Apr. 4, 21: AutomaticWin, DoubleDay, Grocery Shopping, Gardening, TV, and Games

about 3 years ago

Got up at five sharp this morning with two solid hours short on sleep again. Seem to ping pong between getting behind and getting back ahead again...wish that didn’t mean that my productivity suffers from me sleeping away the day! Still, not too bad today, didn’t crash.

For real, absolutely nothing going on during the morning routine. I cannot believe how low and slow the Bitcoin market is right now! Been trading in this same band for over a month now without any significant moves either way, just bouncing. 😴

Otherwise, just the usual. Got my post done and scheduled early in preparation for going out to the woods. We picked up Lady and took them both out for about six and a half kilometers, enough to score a third #AutomaticWin in a row. I did an exchange a day or so ago, though, so I didn’t post it officially.

Not a bad start to the day at all! It actually felt like the temperature it was (usually the wind has something to say about that), and it warmed up enough by the end that I took my hat off and my pants were sticking to my legs. ☀️

Hello sunshine! 😁 Nice, clear, Easter morning.

The woods are still pretty quiet for the most part, a few chirpies here and there, but not much otherwise. There’s some proper signs of Spring, though:

Speaking of signs of Spring, we already pulled a tick off Lady! 🤬 She had one bite her last week and another on her today...never remember ticks being a problem here when I was young, climate change or something, probably.

We got back and Wenche made herself some breakfast and we headed into town to run some errands (save a trip) and hit the grocery store for the week’s supplies. With the added couple of stops it took us much longer than it usually does, but it wasn’t like we had any other place to be.

Got everything put away, grabbed a sandwich for lunch and then came decision time: watch TV and inevitably fall asleep, play Oculus and have nothing to show for it, or get out in the sunshine and get some work done in the garden. I’m proud of myself, I chose the latter (even after a hike and shopping)!

The ground is still kind of hard, so I mostly just tried to turn over the top inch or two and disrupt the creeping weeds that have already started...went back over the part that I’d already done and extended it a little further.

At that point I was starting to peter out and bending over was getting to my back, so I was thinking about quitting, but I didn’t quite feel like I’d accomplished enough, so I shifted gears (and tools) and went round to the outside of the fence and cut back the overgrown shrubs there, don’t want them shading everything out.

I still felt like I hadn’t gotten much done (at least looking at what’s left to be done), but I figured it best not to push myself any farther than I already had.

When I came back in, Wenche had dinner going and we had pork chops and potatoes and veggies for dinner. Was starting to look toward chilling in front of the TV, but I was sooo damn close to a #DoubleDay that I did a few laps to get the final few hundred steps in. 💪

Did some thinking about the game/website/tokenomics but didn’t make any final decisions or get any work done on that, but not a bad day productivity-wise all told. Sat down in front of the tube, did watch a bit, but ended up focusing on and playing Splinterlands until bedtime.

Crisis, crime, and taxes...just the same old dShitty story.

Of course, not actively buying cards anymore means that, by design, my city will rip itself apart with unemployment penalty...no matter what way you look at it, you can’t win. Maybe I can start dumping off population, not sure if I even care that much.

It was a struggle there for a bit, but I did get all my Holybread tasks done today. 👍 Renewed my potions, but I only just barely had enough gold, and not enough to do anything with stats. Just trying to build back up again now.

Fifth? Man, it’s a cruel world. 😝

Didn’t really end up messing around much with CryptoBrewmaster today. I got one ingredient started, but that was it, and when I went back to check the server was under maintenance yet again. Hopefully they’ll fix the quest bug, but I’m not holding my breath.

Not made any progress or changed my balances or anything, so I’m not going to risk the photo making the rest of my post look like crap.

Well, the wall finally broke and I played a bunch of Splinterlands this evening!

Finally got the Life quest done that had been sitting there unfinished for like a week.

Set the goal for myself to get to the next Gold tier before completing the new daily quest, which was Earth splinter and got it done.

Got the quest done and got a couple more cards. At least the DEC was a little better.

Had a bit of DEC saved up since I’m not buying quest potions any more and decided to take a look at what we’re the cheapest cards available on the market. There were some fairly cheap ones of the new Nightmare, not that I’ve ever used it, but I leveled it up which makes it somewhat more likely.

Proof of #AutomaticWin: