Usually I post something on the first day of that hatch regardless of if it is a complete day or not. Allot of things happened yesterday and I was a little more worried about meeting deadlines than posting (not to mention my free time clocked in around 11:00 last night). But, like I mentioned in the sign-up thread, I take notes and I picked out a nice big partially used notebook for the purpose (I like to “complete” notebooks although I would prefer buying a new one but that is kinda wasteful).
One other note is that compared to my other logs, the picture quality will have dropped. This is because I’m using my 2DS’s camera instead of the family tablet, primarily because it gives me more freedom to take pictures (because it’s mine) and thus there will be more of them, more illustration. Additionally, the quality is half-decent as most of the details are apparent, just a little blurred.
==Mercredi le 15 août==
[Note: I will be writing the date in French for practice as I am learning that language. The number will always be the bilingual reference point. Mercredi (mare-cruh-dee) means “Wednesday” and “août” (oot) means “August”.]
Here is the group I’ll be using for this hatch:
An interesting quirk of the connection models is that if data is downloaded after there is a crying baby on the screen, it will resume on the parent’s last day. That no doubt happened to my V4.5 and I decided rather than manipulate the time so that the parent would leave, I would let the baby stay with his mother.
I turned my attention to my ID and began the start of the next generation by marrying off Mitzy, the current tamagotchi.
It is a nice touch that the ID added a sequence that shows the parents on a date, yet still a little peculiar that is the only time the partner is seen. I feel mixed about how quickly the parent runs of, but it served its purpose that day.
At 12:32, I started caring for Mitzy’s baby and decided to call him Nemo. It felt nice running a colour tama again. I fed him and then took him to the arcade for his happiness, or at least that was what I intended. It had been awhile since I used my ID so instead Nemo headed off to the park and met an Ichigotchi and they went on a ladybug ride. Unlike any of my other tamas, the ID has a happiness bar and after I played a few games with Nemo – discovering my old skill and the “stop on the monkey head” trick for the slot machine – I found games weren’t cutting it. I let him play with the toys I had collected over the generations, a fast an easy way to boost the meter. He first started with a basin and then progressed to a remote control car, multi-ink pen, and then a story book. I caught him needing to go a few times which also upped his happiness.
At 1:04, Nemo was soundly asleep but then awoke at 1:06. I really had my hands full with this kid so I decided my P1, the only unhatched tama, would be started later. I looked at the clock and found the calendar was set to the 12/12 (December 12th) which was probably the last time I ran my ID, which also explained why it was snowing in Nemo’s world. I set it to the correct date of 8/15 (august 15th) and everything was back to mild summer days. I decided Nemo would become a Kuromametchi (who, I had already achieved the TamaTomo for). At 1:16, Nemo called for attention while his screen was off and I found him sick, again.
At 1:29 I decided to check the date on my V4.5 and found it to be 24/4, or the 24th of April. I decided to leave the date as it was. At 1:31, Nemo evolved into a goofily adorable toddler and received 300 gotchi. More options opened up so I took him to the convenience store and bought him a sandwich.
There was a hiccup with my P1 whose display started to become fainter and fainter. I thought it just need to have its batteries padded with cardboard (I read something that recommened that) but instead it turned out I had a dead batch of batteries. Those ones I had taken out of my vintages after I ran them and hadn’t used them in ages, so it was weird they went dead. With new batteries I was able to return my P1 to a bouncing egg awaiting the clock to be set. During the whole time I was trying to solve the problem and migrated between floors, started my V4, had to go downstairs to shut it off, and then started my P2 at my upstairs desk, my cat was following me around. He was getting in the way like a fluffy pillow I had to step over, walk around, and be careful not to hit (I have accidentally kicked my cat a few times). He was forgiven because he’s cute but maannn! Does anybody know how to give a pillow a brain?
I speculated on starting my P1 after lunch or when the remainder of my family left for the bible study. I turned my attention to my V4.5 and observed it more thoroughly. I had left of with an Ura Memetchi (Memetchi with wings) named Emma who was the 6th generation. Her son would start the 7th generation and I decided to call him Omen (Nemo backwards). To follow the slight theme, I decided the P1 would be called Demo. I mused that Nemo and Omen would have similar days being fed and cleaned and played with. I searched the connection’s items to see if he could do anything with his mommy, but there were none like that.
It had been a hectic time – well, I did jump from 3 to 6 tamas and I even brought out my big tama stand! I also had to work too which meant the future held allot of desk time for the logged and unlogged. I wondered if they might learn a thing or two about French and organizational culture.
Around lunch time, I put Omen in a stand with my long living oldie Sotilde and took them to lunch with me. Due to the ID having a screensaver, there is little point in propping it up to be visible so I just let him play with the car again to up his happiness and went to lunch. As usual, I, Papa Ballad, and Brother ballad ate together and watched a history lecture. Thus Omen and his mommy witnessed me chowing down on spicy instant noodles while a teacher detailed the early U.S. presidency before the civil war (my father believes U.S. history is world history). After half an hour, we came back to my desk. I’m guessing around that time I took this picture of Nemo and the sunset-stained evening sky.
I took Omen and Nemo walking with my father and I in the orange-tinted evening. We strolled around my favourite neighbourhood where there are vast stretches of sidewalk edged with quaint bungalows and old-fashioned houses. First I talked about a person whose exaggeration made all their speech questionably sincere, further aggravated by how their actions told a different story. Other factors made them both reasonable and naive depending on what the true situation was. I checked Nemo during the walk and found he was asleep.
I then brought up a status on TamaTalk that told how a person’s family called them childish because of their Tamagotchis and told them to grow up. My father was in a heckling mood and made several jokes along the way, while also dispensing the pearls of wisdom that “childish” is used when there is no way to justifiably insult something, and adults may see things in toys that children don’t. This segued into the ironic situation where adults do supposedly “childish” things that are perfectly normal, such as my uncle and his board game collection, women who collect dolls, card games (Go Fish is played with no shame), and adults who collect anything. My father gave the prominent and obvious example how he reads my grown brother bedtime stories every night about the animals of the Green Forest (Sammy Jay, Chatter the Red Squirrel, Johnny Chuck, Peter Rabbit, etc.) and I’m sure he enjoys them just as much as my brother does.
Towards the end of the walk we were discussing machismo, primarily because I thought it was likely those he-mans in movies have a woman they bend over backwards to keep, as it appears to work in real life. My father weighed in that some of the examples I witnessed and heard in the church were actually just “pastor talk”. He also mentioned my mother reading that men will key a person’s car but women will key a person’s reputation. He then gave the anecdote along with it where a woman posted her boyfriend’s break-up letter to Facebook for help critiquing his grammar, thereby projecting all the was wrong with him to her circle of friends and their friends, thus potentially anyone he will ever meet. Also while we were walking, I saw a man with a bright blue Macaw and pointed him out, politely. My father appeared disinterested and revealed he had seen that guy before and suspected him and his Macaw had illegal motives.
At home, my V4.5 was paused while I read Shma Ballad my organizational culture notes. Also, because I missed my opportunity supposing that my brother and father would go to the Bible study, I didn’t start up my P1. We later had dinner and some time late into the day I discovered Omen’s clock was off 4 hours. I put it just two hours off and when it slid back to the main screen, the lights were out with two Z’s bobbing in the darkness. Here’s a picture of that and one I took earlier of Omen, Emma, and Sotilde in a stand:
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I hope more people log so this doesn’t become “Knighttchi’s Ballad’s ironic Back to School Hatching” (being homeschooled and all).
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Happy logging! 
