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Leveling the Mystic

Myriam Jahzia, the Mystic, is a crafter that players could unlock in the Reaper of Souls expansion. The purpose of the Mystic is to enable players to transmogrify their items.

The other, perhaps more useful, purpose of the Mystic is to let players change an affix on their weapon, armor, or jewelry (and hopefully end up with a better affix than they started with.)

When I play a Season, I almost always do it in Adventure mode. I try to level the Mystic as quickly as I can. Doing so causes me to miss out on the beautiful artwork that Blizzard created for every level of the Mystic. There are a lot of details to see!

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Waiting Indefinitely

It’s been more than a month since I had my third, and final, disability hearing. I understand that disability judges aren’t known for their speedy decision making abilities, and that there were four holidays between when I had the hearing and today (Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve).

I get it. I’m trying to be patient.

I’m having trouble waiting for an indefinite amount of time for an answer that will either make my life a bit easier – or that will make it significantly harder to struggle through. I can’t move on until I know which way things will go, and I refuse to let my hopes go up for fear of them crashing to the floor and shattering into a thousand pieces when the mail finally arrives.

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Flight Rising, Other Video Games 1

Flight Rising: Blazing Goblin

Flight Rising is a fun game where players get to control a Lair full of dragons. Each dragon can have its very own Familiar (which is sort of like a pet for your dragons). You can collect treasure by clicking on the Familiars every day.

There are special holiday festivals every month where players can obtain special Familiars. The 2016 Flameforger’s Festival took place at the end of August of 2016. It honors the Fire Flight. The Blazing Goblin was the special Familiar for that festival.

All of the artwork in this post is copyright of Flight Rising.

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Candy Crush Saga, Other Video Games 0

Candy Crush Saga: Delicious Drifts

Episode 18 of Candy Crush Saga is called Delicious Drifts. It features a Polar Bear who is sad because the fish he wanted to eat is frozen inside a block of ice. It makes sense that a Polar Bear would want to eat a fish. This little story line works better than the one in the previous Episode of Candy Crush Saga.

The little girl drops by and asks, “Why so down, Mr. Bear?” This makes it clear that the Polar Bear is male.

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The Dwarves, World of Warcraft 0

The Dwarves Enjoy Winter Veil

The Dwarves are Hansbrix the Hunter (and his pet bear, Fridge) and Bradanna the Priest. My husband and I have been playing these two characters together and working our way through Azeroth, zone by zone.

Once in a while, The Dwarves take a moment to enjoy some of the World Events that are happening. This year, we only had a limited amount of time to check out Winter Veil. The screenshots you see in the blog were taken on December 25, 2016.

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Neko Atsume, Other Video Games 0

Neko Atsume: Saint Purrtrick

Saint Purrtrick is one of the “Rare Cats” in Neko Atsume. It is more difficult to get a “Rare Cat” to visit your Neko Atsume yard/home than it is to get the more common cats to visit. The best way to convince a “Rare Cat” to visit is to place an item that the specific cat likes.

Saint Purrtrick will visit you if you put the Kotatsu somewhere in your Neko Atsume yard/home. He also likes the Silk Crepe Pillow. It took a long time before Saint Purrtrick decided to visit me. Fortunately, may other Neko Atsume cats will play with the Kotatsu and the Silk Crepe Pillow.

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Neko Atsume, Other Video Games 0

Neko Atsume: Billy the Kitten

Billy the Kitten is a light orange cat with slightly darker orange strips on its head and body. The cat wears a brown cowboy hat and a red bandanna around its neck. Billy the Kitten touches another, larger, brown cowboy hat that is on the floor with the one paw.

Billy the Kitten is one of the “Rare Cats” in Neko Atsume. The way to attract a “Rare Cat” to your Neko Atsume yard/home is to place an item that a particular special cat likes. Eventually, the cat you are trying to convince to visit you will appear.

Pokémon GO: Festive Pikachu

Niantic introduced a special, limited-edition, Pokémon into Pokémon GO on December 12, 2016. Starting on that date, players could encounter a Pikachu that was wearing a festive hat. It looked like a Santa hat – and it made the already adorable Pikachu even more adorable!

I really wanted to catch at least one of these cute little guys. The event lasted through December 29, 2016. I have limited energy and three chronic illnesses, which make it difficult for me to go outside and walk around for long periods of time. My hope was that I would at least get the opportunity to try and catch one.

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Book Reviews, fiction 0

Things That Never Were – by Matthew Rossi

One of the things I love about books is that they are an excellent place to escape to when the real world seems dark and dire. In Things That Never Were, Matthew Rossi gives the reader plenty of interesting, incredibly detailed, glimpses into what the world might have been like if you take what we know of history, twist it around, and see where it goes from there.

The full title of the book is: Things That Never Were: Fantasies – Lunacies – & Entertaining Lies. I like to think of it as a series of essays that could be described as “intelligent conspiracy theory”. That being said, Rossi is not really trying to convince you that the essays in this book are factual (and this is where he differs greatly from actual conspiracy theorists). These are “things that never were”, after all. ….Right?

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Candy Crush Saga, Other Video Games 0

Candy Crush Saga: Chocolate Barn

Episode 17 of Candy Crush Saga is called Chocolate Barn. It features a cow who is depressed because she can’t make chocolate milk because “nothing is growing”. The farm has plenty of green grass, but the cow needs something else. Once again, the little girl solves the problem.

The story line for Episode 17 is among the strangest ones in Candy Crush Saga. It is unclear if the cow is supposed to be a boy or a girl. It sounds like the cow is actually the farmer of… other cows? I just don’t know.

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