10k hacks in a week (the plan)

with there being few clusters in dt indy i cant just go out and hack hoping for the best and walking from one cluster to the next will take up way to much time so i have to plan out my walk with as little backtracking as possible and the best possible time/hack ratio...

If i park at the area known as UP there are 10 portals there in a straight line... ill continue on to the zoo entrance area which has 18 portals... going left first i will loop around and go back down UP but not wait at the end... i then travel back down UP not hacking and repeat the loop around the zoo 2.5 times... this means i will burn out 12 of the portals and end up on the north side of the zoo and begin to hack the wapahani trail... not including portals in close proximity (no back tracking without hacking) there are 19 portals this includes the cluster of 7 at the ncaa building... so im not standing around waiting on the cluster cool down i will walk over the canal bridge and hack the 4 portals there and return to the cluster where i may have to put heat sinks... i will then continue back to the wapahani bridge and wait the 5 min at the end of it... however there are portals behind the zoo along a trail and i will go as far as i can to hack some of them (up to 2.5 minutes away) so that once i return i will continue walking down the wapahani heading back to the ncaa cluster... this will allow me to hack the wapahani bridge (11 portals) 3 times... after hacking the ncaa i will continue towards the canal bridge but only hack 3 of the 4 portals past the bridge due to one of them being out of the way in regards to heading north towards the indy museum... the indy museum is a square with 34 portals in pretty close proximity... i hope to have at least 34 common multi-hacks so that i can make 8 laps around the indy museum.... once i have made the 8 laps i will return the way i came... so i will hack the 3 portals near the canal head towards the ncaa hacking the 8 and then burn out the wapahani bridge and head south along the back side of the zoo entrance portals burning the 6 portals left... i then head down UP back to my car hacking as i go.... once i get back to my car UP will be able to be hacked a 4th time so while driving to leave the area i will burn out UP...

UP/zoo/wapahani/indy museum - 40 + 72 + 77 + 136 (272 with multi-hacks) = 325 (461)

once i am on the road i will hack random portals as im driving towards the circle...

there at 15 portals on the circle and walking around the inner part of it takes a little under 4 min... so i will throw a common heatsink on all and hopefully a rare multi-hack giving me 12 laps...

circle - 60 (180)

from there i go home to charge my phone before returning to repeat the process...

to be safe lets say i get 500 hacks per visit... which means ill have to visit 20 times within the week which is almost 3 times a day

IM PRETTY SURE THIS WONT WORK BUT IM KINDA EXCITED TO GIVE IT A TRY (even though i know this is gonna suck and prob during the first day ill end up hating myself; i dont like to burn out portals its too boring)...

moving and friends

k so ive always been afraid of being alone... its why i live where i do, its why ive made the decisions i have made (in the past)... last month i decided im gonna try and move up north... right now i dont have a job so im stuck where i am till something changes in that regards... so anyway...

im completely fine with living by myself (all alone), however there is still just a small part of me that screams on the inside that i wont be able to handle it... there are really only 4 ppl whom of which i would be willing to live with (4 non-married ppl) and one of which im not even friends with (well not really, we are friends through a friend but its complicated), but even this person doesnt want to move where i want to and i dont like him enough to compromise and move with him some where else... not to mention that even though i would be willing to move in with him i think it would end up being a huge mistake... so im down to friends...

about 2 years ago, maybe 3, i had no friends... all i did was work, sleep, church, and repeat... i was the manager at my work so the whole hanging with employees was looked down upon, plus it could or would make some employees feel weird with hanging with me so i just avoided hanging out with ppl from work all together... at church there wasnt a group that i belonged to so i ended up being in classes with ppl who were older than me, and during the services i always sat alone and thats just how it was...

then one day i decided to sit with my little sister in a back pew, it turned out that 2 other ppl ended up sitting with us during the service... the next week i went to my usual spot alone and after the service one of the 2 guys got on to me about not sitting with him again (i didnt really know him so why would i sit with him)... so anyway a short time after that a group of 4 guys: myself, the guy who yelled at me, his friend, and another guy all happened to be in a room together... nothing major happened and we didnt even talk about anything meaningful or worthwhile but all 4 left that room as really good friends... we went from acquaintances who barely knew anything about each other to friends who'd do anything for each other...

back to today and living together... 2 of them are married, so that leaves one friend... i have discussed moving up north with him but he is really hesitant about it and probably wont do it (not till something else happens that neither of us can control)...

