Steemit just knows how to cheer a guy up. While I was expecting to reach this goal within the week I was not 100% certain where before 500SP this would happen and it was a welcome surprise this afternoon.

I was up to 6 am this morning as I sometimes find myself in life and not in a good mood. Went to bed and woke up just not feeling like logging into steemit. Something later I changed my mind on and I’m glad I did

Just Wanted To Play

Group of friends wanted to play Ark. With me wanting to play with some people I’ve been neglecting for most of the year for one reason or another I was like shoot I really just can’t. I’ve been having some ram issues I’ve been putting off addressing for the week. Had the keyboard tray fall out of my desk so I fix it. Then, other side broke which damage my mouse from falling multiple times and hitting the ground. A day later I pronounce it terminated. My fix it skills not enough to replace the bits that broke from something.

I was determined to fix my ram issue so I could hang out with a group of friends. They even pitch in ideas on the issue. The issue from all points of view according to experience from friends and research was software issues causing my problems.

Long story short, all the fixes failed. Then nearing 6 am it dawned on me. While the ram did pass diagnostic testing I only physical tested one of the ram. So I tested the other on its own and booted up with zero issues everything worked fine. Next, I tried the other one like I had before and – black screen. It failed to load. My best guess is it was EOL (end of life) and it was still working but not good enough causing all the issues and yet avoiding proper diagnostics.

This brings us to issues of modern day. We are so focused on what our tools tells we fail to look back at what we personally observe with our own two eyes. If it was not for tools telling me the ram was fine and my reliance on internet research to say it has to be software issues. I would have spent more time thinking and testing on my own which would have led to test my entire ram right away instead of just assuming because the issue was still there with one of them that it must be software.

While I’m not 100% sure till I go out and buy more ram. I can only hope it’s the ram at this point and not the motherboard or some other unknown factor.

Steemit

One of the hardest things is knowing when you’re in a toxic mood and to choose to stay away. While I do want to get on steemit daily I sometimes avoid it because I just know myself too well. I’m glad today I thought “I’ll just read something today, upvote, and not comment."

Well, when I went to upvote I was confused. Sleep deprived and not being able to fix an issue on my own I first thought “too tired for this.” Then it hit me like a slap in the face that I needed. VOTE SLIDER UNLOCKED!!!!!!!!! So I’m guilty of going around and giving % votes which I know from how small my SP is was a bit of a waste. It was just fun however just changing the vote.

Vote Slider

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It took me 105 days and 2,079 posts to earn the vote slider. So why is it so important to me that I’ve wanted it after my first week or so on steemit?

Well, I like to curtail my own comment sections on my blogs. That’s kinda hard to do when all you can do is 100% upvote or a downvote. I like it when people come to a comment section and some votes have been used showing that the person who wrote the blog is active and reads this comment section. Now I just have greater control over ranking when it comes to just me upvoting someone’s comment on blogs.

I have never been big on caring about curation rewards or even staying above 80% Voting power. However, I read a lot of blogs, and comments. While I have always upvote quite a few things a day I don’t always feel everything should be my new normal voting %. Of which I have not decided what is going be normal and what is WOW 100%. Granted my votes are worth very little but it means a lot to me having control over how much.

My Celebration

Many choose a wide range of things as a way of marking certain milestones here. Because this made me really happy I wanted to extend how I felt to someone else.

I spent three hours today scrubbing the floors really well with a brush, rag, and towels. It might not seem like a lot to some but I know it will be a very nice surprise and make someone’s day just better after they came home working very late hours.

The nice thing about small random acts of kindness is they don’t tend to cost a lot or take a lot of time to do. They, however, can really be that extra something for someone even more so if they are having a bad day.

I also had a celebration dinner of a tuna sandwich with pickles and fruit on the side. I know I’m such a party animal!

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