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.
I started practicing drawing again after many year, only finding time during my lunch at work. My long term project is drawing the thumbnail for the Very Hicken Bros podcast. I am working on the first layer that I can build upon. The first thumbnail progress picture that I shared is below.
I want to write this post to see my progress over time. I have posted the current thumbnail many times already, but this website already phased out the original thumbnail, which I want to preserve.
It is good to practice drawing again. I have a Wacom drawing tablet. Software is occasionally an obstacle, but it is more clean and more efficient. Trevor surprisingly added the picture as his Facebook profile picture.
This past week has been very busy. I finally caught up on my multiple projects that I was working on. Jessica went to ballet a couple times this week, and she enrolled in another class designed for beginners.
The Primary program was today, and it went well. We have two very active girls in our stewardship, and we prayed all week that they would not behave as they did during the practice. One girl did not even attend any of the practices, but she did great. Jessica sat next to one, guiding her through her talk. During the talk I was told to move over because I was standing in front of children. I sat next to two other girls in our class, guiding them through their talks, and they did great!
The main great thing that happened is that NoName Nerd give me a followmystream.com WordPress website. I was given access last Sunday, and I setup my accounts the next day, when Jessica was at ballet practice.
On Tuesday Jessica and I went to watch Eternals with Trevor. I think that the new story arch is better than the previous Marvel arch with Thanos. It was fun, but it is not put together well. The critics did not like it, and my coworker, who is a big movie fan, tore it apart.
Kyler joined us for last week’s episode. The episode went very fast. We did not even use the full forty minutes of the Zoom session.
On Friday night I did all the learn to earn opportunities on Coinbase, earning about 31 dollars of cryptocurrency. I explored the assets to see how I can get it into a full-custody wallet, and I was only able to transfer my assets to a Clover account, since the other currency had arbitrary minimum to transfer. It was funny because Coinbase sent me another 5 dollars of Bitcoin the next day, and I found that I can transfer the value to a non-custodial wallet affordably with Cardano. I was trying to stake or do something with my Cardano, but I couldn’t figure out anything yet.
Jessica loves farmers markets, and we went to one last Saturday, purchasing produce and a wreath. She loves wreath, and I did not want to pass up the opportunity to purchase a wreath made of natural materials that would last forever.
A audience member of YouTube asked me to add chapters to a video, so I updated all the Season 5 videos with chapters. It is not the current standard, but links are in the description. I completed this on Saturday before we went out to the farmers market.
2021.11.21
This last week was crazy because I got many free NFTs. I got three more from NoName Nerd and one from Just for Laughs, a Canadan comedy network. The later NFT would cost more than two hundred dollars to mint to my Ethereum wallet, so I haven’t yet. Unstoppable Domains let me mint my domains for free on Polygon, so I did that. I got alexhicken.crypto and dragonbolt.crypto. I also minted a domain for Thomas, my older brother.
This past week I worked on my Follow my Stream domain in a shareable presentable form while Jessica was at ballet on Monday, and I announced my affiliation of my content with NoName Nerd. Yesterday I posted many articles about my NFTs and my content on the Follow my Stream website after posted the latest Talk to You Later Show episode. I had my NFT links on my Yat page, and I wanted to transfer them to my new website.
On Wednesday we recorded an episode to prepare for an edited Very Hicken Bros episode on Saturday, but my laptop died during the recording, messing up my audio when I returned to the stream. I decided to not edit the episode, but I did post a new thumbnail that I was preparing. We switched to using Google Meet to record the video, so we don’t have to worry about the Zoom time limits. We discovered this option last time that we video chatted with my parents.
The Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes came out Friday, and I barely finished, beating Sword and Shield on Thursday. I got back into that game when Pokemon Unite came out. Trevor got a double pack, giving me a version today.
On Friday night Josh and Martha hung out with us. They had Jessica babysit Corvus while they went to an appointment. Their new children, Oliver was born only a few weeks earlier. It was good to catch up with them.
