Feb. 13, 22: Routine, Grocery Shopping, TV, and Games

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[I’ve got teaching all day today (been prepping) and then Model A club meeting tonight, so a busy one lined up. Getting a super early start on my post today, though, to try and get ahead of the game.]

Had a pretty solid night’s sleep for once last night! 🥳 Fell asleep a little early (slightly before eight) and made it until five sharp. I did wake up a few times during the night, but I’m going to call it close enough. I didn’t sit down at the computer at all, but I did get some stuff done and barely dragged at all in the afternoon. 👍

I will admit that the morning routine was relatively high stress this morning. Did all the usual stuff, check my PeakD notifications and wallet, checked Discord pings, hit the faucets, all that, but when I checked on the crypto markets things were looking red again. Particularly, MATIC was down even more and when I opened Metamask to check all sorts of trouble started happening.

First, it seems that the bonus APRs are starting to get phased out; there’s no bonus on lend or borrow now for USDT. That definitely changes the calculus…sure, I’m still earning a (tiny) bit of interest, but now I won’t be getting that influx of liquid to pay transaction fees. 🤔 Considering how low the rates are in comparison to the pools here on Hive, I’m wondering if it might be time to bridge over.

Even more frustrating, though, was that the Aave site was unstable and had trouble loading and then when I went to claim the interest I’d already earned, it just fired an error. I tried several times through the day, but no change. Makes me acutely aware that to a large degree I’m utterly at their mercy…if I can’t get to the site, then I can’t get to my funds or do anything with them. 😱 I suppose that’s true of any platform where you park funds, though…not like it would be any different for BeeSwap or H-E or any other exchange. [It has been fixed now, but still no bonus APR on USDT]

Did my post and decided to trust the scheduling function for today so that we could head into town rather than sitting and waiting for me to be able to post before we go. As far as I can tell it went fine, and glad I scheduled it because I would have missed it by like half an hour if I’d left it to remember (although I probably would have set an alarm). Either way, it’s getting near quarter past ten now and that’s a pain in my ass, so I guess I have to get skipped again soon. 😡

Anyway, we headed into town to do the grocery shopping and we had a couple extra things on the list…needed toilet paper and animal lunches. We ended up grabbing some big packs so that we don’t have to worry about either for a while and we found a new set of windshield wipers for my car. With that extra stuff, we crushed two hundred bucks today and didn’t hardly get any meat! 😮 I haven’t put the wiper blades on yet, but I’m hoping they will make a positive impact on my ability to see. 🤞

We got home and put everything away and then Wenche was working on the laundry, so I cleaned a little in the kitchen, did the dishes in the sink, emptied the dishwasher, folded and put away my laundry…some odds and ends chores stuff.

That was basically it, though, now that I think about it. Oh! There was a dish Mom lent me at Christmas that had been sitting on the counter, so I decided to get suited up and walk it over to her. I only went to her place and back, just a couple blocks so not worth actually counting, but got a few legit steps in on top of the grocery shopping.

In the evening I played Splinterlands and Wenche made us chicken and rice and salad for dinner and we finished out the season of Disenchantment (didn’t last us long 😢) and we hunted around for something else and started watching Sex Education, which seems pretty good.

I fell asleep watching (had finished out my steps for the day) and woke up and brushed my teeth when Wenche came to bed later.

What can I say that I haven’t already said a hundred times before? It does appear that the current extreme level of dShitty shittiness isn’t “transient,” but is a new paradigm. I suppose the bonus effect is that it really doesn’t matter if there’s crime or not, broken promises either way.

Once again, nothing interesting happening with Rising Star today. I did a couple missions, as usual, and that was it. Getting into that boring middle phase where it’s just slogging levels and nothing is going on. I suppose I am over 56K Starbits, so I should probably find something to do with them; might be time to check out the market again.

Played out my Splinterlands quest in the evening and I was quite pleased by how well it actually went! I figured I’d likely get a solid losing streak and be barely hanging onto Diamond at this point, but I’m even close to Diamond II! 😯

Not much time left in the season, and I have a meeting tomorrow evening, so I’m really tempted to leave it where it is, but man! it’s soooo close!!!!

My quest for today came up Snipe again, but I wasn’t trying to deal with that up at these levels. Switched it up and got Death splinter instead. I was a bit worried that it would pose somewhat of a challenge, but the ruleset were fairly conducive and I made some progress. Pretty good rewards today. Got a little DEC and a couple cards included that yummy rare:

Staked my SPS drop for today, not really too much question about it at this point, and I didn’t make any more moves with the vouchers I have left sitting on the market. They were still up around two dollars and I keep getting that itch, but so far haven’t done the deed (sold half, then half of half, now I just have that quarter left there, approaching two hundred in game again, so not sure whether to move more out or leave them in the hope that the special edition card will be worth it…)

Average Last 7 Days: 11,234

Lifetime Average: 15,093

10k per Day Streak: 1

Got like three more days before I get my streak photo back and even then it’s probably going to rip me off two days. I can say that I earned today’s steps properly and didn’t cheat to finish.

Longest Streak: 204