Is break over yet?

I swear I need to procure a ton of coal in the next couple days. Day two of winter break and I’m ready to send their presents back. It’s been a couple of rough mornings.

Elder’s taken three days to do her laundry and I just got in a screaming match with her because she “wants help” with her laundry, but all she’s been doing is sitting in her room, probably sneaking some videos on her tablet. She doesn’t want help, she wants me to do it for her, and I probably would have if she had made more of an effort to do it.

Still, I can’t be yelling at her like I do. It’s bad parenting, and I’m so frustrated. I’m trying to discipline her but I’m worried I’m setting a bad example. Missus is at her wit’s end as well. It’s like as soon as we wake up — or ar woken up — the two of them start going at it. It’s like when we were all doing work/school from home and I could barely get anything done with all the bickering and arguing.

I did manage to drag my lazy butt to do a workout. It wasn’t anything worth talking about, but I felt like I had too since I’m so far behind in my workouts. Here it is, almost ten in the morning, and still working through my routine.

I spent most of yesterday working on my SCORE CLI program. I did some refactoring and cleaned it up a bit, and spent several hours trying to figure out the deposit calculations. Naming conventions have a lot to be desired. The Rust code and TS factory module seem to be pretty consistent, but when you start looking at the portal and CLI code it starts getting a bit harder to grep. Some of the vars are in seconds, and others are in milliseconds, so wrapping my head around what’s going on proved challenging. I’m hoping I’m rested enough to take it on again today, I need to get it knocked out so I can move on with other tasks.

I don’t know what to do with these kids. Younger is playing Uno by herself, and Elder is locked up in her room. I’ve got an hour till lunch, let’s see if we can’t turn the day around.

Naughty list

We are off to a rough start for the week. Missus was up and out to work while I was still waking up, the girls were bickering. They were bickering and whining while I was meditating. I sat down with the goal of not looking at the clock, and I finally did to find out that the timer had stopped somehow and I had been sitting ten minutes longer than I had planned. Oops.

I’m not letting the girls watch TV because they have chores they’ve been putting off, and the bickering is bothering me. I told them we were having a kindness contest. It’s the week leading up to Christmas and I’m about to take back their presents because they don’t deserve them. They’ve been talking back, fighting, and showing nothing but ill regard for other people.

I literally just screamed at Elder. I asked her to do something or told her to do something and she started talking “well actually” and I told her to GO TO HER ROOM. Ugh, I am such a bad example of kindness myself.

Has any parent actually given their kids coal for Christmas? I swear to gawd these kids don’t deserve Netflix and Disney+, Amazon Prime, tablets and computers and Oculus sets. And all the fucking candy. My goodness they came back with five pounds of chocolate yesterday. What a mess.

So somehow I’m supposed to survive the week with these kids, host my in-laws on Christmas Day, then drive ten hours to see family back home? What a disaster. And I need to get my grandmother a gift or something, a bouquet or gift basket or something.

I’m not feeling it today.

Week till Xmas

I’m going to try and write fast because my laptop battery is almost dead and I have ten minutes before my dinner is ready.

Spent most of the day playing Far Cry 5.. or six, whichever is in Montana with the cult. It’s pretty good, arcadey first person shooter. Not at all like Escape From Kartov, which is so punishing I can barely bring myself to play it.

The girls went to church this morning, Missus slept in till noon so I had plenty of time to myself. Especially since Elder woke us all up at six in the morning when she had an accident and took a shower. I got a lot done.

My daily routine now includes running my FTX script, which buys BTC, ETH, and SOL, then running my Serum market orders, ATLAS, POLIS, Invictus, then staking that. I’m up to over two grand in IN, and it’s minting about forty-five dollars a day. My Perps are doing great. When the market dumps the rates go negative, and I was up eighteen hundred, split mostly even between BTC and ETH. I’m being a bit more conservative right now, keeping my BTC liquidations around 22k, and ETH around 3k. Even with the pullback, I’m still up. I’m thinking about what I’m going to do if I get back to my entry price. Even if I close at zero PNL, I’ll still be up ten or twenty grand overall due to the funding rate. Still, I’m going to be a fool if I have to do that, considering that I was up over $100k a few weeks ago.

The girls are officially on break this week and next, so I’m going to be home with them while Missus goes into the office. I’ve got some work to do, I need to automate the Serum markets, not only for my DCA buys, but for managing my Star Atlas fleets. I’ve got a plan to automate the entire fleet management. It should be a fun project.

I also booked a hotel home, my first time out in several years.

Today was Elder-Daddy day. I took her to Five Below, bought her some shoes, and did some more shopping. I think I am done for Xmas presents, I just need to wrap a lot of things.

I’m beat

Here I am at six-thirty in the evening, still doing my morning routine. That should tell you about how my day’s been going. I stayed up last night talking to my old friend on Discord, trying to get them hooked up on Solana so they can play Star Atlas. We didn’t quite make it, so I just wound up watching them play Cyberpunk instead.

