What’s up, Hive! Way late. Past 2:00a.m. I should be sleeping but I’m uploading a video to YouTube and it’s got about 25 minutes before I close my laptop. I figured I should probably just get something on the blockchain tonight. This’ll be a freewrite again. I do want to say this about last night’s post. 
I have been brutally working towards an impending deadline for the Helios Ideathon. This is a grant proposal event in the EOS ecosystem. There’s a Hackathon, and an Ideathon, which I’ve never heard of. An Ideathon awards grants just for good ideas, not delivering final products. I’ve got ideas for days, so I made a concerted effort to do this right. One of the most difficult hurdles are pitch videos. Try talking in front of a camera for over 3 minutes without saying, “ummm”, or, “uhhhh”, or completely losing your train of thought. An incredibly frustrating how many takes I’ve gone through during this process, and I’m doing not one, not two, but three pitches.
During the last pitch, even during a great take, I accidentally lit my dried flowers on fire with the candles I’d set up for ambiance. I posted a video of this on Twitter and have gotten tons of comments about how calm I looked. I was a death match wrestler in my twenties so I tend to be unnaturally calm in the face of fire, glass, barbed-wire, mousetraps and the like. I was irritated because the fiasco ruined a good take, but overall, it was a funny moment that has gotten a lot of laughs from friends like 
Another hill I had to climb was documentation and creating graphics to illustrate the process. Not at all me strongest suit, but by the end of this pursuit I did learn how to use LucidChart which is a net win for me regardless of how the Ideathon grants shake out. It was the kind of growth I love talking to 
