Hi there, I'm Ashe.
Ashe de la June


After many years in IT tech support and web dev, I unexpectedly ventured onto a new path. Now I'm in my thirties and have a double degree in Earth Sciences! I am raising fowl, a goat, a horse, four cats and a husband. I spend my free time in the garden and with my animals. Currently, my long-suffering husband and I sleep with one of our cats in the bedroom with a young pullet in a cat cage on a shelf who refuses to sleep with the other chickens! It strangely works out. My husband is an aspiring author writer and often blogs a story about our lives on the farm etc.

I am passionate about chickens, cats, web design, blogging, Pinterest, sprouting seeds, taking cuttings and other gardening, trialling make-up and hair products, baking, writing stories, spinal disabilities, making things and offering all kinds of advice to people.

Being one who loves to read, TaintedBlood.org is an old URL I purchased in 2002, inspired by the Margaret Weis science fiction fantasy Star of Guardians series of novels. Jazhiaran and Ashe are the names of rpg characters I created in the 90s inspired by the Raymond E. Feist fantasy novels following Pug the magician.

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Ingress :: almost a year playing and now I'm hanging up my phone.



So, I'm rarely online to do things these days. I hardly ever tweet, I hardly ever blog - I just don't do stuff.  Social media is a drain of emotions.  Anyway, my latest adventure into social media happened to be a game called Ingress - it is like capture the flag using gps map overlays - the game spans the entire planet.  Portals exist everywhere. Even in the Styx I live a couple of km from a portal.  I'm of the Enlightened, and on the cusp of Level 12.  I started playing in July or August 2014 - to get this high you need to put a lot of energy and petrol into it.
I finally achieved Onyx Guardian.  This means I held a portal for 150 days straight.  This is no easy feat, with other players taking the game so seriously that they will destroy a guardian.  Right on the door-step of me quitting the game, I finally achieved something I've sought since I started.  I have been to many places I wouldn't have travelled to, I've stood around in dangerous areas hacking, deploying, fielding and destroying portals.  

Here is a picture of a fellow team member and I on Abbotts Lookout, Mt Abbott, Maydena.  It takes a five hour round-trip up and down that mountain, alas we were the final recipients of a key to obtain the portals up there.  These portals must be protected as they are very important for the Enlightened to achieve fields of mind-units, in the State and across countries.  

Anyway, I am just days from quitting the game due to the way my character in the game has developed - I don't really like her.  And the game is very bad for my OCD.  I will continue to keep strategic portals charged, go on face-to-face missions, and help out at face-to-face farms.  I have made some good friends in the game, such as the below man.  And I've made some awful enemies.  But overall, I've enjoyed the game.  


A good old "fuck you team Resistance" selfie.

 




 

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