So someone asked me what I did today. They picked a pretty bad day to ask that question but after I re-read a comment posted under 
I fell asleep last night before I finished working on a web page. I don't recall what time I actually rolled out of bed... errr... off the couch this morning but the first thing i did was head to the kitchen and fixed a cup of coffee while 
My only rule - No typing before coffee... Patrice without coffee isn't a pleasant girl first thing in the morning.
I sat down at my computer to finish up the fore mentioned web page. It was around 30 minutes before I save the first draft on this page:
@patrice, 13 hours ago (September 29, 2017 @ 09:02:00)
9:02 AM UTC 3:02 AM CST
If you've read any of my previous posts you know by now I am not an expert in anything. I'm a hack. I good hack most days but still just a hack.
I spent a frustrated hour inserting form fields I'd forgotten in the new Abuse Reporting Form and formatting table views. All the time I'm rerunning workflow in my head to think of the most efficient way to setup the new processes.
10:19 UTC 4:19 CST
By now I've had enough of the website. I've created 2 more forms, added more forgotten fields and given up on my tables being 'pretty'. I'll settle for useful today.
Time to face the world! Cringing I open the Rocket.Chat+ & Discord apps.
Today's seems to be off to a pretty good start! While every channel I'm in on steemit.chat is lit up like a Christmas tree there are only about 20 or so mentions. And ahh... Discord is blissfully quiet with the exception of my new favorite bot giving me notifications.
My first stop? #steemcleaners-public.
One quick question there.. And a quick answer.
Next I'm off to #steemitabuse.
I need more coffee!
I start pulling up excel queries and running them to retrieve data and put on a pot this time instead of just getting a cup from the Keurig.
Back at my desk I grab a couple of Tylenol and contemplate the forbidden bottle of ibuprofen and decide that I don't need any yet. I have a couple of queries deadlocked so I restart them and start looking through the rest of the chat channels. I pretty much ignore #steemitabuse-appeals for the time being.
Nothing interesting going on so I hop into the private 
I stop into the dreaded channel... #steemitabuse-appeals and skim the names of the users wishing to appeal their blacklist status with 
I start looking through my queries and decide that it is time to write new ones. The patterns have once again changed.
By now it is 6:00 AM CST and the only useful query I have is for phishing posts.
Since chat has pinged me with mentions about a dozen times I figure I better check and see what's up!
Not much really. Mostly users on
As I said.. The only useful query I had was for the phishing posts. Time to downvote and ban. I spent some time there along with monitoring chat and responding to requests.
Before I know it my dad is calling at 12:05 AM CST. Somehow I've managed to meander my way back to steemcleaners.org and I have new users who have filled out the 'Identity/Content Verifcaiton Request Form' Yippy! I'm typing away on my mechanical keyboard half listenting to my dad until I hear him ask - "Are you working?" I kinda grunt and he tells me he'll call me back.
After taking care of a few more inquiries in chat my stomach reminds me that although I told someone I was going to go eat breakfast I never left my desk.
When I get back to my desk after actually eating lunch I pull up the information
Yeah. Let's do something else first. Uhh. Anything else. Time to check in with the
Not much really. For once I'm grateful that there are not comments on the new
Time to check for new replies to
Reading through the comments again I just couldn't ignore this one this time around:
I really appreciated 
By the time I got around to actually posting that comment with all the interruptions to deal with steemit requests and complaints it was close to 9 hours since I started my day here. Well to be fair there was about an hour I spent dealing with a housemate complaint in there, too.
Comon... what a bullshit way to money grab.
Come on... If I was here for a money grab I'd be posting two or three times a day on all of my accounts (I have 5) raking in the money and cashing out. Or as the old saying goes - If you can't beat them, join them. But that's not me. I have bills to pay and steemit for better or worse right now is my choice of a full time job even at half pay.
I'm not going to bore you guys with a full blow by blow of my day. Partly because I'd have to look it all up in my chat logs to figure what I did and when I did it! You'll notice I copied and pasted time stamps at the beginning so I can remember when I did what and at what time. I honestly didn't know it was Friday until well after lunch. Both Google & Alexa had to remind me to pay a bill due today.
It's now 6:35PM CST. I'm roughly 14 hours into my day if my math is right. Some days I think I should just set all my clocks to UTC time. A good 11 of that I have been here on steemit working and writing this post.
Not every day is like this. If it was I think I'd quit. Seriously. I'd make more money working at a local convenience store. I'd also pay less taxes and not have to deal with spammers & scammers as well as complaints from the community that I don't do enough, I should be doing it for free, I am over compensated, etc.
It's those like 
If I had to sum up what I do all day? I play whack-a-mole while herding cats and trying to catch a fish.
This is me as about as uncensored as I get. I didn't do a lot of editing except typos and I didn't go back and look at the time line of my day so I may have events out of order. Somewhere around the age of 40 I gave up worrying about keeping detailed track of my day since I no longer have a career that requires it.
Thanks for your support guys! And thanks for reading what turned out to be a quasi rant.
Now I think I might mute the volume down on my computer and take
Sigh... 
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