all made up with nowhere to go

Got to Macalania in FFX, about to go and kick Seymour's arse.

I don't know if I am overlevelled or not, since there are no level markers, and I never count sphere grid progressions (though this would be easier to do if I could find my strategy guide, but it appears to have done one at some point in the last five years, and I Very Annoyed. I had that thing before I had the game, I think!*). Although obviously, the AP rewards are less, the more you progress through the grid, so I'm probably bang on where I should be. (I haven't actually fled from many fights, only ones where I've felt like I just can't be arsed, e.g. when it's my tenth Ochu in a row).

Ooh, and I think Tidus has a weapon I've never seen before? Or at least, I don't remember it. It's the Basilisk Steel, which has Stonetouch, and it's freaking amazing. I haven't bothered changing it because most of the time he petrifies an enemy, unless it's immune.

Also I hit 9999 damage with Ixion on...something yesterday, and it seems too early in the game to be getting that type of damage, especially with an Aeon.

An aside: I will never not boggle when someone says they pick three characters in FFX and stick to those three doggedly. Like. Half the fun of the battle system is the swapping mechanism! (I'm just reading some posts and just...yeah...)

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I guess I should go out for a Pokewalk - the sun is out and it looks pleasant - but I just don't want to. I've been feeling really drained lately (I had a busy week this last week or so, including covering an extra shift at work), so the thought of going out is just...blergh right now. Also the clocks went forward last night/this morning so no doubt that will make me feel worse, because it always does.

Anyway, I've got a whole lot of the rest of the day to decide, so we'll see.

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P.S. It's The Matrix's twentieth birthday today - well, anniversary of when it was released in the US - and I honestly can't believe it's been bending my brain for two decades. Holy flurking schnit, as they say.

(it wasn't released in the UK until the 11th of June, though that makes sense to me, as it fits with my memories of watching it the first time).

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*I mean, it's in my room somewhere, but I've looked everywhere it should be, and a couple of places it isn't, and it hasn't been in any of those places. It will probably turn up once I've gone onto something else.

I did the walk up the Big Hill after all. Though not on the weekend, because between my shopping trip Saturday, and socialising Sunday, I didn't have the time or the inclination.

Saturday was my first community day playing PoGo, and I didn't really know what that meant, so I just went around collecting Mons, avoiding the swarms of Swinub (I'm not kidding - my park was STUFFED with them. I have a screencap of my avatar surrounded by them. I didn't really want any, and I didn't know about shiny hunting). I did see a lot of other players though. There was a gang of younger adults raiding the gym at the graveyard, and I left them alone because holy crap I feel like a very old fish out of water. Also I'm probably not going to get into raiding unless it's required or a Mon that's easily solo'd.

Sunday I took the same walk through the park on the way to the pub where I meet up with my comics friends. There was significantly less Swinub this time ;) In fact, I don't think I've seen one since then, so it's probably a good job I caught a few.

(Socialising was good although, as always, I felt awkward as fuck because I tend not to do much while there, and don't really participate in conversations. So I mostly sat and spun the nearest Pokestops - one of which was the very pub we were sitting in :D )

So yeah, the hill walk! The third stop that's "in" my village is at a five foot tall metal Tyrannosaur. It is up a steep hill. A steep hill that I used to walk up regularly as a teenager because that's what we did for fun before the internet was A Thing (when we weren't playing on my BFF's PSX, that is).

I haven't been on a decent sized walk for a few years or so now. I thought I'd planned my route so I'd avoid the steep bits. I was wrong. (I know it will get easier the more walking I do, though). I ended up going back on myself a bit in places, which was down to having not been on these paths in a while, but also thanks to not remembering where some paths were. ANYWAY.

I discovered there's a path that actually goes up next to the road at one point, which is good, because it's a road with no pavements, and people don't drive slowly up there (the road is wide enough at points, but I feel safer off it). I've walked that road so many times and only just discovered that that path is there. It's so weird!

I got to the dinosaur in the end, though it was very windy and cold up there (it's almost at the point where it's flat moorland, and because I'm in the bottom of the valley, I always forget it's colder up there). I don't think I will be going there again any time soon. I mean, it was a good walk, and I enjoyed it, but it's one of those things that would be nice to do with a friend, I think.

I thought I'd be absolutely crippled with achy muscles the next day but, because I'd already been doing two mile walks for the preceding week, it's not been too bad! The worst part by far is my shin muscles/tendons(?), but I think ninety percent of that is the impact of walking downhill on tarmac (I came back on the road because it was easier/quicker).

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In non-walking/PoGo news, I just applied for a job! The first one in years! It made me lol because part of the application asked for salary expections, of which I have none, and I was just incredibly tempted to type, "IDK dude, an actual wage would be nice?"

It's twenty hours a week in Burnley, and only £8.05 an hour, so it's not going to make me masses of money, assuming I get it, but a job would be good. And it's not so far away, so the commute wouldn't be bad, either. I don't think I will get it, though, but it didn't mention a minimum amount of experience needed, so I thought I'd give it a go and see what happens.