We are half way through February so it must be LPUD time - the second of the year !!!
I've just completed my power up of 50 LEO !
Unfortunately I could only manage 50 LEO this month, but its still enough to count for a cub attack which is fine. I normally have enough, but I've not had payouts from @leo.voter for a few days, which I'm assuming is down the reported node issues. These things happen, and I'm sure it'll all catch-up, and then I'll have enough for March - so hey-ho its all good.
Heres why I enjoy LPUD:
- Its a great community event, and I love seeing the buzz created by it each month,
- It encourages me to make regular savings,
- DCA'ing (Dollar Cost Averaging) into a position is a wise move as that helps to smooth out the bumps in price over the long term,
- Staking LEO benefits the wider community and hopefully the price of LEO too,
- It helps support the #leofinance movement long term, which is surely a benefit to us all and the HIVE blockchain in general,
- And you might land one of the lovely juicy LPUD prizes and delegations !!!!
So lots of positives, and I cant think of any negatives.
I manage to generate the majority of the LEO I need each month for LPUD passively:
- I have a 1500 HP delegation to @leo.voter, which brings in the majority that I need each month - it pays out LEO daily,
- I then delegate all of my LP to @india-leo for curation rewards, which also pays out daily,
- I then get other bits and pieces from being active in the community - I post a few articles weekly to Leofinance, and I also engage and post in threads most days.
Mostly I get enough, but this month it was a little short, hence I went for a cub attack instead.
But for me it was also FARD - thats right, it was Fix A Radiator Day ! I managed to strip the threads on a radiator bleed valve last night (top one on the left) and so needed to replace it, as I couldnt shut it off again after I bled the air out of the radiator.
It took 3 attempts to fix:
- I isolated the radiator at the valves on each side,
- Drained as much water as I could out of the bleed valve, in order to remove the duff one with a spanner,
- I then bought two crappy replacement valves from one DIY shop. It was the closest shop to my house and it was the only ones they had. The one in the middle sheared off when I was tightening it, and the one of the right just wouldnt seal properly. It was gettging close, and even with a decent amount of PTFE tape, it was still dripping slowly,
- I then went to Screwfix and got the one you can see in the radiator, which went straight in and sealed no problem, because it had a good o-ring (and ironically, it was the cheapest of the 3). The other two I got didnt have o-rings. So that was the lesson learned from todays DIY episode - make sure your bleed valves have o-rings,
- After tightening it up, I opened up the radiator side valves to fill the radiator back up, and it was all good !
Well that wraps up my LPUD-DIY post for today.
All the best from Scotland !!!!