On to 42

 Whee - more progress - hit level 42. And remembered to get a screenshot this time!

The challenges this time are:

• Earn five Platinum medals (already done)
• Catch five Legendary pokemon (easy - just need to open a Meltan box)
• Earn 100,000 stardust (part of the grind)
• Use 200 super effective charged attacks (ummm...)

The stardust I should just pick up as part of normal play. Need nine million XP for the next level so getting the stardust will just happen as I go along. The super effective charged attacks... well they'll depend on how many raids I do. Which normally isn't too many. Took a few months to get the 7.5M XP for this level, so I expect the 9M to take until around March or so, so no rush.

Kitten's latest game

 We have two new kittens, and it's endless fun watching them play.

They're now old enough (and big enough) that they can climb onto stuff, so we have the ongoing training of where they can and can't climb. One of the places we're trying to train them not to climb onto is the dining table.

So of course, they find it a great game to climb up there, run across the top and jump off before we can tell them off! Cheeky little kittens!

Epic battle

 Had a frustrating time on today's walk.

When I can, I take the doggos out for walks and I play Pokemon Go while I'm at it. There's a new gym nearby that's right next to a main road and I've noticed that it is highly contested - I just didn't realise how contested!

Was walking past it, there were four big ones on there already so I decided to take over the gym. Battle, battle, battle - took a bit of effort but managed to knock them all off. Tap on the gray gym (neutral), select my critter to drop down - nope! Got a "you can't put that there" message. Gym was now another colour as someone else had put their critter in before I put mine.

There's meant to be a 30 second or so window after winning a gym where the gym winner has priority to put their critter down, so I felt quite ripped off. What I assume happened was that they came along and joined in the last battle and we both "won", so she/he/they got to put theirs in.

So I started bashing theirs, I'd fought for that gym and had taken out the four big ones that were there before. "It's the principle of the thing". They may have still been in the area because they kept reviving their critter while I kept bashing it. So I used it as an excuse to help add hearts onto my Buddies and kept cycling through them. I managed to get through about eight before I managed to kick their usurper off (or they got distracted long enough to stop reviving theirs). On the plus side, the doggos got a good break in the shade - I think I was there about half an hour or so in total!

Having successfully vanquished an upstart but expecting them to circle back to kick mine off, I just chucked an average one on there and walked away. Got about a minute or three down the road and mine was returned after being kicked out, as expected. But I had a look at the gym on the map and it was actually a different team! There were three on there from the original team that I kicked off, but not sure if it was the same players or a different set that happened to be walking past.

Very high turnover, that gym.

41

 Yes! Hit level forty one and now can start doing the challenges.

Sleep diary

 At the request of my Dr, I've been keeping a sleep diary for the last two weeks. Got the appointment later today. It's a bit interesting seeing it all written down how many times I wake up during the night. We'll see what the Dr says, not sure how thorough other people are who need to do similar things.

40

 Hit level 40 - can now make submissions - whee!

More PoGo

 Mucking around trying to get more bonuses for my better half. :)

About to head back to the old town, which seems like a good opportunity to A) increase my count of unique pokestops visited (there's a tad few more in that CBD than in our local one!) and B) pick up a mess of interstate low-level mons to do transfers with and add on to that distance transfer medal.

Re-activated an old account, going to be trying to pick up a mess of mons down there while I'm in town, then transfer them to my main when I get back here. Not too sure if it still counts for a third stage transfer, if I was to pass one on to another account, if it'd still count towards the long distance transfer counts or not.

May have to do some experimenting.

In other non-news, this keyboard (or more likely, this keyboard position) is not very comfortable and I'm feeling stress in my wrists just from writing this short entry. If I want to give NaNoWriMo another go this year, I'm definitely going to need to try and improve my ergonomics or I'll stop by the end of the third day.