Oct. 13, 22: Routine, Errands, Exam, Teaching, TV, and Games

Slept from nine until about seven this morning, so even with moving out to the couch I got nearly nine hours. I do have to say that I’ve been doing alright on the sleep lately and I’m not dragging so badly, but I just wish my stomach would quit (and my poor, destroyed bunghole does too 😭).

I really can’t seem to pin down what’s causing it…not sure if the lunch meat I got was bad? I don’t know, but it’s been like four days now of it being in knots (and it’s not the anxiety kind). 🤕

Besides spending the lion’s share of the morning in the bathroom in various levels of pain, the morning routine was fairly usual. We got the CPI numbers today and inflation came in higher than expected. On that bad news, of course, the markets rallied (we’ve been in economic Wonderland for years now where the markets behave exactly backwards all in response to the free money they expect to get from the Fed). Cryptos caught a bit of a bid, but we’re still not back above $20k in BTC and we’re back below $.5 on HIVE. 😡 We’ve been range-bound for about a hundred and fifty days now…friggin’ boring!

Otherwise, played some Wombat games, did some curation, checked the SOL market and did some token shifting; all the normal stuff, and then got to work on my post for the day. Got a pretty solid one done (although I’m getting a little tired of hearing myself complain about one thing or another) and published on time. 😁

I dinked around for a bit after that and then I snapped back to reality and realized that it was Thursday and I needed to run into town to do my errands. So, got myself together a little and took the doggy for a ride. Luckily, my missions were successful today and I was back in time for lunch.

Got my normal sandwich, although I’m wondering if that’s part of what is messing with my stomach, and then needed to focus on writing the Calculus Exam. I’d let the laptop go to sleep since I hadn’t been actively using it…it literally took twenty minutes for it to wake up and get to a point that I could actually work. 🤬🤬 Not sure whether to just abandon the thing or what…trouble is, give it a year or two and my new one will be the same; fucking Microsoft and their “updates.”

Anyway, it took me quite a while, but I did manage to get the Exam constructed and scheduled. I wanted to go in and try some of the questions first just to make sure they weren’t getting wicked buried in a bunch of Algebra solving systems. For the most part, it wasn’t too bad…in fact, I kinda’ wondered if I made it too easy; that’s one of the tougher balancing acts with teaching…of course they want easier questions and I want them to do well and get good scores, but I don’t want to short-change them or make the course too superficial. Still, it’s not really the Calculus that would be any harder, finding partial derivatives is easy, it’s just that the systems of equations can get hairy…anyway, I think it should only take them an hour or two to do, so not terribly bad.

Practiced a couple more questions getting ready for the review and then got a shower and had a bowl of cereal for dinner. Got myself all set up for class and we walked through example problems of the types of questions on the exam. I did a bit of hand-waving on the last question since it was identical to one we did last class, but otherwise ended only about five minutes over time.

I had had dinner, but for some reason when class finished I was still really hungry. I was worried that eating so late was probably not good for my tummy, but I grabbed some leftover sausages and mashed potatoes from the other day. Got ready for bed and played some more WombPlay after the daily reset (pretty addicted to War Alliance - actually quite fun to play and got another Blood Wombatium for eighty more mining power from leveling up my Palace in Vikings).💪 Still got about five days left until the next Dungeon Master season starts, so itching to get more NFTs to stake (and thinking about saving up for the season pass, which is kind of expensive at $30)…

Watched a couple episodes of Murder, She Wrote until falling asleep around nine or so. Full disclose, I was somewhat over a thousand steps short of my goal for the day and I did some marching in place and played with the dog, but still did a little shaking to finish them out.

Got a couple crises in dShitty today. Somehow, though, they barely had any effect and I was only one less than the usual shittiness by design.

Did the lesson today on Rising Star and got my Ego back to zero. Surprisingly, no drunk fans (almost always happens about now), so it’s back to doing missions for as long as my Ego remains under control.

Yet another day goes by and another day that HashKings was not even an afterthought (well, until now 😛). I’m getting closer to feeling like I can get some work done on something, so I’m probably going to waste some time dealing with this instead of working.

Meh 🫤 Splinterlands wasn’t really on the radar today other than to go in once during the day and take care of the SPS interest.

Decided to leave my SPS liquid for now, staked up the last couple days…I already have my PIZZA for PPUD and got some more PIMP, so not really itching to buy anything in particular at the moment, but like I said, I am looking to save up for the next Dungeon Master season pass, so probably going to try and siphon off enough at least for that.

I did finally go in and check on my vouchers. It still feels like they aren’t coming in as quickly as they used to, but I did have a chunk saved above two hundred and moved them out. Haven’t swapped them yet, though I probably should have while trying price was up.

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