Battle Grandpa

15. Do you care if people talk badly about you? Well, I wouldn't be too happy about it, but I try not to let that stuff get to me either. If it's a bunch of awful lies about me though, I might just have to speak up.52. Are you nice to everyone? Haha, well, funny enough I'm asked this a lot! I am nice to most people, but if you do something bad I'm not just going to turn the other cheek.68. Have your pants ever fallen down in public? Hahah! Well, not without some help, and not since I was much younger! One of my older brothers, Barry, pulled a prank on me by pulling down my pants in front of all the miners we worked with while we were on break. Kathy, who I wasn't in a relationship with at the time, was there too. I laugh about it now, but I was horribly embarrassed at the time!75. Did you wake up cranky? A little bit. But that's what happens when you've got creaky joints and bones. :')80. Name something you have to do tomorrow? Tomorrow? Hmmm, well, I need to go shopping for a few groceries.93. Have you ever kissed a Matthew? I can't say that I have! I don't even have any grandchildren named Matthew, surprisingly enough!

I just got a really pretty decorative egg today. I was told it's part of some kind of tradition called "The Eighteen Orders". Mine is "The Order Ascendant". I guess it was given as thanks for helping to stop that giant robot. I was given an actual Eevee egg too! I hear they're quite expensive, I feel like I don't really deserve it. I've never taken care of an egg before, I just hope I don't mess anything up.

Yesterday, April 12, was the wedding anniversary to my late wife, Katherine. Since it would have been our 70th this year, I thought it would be nice to share our wedding picture in remembrance.

Ahhh...wow, where to begin...I haven't talked about them in quite a while now. I sure do miss everyone. :'( Chase Austerby, Nathan Ward, Elias Vallerojo and Mortimer Tyler where the first few I came to know and befriend in the war. Nate actually saved my life during our first battle, and I can honestly say I probably wouldn't be here today without him. Chase and Mort were the two I looked up to more than anything, even if Chase was only a couple years older than me he had this certain air about him that was to be respected. It was almost like he had already been in a war with how well he handled everything. Mort actually was a veteran that had been in the Great War, and I felt honored to have fought alongside him, even if it was only once. Elias and I were great friends, we enjoyed joking together all the time. He really helped me get through the tougher times early on since he was one of the few people who could still find a reason to laugh despite everything that was happening. Then for my third mission I was introduced to another pair I would come to call my friends, Nathan Kalili and Alexander Selie. They were both part of the air force and had quite a big impact on my life as well. Kalili was given the nickname Twigs because of how skinny he was...The war had an incredible inpact on him and that made it difficult for him to make friends or interact well with anybody. With a lot of patience and persistance though I mananged to get through that thick shell of his...Then there was Xander, the only friend that Twigs seemed to have at the time. He mostly kept to himself, but he was a good guy and we'd go out for drinks and play cards sometimes or have our Pokemon train together. One of his mons actually gave me quite a scare once and I thought she was going to rip my head off ahahaha! As far as I know, I'm the only one still left out of the lot of them...They sure made war life easier on me though, minus when they had problems of their own to deal with...Wow, that was certainly a lot of typing, I'm sorry! Got a bit carried away there, hahah.

Any fossil is a good fossil! Though I do have a special place in my heart for the plume fossil. It was completely coincidental to have named my archen, Plume after the fossil she came from, I didn't even realize that was the name of it until years later!

Sebastian and Rhode are both a delight! I'm so happy that they were the first people that battled me on this island. Sebastian has a great sense of humor, and Rhode is such a sweetheart. It's so nice to have met them and gained some new friends so soon. I've only just met Adaleen and I really love her enthusiasm. She seems very reckless though, I'm worried she's going to get herself in a lot of trouble one of these days. I'm afraid I don't know much about the other two though, other than the fact they were on that poor ferry when that regigigas robot attacked. It would definitely give us something to talk about if I ever got the chance to meet them though!

While looking through this list of IPL trainers, David Mantell immediately caught my eye. He has a great looking team, and it looks like he studies paleontology too! It would be wonderful to get to chat with him after a battle between our dinosaurs. :)

It was all just a happy accident really, and kind of an inside joke between the grandkids that gave me some of my partners hahhah. Since I'm "as old as a dinosaur" and all. :)

A 911 dispatcher receives a call from a hunter. The hunter says that he's in the woods and he found a bloodstained body of a man. In a state of panic, he asks the officer what to do. The officer tells him that the first thing he should do is make sure the man is dead. He hears the hunter put down the phone and a shot. Several seconds later, the man gets back on the line. "Now what should I do?"

Happy war stories? No such thing! Hahhahah I kid I kid! I'd love to tell one! I remember this one time, all the soldiers were out in the training field with their new mons, their second partner actually, and I was among them. I had ended up with a hotheaded breloom I named Spores, and let me tell you, he was a real handful! I had been trying all day to get him to listen to me, and when it came to the point where I was supposed to battle with another soldier's mon, he refused to budge an inch into the battlefield! After shouting at him for a good five minutes I finally tried shoving him to the spot he was supposed to be, but he firmly held his ground. Eventually I tried running at him to tackle him into the battlefield but he moved at the last second and I fell to the ground. Before I could get back up he sat right on the square of my back and became a complete deadweight. I couldn't have gotten out from under him to save my life hahahahah. I couldn't even return him with my ball because he would keep snapping at my hand if I tried to reach for my pocket. After the soldiers got a good laugh out of seeing me struggle, they finally attempted to help me out though. Spores sent out waves of moves on them to keep them away, but finally after the combined effort of 6 different soldiers, they were able to wrestle him off of me so I could return him. It was embarrassing at the time, but looking back on it makes me laugh at how much of a brat that pokemon was. :)

Yesterday was quite the adventire! This is a picture I took of a Regigigas robot that tried to invade the Challenger island. I mananged to snap this right before moving in for the attack. With help from many other trainers, we were able to bring it down though. We're still waiting on some word about why it came here and where it even come from. But wow, I never thought I would be the one to lead a group of people, I havent felt so alive in ages!