that is what my dad said to me. ..

when i was younger, i forget where he said that i will never have any money because i'm reckless with it. i don't value it he said, he made sure he was very clear about getting his message across.

all my life i've been terrible with money, when i have it. i spend it, i always aim to create more value with it. i guess i'm a chaotic experimenter, apathetic and fast living with it. money has always just kept the grumbling out of my belly or bought me the material knick knacks we often fill our lives with. i've done alright some years and others i've gone without.

today, well today is just one of those moments when i can put a spade in the ground and cover some dirt over that comment that my father once said to me (no, he's not dead btw) but the comment he said to me is. you see, you can go through life carrying something like that, something once said to you - to be so solid, to be the gold standard that how could that person that bought you into the world said that you perhaps end up living by it.

today, i'm going to receive $66 worth of bitcoin, my first bit of bitcoin.

ok, i grant you. .. it's really not a lot but it's more than that. .

you see, some time back i had some spare money going and i invested in some bitcoin mining. i was going to be a brand advocate for this company and i wanted to get my feet wet without really knowing what was going on. i invested $74 into the mining package and well, just let it run - recently, i logged in to find that i had some bitcoins mined and they were still worth something. i had kinda written it off to the hype of the moment and i would, like all the other times in my life see that money just flow away.

i had never really invested in anything expecting a return, in fact as it turns out i kinda had lived out my relationships like that too in some regards. hollow, one sided and expected. i would always expect the same route in the end.

so today my virtual blockchain friends i want to share a success, a line in the sand, a rejoice, a hattip and a lifted beer glass in your general direction.

i invested in something and something came back out of it, i lost a little but gained a lot - not financially but mentality.

i'm now patiently waiting to see those weird digits displaying in my bitcoin wallet account (exciting and scary) and then i'm going to re-invest that $66 into setting up a published account over on alexandria.io and also purchase some steem power with a chunk of it too.

remember, please. it's not the amount. it's what it means - it means that what my father said to me only rang true based on the things he saw about me. it's only ever rang true because i accepted that it was just my nature but today i have proved myself that when i sometimes make those chaos decisions that they can pay off.

you've got me crypto.. .

let's fucking go. ..