Got my Vivillion

 Yay! Took a while and I was way behind most other people, but I finally collected from the last region. Turns out I had enough friends (other players, not actual friends) from around the world to get most of them. Savanah and Sandstorm I was able to get relatively easily but the last one - Tundra - proved quite elusive. I had needed just one more for ages!

Another box ticked, wheee!

Hoenn tour

 Yay, another post about Pokemon Go!

This weekend was the global version of the Hoenn Tour. Caught a fair amount of Hoenn mons which helped, and it was brillinat that I was able to get a Relicanth (the reason this is important is because this one is normally only able to be caught in NZ, and was the only one I was missing from the complete Hoenn set).

Did a fair amount of walking, but we "cheated" and were walking around the air-conditioned shops. Much better over the alternative of walking in the rain on the muggy streets.

Appeal worked!

 I've been playing Pokemon Go for a while now, and I've been high enough level that I can nominate new places for the game. Some get accepted, some don't.

There is an option that if a submission is rejected, a player has an option to appeal and see if it can be checked by a staff member and see if it's meant to be accepted.

I made a submission in September last year, and it was rejected. The reason given didn't line up with why it would be, so I figured I'd give making an appeal a go. I already knew it would take a while, but I made the appeal and then promptly stopped worrying about it.

Sometime last night, the appeal was approved and my submission was added to the game - whee! Took five months to go through the system and get a result. Could be better, could be worse. I assume they have a lot of appeals coming through. And now I know the system works.

Noibats!

 Had a good day today out and about with my better half doing the Pokemon Go community day.

Pretty sure we're "cheating" by walking around inside a shopping centre, but:

• it has airconditioning,
• it has access to bathrooms,
• there's food / drinks easily available if we feel like it,
• we don't get wet if it rains (and it's quite likely this time of year),
• and heaps of other people were doing it too! And everyone knows that if others are doing it, then that makes it a-ok! :D

The main down side is that since it was on a Sunday, the shops close before community day is over, but it worked out well because we drove over to the uni nearby (which has loads of pokestops) and I was able to complete my older task which was about to run out.

In unrelated news, we survived the driving adventure yesterday without damaging the car and without needing to jump into mud, Double winning!

Back to work

 Sigh, back to normal hours now. I could have gotten used to working one day on, two days off. Though not so good when the day on lands on a day there was something on (looking at you PoGo community days!)

Third task complete

Pokemon Go again - completed the third of four tasks: get 100,000 Stardust. Only took a few days, it ticked over this morning.

One more task left, 200 super effective charged attacks. Current count is 16, a bit short of the 200 target! But I'm not in a rush as it's going to take me a while to earn the XP needed to level up. Now at just over 800k, need 9M.