It's a bit crazy just how time moves so quickly. It still seems like it wasn't that long ago that 
You'd think that the initial diagnosis would hit you harder, and perhaps if it was a more serious case that would have been true. It really didn't hit hard until later that night when my nieces called me to see if I was okay. That's when I finally broke down.
The next few days after the diagnosis were a whirlwind as the doctor wanted to get the tumor out as quickly as possible. I think I probably got diagnosed on Tuesday, they performed the "radical orchiectomy" on Friday, and I was back to work on Monday.
Now, here I am eight years later and though I have to visit the doctor once a year just to be sure,
I don't really know what that has to do with the opening photo, but it was a dang good BLT I had last weekend and I wanted to share it with you.
I promised 
I smoked a rack of baby back ribs last weekend. It took about five hours, but they turned out really nicely. It's too bad that
In case you missed it, Uptober is here and the markets are already reacting accordingly. BTC is sitting over $120K and that $124K ATH is right around the corner. Meanwhile, ETH is pushing $4500, and this could be the month that it finally tops $5000 from it's ATH of $4942.
As far as the rest of the altcoins, things are yet to be determined. I'm continuing to make some moves with my HIVE. I hope to have about 20K liquid in case the price happens to move in a positive direction. If not, I will probably just power it all up and keep doing what I do here.
I'm kind of hitting the fatigue wall with all of the clicking in Rising Star game. I thought about liquidating my cards, but I don't think I would really get much for them. There was a time that my legendary pink lambo might have fetched a nice amount, but that isn't the case anymore I don't think. I never got into a lot of the other aspects of the game, but I just don't have the motivation at this point. I know there is a lot more there than just running missions, but at this point I kind of don't care.
Apparently a while ago I signed up for a class action lawsuit against Facebook. It seems there is also something going on against Amazon Prime as well, but I have knowingly and willfully subscribed to Amazon Prime for a couple decades now, so I can't really argue they swindled me into anything.
Facebook on the other hand is another story and this particular lawsuit happened to be called the "Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement". I think we can all agree that privacy is important and it's no shocker that big companies like Facebook violate our privacy all the time.
You done got caught Facebook, and as a result, I got a massive payment of $38.36 transfered to my Venmo account.
While $40 might not be much, it puts some gas in my wife's car, so I can't really complain.
Uptober (October) also means it is the beginning of the fourth quarter, so that means Travala is going to be starting their next round SMART bonus contributor tasks soon. The tasks are pretty simple and mostly involve promoting Travala on social media like X. Given my staking tier, I end up earning about 100 AVA tokens per quarter. It's not worth too much right now, but if the price of AVA gets near it's old ATH, that could be $800 in travel funds.
Not too bad... Only time will tell if that ends up being the case.
On the precious metals side of thing, I have been really interested in the posts that 
The company is called Queens Jewels LLC, and they hold the salvage rights to the Spanish fleet ships that went down in a hurricane. Apparently they have recovered over 1000 silver Reales and five gold Escudos. According to the story, the One Million worth of treasure they recovered is only a fraction of the estimated $400 million worth of riches that were reported to be on the ships.
Anyone wanna fly to Florida?!
That's all I have for you this Friday morning. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts, insights, and random photos!
All pictures/screenshots taken by myself or
