Dec. 28, 22: Routine, Walking, Quest, TV, and Games

Holy moly, it’s a beautiful thing! Slept from right around nine until five thirty or so this morning for another solid eight and a half hours of sleep. 🥳 Still not extremely productive, but my motivation is coming back and I did get a few odds and ends taken care of.

Did the usual morning routine and wasn’t too happy to see red pretty much across the board in the crypto markets. BTC still hasn’t moved far, down into the mid $16k’s still, but alts seem to be in freefall, especially HIVE that lost about five percent per day for the last two days. 🤬😭

Otherwise, the normal curation, check Discord pings, shift tokens, check the markets, all the normal morning stuff except the tracking on my new phone was updated and was in transit to me to be delivered later in the day!! Exciting! 🤩

Went through all the normal process of getting all the pics and stuff together for my post and got the skeleton done but then started totally feeling unmotivated to write the text. Instead of risking it, though, I just started working and ended up doing a decent one without too much trouble.

Once it was done and published and shared, I started thinking about my goals for the day and decided that at least one should be to take the dog out for a bit of a walk. I kinda’ started getting ready, but when I looked at the weather it was still well below freezing and worse with the wind, so I waited for it to warm up some.

I ran the dishwasher when I got up, so it had finished and I put away the dishes and took care of the ones in the sink and cleaned off the stove…oh, that’s right! I did have another “pleasant” surprise when I got up this morning. When I made my coffee , I noticed quite a bit of mouse poo by the cupboard door under the sink and for the second day in a row there was one in the trap 🪤 I’d set.

Unfortunately, the trap had only got its front leg/shoulder and it was still alive. 😭😭 I hate having to kill them myself, but that’s one thing…makes me utterly sick to think of them being scared, and worse, in pain. 😭😭 I’d be happy to share the house with them if they weren’t so destructive and unsanitary…I don’t feel “justified” in killing, I feel pretty guilty and selfish in fact, but I can’t just leave them be. 😡

Spent quite a bit more time today (enough that I’m ashamed to admit it) watching criminal interrogation videos again. I suppose I’m not the only one, though, there’s quite a few channels with those kinds of videos and they have lots of views…am I trying to justify?! 😂

Anyway, after lunch it had warmed up some and I took the dog out for a walk. I was worried that it was still pretty cold, but he seemed alright.

I’d thought of doing the loop downtown (and he tried to pull me that way) but I was worried that the sidewalks would be covered with salt and I didn’t want to risk hurting his feet, so we went over to the nature trail instead.

We didn’t make it all the way down to the school, though, before we hit a big snowdrift across the path (like waist deep) and I turned around. I had only intended to backtrack and go around, but Dude started booking back towards home, so I took the hint and we went straight back.

After we got home I checked the delivery tracking and it had made it to the town like ten minutes away and was looking like it might come any time during the afternoon…started to get pretty excited and decided more or less just to kill time until it arrived.

Watched some more YouTube and chatted on Discord and kept obsessively refreshing the tracking page until several hours later this happened: 🤬

So it’s gotten all the way to me, and then stuck…sitting for a day just ten minutes away. I wanted to just go and pick it up myself, but I don’t know if it’s possible or if it’s in some warehouse or something, figure it’s just best to be patient and it will come.

Can’t say it wasn’t seriously frustrating and disappointing, though. Just tried to get my mind off it and busted out the Quest for a while. Seems like there were a couple of games I hadn’t finished when the controller went wonky and I’ve been trying to remember; one, for sure, was The Tale of Onogoro and I picked that one back up today.

I’d completely forgotten where I was or how to play or even what the controls were, but after a few minutes I got back into it and made some progress through a few more of the puzzles. Completed a boss battle as well…that one took me a while to figure out; kept hitting him but nothing happened, finally realized that you had to hit him twice and then you could do damage. Had to do that four times too…mean, three times is customary. 😛

I made myself some Dinty Moore stew and a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner and plopped in front of the tube for the rest of the evening. I watched Glass Onion with Edward Norton and tons of other stars. Was fun, I enjoyed it, but the only actual cool thing was the puzzle box invitation at the beginning; the rest was pretty boilerplate, just people talking and someone getting shot in the dark, typical whodunnit.

After that I got ready for bed and put on End of Days or something like that…Seth Rogan and a bunch of those goofy type comedians at a party when apocalypse happens…ended up falling asleep before it finished, though.

[As of now, still no updates to the delivery tracking page…still just says “delay.” I really hope it comes today. 😢]

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Well, the dShitty site was busted again (almost as busted as the “game”) today. Rest assured the “fixes” will be cosmetic and/or unnoticeable and won’t address any of the shittiness.

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Wow, finally, Finally, my Ego is back to zero and I’m running missions without penalty. Not that that really means anything, but the drunks being there or not being there is the only thing that’s actually happened on this for like the last year.

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My Splinterlands rental income seems to be pretty much stuck right around a dollar, $1.3 for today, but that’s probably mostly to blame on the drop in the price of HIVE.

I did finally swap out the DEC and SPS I’d pulled out the other day and replenished my liquid some. 👍

Claimed my SPS interest and paid the rental fee, as usual. Staked the rest; probably going to for the next couple days.

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HK:

Already blasted through my word goal for today, so not even necessary to waste any more on HashKings.

GLX:
Just did my claim and stake today with GLX. Seems like it might have gone down some, getting around eighty something per day rather than closer to a hundred, but hey, doesn’t cost me anything other than going in and getting it. 😁

WOO:
I realized later on in the day that when I went in and took my picture I forgot to actually do the claim and I did it then, so even though today’s is lower it’s about the same fifteen between the two days. No mining rewards, though.

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