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Part 20
Saturday, April 1, 2000: Well, the heating/air conditioning people came yesterday and took care of the broken pipe next door that poured water into at least four apartments! We got off pretty lucky, compared to others, just having one closet flooding (which we caught early, moved stuff out of, and kept mopping up) and water constantly running down on a kitchen counter (which I kept sopping up with paper towels). Later in the day the steam-cleaning people came to take care of several apartments' carpeting. Jackie is still a marutchi, sleeping until 9am. I think he will change today, into his next form, because his discipline is now up to 100%. 9:23am: Jackie must've either transformed during the night (does
this happen?!) or else right after waking up, when I was briefly out of the room! He's now
a cute little tamatchi 10:51pm: I have been trying for a mametchi with Jackie, not letting him have to beep for food or play or anything. But this afternoon, while he and I were listening to the Japanese "Team Rocket Forever" CDsingle, I wasn't paying attention which icon was lit up. I thought I was going to check his stats, but instead I accidentally scolded him! Eep! I hope I am not on the road to getting yet *another* masktchi...!
Tuesday, April 4, 2000: Yes! Jackie turned into a mametchi at 10:16am today! Yay! I was trying
for one, being really really careful to anticipate his every need.
Wednesday, April 5, 2000: Jackie has been spending a lot of time sitting in the Tamagotchi Easy Chair (that's Wild Thang in the picture),
here by the computer, while I surf or chat or work on these pages. He's been reading along
with me, via remote viewing (see Aug. 14, 1997 entry),
Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker (he wasn't
here to read the previous two books in this excellent sorta-time-travel series,
In The Garden of Iden and
Sky Coyote). And he's been hearing
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (yet another
wonderful DiscWorld novel!) as Cat'r reads that aloud (doing all the voices!). Jackie's
been watching TV with us: "Pokemon", "The X Files", the Reds Opening
Day baseball game (sound turned off, radio on!--rained-out 3-3 tie ballgame against
Minnesota), "Titus", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and
"Angel". He's also seen one episode on tape of "Red Dwarf". He's been
listening to music of various kinds,
Friday, April 7, 2000: The
Mouse House is back up and ready for business!
I hope we don't get any scary big storms today...the weather people can be so hyper sometimes. I wonder if I should pause Jackie?... 10:35pm: Raining raining...but so far (*knock on wood*) no scary severe weather. :-) Jackie has been watching "Cowboy Bebop" with us. It's a rather more shonen anime than we usually watch, but it has gorgeous animation and is very stylishly done.
Sunday, April 9, 2000: Da
mouse has been keeping really weird hours lately and didn't get up until 11:30am this
morning (Jackie, however, awoke at his usual 9am). Then I didn't
remember to *check* on Jackie until 12:43pm--eep! He had a pile of poop by him, he was
sick, and his happy and hungry hearts were down to only 1 each! I got him all fixed up,
though, and was a lot more careful for the rest of the day. In fact, Jackie got to go
*out* today! He got to ride in the car, see lots of beautiful flowers (especially tulips
of the most gorgeous shades!), the pale soft feathery green of the trees just starting to
leaf out, the blue sky and sunshine, and all. I also held him up so he could watch the
road ahead, which is not as disorienting as watching out the side car window ::grin:: He
went to a record store with us, and was out several times when I checked on his status and
also fed him at one point. Da mouse found *three* Chieftains CDs that she wanted! Then
more driving and looking around for Jackie; then going into a large supermarket in search
of Ben & Jerry's ice cream! Finally we headed home. I tried to show Jackie LOTS of
things, so he would have a lot to talk about when he gets home to Planet Tamagotchi.
Tuesday, April 11, 2000: Argh--today I was really neglectful of Jackie. ::looking ashamed:: It's not like I had a really good excuse either. I left him in the other room while I was on the computer and just lost track of *time* (the first time). All his hearts were empty, plus he had called for me and I hadn't even heard him. I quickly fed him and played games. Then later I was doing some reorganizing of the medicine cabinet, and Jackie was in the other room. You guessed it: his hearts all emptied out, he called for me, and I didn't hear him. And again, when I discovered him, I quickly fed him and played games with him. At least neither time he had to sit in poop. :-) Well, Cat'r picked up a copy of the Pokemon Trading
Card Game for GameBoy
Wednesday, April 12, 2000: ::mousie changes her mind:: I had second thoughts about Cat'r returning my copy
of Pokemon Trading Card Game for GameBoy. I
decided to give it and myself another try.
