Jan. 3, 23: Routine, OCD Phone Work, Lil' More Schoolwork, TV, and Games

[Trying to get my post done early this morning; our Pimp meeting is today rather than yesterday. We rescheduled last week to Wednesdays, which is great since I'll be teaching on Tuesdays this semester. 😀 Gotten a solid start and still have about an hour and a half, but my posts have been becoming relatively epic lately, which takes time.]

Got to bed pretty late again last night, was hard to stop myself going through and trying to get (and correct) all the album art for my music collection, but finally put the phone down and got to sleep at eleven.

The cat started howling some time around three thirty or so and I got up and let him out but was able to go back to bed for a few more hours.

Slept until about six thirty, but still ended up about forty minutes short. Not been sleeping quite as well lately, but you know what? I "splurged" on Red Bull (that I had cut out) and been having one at lunch...bet you that's what's doing it.

Got on with the morning routine, which is starting to get smoother. I'm still behind on catching up with Solairitas stuff, but I did take care of some yesterday up until I got stuck with Hive.vote...got to re-register I guess, but it really sucks that I can't use Keychain, have to enter my key into a website (which is a no-no and makes me hella nervous even though I trust it).

Otherwise, checked on the crypto markets, which are more or less in the same place (Hive did go up slightly to $.26, still painful) and I'm getting absolutely punished by my alts on Polygon.

I did start trying to work through my inbox todo list a bit and one of the things was to renew my KYC with Coinbase and I took care of that (and messed around with the new web3 wallet in the Coinbase app - only ETH, though 😡) as well as a little bit of prep for next semester; nothing major, just cleaned up the Discord some and pinned the WebAssign course codes.

Honestly, the one goal that I'd set for myself for today was to repaint the blackboard. Somehow, though, I never managed to get around to it. 😱

Besides walking, some menial tasks, and a tiny bit of prep for next semester, literally all I've done for like the last four or five days straight is work on the phone transition and I was kind of needing a break from my break.

I couldn't help myself, though, and after the morning routine and my post was posted I started in with trying to fill in more of the album artwork in my music library. There's still, maybe, four or five that I'm going to have to go back and do manually (not recognized by the art getter for some reason), but I'm up into the b's now - so the numbers and the a's are pretty much done.👍

The getter program seems to work alright for a while and then starts scanning the library after every action and gets so slow to be unusable, so once it started being a bitch again, I quit and gave it a rest.

Speaking of slow loading and scanning, I think I need to find another mp3 player app; the one I've got doesn't seem to remember my library at all and scans through all thirty+ thousand songs every time I open the app. 🤬 Takes forever. Not sure if paying to upgrade would fix that or if I should just try a different app. 🤔

I really wanted to take the dog out for a walk today, and it really wasn't very cold considering it's January, but it rained all day and cold/wet is definitely not my favorite thing, so minus a couple hardcoreness points.

So, here's the deal: I was kind of late adopting a smartphone and held on to my dumb flip-phone (that didn't even have text messaging) for a long while. I think it was maybe 2010? Not sure, but around then. I got a second hand iPhone from my wife (then girlfriend) if I recall correctly and I've had iPhones ever since.

As such, my gmail account was pretty much ancillary to everything, just one more account in the Mail app. Having switched to Android now, though, my Google account seems to be everything and I kept seeing that I was using nearly a couple gigs of storage and couldn't, for the life of me, figure how some pictures and a couple hundred emails could be that much and I started digging around.

It seems that, for the last twelve years or so, all the emails that I thought I was deleting were getting archived under the "important" label as well as into different categories like "promotions" and into "all mail." 😨

At first I thought it would be a few hundred and I couldn't figure out how to select all so I went through and manually deleted somewhere between three and four thousand! 🤯

That had already taken me several hours and the app just still said "99+" and I git fed up. I'd figured there had to be a better way, but didn't think it would have been worth the time to figure out and I just went for it. It was dumb at that point, though, and I had the bright idea to try and login to the site instead of the app (which didn't help at all at first) and then request the desktop site and bam! There is was, a "select all" option! 😍

I emptied the trash 🗑 probably five or six times, this was just one of them:

It ended up being literally tens of thousands...like every time someone tagged me on Facebook, all the nagging from Twitter to come check out some new Tweet, all of what I'd spent time "deleting" for a decade or more just sitting there cluttering things up.

