It's that time of year...
Some look at the results of the year to end and plan for the one to begin. And that's a great thing. I do that as well.
There's a second category which prefers to be visitors toward the end of the year. That's ok too, within certain limits. In our extended family, we also gather for Christmas at my sister's. And we have been doing so for several years, which became a sort of tradition.
The problem is, in my opinion, when someone invites him or her self over (usually with family this time of year) and once visiting forgets to leave. Or they leave according to their schedule, and aren't really interested if it's convenient for you as well or if they mess up your own schedule.
Life as a visitor is great, but rarely as a host.
Maybe I'm a little sour because the second part of my day was out of my control, and I still had things to do.
But I guess stuff can happen and so do unexpected visits. Luckily the most important Hive-related tasks I had for today I handled during the first part of the day. But you can't always do that. Sometimes the schedule is fixed, and something perturbing it has consequences.
But... let's change the subject, because it's getting disturbing.
Winter landscape, soon only in pictures, at least in my area.
I had two main objectives today, besides the regular tasks of playing Splinterlands (and Rising Star, but that takes less time), reading posts / listening to videos, curating and commenting, and micromanaging some tokens and pools.
I had my rental contracts terminated yesterday on Splinterlands, to add them back to the market based on the EOS prices. That presented the opportunity to upgrade some Chaos Legion cards and see what I keep for my playing deck and what I rent out.
It's much easier to manage the EOS and post-EOS rental market price fluctuations with the separated accounts, one for playing and one for renting out.
Also today, I started to check into ways to improve my Hive returns, given my primary targets for 2022.
One way to do it is to divert some of the delegation amounts for Hive-Engine projects into those projects that pay directly Hive and / or Hive Power. HBD is an option too, as that's the other primary target I have.
Here, I prefer native Hive instead of SWAP.HIVE for two reasons:
- for staking rewards, interest, airdrop purposes
- because I tend to reinvest SWAP.HIVE on Hive-Engine, and that's counter-productive for my primary target
So, I undelegated or changed amounts for some delegations and waiting for them to return. Two small delegations also returned today, and I took a small offer from the dlease market, for now, while slightly increasing my Utopis delegation with the rest.
I also discovered - surprised! - that I had more than enough STARBITS to buy another 12 packs batch. So, I bought it. A problem though... Instead of once I bought twice, so 24 packs. I expected not to have funds for the second batch, but I forgot I had over 1mil STARBITS liquid. And so I dipped significantly below the 1mil limit. And - after blaming myself for not paying attention - I had to use some diesel pool funds to buy the difference. Or otherwise tomorrow I wouldn't have been able to play the Starbits Millionaire mission.
Somewhere during all this I also listened to Leofinance's Round Table.
Now that I've put it all in writing, I think I accomplished quite a few things today, all things considered.