My dad came over today. As did my friend C, who sold me an old Oculus Go unit that I’m giving to Missus for Christmas. My dad phrased it perfectly when he said I wanted her to be the bad guy. I’m giving it to her because the kids will like it, and I don’t want them fighting over who gets to use it.

I paid the neighbor kid and his friends to finish raking and bagging my yard, but they were so slow and didn’t know what they were doing, so I wound up out there doing most of it while they opened bags and hauled them to the curve.

Missus made a yummy chicken pasta dish for lunch, but I didn’t get a chance to finish my plate. We had some leftover chicken for dinner with asparagus and cauliflower. I made two trips to the grocery store. The first was to get some ribeye for some homemade Philly cheese steak. The butcher said ain’t nobody ask him for some prime rib for cheese steaks, not in thirty-four years of work. He gave me a really good deal. Four pounds of prime rib for thirty dollars. When I got home, Missus asked me where the sour cream was at. The store didn’t have it, so I had bought heavy cream and a lime to make our own, but it has to set overnight. So I went back to the store, this time the other, fancier store. I bought a turducken breast for Christmas day, and picked up some ready-made steak meat. I’ll serve the prime rib Christmas eve, and leftovers when we have guests.

I’m going to finish my routine, and play some more video games tonight.

Game life

My schedule got out of whack today. I was online all day for the launch of SCORE, and I was dragging ass all morning trying to get caught up. I didn’t meditate until after lunch, and her I am at ten at night writing my daily post.

It’s been a whirlwind. I think I’ve talked enough about work lately, but last night felt like being in the ground-control team during the Apollo moon missions. It was amazing. Today was way more low-key, and very fun. I spent most of the day working on automation scripts for SCORE, so we can build out some sort of auto-compounding program. The meta-ness of everything going on is unreal. Also, I’m going to be producing the POLIS dao. For real.

I brought Elder to her rehearsal this evening. The school is doing a Disney Jr. musical. The school was a hubbub of activity. She’s not really putting any effort into it.

I have been completely fucking Zen today. Like I can’t even describe. Focused, and chill. I had some slight anxiety yesterday about coming off too strong during the launch, but I left it behind and today was fantastic.

I got back from Elder’s rehearsal a bit late for our post-wrap/pre-holiday party, and I could even go so far as to say that I was actually moved by some of the things that were said.

Then it was off to Girl Scouts. Tonight I learned that Younger’s squad leader had a secret marriage. In her late 20’s, she was married to someone for three months. Apparently her mother found out through Ancestry.com. I thought it was so batshit crazy and perfect.

I just played my first live round of Kartov earlier. I was a scav, and I launched into a map that I was unfamiliar with. I knew I had no chance of finding an evac, so I just ran around with my knife pulled out. I ran into another player and used the side-to-side wiggle that my coworker showed me was the non-combat dance, and we ran around the map for a few minutes before I lost them.

I wanted to complete my daily ritual before I go back for more.

Launch Day

Well today is the day of the Star Atlas SCORE program launch. It’s been amazing being on this team the last two weeks and watching everything come together, between the art designers, the web developers, and the blockchain and infrastructure teams. It’s so refreshing to be a part of a growing, thriving team of smart people after so long toiling at my last job. It’s such a breath of fresh air.

I managed to do my part and help start the process of bridging Rebirth posters on OpenSea over to Solana. I’m not sure what the status is but I can say that I did my best to help squeeze some people in before the airdrop snapshot yesterday. That’s one of my follow up items for today.

Oh yea, and I got my first paycheck yesterday. It was a surprize. I was expecting them to do like most corporate jobs that I’ve been a part of, and hold the first paycheck, but no, I had my direct deposit notification in my email yesterday. And since I wasn’t expecting in until the 31st, it’s a bit like an early Christmas present. To me.

I’m going to have to think a lot about what I do with this newfound income. Even after taxes, it’s still more than double my compensation at my last job. And that’s after I pay off my bills. So I’m probably going to split the remainder into thirds: one into USD @ 9% on BlockFi, another third into my FTX account where it will go to various cryptos, and the remainder will go toward home improvement projects. We’ve got a lot to do around the house.

One thing that I haven’t figured out is my student loans, the first payment for which comes due at the end of January. Like my mortgage, I have no intention of paying it off early, other than maybe some extra principle. The interest rates are just too low to do so when I have high yield investment opportunities available. The only exception I might make for that is by using Alchemix. The interest rate for DAI and ETH are 2.7 and 5.2 percent, respectively, so I could use Alchemix to payoff my loans. I’d have to put 2x the value of the loan in the protocol, but I’d get that all back (assuming no hacks or contract failures) in a couple years — or decades. It’s the equivalent of a mortgage loan. It’s very tempting.

