July 7, 22: Routine, Errands, Oculus, Dumpster, Upstairs Work, TV, and Games

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Fell asleep shortly after eight and made it all the way until about five! 😮 I still ended up about a half hour short altogether, but considering how much I have been losing lately, I’m going to call it good.

Not a lot going on during the morning routine, just the usual. BTC is bouncing a bit and it’s good to see it back above twenty thousand! We’re hitting up against resistance around $22k, though, so we’re not nearly out of the woods yet, but at least for now we’re seeing a little green flashing. 👍💵 ETH also rose quite quick and I lost some more on Polygon relative, but at least I’m better off than I was a couple weeks ago.

Did the usual token shifting and did a little more work on the Mythix Discord server. Worked on my post for the day, but I wanted to make sure to be back in time for the dumpster which was scheduled to come at any given time today, and I never really got around to finishing it properly.

Headed into town and hit the bank, the smoke store (which was a bust because the front door was locked for some reason), and the puffity-puff store. I was running a bit low (probably cause I had break and smoked more), so I got an extra eighth this time to hopefully stay ahead for a while.

Got back from my errands with about two minutes left to post and I just posted it as is, but the dumpster wasn’t here yet, so mission accomplished there. At that point the rest of the day’s plan was dumpster and clean upstairs, but I had no idea when they’d actually show up.

Yesterday I got an invitation to beta test Into the Radius (an awesome new RPG on the Quest) but I didn’t want to play since the analog stick was going to make it suck…I couldn’t resist it any more, though, and jumped in for a bit. So far, pretty cool! The stick is annoying and there’s beta glitches, but fun so far! 😁👍

Speaking of the controller, I hate to replace it, but it’s looking like it’s going to be necessary. 😡 I had a realization, though, and it was so dumb. The reason the Oculus controllers are out of stock (and being sold for $200) is because they’re now Meta Quest controllers. 🤬🤬 Those are in stock and being sold for the normal price! I can’t believe I didn’t realize that before. Anyway, probably going to bite the bullet, get a new one, and hope it wasn’t a software issue.

I didn’t get to play for very long, though. After about a half an hour, maybe less, the dumpster appeared. I went out and helped to guide him into place…didn’t get as close to the house as I had hoped and did some serious damage to the front and side lawn, but it is what it is.

That was basically the rest of the day. I got all the insulation and crap that was piled up in the garage out first and then the stuff that I’d already carried down and set on the front porch. Then it was time to head upstairs.

My goal for the day was the garage and porch stuff first, then the big pile of drywall stuff in the middle of the room upstairs. I did accomplish that goal and some more on top. Hauled out the bags of insulation I’d already filled and a big garbage can full, plus three or four bags (easily fifty pounds each) of plaster that I’d bagged.

Even more fun, I actually had to move all of that stuff twice. First haul it over and throw it out the window, then move it to the front of the dumpster and pile it up again so it doesn’t get in the way of the rest of the stuff.

Unfortunately, the dumpster is far enough away from the house that trying to throw the wood pulp insulation out the window just doesn’t work. Going to have to go in [today] and get some concrete form tubes to make a chute. We have the dumpster until some time on Tuesday, but I have the Libertarian Convention on Saturday [tomorrow] and I’ll be gone all day, so I’m feeling the time pressure for sure. Still, I think I’m being pretty smart getting all the big/heavy stuff out first…then it’s mostly just the insulation, which is a lot lighter and easier for the most part (except where it’s mixed in with plaster).

Pushed it probably farther than I should have, but wanted to finish that big pile, so I did and then got a nice hot shower 🚿 (floor turned black when I started 😮) and Wenche made us steaks 🥩 and tater tots for dinner.

I popped some painkillers and laid down to watch some more of The Neighbors before passing out hard.

Dang it! If it weren’t for the Bank robbery, I would have done well again on dShitty. Still, the income is positive and double-digits, so that’s something.

Seems like I ran a lesson today on Rising Star and then pretty much forgot about it. My Ego is back to zero, though, so it’s missions again. Seems I got to the next level as well, woohoo!

Yeah, with everything else going on today, I didn’t really even think about sitting at the computer let alone dealing with HashKings. For now it continues to sit.

Man! It’s now been six days since I played Splinterlands and I’m waaaay behind on the season. 😱 It was already pretty late by the time I went in to claim my SPS drop, and I just staked it up for the day. Vouchers still haven’t moved much, so didn’t do anything with those.

Time was running out on my guild brawls, though, so I made sure to get those done and then pretty much passed out.