Sorry to have disappeared so abruptly earlier. My mother called about 12:30 - she was having kind of a meltdown. Nothing major, but a lot of little things. I threw on some clothes and went to her place to 1) make a phone call for her, 2) find the mate to one of her favorite left shoes, and 3) get the child-proof cap off her new bottle of Advil. Got her calmed down a bit and finally came home at 4pm to have my own lunch and call my sister.
No trip to the Y for me today, after all, but I'm about to put on my new shoes and try them out with a walk around the basement.