Mar. 22, 22: Routine, Pool Shifting, Oculus, ToDos, TV, and Games

Had a few really solid nights of sleep there a couple days ago, but it’s starting to break up again. Slept from nine until four thirty this morning and ended up a good hour and a half short. 😢 I felt alright today, though, and I did get some work done, so as long as it doesn’t keep on like this I should be okay.

The morning routine was boring this morning. Cryptos are still just trading sideways and there’s nothing interesting happening. I did finally pull out of the HIVE:PIZZA pool. I really didn’t want to, but I couldn’t stand 40% against the 100+% in PIZZA:ONEUP and 270% in the THGaming pool!

I ended up staking quite a bit of the PIZZA and experienced some serious slippage in the THG market, but I think on balance I’m actually making more than I was (even though there’s ten dollars less in total that I have in the pools).

Otherwise, just the normal stuff. Did curation, hit the faucets, worked on my post, and did the Wordle and Quordle.

Went over and asked Asgarth why my center tag wasn’t working properly and we figured out that you can’t have a blank line at the beginning or the end. For some reason the blank causes the Markdown parser to mess up. Figured that should be an easy fix, just don’t have space at top and bottom, but when I tried again this morning, it still didn’t work. 🤬 I think it’s something to do with the boxes or the formatting…to be honest, I was surprised that cutting and pasting those results in worked at all! I guess, at least until I can figure out how to fix it, my Wordle and Quordle won’t look pretty. 😭

Wordle 276 5/6

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Daily Quordle #57
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That last one was either “madly” or “badly,” a fifty/fifty shot, and I picked the wrong one. 😢

After I got my post and everything done, I grabbed a sandwich for lunch and then couldn’t resist the call of the Oculus. It had been since Friday that I hadn’t played, so was itching to get back in to Zenith, but I was a bad boy…

The day I got Zenith another new game came out: Onogoro. It’s a story driven puzzler in an anime style and looked like it would be fun (saw some gameplay on Beardo Benjo’s video). I didn’t get it, since I only just got Zenith, and I’d fought the temptation since then. Today I finally gave in and got it.

Figured since it’s a story type game, that it’s less open-ended and time consuming than Zenith; so I could play it through and then go back and pick up Zenith where I left off.

It’s pretty good! Played for an hour or so and got through the first couple levels. Some of the puzzles are a little frustrating in that you have to perform a series of moves super fast, but I’ve enjoyed it so far. The dialogue is a bit time munching, but the girl is cute, so it’s not terribly annoying.

Quit out after not too long, though. Today procrastinating wasn’t a matter of choice…already procrastinated this long and had to write Exam 2 for my Algebra class since I needed it to review from for tomorrow’s class.

Took a while to get it done, but not as long as I had thought, actually. And there was still an hour or so before Wenche came home. There was a bunch of papers/things to take care of that had piled up on the kitchen table all around the computer where I work, so I decided to start tackling that.

Sorted through it all first and threw away the junk stuff or paper versions of reminders that I’d already taken care of in my email inbox. That left the water bill, rebates to mail, and the taxes.

Got the rebate forms done and ready to mail and wrote the check for the water/sewer bill (that and the taxes - i.e. local government - are the only reason we even have checks any more. 🤬), got suited up and did a quick walk down to the post office and village office. It wasn’t a proper walk, really, but I did add an extra block on and made it a little over two kilometers. 👍

That left the taxes. In the past I’ve always gotten them done as soon as I got the W-2s to avoid the stress of waiting until the last minute and to get our refund sooner (if we get one), but crypto tax reporting is insanely onerous. 🤬🤬 Have to report every single damn swap. Now, all of it has been done on DEXs and none of it has been reported to the IRS, so I’m voluntarily (at the point of a gun) trying to comply…otherwise I’ll never be able to get the gains (or losses) back out into fiat.

I keep excellent books, but organizing and sorting and putting it all together for them in the format they want (spending my time working for them for free) is a lot of extra time and effort I have to spend.

Anyways, I sat down and got started on it. Sorted through all the tax documents in that pile and then went online and got all the forms and schedules I need. I think I’m going to report all the stake rewards as taxable interest…that’s basically what it is, and that way it’s just a line on the 1040 instead of multiple other schedules.

Got everything filled out up to the crypto part (capital gains and losses), but now I have to do that part…can’t move forward without my adjusted gross income. 😡 Still, got a solid start and I’m ahead of the game at the moment.

Wenche got home but wasn’t feeling hungry and didn’t want to make anything, so I grabbed some leftover pasta 🍝 for dinner and then I played my Splinterlands quest and watched some more Human Resources until we both went to bed super early, like seven-thirty! 😮

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Well, I guess I’m happy to see my stated dShitty income rise to something other than zero, but does it make any difference? Nah, still four SIM out of hundreds, still found many many reasons not to pay what they said they would. It fails to do the one thing it was designed to (which will be my four words for today): dShitty is not realistic.

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I actually remembered to go in on Rising Star a couple times today! I got my Ego back to zero and got a couple missions done. Not really much else to note, just clicked a couple buttons a couple times through the day…woopee!

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Since I was working at the computer writing the exam and working on taxes, I was already right there, so of course I went in and messed around for a while on HashKings. 😉

Rolled up and smoked a couple pinners and got my new avatar to 300 XP but still level five. Went in and looked…the level up system is more expensive than Rising Star, it seems! 😱 Have to be level fifteen to even unlock the next joint and the XP needed for that will take months without paying to play (which I’ve already done several times, to be frank).

Got two days left on this one:

And you know it’s three days left when the picture breaks (janky much?):

Since I was already on the computer, that also gave me a chance to try out the Raid mechanic. I really didn’t have any idea what I was doing, but I put my team in and got 4 BUDS, so I suppose that’s a start on another income stream…

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I’ve gotten caught up with my Splinterlands quest and so it wasn’t such a commitment to play this evening.

Got Earth splinter for my daily quest and got it done relatively quickly, even made a bit of progress toward Diamond. I guess I finished too quickly and didn’t pay my pound of flesh, but have to say, the rewards were pretty shite today:

Otherwise nothing else going on here. Just staked my SPS and still didn’t touch my vouchers. Oh! I did get to choose a battle this time for the next brawl…hopefully it goes well!

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Average Last 7 Days: 12,869

Lifetime Average: 15,015

10k per Day Streak: 10

Really don’t know how long I’m going to be able to tolerate my numbers being this far off…have to note every day that FitBit has ripped me off five legit 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: 87%
Satisfaction: 89%
Energy: 93%
Productivity: 85%

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