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Part 3
Monday, Sept. 1, 1997: Today was a holiday in the USA (Labor Day). We played various board and card games ("Give Me The Brain", a trivia game, and a Monopoly variant), and Meep was there in the thick of it! S/he got to have some hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, and other things for hir supper; and s/he watched more "Black Adder" and "Sailor Moon" along with us. :-)
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1997: Meep turned into a zuki-chi this afternoon!
Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997: Meep was asleep when we got up at 4am this morning to watch Princess Diana's funeral...In fact, now that s/he is a zuki-chi, s/he sleeps until 11am in the morning. So Stutzie, who has seen election returns, Inaugural Addresses, and other major things with me, kept me company as we watched one of the most moving and beautiful and sad events of our time...Meep got to watch a special on Princess Diana and a bit about the day's events this evening.
Sunday, Sept. 7, 1997: EEEEEEK! I was too engrossed in the (rather upsetting) movie "Fargo" (free preview on Showtime premium channel), that I missed Meep's bedtime! S/he is now asleep with poop by hir futon and almost-empty hearts :-(
Monday, Sept. 8, 1997: Well, I think I have blown my chances at getting the secret character with Meep :-/ I cleaned everything up this morning as soon as Meep woke up; but then I took a nap in the early afternoon and was awakened by Meep beeping, hir happy hearts all empty! ::sigh:: This afternoon I hatched
Spike, my little Hitorikko chicken!
Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1997: After Meep went to sleep tonight at 11pm, I put hir on pause (I told hir that s/he would get to "sleep in" tomorrow). I have never done this with a Tamagotchi before; but I am going to have a busy day tomorrow, I have Spike to contend with (and I *don't* know how to pause *him*), and Meep has been needing attention pretty often lately.
Thursday, Sept. 11, 1997: My birthday today! Spike got to listen to Carl Orff's "Trionfo di
Afrodite" and then Beethoven's 7th Symphony this morning. He got to watch
Meep slept from 11pm last night until 5:15pm today. S/he seems none the worse for wear from this :-) Among all the really neat birthday presents I got, I received 3 new virtual pets! They are: Smart-pet's Super Puppy; My Baby Bat; and Lovely Bear (it's a teddy bear!). As I play with these, I will put pictures of the cases and their inhabitants on my Web site.
Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997: I *had* been keeping Meep's weight around 35 grams; but it's getting pretty stressful to have to play games with hir every 25 minutes or 1/2 hour. So I've just given hir snacks, mostly, and hir weight has ballooned up to 88 grams. As you can tell, s/he's needing food and attention quite often, so that means s/he's probably going back to hir home planet soon :-( 6:20pm:
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1997: My little Hitorikko "chicken", Spike,
died rather suddenly this afternoon. One minute he was looking at VikiMouse's Mouse House
(it's somewhere at the MousePad, but I can't find
it now!) with me (we were surfing the Web); then a little musical beeping happened, and
there, in the place of the little mametchi-almost-look-alike, was a little angel's face
with a halo and wings. I tried a couple buttons and accidentally started another egg, so I
can't even see my little Spike as an angel :-( He was 8 years old. Bye-bye, little Spike!
I hope you enjoyed learning all about Klondike solitaire and watching lots of "Sailor
Moon" and "Black Adder" and listening to music and most of all Web-surfing
:-)
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1997: This afternoon late I hatched Blueberry Muffin. He was hatched during a "group hatching" by several people on the tamagotchi-l mailing list. We all synchronized our hatchings to 5:45pm edt. :-) I am hoping to raise a ginjiro-chi!
Monday, Sept. 22, 1997: As George in the 4th "Black Adder" series said,
"Well, cover me with eggs and flour and bake me for fourteen minutes. Who'd have
thought it, eh?" Blueberry Muffin became a masuku-chi! ::sigh:: I was trying so hard
to get a new (to me) character, such as a ginjiro-chi or a kutchipa-chi. Oh well. The one
thing I want to be sure to do is NOT have any expectations for Muffin to become a secret
character. Whenever I start doing that, I stop enjoying the Tam for its cute self. At
least Muffin (or shall I start calling him Blue, which might be more in keeping with his
adult spy-like personality?) will be sleeping late, which will be all right by *me* :-)
Tamagotchi images copyright Bandai | Photo of Stutz Beary-Bear copyright 1997-2008 Joanna M. Phillips | Background by Eos Development | Periwinkles and music notes by Vikimouse | Blue buttons by Jelane |
me sell my ChromAharP (pictured on
the left) and my Appalachian dulcimer (here are some McSpadden dulcimers--mine was made by
Homer Ledford, but the hourglass one on the right is very similar to 
Meep and I
were dancing to music on the soundtrack of the movie "Michael". First we danced
to "Through Your Hands" (by John Hiatt, as sung by Don Henley...although I first
heard this done by Joan Baez). Then we were really getting down to "Chain of
Fools" by Aretha Franklin. And then the steady beeping started and the death's-head
appeared. So I let the music play, said my farewells, and let Aretha carry Meep on home.
::sniffle:: As s/he left, s/he smiled broadly, left me an egg, and is now a little wispy
spirit floating above a gravestone (Japanese Tams are a bit different from US Tams). I
will miss you, little floaty one! Please say nice things about me to your friends and
family on Planet Tamagotchi! 
