Dec. 13, 22: Routine, PIMP Meeting, Exam Stress Again, World Cup, ...

[Dangalangit! Yesterday was as stressful, if not more than Monday was, and this morning is shaping up to be about the same. 😨 It’s seven thirty now and I’m done with the basic skeleton of my post, but I still have to write up the Algebra exam and try to get my post done…priority dictates I get the exam done first, so we’ll see how it goes, my tummy seems to be going frigging nuts as well right now. 😢]

Wow! Slept from nine until six this morning for bang on eight hours of sleep. I’ll admit, though, my sleep in the morning was pretty shallow since I was thinking/worrying about the exams and all the stuff I needed to do today.

Getting up at six did give me a slightly early start on the morning routine and I did all the usual curation, token shifting, checking the crypto markets (which are looking quite nice…BTC popped up over $17k and seems to be following a bit of a bull trend - SBF got arrested and there were hearings in D.C., so I have a feeling that has something to do with it), and got to work on my post.

Got it done early and in time for the weekly Pimp meeting over in the Alliance Discord. Fun meeting, as usual today, and we talked about CraftINK and SPL Land and a few other projects on chain…didn’t pick up anything new this time, but that’s alright, I still seem to have a massive hard on for INK right now anyway…plowed through most of my liquid. 🤯

Mom had cataract surgery the other day and had an appointment to get the patch removed and get checked up this morning (and it would have been dumb to try and drive with one eye closed and the other still with a cateract) so I left the meeting a bit early and took her into town. The driving killed about an hour, but I did use the time there to start constructing the Calculus final exam.

I got home a little before noon, and was smart and got gas while I had free time rather than adding to the stress I already knew was coming in the morning and then grabbed a quick sandwich and got back to work properly on the exam. I got it done and scheduled right about in time for the kickoff of the first semifinal match of the World Cup (priorities, right? 😛 Unfortunately, I’m going to be proctoring the Algebra final during the game tomorrow 😭😭).

Today it was Argentina versus Croatia…wasn’t quite sure what to expect (the unexpected eh?) but of course Argentina were the favorite. The game did go as you would actually have expected with Argentina dominating three to nothing. Croatia had a good run, but they were going to have to dig deep and play a perfect game to win this one (which they didn’t).

During halftime I started working on, well, basically creating an entire other version of the exam (and worked through the problems) for the review class in the evening. I figured an hour was not likely to be enough time to get it done and the game was more or less over, so I worked on the review while I watched the second half.

Once the game finished officially I finished up working through the review (it had been a while since we covered some of it, so it was good review for me too), got myself a bowl of cereal for dinner and got in the shower. I had everything set up for class and still had about fifteen minutes or so, so I fired up the laptop and got a little bit done writing the Algebra Final before class started.

It turns out that I needed to change one of the questions (since it turned out to be redundant) and we didn’t cover that one, but we did go through an example of all the other types of questions just about in time (went about twelve minutes over).

I was jazzed up after class and kind of hungry, but not enough to properly make something, just had some Snickers laying in bed. We made the mistake of putting on a movie then: Artemis Fowl, and I quite enjoyed it, but that meant it was like approaching ten o’clock before I even started getting ready for bed. We put on some Superstore, but even that didn’t put me to sleep until nearly midnight! 😱

There were two Well of Wealth challenges that I could complete by running a twenty-four hour run, so even though the contribution to the season rewards would suck for the day, I decided to go for it…going to be weird having that urge to reset and not needing to for a whole day. I’m still not anywhere close to the Cashmere Wombatium, though, so still doesn’t look like this season is going to be worth it (looking at like $.3 so far 🤬).

[Well, hrm, looks like I do have “priorities”…already after eight o’clock and have I worked on writing the exam? Nah, been trying to get this post done instead. 😛… Alright! Twenty to nine and I’m right around thirteen hundred words, that means I’m good to go with my post, already got gas, so got a good two hours to work on the Algebra exam, should be ok. 😁]

Nice! dShitty stated income has gone negative and they just paid out token dust and no SIM. Their statement that they’ve “paid out more than players have put in” rings sorta’ true since I can’t imagine anyone wanting to sink funds into this anymore.

My Rising Star Ego is finally back to zero with the drunk fans having expired and I’m keeping on with missions. I am actually coming up on the next level…only another year or two before I unlock the next mission.

Yay! My Splinterlands rental income went up slightly again. Up to $2.5 today but the fee was up again as well, like 7.6 SPS, the highest it’s been. ☹️

Did the usual claim and paid the rental fee and left the rest liquid…with the fees being so high in SPS terms, looks like it’s going to take me a bit longer than three days to save enough liquid to swap out, already been two and only like halfway there…I still kind of want to get some more INK so I really hope another project doesn’t pop up in the meantime!

HK:
While I’m considering even ditching this entirely from my posts, for now sucking out a few extra words about HashKings makes it have some value for me.

GLX:
Still cruisin’ with the Genesis League stuff, just staking it all. I guess they implemented pack staking as well today, but I don’t feel even the slightest urge to buy packs. So far I haven’t put anything (except time/attention) into this one and I intend to keep it that way (I wouldn’t have touched it at all if it hadn’t been for the airdrop).

WOO:
Looks like my stake rewards have recovered more or less, not quite back above sixteen, but better than the ten I had fallen to. I got another card from the Pizza server pack opening this weekend and staked it, but no mining rewards per usual.