The post I never thought I'd write!
Hello! I'm not really a frog, though I do jump around a lot - mostly between playing p2e games, reading, and cooking, or reading and chatting about games and cooking. I also love taking long, warm baths, sleeping, and arguing with my friends about whether medieval people drank water or not. (I think they did. If the village well only supplied water for laundry, there wouldn't have been a death penalty on poisoning wells.)
ASL? Is that really important? Forget the first two. For the last, I'm from Sweden. But I spend most of my time online, which in many ways is a world in itself, so I don't think that really matters.
I came to HIVE through watching streams that were mostly centered on the WAX blockchain, NFTs and games, and suddenly they were all talking about Splinterlands and Rising Stars, so I figured I should check it out. I decided I like RS more, but maybe if I win enough Splinterlands cards from all the generous giveaways I enter I'll try a few battles again. For now I rent them out hoping to earn something from that.
Then I was told I should comment and upvote posts on HIVE blogs, and join curation trails, to earn more HIVE to buy RS cards... so here I am. My first post was an entry into a @dbuzz contest about architecture, and I had an idea about continuing to post and enter contests there. But while I love reading short, informative, nuggets of text, I've found that I am unable to write them. I either blather on and on, or simply send an emoji.
Within 24 hours I discovered that my votes were pretty much worthless, both to me and to the person whose post I voted for. It takes quite a lot of HP to make a difference, and not run out when trying! So I sent some WAX over, bought a few starbits and powered up my HIVE, but even that wasn't enough. Then @daje10 kindly delegated me 40HP in addition to the 20 I had scraped up, and after that I also managed to convert a few Banano to LTC and transfer those, so now when I upvote, it's sometimes worth a fraction of a cent! 👍
Is it all about money, then? No, not at all! It's about having fun and enjoying life on a budget. Clicking this faucet or that, trading the coins for some other coin, to buy an NFT I like or a game asset I need, without putting "real" money in. Or taking any out, for that matter. Plenty of the NFTs I love the most will probably be quite worthless - moneywise - as soon as people jump onto the next trend. But if they are fun, or beautiful, or perhaps made by a friend or someone I look up to, there's a value in that too, and I'll keep them for that.
What kind of posts can you expect from me, if you decide to follow my story? Well, since I suck at writing book reviews, I guess it'll be something about food.
See you around! Let's hope this post isn't such a disaster that I never post again ;)
Hey @lovesniper and @traciyork ! Here's the intro-post!
(Pictures all mine, taken with my old iPhone, looong ago.)
Velcome freuline...
Only thing that's missing on this post is a good amount of beer.
A little too early in the day for that here, but maybe I'll have one with supper :)
It's always beer time somewhere in the world so it is never too early LOL
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Thanks for the welcome! There does indeed seem to be communities for everything I can imagine, and then some! :D
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After reading your first paragraph, I was pondering the question for the moment (like, of course they drank water, right? Wait, did I just assume they did... nah, they definitely did) then I scrolled down to the first photo, and it took my brain way too long to process what I was seeing. 😂🤣
And yes I agree - it's all about having fun. To that end, here are a few additional communities (seeing that you've already subbed to a few) you might have fun with -
LeoFinance - lots of coin & trading information there
Hive Book Club Community - because you like reading
Hive Pets Community - in case the feline in your second picture is yours 😊
Since you like contests and you're trying to grow your account, I figure I'll add a plug for my monthly Hive Power Up Day initiative. If you power up at least 10 Hive on the first day of the month, then write a post about it with the tag hivepud as one of your first 5, you could have a chance at a bunch of cool prizes. This is my announcement post for November's, to give you an idea - It's here! Hive Power Up Day for November 1st, 2022.
As I said in my other comment last month, feel free to shout out with any questions you have, and please post again as this was far from disastrous! 😁
Thanks!
Some people do indeed claim that everybody only drank ale and wine in the middle ages, because the water was too filthy. They also point to account books, showing that people were paid in ale. It's true that sewage was usually led straight into the nearest river, but that's not where the drinking water came from. Water in wells is clean because it seeps through earth and sand. It's also free, which is why it doesn't show up in account books. And my bath water looks dirty because the t-shirt was new and leaked it's dye 😹
The cat was indeed mine, or I was his. He only lives in my memory now though.
Thanks for the reminder about Hive Power Up day! I did already set aside a few HIVE for it, instead of powering it up all at once, and hopefully I'll be able to get some more until Dec 1st.
Hej, välkommen till Hive :) Det är sant att man kan tjäna lite extra crypto här till att använda till något annat och ha kul tillika. Finns int många svenskaspråkiga människor här men roligt att jag råka se denna post!
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Tack! Jag hade inte funderat på om det fanns några fler svenskspråkiga, men nu är vi minst tre :)
You need the water to make the ale too! So the penalty for poisoning the well may not be enough to make the case. HOWEVER I’m on your team, of course they drank water- right?!
Hehe I love that opener! I’m so glad you came over to join us!
If you do decide to post a review, we are celebrating NaNoWriMo (say that 5x fast 😂) here on hive! Fiction writers post under the tag #hivenano2022, and then you pick one, and write a review in the Hive book club community! There is a 30 hive prize pool for reviews 😉😁
If not, we will always take food! Hehe is that a sliced sausage on the plate? Wait don’t answer that, I want to pretend it’s a cool mysterious European veg 😂
Okay enough rambling from me! Hey, don’t be nervous here, everyone is awesome! Hive encourages the best in people from my experience 😁. I’ve been here almost three months and I’ve received nothing but support and help. If you have a question, ask! We’re here to help each other 💕
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Yes, of course water was needed for brewing and cooking too, and no one would have used dirty water for that. Or for watering their animals either.
NaNoWriMo again! That means there'll be plenty of new books over at Smashwords, which I'll have to check out. :) I really do suck at writing book reviews, but thanks for the invitation. I doubt anyone would be happy with my "Uhm, I liked this book. Really liked it. Because it is the kind of book I like. And the cover fit the story."
The food is indeed "Sliced Mysterious European ingredient with sauted spinach and fried rice!" For some reason, the shops are full of this ingredient around all our larger holidays - Easter, Midsummer and Christmas - and I got tired of looking at it, so I decided to make a few cuts in it to see if it'd look less boring.
Welcome to Hive @treefrognada, I'm sure you are going to have loads of fun, meet people from all over the world (I'm from sunny South Africa by the way) A rising star for sure, food is one of my favourite topics as well, looking forward to seeing more of you 😊
Thanks! I took a look at your latest post, the marmalade and cheese sandwich. Orange marmalade and cheddar go so well together it's almost indecent! :D
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Bathing in the woods - I dig it. You're my type of person.
Question: Was that bathtub custom made for using outside or... Did you actually bring it all the way out there
Regardless, a warm welcome to Hive! We're an awesome community that comes in all shapes and sizes!
It's just a regular bathtub, like you find in any bathroom, which I put outdoors. We were living in a tiny cabin in the woods at the time, with no indoors plumbing, only a spout with cold water on the outside wall. So it took a couple of hours to heat enough water for a bath, but it was well worth it!
Oh wow, thats... that's nice. Must've been quite a unique experience I bet.
Any chance, you had any unwanted visitors pop into the showers like say: Bears? Chipmunks?
This youngster spent a couple of days lying around in the blueberry bushes about 3 meters from the front door! He was quite nice about it though, let me go around doing my stuff, and even take this picture.
purrfect foodie :)
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