Friga moved out! Rubbish! She’d given no warning at all (usually animals pack their boxes up in their houses a day or two before they leave), just upped and left. The stupid cow. Or rather, penguin. I’d been so nice to her and got no photo from her or anything. Gah. Visited all my other animals, and even though I had some white furniture for Margie and a Camel Shirt for Frobert, neither of them asked for anything. Stupid animals. …

Yet again, I manage to achieve the magical Brain Age of 20. That’s eight days in a row (I think – unless my counting is out, but with an Age of 20, that’s unlikely!), and over a month of less-than-my-real-age scores. Excellent. I got a couple more top-3 scores for things today as well, although I notice my wife then beat at least one of them. Bah.

Just a quick prance around Cheese this evening. My main tasks for the day were to check out the turnip prices (48 bells – rubbish), and to visit Camofrog, as it was his birthday. I took him a present (a Bear Pole), which he was quite pleased with. Margie was there too, so the three of us had a slammin’ party. Well, we stood around and Camofrog cried a lot and Margie clapped a lot. It was all a bit …

It seems that the successor to Brain Age has shipped out to me today, which is good, as I’m reaching the two-month marker in this one. Not that I’m bored of it or anything yet, though. So today I managed another Age of 20. Nothing unexpected there! No problems with recognition either, so my DS was clearly having a Good Day. Maybe it was pleased with my MacBook arriving today, which, when closed, looks like a giant white DS Lite.

Had myself a merry old thieving time today, with some very bizarre events. Opened up the next Thieves’ Guild quest, which was to steal a ring from the Countess of Leyawiin. After chatting with some beggars and her handmaiden, it seemed there was a secret entrance into Her Lady’s private quarters from the basement of Castle Leyawiin. I was also told she goes to bed at 11pm. So I found the secret passage, and came upon the final door before …

After a week or more off it (Oblivion and stuff sucked my time away), I’m back on it, getting coins and unlocking routes. I’m pretty sure i’ve unlocked all the actuall levels now, but not all the warp cannons and houses. Anyway, today I finished off all the coins in World 3, and found the Warp Cannon to World 6 in the World 3 ghost house. Once in World 6 I set about finding some more coins, and managed two …

What?! Somehow I managed to score just 7.1 (rather than my usual 13-ish) for Syllable Count today. It was even on my fourth attempt, as I kept reading too quickly. How it dropped so low, I have no idea. Stupid thing. Luckily, I did much better on most of my other trials, getting a few more top-3s along the way. Did exceptionally well for the Brain Age too – I got 20 again, but managed 16 seconds for Calculations x20 …

It’s Sunday morning, and so it’s Turnip Time. Joan took a bit of finding, but it turned out she was right next to my house. Tch. Spent just over 500,000 bells buying 5,200 white turnips for 98 bells each, and then dumped them outside my house and Nook’s. Talked to a few of my animals, and found some more gyroids and fossils. Already had all the fossils though. Rubbish.

Yet another successful day on Brain Age. Managed two more top-threes in the training, and another one and two near-misses in the Brain Age test itself. Overall Age for today? 20, of course!

Only a brief play this evening – enough to get my mail (which included a model of Nookingtons – my “prize” for reaching Platinum status, along with 20% off everything), have a visit from Bunnie (it’s a Flea Market day and I went inside my house), and then go over to the Museum to see K.K. Slider. He played K.K. Rockabilly for me today. It was ace.

Extensive play today took me up to over 51 hours gametime. That’s like, forever. Or something. I’m certainly not going to explain everything I’ve done today, but here’s a bit of a synopsis: I summoned my skeleton, then killed it, over and over to get souls, with which I enchanted a few more things, making a full 22% shield at all times. Then set off to get a staff from some glade, only to be attacked. Got the staff, made …

One “Long Game”, one 10 question Quickfire Round, and a 30 question Quickfire Round. And I was the winnerer of them all! ACES! I am slightly disturbed by my knowledge of late 1990s dance-crap “outfits” though. Sash! FTW.

I didn’t actually do all that much today, even though I played for over an hour. I started by warping to Imperial City, and entered the Arcane University. After talking to some bloke there, I was promoted to Apprentice, and gained 10 more Gamerpoints (570 now) and another Achievement. I was then given pretty much free run of the University, and so explored it a bit. There was a Library, full of books (obviously). Reading many of them boosted my …

Ph33r my ub3r-|337 5k1||z! Y37 4641n my Br41n 463 5c0r3 15 ju57 20! 1 4m c|34r|y 7h3 m4573r3r 0f 73h 64m3. W1n! As well as that, I hit the top-3 again for some of the tests, getting an ACE 16 second time for Calculations x20. Also did one of the sudoku puzzles, seeing as I haven’t tried any of them in what seems like ages.

Platinumness Get! Hurrah! I don’t know what it entitles me to, but I’ve got it anyway. No more moon-buying for me! Excellent. Also excellent was the fact that Margie has decided to stay. And she was very pleased with the Regal Vanity I gave her today when she asked for White Furniture. Robin is after Blue stuff, Dirty Bunnie wants Pink (f’nar), and Friga wants houseplants. Can’t they do their own damn shopping? Also found a few more things for …