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We just got back from an afternoon trip to East Lansing. We took Cordelia out to a Panera that has outdoor seating. Unfortunately, there was someone smoking nearby, but they left not too long after we sat down. No one else was in the seating area, so the smoking thing seems less inconsiderate to me than it might otherwise. They were sitting at the table furthest from the entrance to the restaurant.
After we ate, Scott and Cordelia walked a couple of doors down to get some things at a Kroger. She needed tissues, granola bars, and some beverages. She's been putting off buying things because her dorm room this year is much smaller than the room she had last year. Her bed technically can be set up as a loft, but there are pieces missing, so she has to wait for maintenance. She's been waiting since 27 August and has called more than once, but they keep saying that they will call her to tell her how to set up an appointment. This sounds suspect to me, but she's the one who'll have to do whatever pushing is involved.
She's finding her archaeology class less interesting than she'd hoped which, I think, is more about her expectations than about the class itself. She's bored by learning all of very specific terminology while also admitting that an intro class needs to explain all of specialized vocabulary that will be assumed in later classes.
I did not get to see this year's dorm room. It's on the 4th floor, and the elevator only goes to the 3rd. My ankle is not up to that flight of stairs (particularly not given that there's laundry to do here at home today which requires me to deal with stairs). I suspect that the room is fundamentally like other dorm rooms. Apart from the fact that my daughter lives there.
Cordelia wants to start some new crochet projects, but she doesn't currently have space for yarn in her room (a third of the stuff from last year's room is still in the basement). Part of wanting to do new projects is that she's joined an unofficial knitting club that meets once a week, and part of it is that she's starting to get that she can make gifts for people. She made herself a laundry bag last year and another this year. This year's is a different pattern that addresses the problems she found with the first one over months of use.
I played some Ingress as we drove. I commented to Cordelia that everything on campus was green, and she told me that no one at Michigan State would dare play blue on campus given State's colors (white and green). She laughed a little and said that you can find State fans in Ann Arbor but not University of Michigan fans in East Lansing. I am not 100% convinced by this explanation, but who knows?
I don't get the impression that Ingress is nearly as active as it used to be. Part of that is just that the game is old, but also participation fell during the early days of the pandemic and hasn't bounced back. Because I can't really walk right now, I'm not doing much but drone hacking on a day-to-day basis. I do other things while taking the ARide to appointments and back, but that's very sporadic.
The drone was introduced early in the pandemic to let people play without leaving their homes. Most of the time, a player can move their drone at 1 hour intervals. Other times, the interval can get as short as 8 minutes. It's most helpful for people who, like me, live in an area with a lot of portals. I think the original idea was that drone hacking would let people continue hacking streaks toward badges without taking undue risks. Hacking 365 days in a row is hard under normal circumstances, and people who were close-- or even halfway-- there didn't want to have to start over.
At this point, I have more unique drone hacks than I have unique hacks (that is, I've visited more unique portals by drone than in person). I'm actually keeping a list of where I've been because otherwise I'd go in circles and/or skip over places I haven't yet been. There are a lot of portals with similar names and, sometimes, clusters of portals with identical names. A park with multiple entrances might have a portal for each but have all of those with the same name; it becomes confusing. This is not helped by the fact that the program won't display the entire portal name. It cuts off at different points depending on which screen I'm looking at.
But I am vastly amused by the existence of a portal called 'First Church of Christ Baseball.'
Based on the photo, I'm quite sure it's a baseball diamond on a church's property, but... That's not how my brain parses it when I see the text. Scott was vastly amused when I showed it to him because that was how he read it, too.
After we ate, Scott and Cordelia walked a couple of doors down to get some things at a Kroger. She needed tissues, granola bars, and some beverages. She's been putting off buying things because her dorm room this year is much smaller than the room she had last year. Her bed technically can be set up as a loft, but there are pieces missing, so she has to wait for maintenance. She's been waiting since 27 August and has called more than once, but they keep saying that they will call her to tell her how to set up an appointment. This sounds suspect to me, but she's the one who'll have to do whatever pushing is involved.
She's finding her archaeology class less interesting than she'd hoped which, I think, is more about her expectations than about the class itself. She's bored by learning all of very specific terminology while also admitting that an intro class needs to explain all of specialized vocabulary that will be assumed in later classes.
I did not get to see this year's dorm room. It's on the 4th floor, and the elevator only goes to the 3rd. My ankle is not up to that flight of stairs (particularly not given that there's laundry to do here at home today which requires me to deal with stairs). I suspect that the room is fundamentally like other dorm rooms. Apart from the fact that my daughter lives there.
Cordelia wants to start some new crochet projects, but she doesn't currently have space for yarn in her room (a third of the stuff from last year's room is still in the basement). Part of wanting to do new projects is that she's joined an unofficial knitting club that meets once a week, and part of it is that she's starting to get that she can make gifts for people. She made herself a laundry bag last year and another this year. This year's is a different pattern that addresses the problems she found with the first one over months of use.
I played some Ingress as we drove. I commented to Cordelia that everything on campus was green, and she told me that no one at Michigan State would dare play blue on campus given State's colors (white and green). She laughed a little and said that you can find State fans in Ann Arbor but not University of Michigan fans in East Lansing. I am not 100% convinced by this explanation, but who knows?
I don't get the impression that Ingress is nearly as active as it used to be. Part of that is just that the game is old, but also participation fell during the early days of the pandemic and hasn't bounced back. Because I can't really walk right now, I'm not doing much but drone hacking on a day-to-day basis. I do other things while taking the ARide to appointments and back, but that's very sporadic.
The drone was introduced early in the pandemic to let people play without leaving their homes. Most of the time, a player can move their drone at 1 hour intervals. Other times, the interval can get as short as 8 minutes. It's most helpful for people who, like me, live in an area with a lot of portals. I think the original idea was that drone hacking would let people continue hacking streaks toward badges without taking undue risks. Hacking 365 days in a row is hard under normal circumstances, and people who were close-- or even halfway-- there didn't want to have to start over.
At this point, I have more unique drone hacks than I have unique hacks (that is, I've visited more unique portals by drone than in person). I'm actually keeping a list of where I've been because otherwise I'd go in circles and/or skip over places I haven't yet been. There are a lot of portals with similar names and, sometimes, clusters of portals with identical names. A park with multiple entrances might have a portal for each but have all of those with the same name; it becomes confusing. This is not helped by the fact that the program won't display the entire portal name. It cuts off at different points depending on which screen I'm looking at.
But I am vastly amused by the existence of a portal called 'First Church of Christ Baseball.'
Based on the photo, I'm quite sure it's a baseball diamond on a church's property, but... That's not how my brain parses it when I see the text. Scott was vastly amused when I showed it to him because that was how he read it, too.