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Jan. 24th, 2019 06:55 amI didn't manage to play DQXI on Saturday due to grandson being ill and me doing grandmother duty so daughter could go to work. On Sunday, I popped the game into the PS4 and was pleasantly surprised to find that, whilst the game had sent me back to the last place I rested, it had saved all the story stuff I did the weekend before. I bought some better armour for the MC (everything is super expensive; I have money but I'm saving it in the bank) then got everyone up a level and went back to the boss that had chewed me up. I defeated it in about 5 hits! The best explanation I have is that Sylvando learned a new spell when he levelled up that increases attack, so Hendrik and the MC were hitting harder. Dunno… Anyway, with him gone, some issues got resolved and there is now resting in peace for certain characters.
Then we had to win at some slot machines in order to get enough tokens to buy a thing. 'Oh, no!' I thought. 'It's Treno all over again.' However, SOME games *looks hard at FFIX* know how to make it easy for a player to win at a thing they HAVE to win for the purposes of the game without necessarily being that interested in doing it otherwise. Short story, I got the tokens, bought the thing and progressed with the game. There was another double-header boss fight but I had also reorganised my items, so that gave me no trouble. And we have regained another companion and are on the road to find the last two. No, three! I forgot that one...
Minor gripe - we have another male character. It would have been fun to have Hendrik as a female character - another Beatrix. Not least because I could then have an all-female battle line up. Anyway...
In work, I'm still plugging away at planning out my objectives. I might have finished that by the time my next PDPR comes around... But it is giving me something to measure progress against, which has been missing in previous years. And I spent some time thinking about how I manage the portfolio and I'm right - I do have too many THINGS; one can (almost) definitely go without hurting anything.
I have a mentoring meeting this morning. Can't believe we've arrived at the 4-month review point already! I have found the process far more valuable than I expected to and attribute at least some of my increasing confidence to that - even though it isn't about increasing my confidence, per se...
On Tuesday, there was a meeting of the A Taste of God group and we made some real progress. I am now becoming quite excited about it! But I do have stuff to do before it happens. Printing, catering, planning the first session... SO glam!!!
Writing-writing has been lost to working on my talk for Sunday. Safeguarding - also glam...
That'll do for now. Bye, DW!
Then we had to win at some slot machines in order to get enough tokens to buy a thing. 'Oh, no!' I thought. 'It's Treno all over again.' However, SOME games *looks hard at FFIX* know how to make it easy for a player to win at a thing they HAVE to win for the purposes of the game without necessarily being that interested in doing it otherwise. Short story, I got the tokens, bought the thing and progressed with the game. There was another double-header boss fight but I had also reorganised my items, so that gave me no trouble. And we have regained another companion and are on the road to find the last two. No, three! I forgot that one...
Minor gripe - we have another male character. It would have been fun to have Hendrik as a female character - another Beatrix. Not least because I could then have an all-female battle line up. Anyway...
In work, I'm still plugging away at planning out my objectives. I might have finished that by the time my next PDPR comes around... But it is giving me something to measure progress against, which has been missing in previous years. And I spent some time thinking about how I manage the portfolio and I'm right - I do have too many THINGS; one can (almost) definitely go without hurting anything.
I have a mentoring meeting this morning. Can't believe we've arrived at the 4-month review point already! I have found the process far more valuable than I expected to and attribute at least some of my increasing confidence to that - even though it isn't about increasing my confidence, per se...
On Tuesday, there was a meeting of the A Taste of God group and we made some real progress. I am now becoming quite excited about it! But I do have stuff to do before it happens. Printing, catering, planning the first session... SO glam!!!
Writing-writing has been lost to working on my talk for Sunday. Safeguarding - also glam...
That'll do for now. Bye, DW!
