State of the Ninja.

Hello hello hello hello hello!

I haven't written a post on the ol AussieNinja Steem blockchain thingamigo for a little bit, so I thought I'd let you know all the happenings. So many happenings.

This photo was taken 6 seconds ago from our kitchen. It is not our best kitchen.
It's actually been like this for a month. It is not our best month.

Basically something like 6 weeks ago we got up on a lazy Sunday, to find water everywhere.
We don't even have a cat, but it was probably this:

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Plumber said it was a burst pipe, but I'm just going to keep blaming rogue ninja kittens.
Anyway, we got it fixed semi-immediately (US doesn't seem to do emergency plumbers) with a quick fix... and then came back a few days to do a proper fix. Which was fine... until we relised we were kitchening on a pool of water under the floor. It kinda felt like surfing if there was cheap vinyl covering the entire sea.

Anyway as romantic as a water-kitchen seems, we ripped the floors up, found all the water, called all the people, had to hang in a hotel for a week, and came back to this. Apparently we're getting an insurance cheque... but our first builder quote is for 5 times that amount... so let the negotiations begin...

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Since our kitchen exploded, we thought it might be a good time to start looking at building a new house... We had problems buying this house because the house value was apparently too small a percentage of the land value. I dunno, some weird thing. So that could be exciting, and we've talked to all the architects and banks and stuff. It's been exhausting and it's super confusing. Different banks tell us very different things.

Last week, my kidney decided to do this:

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Possible exaggeration

What's an update without a seizure hey?

Obviously totally TMI, but since you can no longer see, I thought I'd slip this in there. Wednesday last week, I suddenly had to go to the bathroom between individual hill sprints.. way not cool... and thus started my week of weird. I tried some over the counter stuff, which didn't do anything. You can't see any doctors in America because no one is 'taking on new patients' so I had to go to something called Urgent Care which seems to be like Emergency but with fewer gun shot wounds. Chucked me on antibiotics, the bathroom business cleared up straight away, and the slow crushing back pain started. 3 days of constant couching later; can barely stand, Urgent Care again, the full on stab a bunch of antibiotics for a kidney infection... tell me if I don't get better immediately I have to take myself to hospital. That sounds bad so I get better immediately.

I took my first sick day off in 3 years... gutted.
The company I work for is terrible, so I was hoping to throw 'no time off' in their faces when I inevitably storm out screaming.

I kinda lost my Steem mojo there for a bit... but I'm okay now.

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The hotel thing and the kidney thing were super disruptive to ninja training, my Ninja Warrior front end seems so much harder without Curie rewarding amazingly detailed ninja comps, training tips, etc. Narrative might be better for that... the jury is still out on that one. I started a fun little project SteemMoon that was intended to be a collaborative community art project with lots of people adding little pxiel art thingos. I was intending to use @SndBox to help get the word out and hopefully run a weekly competition, but that whole project has pretty much packed up for the short to medium term. I was starting to find weird post payouts, particularly in Dtube, a bit frustrating.

I'm curious about Narrative, it really could fill the hole left by Curie in my heart... but there's a few things that are a bit dodge... it hasn't started yet and there is already a hundred drafts for Nike and Air Jordans, which seems very odd... I bought a couple of niches, but I also accidentally sent some crypto to the exchange's own wallet instead of my own... and have been fighting with them for 3 weeks to try and get it back. Their support team just keeps telling me to wait another day or two....

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I think I just really missed the community aspect of the blockchain as almost everyone (myself included) goes around chasing the upvotes... and wasn't sure what my place was. I'm now thinking that Steem works best when you're doing what you want to do, and it doesn't really matter if Steem likes it or not.

So I'm going to continue with my ninja workouts, as much as a record for myself as anything.... but I'm also going to spend time creating tutorials for Javascript and React. I haven't done any coding for 2 months or so... and have forgotten everything... but I constantly constantly have ideas for apps I want to create or things I want to build...

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So, I think by doing tutorials of pretty much the steps I think I'll need for my newest Steem project idea.. it'll lock it in and make me all the smarts...

I think that's pretty much it on things I wanted to share to you against your will. Thanks for reading all the words, but also thanks if you just read some of the words, or even if you just looked at the pictures. Absolutely no thanks to you if you never even opened this post. You're the worst.

Have a super mega weekend! I'm literally ordering pizza the second I press POST