Episode 887 - I Hate Working Out, VR Makes It Fun
AprilPvd shares her retirement experience. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you manage life in retirement. Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu
AprilPvd in VR:
No Man’s Sky
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Palworld 1.0
Friday
April Pvd I’m feeling guilty about her because she really belongs in the guild with Grand Nagus but unfortunately Grand Nagus hasn’t had time to actually play but I’m still expanding that base and letting it run which is crazy because now that I’ve gotten the particulars down about how to keep keep the things growing you know I know now I need a planter. I need a water. I need a gatherer and you know that was that was kind of confusing for me because the gatherer and the transport are too completely different things and so I am I figured it all out and but I have been on April Pvd now bear in mind. I am on the server that I pay $14 a month for a great server that was the best for this is the best $14 I spend each month when you think about when I was playing World of Warcraft I was actually paying for four subscriptions and I was paying $60 a month so I’m actually saving but I’m running three characters right now on the guild on Aprillian guild with April on the Mac and April Pvd and on I wanted to get I wanted to get the moon flower tower last week. I tried several times and still didn’t make it and I want it mainly for one thing at level 55 if you’ve taken out the moon flower tower you get an extra slot that you can make to have an extra weapon that’s that’s my goal, but I realize what I really needed to do was upgrade April Pvd, and so I started out with all of her equipment. She was up to 61 at this point so she could do this shield, but in order to make the shield, she had to make all these other things oh, and she made a new gun a laser Gatling, a laser cannon so this was a new thing that she could make so I’m running back-and-forth between these three characters I have April on the Mac building stuff on for The, the thermal core all the equipment that I needed for all the resources I needed to make the equipment for April Pvd‘s new gear so she needed the gun. She needed the shield and she needed the bullets for the thermal cannon and so she also needed certain gear as well at one point though she needed Cole and I was out of cold. I couldn’t believe it so I ended up going back to April who is on the Guild with Grand Nagus and I got some call from them and brought it back over so I could continue making all this gear for April Pvd. It’s so much fun. It’s complicated. It’s grinding and it’s what I really like in my MMORPG power has done a great job on all the different things that you have to do of course one of the things I really have to focus on a lot is inventory management and I’m getting really good at that I mean, of course I have the equipment that lets me that one thing that lets me see everything that’s on my prop on the base except what’s in the guilt chest. The other thing I needed to make the shield was some more of the civilization course in order to get the civilization courses. I did one of those I did a couple of those raids that you can do from the summoning raid and thank goodness I read about this before and I knew about this is that you don’t wanna summon them to your base I don’t even understand why that’s an option because it just seems like a mess but what I do is I just I use the summoning stone. I get to the way and the thing is once you start the raid once you get there, you have five minutes so you have to work really fast so I go in and of course I also have most of my most of my pals at the expedition so a lot of the ones that would really work well in this word were not available to me, but I just went through really quickly pulled out all the high-level ones that I had loaded them into the box and I started the the battle and it was. It was good. One of the things I did have a problem and I don’t know what I know what happened at one point I was starting up the game from the flatscreen and for some reason it wasn’t letting me change my my weapon so I’m I’m trying to do this battle with just an ax and there’s nothing I can do to change it. I probably could’ve used the keyboard to change. I just realize that or the mouse, but because the the things I was throwing at it was so good and I had actually took out the boss. It’s just the first level one, but I have a chance of getting one to three of those civilization courses not to be confused with the civilization parts and after doing two of these battles in the second battle, I was able to pull out my weapon I got enough to make the shield cause I need 30 and it’s kind of weird because I’m I’m on April Pvd on the base that belongs to Aprillian but it’s OK because I’m using their Matt to make the gear for Apple Pvd to take down the moonflower boss so it’s still their advantage plus if I think about it, I may just leave the gear for April for Aprllian to use because eventually I’m gonna go back on Aprillian and start leveling her and leave April Pvd alone. I may even go ahead and take out the pals on the base that she’s sharing with Grand Nagus because you know I have to be careful while I’m on this server on this guild I have to make sure I go back and check to make sure that the pets of the pals on their guild isn’t starving or going crazy but at this point I’ve gotten so good at farming not farming. Farming is different farming is when the pets go into the corral and drop things but this is growing stuff growing food growing I mean, growing vegetables, and then being able to make the vegetable make the meals that keep them alive, but I’ve stockpile so much in every food basket that they seem to be OK and I do hop on Epril and then check back to make sure they’re OK
But after being totally prepared and fixing April Pvd and leveling up the pals, the three of us went into moonflower tower, and we were able to take the bus down, even though it was nailbiting all the way up to the end.
