Category: Notes
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Source: TOP 10 BOOKS FROM UNDERGRAD IN HISTORY | philosophy, journalism, political theory by Ruby Hart Ruby is an undergraduate student of history offering her top ten book recommendations. These selections include fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and philosophy. Her approach is to offer books that reflect a diverse approach to understanding history. I felt these were…
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With no weekly or membership missions available until tomorrow, I’m doing the absolute bare minimum today. I have other things to work on all of a sudden. Kind of an underwhelming first recruit today, although I really do like the female Meowstic. I really like the Sylveon, too, but I’ll take Meowstic here and recruit…
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Quotes from the book: Benjamin Hoff and His Conclusion on What We Can Learn from Pooh Corner: “Within each of us there is an owl, a rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes…
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I’ve always liked these big idea books, suggested by RJ of the flourishing actually, because they do what they suggest. While I gave away Star Trek book, as I didn’t really get anything out of it, the movie book and Sherlock Holmes books were enjoyable though. I didn’t care for some of the film selections.…
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While I will continue playing this game, I’m taking a step back for a bit and just doing daily quests and a battle here and there for completing goals. I will say I acquired an Eelektross through pokemon home wonder trade and GTS shenanigans, so we have a future mega eelektross to enjoy. I’ll be…
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I’m going to be doing the bare minimum today. Maybe for the next few. As much as I love Pokemon, my headspace just isn’t into the high-level competition of double battles right now. So, this will be a compilation of a few days worth of Champions recruitment and very short notes of battle results. I’m…
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Woke up early and got ready for my day at 5am; at least I slept this time for the most part. It’s now 6am, and I’m just going to do my daily stuff on Champions for now because Mongil Star Dive just came out and I want to spend some time on that. But we…
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After the crazy day we had yesterday, today I want to focus on getting some of our weekly quests done with our singles team. Then, of course, we will go back to our 2-0 Meta Team. Also I wanted to say, Wolfey broke mega Drampa: https://youtu.be/zZERi6o97Hg?si=MuCp4ow1VYYp4NX- Supporting it are Sinistcha and… inner focus dual screens…
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On Bad Feelings as Messengers: “Stress, unhappiness, anxiety, and depression are not bad things. They are not human malfunctions. Quite the opposite, they are proof that everything is working as it should. They come to us as messengers, to tap us on the shoulder and point out that our lives have slipped out of alignment.” …
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I made an interesting discovery: I do have a Sinistcha on Violet. So, now I just need to fix it and there’s my first Trick Room setter. That just leaves Pelipper and Sneasler to spin the recruit ranch wheel for now. And I also have an Armor Tail Farigiraf. Again needs to be trained better,…
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This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, and certainly the best on economics. I thought Morgan Housel’s book was good, but this one went so much deeper and more in depth about the real problems facing our world. And I agree with about 95 percent of what she says,…
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Yes, I love Taylor Swift. She is one of my absolute heroes. If you have a problem with it, well, I can’t help you… Quotes from the book Rob Sheffield on His First Impressions of Her 1989 Album: “The songs were great—they were Swift songs—but each one made it harder to comprehend why she was…
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I remember having much more extensive notes on this book, but I still have plenty of quotes. Paul Goodman on Abstractions: “The buoyant abstractions, spoken as if miracles were for the asking, ward off pain and uneasy conscience when one is no longer going to try to do anything practical.” Paul Goodman on Absurd Ideas:…
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I’ve thrown winning with just recruits out the window. I’m just too impatient. I went to bring in my Delphox just to get the stone, but actually, I forgot I had transferred it in before and forgot to look at my items. Anyway, I also am bringing my Tyranitar, Emboar, Aegislash, and Tyranitar from ZA.…
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I decided to take it easy today after taking the rest of the day off yesterday due to physical health ailments. We have some recruitment to do. I also happened to find a Manectric on Home that has previously visited champions. Curious to see what happens when I import it to my game. First order…
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I’m reading E.B. White’s Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976, edited by Rebecca M. Dale. First, I’ll read the introduction by Dale. Rebecca Dale worked on an independent study project at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1988, where she read all of E.B. White’s New Yorker work. This book is a result of collecting many pieces…
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Time to bring in the big guns! They aren’t perfect to start with but from Violet we’re bringing in Meowscarada, Palafin, Shiny Garchomp, and Shiny Incineroar. From ZA, we’re getting my Charizard for a Solar Power wallbreaker; this way I have two charizards each optimized for the different mega stones. I could bring in my…
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After that horrible run of luck, I did indeed take the entire rest of the day off… from Pokemon entirely. I managed to reset my sleep schedule back to normal too, but I was sluggish and didn’t get back to the game until later in the morning today. The good news is, we can’t do…
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I’m digging into Culture Crash, the killing of the creative class, by the late Scott Timberg. One of his early points: We are often caught in the shockwave of current events, if we are so unfortunate to be caught in the wake of their aftermath. This is why I’ve made the conscious choice to remain…
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Back to the Singles Game Clearly the doubles environment is getting pretty powerful, and we’re just not competing on the same level yet. Just as I hoped, we’re facing a basic starter team. Can Rotom Wash, Empoleon, and Dragapult steal us a victory here? I’m not even bringing a Mega, this is more of a…