Given my recent losses on CREAM finance though, I should probably build my nest egg back up. No funny business. I’ll save 2/3 of it, build up my nest egg again, do some home improvements and (ahem!) equipment upgrades, and re-evaluate in ninety days.

I need a new budget.

More anticipation

We are going to plow through Humpday like we’re doing 40 mph over a speedbump… like it was nothing at all. Yesterday was a pretty good day, and the rest of the week is going to be very interesting as we get ready for airdrops and SCORE launch.

I pushed forward with the OpenSea poster transition last night, if for nothing more than getting a few people their assets in time for the snapshot later today. People are just starting to realize how valuable these posters are, and they’ve been flying off the market. I’m going to be personally handling the people who get to me by noon today, and then I’ll let the team deal with it from there.

SCORE is going code-locked today. It’s down to the wire but everyone is very excited.

And the Wave 5 ship drop went off yesterday. SAIAdao scored our C11! I also used what was left of our ATLAS to purchase additional ships, including several PF4s, R8s, and Ambwes. We are ready to go. I also bought an Ambwe for my personal collection.

I’ve got a lot to do: get these OS transfers ready to go, (and transfer my own,) then start working on my farming script. I’m really not looking forward to having to maintain the fleet every day so getting a script up and running will be crucial. As a project, I could get an on-chain program running to do this, but I’m not sure how complicated the logic for that will have to be. Maybe I’ll make a video today to go over things and have it ready for launch.

Shipmas

Today is the day that Star Atlas releases the C11, the first of the commander-class ships to be released. SAIAdao has had our eyes on this baby since the GAO launch brochure was released, and it will represent the flagship of our holdings. In anticipation, we have secured $100,000 of ATLAS tokens. Our thoughts here is that inventory will be split between the USDC and ATLAS markets, and the ATLAS market has a bit less traffic, so I assume the price action will be a bit easier to deal with over there.

In addition to this last ATLAS/USDC trade for the dao, I’ve already finished my personal trades for today. I will probably focus on building out my Serum scripts. It might help me snag this ship, and I’ll also need it for my arb bot.

So a couple guys on the team are playing Escape from Tarkov, a combat simulator MMO game. I bought a copy last night, and am going to buy one for my brother for Christmas. It’s a gorgeous, bleak game, and could almost be described as a horror game. I spent a good chunk of last night reading through the patch notes and wiki entries while I was waiting for it to download. I went to bed before if finished, but couldn’t sleep, so I got up and ran through a bot match (I died) before going back to sleep.

Missus is out, getting the car inspected, she’s got to pick her mom up from a hospital across state — she had heart surgery. Girls are at school, and I’ve got about two hours and change before the C11 drops.

Routine

I don’t want to spend much time on today’s update because it’s almost ten and I’ve got a lot to do today. SAIAdao needs an update, and there’s a lot of things going on with Star Atlas that I need to take care of. I want to start the process of bridging over the assets from OpenSea, we’ve got ship drops on Tuesday, and the mini-game launches Thursday.

I’ve got a lot of stuff to do, and have already wasted half the day. I had a bit too much fun last night, and had to bring the girls into school this morning. Well, I brought Elder to her Momo’s, but no one told me that Momo was getting surgery, so I had to go back and pick her up so she wouldn’t be at the house by herself.

Younger starts after-school care today. So that’s one less thing for me to worry about. An extra two hours a day.

Time to do the routine.

Late bloomer

It’s Sunday, which is normally the day that I rotate my Perp positions, but it was also time for me to do the house accounts and update my net worth. It’s when I review all of my various bank accounts, crypto wallets, and positions across the board.

I usually do monthly reconciliations on the joint account I share with Missus for rent, insurance and so on, but I was a week late. I’d done my credit card payments and necessary transfers to make sure that was taken care of last week.

I also have a number of accounts for my daughters. I’d been doing LendingClub, but I’ve been winding it down and sending the cash to BlockFi. It’s a bit cumbersome. I’ve got to login to each set of accounts, make the various transfers and update the numbers in my spreadsheet. Let me just say that these girls are going to be set. I’ve really been spoiling them, giving them a pretty big allowance as well as saving this money up for them. I’m not sure when exactly I started with Elder, but basically I’m buying $50 of BTC for them every week. By the time they’re thirteen…

The final numbers were down significantly since the last time I checked. BTC was near ATHs, so I was pretty happy with it. So things are down about a third. Not to mention the money I lost in the CREAM hack. Zapper.Fi has finally removed that from my balance sheet. (Note for the CPA.)

I did decide on a New Years resolution. I want to increase my BTC holdings by 150%. I’m going to be very aggressive.

I did a bit of programming this weekend, messing around with the serum-arb program. I’ve really got to rethink the project. I started out with serum-vial, then added serum-ts to it, but dealing with the wallet provider without anchor is just too much, so I stopped to get that setup. That meant dealing with rust errors.

One interesting note is that my friend T. is now learning Javascript. It’s never too late, I suppose.