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Xbox weekly rewards, Game Pass rewards, Games with Gold games, they make up my routine right now. I managed to finish all the weekly rewards and most of the Game Pass ones. I already have over 10k points but it's fun to keep going with it. I'm getting points on my phone now during the week as well, so they add up quickly. Here are the details. 

As usual, I started with the Weekly Rewards tile on Xbox One's dashboard. I needed three achievements to complete various things for points. I've decided now that I will always keep a casual game installed just to knock off achievements when I need them. Right now it is a new game I got in the Gnome's Garden series called A New Home. It's the same gameplay as all the others (I think four others). You send your gnomes around a path to complete various chores and gather resources to build buildings and complete a list of requests. The faster you do it the more stars you get at the end. As you go the game adds more and more elements to make it more complex and challenging. It's not greatly challenging except to get 3 stars on every level. There's always one that gets me. But, I stopped after I knocked off the three achievements. I did two levels. That's enough for one day. 

Next I went to the Game Pass tile and started in on my monthly quests. First up was Edler Scrolls Online. I have two quests to complete, neither of which I understand, but I loaded my previously created character (from a previous GP quest) and did a main mission and several side missions. I wasn't getting anything on the rewards quest list, so after a while I stopped. Maybe another day this month I'll look up a guide to see what I'm supposed to do. I like the game but not so much that I want to keep playing long hours to find out on my own. 

Next was Alien Isolation. I've played it before but instead of starting where I left off, I started from the beginning. The quest was to survive being stalked by the Alien for 5 minutes (I think the same quest as last time). It turned out to be cumulative and included the murderous robots as well, but even so, I played a good long time. It's a fantastic game but there's only so much sneakin' around I can take. It's a truly scary game. I jumped several times without even thinking I would. The ever-present tension is also another reason why I stopped when the monthly GP quest dropped. 

Jurassic World Evolution was one of this week's weekly quests and it gave me the points just for starting it. I was somewhat disappointed because I really like this game and wanted to do a few things in it, but I had other quests to pursue. 

PUBG was another monthly quest. I just had to play two matches. This is a fun game. In my first match, I parachuted in, found some weapons in a house, and promptly got shot. The second match lasted much longer. I gathered a lot of weapons and equipment before getting together with my team. The area shrunk and I was way far from the safe zone. I tried to find a vehicle but all were rusted and nonoperative until one of my teammates came by with a motorcycle and sidecar. I jumped in and we made it to the safe zone but only after he had to revive me just short of it (health declines outside the safe zone and I didn't know how to heal up). Then I got shot outside a residential house and spectated long enough to watch my buddy get revenge for me. The rewards quest popped and I was on to my next game. 

I returned to Dark Void. I think after Game Pass stuff from now on I'm going to play the Games with Gold games that drop every few weeks. This is one of them. I beat the game a second time and didn't get close to finding all the journals even though I thought I must because I found so many of them. I picked up other achievements though. I'm definitely giving up on finding all the journals. It was difficult enough to hunt down what I could even with markings on my radar to help me. I think though, after reviewing the achievement list, I will attempt a few more achievements; things like highjacking 20 UFOs has to be close to done for me now. 

Well, that's a day.