Today is mom's funeral...

 Good morning everyone,

This afternoon we're heading to mom's favorite church for her funeral... and to be honest with you all, part of me doesn't want to say goodbye. I know that sounds selfish, but can anyone blame me? I have been mulling over what I want to say... and a good portion of my thoughts result in song lyrics. But I'll do what I've done over the past several weeks and just speak from the heart. Either way, it's going to be a very tough afternoon.

On a funny note, I have lost a bit of weight around my waist line over the years and needed to find a belt, and my mom had one hanging on a coat stand in the living room. Once again, mom came through for me.

I do want to give special thanks to Mr. Theo Stanley Jr and the staff at Stanley's Memorial Chapel (stanleysmemorialchapel.com) for their kindness, compassion and professionalism in preparing mom's body for today on such notice. They've gone above and beyond what I would have anticipated, preparing gorgeous cards and even a beautiful sign in book.

A big plus from yesterday was that I heard from Elissa, and I haven't seen her since her wedding I want to say nearly 10 years ago. It's been a long while. It's great to touch base with family even under these circumstances.

Last night's stream of Saints Row mostly focused on side ventures, as completing all the areas within the in-game city is a big part of the fun when it comes to any Saints Row game. The big problem with the side ventures is that for each expansion, only certain types of missions are added, such as towing objects to a repo impound lot, racing against the clock to get vehicles to certain destinations or testing in-game gadgets to get access to them for normal use. That said, the casual approach I'm taking does work, as I can kind of space out the main story missions a lot more to avoid running out of things to do in-game in order to get the most content out of the game

For the raid we dropped in on TokuShoutSu while it was airing a marathon of Ultraman Ace over at twitch.tv/tokushoutsu

Saints Row Achievements

• Neighborly: Completed 5 districts in Santo Ileso.
• Optimized: Customized a weapon.
• Smooth Moves: Bought 2 Emotes.
• Power Players: Unlocked Criminal Empire Tier 3.

Did some writing on an exclusive story for my Subcribstar page yesterday based around Dragon Ball. Once that's finished, I'll be starting work on the next WWE commission request. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout was done before I went to bed last night, because I feared I wouldn't have time this morning. The exercises were Uppercut COmbo #1, Advanced Combo #1 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 21 minutes.

"What did one wall say to the other?" "I'll meet you at the corner."

Song of the Day: Joy To The World by Three Dog Night

For tonight's stream... and I will be streaming, we're going to open with Fall Guys and also play Fallout 76... because after this afternoon, I'm going to need some silly things happening. We might even toss in some Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed since that had a big update yesterday as well... or save that for Saturday's stream.

On that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!