Welcome to the weekly Vlog by 
Hive account@c0ff33a ☕️ 👈🏽 That's me! Seven full days have passed since last week's Vlog, and it's been another killer week for me. Starting with Monday morning unlocking my work premises to discover a new paddling pool in the reception area, and water pouring from the ceiling like rain. A pipe had burst upstairs - obviously frozen in the previous weeks cold weather, it defrosted when it got milder on Sunday and must have spent the whole night pouring water onto the floor above, which then drained through into the reception and front office below. It took out the lighting and fire alarm systems, but by pure luck missed all the computers and phone system in the front office just soaking the laminate floors a little. We had to brush and mop out the standing water, and now have a dehumidifier running to try and remove the damp. Not a fun start to my working week.
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Before all this drama though, on Sunday I did a #SublimeSunday post which seems to be taking off as a tag right now, it's a fun way to create a post if you are stuck for ideas and I like now to mix in some #FunkyEdits started by 
Hive account@krazypoet to mix it up a little. I was impressed with 
Hive account@smartphoto Dancers Skating post, he does really clever things combining multiple photos and graphics to end up with a complete piece of photographic art. My good friend 
Hive account@maruharraca found these Tree Branches grown into a chain link that made for a fascinating set of pictures - quite amazing. Meanwhile 
Hive account@saffisara thrilled us with the most unusual Frozen Hands which is rubber gloves filled with coloured water and left out in the freezing weather to freeze solid - very clever and different. I got to look down on an icy river in this Moss covered bridge post by 
Hive account@vee2180 where I enjoyed the focus used and the amazing paint on the stone of the bridge. The Hive account@krazypoet joined in sharing with us some stunning Digital Art he had made which is compelling viewing - I could stare at it for hours. And of course the master of Tags himself 
Hive account@old-guy-photos joined in with this Bigfoot eating sausage off a tree stump post that had a little bit of everything to delight us. Meanwhile 
Hive account@hazem91 decided to buck the trend and post his #SublimeSunday on Monday - which is fine for me because it is a tag where anything goes. It seems he had SublimeWeekend where he somehow managed to do more things in two days then I do in a whole week! A fabulous tale and I'm pleased he decided to help his brother out on Sunday night rather then post his Sublime Sunday.
I wasn't the only one suffering from mysterious acts of God this week, Earthquakes were plaguing 
Hive account@alvinauh but at least he was able to go commando and save the day with a great speech as well. On a more relaxing note Monday Mixtape by 
Hive account@carmalain7 introduced me to some interesting new musical artists to enjoy. But I also saw once again that phishing and scams are on the rise with 
Hive account@guiltyparties giving some timely advice about Phishing websites and malformed URL's and also some good advice on protecting your Steemit account as well as recovering it if necessary. After all that I was ready for some light relief, and this excellent photo of Cotton wool effect tree growth by 
Hive account@crisangel was very relaxing and quite a different photo.
Moving on with the week Tuesday I did a little more #FreeCommenting trying to catch up with some accounts I had not been to for a while, to be fair I was tired and distracted so it didn't produce massive amounts of comments this time - but whatever you can do when you have chance always helps. While all posts are varied and entertaining, some can be quite inspiring and I was most taken with What Steem Means To Me an incredible story about how 
Hive account@shadowspub who many will know already from his Popular Pimp My Post Thursday progressed from the early days of this platform, it an amazing journey and just shows how this platform can support as well as entertain people.
