In that first year I lost 20kg just running around a 5km radius from home, capturing portals and creating fields. Where a Green controlled portal was, I went to either attack or gather items to level up. I would go out after lunch exploring all kinds of places, shrines, temples, a statue here, a memorial plaque there. So I signed up and a quick look at the scanner showed that most of the area I lived in was Green (Enlightened), so I went with the Blue faction (The Resistance) to have a good challenge. Ingress was then released out of beta shortly before Christmas. I also had a portable Wi-Fi hot-spot for when I took my MacBook to the park to work. I did have a Nexus 7 that I mainly used for reading. But it wasn’t available for my iPhone 4S, and I didn’t know anyone to get an invite, so I started plotting out what my commute might look like. Meanwhile, I was very jealous of all the techies playing Ingress that I heard on the various TWiT shows. (And if I could lose some of that tire around my waist, so much the better.) ![]() A “commute” in the morning and evening seemed like a good way to begin and end the day. I’d been working from home since around 2004 and it was becoming clear that I would only leave the house to open the shutters in the morning and close them at night. I was thinking about what my goals would be for 2014 and was really thinking that I needed a commute. We’ll start with a contribution from Michael Westbay: Michael Westbay on Ingress ![]() For now, this is the last installment of the I’m Still Using It series.
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