Good night, NOSTR Friends! Tomorrow is Friday! I will be going to see my Dad at the hospital - he has a twisted intestine (how?!? He is 76!) and found himself somewhat dehydrated. Soooo…being the helpful son that I am, I reminded him how they fix bloated cattle & horses with twisted guts (my wife watches way too much Dr. Pohl…) Sleep well, friends!

Good morning, NOSTR Friends! I hope you’re well this morning. I wipe up to what seems like a nice treat - it actually feels nice outside this morning! It is nice that the humidity has left and it is cool and breezy now. The Weather App says it is 74 now, and our high temp today will be 82 with a mix of clouds and sun. I’m going to get ready and head out for my daily walk. My wife and one of the not-so-littles will be home soon from doing morning chores at the stable where one of the 4-H projects lives. Have a great day, and keep working toward your freedom!

Good morning, NOSTR Friends! I hope you’re well today. I just got home from a 3.6-mile walk. It is humid this morning, but not hot. There is a slight breeze, and the birds sound happy. I was planning to go to a local archaeological dig this morning, but the fellow I’d be riding with wasn’t feeling well and cancelled. Now I’m going to go sample the coffee I started as o left the he house for my walk. Have a great day, friends, and keep walking toward freedom!

Good night, NOSTR Friends! I hope you sleep well. Today I went for a 4.2 - mile walk, and since then I’ve scanned a number of old (pre-2022) Bitcoin wallets - and found no old coins. 🙁 Since those wallets were unused, I discarded those files. I’m currently between wallets and BTC Core is catching up on sync-ing with the network. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid 90’s here in northern Ohio, and I’ll be spending the day in AC with family. 😀 Have a great night, all! Sleep well, and keep working toward your freedom!

It just started raining here in northern Ohio. Here are two pics of the rain as it came across the fields to the west of us.

Good night, NOSTR Friends! I’m about to turn in for the night. Ir felt like a Looooong day. Sleep well!

It has been a long wait (about 2-3 months), but I finally have my very own copy of Bitcoin Core downloaded, fully updated, and running on my local computer! My next step will be to install/convert? to a BTC Lightning node. I am so happy to have the BTC full node fully updated (starting from block 0) and running! My next "big" purchase is a spare SSD or HDD. I want to copy this current drive to a new drive so I have a spare one in case this one dies. I might grab a 2 TB drive instead of the 1 TB drive I'm currently using.

My instance of BTC Core has successfully completed downloading the blockchain. I am now going to start on installing/converting to a Lightning node.

23 Blocks until Full BTC Node!!!!

114 blocks to go! BTC Core says 108 minutes yet until fully sync'd.

276 blocks yet to download until I have a full node!

#asknostr Question: Can anyone recommend channels on YouTube that explain how to stand up Bitcoin Lightning nodes on MS Windows 11? Background info to question: I am reaching the home stretch of downloading my own complete copy of the bitcoin blockchain. Only 1,906 blocks to go! When finished, I plan to take the next steps toward standing up my own Bitcoin Lightning node, and I hope it will be finished by Friday or Saturday. Thank you for your replies!

Good night, NOSTR Friends! I hope you had a good day. We went to my niece & nephew’s birthday/swim party this afternoon and are now waiting for the two bigs to get off work so we can go watch local fireworks in a nearby community. (Last night was awful- rain, too far away…) Tonight’s weather looks much better. I spent another couple of hours on the web today looking for an answer about whether my video-editing software (Corel VideoStudio) will let me edit video and sound from files recorded on my iPhone (it won’t) and what I need to do to make it work. Apparently I needed to download & install a free video converter software. It now appears to work. I wish I would have seen the answer before spending more than 10 hours hoping to make it work. Anyway, enough about that. I hope you have a great evening! I’m going to go watch fireworks in a little while.

Good morning, NOSTR Friends! I hope you’re well. The Weather Channel says to expect it to be hot (93) and sunny today. We’ll be celebrating our niece and nephew’s birthday today, and enjoying their swimming pool this afternoon. Have a great day, friends, and keep making steps toward your freedom!