Veteran's Day

 Today is a good day. Katie had to work this morning so I spent it mostly cleaning up the house. Its weird though because I got locked in a dream I couldn't escape from. Some sort of dystopian future where I'm focused on mining Ethereum and an old friend whom I haven't seen in years is next to me at my job and he's worried about the sugar rations and temperature outside the building. When I finally shook myself out of it it was nearly noon. Katie was upset with me and basically told me to get my ass in gear. I got dressed and got a coffee and a donut. From there I started cleaning the house. Cleaned the bedroom first... then the living room.. and finally the kitchen. Took out the trash... and dropped a bag of clothes off for recycling. Then i came home and took a shower. Then I put on a nicotine patch. I read about 12 pages in my Network+ Exam book. The topics covered mainly including IP Addressing and Subnetting. It's heavy on the math... but it's concepts that I had researched years ago so it was nothing foreign to me. 

Katie should be home soon. I think she was getting out of work at either 2 or 3 today depending on what time she went into work this morning. I have to get into the habit of shutting all the lights off in the Living room before going to bed. Last night I had gone out to the bar and I told Katie that when I got home I would sleep on the couch (As usual when I go out for the night). Between the Computer monitor, the Christmas tree, and the desk lamp there was too much background light for me to fall asleep.. so I was nearly up until Katie woke up this morning to get ready for work. Partly the reason I slept so late Today. 

The Cats a resting after being active all morning. They ate lunch a short time ago and now are taking their afternoon nap. I'm not sure what Katie and I will be doing this afternoon / evening. Depending on what time she gets home I guess will determine what we do. If she decides to take a nap, I'm probably going to go back to reading. If she stays up we will cook dinner and maybe play some video games. Or continue to watch Parks and Rec... or Big Mouth. The new Season of Big Mouth got released and we are about 5 episodes in. Its a good season. I don't know who's style I prefer... Disney+ or Netflix. Netflix will release an entire season in a day for binge watching... where as Disney+ will separate out episodes over the course of many weeks giving you something exciting to watch each week. Its a more traditional viewing experience. I'll ponder that one for a bit more later.

I redownloaded Unmineable to get my laptop to start mining Dogecoin. It's not a powerful laptop so its gonna take a while to meet the payout threshold. But I figure considering the fact the laptop is always on... it makes sense for me to use it for Mining when I'm not actually using it. I tried to get my desktop to work... but in the end it didn't. The only thing I can think of at this point is that the CPU is fried. So with that said its going in the trash and I'm going to save up for a new computer. I'm not going to spend the money building a new one although that could be fun. Instead I'd rather spend the money on Buying a prebuilt from a reputable company. When I spoke to Brian over the weekend he said he was getting about 62MH/s from his 3070 card. I'm not sure if that's the 8GB or the 12GB but its a decent amount. He said he makes about $5.00 a day which only stands to become more as the price of Ethereum continues to climb. He said in about a year he should have 1 coin. Not bad considering. 

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