Mar. 17, 22: Routine, Errands, PYPT, Oculus, TV, and Games

Been getting to bed pretty late the past few days. Has something to do with the fact that my Splinterlands quest resets so late; need to try and get that back in line. Woke up about quarter to six regardless for an hour and a half short on sleep. Luckily, it didn’t hit me too bad as far as dragging, but I wasn’t as productive as I had hoped either.

The morning routine was very routine. Cryptos had gone up a bit, but ETH rose faster than BAL and MATIC and so I’m now losing even more…really looking into ways to completely unwind this now, take my losses and move on. I’m getting fractions of a percent on Aave, so not just losing in value, but paying opportunity costs against the diesel pools or even just holding friggin’ PIZZA at 12.75% APY, or SPS at nearly thirty…I mean,

I really feel pinned and bent over a barrel with this one, and now I get to face gas fees and all that bullshit getting out. 🤬 It would be so nice if I could actually go straight from MATIC to HIVE, and you can through TribalDex, but that’s not really true…there’s no liquidity and the price is off by more than ten cents anyway, so I’d lose hard even on the tiny amount I’d be able to bridge over. 😭😭

Got a bit of a late start on my post, and now that I think about it I never did actually finish it, but got to a thousand words in time, at least. Posted, shared, and dinked around on Discord for a minute and then headed into town to run my errands.

Despite the fact that I continue to smoke like a madman, I only just started rolling the tobacco I bought last week, which meant I skipped it this week and only went to the puffity-puff store and back.

Before I left, I checked in on the Oculus store to see if there were any new games (as if I don’t already have several going) and there weren’t, but Zenith: The Last City caught my eye. It’s an ambitious project, MMORPG, but it sounds like the developers are active and it should grow and improve with time. I’m definitely a sucker for RPGs, although I don’t like the multiplayer dependency, so I set it to download before I left and had the tingle of excitement and anticipation running errands.

When I got back I grabbed a quick sandwich for lunch and resisted the urge to jump in and start playing already. It had been a couple weeks since I properly attended #PYPT, and though I didn’t present a post, I did stay for the vast majority of the show. I took care of the dishes and cleaned up in the kitchen while I listened as well; how’s that for high-efficiency? 😁😛

Realized that I’d forgotten to call Mom back after she called me the other day and so gave her a ring. I guess we’re supposed to get a $400 insurance rebate, but I’m not sure. She got hers, so I’m going to keep an eye out for it, but we have different insurance companies.

At that point, I should have really sat down and got to work on the website, but I’d already put off playing the new Oculus game for several hours and I couldn’t stand it any more.

Took a little bit to get started. Had to create an account and an initial character and get logged in to a region server, but so far it seems to be pretty cool. 😁 It does have a storyline and side quests, so I did some of them (which, of course, walk you through the mechanics of gameplay) and farmed some side missions for XP.

I’m already level five, but I basically burned through the entire headset battery and several hours just melted away (which is a constant danger with this one, I think…serious time sink), but it’s neat that you can climb anything and everything as well as glide around as long as your stamina lasts; makes for some interesting movement mechanics. The graphics aren’t mind blowing, but pretty darn good for the Quest. 👍

Quit out and went over to Raven’s show on Pizza Discord for a while. I did terrible at trivia today, like even random I should have done better, but still I won some more PIZZA and was able to withdraw and add it to my stake.

When Wenche got home she made us scrambled eggs and toast and bacon 🥓 for dinner and we watched a few minutes of a comedy special. It wasn’t funny at all, though, and we switched over to Good Girls and binged that for the rest of the evening.

That was pretty much it. I called my Dad and wished him a happy eightieth birthday and talked with him for a while and then played my Splinterlands quest for the day and hit the sack.

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Went in to dShitty to get my pic for the day and it was “under maintenance”…so I assume adding some kind of bullshit to screw us harder or at least tweaking the current machinations to the same effect.

Doesn’t matter anyway, I can tell you that my stated income was zero and the rest of the numbers were meaningless. At the end of the day, all that matters is the four SIM, out of hundreds I should be getting…four fucking SIM. 🤬

Got a Bank robbery and a crises, but they have no point when you’re screwed down to nothing anyway.

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Don’t think I really remembered to go in on Rising Star today other than in the morning when I did my post. Maybe I went in again? Doubtful. Either way, my Ego is still nonzero, so I started into lessons today.

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Really nothing at all happened today on HashKings other than another day counted off my next harvest. Kind of sitting on the fence with this already, sure it seems play-to-earn, like it is possible, but I mean, I’ve already spent like 30 HIVE on this and in two weeks will have 900 BUDS…would have taken like a second just to buy them and then why bother, just buy joints or whatever.

They did announce a new BUDS staking system…could be cool, but sounds somewhat dubious in its artificiality…seemed sort of like a DeFi wannabe sort of thing, but it’s different than regular staking (so have to use the computer to do it) and they’re going to give you back some other token…I don’t know, there’s a point at which “hypertonenization” is just diluting the ecosystem: ten thousand use cases for a token or ten thousand tokens, one for each use case?

Two more days to go. At least my plant looks healthy again:

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I played my Splinterlands quest late again today and then went in this morning to try and get caught up, but it’s really been sucking, just back and forth and wicked OP decks. 😡

I had Earth splinter for my quest today, which shouldn’t have posed that much of a challenge, but it took me a while to get it done. I had Fire for today but switched it and got Life instead; so far, that has not turned out well. 😭 Still stuck in Gold II, but got another pack in my rewards:

Meh. Four commons and a rare:

Staked my SPS drop, which was more or less the same as yesterday, and even though vouchers did have a bit of a pop by about twenty percent, I still didn’t pull the trigger (currently up to only about half of what it recently was).

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Average Last 7 Days: 13,158

Lifetime Average: 15,022

10k per Day Streak: 5

Well, at this point it’s pretty much official; I now have a solid five day streak and no streak photo, so almost assuredly it’s going to rip me off two days. 🤬🤬

Longest Streak: 204

Distance on shoes: 738.19 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: 90%
Satisfaction: 86%
Energy: 86%
Productivity: 76%

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