2021.11.25
Today is Thanksgiving, and we are flying to Oklahoma currently to see John Ledesma; however, we did have a Thanksgiving meal already. Trevor came over with bread, eggs, drinks, chips, and hummus. He got off work last night at 8:30 post meridiem, calling to ask about recording a podcast. He also asked about what we are doing this morning. Jessica did previously think of having a Thanksgiving breakfast with him. We decided some food, and I concluded my preparation for the podcast.
My default breakfast request is French Toast. I am a minimalist, so my personal recipe is to soak the bread in egg, and cook it; no milk, sugar, or cinnamon. When Trevor asked what I want to put on it; for example syrup or honey, I said that I would like yogurt. The meal was pleasant.
After we began playing the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes. The first thing that the game has us do is download an update, so we opened a box of Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I am not very Yu-Gi-Oh literate, so I mainly looked at the pictures. One booster pack had a very valuable card. It was Evil Twins something like that, being worth three-hundred dollars. Trevor wants to make decks out of the booster packs that we opened and play the game. Yu-Gi-Oh is very complicated, so every turn would probably take me ten minutes to complete.
I believe that I am playing the Brilliant Diamond version. The beginning was much more simple than Sword and Shield. I never played this version of Pokemon. I think that the chibby digital art fits the previous version. There is just much more pixels.
Since the transition fees for Cardano are reasonable, I have collected about sixty ADA tokens. I’m preparing to stake my ADA tokens. There was a one-hundred dollar cryptocurrency investment as a prize for a contest at work, and the host of the contests felt a little disappointed because a coworker told him that his crypto winnings will pay for the next contest fantasy football entry fee. He wanted every participant to pay their entry fee. I thought that the crypto was unclaimed, so I was hoping to ask for it for my birthday. When I received the news of the fantasy football entry fee, not being paid, I thought that I was resolving his disappointment. When I saw that a prize for a higher rank in fantasy football is crypto, I thought that a similar situation may arise. I did not completely resolve the crypto situation, but I resolved it temporarily.
I seem to be writing in reverse chronological order. I will start from the beginning of the week. On Monday, I had to convince Jessica to go to ballet in the evening because the class is more advanced than she would like. I told her that her beginner class is only once a week; would you go to CrossFit once a week? What results would you see if you went to CrossFit once a week? She understood that she would not make any progress, going to CrossFit once a week, and she related that ballet.
At ballet I composed my journal entry for the week. I also posted another article about my art project making the thumbnail for the Very Hicken Bros podcast. I did not want the previous image of my progress be lost. Today is now Saturday, and yesterday NoName Nerd offered a Black Friday ten dollars off promo code. I used it to purchase a five dollar DigiDenizen NFT, and I purchased two custom NFTs of the two thumbnails. One person actually hearted the current thumbnail on OpenSea.
The DigiDenizen NFT is fun because it is going to have a reveal event at New Year’s Day. The theme is a role-playing game. I have played a Final Fantasy game on my old Gameboy, and the graphics is like that game but colored. I can reveal it before New Year’s Day, but I hope that I get a more rare and valuable one if I wait.
On Tuesday we visited Hayley and Austin Lopez for the first birthday of their daughter named Chloe. It was fun to catch up with them. Austin posted on Facebook about requesting crypto tips, and we talked about that. He is mainly into Bitcoin, but he also has Cardano, Eth, and Shiba coins. I told him that I like investing in projects in Polkadot like I have mentioned.
On Wednesday I finished packing before recording a podcast, I am a part of the Unstoppable Domains Twitter family, and a bounty was to encourage Beeple to purchase the Beeple.nft domain. Beeple is definitely the foremost NFT artist currently. I just told him how I use my Unstoppable Domain, saying pictures can be attached to them, making them a traditional NFT. I feel up to selling my thumbnail NFTs new that they are minted. I can be a NFT artist too.
I did not prepare as much as usual for my podcast. I wanted to publish an episode concluding my Acala crowdloan experience, since they won the first Polkadot slot auction and my audio was messed up during our last recording session. Nodle also announced a crowd-loan, so I mentioned that. I laughed a little because Nick was on his phone and Trevor was dousing off during my segment.
We are on the 8:45 anti meridiem flight from Oklahoma to Salt Lake City, so we had an early morning. Thanksgiving was great. Heather made us a taco buffet, so we didn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving; however, we did have a Thanksgiving meal at Aaron and Geogina Ledesma’s house. It was fun because I helped bake corn bread, and Jessica made mash potatoes. I played a lot with Benjamin. He hugged my legs, and he would crawl up to be with me. He also crawled on my back, and we danced to music.
