I had to remind myself that poverty is the base case. Any time I am above poverty, I am playing on winnings. And those winnings were earned. So I wished to keep them. Thankfully 1 bitcoin still equalled 1 bitcoin, so job done. Hardest part has been denying urges to spend a little on the climb. Still might, but holding on for now, still doing my DCA. Almost 4 years in. No huge selloffs or losses. The times I have sold some were early stages of experimentation with testing the offramps and at one point trying to convert my entire check to bitcoin and live by selling only what I had to. Overall, I'm down about 10% from my top, but most of that was gifted to my family, so I can't really count that as lost. None of them have sold it, even though I offered to buy it back if any of them ever wanted to sell. Probably helps that I gave it to them around the bottom, so they've only seen it climb.

Commissioned gifts from actual artisans are far superior to anything on Amazon. I love being able to be involved in the design process. Last time I commissioned something was jewelry. This time, leather. Same vibe.

Trying something. Put daily events on my work calendar to remind me to time-restrict certain activities. Will update them as needed. For now, - No coffee after noon (did this today, trying to cut way back on coffee, which I have pretty much been drinking around the clock) - No cigarettes until after noon. (Except on when I wake up). For those playing the long game, I quit cigarettes a little over a year ago. I was off them for 7 months. It's getting close to quitting time again, but just trying something to see how it goes with this. All of this is (a new) part of a bigger plan, where in about a month from now, I will be eliminating a lot of things for diet/health reasons, and playing off the various withdrawals against each other. Already started eliminating things, but going further than I have dared before. I don't know if I will make it as far as ingesting only beef, salt, and water - but I hope to get pretty close to that, at least for a little while.

Any experiences or information on GHB, especially at lower dosages? Not really looking for the party drug experience, more for therapeutic options.

Today I bought groceries for week. Roughly 11 pounds of beef steaks, at an average price of a little less than $5/lb. That's it. Done. That's a little over 1.5 lbs of steak per day. A wildly inaccurate calorie estimate would put that at about 1400 calories per day, but I know it is more than that because I eat all the fat drippings and sometimes add tallow or butter, which I already have plenty of. If I run out of steaks, I have some more in the freezer. Don't tell me how expensive this plan is. How many Americans eat for $55/week?

Does this mean I will have relay issues when moving between nostr clients (will changes made in your client affect or reset what I may have currently for all clients that I use that also have relay control) - because that would be a dealbreaker. Also, if I make a change to a relay list in another client, will that change alter or reset what I had set up in your client?

Might learn enough C# to do what I currently do with powershell and ms sql, just maybe a little better and more portable.

What does it mean, to ask? Specifically, to ask something of someone else?

Dealing with humans that have all your answers can be exhausting. GN.