On the subject of incredible journeys, 
Hive account@crazybgadventure chronicled his 30 Days on Steemit Full Time and I was pleased to see he is progressing well now, he also introduces in this post the Steemit More Info plug in for Chrome browser which can give you a ton of additional information over the standard Steemit page layout - worth trying out. My Wednesday started with computer problems, my MacBook Pro Retina has not been happy since Mac OS High Sierra came out, something in the drivers for my models GPU causes no end of graphical glitches and bugs. I'm even on the developer update betas to try and get a quicker solution, so when a new update was available I set it off first thing Wednesday - not the best idea when you need the computer for work! The update won't take long I thought, and I was desperate to get rid of the graphical glitches - which sometimes got so bad I had to reboot. So I set the update off and went and packed some coffee while it worked. After an hour and a half I had run out of non computer based work - and it was only 3/4 way and not moving the progress bar at all. I started to look up details of frozen update installs, and all the news was bad - requiring a reboot and then booting into recovery mode and reinstalling the os from scratch. That would take hours more time, out of desperation I force shut down the Mac and unplugged every external device, powered it back up and mysteriously it came straight back to the same progress bar position - which suddenly started moving - quickly reached full and presented the log in screen! Blind luck but either the reboot or removing peripherals started it moving again.
While my Wednesday was troublesome my good friend 
Hive account@askmee was having a great day, in this post all my friends above me he presented the amazing collection of caricatures he has built up of different people he knows from Steemit - I'm sure everyone will find one or two they recognise. He has done very well with this post, and I'm very pleased for him. He's been posting tirelessly on Steemit and working incredibly hard to come up with new and inventive posts - it's really admirable and I'm glad he is getting some success for all his hard work.
I really should avoid food posts because they make me hungry, but this one Experience with cheap cook cafe was great fun with an interesting back story and some super photos of the meal he eventually got to enjoy. And then I found this incredible post on an outdoor bbq by 
Hive account@frozi and I was amazed at the amount of varied pictures with the flames from the fire pit and the curried chicken looked amazing - one post that did make me feel very hungry!
I was pleased to see 
Hive account@christheaudioguy producing some great ideas for music ideas in this Make money by giving your music away post he explains about upselling alongside music with merchandising items. Good information and he has a link to a indie music discord as well for musical artists to get together. The music mixing genius 
Hive account@sweetscience continues to amaze with some incredible photo art and another long music mix to listen to while working. Meanwhile 
Hive account@avesa has been super busy this week posting tons of musical creativity, Tiniest desk concert was super fun and I wish I'd managed to catch that one live.
I could not agree more with this post by 
Hive account@cygon Ethics of the Great Steemit Experience lot's of good and invaluable information in this post - I won't try and cover it here enjoy the read yourself and reward him with and upvote and comment. And there were some very worthy winners in Six word story and picture contest by 
Hive account@anjkara a very clever and fun competition idea I hope she does more like this.
Thursday morning I woke up to another heavy snow fall, just great - another struggle to work and this time the roads were so slippy even my car was struggling. Well technically the technology in it did it's job, with traction control taking over the engine for me so foot to the floor accelerator pedal the car did it's own thing controlling power and breaks so the wheels turned with no spin - slowly - very slowly. Which made the drivers behind salty - but I get there in the end just very slow and steady progress. It was also International Women's Day, with plenty of good posts created to support it. 
Hive account@bridget.art made a lovely post Happy Women's Day to mark the occasion, while 
Hive account@felobtc created a post This is for the Women of Steemit which was an incredible story covering everything to celebrated about women, including the special ladies in his life. And at the same time 
Hive account@baby07 shared Women in life and how they inspire me a wonderful celebration of some of the strong women in her life, although I personally think she is very strong herself battling so hard with illness while still taking care of her son. And 
Hive account@deadgrlsuppastar shared a beautiful rose photograph another one not feeling so well at the moment but I left my best wishes and hope she is feeling better soon as well. I enjoyed a lovely poem She is by 
Hive account@angelveselinov again celebrating International Women's day in a unique and different style. And this vibrant red flower post by 
Hive account@ilhuna just seemed to fit in perfect with women's day.