so i said 4 ppl and listed 2...  the last 6 months have been majorly different all because of a game called ingress... my life has changed completely... i have gained 3 new friends all for different reasons:

one person i have spent so much time with trapped in cars for road trips related to the game that i feel like i have known him for a long time now... we have made a ton of memories and he is a really great guy and i always enjoy spending time with him even if we dont do anything at all...

another person i became friends with because we were actually enemies (in game) and he decided he wanted to meet me so we did and it turned out we had a lot in common in certain regards, so we began speaking to each other and randomly hanging out while playing the game (well he would be playing the game and i would just be walking with him keeping him company since we couldnt play at the same time)...

and the last friend; we became friends because he asked... we had spent time with each other in group settings but never really did anything as a duo and one day we were talking in a hangout and he said "lets be friends".... so now we are...

so the one friend ,the enemy (who actually switched sides so now he is on the same team), is married so i cant live with him... and the other 2 friends i havent even bothered discussing living together with them cause one of them lives in a nice home and i dont want to invade his house like that and the other i wouldnt feel comfortable enough to be like hey! lets live together... cause im pretty sure i would get turned down and i dont want to put that on my friend (the situation of having to turn me away kinda thing).... i mean seriously with these 2 friends weve only known each other for a very short amount of time and it would be completely weird or at least it would appear that way...

so really i have 1 person whom of which i may or may not be able to get to live with me... so yep... i just have to plunge forward on my own and pretend that living all alone wont bother me...

creation of the bat (ingress)

this is what happened last night and this morning 

ive been asking for the frogs to destroy stuff but didnt get much help... sandiego aka +Nicholas Hall (member of enlighted) said he was willing to come down to indy on saturday morning and help me with everything... i tried talking him out of it a few times cause it was a bit of a task and what not but he reassured me that he is more than willing....

i waited till late friday night past 11p or 12a and began my journey to destroy every green link that stood a chance of blocking my image... i happen to bowl on friday nights with +Nate Miller and he said he was willing to join me on this endeavor so we set off.... i did all the driving trying to find every single bothersome green link while nate did the destroying (safety first lol jk...) once all the links were destroyed we left... (this took around 2 hours)

since sandiego and i were going to get together at 7am, and since he was driving down here just to help me out, i wanted to make sure i had a plan set out with all the links identified that i needed him to destroy (since i am resistance i needed an enlightened to destroy everything)... so i wrote out a detailed plan on how i was driving which portals needed destroyed and then built back up or just destroyed, and the best way to hit portals throw links and not back track to save time (never knew when a member from either side would show up and completely mess up everything).... my keys were limited on certain portals so i couldnt make mistakes or it could cost me the whole image....

so i got a couple hours of sleep and headed out.... since i couldnt get a good number of keys i had to deal with what i had and that meant i had to fully deploy some portals before being able to get a link to them even though i would be going back to them later to then add the links i needed from that original portal.....

okay so SanDiego and i begin our adventure..... when we get to the very first portal he destroys it and i cant even get my ingress to lock onto my location.... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! I HAVE THE PLAN!!!! I HAVE THE KEYS!!! I HAVE THE HELP!!! .... i closed ingress a few times, completely shut it down, nothing NOTHING..... COME ON!!! so finally i turned off my gps and turned it back on..... thankfully that worked.....

destroy, build, link, destroy, build, link, destroy, build, link.........................................

k so at this point we are on foot cause some of the portals i needed couldnt be reached from car.... well i left my "plan" in the car but figured i knew it pretty well i think i need this link................WRONG!!! after we get back to the car i check the paper and back out we go.... he had to destroy the portal i just did stuff on and ruin one of the links i needed and since i had limited keys i ended up destroying one of the keys that i actually needed... but thankfully i had picked up an extra key to the main portal at the bottom of the image so i just reversed how i was linking it..... we then had to go back to the portal that i had the correct link attached to in-order to reattach it since i didnt have a key to the portal to link it right there (btw this portal was also only accessible by foot)...  by this time my car had started leaking for some reason and i wasnt sure it was going to make it at all and even stuttered with starting up which only bothered me cause i had someone else with me (your car only breaks down when your not at home and others are with you).....

so back on track (excluding the detour to link up a portal early since i lost its key like a moron)... destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy......... build link link link link link link link link link link link...........

k i think im done..... SanDiego checks map... there are holes in two spots.... WHAT!?! man..... that morning when i wrote up my attack plan i had missed connecting 2 separate parts (symmetrical lol)... well crap.... so now we rushed over to the one portal... destroyed some links just to make the image a bit prettier (nothing surrounding it) and then went to the other and linked it up........ FINISHED PRODUCT