a splendid day, with pokemon :)

[mizkit]

Indy and I had a splendid day today.

We stopped at the local Pokemon gym and claimed it on the way home from school, and walked enough candies to evolve our Abra into a Kadabra, which was pretty darn exciting. He did his chores and homework cooperatively, and we went through ALL our Pokemon and found our Grimer only needed ONE CANDY to evolve. So

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[klwilliams]

I'm so glad you can do that with your son.

[mizkit]

Me too!

[desperance]

Wait, he's what, how old? And he gets homework already? (Kindly point out to his school that I had no homework of any kind before secondary school at age eleven, and I turned out smarter than your average weasel.)

[mizkit]

They start giving homework here immediately, on the logic that it'll develop the habit early and they'll be good at it/used to it/less complainy/more compliant/in the habit by the time they're old enough to need to do "real" homework.

Judging from my 12 and 14 year old nephews, this is a total failure as a strategy.

[tersa]

And then Indy slept the sleep of the utterly knackered, The End?

:)

[mizkit]

Right up until the mouse in the walls woke him up at 2:30am, yeah. :}

[mizkit]

*laughs helplessly* I did realize, as I was writing it, that it held a certain degree of total incomprehensibility. :)

[green_knight]

That sounds like a fun day. And I now know about the buddy system (which the Pokemon app does not tell you about), and have set a Magicarp to be my buddy, because dammit, 340 candy, 60 to go, and that's with me living on a canal feeder and getting some of the little blighters at home.

Yesterday, I saw my first Snorlax. Managed to catch him briefly, before he vanished, and I just needed to share this with someone who understands.

[mizkit]

You are at least the second person who has learned about the buddy system from me! I'm surprised by this!

We caught a Snorlax on like the second day of the game, so for a while I had no idea they were so rare. I hope you catch yours again!