2021.12.12
Last week was my birthday weekend, and I was so busy that I did not have time to write in my journal. My Whoop subscription has two major things that it helps me with. It helps me not work out too much, and it has a notes section to remind myself about something special for each day. I would have a hard time remembering the past two weeks without it.
On Monday the 29th of November, Jessica wanted to set up our Christmas tree after our Family Home Evening lesson. I was distracted during the activity because NoName Nerd was giving out free NFTs. My distraction was contagious, and the experience of putting together the Christmas tree had a more shallow feeling than it could have.
The NoName Nerd Community NFT project is like many other NFT projects, having 10,000 unique versions. This project has 10,000 versions of the NoName Nerd mascot, which looks like a stereotypical superhero. They are going to be revealed on December 15th, which is the coming Wednesday.
For the past two weeks, Trevor has had errors with his audio recording Android apps on his Chrome, so we may be missing two weeks of the December monthly highlights episode. I haven’t been too interested in news the past few weeks, not having news articles to discuss in our podcast.
I experienced two crypto scams recently. An app called cmorq was claiming to give away NFTs for new users, if I do a transaction on the platform. The apps method to add wallets was not standard. They allegedly gave me five dollars of Matic currency, but it had no transparency to how I can access the cryptocurrency. They were punctual about answering customer support questions until I asked for transparency about the five dollars “investment.” They claimed to be able to replace your bank, but they pitched being a intermediary service between your non-custodial wallet and bank, which is not DeFi. I don’t think that they really gave me five dollars. It was fictitious.
My second experience is a little scary because I asked the Clover Finance about how to coordinate the Lucky NFT tickets because they were fifth place in the auction at that time. A seemingly random of the channel messaged me privately, answering my question, but he recommended that I “validate” my Clover account to whitelist it to receive my Crowdloan awards. I never heard of validating accounts, but I gave it a try. The website appeared official as part of WalletConnect, but again it did not follow the standard method to access my wallet, claiming an error and requesting me to manually enter my wallet seed phrase. It is a good thing that my Clover and Binance Trust Wallets don’t have any meaningful assets. The website didn’t work, and I entered my seed phrase. I tweeted them about it, but they didn’t answer.
Binance.US itself is an iffy website. It asks for very personal KYC information specifically your social security number, and it errors out in the account application process. Their customer service is horrible, claiming that there is a PDF application to manually have your account approved, which the document can’t be found anywhere. Binance is not a trustworthy blockchain, but it has a lot of money making opportunities; therefore, it is used a lot. People have to be careful about their information, and I have not been until these three learning experiences.
Friday, the eve of my birthday, was a special experience at work. I had a happy birthday sign above my desk, but that wasn’t the special situation. At work, the Vice President’s birthday was celebrated by giving everyone in the office a “Happy Birthday Jared” shirt, ever since than I covered his name with duct tape, replacing it with the current birthday person’s name. One coworker tried to mock me with another line beneath his name on his birthday, writing “You are the best coworker ever!” This mocking attempt failed because many people have gotten pictures with me, feeling that they are the best coworker ever. Another thing needs to be explained in the picture as well. A cardboard cutout of Marilyn Manroe is wearing one of the T-shirts. The cutout was acquired for the CEO and president’s birthday because he performed a musical number for the President of the United States of America. There was visible peer pressure and appreciation as people wore the t-shirt, covering the Vice President’s name with duct tape, and writing my name and “You are the best coworker ever!” Some people wrote other saying like the following: Best Rice Eater, You are the real MVP, You are the best little brother, and you are very sneaky. I shared what happened with my wife, and she said that I need to get pictures. I was surprised to text her about ten minutes later that I did not have to orchestrate that. My coworkers did. My Vice President wrote that I am very sneaky on his shirt, and he had a goal to sneak up and surprise me. His second attempt got me very good. I have squeaky shoes, so I am not as sneaky as before. My coworkers made my birthday special.
On my birthday, I started putting together the November highlights episode, but I did not finish it.
I also received equipment from Jag Industrials called SenseCap on my birthday. It is used to mine the Helium cryptocurrency. The currency is issued for a service similar to Nodle, providing Internet to Internet of Things devices. I am hosting on of their devices, which they sent at no cost to me, saying that they will give me twenty percent of the rewards. I got about one and a half dollars so far. Jag Industrials gets about four times that, which would be six dollars. This is all passive income. Six dollars in one week is not a lot, but that would be about three hundred dollars a year without any work. I have not mentioned that the currency should be inflating too. If I owned the device, I would be getting five times the amount of HNT, and I witnessed the set up process, which is very easy. I might save up to purchase one. Jag Industrials did mention that they had to register the location on the network, costing about maybe seventy dollars
I am a part of the Unstoppable Domains Twitter family on Discord. They released a new product in a Beta state, enabling their users to attached an NFT onto a domain. They also announced a big giveaway for participating by sharing your attached NFT/domain connection. It appears that the Unstoppable Domains Twitter family is losing steam because their effort has reduced. There is no word on the big giveaway. My NFT attachment was a failure because the filter placed on top of the picture was placed on the thumbnail on my video NFT that I minted. The thumbnail doesn’t like good.
