So, I am a bit dry of new ideas at the moment, and I am not sure I am going to earn a lot writing for a little while.
With hard fork 16 delayed, and a predictable amount of contention over what will be pretty big changes, I think steem's price will go a bit flat for a while. Hopefully the 90% reduction in new supply will lead to a drop in selling pressure, and see a trend change.
In 12 days time, I will be staying at the winter shelter. I will then be able to sign on for a dole payment. There is only one thing I really have to pay for, laundry. But I can avoid that by just getting new clothes and leaving old ones in the basket. So I am going to just focus on powering up.
With how little I make anyway, and the even less that I can do with it, and the high fixed cost elements of the cash out process, I am just going to make use of the handy commitment to a delay for withdrawal, to reinforce my discipline.
Because I feel pretty confident the worst if the Steem Price downtrend is now behind us, I just want to focus for now on accumulating Steem Power, I have stopped powering down, and my posts from now will be 100% power up.
The dole payment will be about €680/month, and will continue for 6 months. My curation rewards will slowly increase, and my Steem Power will start rising a lot faster. I will be happy if my saving holds value against my minimum planned expenses for at least 3 months I can just mainly spend getting back to normal.
I am not sure how to spend my time. Concern about falling offline due to equipment failing or going missing, probably more about failing weighs on me so despite its faulty screen, the laptop can still access and store important stuff, and can't really be sold anyway.
I could try fiction writing again. Shorter, serial format for the science topics. I can Tinker with Kivy a bit, focus on the mobile interface. I am just still grappling with mindset and half the people out here are sick currently, like me.
I am working to identify the stresses and figure out how to minimise them. I am really not at heart a nomad. My health is long neglected. I have to make it work, I want to heal.
I am even playing games again, which I think is a good sign. I tend to pressure myself very hard. The illness has forced reduced activity. There is a breathing regime I found that kept me stable if I sat still, and emotional triggers attenuated... Sometimes it was really terrifying.
Well, I am good now and I think I am up for this task. I can study something. There is volunteer farm type things I could stay with also and get some new skills.
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.
I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel
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