.... but first, I need to untie a double mattress from the roof of a car.
Ok that's done, picked up a few more mosquito bites during the rope removal, but that's cause the ladies like me. ( The males don't bite, and to the person who told me that only the males make a noise... what? do the females not have wings? Idiot.)
Anyway, as I was saying, I'm around six months overdue a post that has words and no tables or charts. It's just.... I dunno. It's wrong to say I've got better things to do - an hour at the keys for some tokens likely to be worth hundreds of local currency in the future, it a fair rate, without taking into account that it's good for the soul to get things off your mind and onto paper, or a blockchain.
New home
So I've moved again, and it's temporary, again. This time to the north of the Island of Mallorca, and to a rather lovely Finca (where you can book a place to stay directly, separate beds of course https://www.instagram.com/cancapdebou/?hl=en)
I'm at the end, spying on folks at the pool ;)
I'll likely dedicate a post to Finca Can Cap De Bou, but I just want to say thanks to @isabel-vihu for putting me up, at least until the rental market cools off here, which should be in a month or so. For now though, I'm working with some slow internets, but surrounded by nature including 300+ olive trees, plenty of palms, cats, ducks, chickens, and even a donkey called Tatiana.
Being greeted in the car park
Lurker
I have been lurking around Hive though, and of course doing the mostly autopilot Splinterlands tasks of playing games for tokens and more cards. Staked SPS, a node license, and bunch of duplicate cards rented out bring in further tokens, and I'm happy with how things are looking here. If Hive and SPS stay as they are (a boost would be nice) prior to the 15th September when the RiftWatchers presale starts, I'm looking at grabbing 2000 packs (plus the 400 bonus packs). From what I hear, this should give me a max deck, and I'll of course be playing (and renting Life and Death out) as I have been doing since the middle of 2018.
No HiveFest or Splinterfest :(
A friend, who's already turned 42, planned a 40th in Marbella back in 2020 and due to you know what, that didn't happen that year and was booked in this year for the exact dates of HiveFest. I had to decide on seeing school friends, or seeing Hivers. It was fairly close, but yeah, I'll hopefully make it to HiveFest 2023.
Summertime, and balancing is easy...
Probably my favourite thing I've been doing this summer is learning how to stand-up paddleboard, or SUP for short. Aldi, my local supermarket at the time, stocked a board that I had to walk past each visit, and in the end I buckled and bought one.
Blue, like my car, bike, eyes, the sea, and 90% of my t-shirts
This board ended up being too small for an 80kg 188cms person, but I'm glad I got to train on this first, in the sea, before buying another, bigger board just a few weeks ago.
POB - Proof of balance
This newer board, being a foot longer and an inch or so wider, is so much easier to balance on, I look like a pro at times! Many people tend to learn on slow moving rivers, or likes that reflect the sky - boring! Try two swells, wind, and jellyfish down below. I'm enjoying getting out on the waves so much that I'm considering investing in clothing to stay warm during the colder months. This says a lot as I'm usually in 4 layers at certain times of the year - we'll see.
New roots
To finish for today (hopefully I'll do better than the 6 month gap in writing next time), here's a Palm and some old git in a cheap-ass t-shirt (light blue and sweat stained).
Hopefully the tree is 10x bigger in 30 years, I'll be a few inches shorter at best :/
Before planting, at least 3 hours work over multiple days has taken place to dig up the old palm tree's roots, mostly in temperatures approaching 100c. And so it was pretty satisfying today to finally stick the Archontophoenix Alexandrae in the ground.
Looking through my phone, there's plenty of personal content there, I really should write more....
Cheers
Asher