Mar. 30, 23: Routine, Teaching, Errands, Quest, TV, and Games

Honestly, I'm trying to figure out whether or not I moved out to the couch last night...seems like I made it through the whole night in bed. 😯 I crashed out pretty early watching TV, like around eight, but I woke up around ten thirty and realized I hadn't gotten ready for bed or come close to finishing my steps for the day. I brushed my teeth and paced laps for a good half-hour or so to get my steps in and then (apparently) passed out until five thirty for a good eight and a half hours of sleep. 🥳

Got going with the morning routine (somewhat clouded by being stressed about not having a solid plan for today's afternoon class) and did all the usual morning stuff...I'm still behind with Solairitas, though, need to get that fixed. Otherwise, can't recall anything particularly noteworthy.

Of course, had to check on cryptos...got a couple somewhat harsh reds there, but BTC still holding up well above $28k is a good sign.

Yes, I do see that pop in the HIVE price, not ignoring it, and yes we did get back above forty cents (which is all well and good), but do I necessarily believe it's going to hold there? Not so much. Time will tell, I suppose.

Worked on my post for the day and got a decent one done and scheduled by eight. I got in the shower a bit late, but still managed to be ready (more or less) for eight thirty.

We had a fairly easy day today in Calculus I, just reviewing for the derivative exam coming up this weekend. The laptop has been so slow as to be useless for a while (I did get a driver update but that only seemed to help for about five minutes) 😡 and I got it started an hour and a half before class to give it time to load.

I was actually logged into WebAssign by class time (so I could make up questions similar to those on the exam) but after about fifteen minutes or so of class, it started to act up (got slow and eventually froze). ☠️💩

It had been maybe ten or fifteen years since I'd last seen it (and it was different than I remembered), but I eventually got the Blue Screen of Death. 😱😡😭 No doubt, different font, but still the same bad news (critical driver power failure or something to that effect). I improvised, though, and did my best to switch back and forth between Meet and the WebAssign on the phone.

We did finish with class about twenty minutes early and I got some lunch and did a little research to be able quickly to find the websites I wanted to reference for today and then got myself together and on the road.

Did a swing by the ATM and was a few minutes later than planned, but I made it into class with plenty of time to spare. I really wanted to have everything set before class started, but there was a group of people in the classroom for some reason and even though I told them I had class in a few minutes, they took their sweet time...not really that big a deal, but pretty disrespectful. 🤨

Anyways, for today's Calc II class, I kind of went off the rails...while I do feel bad about being off topic, I don't feel so bad if it means I might wake one or two of them up. I showed them what "fractional reserve banking" is and why it leads to bankruns...was nice to be able to clarify for them what just happened with SVB, was actually talking about current events and not something that happened a hundred years ago or whatever.

After I'd showed them how the system is rigged to take our real stuff for the pleasure of playing with their monopoly money, I showed them the difference between the United States, the United States of America, and America (one being a corporation/democracy, the next being the name of a union of states/republic, and the last being the physical landmass) and brought their all-caps name to their attention...all things they should have learned in their high school government classes, but don't since the system profits from their ignorance. 😈🤬

Not sure why it gets me so jazzed up and anxious when I talk about that stuff, but I definitely had a rough time coming down from it this evening.

I could see that I'd fried their brains 🧠 a bit and so I let them go about twenty minutes early. I did warn them to be careful if they decided to pursue these ideas, though, it's easy to get sucked into lots of time wasting conspiracy theories or do something stupid and destroy your credit.

The drive home was fine and I cruised past and into town to run my weekly errands. I hit the puffity-puff store and then to the hardware store.

My mom sent me a video the other day about this slick kind of drain that has a push-button plug/basket you can remove to clean and we ordered one for the bathroom sink but I needed some plumber's putty and I grabbed some silicone and thread tape and a whole new p-trap as overkill to try and prevent a return trip.

I'm still not sure if that p-trap is going to be the right size, but hopefully I have some options with it (it's 1.25" and 1.5", so we'll find out which I actually need and whether it will marry to the wall section or not). Either way, that's going to be a serious project fixing a problem that wasn't really all that much of a problem. 😝

I didn't want to start getting embroiled with all that yet, though, and I bet you can guess what I did instead. Yup, played some Drop Dead. I did quite well on one run amd got a lot more experience for the revolver, but I still can't seem to even get through one whole fuel canister when it keeps getting knocked off all the time and I can't remain hiding in any safe place.

Once I finally got overwhelmed, I quit out and Wenche made us French toast for dinner. I did do a little pacing laps but even with teaching all day, I was still short and had to cheat at the end.

We watched a new show today: Unstable with and by Rob Lowe...one season, eight episodes, and we plowed through the whole thing in one evening! 😲😱 That was really fun, though. Was sad that it went so fast, can't wait for some more. 🥹

Once that ended, we put on a little Cheat, which is a pretty fun game show until bedtime.

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Splinterlands:
I'd been seriously scraping the bottom of the barrel the last few days (with less than one HIVE liquid 😱), so I did swap some DEC out. That bumped me back above ten, but I did go in and buy a bit more STELLARUM to add to my pool position.

Got a dollar eighty for today, twenty cents better than yesterday, but looking at my DEC balance there, maybe it was a couple days ago I pulled out? Must have been...thought that was today? 🤷‍♂️ Buying more tokens was definitely today...I think. 😜😂

I've still got some prepay balance left, and while I hesitated (really wanted to swap it out), I staked it all again...not sure how long it's been now since I saved any to move out, nearly a month? The hodl is strong with this one.

dShitty:
So, it looks as though my dShitty income is reaching its plateue at .041 HIVE and somewhere between forty-one and forty-four SIM per day. Not sure what the next step should be, if any. I suppose for now I can just let it ride and be happy that it isn't nothing like it was before.

RS:
I had some Ego proper on Rising Star today and I ran a lesson to get it back down. Now it's under control again, and there's luckily no drunks, so back to pounding missions it is.

HK:
Nah, still haven't bothered to do anything about this. I did happen to glance at my VFT balance and was surprised to find that it actually had some value...don't think it's anything close to what I paid for it, but it isn't zero at the moment, so hooray?!

GLX:
Is it magic? No, it's probably just inflation, but my balance number go up while the value number go down. 🤬 I just have to keep a little perspective with this and remember that the only thing I'm actually paying is opportunity costs.

WOO:
Well, for the second day in a row, I went in to the site to find all zeros. 😡 I guess H-E was having some major block processing issues, so seems like that was the cause (H-E is definitely a central point of failure in this ecosystem).

Yay! Not only does it seem to have come back, it looks like we didn't lose any time! 🤑👍

Got my stake and delegation rewards claimed up along with the airdrop, but no mining rewards for today.

CS:
I increased my NEFTY stake a few days ago to try and boost my WAX passive income with the goal of getting more CryptoShots NFTs. It did improve significantly, but I'm still only looking at about .1 WAX every day or two...going to take a while at that pace. 😢

Still, been pounding out those B-Otto shots and got myself up to 219 PROX now. 🤑

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