Alright I apologize, I've been trying to post the cat judging video since yesterday for the winners of the Be a Curator Contest, but 3Speak has been down for maintenance and are still having problems, so I'll just announce the winners here and y'all are gonna have to trust me that Yuan chose the treats on the paper, lol:

Congrats to @novacadian and his nominees, @antisocialist, @derangedvisions, and @josediccus! Your prizes (3 HSBI and 300 Ecency points for novacadian and 150 Ecency points each for his nominees) were sent out yesterday.

I eats the treats

New Contest

The Everything Broke This Week Contest 🤣

So, earlier I wrote that my blender broke this week, but I was able to order replacement parts online (they are in the dishwasher now, excite). Then I realized my heat wasn't working and called maintenance (I rent). Turns out the electrical transformer for all the apartments in my stack (all the apartments on top of each other in a row) went out and all of us lost heat. So they got our heat on but then it wasn't controllable by the thermostat anymore and was just on full blast. I like it warm, but it was 84°F in my apartment when I woke up today and even for me that's too hot, lol. So they've been replacing the zone valves for all of our heaters, because apparently they were all borked, as well. And then, on top of all that, my food processor went out (it just won't start, I think the motor died) this morning.

Sooooooo this week's contest is: in the comments, tell me about a time something you relied on broke, and how you managed to fix it/work around it/replace it.

Yuan will judge the humans and choose two winners.

First place

will get 3 @steembasicincone shares (HSBI is votes on your posts for life, the more shares you have, the bigger/more frequent the votes) AND 300 Ecency points.

Second place

will get 2 HSBI shares AND 150 Ecency points.

the broken food processor base

Please help me to feel good by telling me about overcoming life's little challenges of things breaking all at once! LOL

Have a good week, everyone!