Finally got Roaring Moon. It took 12 days and 23 hours.

Why is it so difficult to hatch just one more Dark-type?

I went down the craziest rabbit hole last night looking at taxonomy. Here’s a view of it starting with birds and going back:

The dinosaurs did not go extinct. Only non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Birds are the only living dinosaurs.

Birds and crocodilians are each others’ closest relatives. They’re the only living archosaurs.

Archosaurs and turtles are each others’ closest relatives. They’re the only living archelosaurs.

Archelosaurs and lepidosaurs (lizards, snakes, and the tuatara) make up the class Reptilia.

Reptiles and mammals (including humans) are each others’ closest relatives. They’re the only living reptiliomorphs. (This might be where the “lizard people” thing came from—because humans are reptiliomorphs, but, interestingly, amphibians aren’t.)

Reptiliomorphs and amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians) are each others’ closest relatives. They’re the only living tetrapods.

Craziness will accelerate in the comments because I’m out of space:

I forgot about Drilbur... So, I guess it was only a 1/3 chance... And I got the mole of disappointment :(

I’m really bummed out that I haven’t managed to get Roaring Moon yet. But I just need one more Dark-type, and I think I’ve got a coin flip for the first egg in my party to be one. It’s a Medium-rarity Ground-type with 5,355 EHP, and I think the only two Pokémon that fit that description are Sandile and Silicobra. So, here’s hoping it’s the adorable little crocodile and not the snake of disappointment.

Also, fun fact: Crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds, and birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians. They’re the only living members of the Archosauria clade.

Just found and had to catch and release another skink in my house. I have no idea what’s going on, why they’re suddenly getting in when they never have before.

Because it’s storming IRL, I just got confused when I was able to go to Emera Beach, as if the lightning outside would mean we’d have that same weather here, lol... I really need to sleep, but I figure that won’t be possible until the storm passes.

Feeling good about myself because I just managed to get 3/3 correct on one of those “Which one is cake?” videos.

It’s now been two whole months since I started birding, so I’d like to sum up how it’s been going. I didn’t get any new species today, so my Life List is still at 117, as mentioned yesterday. I’m glad I reached that milestone before hitting the two-month mark.

I got 108 of those bird species within my first month of birding and only 9 within the last month. So, obviously, it’s slowed down a lot. Since the spring migration was already well past its peak by the time I started birding on May 10th, I think I probably missed a lot of the species that migrate through here, and I’m hoping that they’ll come back through during fall migration and I’ll be able to get them then.

Even though it’s called “fall migration”, it actually starts early enough in the year for BirdCast to start forecasting it on August 1st. I’m looking forward to that date.

Sheesh. I have glue traps in my pantry to prevent mice from getting at my food, but I just found a skink stuck in one of them. I don’t even know how it got into my house—as far as I’m aware, the only creatures that had ever broken in before were bugs and rodents. It’s probably the biggest one I’ve ever seen, too.

I was able to get it out of the trap using dish soap and warm water, but then it bit me and got away from me. I had to wait for it to come out of hiding and then grab it in my (gloved) hand. The poor thing was covered in grime from wherever it was hiding and didn’t try to bite me again through the thick glove, and I set it loose in the backyard.

I really hope the neighbors will not be setting off fireworks yet again tonight. I desperately need to sleep. They’ve made my life so much more difficult recently.

Just added the 117th bird to my Life List. Now it’s got the same number as our Kalos Pokédex.

We’ve got three days to hopefully get the Lovemeter full in time for us to have a x2 day before SCS.

I want to use a Glaceon in X but don’t know if I want to deal with having an Eevee from before the 2nd gym to after the 6th gym. I guess I’d be having to press B a lot to stop it from evolving into Espeon or Umbreon.

And then there’s Leafeon, which you can’t get until just before the 8th gym (which is an Ice-type gym, of course). It feels pretty unfair considering that you get a Fire Stone and a Thunder Stone before Eevee can be found. Right now I’m playing with a Jolteon just because it’s too convenient that the Thunder Stone is just sitting right there to be used on Eevee the moment you catch it.

It is not a good day. The day before yesterday, I was venting to my mother via text about a way in which I was treated unfairly, and she was listening and being supportive UNTIL I started talking about the unfairness of the world—specifically, the fact that people in general refuse to recognize the fact that pregnancy is violence against women, even though it kills a woman every two minutes in the world today—and then she immediately started giving me the silent treatment, as she has done several times before any time I’ve pointed out the plights of women and how wrong the ways women are treated by men and society as a whole are. And I got angry and pointed that out, saying that if I talked to her about any other examples of unfairness in the world, like the way LGBT people and ethnic minorities are treated, she wouldn’t have ducked out on me then, but she always sticks her head in the sand when I’m talking about any plight of women in particular.

Continuing in replies:

I just saw a squirrel on the front porch. Very concerning. I really hope they won’t start chewing up the front door again. It looked like it was licking the brick stoop? I saw a rabbit doing something like that recently. I have no idea why.

It sucks seeing different apps I use stop working because my phone is too old.

I’m having a really horrible morning. Don’t even care that I’ve finally started hatching Rock-types because what’s happening IRL is so awful.

I’m convinced that I’m cursed. I’ve hatched 98 eggs from the lab today but not a single one of them was Rock-type, and that’s all I need.

Alright, I’m breaking the chain. Got up to 143 but it wasn’t enough for a single shiny. First Emera shiny hunt failed.