Well, I missed...
Well, I missed the last couple of days putting a Dash together but I’m caught back up now. Last I left you I had reported that I got my truck situation straightened out and it does in fact seem to be running just fine again.
On Friday I even got to take it to make a job site visit to a contractor who wants to install a pump for an irrigation system at an apartment complex. So I quadrupled my usual weekly mileage of lately with that one little trip.
I've been super...
I’ve been super busy at my main line of work and also the evenings have been occupied with cranking out drawings. That hasn’t left much time to do anything so that is the reason for the couple of missing days this week of posting a Dash. Let’s face it though; Saturday is the most important day of the week when it comes to Dashes since that is the day I give away HIVE.
How many of...
How many of you got the $0.50 HIVE for entering the quote contest? Did you even look to see if I actually transferred the HIVE to you? There was actually an opportunity for you to double that amount up had you caught my error and made me aware of it. But that ship has sailed so now I will tell you about it.
I wanted to give each person at least $1.00 for entering the contest but when I started adding in prize categories that meant I was short in making the HIVE stretch to cover everything I wanted to do. I could cover $0.50 but not $1.00.
So, in looking at the situation I decided to make an error on the transfer “memo” line and if anyone would have pointed it out I was going to transfer them an additional $0.50.
All the transfers done in connection with the contest that were the $0.50 HIVE had the word “quote” misspelled. I was careful not to make the same mistake on the more substantial prize transfers; I didn’t want to have to double up those prize earnings. My budget was $60 HIVE and I think I ended up passing out $84 on that last contest.
Most of you...
Most of you know that I will do little stuff like that just to keep you and me on our toes. I hate to publish stuff with spelling errors and I encourage you to let me know when I’ve screwed up, there just might be a reward in it for you and it doesn’t hurt my feelings one bit to be called out on a mistake.
I've been trying...
I’ve been trying to come up with the next contest and I think it has finally come to me while reading 
This year has been a guzbucked year for most of us with all this COVID lock down crap going on and I can tell you that a lot, and I mean a whole lot, of traditions have been broken this year because of it. The class of 2020 can testify on my behalf as to the extent of traditions broken like prom, after prom, senior trips, and graduation ceremonies and parties just to name a handful.
Those are all things they will never get back and the traditions of those have been broken now. How long those will remain broken will remain to be seen, it could be just this year or it could go on for quite some time.
I am struggling...
I’m struggling right now with the details(rules) for the contest. I think it is a good theme, “Family Traditions”, but how to go about it is what I’m struggling with.
The contests I normally do are simple and easy and pay fairly well and I would like this to be the same way. Pictures wouldn’t really convey the story of your “family tradition” but they might add to the story. I think we can pretty much agree that it would have to be a written story, but what length?
Then there are the prize categories? Plus there is the all important defining the term “tradition”? How long do you have to something in order for it to become a tradition? As you can see we are going to have to put some thought into this contest. Yes, I said “we”.
I am looking...
I’m looking for suggestions and whatever help you want to offer. I think I’ve got the prize money covered, I still have over $100 HIVE in my poker account and a very sweet lady sent me $25 HIVE to put towards my next contest too, so not really looking for prize money, mainly ideas.
I have to think that we’ll need a category for the best “broken because of COVID” family tradition too. My guess is that plenty of family reunions that are set at 5 or 10 years intervals have been nixed because of COVID.
One thing I...
One thing I discovered by accident with my last contest was that the contest needs to have appeal to all countries and cultures. I have to believe that no matter where you live and what culture you are in that there are traditions.
Those traditions might be called by some other name for your local but if your reading this Dash then chance is you can make the translation to your native language.
Seeing that it...
Seeing that it is Saturday I need to do the Saturday Hive Giveaway and something I have done in quite a while is go pick three winners at random from the multitude of accounts here on HIVE. So I’m going to break away for a couple minutes and scan the most recent posts on HIVE and see if I can find some new folks to give away some HIVE too. Listen to Hank Williams Jr. again and I’ll be right back.
Okay, I'm back...
Okay, I’m back with the first winner this week and it is 
@jimenadaniela/it-is-what-it-is
Next we have 
@madesanchg/what-you-don-t-know-about-me
The final selection this week goes to 
@factsfirst/facebook-plans-to-announce-qanon-content-crackdown-next-month
That will do it for this week’s Hive give away and congratulation to this week’s winners.
Let me know...
Let me know what ya’ll think of the next contest idea, I am excited to get another contest underway soon. I don’t like holding on to other folks HIVE any longer than needed so the sooner we can nail down some details the sooner we can start the Family Traditions contest or some other one.
Enjoy your weekend!
Until next time,
Sult
FYI: As like always; any person mentioned by name in one of my weekly give away posts receives $1 HIVE as well so