Behind the Curtain Challenge

The lovely Hive account@saffisara and Hive account@snowpea both nominated me to do this challenge, thank you both so much I appreciate being in both your thoughts. It's called #behindthecurtain. It was started a little over a week ago by Hive account@freedomtowrite. As far as I have seen, so far nobody has posted a picture behind a curtain - which is confusing but on further reading this is a post all about where you Steemit! So photo's of you getting your Steemit Mojo on wherever you do it - to start out for me I do quite a bit of replies to comments on my posts while roasting coffee - and I throw the odd Dab in for good measure (are you good Bro Hive account@crazybgadventure #beamaverick ) This actually makes sense when you think about it, roasting green coffee from drop into the roaster to just past first crack my preferred roast style takes around 14 minutes generally although it depends on the origin and how I adjust the air flow and amount of gas to adjust flame height. From drop in the first 3 minutes the drum temperature drops because of the cold green coffee and the moisture in it - then after 3 minutes it levels out (turn around) and then will climb. The turn around is critical - I have more heat applied when I drop in to ensure the Turn Around temperature does not drop too low - at turn around I lower the flame and open the air flow more to stretch the roast - on full gas I could roast it way too quickly not developing flavour - but too little gas and the lack of heat could make the roast take too long baking the coffee and bringing in unwanted flavours ruining the taste. That gas level after turn around is learnt from practice. Once you set the gas height and air flow you dictate the ROR (Rate of Rise) for the coffee to roast and then it is all going to either work right or go wrong - so it's a 10 or so minutes waiting game. While I keep an eye on the roast it's a good time to catch up on Steemit.

When I'm not roasting coffee, packing coffee and preparing parcels for dispatch I work at my desk - and switch through multiple desktops including a Windows 10 VM for the antiquated accounting software I currently use. No I do not work on a ship, the off angle shot is because I set my iPhone on a timer while sat on the top of an office chair in one of those spider grip mounts -while running around to sit at the desk for the photo it must have moved a little - jaunty angle kind of suits this eccentric Brit anyway 🇬🇧 This is a ~~paperless office~~ well one day it might be, for now I just have tons of the latest work I'm still not catching up on - no doubt unaided by my constant sneaking a look at posts on Steemit! Bonus point 🍪 comment upvotes for anyone that mentions some unusual items visible in this shot (I don't count before anyone tries)

At night when I finally get home from work you will mostly find me in the Kitchen in my little corner at the end of the breakfast bar, chilling out to some Tunes and catching up with posts, Discord and generally trying to be a good Steemian. My youngest boy watches over me, along with a tablet I built many years back now from a Dell Netbook I ripped apart and slapped a touch screen from China over the top of the LCD. And you can just see the Butterfly Labs Jalapeno Miner I did a post on some time ago, 7mh/s is pointless really with the difficulty of Bitcoin nowadays but I still like it sat there doing it's hashing thing - it still amazes me how you can contribute even tiny amounts to building a cryptocurrency.

The Rules

Take a picture of yourself working on Steemit, or what you see while you work on Steemit.
Tag 5 Steemians in your post.
Use the tag - #behindthecurtain

Nominations

I was tagged in Saffisara's Behind the Curtain Challenge and also SnowPea's Behind the Curtain Challenge and given it seems many people have already been tagged in trying to make sure I don't tag someone else who already has will be hard.

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So making something for the #behindthecurtain should be a piece of 🎂

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As Steemit grows making your content stand out gives it a greater chance to be seen and enjoyed, I try to work on making one post every few days - but making it as big and content rich as I can. I don't know if this is the right way, but I enjoy the most big content rich posts - and a wise man on Steemit once said to me - make your content like the content you enjoy.

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