Dec. 22, 21: Routine, PIMP Meeting, Oculus, Walking, A Movie, TV, ...

I don’t really understand why, but I was up this morning at four and a good hour and a half short. I guess it was that I had to pee, but I was up anyway. Still running at low energy levels, but not so bad as yesterday and I made it through the afternoon without crashing, so that’s something.

After I got my post done and shared and had done all the usual morning stuff, I jumped over to the PIMP meeting in the Alliance Discord. I’m glad to be involved, seems like Hive account@enginewitty is working on getting that growing…and #PYPT is back (in connection), so that’s a cool synergy as well; need to remember thats happening tomorrow!

I still had a mental barrier to actually doing much of anything worthwhile, and I jumped back into VR. Picked up with Song in the Smoke and made a bit of progress on that, but there’s this huge like lion thing running around the map (and you can’t shoot it’s head, which is a bitch) and every time I try and explore around for the stones I’m supposed to find I end up getting chased and killed by it. 😡

I’m also stuck in a bit of a catch 22 since my knife broke. Need a bone 🦴 to make a knife, but need a knife 🔪 to get a bone from a kill. 😢 Means I’ve been searching all over hoping to find a bone laying somewhere…so far, no good, since I haven’t found one and keep getting eaten by the predator thing. Might need to head back to the last area and search around there.

I needed to walk down to the store to get some more bandages for my foot and the doggy seemed like he really wanted to go. I didn’t take him with me, but I did promise him that I’d take him for a bit when I got back.

I have been being very diligent about my foot and, though it’s still painful and leaking goo 🤢, it does seem to be improving. Keeping a bandage on has helped to keep the medication on and the goo off my socks and been scrubbing and treating twice a day. Thinking that tomorrow I should probably do a load just of socks on sanitize and scrub the tub with some bleach…worried that everything my foot touches is infectious.

I stopped by the RedBox there just to check if anything caught my eye, and they had the new Venom (Let the be Carnage). That was, of course, a no-brainer! Grabbed it right quick, got some bandages, and (even though I didn’t really feel like I deserved a treat) I grabbed a Red Bull (to make sure I made it through the movie 🤣).

The wind was nasty and I was not really enjoying it walking just a block or so and back, so I wanted to renig on my promise, plus I was worried about my foot hurting…but I told him I’d take him and so I did (and my foot only bothered me a little 😀). I was only intending on going around the big block, but he seemed to be doing alright by the time we got over to the school and I decided to go a little farther to let him run around off the leash for a while.

I think he was happy to get out, it had certainly been some time, but I don’t think he was unhappy when I turned toward home at the end of the short trail. 😄

Hrm, I totally forgot to take my weather pics or my sky photo! 😱 I can tell you it was cold 🥶 and the wind didn’t make it better. Plus, it was snowing, but not really enough to count toward much other than my hardcoreness points for being out. 😂

I wanted to delay gratification a little and build up some anticipation, so I basically killed some time in the afternoon…tried and failed to play Splinterlands, watched some YouTube, nothing exciting…had some Braunschweiger on bread for dinner and then settled in to watch the movie.

Definitely fun. Was a bit more drama/tally-talky than I would have liked, but the animation and action was good and it gave me a few solid chuckles. 😄 I guess the only other movie I want to see now is the new Matrix (already saw Free Guy, and it was good), but I’m not going to deal with the theater I don’t think, just wait for it to come out on rental and watch it at home.

That was basically it for the day. Got ready for bed and watched a couple episodes of The Detectorists (which is quite good, actually) before falling asleep and whoosh a week has gone with nothing to show…😢

I’ve certainly been expecting some über shittiness coming on dShitty after the last two days of relative calm. Fortunately, only saw one crisis today, but I don’t understand why sixty-eight minus seven is sixty-one; that’s not how this works. Probably means a zero income day incoming.

STILL completely forgot to go in and withdraw the CBM from CryptoSuckmaster! It’s my own fault, but it’s not worth much, so, whatever.

Pounded out some more missions on Rising Star. Again, nothing new or noteworthy about this one…does get pretty boring after a while, but hoping that eventually it will be worth it somehow.

I made the very unfortunate decision to try and play Splinterlands again today. It’s very rare that I get that upset, and honestly, most of the times I get that aggravated is because of this game to begin with. 🤬 I “accomplished” nothing other than wasting my time and losing further down into Silver.

I mean, look at this absolute bullshit:

I keep losing over and over to fuckers that don’t even have any cards and yet plop these maxed out golds and hyped summoners. I guess they’re just losing and chilling on the bottom to farm out on us losers…fun times.

I’m getting to the point now, not even being able to get out of Silver for more than a week, and getting so angry about it, that I’m thinking it’s not worth it again and I may go back to not playing.

I did quit for quite some time there a while back but came back again…can’t say my life was worse for it. 🤔

I did learn that it’s possible to buy credits with crypto and not just fiat. That does change the game, but it was up to 16 SPS per pack (since SPS has fallen precipitously and the price of packs are fixed - relative to USD) and so I didn’t go through with getting any, just staked my drop for the day.

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