I did get it down to well less than half a gig, closer to a quarter. With my pictures and video backups and stuff that totally seems right. Now it's cleaned up and I removed some old labels I'd created that weren't really used and got it down to 150 emails, just what's currently in my inbox and digital receipts going back five years (which we're required by the IRS to keep)...I had receipts of credit card payments and everything in there going back to like 2011. 😂

Still didn't feel like cooking the sloppy joes that I've been planning for days now, but I ended up cooking anyway and had a bowl of chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.

After I basically spent the entire afternoon and into the evening cleaning up my gmail account, the OCD continued and I went through and reorganized my Discord servers and left a bunch of the random token ones I'd joined when I learned about them (Flux, xToken, Taco, Aave, Comfy,...there were a ton as well as a quite a few old/abandoned Hive associated ones!).

I was trying to get an earlier bedtime than I have been and I even started getting ready like around seven thirty, but by the time I quit watching criminal interrogation videos and dinking around with my Discord servers and put on Letterkenny, it wasn't so early any more.

Took me a little while to fall asleep as well and I made it through a couple episodes. Every once in a while, though, they say something that really tickles my funny bone. 😆

[Less than a week now until the new semester of teaching starts and I haven't even turned on the computer, let alone gotten anything done on the Mythix website. 😡 Still, I think I've pretty well made up my mind about ditching the color shards idea...yeah, it a dynamic that profers the user a choice, but I think that it's ultimately unnecessary complexity; thinking one token: just Mythicore (MTX) for absolutely everything you can do in game and an Outpost token MTXY on H-E that's separate...still thinking I want to make those exchangeable, but not sure about it. The idea was to be wholly independent of H-E in terms of the game token but be able to reward posts and posting on chain as well. 🤔]

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One thing I do have to repeat is that the predictive text is soooo much better on the new phone! I've been typing "dShitty" for years and the old phone never learned it, nor did it ever learn "definethedollar" despite the thousands of times I typed that!!!
So much faster and easier to login and fill out transactions! 😁

Anyway, of course dShitty was shitty.

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Once again, I totally remembered to go in twice on Rising Star today. 🥳 I guess that should basically double my rate of "growth" if I keep this up. 😛

Got more drunks now, surprise, but just keeping on with missions. Just about to level 67...only eight more to go (a couple years 😛) to unlock the next mission.

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I really don't understand the cause for why my Splinterlands rental income has dropped so precipitously and remained low. Perhaps it's a function of Hive going down relative to the dollar and DEC falling relative to HIVE, but that's just an educated guess. Could just as well be something fucky going on with the bot, how would I know? All I know is that it's pennies at this point. 😡

A new character was revealed and I had a chance at another airdrop. Hooray for me, nothing.😭

Claimed my SPS interest and paid the rental fee but for the second day left the remainder liquid saving up to swap out.

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HK:
Why do I even bother? I think I got another avatar from Pizza, but it doesn't much matter to me (to-oo meeee 🎶).

GLX:
Did my normal claim and stake...doesn't bother me at all to watch that balance grow. Hope my patience pays off (but probably should have dumped some off before they crashed, oh well).

WOO:
Seems like it was a factor of the time that I claimed. My stake rewards were back closer to sixteen again, so averaging to fifteen a day. Still no mining rewards but I think I have a bit more coming Pizza. 😄

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Average Last 7 Days: 11,382

Lifetime Average: 14,564

10k per Day Streak: 86

Longest Streak: 204

Distance on shoes: 1268.80 km
Distance on hikers: 67.07 km

#AutomaticWin Tally: 425
#AutomaticWin Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 53

#TripleTen Tally: 118
#TripleTen Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 7

#DoubleDay Tally: 236
#DoubleDay Streak: 0
Longest Streak: 37

Highest Floors: 120

Highest Daily Steps: 41,528

Zombies evaded: 0/0

Mindfulness Diary:

Health: 90%
Satisfaction: 86%
Energy: 87%
Productivity: 77%

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