Category: Victoria

DENIED!

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Here I am, as Link, hiding from the Monster Forces. I was halfway through the slaughter when the blood moon arose. This means the monster I wasted my good weapons and items on (eg. bomb flowers and shock fruits) respawned.

Gah!

I returned to an earlier save point: problem solved. However, the health bar for the Lurelin Village Monster Force had a trace of red remaining, signifying a straggler. I went on the prowl, climbing a ladder to the highest vantage point to scan the area with my scope. From up there, the coast looked clear, so I returned to the beach to sniff out this aimless soul on foot.

I must’ve ventured a trifle too far from the combat zone because when I turned back, the Monster Forces were IN FULL FORCE. There was no blood moon, yet they all respawned anyway!

I should have stayed hidden in the pithos. It also symbolizes how I feel about the state of the world.

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Space Magnets and other things too.

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Good morning!

It’ll probably be afternoon by the time I finish writing this. The past few weeks have been difficult, interjected with moments of joy.

I caught last Friday’s space magnet show, not just in my video game but also from my backyard. I’d read reports about the northern lights possibly being visible as far south as Victoria and didn’t pay much attention. AS FAR SOUTH AS VICTORIA? Not likely.

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Potatoes are the new lobster.

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I spent $4.50 on three small potatoes. Not even the Yukon Gold variety: Russet potatoes! Last week, I begrudgingly spent $7 on yams. It’s getting expensive to eat poor people food.

Now that I’ve got my “Old Man Yells at Cloud” grievances out of the way, I can review my busy, busy month. For the past four weeks, the legs have been spinning and the hands wrenching. The gears in my brain had also been grinding. Until my rescheduled hearing with the Residential Tenancy Branch passed, anyway.

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