Daily Update, February 21, 2026

The night before Saturday, I got to bed a while before 2:30. I think I mostly slept well. There was no trouble with needing naps. {Smile}

During dinner, I read Forward Day by Day. I've been thinking about getting it away from bedtime, and that seems like a good alternative. It reminds me of starting my readings to Mom with that before dinner each day. Those are good memories; I liked spending that time with her each day. {Smile}

I also have been reading a book on how to motivate oneself to write. I seem to be stalled on the story. I hope I broke through the block, though I didn't actually get back to writing, so maybe nots. At least I think I'm making headway. A worksheet project they gave helped me see that I need a better reason to write than making money with it. That would require more luck than I quite believe I'll find, which isn't good for motivation. So, I'm searching for other motivations. I hope that giving my characters more life will work better for me. {smile}

After breakfast, I got on my computer. I read a couple of articles and two short comics, and maybe watched a video, all on the web. Then I finished writing Friday's daily update, sharing it before lunch. I read articles and watched videos over the rest of lunch, and into the afternoon. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked on my friends who play the game. I said hi to Dr. Faustus. We just talked because they were busy with a taskforce and left after it was done. Meanwhile, I started playing by myself on the low-level version of my higher-level villain supergroup member. I let her gain some levels; it didn't hurt the villain content I want for her, and I have other characters doing the hero content. When I reached the end of the story arc, I was bored and looked around for something to join. I found someone doing that pair of high-level taskforces and joined their group. They did it unusually slowly but did get the one badge my character needed, and I got the two that came with it in my case. When they finished, it was late enough, I did auction house, storage and crafting until dinner, and found the next character who'll need those task forces to collect badges. {Smile}

After dinner, I began to write in this. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked on my friends who play the game. Next, I read a couple of comics. I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming and checked on my friends who play the game again. I talked with The_Cyberchill, but they weren't in a good place to team up.  So, I started to collect badges on the character Kitten designed. Then I realized that The_Cyberchill had messaged me a while back.  I checked with them.  They'd been in a good place to team but weren't again. I collected a few more badges. Next, I got my second-best badge collector and set her to working on a passive badge as I began writing more of this. I checked my second-best badge collector a few times. When I noticed that Dr. Faustus had messaged me, they and I chatted until they were ready to team up. They let me choose what to do, so I got the low-level version of my higher-level villain supergroup member.  We ran her through a couple of short story arcs and part of another story arc, and she gained a couple more levels. After that, we said goodnight. I worked on the in-game auction house and storage on several characters. Then I wrote some more of this before I switched to making notes in it. I broke to set up and check a character in the badge-collecting pack below the ranked badge collectors after I discovered she still needed some badges that are particularly easy to work on passively.  I moved her when she got one badge, and she got a similar badge particularly quickly because she almost had it. I also wrote one more section of this before finishing the notes in it. Then I said the Lord's Prayer and Saint Francis's Prayer to finish my evening. {Smile}