Mar. 24, 21: Routine, Solid Web Work, Short Nap, Oculus, Laps, and Games

Although I made it almost until six this morning and only about a half an hour short, after the hardcore two and a half hour loss yesterday, I did struggle to get going on anything and crashed for a bit in the afternoon. 😢

Not a lot going on during the morning routine. I tried to reduce the amount of time I spend staking and transferring tokens to Solairitas by giving it basically all of my drip tokens, but I still spent a ton of time messing with that. Otherwise, the usual chatola over on Discord, did some chores, and then got my post done for the day. I watched some more WordPress tutorials on YouTube and that pretty much killed the morning.

As is mostly the custom, after I got a sandwich for lunch I started to drag. I tried to convince myself to power through and get something done, but it was to no avail, the voice just wasn’t strong enough, and I laid down. Watched a bit of Good Place (on the last couple episodes now) and got a little nap for like a half an hour or so.

Was enough to catch a second wind and I didn’t feel too bad when I got up, which was good. 😀 I really wanted to get some work done on the new site, had a couple clear goals that I wanted to achieve, but I was struggling with logging in, kept saying my account was locked, and I kinda’ didn’t want to get frustrated at the moment.

So, I procrastinated for a while and played some Beat Saber. Didn’t have much of a goal, just playing some songs for fun, but I found one that I’m not sure how I missed! I hadn’t even finished it on hard yet! Cleared it on hard and expert for the first time, but I accidentally knocked the controllers together and the right one glitches out again. 😡 They’re very sensitive like that, but resetting seems to fix it alright.

I still was struggling to get motivated, but I did sit down, fire up the computer, and got some solid work done on the new site. Finally figured out how to get into WordPress (there’s like five or six different new passwords associated with it between the hosting, the database, email, WordPress,...) and got the 301 redirects set up so now all the addresses point to the https version. That was my first goal.

Next I wanted to start editing the pages themselves with my info rather than the boilerplate WordPress stuff that comes with it. I started working with one theme, but I found it hard to have any control over anything, so I switched. The new one is better and looks pretty professional, but I’m sure I want to go in and edit a bunch of stuff.

Started building out the site structure and creating the top level pages. Need to go in and edit the single page template as well...a little frustrating that it’s so “easy to use” that everything is done for me and I don’t know how or where. I suppose that’s part of the learning curve with using a new environment and language...I can see many hours of struggle ahead, but at least now, once I’ve gone through the struggle, it’s actually done and I can progress to the next thing rather than everything being in my head. Created a Twitter account for it as well! It’s getting more and more real.

Spent several hours working on that. Got a long way to go, and the big hurdle of making the site communicate with the blockchain is staring me in the face, but step by step it’s getting there. 😁🤓

Wenche got done fairly early with work and made us some chicken and veggies for dinner.

Most of my progress today was in the digital realm, didn’t go for a walk or anything, so when I started looking towards bedtime and was getting ready I realized I still had more than two thousand steps left for the day. 😱 I was glad I caught it, though, gets easy to take it for granted that it’s already done.

Took me a little while, but I paced some laps around the house and watched some YouTube videos to keep the streak alive. FitBit counted it as an exercise, so I will too. 🏆

Once I got done, Wenche was actually getting ready for bed as well (early!) and we laid down, put on some Good Place, and I was out within a few minutes.

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Well, as soon as I said it, dCity made me a liar. Today the discrepancy in income was actually to my favor (I guess?). Taxes have increased even further, so that’s fun. At least I got the base amount and didn’t have any additional crime or crises.

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Was looking pretty bad on Holybread there for a while, just could not get a single arena win! 😡 Not sure why that happened, but all of a sudden I started getting wins again and got my tasks done for the day.

Was knocked all the way back to sixth and was struggling, but I made it back up to third again. 💪

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Still just trying to build back up my CryptoBrewmaster ingredients. Ended up a couple short, so probably will be a day or two before I can start another brew. Good that there’s the possibility, though, and I don’t have to wait until the weekend any more. 👍

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I’d been on a streak of playing Splinterlands there for like a week straight! I thought about playing today, even opened up the browser window to start, but not only was I not motivated to do it, I actively didn’t want to.

I was afraid trying to play in Diamond would just be frustrating, and after two days of playing and making no progress, it seems like a waste to keep trying and a risk of losing Diamond and getting reset all the way back like last time.

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Average Last 7 Days: 15,495

Lifetime Average: 15,307

10k per Day Streak: 39

Longest Streak: 204

Distance on shoes: 355.93 km
Distance on hikers: 37.88 km

#AutomaticWin Tally: 328
#AutomaticWin Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 19

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

#DoubleDay Tally: 159
#DoubleDay Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 5

Highest Floors: 120

Highest Daily Points: 41,528

Zombies evaded: 0/0

Mindfulness Diary:

Health: 93%
Satisfaction: 88%
Energy: 85%
Productivity: 87%

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