It's PUD time again!! I'm continuing to support this great initiative as I think this is one of the best way to get everyone involved in order to keep Hive and its ecology sustainable in the long run. This month I did two power ups. Once in the middle of the month and another today, both times I powered up around 1000 HP. My current HP is 46177.
Last month I powered up 948 HP on PUD day, that took me to a nice round number 43k. I got a Hive Buzz bee badge, but think I missed out on the highest level by just a little bit!! I don't know if these bee badges level are the same every month, and whether you need to power up 1000 or more than 1000 HP for the highest bee level badge. I decided to do 1001 this month to be on the safe side, leaving me some liquid Hive for my PUD Guessing Contest (see below).
In terms of my Road to Orca status, things are still looking good for my end of March 2021 target. In fact based on my track record I might even have a chance of achieving that by the end of 2020.
The blue target line is a linear projection from October 2019, when I first started to track my progress till my March 2021 target. I need 2278 HP each month to achieve my target.
The orange line is my actual achievement every month till 1 Oct 2020. On average I increased my HP by 2913 each month. That's nearly 30% over the target increase in HP of 2278. If I can maintain the same trajectory or even better that, then I estimate I can achieve Orca by the end of this year. That will be awesome, but I shan't cry if I fail.
PUD GUESSING CONTEST
Last month I only had two entries to my PUD Guessing contest
Hopefully this month you guys will come back and join in the fun. In order to punish those who deserted me last month, I'm going to do a stinky contest.
About 10 days ago, I started making some black garlic at home. Basically, I put a bunch of garlic in a rice cooker, turn on the heat and let it sit for three weeks till it goes all black and jelly like. On the first evening, my entire flat filled with stinky garlic and in fact it was so bad it made my eyes watery when I went to bed. I thought I had caught a really bad cold!!! I really wish I could have sent the aroma over the blockchain so you can experience it as well. You can READ about the process here.
My PUD Guessing Contest this month is to guess how many bulbs of garlic I have in my rice cooker. The tip is in my post here, I can't remember the exact number but I think its +/- 5 and I'm 90% sure it's below the number I mentioned in my post here.
My black garlic takes three weeks and they should be ready on 12 October. So the contest closing date will be Sunday 11 October. The prize will be 20 Hive for the person who guess the correct number, and if there are more than one person who makes the correct guess, the 20 Hive will be shared between them. In addition, I'll upvote your contest entry comment this month, so come and join in the fun!!!!
Congrats on your PUD. Your Orca status is a cinch and just a matter of time. Yay! My guess is 25 bulbs. I just hope the rice cooker doesn't go bust being on 24 hours for 3 weeks. Stay safe!
So far so good, and I think it should be ok as it's just powered on for the heat not cooking. Thanks for entering!
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.Goodness me but you are doing soooo well @livinguktaiwan, enthusiasm and an obvious passion for what you're doing here is certainly paying dividends, congratulations!
My guess is 27 stinky bulbs, hope it's not penetrated into your clothes, curtains etc etc;);)
The first night was quite smelly but after that was ok. I've actually got updates on my black garlic which I will share when I do the announcement post. Good luck on your entry Liz!!!
!ENGAGE 30
ENGAGEtokens.That is looking so interesting, never thought about puting garlic in a rice cooker.
I guess there are 29 bulbs in the rice cooker.
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Thanks to Google, it's a lot easier than I thought, just need a bit of patience. Good luck on your entry!
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.Guessing 21 bulbs! Thanks
Hello stranger!! Long time no see, how are you? Hope all is well in your neck of the woods (not sure whereabouts in UK you are....)
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.Hello fellow "Lady of Hive", I"m gonna guess 33 :) fun contest, black garlic is soooooooo stinky but very good for you :)
Hello @battleaxe, isn't Ladeis of Hive great? We get to meet so many new people! I've never actually tried black garlic before, just heard about it, so figured I'd have a go at making them and hopfully I will pick up some nice recipes on the way. Can't wait!
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.Congrats on your power up. I read your garlic post and I'm curious how they are looking now. Hopefully the smell has died down a bit lol.
My guess for your contest is 28 bulbs.
I'm resisting not to take a look, but next Monday is two weeks so I might allow myself a little peep as I'm dying to know as well. thanks for your entry!
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.I'm dying to take a look as well, next Monday is two weeks, so I might allow myself a little peep, just to check they're ok!
!ENGAGE 25
Oh, I'm guessing 26 bulbs :) The process to make black garlic sounds fascinating.
Thanks for your entry @sammie! I can't wait to see what the results are going to be like
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.My guess is my ( forever ) age : 30 pieces
30 is a good age Britt, and from then on you just celebrate the anniversary of your 30th birthday. Good luck!
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.My, oh my. I was supposed to make my guess on the garlic then totally forgot. Glad there's still time. Hmm, my guess is 29! ☺️
BTW, congrats on the power up. Closer and closer to orcadom.
Glad you got your entry @arlinn, good luck!
I guess, you got 27 bulbs 😀
Good luck! Thanks for your entry
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Oh God! I should have thought it's going to be a tricky one again. Tonight I'm too tired for this and have a headache, but I'll be back tomorrow and am going to do everything to win. Take out my gardening skills and try to see through the cooker, count the garlic.
Congrats on the power up! I hope you can become an orca soon!
It's not that tricky!!! I gave a big tip already 😁
Take care, and don't drink too much coffee tonigh!
I'm back with my answer and it's 30. I hope it's the right one 😃
Have a nice weekend, go travel to nice places so I can read your travel post next week 😜
So sorry I didn't get back to your earlier @erikah, I totally missed this, and thanks for entering again. Let's see if you can make it four in a row!!!
!ENGAGE 30
No worries, we all have our real life that can keep us busy. I'm late as well but that's life ☺️
Have a nice weekend and I hope you go to a new place so I can read about it 😊
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Hi dear what a road it is and 2200 per month and the vests is like i am planning my 20k before 31 december, i hope i will enter that fresh hold sooner.
Congrats on now having more entries than last month, but does that make us stinkies?
I am gonna count and measure my own garlic bolls and will enter after that
stinkie is the new frangrance!!!😃
Trying my best to keep up! I am basically tapped out right now. If bitcoin can 2x before hive does I will be able to buy more Hive :-D
Let's hope so as well!!