Jackie is starting to lose hearts a little more rapidly than he was...This afternoon he ran out of hungry hearts and had to call me while I was playing the Pokemon TCG for GB--oop! This morning he got to hear lots of different Celtic music: the Rankins, the Chieftains, even some of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Thursday, April 13, 2000: Jackie mostly watched me playing the Pokemon TCG for GameBoy today.
::grin:: Time flies, etc. Cat'r got me the Official Nintendo Player's Guide
for the Pokemon Trading Card Game for Game Boy today. I haven't had a chance to look at it
very thoroughly, but it will definitely be helpful. And I *finally* got around to getting
my Jungle booster cards out of
Friday, April 14, 2000: Well,
Jackie went home this morning. I didn't really expect it until
tomorrow...But last night I let him go to sleep with only 2 hearts full on each meter; and
then this morning I was still asleep when he woke up at 9am (I was up LATE, online, then
reading, then playing Pokemon TCG for GB). His happy and hungry hearts must've emptied
out, he must've called me, and of course I didn't hear him. What I *did* hear (which woke
me up finally), at 9:57am, was the steady long beep of his getting ready to leave. My
clock radio had been playing music since 9am, but I tend to just ignore it. :-p Anyway,
there was music on the radio (I don't remember exactly...maybe "Listen to the Rhythm
of the Falling Rain"...?), I had time to make my farewells to Jackie, then he left an
egg and became an angel (or left his angel? I am never clear on this). He was 17 years
old. I'm glad he got to do lots of things while he was here so that he will have lots to
tell about when he gets home to Planet Tamagotchi.
Saturday, April 15: 2000: I
am not sure about how long it takes a Tam to get back to Planet Tamagotchi once he leaves
Earth. I suppose it could be instantaneous; or it could take quite some time. Just in case
Jackie was still en route, I took his little egg into the living
room last night so that he could watch "Iron Chef" (Girls' Festival Battle last
night!) with us, for some "in-flight entertainment".
I put up some pieces of
Sunday, April 16, 2000: I
have gotten back into Pokemon Trading Cards! I had the four original Base Set theme decks
(Brushfire, Overgrowth, Zap!, and Blackout) plus boosters for them; and I had the two
Jungle theme decks (Water Blast and Power Reserve), plus boosters for them. Yesterday, in
the early afternoon, I ordered the two Fossil theme decks (BodyGuard and LockDown), plus a
few Fossil booster packs, directly from Wizards of the Coast, at their online store. Then
later, when I tried to go back, their store was unavailable (they were updating it). So I
found a nearby hobby shop that had the Base Set 2 decks and got all four of *them* (Grass
Chopper, Lightning Bug, Psych Out, and Hot Water), plus a few Base 2 booster packs!
Woohoo! The one thing I noticed as I went through the Base Set 2 cards is that they are
not as richly coloured as the 1st Edition cards are. They seem "washed out". I
noticed this difference especially with my Magikarp cards, but on a lot of others too.
Anyway, in the Pokemon Trading Card Game for GameBoy, I had been having a *terrible* time trying to win against my rival, Ronald, after winning against the leader of the Fire Club. Finally I looked at the setup of my Zap! deck and made a deck inside the GB game that was almost the same, and *beat* Ronald! Yay! (that's where I am now: I have gotten medals from the Grass Club and the Fire Club so far). On the VP front: Pikachu
is *still* with me! ::grin:: He is very happy with me. When he gets less enthralled with
me, I swing him in time to some music and give him lots of watts, and then we are all
hunky-dory again. still Sunday, April 16, 2000: I started up a little U.S. Tamagotchi Angel this afternoon! I started him up at 3:17pm, and he evolved into a maruten at 4:27pm. I will try to keep better track of when things happen this time. This is the first U.S. Tam Angel I have raised--last time I raised one it was a Japanese Angelgotchi. You can watch Chazz's progress on the new page I made for the U.S. Tam Angel. I am raising him via the "Tamagotchi autonomy" method, first put forth by Aurora Minui. It's a lot less nerve-fraying than hovering/coddling; and I have finally come to believe that the coddled Tams *do* end up more spoiled and selfish! Anyway, I am trying for any character other than the Twin Angels. ::grin:: Oh yes, Chazz got to watch "Iron Chef" (it's on Food Network, if you get that channel) with us this evening at 7pm--it was the Broccoli Battle! Food Network is now running "Iron Chef" *three* nights a week. (Yay!) It's their second most popular program!
