The streak is over.
Yes, I finally missed a day after playing for over thirteen months straight. It was a Friday, I worked late, we had some running around to do, I came home and passed out. Woke up and realized I had forgotten to play Animal Crossing. Hey, I did the entire year. Got nothing for it, but I did an entire year. The experiment is still a success. So it's not a big deal at all, just the first chink in the armor against inevitable obsolescence.
I have found several missing catalog items since the last Log Entry. I now have no further need to talk to Saharah or Gulliver. I'm missing four Wendall wallpapers and nine Gracie shirts, a handful of Redd items and Island items, and fifteen Gyroids. Once I find the Basic Painting I'll completely finish up the Museum, and then there's the Post Office items and a couple of Camper items. Not much, really. Most of these items aren't tradable or I'd give you a list.
The Station Models worry me. I had originally thought that you could get all fifteen of them from the eCard games, but that's not the case. I'm only missing one of the game cards (P08, the one that gets you Station Model 12) and I still need four Station Models besides that one... 1, 4, 7 and 11. I suppose someday I'll have to look into creating towns for the express purpose of filching their individual Station Models, which you only get during the July Hometown Day holiday. Ick.
The eCard game where you have to guess which villager is under investigation by Copper or Booker is unacceptably hard, by the way. The dog will give you five clues, and you have to guess which villager he's talking about. Out of approximately 300 characters. You have to get the guess on the second clue to get the good prize... and the clues are maddeningly vague. "Is Pink, Red or Purple" "Has nothing on head" I played for about an hour and it was extremely lucky that I won once within two clues.
My turnip market quest has continued. I've only missed two weeks out of the past thirteen, and the internet theory has held up. It sounds like a good theory until you realize how many numbers there are between the seventies and one-twenties. I have had exactly one price repeat - 119 - but it was a bust both times, as predicted. I've only hit twice in thirteen weeks, on 114 and 86, and naturally those have yet to show up again.
