Not safe for children. Work, maybe okay. It depends on your workplace.
9 days since my last post. NINE. And this is my off season! What the fuck could be so important?
Maybe you're familiar with the term 'mental health days'. That's basically what I've been doing. For me, a loose definition could be 'bare minimum'. No pressing reason, I don't really need the mental health days. Nothing is driving me crazy or stressing me out. This socially distanced political fireball of a screaming dystopia rather suits me. I've never really liked going out, socializing. Never been a hugger. Now that I'm getting older, apparently I'm allergic to everything so the mask is really helpful for me, all the time. Things couldn't be better.
I'm really just stretching my shiftless and lazy muscles. I've been doing things, just not posts. It's not like I haven't had time. I watched three seasons of The Expanse. That's easily 24 posts worth of wasted time, not to mention my rocket stove could be built by now. So what's going on here, what the hell is my problem? Let's dive into some psychology.
If I'm being honest, part of it is just me not wanting to do it because I set some goals. I wanted to maintain two posts a week throughout my time off, an easily achievable goal. However, I have a natural aversion to people telling me what to do, even me. Who the hell am I to tell me how often I should be posting? Yes, I agree, that's pretty fucking dumb, but there it is.
That's not even the dumbest reason. Another big reason is the rewards system. Do you think I'm going to complain I'm not getting enough rewards? Quite the contrary. If you've been reading my posts (that's my catchphrase), then you will have seen my complaint that I can't trade HIVE, or any of its associated tokens as far as I know, in NY state. Not that I would be trading it anyway, I don't need the money and the 'leveling up' of my account is the only gaming I have time for any more. The problem is, I'm such a contrarian sonofabitch, that since I can't trade these rewards (which I wouldn't trade anyway), the better I do, the more a little bit of me feels like it's a waste of time. And all of you have been showing me such love lately, rewards started coming in pretty regularly. So that asshole deep inside me whispers 'Hey, don't do that thing you enjoy, that you spent a whole summer taking pictures and notes to prepare for! You're only doing 'cause some jerk told you to, and you're not even getting anything out of it! What a sucker!'
Yeah, it's fucked up, but there it is.
Are you wondering what strange confluence of nature and nurture produced such a highly functional, yet obviously deeply disturbed individual? Shit, me too. Stick around, maybe someday I'll hash it out here.
Oh yeah, I fucking LOVE this group. I love a good a rant, even if I'm not the one ranting. I hope someday to reach a beautiful crescendo moment, like Clark Griswold had after getting his dessert of the month Christmas bonus.
And fuck it, since it's just rants, I'm not even going to proofread this sucker. I'm way the fuck behind anyway. Here's a picture, of a bird that was ranting, in silhouette.
Hahah that was one of my favorite movie moments of all time. “Where’s the Tylenol”.
I get you man. I won’t be able to cleanly trade the resources we make here either but that’s okay because I think that in the future we will be able to at one point. The exchanges are specifically leaving out hive and Steem in the American capable ones but they won’t be able to do it forever. At the minimum we would be able to have easier access to some of the other assets like Leo but who knows.
Sometimes I have goals that I don’t get to because they are goals. I’ve had a goal of building some stuff for the house but they haven’t gotten done because they aren’t as important as cleaning the kitchen twice a day and the bathroom once a week. Way more important! Lol
Brilliant rant there mate. I am glad that the group provides a vehicle for your discontent. I reckon there's a lot of joy in NOT proofreading and just saying what's up. I used to spend hours on posts, but I realised it didn't matter much, unless I'm doing some analysis or more academic piece.
I didn't realise you couldn't trade HIVE where you are! That sucks! Is there any way you can get it to a trusted person in another state that can then send you the FIAT?
Some weeks you don't post, whatever. Don't feel obligated. Just do it when the mood takes you. Just know you are valuable - HIVE does need you - so a little bit of guilt doesn't go too astray :P
Thanks for the encouragement!
I could trade HIVE for BTC through a 3rd party, and trade that BTC for fiat. As I stated, though, I don't really need the money right now, and I'm not sure what kind of watchdog radar that would put me on. For now, I'll just keep leveling up.
It's not so much that I feel obligated, I just sometimes get frustrated about having to police my own thoughts to do things I actually want to do. I appreciate the flattery, but Hive certainly doesn't NEED me. I do get the feeling though that more than a few here like having me around, and I'm thrilled if we can help each other.
LOL Good rant! I understand how it goes. With me, it's the haze of winter depression that makes it more of a chore to write a post...
The bird looks like a male cardinal...
The winter blues weigh much more heavily on my manual labor tasks. Winter season off is my time to work on the house, inside and outside, but it is DAMN hard to motivate myself when I'm looking at a gray 15° morning.
Good eye with the bird, it is indeed a male cardinal. We get a lot of them around here, and someday I may write a war saga about their ongoing battle with the blue jays.
Sounds like a baseball game, doesn't it? LOL
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As rants go, this one is top shelf. It always feels good to let off a little steam.
I hear you about living in New York, the people in charge have limited what we can do in the crypto space and it seems totally unfair.
I figured you must be experiencing the same problems with crypto in this state. If you should find yourself wandering through Steuben county, let me know. We can throw back a few and target practice on Cuomo political flyers. 🤣
I'm in!!!!!!
I haven't posted in a while either.
Couldn´t you transfer it to an exchange like Kraken and move from there? I can´t believe that in the USA, the supposed land of freedom, cryptos are more restricted than anywhere in the world.
On the other hand, staking and HODLing Hive is not the worst thing.