My wife refuses to charge her iPad. She comes into my study, puts it down on my desk and says it needs charging, then walks out.

This has been getting more frequent and she has been complaining. Her iPad should last around 10 hours of normal use, so I presumed she was on it at least that much a day. It certainly seemed like it. She assumed her iPad was faulty.

Today her complaining reached a certain threshold in my brain so I was triggered to do something. I pointed out there were usage and battery statistics I could check. I was rewarded by a sudden look of discomfort.

It turned out we were both wrong.  She used her iPad 4 to 6 hours a day. Half as much as I had assumed, but twice as much as what she thought.  The battery was being used up fast by Safari – because it had 75 tabs open. I know it was 75 as I counted aloud as I closed each one.  So hopefully that was the cause and solution to her battery running flat so quickly.

My wife then said I was not allowed to tell anyone.

My new alt is now 17 days old. The stats –

2.5M Skill points with 650K Free
30M Wallet
120M ISK income
90M ISK expenses

1 Cruiser (PVE)
3 Destroyers (PVE + Salvage + Mining)
5 Frigates (PVE + Salvage + Explorer + Mining + Hauler)
2 haulers
127M ISK Net worth

I have mostly been working through the AIR Career Program since the last update. I have broken several of my rules in the process.

First – I have mindlessly rushed a bunch of the tasks, instead of taking it slowly and methodically. Some I think I can be excused for, such as having to run 20 Distribution missions. But I need to ensure I focus on the journey with this character, not a destination.

Second – I have wasted ISK unnecessarily at times, with a 19-year-old character mentality instead of a 17-day-old one. Two of the Career tasks are to mine and refine Kernite. There is no belt Kernite in the area I am in – you must wait for anomalies to pop up. The mining task was covered because the mining mission ore Lyavite is counted as mining Kernite.  For the refining task I could have gone hunting for Kernite in space, but instead I purchased it locally off the market. I lost about 1M ISK in that second process – fine for my main character, but I should have been more thoughtful with the new Alt.

Third – I have dragged in one of my Alts to help when I said I wouldn’t. There are a lot of Career tasks that require you to do PVP. My Alt has been logging in, accepting duel requests, and gets damaged or drained or disrupted as required. This has also highlighted that I can’t run two EVE clients at near 4K and maxed out settings on my PC without a bit of stuttering. I need to go look at dialing back some graphic settings.

Interestingly I have almost solely been using this new Alt over the last couple weeks, and not my main.

The little pocket I have established myself in has been great, relatively quiet and with all the industrial and agent resources I have needed. But I am surprised at how hard some of the exploration tasks are to complete. There is a constant flow of old pilots in Tactical Destroyers and Orthrus looping through the constellation running low level exploration content. The basic Hideaway, Burrow and Refuge sites last bare minutes, while the harder sites my Alt cannot handle are left alone. Occasionally someone in a Marauder will come through and clear out the harder content. I may have to move further out from trade hubs to be able to access low level exploration content more reliably.