Monday, April 17, 2000: Chazz evolved into a kodoten at 4:27pm, exactly 24 hours after he evolved into a maruten. I have been using the relaxed "Tamagotchi autonomy" parenting method, and so far it's a lot less stressful for me. If Chazz has called me selfishly, I have not been in the room to hear it. He got to visit with the stuffed animals in the bedroom while I watched a special called "Dial H for Hitchcock" on the Encore channel on TV in the living room this afternoon. Fascinating program! Other than that, I have had him with me, but he didn't call, except for a time or two for food and games. still Monday, April 17th: Around 5pm or so I thought I'd try to see if what Aurora Minui said about turning lights out on the Tam Angels made them sick: it does. I was kind of surprised that turning them out for just a second, then turning them back on makes the Tam Angel sick enough to need 2...love arrows?! (looks like a bow and arrow to *me* for medicine). So, um, to be sure, I tried once again, and of course Chazz got sick again, so I healed him again. As to why he went to sleep with almost all his hearts empty: several sites say that the kodoten goes to sleep at 9pm, so I was waiting until Chazz beeped at me for food and playing. But before he could do that, he went to sleep! At 8pm! Oh well!
Tuesday, April 18, 2000: Woohoo!
At exactly 4:27pm Chazz evolved into ::drumroll!:: a
ginjiro-tenshi! Yayayayay! I have only gotten any
form of ginjirotchi twice ever before: in my U.S. GameBoy
Tamagotchi game (Cedric, who is currently in statis) and in my Yasashii Tamagotchi (Cozy Feathercushion) [note made March 5, 2002:
hmm. Does this mean that only Tamagotchi whose names begin with "C" can become a
ginjirotchi??]. Chazz looks so happy and cheerful! I hope he'll be around for a while. And
now that he's an adult, maybe he will make that little sound that will let me know he's
praying, so that I can praise him.
Thursday, April 20, 2000: More
woohoo-ing!! Da mouse got to talk on the phone with Chazz has been watching
TV with us; reading along with me in a book called
Juniper,
Gentian, and Rosemary by Pamela Dean (neat book!); and sitting in the lap of
luxury, erm, I mean the lap of Lime (a lovely soft lime-green teddy bear, named after my
favourite Saber Marionette), here by my computer, while I have been online (surfing,
reading and writing email, chatting, reading news, etc.!). Also, Chazz's Deeds meter has
been going up! Two mornings in a row I have found him praying, so I was able to praise
him! :-) So far I find having him around very easy. I don't know how it will be as
he gets older and will require more care...but I am definitely enjoying his stay here at
present.
Saturday, April 22, 2000: Chazz is spinning and twirling right along! He reached 100% on his Deeds meter yesterday! Yay! He got to go shopping yesterday...well, sorta. Cat'r and I went to a record store, then my favourite bookstore/cafe. But it was a (beautiful!) grey, rainy, chilly day, so I had Chazz in a little suedecloth pouch in my purse. And I ended up not buying anything (surprise!)--well, I didn't find the specific CD I was looking for. Anyway, I forgot to ever get Chazz out of my purse while we were out of the house! Oh well! I'd better give Pikachu some steps today--he's not very happy with me (not at the SHOCK! level yet, though). I have sorta forgotten about him in the last few days. ::looking ashamed::
Sunday, April 23, 2000: Chazz left this morning at 11:01am...Well, let me back up and talk about things chronologically. Yesterday morning I was online early, doing various
things. Then I went to have breakfast; and when I got back to my computer, it was DEAD. I
turned everything off, tried booting again: nothing. So I turned it all off and went back
to bed for a while (I had been up late the night before). Cat'r came over after a while
and pronounced that the power supply (in the computer) "[was] toast". So he took
it out, went out to buy another one, then put the new one in. It sounds easy; but there
were wires everywhere and things in there in very twisty, tight positions. But it's
working again! Yay! And no data was lost or anything!
