Today is the third day this week and the second in a row where I left the house without breakfast, the first day being Sunday.  Sunday was a special day at church.  Around mid to late January the Religious Education group (or department or whatever you want to call it) did a Thing where they paired up kids with secret “Special Friend” adults.  The adults knew what kid they were paired up with and, through the people running this activity, sent them messages and such.  The kids did not know who they were paired with, but replied via a similar route.  This was done a year ago-ish as well, but with a secret Santa kind of theme.  This year it culminated on Sunday with a pancake breakfast for all of the participants.  (Same thing last year, actually.)

Now, I was not a Special Friend; I signed up too late to get a kid.  However, the folks running the event still wanted my participation, so (1) I got to eat the yummy breakfast (which meant leaving the house without eating) and (b) playing with paper airplanes.  The latter was my participation; I helped the kids make and fly paper airplanes after breakfast was done.  It was fun and I made the best paper airplane I can ever recall making.  I did not do anything special, nothing different from any other time I have made one, but it nonetheless flew better than any previous attempt.  The whole affair was a lot of fun and made the delay of my breakfast well worth it.

Yesterday’s delay and today’s were for similar reasons.  Sam and I took Kivuli to a clinic to get her fixed yesterday.  This meant leaving shortly after waking up; this clinic requires drop-offs be done by 9:30.  Afterward we went to Perkins for breakfast, so the meal was large and yummy, compensating for its delay.  Today we picked Kivuli up.  Pick-ups had to be done by 9:00, so I got up, got dressed and we headed out.  No Perkins this time; restaurants don’t care for animals coming through their doors unless they are service animals.  On the bright side, Sam is cooking one of my favorite things for her to cook, bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches.  So the delay is compensated for once more.

Meanwhile, in the virtual world, I have been grinding away at experience and tasks.  I put Shaka on a 50 / 50 ratio (I explained this last week I believe) for regular / AA experience.  Her regular experience has been going up quite nicely as a result and her AA experience has only suffered a little bit.  Boom and Dan are slowly gaining regular experience as they are still on a 10 / 90 ratio, but I may change that based on how well it’s worked for Shaka.

Task-wise, Shaka is a couple of steps from completing all of the things to be done in a zone called the Grounds.  Boom and Dan are behind on this zone because the final task requires going to a zone they don’t have access to yet.  All three have been working on another zone’s tasks and have made great progress.  With luck, I will finish that zone today.

There’s not a whole lot else to tell this week.  Well, there’s a little more, but I am keeping mum about it somewhat by request.  It’s not a happy thing anyway.  Tomorrow’s poetry may be inspired by it, so take from that what you will.  See you then.