January's community day was a good morning for me - my local Discord group joined up with folks from a few stops down the line to target a large park (in the hope of triggering and Ex-Raid, which they did) and there must have been 80+ people there at any given time - some familiar faces, and some good rolling conversation with new people - we even got a few unexpected passers by who used to play to sign up to Discord in the hope of participating next time. I was hoping to get my gold Pikachu badge and didn't, but did catch a bunch of stuff, and the group succeeded in triggering an Ex-Raid. Did not catch any Kyroges - I have had the worst luck with catching raid bosses since the update rolled out on the 17th Jan, and I'm not alone in that ... Fortunately I have *one*, caught before that update. Kyrogre / Milotic is the most ridiculously pretty battle I've yet seen.

I have also been having crappy luck with filling out my pokedex, having not even *seen* any of the new 'mon they released 10 days ago, so I'm really hoping the Hoenn "take over" will change that!

Current 'Dex stats are 310 / 338, with a 145/95/69 split.

Amongst those seen and not caught - Mewtwo! I made it to my Ex-raid, defeated her, and then utterly failed to have her stay in a ball (happened to 2 out of 16 of us ...) Since then I've had two invites that I couldn't attend (one triggered by community day activities, just in the middle of the work day, over an hour from where I work, and one triggered by the bug, for a gym on the far side of France that I visited once last summer...)