7 years on Hive - The 7 Year Itch

So another year has passed, it seems...
and I have extended my record of committing to something, a blockchain/blogchain called Hive, for another 365 days.

And although I don't blog daily, I am pretty much 'active' on here, every single day. Sometimes a bit more than I'd like to admit; whether it's lurking in the shadows, curating/upvoting and commenting on other people's posts, 'spying' on wallets and seeing what they are doing, giving friends investing advice, chatting on Discord or keeping the Hive and HBD market active, by selling and buying tokens regularly. Whatever you can think of, I probably do it or have done it.

~~Perhaps it's just my EGO talking but~~ I like to think that it's people like me, aside from those who keep the blockchain rolling on the technical side, who keep Hive alive. Those that do their utmost best to keep others motivated, no matter how low the value of the HIVE token itself is... and who - as an added bonus - try to churn out content that stands out from the crowd, instead of AI generated or otherwise unoriginal stuff that is mainly aiming at farming tokens.

I also try to make people smile, as much as I can ( like I am doing in my offline life too ), adding some much needed humor to this seemingly bleak world. Not unimportant, as we're living in a time where the human race seems to be heading towards a post-apocalyptic dystopian world ( if you believe the mainstream media ).

A year ago I shared an update on my first 6 years on this platform. You can read about that in: How my life changed during 6 years on Hive

In the last 12 months, I have moved house two more times, as described in Time to Move House again, leaving a (small) city for the countryside, once again.

Eventually, I ended up in what is probably my favorite house so far, in the 6 years I've spent in Portugal.

Not too shabby, right?

I recently learnt from the owner of this house ( I am renting it ), who is a friend of mine, that he will probably be staying away for a couple more months and might not stay long, once he finally returns. So fingers crossed that I can spend a nice amount of time here, from now on.

Then, last Summer as well as this Spring, I started on two new book projects. The first one called The Monster of Disco ( the current avatar on my blog and shown in my profile pic ) and the other A Book in at Least 6 Languages For (cool) Weirdos Like Me .

What else did I do?

I rented a studio, for almost half a year, as can be read in Stu-stu-studio! , only to find out, as was to be expected, that I create better outdoors than between four walls.

I also spent a month in The Netherlands, around Christmas and New Year, feeling sick most of the time. Not as fun a time as I had hoped, due to this and very cold ( compared to Portugal ). Next time I won't go there in Winter. Lesson learnt.

A couple of months ago, I bought a new bike, exchanging my electric bike for a non electric all-terrain bike ( something that saved money but I almost regret, due to the mountainous landscape around here ).