June 29, 21: Routine, Errands, Helping Mom, Oculus, and Games

Well, I generally try to post every day at ten in the morning give or take a few minutes, but today is HF25 which is supposed to take place at ten, so figured I should get my post mostly done early just to avoid any stress.

At the moment, all the consensus witnesses are running the new version, so I don’t see how we haven’t already forked, but it’s not official anyway, and things are still working right now, so it can’t be. 🤣😝

Got up about quarter to five this morning and a good hour and a half short. I was surprised in the evening when I sat down to watch a bit of TV, I totally crashed out for an hour. 🥲

My throat was feeling slightly better today, so that’s progress, and I smoked about half of what I normally do…still more than I really feel is making progress, but baby steps, I suppose.

Did the usual morning routine. Cryptos showing a little green, which is nice. I decided to swap out half my DAI for MATIC and was trying to swap out FIRE for MATIC to stake my income, but Polygon was having wicked problems. Ended up with like four or five transactions without any hash. 😡 Had to wait for a while, but I did finally get my transactions done…just have those pending transactions sitting forever in my wallet now (which is annoying - and you have to pay ETH to try and cancel them).

Was getting ready to head into town to the puffity-puff store when Mom called and said her kitchen overhead light had zonked out. Went over and it was pretty clear that the ballast had blown (both bulbs out, buzzing noise, and flicker when shut off). Figured it was unlikely to get a replacement ballast and those old tube lights aren’t very efficient anyway, so we decided to replace the fixture entirely.

I walked around the hardware store and found a couple possible replacements, but then I decided to check out the bulb isle and booya! they had replacement bulbs exactly like the ones I took out but LED. If that worked, that would be ideal, not have to replace the fixture and get LEDs.

It said plug-and-play ballast bypass, so I crossed my fingers and got them. Plugged them in and: nothing. Turns out it’s plug-and-play or ballast bypass, so I ended up cutting the ballast out and rewiring the whole thing. But, surprisingly enough, I am able to read directions and diagrams and I did it right the first time. I said “let there be light” and there was light. 😁

In the afternoon I played another couple of chapters of Lies Beneath, a few games of Star Wars Pinball and then busted a couple new high scores on Beat Saber by setting invisible targets…extra badassery.

Didn’t really do any proper exercise today, but between working on the kitchen light and Beat Saber, I got my steps in. 💪

Other than that, Wenche made some sausages and mashed potatoes for dinner and we watched some Derry Girls on the TV. It’s pretty funny if you can catch what it is they’re saying. 😂

I remember days when dShitty was a reasonable investment…but I suppose I should resign myself to accepting this is the “new normal.”

No go again on my Holybread tasks for today. Only needed one more arena win, but just couldn’t get it and then fell asleep (napping) before the reset.

It does seem that the bot is back!!! 🥳🤑 Means I need to start caring about my ranking again. Sixth is alright, and glad I’ve been able to hold it without potions, but considering blowing a little bread. We’ll see.

I think this is the second day in a row that I never even bothered to go into CryptoBrewmaster. Wait, no, I got the wrong kind of fermentable…whatever, not putting much effort into this one is the point.

Did pound out some quests on Rising Star. No big moves today, just doing those missions while my ego is still low.

Today was the countdown to the end of the Splinterlands season, so just waiting it out. Unfortunately, the rewards caim screen fu$&ed up and wouldn’t let me claim anything because the pop-up alert bullshit was in the way. So, I don’t really have much of an idea what my rewards were.

Best I can tell, I got seven cards, all common crap except for two rare that were also crap. I guess there was some DEC, but I’m not sure how much. Greater than zero is what matters, I suppose. [let’s throw a few more million at their shitty programming]

Got my stats for the last week. Kind of expected it not to be so hot with going away for the weekend and all the rain; first Sunday in forever that we didn’t get a #AutomaticWin. 😭