Best Of

If you haven't added me yet, I try to send gifts every day. Code is 469054089310

But I really just wanted to say the highlight of my gift-giving was sending a Dik Dik gift to BuddyJ.

I was heading to the store and knew a restaurant nearby had a Registeel Raid with about 5 minutes left to go. It was a Valor gym so I figured I'd stop and capture it once the timer ran out in the raid. As I pulled up there were about 7 or 8 people standing outside in a circle all looking at their phones so I loaded up and saw that they were all in the lobby for the raid. I jumped in on that shit and we took him down in about 60 seconds. I managed to capture him on my first try. Not 100% or shiny, but still pretty awesome. Then afterwards I did take over the gym and he's still sitting there right now defending it!

Everyone is talking about new "lucky" Pokemon which will cost less to power up, and apparently come from trading, but the real highlight of today's update:

- You can now sort the Friends List and assign nicknames to Friends

• Gifts may now contain Stardust
• Trainers now receive XP for sending Gifts
• Added the ability to delete unsent Gifts
• Various bug fixes and performance updates

I was in Chicago for a bit and was able to snag 4 Regice, 2 Registeel, and 4 Zapdos... and my first EX Raid invite. Not sure I can get back into Chicago to do the EX Raid but we'll see... Leveled up too. Now's I'm Lvl 35.

My son (MartyTyger) and my girlfriend (TessTH1990) are both looking for a few more friends, so if you get a friend request from one of them, don't be suprised. :-D

Speaking of the music, this is an article from the making of the music for the original Nier. The singer talks about the process by which she creates languages for the songs to be sung in. She used the same techniques for Automata. No spoilers.

Got my first Mewtwo yesterday on my second EX raid. 89% I think. I'm happy. And the catch capped off hitting Level 33.

Lawn Mower 4: Attack of the crabgrass (Stuck at level 1...)
Oh... REAL games...

• Pokemon Go... Just rejoined and kinda obsessed with it right now but it take a ton of time since I am not in a huge urban area. Also tough since I have to solo on Raids which means I get as many losses and wins on level 3 bosses.

I tried making a pokemon Trainers account, but the log in just wouldn't ever work, so I ended up making him a Facebook account just to log into Pokemon Go with. So, he lost his progress and his username, but it's not too bad, and this time, when he hit level five, I made sure he got the right team.

I was in New York for a day for work. I found 12 Gastly in 20 minutes just taking a Lyft from Manhattan to Brooklyn. So, that's done.