Cassandra Prime
Last week was very good! I feel like I'm getting my focus back at work, too.
Mid-week had a team fun offsite in Provincetown, which was great. (The last time my team did that I was somewhat distracted as I was right in the middle of buying a house, so it was nice to just be able to relax this time!) We took a tour of the dunes, which were beautiful, and we had a lovely lunch on the beach!
And this past weekend was very eventful, since the latest Ingress Anomaly was in Boston!
The main competition was Saturday afternoon. The gameplay for those live events keeps getting better and better, so the game was pretty interesting throughout. It was a victory for the green team, too. Though a bit lopsided; I wish more of the blue team could have made it out to Boston! (The teams are pretty evenly matched in the Boston urban area, but the Enlightened seem to be the stronger team in New England currently.)
Still was a great (though hot!) day of downtown wandering and high-level gameplay. Got to spend time with old friends and meet some new teammates. And we're still able to corral Eris into going along, as long as we bring some distractions and snacks. Actually, she seems to be interested in the game now, enough that she wants to play it herself. Even (especially?) when I'm in the middle of some of the trickier mechanics. It's adorable, though. "Ingess!"
The team afterparty was at No Name Restaurant, an old-school seafood restaurant down in the Seaport. I'd wanted to go there for a while, but had not gotten around to it.
On the way back, ended up at Figment, an art and music festival on the lawn at Dewey Square (just across from South Station). Fun times with night owl kid, she was up and dancing until 10, and then still somehow wide awake all the way home.
Played more Ingress on Sunday. Niantic has taken to following the live events with more relaxed "Mission Days", which are more of an individual, at-your-own-pace challenge focusing on the in-game "missions" (which are sort of little structured meanders or tours). I did that with Eris in tow; Julie bowed out to do work. Wandered through downtown, stopped to ride the merry-go-round at the Puerto Rico festival fair at City Hall Plaza, saw some of the festival parade. We had a late lunch with fellow Ingress players at the Bell in Hand, then went to the aquarium (with another merry-go-round ride on the Greenway). After the Aquarium, Eris got in the stroller, fell sound asleep in five seconds, and was out for nearly two hours.
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Mid-week had a team fun offsite in Provincetown, which was great. (The last time my team did that I was somewhat distracted as I was right in the middle of buying a house, so it was nice to just be able to relax this time!) We took a tour of the dunes, which were beautiful, and we had a lovely lunch on the beach!
And this past weekend was very eventful, since the latest Ingress Anomaly was in Boston!
The main competition was Saturday afternoon. The gameplay for those live events keeps getting better and better, so the game was pretty interesting throughout. It was a victory for the green team, too. Though a bit lopsided; I wish more of the blue team could have made it out to Boston! (The teams are pretty evenly matched in the Boston urban area, but the Enlightened seem to be the stronger team in New England currently.)
Still was a great (though hot!) day of downtown wandering and high-level gameplay. Got to spend time with old friends and meet some new teammates. And we're still able to corral Eris into going along, as long as we bring some distractions and snacks. Actually, she seems to be interested in the game now, enough that she wants to play it herself. Even (especially?) when I'm in the middle of some of the trickier mechanics. It's adorable, though. "Ingess!"
The team afterparty was at No Name Restaurant, an old-school seafood restaurant down in the Seaport. I'd wanted to go there for a while, but had not gotten around to it.
On the way back, ended up at Figment, an art and music festival on the lawn at Dewey Square (just across from South Station). Fun times with night owl kid, she was up and dancing until 10, and then still somehow wide awake all the way home.
Played more Ingress on Sunday. Niantic has taken to following the live events with more relaxed "Mission Days", which are more of an individual, at-your-own-pace challenge focusing on the in-game "missions" (which are sort of little structured meanders or tours). I did that with Eris in tow; Julie bowed out to do work. Wandered through downtown, stopped to ride the merry-go-round at the Puerto Rico festival fair at City Hall Plaza, saw some of the festival parade. We had a late lunch with fellow Ingress players at the Bell in Hand, then went to the aquarium (with another merry-go-round ride on the Greenway). After the Aquarium, Eris got in the stroller, fell sound asleep in five seconds, and was out for nearly two hours.
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
comments are there.