Thread:Ancbo/@comment-43541445-20191203192747/@comment-37927318-20191211210923

%Hi Pam. Oh my.. I haven't been on the wiki... sorry for the late response.

Re: length of time playing on SN:   I think one can deduce approximate play start on SN (in general) by which locations are open/or higher level than most others. The list of Hidden Object Locations are in order of release so you can click on one of the locations to see the date of the release. For example, on my game Fall House has been open but is not at virtuoso where Gift Office is in virtuoso. I started on Turkey Day 2018 - too late to get far at Fall House (hence it is still at detective level, but not for long cuz it is at 95%) but I 'learned' at Gift Office so it is at virtuoso. (Early on I competed on leader list for the events but when I figured out the leaderboard is full of mostly cheaters, I began stopping at virtuoso to get the avatars only.)  This method still only leaves one guessing - some people are not playing the events at all - I have several friends who have all the locations open with only a few in virtuoso, so... I know of at least 1 friend who played a year or so, stopped playing for a year, then resumed, so those really do not work there. Only a guess unless you ask the person for fact LOL

Re Magi run: I did not use both of the talis for my Magi run. I understand this no longer works so I did not even try. Still got about 90 sets made and since I only combine sets at end of game quest - or if I need something resulting from combining, I think those should last a long time. I did have over 1k of each RFF when I started tho, and still have over 700. I got a late start on the run just due to Real Life issues blocking when I could carve out a 2 hour stretch.

I saw pics in the news of the smoke smog in Sydney and thought of you. Hope it is better by now and you can change your AC filters easily. I remember the smog in Anchorage when MatSu Valley fires were bad several times. Ugh.

Knee Surgery!!?? Ugh! I feel for you there. When I injured my right knee last March (and the subsequent body collapse to RA resulted) I aggravated an older torn miniscus in my left knee due to favoring the injury. Both I think will never be 'normal' again. Getting old sucks.... but it beats the alternative by miles. I still have my one glass of red wine - with 25mg nortriptylin-  in the hour before I go to bed which helps me sleep most of the time. The cold weather seems to have run the neighbor dogs under the house or something because they have not had all night barking spasms lately (knock on wood).This is looking to be yet another strange 'winter' with erratic temp variations defying the season.

I know the Holidays should improve spirits, but I haven't been able to climb into my attic for decorations or wrapping paper, so... they seem to be just more days same - same.

Coming back from Dr appt  last week I watched a Red-Tailed Hawk lift out of a field (he was about 30 meters from me!) with a pretty large rodent. It was as I was passing in my car and he was facing me so flew off behind me or I would have tried to see where he was going with it. Wow. Lots of Great Blue Herons on the water behind my house lately too. Some egrets as well. They are quite noisy at dusk, maybe marking out their territory for the nights rest from fishing? Sounds like the 'other colony sounds' at the bottom of the call list here https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/great-blue-heron

And of course my owl family still gossips into the night. :-)  Love love love my wildlife.

My wishes for a joyful Holiday Season for you and yours,  and rapid recovery from your surgery with great outcome. Take care my friend. Barbara