My crypto passive income efforts are not appreciated. I have been banned from WiFi at work, and my Helium Mining has reduced significantly because the ideal place to put the equipment is at the window. Jessica did not want the equipment in the window, requiring the blinds to be slightly opened, when my mother-in-law is visiting. I had five mobile devices mining Nodle Cash. Two of them were “paused,” sending me a sign.
My service, teaching the primary children, have not been going well; mainly because editing takes a lot of time, and the lesson preparation is procrastinated
2021.12.19
This past week feels like two weeks. On Monday I cleaned the entire apartment in preparation for Mercedes’, my mother-in-law, arrival. She is staying with us approximately twenty-five days. We actually picked her up that night. I had to take a day off from work to get the place in order.
Tuesday was Mercedes’ birthday, and we ate at a buffet to celebrate. I would rate the buffet as slightly below average like a 6.9. The place is called Paradise Buffet. I give it that rating because the food’s quality of texture, flavor, and freshness is subpar. I did enjoy myself.
My life feels more simple with more family at home.
Thursday was odd because I didn’t feel that any of my articles or life experiences were worth sharing on the podcast after a disappointing delay of the podcast from Wednesday to Thursday. It is good that the podcast team is committed. I submitted that I did have a couple quick topics to discuss.
On Friday evening, I went to Jonathan’s Jewelry because they gave me a hundred dollar gift certificate. They did have some items under one hundred dollars, but in order to purchase an item that appears high quality. I used the gift card more like a 75% discount.
My first experience with the Whoop Strap 4.0 was not good. It arrived with dead batteries, and it took a few hours to charge which was not ideal because I opened it late at night. It appears to have wireless charging or there is not metal connector on the new charging mount device, and it did not work until I removed the layer of fabric, not wearing the device of my wrist. The Whoop straps are designed to be able to be charged and worn at the same time.
Saturday was a long day too. I got up and helped a couple move, but we left early when it appeared that it was going to be an all day thing. We had a lot to do.
We went to print the week’s primary activity, drop off our compost, Smith’s to purchase Christmas gifts with a gift card given to me at work, watch Spider-man: No Way Home, grocery shopping after hanging out and dinner with Jasmine and Lucas.
“Spider-man: No Way Home” was a great movie, but I think that the premise of it is excessively exaggerated. I don’t think that the Daily Bugle has the influence to instantaneous inform the entire population that Spider-man ‘murdered’ Mysterio.
2021.12.26
Life was too busy to write in my journal during the holidays. The Rosas family kicked it off on Sunday, the 19th, with a lasagna dinner. It was good times. Jasmine and Lucas left early as they frequently do, but Jasmine got talking to Arrie in the middle of the hallway. I didn’t want to interrupt their conversation, so I was somewhat stuck in the dining room alone until Elizabeth came to talk to me. We talked about milk for some reason. We hung out in the living room once the hallway was unblocked. There was a lot of talk about dating. This age of Internet dating is odd. I seem to be part of the generation that did use dating mobile phone apps.
I pitched the Wisdom: an Audio Community app on the Very Hicken Bros podcast months ago as an opportunity to leverage your expertise, and get paid to answer questions from audience members. The Wisdom app has changed from that vision to be an audio chat room/ Tiktok type app. Truly is another app that actually implemented Wisdom’s original vision. People would pay a dollar or your minimum asking price to answer a question via a video selfie within thirty seconds. I like being an early adopter because I got the username @alexander on both applications.
(A list of things that I did not have time to write about.)
Recorded the podcast early
Picked up my parents at the airport on Wednesday night
Minted 5 NFTs and checked out Cmorq again, transferring a free NFT that I got there.
Watched encanto
Won Settlers of Catan
Won Animal Crossing Monopoly
My viral birthday video peaked at 40,000 views
Last podcast
Work truck windshields suck. Drove to Heber Thursday night
Finally played the Scooby Do game
Won settlers of Catan again
Visited Kim Graham
New Ward building
Trevor’s birthday/Ocean Branch Reunion
Joined CrossFit on Tuesday
First timed workout
Finished training
Benjamin’s birthday
Dropped Mercedes at the airport
Stake conference
2022.01.16
Last Sunday, I beat Trevor again in Pokemon.
I forsook Pokemon during the week to focus on preparing this week’s primary lesson.
Reading Genesis after reading Moses felt pointless because the Book of Moses from the Pearl of Great Price is a true translation.
Nodle and several other Polkadot projects were left on the dust by Hydra. I hope that Nodle has a plan to achieve the eleventh slot of the blockchain.
Thomas finally replied to my text after a couple weeks. I have been trying to get him access to his Unstoppable Domain, but he appears to have given up.
Jessica joined me four of five CrossFit sessions this week because she doesn’t like timed workouts, which was not that bad.
Jessica spoke in Sacrament today, and I took lead in the Primary class. We both did well in our duties. I was extra prepared for the little children, but I worked with the older children.