I'm sitting with mk and we are marveling at the rise in ETH price. I will be taking them to the airport momentarily. After that, I should be working but it's likely that I'll play the guitar.
What should you be doing?
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Me and my friend went to go watch the new mission impossible, albeit i had never watched any of the older ones and i didn't quite like Tom Cruise's acting (except of course in Magnolia) and we went in on a tuesday because $5 movie and we go in and it happens the old folks home is also there visiting. Now mind you me and my friend are pretty stoned, and during the movie one gentlemen asks her wife what the IMF was and i quietly whisper International Monetary Fund and apparently i didnt whisper as quietly as i inteded (and i actually thought it ment that) and everyone around me had a good giggle
I should be doing my new job. Several months ago I was put into a new position with a new manager in a new department. It's been all downhill since then. I've been in a massive professional funk. I should be working hard. Instead, I'm slumming hubski. Did you say ETH is up again? oh - and tell mk hi for me.
Actually, here's hoping that it drops back down to three dollars and then goes to the moon. We've got one more big by We'd like to put it
I hypothesize that the runup in both ETH and BTC ('cuz they've both climbed) is due to the fact that the finance intelligentsia have started expressing legitimate concerns that the Fed might pursue Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP) within the year. I saw a graph somewhere that pointed out something like a quarter of the world's currency is already under NIRP, with Japan and Germany leading the way. Bonds are in the shitter. Commodities are hammered. Oil is a losing proposition. The main advice being offered these days is "go to cash" or "go to gold" and when "go to cash" becomes a losing proposition rather than a gaining one, "go to gold" wins. Cryptocurrencies have all the attractions of precious metals and the ability to be used as currency. BTC kicks the shit out of gold. And if you're hedging, ETH is a penny stock that jumped to six bucks while you weren't watching and holy shit you can buy a lot of it right now and if it does what BTC did, you're gonna be filthy fuckin' rich, who cares what interest rates the Fed charges for interbank? That's my theory, anyway.
There's also a lot of Greater Fool Theory going on here. For me, it's a student loan moonshot - I'll hopefully be able to use it to make a significant dent in my slowly accruing student loans. Also, I find the /r/ethtrader daily discussion threads very entertaining. It's like a nerdy version of horoscopes.
I told my wife that as soon as ETH hits $1k per I'm cashing out and buying a mansion. She laughed.
It will happen.
I think I've mentioned before, my favorite statistics professor decorated his office in fortune telling memorabilia to remind people he consulted with not to trust him too much. I wish more technical people were like him. Those required communications classes drill into you that you need to work on establishing your credibility, when we usually have credibility be default and need to make sure no one is more certain of our work than we are ourselves.
Served a bunch of coffee, listened to cool tunes, got a buzz the last hour of work, got drunk the first hour after work. About to eat dinner, watch Gravity Falls with my daughter, drink more, make it hot with my wife and go to bed so I can serve a mellow a low acid Sumatran coffee in the A.M. I think I'm doing what I should. I also made a series of confessions to people who I felt were owed them this week. I think I'm doing what I should be doing. Great quote on doing it "saying and doing it are two different things."
Well, at least you're making a shitton of money. Life is too short for Excel abominations if they don't come with a shitton of money. But seriously, do what the rest of us do. Write a script to make your Excel abominations instead, then go wander the streets.
Work. I have done some work. I have actually done more work than I think I have, because people keep emailing me one-offs and I keep smashing them out. I'm also pretty happy with the work I've done, but fact of the matter is, I should do more. But freakin' meetings and idiots take up waaaay too much time out of my day.
I have a resume to write, a meeting with a coordinator to book, an exam to study for (for real this time)... Instead, I'll probably be reading The Girl Who Played With Fire and drinking tea. There's always things we should be doing, it's all about balancing them with what we want to be doing. I wonder if people who are successful have those two line up nicely.
Exercising. Once you stop, for whatever reason, it's really hard to resume the thing you've been dreading your whole life. The program I follow is far from impossible or even difficult, but damn it, it's hard to overcome myself at times. Instead, I'm coding an amateur overhaul of my uni's schedule webpage. My art skills are shit, but it still looks better than the old one.
Checks out the price of ETH. This is good, yes. I should probably be working on one of my projects but am in an e-conference with the rest of the people in my companies program.
I should work on my cover letter and find an internship. I should find a new roommate. I should advance in different groupworks. And many other things. Going to focus on one thing at a time and advance bit by bit.
I should be surfing Hubski; I am surfing Hubski. Later today I have to go to a designer run-through of the school musical, since I'm in the pit orchestra, and I will. I'm in my study hall now, but I have no homework, so I can't be doing that. Life is easy when you have no responsibilities.
Really not sure what I should be doing. The contract is running down, and they have about 30 mins of work per day for me... so I spend the rest of the time trying to surreptitiously do personal stuff... in an open-plan office, in a high-foot-traffic area. But I set my Hubski style to minimal, so it looks like I might be working on something work related. (Our SaaS app has a kinda stripped-down look to it.) So now I'm trying to figure out why they keep paying me $47/hr. Not that I'm complaining. :-)
I should be studying the cardiovascular system and related pathologies but I've been putting that off for days. I found an asteroid game that helps me study now so I think I might actually get some done this evening. Going back to school has been tough since I haven't had to study in a long time.