfast, I called my doctor's office to tell them the symptoms that bothered me the day before and over the past weekend. Then after breakfast my relief nurse said he'd found someone to pick up any medication for me as long as they could get it before lunch. Just after he said that, my doctor's office called to tell me what medication they were prescribing. I warned them we needed it by lunch. They promised they'd already sent it. So, I called the pharmacy and warned them we'd need it before lunch, apologizing for the rush order. They promised it would be ready. the owner of the nursing company brought it over later in the morning. {Smile}

I missed my creative writing class. I felt that getting the thing with my doctor and medicine settled while staying close to the plumbing was desirable. Also, I didn't do any exercise, but I hope to be back to Zumba Gold late Wednesday afternoon, and I did get a full 1 1/2 hours of line dancing the day before. {Smile}

Around calling my doctor and getting the medicine, I browsed the web, played Cross Stitch World, and read web comics until lunch. After lunch, I wrote up Monday's daily update. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and made sure some paperwork was done an most characters played recently, as well as one I wanted to play in the teen supergroup. She's a human mage who feels less like a bully target than the halfling I've been playing in our meetings. The group seemed to like her. We did a player-made story arc by a player new to making these. We were helping local Nazis against Nazis from a different dimension. It seemed odd to help Nazis and is really not sitting well with me now. It seems like all too good a character study of how basically decent people can get drawn into groups doing things that aren't at all good. However, that's what they wrote, and in support of a new writer, that's what we did. The first mission couldn't complete, so we went out, and they changed the goals. We completed it the second time and did a few more missions right into dinnertime, with one more mission to go after we completed the one that I was doing when I was first called

I left to eat dinner anyway and got back in time to help them complete it without rushing through my dinner. After the mission, we roleplayed for quite a while, with folks heading off to bed as they got tired. Then I started these notes. Dennis and I talked a bit during the roleplaying, as did Dr. Faustus and me. I got together with Dennis and Kitten afterwards. Dennis was working on a badge that improves the character a good bit that my new supergroup member needs, too. We picked a mission fighting those steampunk racists with both soldiers and robots. We set it for quickest results, even though that was hard, and ran it twice without quite completing it either time, so we could reset it and do it again. Dennis got the badges he wanted the second time through, and I made good progress, but need at least one more time. Then we talked before Dennis left for bed. After that, Kitten helped me with a different badge that improves the character less, and I got it. Then we ran three missions against the mafia, completing a contact of mine. I tried to test the change to my character and proved that the mafia just isn't as hard for us to fight as the steampunk racists. Then I finished my notes in this, with a little web browsing. {Smile}