It's 5:50 am and I'm currently waiting patiently for a raid to pop up in Pokemon Go, so I thought I'd just write a little. I'll probably take a break before I finish this and get it posted a few hours from now, but while I'm waiting let's do this.
My mom took another fall this week. There was no real damage, just some bumps and bruises, but right now it seems like it caused her dementia to get exponentially worse. This is kind of what happens when she takes a good tumble. She needs help sitting up and walking now, as well as using the bathroom. That's nothing to difficult, but her appetite has spiraled downward. Last night it took all I had to convince her to eat just half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'm hoping this goes the usual course and in a couple of days her appetite comes back, but this time it seems a bit different. I'll just have to wait and see.
You didn't really think I would go to long without giving out some Pokemon info did you. I'm going to talk about raids a bit. Since I'm waiting for one right now. In the game you have these locations called gyms and in the gyms you can do a few things. The first is place a Pokemon in that gym to train and earn coins. The second is to fight other Pokemon in rival gyms to take those gyms over, place in a Pokemon and earn coins. The last thing you can do is a raid. A raid is when the game places a particular Pokemon in that gym for people to battle. Theres a few levels so that everyone has a chance to win a raid. The level 1 raids are the easiest and even a very low level player can beat it and have a chance to catch that pokemon. Level 3 raids are a bit more difficult and you should have at the very least 2 people if you are low level. Higher level players can easily solo those raids. Level 5 raids are the legendary raids. These are some of the toughest raids and usually require a minimum of 4 people, but it's always better to have more. Last is the Mega raids, which are very special Pokemon that you can mega evolve. These like the level 5 require a minimum of 4 people. Now if you are a very high level and have powered up all you Pokemon there is a chance you can even solo these more difficult raids. I'm not there yet.
Lately there has been this thing where I get into a raid, go through my first group of Pokemon and then get kicked out of the gym. That happened again this morning and the reason I needed that raid is that I had a research task to win 1 raid. That getting booted cost me that win, and was the reason I had to go searching for a raid on Facebook (probably the only good thing about Facebook for me at this point. While in the middle of writing this I did get that raid invite, it was from Belgium. I was going after a Legendary in hopes that I would finally get the shiny but sadly I did not. This was the prize for winning that raid, a chance to catch this Pokemon.
The little icons at the bottom are on the left your berry supply, and the right the number of balls you have left. I began that with 12 balls. I did finally catch it but I knew it would be only a 2 star because of the CP. Hundo CP is 1633 for non weather boosted. The boosting is a whole other thing I'll get into at some other time. I did finally catch this with my very last ball, and this is the stats for this one.
That is the appraisal of it and as you can see, the attack is 10, the defense is a 10 and the hit points are a full bar 15, that all adds up to 35, in order for it to be a 3 star the stats have to add up to 37 as a minimum, the hundo is of course all full bars for 45.
I actually do research for these raids so I can see what Pokemon will be the best against each one that I fight. This is my current team for the Cresselia which is the legendary in raids right now.
These aren't the actual best, but these are the best that I have. My Mega Gengar I have in the first spot, because it's my absolute best for these raids. I do have to power it up to mega status each day in order to use it in raids. That gives it a boost of power for 8 hours. The cool thing about using Megas in raids is that it gives other fighters in the raid a boost to certain attacks. Since Gengar is a ghost type Pokemon anyone using ghost type attacks while my Gengar is active gets a boost which helps out a lot in these raids. This brings me back to the frustration of this morning. It was raid in Taiwan ( I do these with remote raid passes) and it was 4 of us with really strong Pokemon. We were defeating it in a really quick manner which was surprising to me. I finished with that group of Pokemon above, when that happens you get put into the lobby of the gym and can bring more Pokemon in to rejoin the fight. When my first round was done it kicked me all the way out of the gym and didn't give me a chance to get back in. That means I lost my remote raid pass, as well as the resources it takes to replenish my feinted Pokemon, and I didn't get the win or a chance to catch that legend. In as few words as possible, it sucked, but I did get the win I needed and a crappy 2 star legend. If anyone out there wants some legendary Pokemon, hit your boy up. I have a lot of them and you will get the distance bonus from the trade, since most of mine are from all over the world. The New Zealand ones get you the most distance. I think it's around 15,000 kilometers in distance. You can get that trade distance badge pretty quick with those.