It was the first time that Jessica met her cousin in Oklahoma. Aaron Ledesma is her uncle. Jessica finally met all her cousins at twenty-seven years old. I didn’t talk too much with them, but I met Jaron, Lara, and Tawnie.
Jaron is preparing for his mission, and they asked Lucas and I for tips. I didn’t say anything except agreeing with Lucas that MTC training is much different than the field. I would say to love the people that you serve, but that is common knowledge. It really does make the difference in a mission to love everyone in the area that you serve. Jaron is leaving for his mission on Tuesday.
Geogina teaches ballet, so Jessica and her was able to talk about that.
Heather’s parents were at the Thanksgiving, and it was nice to meet them. There were way too many people in attendance for the table, so Jessica and I ate on the couch. After eating I found that there were bar stools at the Kitchen island and the dining table was not even full of people. There seemed to be plenty of seating.
The conclusion of our experience at Aaron’s house is watching the first two episodes of the Mandolorian. The story seems simple. We watched it because Jessica and I never have. Aaron was wearing his dadalorian shirt. Oh yeah! I forgot to say that Unstoppable Domains is sending me a t-shirt for being part of their Twitter family.
In the evenings, we would watch Lord of the Rings at John’s house. I would not watch them mainly because I sit too much.
John lead a “Come, Follow Me” lessons. We listened to the Elder Holland talk “Safety for the Soul” in commemoration of Hyrum and Joseph’s martyrdom. I may have appeared distracted during the viewing, but I was following along with the text and the audio. I liked how he capped his talk with they who treasure the word of God will not be deceived.
Work is good. I finished a project on Wednesday. I have a new Daybreak project to quantify, so I have work to start of next week. I am not overwhelmingly busy, which is nice. I will probably be looking for work by the end of the week.
I seem to be running out of things to written. I think that when I start writing about things that I have written about is a sign that I should finish writing. I posted a playlist of the podcast episodes that I have interviewed Nick Chao about his music. He has posted nine compositions with the Very Hicken Bros podcast. He was working on a remix of an older song that I recognized last week, which was fun. He is changing it from a pop song to a symphonic metal song.
2021.11.28
When we got home from the flight yesterday, I looked into Cake DeFi’s Black Friday promotion because if I deposited more than twenty-five dollars of cryptocurrency, they would match it up to thirty dollars; furthermore, they would give me a five percent bonus for freezing my staked tokens for six months. I already got a one-hundred-five percent return on my DeFi tokens! This is my first staking experience. Cake DeFi enables me to stake without having the minimum requirements, hardware, and software that staking individually requires. It is like delegating my tokens, which are options on Polkadot and Cardano. It is sad high fees are on Ethereum. I went with DeFiChain because I didn’t want to deal with Ethereum’s inefficiencies.
I am still learning about Cardano’s staking data to determine who to delegate my ADA tokens to. It gives the ROA percentage, which I still have no idea is, and the cost is a percentage plus three-hundred forty. The percentage is the amount of the returns that the node operator decided to keep for himself, and three-hundred-forty is the minimum standard cost to operate and maintain the nods set by Cardano. The rest of the return is distributed to the delegators.
Jessica and I tried to prepare our primary lesson, but we were so exhausted that we couldn’t focus well, deciding to take a nap. After the nap and grocery shopping, we found that it was late, and it would be suspicious to go to work to print the primary activity. Looking online, I found a false hope that FedEx is open twenty-four seven. There were no retail opportunities to print the activity, but I was at a Whole Foods; therefore, I tried my luck with the store. They had to have a printer handy. After the discovery of the false information on Yelp about FedEx, I got up walking around the store without telling Jessica what I was doing. (This is a suspenseful exciting story about printing out a sheet of a primary worksheet.) Walking past the cashiers, I saw a printer in the customer service kiosk. I stood there patiently as a sign said that the kiosk is closed. A sister came to see how she can help me. I asked if she could print something for me. It is for a church primary class. She said “How? You can’t use the printer.” I said that I could email it to you or I can print directly, if it can print with WiFi. She gave me her email address. I emailed her the print out, and the situation of no commercial or retail opportunity to print the primary activity was resolved.
The primary class went well. A student was proud to show what she colored to her parents. We were pushing their attention span of coloring the accomplishments of Joseph Smith until another student remember that we made paper temples previously. Temples was the last topic, so we let the children make paper temples. It is hard to know if the children are learning, but at this age one must trust the power of the word of God and the learning process of the human soul. It is line upon line precept upon precept.