Jeff's ACWW Blog

Static was still sick with a cold tonight, so I gave him some medicine once again.

Crazy Redd was in town again, but he wasn’t of much help to me. That’s because he had the same art (the lovely painting) that he had last week! Since I already have the real one in the museum, I had no need for this one.

Outside of the museum, I listened in on a conversation between Kiki and Baabara. Kiki performed her impression of Baabara…to Baabara! She made fun of how insulting Baabara can be. It was pretty funny.

But then Baabara wanted to do her impression of Kiki. In her mind, Kiki apparently wants to be a “pretty princess” like Baabara! Ha!

Kiki didn’t understand, so Baabara said it was her impression of the “inner” Kiki.

This angered Kiki, and she stormed off, ending the conversation.

After making a 40,000 bell mortgage payment, I headed down to the beach for some fishing and bug-catching. I managed to find one new bug, the giant beetle.

After donating it to the museum, I wrapped up my game for the night.

Big Top had his belongings all packed up in boxes tonight. He was planning on moving out of town, but I made him reconsider.

Static was sick with a cold, so I gave him some medicine. He said I was so nice to him that he regrets calling me names. 😛

It was raining in town, so that limited some of the bugs that appear. But I was still finding some good ones, and one new one: a dynastid beetle. When I went to the museum to donate it, I saw that Blathers had more dialogue once again. Wow, Wild World really does so much for character development and back stories for the non-playable characters (NPCs).

Back when Blathers was at university, he was asked by his professor to help out one day. He had to hand out exams and check for cheaters. But the room got a bit hot, so he opened up a window. That was a mistake, because a fly flew into the room!

Due to his fear of bugs, he couldn’t take his eyes off the fly. He kept grinding his beak, and that eventually gave him a cramp in his face muscles. Poor guy.

Once I had spoken with all of my villagers, I went down to the beach. Going from side to side, I kept an eye out for good fish and bugs. I caught a number of good ones, and when I was done, I was able to make a whopping 65,000 bell payment on my mortgage at town hall.

I returned to the beach to catch a few more bugs and fish, and there I caught a shark! Even though I’ve caught a hammerhead before, this was my first regular shark.

After donating it to the museum, I ended my game for the night. I’d have to say it was a pretty good night. A new bug, a new shark, a large mortgage payment, and I saved Big Top. Now I’m going to go play some Splatoon 2. 🙂

Crazy Redd was in town today (on Tuesday, as I suggested to Lyle). I gained access to his tent by using the password “Redd is 35.” Inside, Redd had a lovely painting for sale. I bought it for 3,920 bells.

When I visited Big Top, he told me not to worry because everybody already chased away “that brown thing.” But I didn’t know what brown thing he meant! Could he be referring to the cocoa-colored thing that was in his can of food last month? Eww!

I caught two new bugs, a brown cicada and a robust cicada. So I headed up to the museum to donate them both. I also gave Blathers the lovely painting, and fortunately, it was the real deal!

When I ran into Baabara outside, she showed me a love letter she got from her secret admirer! It said her shins were like stalks of celery, slathered with peanut butter and raisins! That’s hilarious! 😀

I decided to do some more bug-catching, and after a while, I spotted a birdwing butterfly!

I took it to the museum, and I noticed Blathers had a new story to tell me. He told me about when he first started working a part-time job at the library. Some older books had mold in them, and it was his job to open the books and lie them on the windowsill to dry them out in the sunlight.

He said that some of the reference books get eaten by “book lice.” So to avoid the bugs, he was holding a book by the corners…and he let one rip.

The book, that is. Sounds like a very bad day.

Anyway, even though I’ve been making good progress on my bug collection, it seems that I still need 17 more bugs before my collection is complete. That sounds like such a lot.

At town hall, I made a 30,000 bell mortgage payment. I also found a zipper shirt in the recycle bin, so I took that over to Puddles, since she’s been asking me for new clothes. She enjoyed the shirt, and she gave me “my favorite” thing, mint glasses.

Pretty sure that’s not my favorite thing. Maybe she was thinking of mint chocolate chip ice cream. 😛