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Playing Games All Day
I basically played games all day today. Woo hoo!
Compass Point: West
I just got this game yesterday and have been sucked into it ever since. It a Backyard Monsters kind of game: you build up your town to be pretty but also for combat. It's not as cute as Backyard Monsters. At all!
But it's kind of charming and Robin's playing it, so I got to learn some things the easy way from him, plus I got to tell him a couple of things he didn't know: one from paying attention and one from researching things on the web.
Later when my courthouse is to level 8, I can join Robin's posse. Fun times.
They try to pretend that all the fighting is really defensive and you are taking other settlements back from bad guys. But for some reason they then pay you tribute, so it doesn't really work. And then later you're fighting other players which is clearly just fighting for fun and profit.
DuoLingo
I'm still doing this. It's a good review and even a preview of a few things (I'm learning present and past perfect tenses--when you "have" and "had" done something--and a little bit of future tense). And I find I am actually learning some vocabulary words that I haven't seen much elsewhere, so that's nice.
I almost forgot to do it yesterday, which would have been a shame--today I got 12 lingots for a 120-day streak.
Circuit Training
According to some people (hi, Tam!), weight lifting is sort of like a game in that you can level up with practice.
We go to a gym with a circuit training area where you alternate between weight machines and step aerobics, switching from one station to the next when alerted by a special traffic signal. I go with Robin and Di and we socialize during the step-aerobic bits.
I actually made a chart of all the settings I like on the different machines so I don't waste too much time figuring out how to set it for my shape and so I start at the desired weight. Basically, once I can do 12 repetitions at one weight, I start at the next highest weight next time. I've actually leveled up at least once on each machine since we started at this new gym a couple of months ago. But since I'm so wimpy, leveling up often means a 25% or even 33% increase in weight, so these new levels are not coming quickly.
I didn't level up in anything today, but Monday I was below par after getting blood tested right after having donated blood a week earlier, so today was definitely better in comparison.
Dog Walking
I also walked my dog a couple of times. But without the dog since I don't have one.
Okay, I just took myself on a walk. People need walks, too! Well, we have indoor plumbing but do also need to move around. Notice that my other games all involve sitting. Even the circuit training involves sitting half the time. :-)
Compass Point: West
I just got this game yesterday and have been sucked into it ever since. It a Backyard Monsters kind of game: you build up your town to be pretty but also for combat. It's not as cute as Backyard Monsters. At all!
But it's kind of charming and Robin's playing it, so I got to learn some things the easy way from him, plus I got to tell him a couple of things he didn't know: one from paying attention and one from researching things on the web.
Later when my courthouse is to level 8, I can join Robin's posse. Fun times.
They try to pretend that all the fighting is really defensive and you are taking other settlements back from bad guys. But for some reason they then pay you tribute, so it doesn't really work. And then later you're fighting other players which is clearly just fighting for fun and profit.
DuoLingo
I'm still doing this. It's a good review and even a preview of a few things (I'm learning present and past perfect tenses--when you "have" and "had" done something--and a little bit of future tense). And I find I am actually learning some vocabulary words that I haven't seen much elsewhere, so that's nice.
I almost forgot to do it yesterday, which would have been a shame--today I got 12 lingots for a 120-day streak.
Circuit Training
According to some people (hi, Tam!), weight lifting is sort of like a game in that you can level up with practice.
We go to a gym with a circuit training area where you alternate between weight machines and step aerobics, switching from one station to the next when alerted by a special traffic signal. I go with Robin and Di and we socialize during the step-aerobic bits.
I actually made a chart of all the settings I like on the different machines so I don't waste too much time figuring out how to set it for my shape and so I start at the desired weight. Basically, once I can do 12 repetitions at one weight, I start at the next highest weight next time. I've actually leveled up at least once on each machine since we started at this new gym a couple of months ago. But since I'm so wimpy, leveling up often means a 25% or even 33% increase in weight, so these new levels are not coming quickly.
I didn't level up in anything today, but Monday I was below par after getting blood tested right after having donated blood a week earlier, so today was definitely better in comparison.
Dog Walking
I also walked my dog a couple of times. But without the dog since I don't have one.
Okay, I just took myself on a walk. People need walks, too! Well, we have indoor plumbing but do also need to move around. Notice that my other games all involve sitting. Even the circuit training involves sitting half the time. :-)