Graduation Day

<center></center> ---------------------------- I spent the evening last night watching my niece graduate from high school and I just realized this morning that only leaves two nephews and a niece left that I will get to attend one of these. Thankfully, they still have a bit of time, but I know in the back of my head the day will come sooner than I expect. I was trying to think back to my high school graduation and while it was so long ago, there are still some details I can pick out from that day many many years ago. I turn another year older this weekend. It's actually one of the big ones, and honestly, I still feel the same level of oblivious I was back when I was graduated from high school. Sure, I'm older, and though I feel a little more mature, I still feel like I don't understand much of anything. I'm far more cynical than I used to be which is sad, but I guess that's just the way the world works. <center></center> -------------------------- BTC took a pretty big dive over the past couple of weeks. Which basically sucks, but at this point I feel like it's just par for the course. Meanwhile, HIVE took a dump back down into the sub $.06 range which is basically miserable. If you are the sort of person who follows LEO, that is in the dumps too. I don't really know if that one is ever going to recover and I kind of feel like the team doesn't care now that they have moved on to their new stuff. In truth, I haven't paid much attention, so don't quote me on that one. In all, I feel like my traditional investments are the highlight of my life right now. At least fiscally. They seem to be chugging right along, but I still feel like there is a point in the future where the bottom is going to drop out. I've been seeing people reposting stuff about the US President saying he is ushering in a new era of crypto for the US, but so far I am not seeing it. Are you? <center></center> --------------------------------- Maybe it's just best to eat away my misery over all of this. Truth be told, that was a dang good burger and the onion rings were on point although a little soggy because I didn't pick them up as quickly as I wanted to. ### Prolific I'd never heard of this survey platform before, but a guy reached out to me from a group I am in the other day and said he had some access codes. He explained that normally you have to wait a long time to get access, so I figured why not give it a shot. I've been using it for about a week so far and I have already banked up about $60 in rewards. Which really isn't that great, but if you break it down even further into the amount of time I have invested in the platform, it's not quite so bad. It's still not great, and it has me reflecting a little bit on these little side hustles I keep doing for pennies (HIVE excluded). I guess I keep hoping that one day if I have enough streams it will actually amount to something, but I'm really not sure how accurate that is. At the very least it keeps me busy I guess. ### Splinterlands So I started earning yet another currency in Splinterlands called "Sparks" or something like that. I was hoping they might actually be something useful, but it turns out you just use them for cosmetic things. Which isn't really my cup of tea, but I guess there is a big market for that sort of thing. In fact, I have recently been playing Diablo IV quite a bit and they also have their own in game currency for cosmetic stuff, so I guess it's not that odd that the Splinterlands team would implement something like that. I'll likely just […]