Aug. 24, 21: AutomaticWin, DoubleDay, Oculus, Garage Putzing, and Games

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Having wicked trouble uploading images this morning…been a bit of a struggle trying to get this post done. 😢

Nine to six thirty put me well over a solid eight hours of sleep! I sorta’ dragged a bit at one point, and I did try and lay down, but my mind was racing and I just got right back up and got on with stuff. 💪

Not a lot going during the morning routine. Cryptos pulling back a bit, but we were pretty hot there for a few days, so a little cool off is expected, and healthy. The weekly MACD has crossed over green for Bitcoin, remains to be seen, but that’s a very bullish indicator!

Otherwise, paced my laps for the #AutomaticWin and did my post for the day. Sunday I’d forgotten to put my exchange in on ActiFit and then Monday I forgot to post it officially, so today I finally remembered and did that in the afternoon.

Played a couple rounds of Yuki on the Oculus, a few runs on Rush, and posted up a couple new high scores on Beat Saber. Got a pretty good workout going there for a while. 🏋️

Been watching some Model A restoration videos on YouTube (so thankful for that resource!) and trying to build up the confidence to work on mine. I still hadn’t quite achieved the goal of being able to get to it from every direction, so after an attempt at crashing (like I mentioned above), I headed out into the heat.

There was a long piece of scrap wood on the floor on the backside that was meant to be a part of another project I started and never finished. I ripped this shelf out of my Mom’s dining area and made a workspace along the back wall of the garage where I have the knifemaking tools and that piece of wood was supposed to go along the back, just to help keep stuff from rolling off behind.

The wood doesn’t really look all that great having sat on the floor under the car for a couple years, but no biggie. Didn’t take me all that long to get it installed, not sure why I didn’t do it before…”looking past” it.

Decided to chuck out the pieces of wood I’d cut for a wood burner…considering we don’t have a wood burner, was kinda’ just taking up space. That made it possible to slide the table a foot or so and have everything cleared away from the car. I can get to it from every angle now!

I did a little light cleaning, just brushed some of the accumulated dust off and pulled off all the blankets and covers thrown all over it. Was the first time I’d actually exposed the engine, well, since it was moved into my garage! 😮

I still feel out of my league when I look at it…still feel stuck and without the tools to finish the job properly. Getting that head off and replacing the gasket…just don’t think I can do it by myself. I’d kind of like to replace the valve springs as well, but that’s a whole other can of worms.

I’m very tempted to try and put it all back together as is, but I think I might regret not getting everything restored while it was all apart already. Ultimately, I need to figure out what it is I really want. I want a car that’s safe and fun to drive…put put around in to a show or two, maybe do the Fourth of July parade. But then when I actually look at it, I want it to sparkle and shine and look like brand new…not sure where I’m actually supposed to get all this money I think I’m going to pour into it, I don’t really have it; Splinterlands cash ain’t real. 😛

Wenche went out for the evening, so I grabbed some leftover turkey tacos for dinner, hit the shower, played my Splinterlands quest and that was another day.

Seems like General Crime only cost me one SIM today, and the income went up again, so I’m going to call today slightly less shitty.

Seems like I only went in to CryptoBrewmaster once today. Collected the ingredient I started yesterday and started another water going but never went back and got it. Oh, well.

Just the same missions and lessons on Rising Star today. Nothing really to note at all.

Did some laps and played Splinterlands in the evening, but it did go super quick today!

Started with a couple losses, but then got a win streak.

Had three wins without neutral monsters for my quest today and got it done in Gold I. As I had feared and expected the quest potion was an absolute waste. 😡🤬

Proof of #AutomaticWin:

Got my stats for the last week. Despite having a pretty strong week last week, been keeping that activity up and got all green arrows…not counting the exercise days because I did do laps and stuff but FitBit didn’t auto recognize them.