Well, this celebratory post is actually a bit late... I had meant to post about this last week, but the crazy HF20 issues didn't let me. I'm glad the dust seems to have settled...
On Saturday 2018/09/22, I reached 50 reputation!
When I joined Steemit in February, I remember how hard it was to climb one reputation rank, and had a lot of respect for the veteran users with a reputation of 50 and above. I learned that each rank was harder to reach than the previous one, and kept wondering whether I would ever reach the reputation rank of 50.
I had just joined, and wasn't sure if Steemit was something for me, since I'm not much into social networking sites. My thought was that I might get tired of Steemit and quit, or may not have inspiration to write posts frequently. But almost 8 months later, here I am! I can't post too frequently, with usually two posts a week (one in Portuguese and the other one the English translation), but I'm still here and don't feel like stopping anytime soon. The monetary rewards so far are nothing to write home about (just as I had expected, though. I never had any illusions that I'd get rich overnight or anything), but there's something about the STEEM community that pulled me in in the beginning, and is still what keeps me here.
Time flies, and when I least expected, boom! Reputation 50! By now I know that the current reputation system has its problems, but reaching 50 still feels like a huge achievement to me. So...
Fireworks!
The milestone made me think of fireworks. Then, I remembered that I had recorded fireworks sounds from my window in New Year's eve of 2015, but still hadn't uploaded the recording anywhere. So, I decided to upload it to DSound (kind of random, I know :P . It's funny how one thought leads to another sometimes!)
The sound was recorded from my apartment's living room's window, in the night of December 31st, 2014, with a Zoom H4n portable recorder, then edited in Audacity to cut out undesired parts and adjust the volume. As with most of my other sounds, I release this sound into the public domain, which means it can freely be used for anything.
My other sounds are on Freesound.org. Here's a link if anyone is interested:
► Listen on DSound
► Listen from source (IPFS)