Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Daily Update, February 10, 2026

 The night before Tuesday, I got to bed a little after two and didn't fall asleep for a while. I must have rested enough while not sleeping, though, because I only rested a little on the way to class, and felt fine otherwise. {Smile}

Late in the morning, my substitute relief nurse took me down to Kamana Senior Center for my creative writing class. The class was going, though a smaller group than usual. We started with telling how we'd done over the two weeks since our last class. Maybe some who were missing had trouble with the storm. The class went well. We had a nice lecture. Though I got a phone call from my financial adviser that interrupted my freewriting. I was happy though; it was good news from my financial adviser. When we shared our writing, I read the part after the part I'm trying to write, since it was more ready than the part I'm writing. Folks really liked it. {Smile}

After class, my substitute relief nurse picked me up after a short wait. My housekeeper messaged me while I was waiting. She was going to my home to work. My substitute relief nurse took me to the ice cream parlor. I picked out three popsicles: one for now, one for later, and one for my housekeeper. Then we went home while I ate the liliko'i (passionfruit) popsicle. I gave my housekeeper a choice of vanilla or mango. She insisted I choose, so she got the vanilla. {Smile}

Before class, I worked a little on my story, mainly making a few quick alterations that occurred to me in the night. After I got home and settled the popsicles, I got onto my computer. I made a quick, last-minute edit to Monday's daily update and shared it while listening to some Hawaiian music videos that I was too busy to watch. Then I wrote a little of this update. Next, I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked my higher teen supergroup member, and did a little auction house and storage on her. Then I went to my teen supergroup meeting. I got a brand-new badge, which was the first I knew that new badges have been added to the game. I found one member already at the meeting, and we roleplayed for a fair while. No one else came. When the other player sounded discouraged, I checked with Ulty on Discord, the chat server. She said that she and Nyxy weren't coming, and she doubted others were at this point. However, when I asked about a story arc that I was ready to do, she said to go ahead with it. So, I checked with the other player, and he was interested. So, we started it. Not long into it, Kitten mewed at me privately. I checked with the other player and invited Kitten to join us. The three of us completed the story arc, running late, but keeping at it. Then the other supergroup member left for bed, and I left for dinner. {Smile}

After dinner, I went back to City of Heroes: Homecoming. I worked on the in-game auction house, storage and crafting on my higher-level teen supergroup member. Then I checked on my friends who play the game. I said hi to Kitten, who turned out to be hunting giant monsters with another player. I joined them, switching to my best badge collector and updating her badge record to include the recently added badges. Several of those dropped immediately for her, and a couple more were quick and easy to get. Dr. Faustus joined for the first one, but disconnected, and missed the reward. They weren't happy, since they'd messaged me on Discord about it, but I missed that, myself. Dr. Faustus joined again for the second giant monster and got it. Then they left. The rest of us got a third giant monster, joining up with another small team that was hunting it. Then we got a fourth, but it was particularly big. We had to recruit more. We got it after almost filling the team. Next, I said goodnight. I worked a bit with the storage and did a little with badges. Then I made some notes in this while working on badges and updating my badge lists for my second best and third best badge collectors. After that, I wrote a little more in this while finishing the badging and updating. Then I had a brief conversation with a member of the group of vampires that my villain supergroup recently connected with.  I made a few more notes in this, then ended my evening by reading Forward Day by Day and saying the Lord's Prayer. {Smile}