Lessons learned: Don't leave HPUD 'til the end of the day when you're exhausted.

I have the wonderful problem of being very tired from being on holiday. We are in Tasmania (the little island at the bottom of Australia) and today we had a great day of exploring. We managed to find and eat fabulous vegan(ish) food for both lunch and dinner, and hike up a very big chunk of land known as "Stanley Nut".

It's been a wonderful yet tiring holiday so far. And, of course, I'm now attempting to write something sensible and useful for my HivePUD post just before I head to bed. I think usually we do this soon after Brad gets home from work (mid-afternoon) but because we've been out exploring for much of the day I only powered up just now... as bedtime rapidly approaches and my internal battery looks something like this:

Nonetheless, I want to participate so here I am. Here's some proof from Brad's phone camera gallery that I was smiling and genuinely happy only a couple of hours ago.

So back to HivePUD: This is the first time I'll do this on a holiday. We're in a different state than usual and about 2000 km south of home. I'm sitting on the lounge room floor of a spacious apartment in a tiny town that two weeks ago I didn't know existed. It's lovely here, unfamiliar and lovely.

I learned from last month's debacle and moved my HIVE out of Savings a full 8 days ago. And once I saw it was showing in "HIVE DOLLARS" then I converted it all to Liquid HIVE.

Thankfully this month it arrived in time for me to power up today. Of the 74.176 HIVE I had there, I chose to power up 14.176 leaving 60.000 HIVE for me to send to my exchange to continue to pay down debts. (This has been my usual mode of operating on Hive since Day 1 and I plan to continue this until the debts are gone!)

Because I have my post payouts set to 50% HDB and 50% HP I managed to power up about 75 HP this month. (In my busy holidaying I forgot to take screenshots this month so these are approximate, other than what I can remember off the top of my head). I had a real dip in my activity straight after HivePUD last month as I think I lost my mojo.

So this month (end) I received less HP and HIVE than last month (end) but I'm still happy with the HIVE I've received. I have to keep making sure that what I'm putting in here, effort-wise, is sustainable. No point in burning myself out.

Speaking of which, I think I best go have a shower and cuddle my man. Goodnight my fellow Hiveans, wherever this post finds you 🙏