Life goes on and I have nothing much to report (except that like Bill Hicks, I definitely think drugs have done some good things for us, or at least my earnings in Nano today, anyway).
Life is exhausting. It's just one long hustle to get who knows where, exactly? Then it all goes to shit and you wonder why you (and the generations that came before you) bothered.
It doesn't help that, for some reason, the Playtime feature of Tip Nano is not paying out today, even though I've played a few games and gained a level. I think it's somehow got wise to the fact that I run it in the background while I do other things, instead of actually playing. I guess I'm going to have to bring in crypto by other means today. Fortunately, I managed to complete a survey (about drug use and rehab, of all things) that will hopefully keep me in the top one hundred users on Tip Nano today and earn me a little extra Nano (XNO). That remains to be seen, though. All crypto income is good crypto income and I'll take what I can get. I'm just pleased to finally be earning a decent (although still small) amount of Nano from Tip Nano, more so than from CVn and faucets (although that's gone well today too). Three million Nautrino on the stack, here we come! I'd like to think that this is the universe repaying me for helping out a man in Iran whom I don't even know, but I know the world doesn't work like that in reality. It's more likely to punish good deeds.
"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years ... were rrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs!"
— Bill Hicks; Comedian
In all seriousness, though, I shouldn't joke about drug abuse and alcohol addiction, since I have seen first hand what destructive effects it has on people and their families.
In unrelated news, my coffee cup smells like fish (although my coffee tastes fine)! I suspect it's because it got washed in the same load of dishes as a fish container that was in the fridge most of last week. For that matter, the whole damn dishwasher honks of pilchards. That's just lovely! This is not an optimal start to the week. I hope yours has started better than mine.
Maybe today I'll find a job and make a big dent in clearing my email inbox. Who knows? One of the forms for applying to jobs on a particular site won't let me enter all of my details if I select a certain option. (It claims my ID number is invalid). If I'm going to get past that in order to submit applications, I'll likely have to falsify some information and make a note of the issue in my cover letter. To be honest, I'm already over writing those things (even with copying and pasting a standard block of text that I modify slightly as needed), but they're required in order to submit my details. Ah, the fun I have, pursuing money ...
Hopefully, by the end of the week, I will have something substantial about which to write, assuming I finish applying to jobs and get on top of my emails by then. I'm thinking of looking at Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and how to use it to host a Website (assuming I ever manage to stump up enough crypto to purchase an unstoppable domain name). I have a lot to do before then, however. That includes writing at least one blog post a day, even if I don't really have much to write therein, but write at least once a day I must if I wish to attract new followers and earn crypto. So far, it seems to be working, even if slowly. As Confucius (or maybe Lao Tzu) said, "it does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop". I have found that persistence is definitely key and pays off, eventually.
As always, spending so much time at home alone means that I remain a glorified butler to a stupid and demented old dog that manages to drive me crazy with very little effort (although I admit it's a short trip). It's almost a laugh a minute, I tell you! It seems I get up and go find out what the squeaking is about at least that often, anyway! No wonder I struggle to get anything done at the best of times, even when my ADD-fueled procrastinating is not getting in my own way (a rare thing indeed) ... Perhaps I should take drugs, despite my objections, just to get me through the day!
I could certainly do with a little helper of my own. Methylphenidate HCL seems to do the trick, when I can get it.
My life feels like it's the fucking Trials of Van Occupanther!
Thumbnail image: "A young man on acid ...", generated by AI || One of the things I want to do is make music videos in which I supply the lyrics to an AI art generator and then use the resultant images in the videos. It was by starting with that idea that I got this image.