Saturday
I’ve been pretty consistent the last four years with sticking to my schedule of working out Monday, Thursday, and Saturday Saturdays pretty proud of this one of the things I was doing lately though I’ve changed up my boxing routine because I feel like I don’t need the boxing gloves anymore then when these VR boxing gloves that for me, it made it easier for me to punch and made it less like I was poking with the controllers, but two things were happening. When is that I had to change my take off my wrist weight and then put on the gloves and then reverse the thing at the end of doing the workout and I’m trying to streamline my workout so I can just power through it plus, I was wondering what it would be like if I worked out with the weight now, someone put it in my head a few years ago that working out boxing with weights was bad for you, but then I started thinking about it. The other VR things I do like when I do fit XR I’m wearing weights and I’m also wearing a weighted vest cause I’m trying to optimize my workout plus as you get older we need to have to work out with weights because it helps to build bone density and and promotes a trunk strength if that makes sense because you want your upper body to be strong one of the scary things about getting older is that if you fall it’s not always the fall that does you in but the inability to recover from the fall I’ll get up sometimes you’re in a prone position and it’s not and it makes it hard for you to breathe or something, but the thing I love about working doing the boxing is that I’m definitely working on my trunk strength and so I’m wearing my weighted vest and I’m wearing the wrist weights now I didn’t mention this in last week’s episode but my last boxing was Thursday and I got a streak and I got I’ve actually broke my high score in this particular workout. It’s so silly that I get focused on getting the streak which is 948 hits in a row I mean, even if I don’t get the streak I’m still doing the same amount of working out and exercising, but I managed to work through this with my weights on and it felt good and I think it’s good for my muscles because you can’t just do the same workouts all the time and not go forward so I managed I did it and I had a blast. I’m also doing the elliptical you know I do my whole one almost 2 hour workout but there’s a new map on Holofit and it has this Halloween thing in today Saturday’s Halloween and so it was really appropriate plus, I’m also listening to the book by Octavia. Butler called fledgling and it’s about vampire or vampire like being so the whole thing was very moody and very appropriate and I loved it and I’m getting exercise.
Sunday
Since Sunday is a non-workout day I usually take a long walk with my dog. I decided to go shopping at a grocery store. That’s about 45 minutes away so it’s still meant two hours of my morning was taken up, but I also bought 7 pounds of chicken breast so I had to spend some time preparing that for meal prep and then putting it in the freezer. This meant that I basically got. last gameplay, but I did get into it and I took Aprillian out to level up and complete the find the next tower steps.
Monday
Of course, Monday means work out day.
The rest of the day, of course my VR time was spent in PalWorld. I call it PW in my Journal because for some reason when I say power world, it spells Powell world, and I don’t know how to make that change it when I do talk to text, but I had I first started off doing some you know basic maintenance what I call I first thing you know when I login is of course check all the basis to make sure everybody has food I logged in on April Pvd first because I wanted to I was supposed to be moving the base
The last thing I did on April Pvd was to catch a Splaterina male that she took to Aprillian so they could breed them for the quest that meant turning in 10 of them. She dropped it off at Aprillian’s base and later that day after they had hatched a bunch of them, she went back and got a male in a female so that she could breed her own.
Eldramoor Beta
I don’t know if I mentioned this, but Zenith announced the Ramen. VR announced that they are closing down their servers on December 18 so you know I do participate in cosmetic craze twice a month and I’m gonna be very sad to see that go. It was it was nice. It was a nice environment, but back in July 2025 a kick starter opened up for something called Eldramoor.
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