Jeff's ACWW Blog

Kiki was still sick, so I gave her some medicine for the 5th straight time! Maybe it’s time to admit she’s dying and just say goodbye. After she drank the medicine, she said she could feel the toxins draining from her body.

But then she said, maybe it’s just the snot! 😮 OMG, Kiki!

I found Dr. Shrunk in town, and he taught me the blankness emotion. It’s the emotion where the wind blows and a brown leaf blows by. It’s the same emotion that’s called “cold chill” in New Leaf, and “disinterest” in City Folk. I wonder why they keep changing the name. *blank face*

Summer nights are good for bug-catching, so I kept my eyes out for new bugs. I ended up catching four new kinds: a fruit beetle, a saw stag beetle, an elephant beetle, and a hercules beetle!

Since it was raining, I also did some fishing…mainly hoping to find a coelacanth. I never caught one, but I catch one new fish: a puffer fish.

I also fished out four pieces of trash! That included an old boot, an old tire, and two old tin cans. I put it all into the recycle bin at town hall.

While I was there, I also made a 20,000 bell mortgage payment.

Anyway, I took my new catches over to the museum. Five new donations is a really good night, right? But it got better…

I only found one fossil in town tonight. But that one fossil turned out to be a parasaur skull. Not only did that complete the parasaur, but it completed the entire fossil exhibit at the museum!

This is only the first section of the museum to be completed, but I’m still quite happy to be done with it. The other sections will likely take many months, and maybe even years for the art collection. But all in all, I’d say it was a pretty good night. 🙂

I was surprised to find Lyle outside my house today as I started up the game. He had some questions for me. First, he asked what day I’d prefer Crazy Redd to visit. Saturday wasn’t an option, so I picked Tuesday. He then started asking some grim questions about insurance.

After answering his questions, he told me I needed insurance right now.

He told me it would just cost me 3,000 bells. Since I don’t see how insurance would do any good in a video game (especially one in which you can’t actually get sick or die), I said no. So he said he would knock the price down to 3,000 bells (the same price) and asked me again. I said no, and he just kept repeating the same shtick. Over and over, I said no. Ten times!

Clearly the game was forcing me to buy it, so I had no choice. He stole my money. I never really understood while people seemed to hate Lyle, but now I get it. He’s a thief.

Anyway, July is here now. So there are new types of insects and fish available. While I didn’t do a whole lot of fishing and bug-catching, I did do a little. My new catches included an evening cicada, a sweetfish, and a walkingstick.

Kiki was still sick, so I gave her medicine once again. But she needs to get over it already.

The flea market was held today, and Hopper told me to peruse his priceless artifacts. I thought he was going for alliteration until he said artifacts.

He should have said “peruse my priceless possessions, promptly.” 😛 But he wasn’t interested in selling me his fish, so I just left.

A message posted on the bulletin board said that the rainy season will end by mid-July.

I ran into Rod by the museum, and he told me I could always talk to him if I have any issues. “After all, we’re photo pals,” he said. That’s pretty cool.

Inside the museum, I donated my new catches. Blathers informed me that the sweetfish is not actually sweet, and still tastes fishy.

I wrapped up my evening at town hall, where I made a 30,000 bell mortgage payment.

Here’s my latest Wild World video, showing some of the more interesting happenings since March.

I spotted a new house in town, and Rhonda the rhino was inside. I’m not a big fan of hers, as I knew her quite well back in Animal Crossing: City Folk.

By the way, if you rearrange the letters in Rhonda, you get “da horn.” I just hope she doesn’t use that horn on me.

Kiki was still sick, so I took her some medicine for the third straight time. At least she said something different this time: She said she no longer feels like she’s going to pass out.

Many of my villagers were talking about the flea market coming up on Saturday. I don’t think it’s all that exciting, to be honest.

I saw the new Message of the Week on the bulletin board, and it’s a good one. It says a friend in need is a friend indeed…and an enemy in need is hilarious. 😀

When I visited Baabara, she talked about the weather. She said it was getting cold…and then she told me to shear her! Wouldn’t it make more sense to shear you when it’s hot? 😛 Of course that’s just her catchphrase. 😛

It would be funny if I actually could shear her, though. I bet she’d look so much smaller without all that wool! Ewe could hardly recognize her.