There's a lot of ticked off people in my neck of the woods this morning. In their opinion, we probably shouldn't have had school today, but when you look at the facts, the person who runs the district made the right call. I think what makes it hard for them is that a good number of districts surrounding us did close down for the day this morning. "If them, why not us?" That's a really poignant phrase in this day and age. Everyone feels like they are entitled to something, and the selfishness is at an all time high.
Snow day, ice day, cold weather day, I have to report no matter what, so it doesn't really matter to me whether we have school on a particular day or not. That being said, I still think the right call was made. Temperatures are close to that -20 degree F mark, but not below it which is the defacto threshold for schools in the state. At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if it's that big of a deal for you to show up and do it, maybe you should move along.
As for me, I'll be here "making the bacon" as they say. I feel like the same thing applies to the crypto markets right now. As I mentioned last week, the FUD machine seems to be as active as ever. The world is in a flux of uncertainty, and the crypto markets have been reflecting that. Either that or they are just being outright manipulated. Maybe a little of both.
The sudden drop of Bitcoin down to the $80,000 range was a bit of a surprise for me, but I try not to let it bug me as much as I used to. The price of HIVE slapping down near $.08 is a totally different story. I can appreciate it being hard to know what to do in times like this. Personally, I try to view it all the same way I do a bear market. A really really really long drawn out bear market. You just keep building, because honestly what else can you do.
The spot price of silver took a sharp dive overnight under the $100 mark after pushing closer to $120 this past week. I see this morning it is back up over the century mark closing in on $104 per ounce. I think it will likely rebound. Despite the fact that stocks across the board are having a amazing start to the year, I am not surprised to see that Fortuna Silver Mining (FSM), and Kinross Gold (KGC) are struggling a little bit.
Those are pretty long term holds for me, so I am not too worried about them. They seem to be pretty established companies and I think in the long term they will be okay. I also think silver will likely rebound over the next week or so and push new all time highs. This isn't financial advice though.
I participated in a Splinterlands Tournament for the first time in a long time the other day. It was one of those Wild Anytime tournaments and it felt kind of weird using my regular foil cards since I have gotten so used to just using my Gold Foil cards in brawls. I kind of forgot how many options there are when it comes to building your team.
The tournament had an entry fee of something like 200 DEC, and as you can see I earned a 26th place finish as well as 53 SPS. Which actually equates to something like $.50 USD, so I don't know if I can really say the tournament was worth it. I'm not sure what the price of DEC is right now, but in the end I am guessing I probably broke even. I was hoping tournaments might be a way to earn some more SPS, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
In other news, I pulled a Conflicts card with my wagons the other day, but upon further investigation, it looks like two of my wagons are broken. I didn't even realize that was a thing until just now. Apparently I have to buy or make some repair kits to fix my wagons. I don't even know. I guess that shows how mildly detached from the game I have become. If anyone can give me the TL:DR on wagon repair kits, I'd really appreciate it!
My favorite Small Modular Nuclear Reactor company SMR had their 4th quarter earnings report meeting yesterday. It seems they are still unable to turn a profit with their earnings falling short of their $1.85 projection by $1.74. It's a rough time for nuclear companies with so much stuff being in flux right now, but I have a feeling once a lot of the regulatory stuff gets out of the way and production starts happening, things should turn around a bit. The price of SMR continues to hover around the $20 mark which is down from the all time high near $50, but still up from the initial offering price of $10 per share.
I finally hit the point where I have 1 million ZING staked and another million ZING pooled in the liquidity pool with SWAP.HIVE. I am not sure what I am going to do now. I think a lot of us are still eagerly waiting for the game to be released. I am kind of leaning towards selling some of the ZING that I earn, but it's hard when we don't know how much we are going to need to play the game. I don't want to short myself, but it would be cool to take some profits. Yet another instance where I have to decide if I am making the right call as the title of this post indicates.
I was fooling around with some of my old wallets the other day and I remembered that I had some ATOM tokens staked earning something like 18% to 21% interest in that wallet. I collected my rewards and realized it amounted to something like $40 USD. That's actually not too bad for only having 140 or so tokens staked. I can't say what the time period was, but it got me thinking about the days when ATOM was trading 10x where it is now over $20 USD. I'm pretty sure 
That being said, I know there has been a lot of criticism of the ATOM token due to some shady stuff they did with Elon or Trump and the WLFI token or whatever that is. Plus, the price being $2 now instead of $20 is not that great, but maybe that just means it's a good time to buy?... Again, not financial advice!
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