My big news for the last 2 weeks (missed last week here due to computer problems): - I was afraid the journey from Level 28 to 29 would seem eternal, but I'm already 2/3 of the way there. Not bad. Huh. I think I've been focusing on walking (when health permits) and on having fun, and it seems that makes the 300K goalpost seem less like a painful, grim, slow slog. So yay for that, anyway. - I hatched a Lapras! Lapras Lapras Lapras! His or her name (hasn't informed me of its gender yet) is Lonesome. It was lurrrve at first sight. And it's a good little fighter. It may be my 2nd walking buddy, once I'm done with my Bulbasaur, because I can't imagine how I'd ever power it up otherwise. - Also hatched a Porygon, another first. Adorable! Its name is K-9. - I caught a Ninetales late-late last night! First one I'd ever even seen; I didn't even recognize its silhouette on the Sightings screen so all I knew was that I was hunting something new to me. Crappy IV, but who cares. Ninetales! A horse-fox! It's ridiculously pretty. - I did a looong, slow slog IV check on every single Pokemon I'd collected, and did a lot of culling, some of it really painful. I had wasted a huge and tragic amount of Stardust before I found out about IVs. Some beloved 3rd levels got transferred. Ouch. But I think it'll be worth it as I start accumulating really good ones in their place. - The first of those was a new-and-improved PomonaSprout, my Victreebell, and she is FIERCE. I took her out to train up a gym and she easily took out a Clefairy not much lower than she and an evenly matched Vaporeon and had HP left over. Several times. I love her. <3 - I found out that I can engage my neighborhood gym from my living room. HAH. Got lots of practice for a week or so, occupying it with (eventually) two other Mystic mons and training it up. Aaaand then I woke up one morning and found it back in the hands of Instinct and at Level 8 (though with only 3 mons in residence, initially). Not so coincidentally, the teenage boys across the street got back from vacation the evening before. They must have stayed up half the night taking the gym back and training it up. Apparently they're possessive. *g* - Fortunately it turned out that Phluphphy, my Arcanine, was worth keeping, and he's fully powered up and my highest CP mon at 2448. He's great for gym defense and not bad at all on the attack. And TheIceQueen, my 2nd ever Vaporeon is a devastating attacker; same goes for Twitbottom, my Gyrados (named in his fish state and the name tickles me so I kept it). - I'm walking Fritillaria, my perfect-IV Bulbasaur, and sloooowly accumulating candies. I'm at 102 and waffling about whether to do a staged evolution or save up enough to do it all at once. And then I'll need even more to power her up. Hmmmmmm. - Yesterday afternoon there were Ponytas everywhere in Eureka, California, especially around Costco where I saw and caught four over the course of an hour and another one later that night when I passed by on my way home. And three or four in other parts of town (all commercial and/or maritime, for what it's worth). Used to be I'd be lucky to see even one any any given trip to town. Riches! Pretties! My inner 12-year-old is giddy. :-D - My favorite aspect of the game continues to be walking all over town chatting with other players. After it started to get dark last night, I walked some of the less populated areas with a young woman and had a lovely time. We never even exchanged names, not even teams or levels or anything, just enjoyed each other's company and chatted happily about the game.
Also: Although I got the Buddy update earlier this week when everyone else did, I just got another Pokemon Go app update when I started up my phone this morning. Anybody know what that's about?
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- I was afraid the journey from Level 28 to 29 would seem eternal, but I'm already 2/3 of the way there. Not bad. Huh. I think I've been focusing on walking (when health permits) and on having fun, and it seems that makes the 300K goalpost seem less like a painful, grim, slow slog. So yay for that, anyway.
- I hatched a Lapras! Lapras Lapras Lapras! His or her name (hasn't informed me of its gender yet) is Lonesome. It was lurrrve at first sight. And it's a good little fighter. It may be my 2nd walking buddy, once I'm done with my Bulbasaur, because I can't imagine how I'd ever power it up otherwise.
- Also hatched a Porygon, another first. Adorable! Its name is K-9.
- I caught a Ninetales late-late last night! First one I'd ever even seen; I didn't even recognize its silhouette on the Sightings screen so all I knew was that I was hunting something new to me. Crappy IV, but who cares. Ninetales! A horse-fox! It's ridiculously pretty.
- I did a looong, slow slog IV check on every single Pokemon I'd collected, and did a lot of culling, some of it really painful. I had wasted a huge and tragic amount of Stardust before I found out about IVs. Some beloved 3rd levels got transferred. Ouch. But I think it'll be worth it as I start accumulating really good ones in their place.
- The first of those was a new-and-improved PomonaSprout, my Victreebell, and she is FIERCE. I took her out to train up a gym and she easily took out a Clefairy not much lower than she and an evenly matched Vaporeon and had HP left over. Several times. I love her. <3
- I found out that I can engage my neighborhood gym from my living room. HAH. Got lots of practice for a week or so, occupying it with (eventually) two other Mystic mons and training it up. Aaaand then I woke up one morning and found it back in the hands of Instinct and at Level 8 (though with only 3 mons in residence, initially). Not so coincidentally, the teenage boys across the street got back from vacation the evening before. They must have stayed up half the night taking the gym back and training it up. Apparently they're possessive. *g*
- Fortunately it turned out that Phluphphy, my Arcanine, was worth keeping, and he's fully powered up and my highest CP mon at 2448. He's great for gym defense and not bad at all on the attack. And TheIceQueen, my 2nd ever Vaporeon is a devastating attacker; same goes for Twitbottom, my Gyrados (named in his fish state and the name tickles me so I kept it).
- I'm walking Fritillaria, my perfect-IV Bulbasaur, and sloooowly accumulating candies. I'm at 102 and waffling about whether to do a staged evolution or save up enough to do it all at once. And then I'll need even more to power her up. Hmmmmmm.
- Yesterday afternoon there were Ponytas everywhere in Eureka, California, especially around Costco where I saw and caught four over the course of an hour and another one later that night when I passed by on my way home. And three or four in other parts of town (all commercial and/or maritime, for what it's worth). Used to be I'd be lucky to see even one any any given trip to town. Riches! Pretties! My inner 12-year-old is giddy. :-D
- My favorite aspect of the game continues to be walking all over town chatting with other players. After it started to get dark last night, I walked some of the less populated areas with a young woman and had a lovely time. We never even exchanged names, not even teams or levels or anything, just enjoyed each other's company and chatted happily about the game.
Also: Although I got the Buddy update earlier this week when everyone else did, I just got another Pokemon Go app update when I started up my phone this morning. Anybody know what that's about?