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[K-StateFry]

This morning Augst changed into a Horoyotchi(I posted a picture of her in my log), and I once again missed the changing tune, but I knew she had changed when I found her still asleep past 9am.

Now she always is carrying a drink and whatever liquid inside of it is always sloshing over the sides. So heres to hoping she never slips in a big puddle of her beverage.

It has been alot of fun raising her and I look forward to continuing to raise her and, eventually, her daughter. 

[Elana]

  Madoka-san's Fifth Day

I slept in quite late today, but Madoka-san was very forgiving. She hardly lost any hearts during my sleep-in and didn't protest at all.

I went to the gym today, so I had to pause her while I was there. This time I did it very carefully: I set her down on my desk, went to the clock screen, held down A and C until the date was flashing, and didn't touch her again. Indeed, she stayed paused until I got back.

I went over to Luke's for dinner again tonight, and she fell asleep at the table. Adorable. First, of course, she took a bath in her ofuro. It looks like a traditional Japanese ofuro in the animation, because it's quite deep; not like the V2 animation where it looks more like a giant bowl or something. Also, I think on the V2s only teenage characters take baths before bed; adults brush their teeth instead. Am I right? Anyway, her bath has a checkered pattern on the side, like tiles or something. I almost thought it was a futon when I first looked at it.

The traveling salesman kept bringing melons to sell me, and I can't afford them at all. I think they're 1200 Gotchi points or something, and I have less than 700.

I fed Madoka-san onigiri and a hot dog today.

[Elana]

  Madoka-san's Sixth Day

I slept in again this morning, and Madoka-san was just as forgiving. I don't think she lost one heart, actually.

She came with me to work again, but this time as an adult. She and Pink Tama resumed their positions of honour at the cash register. She was a very good girl and always alerted me to her poop. I was able to play the musical notes catching game a bit. It is way too much fun and I always curse when I lose. I was able to buy a cupcake for her from the traveling salesman, but not the second thing that he brought, because it was a trumpet for 1200 Gotchi points.

I fed her a few onigiri, a hot dog, and some pasta today. She got in the car with me in the evening to go to Wal-Mart to check on the 4.5 situation, but fell asleep as soon as the engine started.

[Priestess of Syrinx]

Because of my little complication, Melvin only turned into an adult today. I was hoping for a Mimitchi for my first group hatching at Mimitchi.com, but such was not my luck, for having to raise him while travelling. While he was in my pocket at dinner, he evolved into a Kuchipatchi. I always like having large adult characters, as they take up more screen room, making the screen and entire Tamagotchi look smaller.

Currently, Melvin has all of his Training bars, is 3 yrs old, and 33 lbs.

[Elana]

  Madoka-san's Seventh Day

Madoka-san had only lost one hungry heart when I woke up at 10:30 this morning. I went downstairs to eat some breakfast and while I was eating, the Matchmaker came. I have no adult male Tamagotchis for her to mate with, so I decided to take the Memetchi that she brought. The fireworks song was a little bit different from the North American Tamagotchis that I have - it paused between bars, if that makes any sense. Anyway, she gave birth to a gorgeous baby girl!

I'm a little bit sad, because it means that in two days, Madoka-san will be leaving me. At that point I will merge this log with my 99 generations log. I'm not sure what I should name the girl. I've thought of naming her Midori, which is my middle name, but that's a little bit too close to reality, to have Madoka-san give birth to Midori-chan. What do you guys think?

She came with me to work again. While I was at work, I played the musical notes catching game, and I beat it! I caught a hundred musical notes. I was like "woo hoo!". I got 100 Gotchi points too.

The traveling salesman came by and tried to sell me a balloon and a squid, both of which I already have, so I said no to both.

I fed her lots of onigiri, a hot dog, and a fish.

[Elana]

  Madoka-san's Eighth Day

Madoka-san and her daughter woke up on my nightstand and came with me to work again. They were happily perched on the cash register. It was very cute how synchronized their poops were. Although the daughter pooped more frequently, her poop beep was often followed by a second poop beep of Madoka-san.

It's hard to catch Tamagotchi about to poop when they have a child, because the wiggly lines don't appear - there isn't enough room on the screen. So you have to be watchful of a subtle change of facial expression. I noticed Madoka-san get frowny and tense and got her to poop on the toilet once, which got her an extra happy heart. Then later I saw her daughter get the same face and got her to poop in the little trainer ducky. (Totally TMI in other contexts but I think it's relevant in a Tama log!)

The traveling salesman kept trying to sell me balloons, which I already have.

They ate a ton of onigiri today, because I really only had one proper meal today. So I supplemented the onigiri with hot dogs to represent the atrocious amount of junk food that I consumed.

I beat the musical notes game twice again today. I think I've finally mastered it. Time to move on to the basketball game.

[Elana]

At midnight last night, Madoka-san flew off to join all the other Keitais in the Great Tama Retirement Castle. Now her daughter is on her own. So this brings me to the end of my logs here in the August 4th hatch thread, since it was Madoka-san whom I hatched on August 4th, and not her daughter. I will now merge this log with my ongoing 99 generations log, so you can read more about my Keitai adventures there, if you like!

Thanks for reading. I had a lot of fun writing these logs. Hopefully I can keep up the same level of detail with this next generation.

[Priestess of Syrinx]

Good job, Elana! I can never write Tama logs in such detail. You do a good job of it.

Anyway. My limited Internet access when I was gone meant I couldn't really update the grouplog here as much as I wanted to. Now that I have free time, I wrote up what has happened with Melvin and I. Brace yourself for a long post.

