legends are told, some turn to dust or to gold

song+ Centuries- Fall Out Boy
book+ nothing at all
quest+ the Pokedex challenge
upper+ we have internet again!
downer+ nothing that really matters
attire+ pajamas
drink+ pineapple soda

so Sunday morning i slept in a little, then headed off with Kyu for gaming day. before we left a service tech from our ISP knocked on the door, Kyu cleared up his mistake, the guy wanted a different apartment in our unit, and we left. when we came home it was to the revelation that our internet was no longer working. calling the tech support line, Kyu got an automated message mentioning technical issues in our area. that's what he heard every time he called for two days. Tuesday at lunch he called and insisted on talking to a real person, they did the standard things and lo, upon looking at our account from their end, he could see that our signal was cut off at noon on Sunday. for no reason. a tech was scheduled to come out Wed around 1 to get things working again. (that happened, they are. yay.) anyway, that's why this post is so late.

game day was good, i got a few more done on my Pokedex Challenge, putting me at 151 completed (out of 719), that's the entire first generation done. while i was out i talked to a few unbiased people about the desirability of my art skills and ended up signing up to draw for customers at the big Halloween event the store is throwing on the 25th.

i've gotten pretty comfortable with my watercolor pencls, so i'm gonna be set up to offer sketchy nerdy paintings to whoever asks. Kyu's gonna be set up with his greyscale markers, he did really well with that setup on FCBD back in May, so i think he'll do similarly well this time. right out the gate i figure i can handle requests for Pokemon or Sailor Moon characters. there's a lot otherwise i may need to ask for reference on though. back in May, on top of expected comic book character requests Kyu got a lot of My Little Pony requests, and a few Monster High too. i'd do way better with MH than MLP honestly, but i'm hoping people stick mostly to Pokemon.

i've been goin crazy without internet. i've resorted to going through my folder of saved gaming guides and formatting them all. last time we were internet-less for an extended length of time i formatted all the fanfic i've saved to re-read over the years. this time though it was already done, so game walkthroughs. i could be playing something, but i haven't been able to think of anything i really want to play right now. i'm still working through some of the ones i've never beaten, but i'm hitting the points that made me walk away in the first place, and motivation to continue is flagging.

there's a part of me that's like "oh, play a Pokemon game, you love Pokemon!" but i'm waiting for the new versions that release next month. the last thing i want is to buy them and then not want to play when they're in-hand. so i'm kinda on a Pokemon moratorium. i'm still casually farming berries on my X cart, and i'm using the Pokedex on my Y cart as reference in the challenge, but i'm not really PLAYING either version.