Feb. 15, 22: Routine, Short Walk, KeyChain Research, SM Season Ends, Crashing, Laps, TV, and Games

[Trying to get an early start on my post for today. Got a busy one scheduled. It’s teaching all day, but we’re reviewing for the exam, so no new material - makes for relatively easy planning - and then got the Libertarian convention this evening…hoping I can keep the motivation up the whole way through. Got to get gas today as well, so need to leave a few minutes early. I’m after quarter past ten with the damn brofund bot now, so thinking I have to choose to get skipped on my post today to reset the time, fucking bullshit.]

Had another kind of rough night again. Was up around five, so no problem there, but it’s that I get woken up over and over through the night. 😭 Ended with yet another hour and a quarter short on sleep.

It’s been a while since I had a solid night, maybe once or twice in the last several weeks and it adds up. I really couldn’t bring myself to do anything of any value all day and I collapsed in the evening despite fighting through the afternoon.

Did all the usual morning routine and was happy to find cryptos moving up a bit. BTC came back more or less, but HIVE and MATIC saw around double digit ups. 👍 I went in to check on my DeFi position and was disappointed to find the site still unstable and now all bonus APYs discontinued. 😡 I guess I knew it was coming, but it definitely changes the game.

Now, there’s really no point to borrowing, really just paying the difference in the interest rates for the privilege, so I completely unwound my position and paid back the entire balance. So, now I’ve got no risk of liquidation, but only getting like .01% which is not even worth the time (or the opportunity costs).

I’m sort of pinned with the FIRE loss and I don’t want to permanently lock in thousands of dollars of losses, so don’t want to completely pull out until I can recover some back…there was another market that was paying around sixteen percent and I swapped out a little less than half of my ETH for BAL. I don’t particularly like having yet another crypto to have to follow (or risking more losses against ETH), but double digit interest versus essentially zero? I’ll take it for now.

I’d went in and shifted a bunch of tokens around on H-E and then finally got aggravated with myself that I’d dragged my feet on getting into the PIZZA:ONEUP pool, so went in and made some orders. I’d decided to go for fifty dollars as a start, and while I had a little liquid of both, I definitely needed more to make twenty-five dollars of each. My PIZZA order went through pretty quickly and I have the funds I need on that side. Unfortunately, my marching order for ONEUP still hasn’t been filled. I saw it got buried almost immediately, but I was hoping for someone to sell through it…might need to cancel that and move it up. 🤔

Got my post done and shared and hit the wall early. I wanted to go to bed (physically), but I didn’t want to kill the day, so I busted out the Oculus and played Puzzling Places for a while. I’m still working on that same four hundred piece one I’ve been working on for the last week or so, but I’m getting a lot closer; started working on the city part, which is the hardest since all the little buildings look pretty much the same.

Started to feel bad about wasting time, and today was Valentine’s Day, so I quit out, got suited up, and went for a short walk down to the store and back to get Wenche some chocolates. Didn’t count it or anything, but it did give me some legit steps.

I did have a breakthrough with the website the other day and I can now write custom JSON to the chain, BUT, in trying to choose which operation to start constructing, it seems that any action resulting in a write to the chain first requires a signature from the user…in other words, KeyChain is in the way of everything.

Figured that means, really, rather than starting to construct everything and then go back and make it all contingent and compatible with KeyChain, that it is the next step to try and tackle. That meant going in and reading the ReadMes, which is always fun, as well as trying to sort through other peoples’ code (generally impossible) both in the examples and the source. At least the docs are better than the Hive ones, I think I have a fairly good idea of what I need to do. Still, I can see some frustration ahead.

After sifting through that stuff my brain was worn the heck out and I started thinking about laying down for real. Wenche had a nail appointment after work and so wasn’t going to be home until late, so I made myself some stew for an early dinner and tried to watch a comedy special.

Ended up crashing out for about an hour and a half. Woke up at seven and got ready for bed properly but had about twenty-five hundred steps left to go. I didn’t want to cheat this time and bring my streak validity into question, so I did proper laps around the house to finish them out. Was tempted to play some Splinterlands at that point, but chose to leave it until tomorrow.

We put on Sex Education and I actually made it through an entire episode, but not long into the second I was out.

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General Crime, amiright, folks? Just because why not? Or because dShitty mafs? Who knows. It’s long since beyond rediculous. I wonder if, even after all this time, I’ve actually recouped my investment? Doubtful.

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I can say, at least, that I haven’t spent any money on Rising Star, so in that sense it truly has been play-to-earn and I’ve built up my collection by recycling back in game. In that regard, I suppose, there’s no real balance to calculate against other than the time that I’ve spent.

Speaking of which, I don’t think I spent all that much on this game today. Only went in once or twice again; just didn’t think of it.

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Between hard dragging and collapsing early, I really didn’t have the desire to deal with the frustration of playing right after the reset and so I just went in and got my new quest for today but didn’t play any.

Of course, today was the end of the season and I finished in Diamond II for the first time in forever! 💪 Can’t say that the rewards were all that awesome, but I did get a nice chunk of DEC, a few rares, and an Untamed pack:

Nothing major coming from the pack either, but a few more cards for upgrade fodder:

I got my participation rewards for the last brawl, but I’m only half way to a Gladiator pack, so nothing to do there. Staked my SPS drop for the day, as usual, and still just waited on selling out my vouchers.

I did go in and read the post about the new special edition card…it costs 5000 SPS and 500 vouchers! 😱🤬 Five hundred vouchers alone is more than a thousand bucks, never mind the SPS!!! A thousand plus dollars for one card?! NOT.

Maybe it’s just sour grapes because I don’t have five hundred vouchers, but even if I did I don’t think I’d be willing to pay that sort of craziness. Anyway, that solidifies my decision to sell them off and reinvest the funds in something productive.

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Average Last 7 Days: 10,856

Lifetime Average: 15,091

10k per Day Streak: 3

I think it’s still going to be three more days before FitBit starts counting my streak (and rips me off two of the days I’ve earned).

Longest Streak: 204

Distance on shoes: 728.49 km
Distance on hikers: 67.07 km

#AutomaticWin Tally: 421
#AutomaticWin Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 53

#TripleTen Tally: 118
#TripleTen Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 7

#DoubleDay Tally: 229
#DoubleDay Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 37

Highest Floors: 120

Highest Daily Steps: 41,528

Zombies evaded: 0/0

Mindfulness Diary:

Health: 87%
Satisfaction: 80%
Energy: 77%
Productivity: 74%

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Power up and Hive on!