Mar. 8, 23: Routine, PIMP Meeting, Chores, Quest, TV, and Games

[Been up since friggin' one o'clock this morning. 😭 I have a feeling today is going to be another wrecked day. 😟]

Seems to me that I made the dumb mistake of having another Red Bull at lunch today, at least that's my best explanation for tonight. I just couldn't fall asleep and didn't actually until quarter to eleven. 😱

Was woken up around the usual time, two or so, and I moved out to the couch. I was able to get right back to sleep, though, and made it through until six, but still ended up nearly an hour short.

That gave me a relatively late start on the morning routine, but other than replying to Hivewatchers' response to me, it was fairly usual if not crunched. We had our weekly PIMP meeting this morning and I did try my best to get my post done before, but I wasn't even close. Didn't even finish on time, posted a good five minutes late, actually, if I recall correctly.

Went to check on the crypto markets and woah, buddy, that's not looking pretty!!!

Speaking of Hivewatchers and the other downvote vigilantes, I wonder if they ever ask themselves to what extent they are responsible for HIVE remaining a pump-and-dump shitcoin...I think that requires a level of self-reflection that isn't possible for them any longer due to being blinded by power.

I also wonder, were these whales dumb enough to pour that kind of money into this chain or did they milk the system and circlejerk since the early days before they decided to make their own rules? I mean, I'm like a new car's worth in and I feel stupid (started buying at $1.05 and its done nothing but lose value since then)...can't imagine how they must feel if it's actually their money.

Anyway, we got reds across the board today with HIVE leading the pack in the race to the bottom. I will not be surprised to see it at thirty-five cents in fairly short order...love watching the value of my balance evaporate!

As I said, spent the rest of the morning trying to get my post done and then headed over to Discord for our meeting. Was good again and we went long like last time, but we definitely seem to be getting more and more regular attendance, which is great.

I did get one actionable piece of information. I didn't know there was a reward for holding CROP in game...I don't have a whole lot, but worth a try to get it in there (still need to do it, though). Otherwise, though, I couldn't really pay as good attention as I would have liked. Looks like we may be forming another pool with STELLARUM as well and there were a couple new pimposals, so things are happening! 💪

After the meeting finished up, I got some lunch and hit the wall...crashed out for like half an hour or so. That's two days in a row! 😨

I'd felt extremely bad yesterday about how unproductive I've been, and I didn't want to pile onto that, so the only way to fix it is to try and get something done. Though I didn't quite make it through the entirety of my "lofty" goals, I did get the dishes cleaned up and the trash taken out and got a shower for myself to take care of a few mundane things I'd been neglecting and then set to cleaning up my email inbox.

Mythix domain renewal was due, but since my card got hacked I'd had it shut down and it failed when they tried to charge me, so when in and updated that information and took care of the bill.

The other main goals I had for today was to do something about Solairitas since the VP keeps going below seventy and pausing and I've been procrastinating about it for a while and to at least get started on the taxes (neither of which I ended up accomplishing), so though I don't really feel completely satisfied with the day, I do feel slightly better about myself than yesterday (did I have an original thought or make any progress with anything in that sense? No.)

I did do a little research and was able to find the instructions to make GPT break the OpenAI safeguards amd behave as it would unfettered...kinda' scary, actually, but to me that's much more fun to test and play around with.

Unfortunately, I guess it was too public (I mean, I found it not too hard) though and apparently they've already shut that backdoor...very interesting in terms of AI safety, though. Very clever to find a way to convince it to break its own rules.

While I probably should have started working on the taxes at that point, I broke out the Quest instead. I didn't play all that long, though, just a few rounds of Beat Saber and then quit before I could feel like I wasted too much time.

When Wenche finish with work, she made us French toast for dinner and we watched a bit of tube.

Once again, after getting ready for bed, I was faced with the same question as the last several days: do I accept that I didn't move around all that much and break the streak, do I lay in bed and cheat, or do I do laps or something else to try and get the steps in legitimately?

Yesterday I fell solidly in the last option, but ended up having to pace laps for over an hour and I wasn't really feeling that today, so I kind of split the difference. I marched in place in front of the TV for a good four or five thousand steps but did shake some to finish (a shame falls on my family name). Completely legit or not, I kept the streak alive for now...need to get off my duff and get outside for some proper exercise.

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Splinterlands:
I'm not exactly sure what's up with my Splinterlands rental income. I realized today that I haven't actually gotten a new invoice since the sixth, so I've been thinking the same one was the invoice for the last several days. 🤦‍♂️

As far as I can tell the rentals still seem to be going out as normal, so I'm not sure if it's the invoice system or what...I know they've been doing some work and making some changes, so maybe it's bugged? I dunno.

Claimed my SPS interest for the day but still didn't quite make it to a hundred, just shy. 🤬 Looks like I'll be swapping them out tomorrow.

dShitty:
Wow! Thirty-eight SIM? That's seriously the highest my income has been in a very long time! Yes, it's still not anywhere near what it should be (by their own accounts), but it's a heckuvalot better than the zero I had before.

My SIM power payout didn't go up today (but it didn't go down either), and I continue to maintain a positive outlook toward that development over the coming weeks.

RS:
Went in on Rising Star a couple of times today. I'd been running missions since the drunks were obscuring my Ego, but once they expired I had one percent so I'm running a lesson for now.

HK:
Whoopdeedoo? I don't really have anything to add to this one today. It is what it is.

GLX:
Though I haven't actually bothered to go in and properly check on the market, I do believe that the majority of that price decline is reflecting the value of HIVE. I swapped out my usual thirty-five and it was just under 2.8 HIVE, not making mad bank, but it helps.

WOO:
Did my usual stake and delegation rewards claim for today. No mining rewards, also as usual, but I did get another nice chunk from somewhere (maybe Pizza? Oh, maybe it was from WOO Jeopardy the other day) that I staked up as well.

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