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Jul. 14th, 2018 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI really overdid things yesterday. I think it would have been fine if I hadn't done it two days in a row. I did two Ingress missions after my PT appointment. The second one took me farther from the bus route than I quite expected (though I could see the numbers on the map). There wasn't shade for most of it, so my face got a bit sunburned. It was also quite hot. I probably walked for an hour and a half.
When I got home, I showered and changed clothes because I felt overheated and generally damp. After that, every joint and muscle stiffened. My legs were fine, but my feet ached, and everything from my waist up didn't want me to move at all.
On my way home, I stopped at the Ingress portal at the church near the school. I saw someone from the other team who had pulled to the side of the road in order to take out the portal. The taking out the portal is just part of the game, but that street has no parking, no standing, no stopping for cars. There are places near the portal that are safe and legal for stopping a car, so I'm boggled at the level of irresponsibility.
The hill is such that drivers coming over the top have about two seconds to see cars where this one was. They're in the other lane, but it's still a danger. Also, anyone else wanting to come up the hill would either have to sit behind the stopped car and wait or pass it in the other lane, taking the risk of someone coming down the hill and smashing into them.
There's a challenge in Ingress right now for neutralizing portals. A lot of the obnoxious members of the other side are knocking out portals and leaving them unclaimed after so that people on our team can't neutralize them in turn. It's really petty nastiness and is coming from the same people who did dedicated guardian portal hunting*. This short term challenge seems tailor made to bring out the same sorts of asshole behavior.
*One could earn badges for holding a portal for certain lengths of time. That badge has been retired because people were hunting down portals held by the other team that were on the verge of hitting higher badge levels. Badges are required for advancing in the game, but it was mostly people liking having the power to deny other folks that achievement. There is no feasible way in the game to hold onto a portal in the face of determined and sustained attack. It simply can't be done. Short term, one can hold a portal with a team of people sitting on top of it and continually recharging and adding resonators and mods, but...)
I'm poking at ideas for characters to use for a continuation of my post-apocalyptic DC series ("The Very Self of the Storm" and "This Is My Bargain"). The second story mentioned the idea of trying to find and train some children to take back in time to prevent the apocalypse, and I don't actually want to make up those characters if I don't have to. I also, however, don't want to dig through every character at dc.wikia.com in order to find characters who fit what I need. I'm mostly looking at Teen Titans and Young Justice, as a way of narrowing things down
I'll probably still have to make some characters up entirely simply because there aren't that many non-US characters. Also a lot of characters I might choose to draw from canon will end up quite different from their canon counterparts because they'll mostly be between six and ten years old and have no memory of pre-apocalypse life.
Next week, I only have two appointments, but it's Art Fair here in Ann Arbor, and I will need to prepare for our trip to visit my parents. I've asked Scott to make a packing list so that I can pack for him while he's at work. I don't want to spend unnecessary time waiting for him to do it after he gets home from work at 6 p.m. on Friday. It's going to take us long enough to get to the hotel anyway.
Also, if I can pack for him, I will stress out about it less. I think his bi-PAP and his various electronic devices are the only things I can't pack for him.
I'm looking at and considering several different writing challenges/exchanges, but I still feel wary of committing to anything. I have no idea what's coming in the next few months, and I feel very unbalanced about the uncertainties. I haven't written a lot this month so far and may not end up writing much during the next several weeks. I just don't know.
When I got home, I showered and changed clothes because I felt overheated and generally damp. After that, every joint and muscle stiffened. My legs were fine, but my feet ached, and everything from my waist up didn't want me to move at all.
On my way home, I stopped at the Ingress portal at the church near the school. I saw someone from the other team who had pulled to the side of the road in order to take out the portal. The taking out the portal is just part of the game, but that street has no parking, no standing, no stopping for cars. There are places near the portal that are safe and legal for stopping a car, so I'm boggled at the level of irresponsibility.
The hill is such that drivers coming over the top have about two seconds to see cars where this one was. They're in the other lane, but it's still a danger. Also, anyone else wanting to come up the hill would either have to sit behind the stopped car and wait or pass it in the other lane, taking the risk of someone coming down the hill and smashing into them.
There's a challenge in Ingress right now for neutralizing portals. A lot of the obnoxious members of the other side are knocking out portals and leaving them unclaimed after so that people on our team can't neutralize them in turn. It's really petty nastiness and is coming from the same people who did dedicated guardian portal hunting*. This short term challenge seems tailor made to bring out the same sorts of asshole behavior.
*One could earn badges for holding a portal for certain lengths of time. That badge has been retired because people were hunting down portals held by the other team that were on the verge of hitting higher badge levels. Badges are required for advancing in the game, but it was mostly people liking having the power to deny other folks that achievement. There is no feasible way in the game to hold onto a portal in the face of determined and sustained attack. It simply can't be done. Short term, one can hold a portal with a team of people sitting on top of it and continually recharging and adding resonators and mods, but...)
I'm poking at ideas for characters to use for a continuation of my post-apocalyptic DC series ("The Very Self of the Storm" and "This Is My Bargain"). The second story mentioned the idea of trying to find and train some children to take back in time to prevent the apocalypse, and I don't actually want to make up those characters if I don't have to. I also, however, don't want to dig through every character at dc.wikia.com in order to find characters who fit what I need. I'm mostly looking at Teen Titans and Young Justice, as a way of narrowing things down
I'll probably still have to make some characters up entirely simply because there aren't that many non-US characters. Also a lot of characters I might choose to draw from canon will end up quite different from their canon counterparts because they'll mostly be between six and ten years old and have no memory of pre-apocalypse life.
Next week, I only have two appointments, but it's Art Fair here in Ann Arbor, and I will need to prepare for our trip to visit my parents. I've asked Scott to make a packing list so that I can pack for him while he's at work. I don't want to spend unnecessary time waiting for him to do it after he gets home from work at 6 p.m. on Friday. It's going to take us long enough to get to the hotel anyway.
Also, if I can pack for him, I will stress out about it less. I think his bi-PAP and his various electronic devices are the only things I can't pack for him.
I'm looking at and considering several different writing challenges/exchanges, but I still feel wary of committing to anything. I have no idea what's coming in the next few months, and I feel very unbalanced about the uncertainties. I haven't written a lot this month so far and may not end up writing much during the next several weeks. I just don't know.