Today: I didn't get up early, like I had
planned--got to bed late *again*, so I slept until 10am. Chazz
called me; but I thought, "Oh, I'll get to him in a few minutes" and put his egg
on the nightstand. When I checked him at 11:01am, he was looking sad and waving at me. I
pushed a button (only one would work), there was a long-shot of a tiny point of light
ascending into the heavens, then it went to the final screen of an entire SKY full of
twinkling points of light and stars. Bye-bye, Chazz! You have taken your place among the
other angels and all the stars! I sure do miss you...you didn't stay long. Oh well, I
guess you were eager to get to your Celestial Virtual Home! Happy Easter!
Thoughts on Tam raising styles and results: I am not sure how I feel about the autonomous parenting style. It's definitely easier on the *parent/guardian*, and helps get you different Tam forms you wouldn't get via the "coddling" method. However, perhaps I should've been more coddling with Chazz once he reached his adult form, so that he would've stayed around longer. ::sniffle:: 'Tis a puzzlement: if you coddle them, the Tams stay at home with you forEVER; but they are so spoiled and selfish, you wish they would just LEAVE! If you give them autonomy, they are much easier to raise, are easier to be around, but tend to leave you a lot sooner. ::sigh:: still Sunday, April 23d: I missed having a little Tam around, what with Chazz
leaving a lot sooner than I thought he would. So I started up a little Japanese Tam2 this
afternoon, named Esther.
Tuesday, April 25, 2000: Esther turned into a cute little tongaritchi at 5:28pm today. I
missed one of the times to discipline her when she was a tonmarutchi, so I have a sinking
feeling she may become a zukitchi, the Tam2 equivalent of the masktchi (I get this
form--masktchi/zukitchi--very very often). Oh well, we'll just see.
Wednesday, April 26, 2000: I
paused Esther from 12noon today until 6pm, because I was having
company over and knew I wouldn't be paying good enough attention to catch any
"selfish" calls she might make. Da mouse went out to a park and took photos of
flowers this afternoon--lovely weather for it! Hope they come out good. I am thinking
about putting up some pages of seasonal photographs I've taken.
Music Esther has been listening to in the last couple days, along with me: "Santiago" by The Chieftains and "Building the Colossus" by Happy Rhodes. Click the picture at right to see the cover of the CD larger.
Friday, April 28, 2000: Esther is still a tongaritchi, probably because I paused her those
6 hours. But she got sick-for-no-reason early this afternoon, so it won't be too very
Saturday, April 29, 2000: Esther turned into a hashizotchi at 12:31pm today! Yay! still Saturday, the 29th: Esther, along with Teddy (my Mr. Bean teddy bear) and the rest of us in the house, watched Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (VERY tense movie! really good!). Then we all watched this morning's new Pokemon episode I had taped. Then Teddy went to talk about the movie to other people in the bedroom, while the rest of us watched last night's "Iron Chef" episode: Lobster Battle! Very exciting battle! (da mouse will not reveal who wins in these, as one never knows who might be reading this and if their country is just starting to air the episodes).
Sunday, April 30, 2000: I hope I am not doing the wrong thing by coddling Esther more--I just want her to stay as long as she can. A little while ago, at 7pm, I found her sick; and I know I have given her very few snacks. ::sigh:: I wanted her to stay at least until she is in her teens...
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with 50% discipline.
DotComGuy this evening!! 
This is a form of adult Tam I
have never gotten before! She is soooo cute, especially when she's playing the
guess-the-number game. I thought she was going to remain a perpetual teenager, but she
changed into a loveably cute adult, finally.