Ok, this is where I'm going to stop for now and then pick this back up in a couple of hours. See you in the next paragraph,
Alright, lets get back into this. It is now 7:54 am and I'm currently listening to Joy Division's Closer. great album and yes, look forward to a song from that being FSOTW.
With everything going on with my mom this week I didn't get accountability photos, but I will get them this week. This will be my last week of the 28 day cycle, and then I'm taking 7 days for a little, so called normal eating. All that means is that I will have a few more carbs added to my diet. Like popcorn, a pint of actual ice cream, and maybe some soda. Not sure on the soda right now, but the popcorn and ice cream are a go. I do plan on that first monday doing something I've never done before, and that will be stopping on my way home from the grocery store and getting a flavored coffee. One of those really decadent ones. I'm not a coffee drinker, I've never liked it, but maybe my tastes have changed and I'll give this a try for once. I'm sure the flavored coffee will be a drastic difference from regular coffee, so it might be a good way to introduce myself to it. Also this will be a very limited thing if I like it. Coffee has some great qualities to it for health purposes, but I can't get passed the taste, and going with flavored will not be appropriate for most of my diet, only on the off weeks. I'll let you know how that all goes in two weeks.
I did weigh myself at some point in the week and I'm at 165. Not real sure where that stands right now, maybe a little lower, maybe the same. I didn't do any long term fasting this week and it went well, but I will be starting this week out with a good ol 40 hour or so fast. I've been mostly OMAD (one meal a day) all week, which kept things in check. I'll eat my one meal in a few hours then start a fast until Tuesday morning some time. That should put me around the 42-44 hour mark. That will be a good way to start this final week.
This week is Black Friday, and I'm going to celebrate it and Small Business Saturday on Friday, by going to the record store for the Black Friday releases. My goal is to get the re-release of The Munsters album and a Weird Al record. I will be there dark and early with hopes of being first in line. I'm hoping to see some of the early people that were there last time. They were a fun and interesting group. I'll let you know if I scored those two records next week.
Had to share these pictures of Ri Ri. She's been doing a new thing this week where she climbs up in my chair with me. She has been abnormal clingy lately, which I'm not upset about. I've always wanted a snuggle dog, Baby Girl was the closest, since she didn't squirm. Morty and Ri Ri are squirmers, but she has been a little less lately.
You might notice that she got a new collar. Yes that is a David Bowie Space Oddity collar. She is my goofy girl which makes her an oddity and she is also a bit spacey, so that makes her my little Space Oddity. Morty has his Madolorian The Child collar and now Ri Ri has her Space Oddity collar. I'm going to go with she loves it, but she's a dog so she will love just about anything.
Oh, speaking of records before, I was blown away to find out that one of my records is worth over $400 dollars. It's my Twenty One Pilots Blurryface live album. I just happened to be going through my collection on Discogs and saw that. I have no desire to sell it, because it's a great album, and reminds me of when I could go to concerts, man I miss concerts. I still have to go through and add all my records to my Discogs collection, but I have a good number of them in. The thing about Discogs is that they put the value next to your record once you put it in. They have 3 levels of value. Low, mid and high, so when I say $400, that is the high value, I don't know the likelyhood that I would actually get that price for the record, but as I said, I have no desire to sell it, it's just fun to know the value.
I guess it's time for Favorite Song of the Week. You already know it's going to be Joy Division, but what song will it be. I really don't know yet. I have and idea, but when I go searching will determine the song. Let's go searching now. Well, you won't see any time difference but trust me it will take a few minutes. Ok I lied, I actually did have an idea and this was the first song I searched for. If you don't know Joy Division, their name is the antithesis of how they sound, which was by design, it was a product of lead singer Ian Curtis's personal problems which ended in suicide. If you believe the rumors of how he did it, it's rather morbid and very much a committed way of going. I'll forgo the story I've heard and just let you enjoy his singing and their music. Here is Joy Division with their song "Twenty Four Hours".
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