I germinated hundreds of cactus seeds in the fall, got tons of sprouts, but only about 10 look like they’ll make it to adulthood. Man that hurts. I need to get better at this.

According to the internet, the exchange rate in Argentina is about 350 pesos to the dollar at the moment. But my friend in Buenos Aires tells me that the rate on the street, the real rate, is closer to 750 pesos to the dollar. It was 18 when I first went in 2017.

Fuck it. If nobody interacts with me here or on Twitter, I might as well post my bullshit here where at least I’m not being hidden from the rest of the people on the platform.

Back on Nostr for the Elon Twitter rate limit party. Let’s go!

What’s your favorite job you ever had?

‪I’m trying to position myself to be one of those people doing ignoble work for high salary. I’m not there yet. But I see the path. I estimate that I will only gross about $25K-$35K this year. Not great. But I think that I can get that number well over $100K just doing farm kill work…if I level up my game. The main thing is, I’m the only person who does my work around here, and it’s in demand. If I work hard and get connected in the market, I know my demand will be infinite. But I need to hone my skill. It takes me 4 hours to do a cow by myself, from the kill to hanging it in a walk-in cooler. I need to get that down to 30-45 minutes.

GM the corn is pumping! Going to be a good day obsessing about bitcoin. I went out to a local farm for a slaughter yesterday and had the craziest kills of my whole life. So it will be good to be off today watching #bitcoin moon.

From greenpeace skull of satoshi to this in one month.

A pretty scrawny mangalitza pig I harvested for a local farmer. I’ve killed a few other mangalitzas from a different farmer that were absolutely massive. One of the big ones I slaughtered had a viral infection early in life that left it with its back legs paralyzed. The pig was happy, and pulled itself around pretty good, but it couldn’t get on a trailer and go to a regular slaughterhouse. So we did it at the farm with the farmer there.

I was looking back through some old slaughter pictures and damn look how clean I skinned this goat.

I’ve been thinking about bitcoin nonstop for about 4 or 5 years now. I keep thinking the obsession will fizzle out, but no luck so far.

I broke into my first Ray Dalio material recently. A book called Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises. I understand the Dalio fan club now, the guy is on point and he knows his stuff. Recommended.

I got that tingling feeling like some shit is going down in the markets. Kind of had this feeling non-stop since March 2020 to be honest. Let’s see what happens 👀

Another beautiful day in the life of a pleb 💨☀️🌴 🎶

A passion butterfly shortly after it emerged from its chrysalis today.

I saw the craziest super bloom of my life today. Impossible to portray it in pictures. Painted hills as far as the eye can see.

The “custom-exempt” designation for animal slaughter in California means that individuals have a right to kill their own meat animals to feed their families, and the state doesn’t need to inspect or oversee the slaughter. The individual also has a right to pay somebody like me to slaughter their animals on their property and to contract a commercial butcher shop to process it for them. What’s neat is, an individual with no land and no animals can also buy a live animal from a local farmer and avail of all the same rights of having the animal killed on the farm where it was raised and processed locally for their own consumption. Strangely, Gavin Newsom passed some regulations in 2021 that enabled me to do what I do - to legally operate a kill truck and slaughter animals on the custom exempt market for local farmers and families. I’m not USDA certified slaughter, I’m not inspected at all really. And I’m in super high demand.

I used to use a few inputs to my garden: some chicken shit to amend soil and feed new transplants; “Mykos,” a mychorrhizal fungal inoculate that you sprinkle on the roots of transplants. And I used to spray a little neem oil if I saw a bug infested plant or powder mildew - a habit I picked up farming weed in Northern California. Neem oil is a broad spectrum fungicide and can eliminate and repel insects by disrupting the maturation process of the eggs. When my wife first got pregnant a few years ago I stopped spraying neem around the garden altogether. Within 24 months the insect population balanced out naturally; predators like ladybugs, spiders, lizards and alligator lizards flourish, and so keep unwanted insect populations in check. Alligator lizards are naturally immune to black widow venom. In addition, the natural mychorrhizal communities in the soil are stronger without having to absorb the neem oil, and I don’t think a fungal inoculant is needed or very helpful anymore. Chicken shit is still great stuff though.

Node…so…close…to…syncing.

I’ve used nothing but compost/worm castings tea in my garden for almost 3 years, and my garden looks better than ever! A few scoops of compost and/or worm castings in a 5-gallon bucket, fill with water, add sugar, aerate for 24-48 hours. Water into your garden. You can also use it as a foliar spray. Optional ingredients: epsom salt, kelp, fish emulsion, among others. Simple preparations of just compost and sugar have worked just great for me!