There were two daily streaks I’ve been managing for months. One was posting daily here on my blog, and the other was hacking daily on Ingress. WordPress.com gives you a cool little notification every time you post if you’re on a posting a streak. Ingress rewards you with a badge, an award they call “Sojourner.” In March both of […]
What would a vacation be without a bit of Ingressing? Since both my parents play, it was easy to get some hacking in. We’ve done a few missions and hit a lot of unique portals. It just so happened to coincide with my 180-day platinum sojourner badge as well.
You might recall that I’m doing the Couch-to-5k (c25k) running program. I’ve completed the first four weeks of the program and in terms of habit-forming it’s been one of the easier ones I’ve attempted in my life. I piggy-backed on my habit of walking the dog around sun-down by turning that into my warmup walk. But […]
If you play Ingress, I highly recommend also installing the Integrated Timer for Ingress (Android.) The default timers are helpful when farming, but I primarily use a custom 1440 minute timer to make sure I don’t lose track of my Sojourner badge. Tap on “24:00” at my last hack of a session, and I get a nice […]
Alex Gustafson