Jeff's ACWW Blog

Big Top wanted to play a food word game with me tonight. Even though he didn’t explain the rules, I’ve seen this game played with two villagers before. (I think I included it in a video once, but I don’t remember which one). One player names a food, and the other player has to name a food that starts with the last letter of the previous food. So when Big Top said “mango,” I had to say the name of a food that starts with “O.”

But after a couple rounds, Big Top accidentally said “nightshirt,” which obviously isn’t a food.

He said he needed to take a nap to clear his head, but I didn’t get any reward for winning the game.

Kabuki asked me to take a letter over to Benedict, and I agreed to help out. When I delivered it, Benedict was kind enough to show me the letter.

Kabuki gave me 520 bells for helping out.

I found all three of today’s fossils and the money rock. But other than that, I didn’t make much money today. The problem is that Nookington’s closed not long after I started playing. You know me, always playing late at night. 😛

But I did decide to go bug-hunting (and fishing) at least long enough to fill up my pockets. That way, I’ll start off next week with a nice chunk of bells. Tonight’s haul included two goliath beetles, a hercules beetle, an elephant beetle, a shark, a red snapper, and a blue marlin.

Trivia: It was exactly one year ago today that I caught my first blue marlin! (August 6, 2019)

Are any of you still playing Wild World regularly? Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one. 😛 I still have goals I want to achieve in this game, namely finishing off Boondox and the museum.

Regardless, I’ll be back with another entry next week. See you then!

Tonight, Big Top was telling me that he has a monthly subscription to Chillin’ magazine. But he said that keeping them all takes up too much space (even though his house looks fairly empty), so he just cuts out the good pages.

Crazy Redd was in town…and I really wish he came every week in New Horizons like he does in Wild World. 😛 He had a moving painting for sale, but I didn’t need it.

When I spoke with Antonio, he told me that he has named his abs! They’re named Joe, Tony, Bud, Ted, Rod, and…Negative Juan.

I’ve seen a jock in New Horizons (I think it was Louie) also name his abs. Except he used names that started with “Ab,” like Abigail, Abner, etc.

But I’m not sure I understand the significance of these ab names. Well, Joe is likely a reference to Joe Six-Pack (meaning an ordinary/average man). But I’m not sure about the others …especially Negative Juan. I know it sounds like the number (negative one), but…I guess I can’t work out the meaning. 😛

Kabuki was packed up and ready to move away…but I couldn’t let him go. I just didn’t want him to leave just yet.

I gathered some fruit, caught a few good bugs, and fished in a red snapper. I made about 60,000 bells for the night.

Mom sent me a letter in the mail telling me that the huge tree in the backyard is dead now. Thanks for trying to cheer me up, Mom.

At least she attached an apple (a foreign fruit) to the letter. I also received a letter from Wishy the star, and he sent me a modern cabinet.

Benedict found another can of expired food, and he asked me to open it. This time, I declined. So Benedict called me a judgmental jerk!

When I visited Victoria, she was talking about her interests…including eating candy.

And this was one of those times when her catchphrase “I ate it” really fit the situation.

Kabuki was the last of my villagers that I ran into tonight. And he surprised me by giving me his picture!

I guess I shouldn’t have been too surprised, because he has lived in town for a year and three months. But I just wasn’t expecting it. I took it back to my house. His favorite quote on the back is “Hoo-ha konichiwa!”

That was my 16th villager picture. It looks like Benedict and Antonio are the only two current villagers whose pictures I don’t have yet. Hmm, maybe I should have opened up Benedict’s gross can of expired food after all. Oh well. See you next time!