Cryptocurrency is all down at the moment, Bitcoin has gone so far south it's costing me money to mine it at the moment (and one of my poor Asics nearly drowned) but I'm just holding out the value will climb again and make it a bit more worth while. In the post Too many reds 
Hive account@roykie17 notes as well the general downturn of Cryptocurrencies including Steem, although I'm confident in Steemit we have a safe bet if we keep on posting and powering up. With my distinctly snowy Thursday morning it was quite fitting to read Flight into Sulfur Creek where 
Hive account@warpedweaver remembers a previous experience ending in a ton of snow too, she also left the most amusing comment ever on my #SublimeSunday post it really cracked me up - great fun. Talking of fun how about this for an idea, Snack Sharing on Steemit where 
Hive account@carrieallen suggests the idea if people from different parts of the world sent snacks to other to then review the unusual tastes - so who has chocolate crickets and worms for snacks 😋
I'm always fascinated with beautiful skies, and this bright blue sky taken by 
Hive account@hangin is incredible - such a wonderful beach as well you can just imagine spending a lovely, warm day there. On a more technical aspect this Steemit Home Page Redesign by 
Hive account@theuxyeti is quite inspired, I like the design and he also says people connect with pictures 7 times faster then written text - so I had better make sure I put a ton of pictures into this post!
But of course if I want an incredible picture I don't have to look far, as usual 
Hive account@huslein.slash makes incredible art and in this Majestic Eagle Painted in Coffee and Watercolours such a stunning picture I really don't know how he manages to keep on creating so many incredible pieces all the time.
Sometimes you can read through a post, a story and you can not quite work out if the writer is pitching a real situation or just developing a story. I was quite like this with My Life is Based on a True Story by 
Hive account@snowpea - I know what the title suggests but sometimes it hard to believe such things can happen. An incredible and heart wrenching tale in multiple parts, as it happens it's all based on true events which makes it all the more engaging. And once you clear one heart wrenching tale another comes along, this Story of becoming a mother is quite incredible by 
Hive account@arrliinn - I won't say any more then it is a compelling and emotional read - well worth taking the time if you have it free.
And now we reach the Charity section of my week, because it's important to acknowledge just a few of the many accounts giving up their earnings to help others and support communities. You can't go anywhere on Steemit without seeing the influence of 
Hive account@battleaxe who tirelessly supports charitable accounts with upvotes and gives away post rewards and her own earnings to support charities like 
Hive account@youarehope. In this Donation to you are hope I was again impressed to see just how much support she offers giving away post rewards to charitable causes. You have to admire this group photo shared by 
Hive account@kofpato of his team that help him do the amazing work he does within his community with the help of Steemit. And in this You can inspire post 
Hive account@aydayodeji shares a motivational message to spur us on to helping where we can. And charity and community support can come in all forms, in this post After the Euphoria we learn that 
Hive account@emjoe is getting some wonderful support from the Steemit community after his own selfless support in his physical community - just rewards for his hard efforts. And 
Hive account@fishyculture keeps doing a great job with Thankful Thursday sharing all the donations Hive account@youarehope have received during the week. Meanwhile the great 
Hive account@sircork has been continuing his world tour, in this poof go the blocks we learn he misplaced some of his Witness blocks - I've checked the backs of my sofas and they aren't there, feel free to hunt yourselves to try and help him find them!
And so ends my Vlog journey for this week, with all the flooding, snow and extra work I have had on it's not been as active as I would like on Steemit. My comments are down and I'm still desperately trying to get my recharge my VP back up - I keep having little moments where I go on a upvote spree and destroy it back down! I could do with being more ruthless to get it back to 100%, but it's so much of a struggle.
You can watch the full vlog video below (last week I managed to forget to include it - just the whole point of the vlog - what a dufus 🤪 I did add it in Sunday when I realised - doh!) and also supporting videos.
Who knows what I will discover in this upcoming week, one thing is for certain you can find some incredible content to enjoy on Steemit if you look hard enough. Remember my Steemit friends
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The picture to the right kindly sketched by the wonderful Hive account@bridget.art , be sure to check her incredible art out https://steemit.com/@bridget.art
As Steemit grows making your content stand out gives it a greater chance to be seen and enjoyed, I try to work on making one post every few days - but making it as big and content rich as I can. I don't know if this is the right way, but I enjoy the most big content rich posts - and a wise man on Steemit once said to me - make your content like the content you enjoy.
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