Hello Hive account@mcslim82! This is Hive account@traciyork from the Hive account@ocd (Original Content Decentralized) curation team. We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive and introduced yourself to the community - congratulations and welcome! Your story sounds a little familiar, but I'm in the Northeast, my husband used to work as a com tech (semi retired now) and our 3 kids (in their 20s) are living with us at the moment. I need to borrow your strategy though, as my son hasn't shown an interest in Splinterlands yet (doesn't help that I haven't given it a go yet...lol). I keep telling him it's an awesome community as well as game, but maybe if I get him a spellbook it will seal the deal! :D

Speaking of community, we have many different ones here on the blockchain, devoted to all kinds of interests. Here's a link so you can check them all out - Hive Communities. I see you already found Splinterlands, and you might be interested in the Hive Gaming Community as well.

Also, as Hive can sometimes be quite confusing, the newly launched Newbies Guide is a growing repository of useful and easy to understand posts about how the Hive ecosystem works.

Please be aware that Hive is a bit different from other social media platforms since you are monetizing your blog, so it is important not to include content that you don't own without sources (and it shouldn't exceed 50% of the post). For more information, check this post - Why and How People Abuse and Plagiarise by hivewatchers.

In addition, since you're new, you may run into an RC (Resource Credits) error when trying to comment/post because you don't yet have enough Hive in your account yet. For assistance with a temporary delegation to get you started, be sure to check out the Gift Giver site.

If you have questions, feel free to hop into the OCD Discord server and we'll do our best to answer them, and again welcome to Hive!