Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Daily Update, February 16, 2026

The night before Monday, I got to bed a little after 2:30 am. That's late for me, but not nearly as bad as the night before. I got a short nap in before dinner, which helped. {Smile}

My First Timers' Line Dance Class didn't meet because it was Presidents' Day, which is a state holiday. It seemed a bad day for all the phone calls I wanted to make, too, for the same reason. {smile}

My substitute relief nurse spent the day cooking. I think I'm glad the donuts were distinctly less sweet than most. They were sweet enough to be tasty, which is all you need. {Smile}

The part of Homecoming (the game server I play on so much) that I use went offline a while before dinner. I was with Pierogies when an announcement said it was minutes away. We were just expressing our surprise when it started to disconnect. I tried to check on it through Homecoming's place in Discord, but got confused, and thought it was back very quickly, but it wasn't. It was off for a couple of hours, maybe a little more. At that, it's quicker than the three hours they warned of. {smile}

After breakfast I went onto my computer. I read articles and watched videos, all on the net. This pretty much continued through lunch. A while after lunch, I wrote up my daily update, with breaks to check comics on the web. Then I went into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked on my friends who play the game, and was happy to find Div. I said hi, and we talked until he was free to team up. Then we got together, and did a mini story arc that gave us both badges, followed by a mini story arc that I needed for a badge that Div had gotten already. I said hi to Bey during the first arc, but forgot to invite him between the arcs, and noticed he was with someone else by then. Next, Div and I said goodnight, because the second mini story arc left Div pretty tired. It was late for him anyway. I also talked with Pierogies, starting during the second arc. He was busy in a costume contest, so I updated my second-best badge collector's badge record after Div left When that contest was done, we teamed up and were talking about what to do together when the announcement that the servers were going down happened. When I was sure they weren't coming back soon, I took a short nap until dinner. {Smile}

After dinner, I went back onto my computer. The part of homecoming I use was down, so I began writing this up. I took a break to read some comics, and another to check Discord, the chat server. I was back to writing this when Homecoming announced on Discord that the servers were up. I made myself finish the part I was writing, then went onto City of Heroes: Homecoming. I checked some of my characters and updated my second-best badge collector's badge record. I did a mission that got me a couple of badges. Then I started looking at badges to work on. I set her to work on a badge I can just peek in on so I could write more of this. I wrote some more of this, then noticed that Pierogies said hi in one of my peeks. We talked and teamed up. He wanted to do a mission only available this month, so I got a character who can benefit from it. While we were getting ready, Doc said hi, and joined us. The three of us ran the mission. Pierogies got badges, and I made progress. Then Pierogies left for bed. Doc and I started a mini-story-arc that got me two badges. We paused for a zombie apocalypse until we got bored before we went into the main mission. After we finished, we talked about what to do next. Doc stopped responding after a bit, so I updated my character's badge record. Then I switched to a new version of my higher-level villain supergroup member. I ran her through the tutorial I'd left her in. Doc said hi while I was in the tutorial. When I got out, it was really too late to do much, so Doc said we'd do something another day. I set up this new character for regular play with auction house and training. Next, I did some in-game auction house, storage and crafting on a few other characters. After that, I wrote more in this, switching to notes when I realized how late it was. When I finished, I read Forward Day by Day and read the Lord's Prayer. {Smile}