On Friday I received news that Nodle Cash is doing a crowdloan like the Acala one that I contributed too, and I prepared for the Nodle Cash crowdloan that night, contributing to Clover’s crowdloan too. I told you about Clover in last week’s entry. It is trying to be an Acala type platform, but they are not in the test net phase. Their service is subpar currently because they claim their parachain benefits, but they haven’t won a slot yet. Acala actually won the first Polkadot slot! Nodle pays me in their token for providing data to Internet of Things devices through Bluetooth via my mobile devices. I hope that they win a slot because it would establish liquidity to their token. I have used Nodle Cash for about a year now. They have made exciting announcements lately including a token pre-sale and a redenomination of their currency. They did a ten for one split. Clover claims that their token is the first and most liquid Token of the ecosystem otherthan DOT I expect.
Jessica and I taught primary for the first time in a month or so, and the class went well. We taught the entire primary. There were only four children, and three other adults attended. We discussed the love of Christ observing a couple paintings. The second activity was playing a game. First we played it without rules; then, we played it with rules to illustrate the need for laws. Everyone participated well, and everyone enjoys it even the adults. The game was pictionary.
My name on my Mastodon and Twitter profiles is dragonbolt.crypto. Like most nicknames, they are not chosen. No one actually gave me that nickname either, but dragonbolt.crypto supposed to inspire people to check out my Yat of ๐๐ฉ๐ค .
Yats are links for the modern emoji times. I also use it because it makes sharing the link through a visual mediums like stories easy. y.at/๐๐ฉ๐ค is my yat link. If you use the Opera browser, you can skip entering the y.at/. There is also a text version that Yat produced because Instagram does not allow emojis in the “link in the bio,” which is https://y.at/dragon.bolt.money-mouth.
I purchased my Yat for a discounted price by participating in the May 2021 Cloud35 event. I got a “cloud seed,” and it “sprouted” into my generation zero Yat. I did not choose the emojis; although, most people choose their Yat emoji combinations.
Relating it to my life, I can see that the dragon can allude to my birth on the year of the dragon. The bolt can allude to my profession in the construction management industry, and the money-mouth emoji alludes to my interest in cryptocurrencies.
dragonbolt.crypto is also a link that I “purchased” from a promotional airdrop of store credit by Unstoppable Domains. I finally minted it this past week on the Polygon blockchain. I don’t know how to use the Unstoppable Domains much. The extent of my use of them is that one is my email address, and they can be used to send me crypto assets.
I have two minimeal non-fungible tokens. I got one at the NoName Store webpage below, which says “For each order placed here before December 1, we will donate 10 meals toย Feeding America.ย Order one minimeal and we’ll donate 10 real meals.”
The creator wrote the following about the project:
Deciding what to have for dinner is an eternal challenge for us all. In fact, this collection has over 6 MILLION potential food combinations involving a drink, main dish, two side dishes, and dessert (of course). These adorable little 160×160 pixel meals include anything from pad thai to hot dogs, from rice to peas, from vodka to sushi. There are even a few less than savory options on the menu (I’ll be honest, a couple are just gross).ย These NFT are ONLY available directly from the Noname Nerd website for $9.99 (including gas fees!). Pay in fiat or crypto here.
Just for Laughs is a comedy network in Canada. I obtained this non-fungible token during their fortieth year anniversary campaign. I added a comment on the token’s webpage to make it more unique. The comment is เน เน เน. The Thai number is roughly pronounced ha. You may see Thai people post 555 on social media. I also thought that this was fitting because they own the domain hahaha.com. I enjoy laughing, and I believe that I get my humor from my Thai side. The NFT is more than an image. Check it out at the following link: https://fanaply.com/moment/jfl40thanniversarypin/45
Birdboy by Vidam, one of the three limited edition NFTs that were created to celebrate the launch of Kusama parachains. Representing three interpretations of the Kusama canary by Berlin street artists Awer, Vidam and Andreas Preis, the paintings were created on a section of the Berlin wall now used as an open canvas for free artistic expression.
