IDL: So my irda phone came two days early (yay!) and I cannot believe how much easier it was to get content onto my IDL! I didn't think I would have issues with the IRDA usb dongle but I struggled for a couple hours before I gave up. I shouldn't have wasted the five bucks on the dongle and just gone straight for a phone. I got the Palm Treo 700P, which you don't need to activate to use the IRDA feature (and boy, do I feel like a suave business person using the stylus on that thing....). I'm still downloading content on it now, but am so happy I got the phone. Now to decide if I study for my final exam tomorrow or mess around on my IDL.... I used the Palm guide featured here (
https://tama-zone.com/index.php?showtopic=24932&st=0entry3420444) and after a little initial confusion, easily figured it out.
Morino: Nothing too exciting to report on this front. I missed a predator attack today at work, and still haven't managed to catch the frog animation. He is still in the grub stage. Hopefully tomorrow he will get into a coccoon, I am interested in seeing how the temperature feature of this Tama works.
Umino: Between work, school, and studying I have still managed to keep my Umino alive! I think the animation before little Kuragetchi poops is just too funny! The first time I caught him doing that, I got excited that he was evolving. He finally did evolve yesterday, into Otototchi. I have paused him a few times and messed with the clock so his age is at 6 right now and he evolved at 5, my understanding being that he is a bit behind schedule. So far, I am happy with my progress, after reading what everyone had written about the Umino, I was worried he would die on my instantly! I have given him a few ice creams, usually on accident. Yesterday I was able to leave the sound on, and I did safe him from quite a few bear attacks, somewhere around 4 or 5. Today I have not noticed any but he was sick earlier so perhaps he got nom'd on by a polar bear just a little. After he evolved yesterday I did notice that his discipline meter dropped off and he was naughty quite a few times, calling when his hearts weren't depleted or refusing food. He always did this when I was trying to take a nap too....little devil. I love how the screen has pixel bubbles, and that Oto swims on and off screen. I think that the little poops and sick skulls (or troublesome skeletons as the IDL English manual would call them) follow the character around. All in all, I think this pet is my favorite virtual pet right now, hands down.
Yesterday, I also tracked down an old virtual pet that was boxed away at my mom's house. She has been moving boxes from our garage to a storage shed, and while rummaging through a box, I found my sister's old My Lovely Bear. It takes the larger batteries than the vintage Tamas, so unfortunately I couldn't see it it still functioned or try it out at all but reading about it online, it seems like a fun little pet. My brother also had one, I got the My Baby Bat instead (I loved Bats when I was little, has anyone else read Stellaluna? Pretty much my favorite childhood book, made me love bats when I was young), which I have been hoping to stumble upon but so far haven't been so lucky as to find my original. I did however recently purchase one on eBay for about fourteen bucks with shipping. My originals was blue/purple and the one I recently bought is black/grey, which I don't like as well. I did take apart the Lovely Bear, which was super easy, I remember the two pets being really similar so I plan on perhaps modding the Baby Bat when it does arrive....I just can't figure out a color scheme yet. I'll post updates when I mod that pet to this log, as I will be running this log as a modge podge of my various v pet adventures.
Now, time to slack off on studying for a final I have bright and early tomorrow and put more downloads on my IDL. Goodbye hideous stock wallpapers!