7:    That day I flew to Newfoundland. Previously when I had flown, they had made us prove that all of our electronics work (so that it's not just a casing with something else inside). While it turns out they don't do that anymore, you still can't bring electronics on the plane and have them running during takeoff and landing. Since a Tamagotchi is technically running all the time, I put the tab in my Tamagotchi Connection (I didn't want to deal with having a screwdriver and a loose battery) and buried it in my luggage.
   The flight was fine.
   We got to our hotel and I untabbed Melvin. Out of habit, I accidentally pushed 'reset' rather than download. Not having a thin object to hit reset with, I tried to put the tab back in and out in the hopes that the data would still be there. I did this much too quickly though, and managed to pull off something like the 'Dr. Tamagotchi' experiment of the old days. All the icons lit up and disappeared rapidly, and many large black boxes attacked the egg on screen. This only lasted the duration of the long 'beep' that occurs when you turn it on, and then it all died. If reseting hadn't erased the data, this probably would've.
   I pushed the tab in quickly but without crushing the tab, thankfully. I waited 5 seconds and pulled it back out. It had reset. I decided to just deal with what I was given and would hopefully return Melvin the Ichigotchi to his former glory. Then it hatched. Mlvin the girl was born. I wasn't about to reset it again, so I figured that the only thing being a girl would affect is the colour of his baby form and that I would no longer be able to mate my him/her & my V3, which wasn't too important to me anyway. I set the clock to Newfoundland time rather than my home time, so that his sleep patterns would make more sense and hopefully get me into sleeping in that time as well.
   We hung around our hotel that day, and while hanging out at said hotel, Melvin evolved into a Marutchi, as he had before. He stayed this way as we explored our surroundings outside and ate at restaurants. He went to bed rather early and behaved well.

8:   When I woke up, Melvin was already up, and we had all slept in. It didn't matter, we were on vacation. I got up and fed him, as he was hungry from being up without me. He stayed with me as I ate breakfast and got ready. I had the sound off for most of my trip as to not annoy everyone else, so I don't know exactly when he turned into an Ichigotchi that day if he had, but I think he did. Melvin was on all day, except for Noon to 1:30 PM, as during then I went on a whale-watching boat tour, and left him paused in our car so that I couldn't accidentally get water on him or drop him while the boat was rocking.
   After lunch that day we went to Signal Hill, a hill where the first overseas radio transmission was received here. It was also a military...place, or something. I didn't really pay attention to that. It's very high up, though, and it overlooks the rest of the city. I made sure Melvin got a good view as well.

9:   The weather was awful. It was foggy and raining. For the first half of the day, we went to a museum/art gallery place. This was where I found out something out my Tamagotchi Connection: if it's left with the sound off for too long, and 'Tama Heartbeat', that tiny pulsing beep that you can only hear with your ear to the Tamagotchi, dies out and is rather a pulsing static sound. This was good because static was harder to hear in in the complete silence of the place. In the art gallery I caught Melvin singing and dancing. I think he was rocking out to the silence.
   We thought there would indoor activities to do at Cape Spear, the most eastern point in Canada. We were wrong. It was still foggy and raining, but now the wind had picked up considerably and we could barely walk. It was a lot of fun, because we took shelter in this old abandoned weapons storage that was there. Melvin was getting cold and having a hard time moving (the screen was dragging from the cold) but I managed to keep him warm by keeping him under my coat. This would've been a good time to have one of those old 'TamaFuton' I knitted for my Tamagotchi so many years ago.
   Melvin got the luxury of sitting on the windowsill beside our table while we ate dinner out. My tams don't usually get that!

10:   That day, we drove. I worked off all the excess weight Melvin had accumulated over the past 3 days, and later in the trip I caught him dancing while I was listening to my mp3 player. I guess Melvin likes Rush as well! It's a shame he won't be around for the concert in September.
   Nothing really happened that day. We saw a large boat be put in the water and we went grocery shopping.

11:   More driving. We visited some friends and stayed in a large hotel that was rather nice. At dinner that evening, Melvin transformed into a Kuchipatchi, which is one of my favourite characters because it was the first adult I ever got, way back in 2004. I was hoping for another Mimitchi, for the hatching at Mimitchi.com, but because of my travelling I wasn't always able to tend to him. I didn't find that he had transformed until after dinner, though, as he was in my pocket the whole time.

12:   That day we drove to our final staying place, a nice cabin by some water. We watched plenty of TV there as the internet setup was not the best. I found that in the back behind all the cabins was a large play structure and the worst-conditioned swingset I had ever seen. I'm much too old for that stuff, but the design always seems to intrigue me anyway. Half of the swings had fallen out, and the structure was badly rusted and falling apart, not to mention covered in spiderwebs. It was almost dangerous, the way to the largest slide on it had a small metal step to the slide, but it was rusted and there were large holes in the staircase. Melvin was indifferent to the being tossed about in my pocket as I looked about the place, which was good. This is what I do, folks. Inspect old play structures.

13:   We went on another boat tour, so Melvin had to stay at our cabin. This time we went on a boat through some fjords. I love that word, fjords. It was a 3km hike to and from the place, so we were too tired to do anything else. I learned that Marilyn Manson did a cover of 'Sweet Dreams'.

14:   We flew back home. Melvin was tabbed and buried in my luggage once again. Nothing went wrong on our flights and we returned home safely. I untabbed Melvin and was smart enough to not press 'reset' this time. My cat was thrilled to see me again. I called SB, and she says that she had paused Prime and Mgtrn while I was gone, and that they were both Ichigotchi when I phoned. Megatron had also given Prime a surprising amount of cake when she connected them.

Currently Melvin is still a Kuchipatchi at 6 yrs and is putting on weight, now at 55 lbs. He lazes around with me as I fail at doing anything for the rest of the summer.