HPUD April 2023

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It's April first, and a new month! I do hope this one will be better than the last. It wouldn't surprise me if plenty of people thought "Well, Treefrog, she dropped out. I guess she didn't really care." That can't be helped. I got a cold that turned into pneumonia, and simply had no energy to sit at the computer and write cheerful comments on people's posts, much less write anything original for my own blog. It wasn't all bad though: nobody could tell me to get up and do stuff when I started coughing as soon as I moved, so I got weeks and weeks of reading and drinking tea in bed! It's not over yet, but I do feel a lot better now, and can even walk more than five steps without getting winded. That's a good thing too, because there's a sale on rice this week, and it's a 30-minute bus ride to the store. Two 5kg sacks for the price of one. Quality rice, jasmine from Thailand and basmati from Pakistan - no Uncle Ben's junk in a microwave pouch!

Another good thing is that I had set aside some Hive just in case I wouldn't be able to earn enough for the HPUD. So I'll get the badge this month too. And maybe, just maybe, I'll manage to write something interesting enough for a few upvotes this month? I certainly hope so, because I want to keep collecting badges!

Life is full of good things, it's just a question of how one looks at them. For example, I'll have a lot of catching up to do reading through all the posts people have made since March 11th. That is good, because now I'll not have time to get bored!

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But all those good things wouldn't feel as good if there wasn't some bad to compare to, right? My main annoyance today is an app called wasder. I happened upon a post on Medium saying to sign up, add Splinterlands as a game I play, and I'd be able to claim a free Spellbook. I've probably clicked the claim button 2k times by now, and nothing happens! Since there are only 1000 freebies to claim, and there are 934 left now (there were 956 24h ago, does anyone really belive free Splinterland spellbooks would be claimed at a rate of 20 per day?) I think something is not working. So I emailed the people behind the app saying the claim button doesn't work, the verify email button doesn't work, and I can't find the desktop version they mention on their website. Their reply was that I'd get an email next week *if* I had claimed a spellbook. Not very helpful!

First thing I realised when I worked customer support is that it's Number One Important to answer the customer's questions, even if I think they are irrelevant. After doing that, I can add any extra info I think the customer should have. Maybe I should apply for a job with this company? Or maybe not... I googled them and wasn't impressed.


Image credits: 1) Coin by @doze, funny hat from pngkit.com, typeface Dozen by KennyLKC - all put together by me in Apple's Preview. 2) Screenshot of the wasder app, taken by me
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