Aug. 14, 20: AutomaticWin, Discord, Xbox, and Games

over 3 years ago

Made it all the way to quarter of seven today, but another full hour short. 😢 It’s adding up at this point, but we’ll see how it goes.

Got the usual morning routine done in relatively short order; hit up the faucets, did some curation, checked the crypto markets, messed around over on Discord, blahdiblah.

Bitcoin recovering nicely, but we’re approaching that 12k test...ETH continues to 🚀 and I don’t think it’s stopping any time too soon!

Headed out for a solid walk and scored another #AutomaticWin. 👍

A bit warmer start to the day today. I can dig it daddyo! ☀️

Out right with the sun. Just a few puffy clouds out, but they burned off pretty quickly. We got a slight storm in the evening, but just some thunder and a light rain (FYI it appears my roof leak is fixed 😃).

Caught a different kind of tannish butterfly. For the first time, I noticed they have two pairs of wings!

Another yellowy kind of beetle:

A lone little ladybug 🐞

The milkweeds have blue balls about now...ready to spew here any minute!

This monarch was sitting still, so we had a chance to get in close. Again, you can see there’s actually two pairs of wings:

This arctic caterpillar missed the memo that it’s not snowing out:

Got another shot of one of these awesome dragonflies, but man! they don’t sit still for long!

Not seen these kind of beetle bugs before, and here I got a whole swarm of them!

Pond was quiet today. I stood for a while and saw lots of bubbles coming up, but no turtles.

The cattails are coming out now:

Shadow peeps go for walks too!

After we got back I did my post for the day and then headed over to the Splinterlands AMA. Very glad to see that Splintertalk is up and running on Hive!!!! 😃

Not too much activity on Discord yesterday, so I tended to the garden for a while and then wasted some time on the Xbox.

I had gotten kinda’ bored with Saints Row 2 having done all the missions and just tedious activities to complete, but I’m a cheevo whore like that and went back to play it some more. Did make some progress, actually...popped two for 30 gamerscore. 🏆

Wenche still been working late, so I had some cereal for dinner and a personal pie 🥧, played some Splinterlands, and went to bed super early. Hardly even got to see her! 😢 Been throwing around ideas to maybe get away for a few days here fairly soon.

Still keeping cool 😎 in my dCity. No crime today and got my SIM, BEER, and WEED. I checked out the market today, but the things I’m interested in buying are still a bit too expensive for what I have...a couple more days of saving.

Came close to missing out again today, but was able to get all my Holybread tasks done. 😁 Just about time for equipment repairs, only got like twenty percent left.

Can’t seem to break back into the top ten, but still holding strong. 💪

Got super lucky today and pulled Dragon splinter for my Splinterlands quest. 🤩 Although my Selenia isn’t very powerful, I can still do pretty well with melee, and it helps to be able to be unpredictable with what splinter you’re using.

Got on a nasty losing streak and ended up worse off than when I started. 🤬 But was able to complete the quest in Champion II with a potion.

Rewards were absolutely insulting today. I thought for a minute that today was going to be the end of it with an entire page full of less than worthless potions (I said I will quit the day I don’t get any cards). I did get a couple stupid ones, though: