Well, I've been putting off this personal update, partly because I came back from travelling recently, and partly because of a rather disappointing month :).

My last personal update is here.

Fitness

Last Month	Current

Pardon the mismatch in size, too lazy to fix it.

This is always fun to see. Oddly, something got marked blue this month even though the absolute number appears to have improved. I was thinking because of that color that I was not improving. So I wonder, I suppose as I am gaining some weight it's not going in the right places? Dunno. Of course, this is to be taken with a grain of salt because the method of measurement isn't super accurate.

During my travels, I stopped doing the daily exercise since the timing was always a bit awkward, but there are times where this is made up by a significant amount of hiking. I'll post about it soon! It was pretty fun, but after a few days I was ready to go home. One post of the trip is already out about my capture of the Aurora on my phone. Anyway, I'm slowly ramping that back up to what I was normally doing, but recently it's like 20 burpees, ?? crunches and some extra pushups in the morning.

The goal remains to improve the numbers until the little app is happy.

Steem/Steemit

Again, a noticeable drop in writing. However, I'm content with interacting daily with various folks. And I'm always thinking about what I want to post next, so at least my motivation to put something out there has not disappeared. As I mentioned earlier, soon there should be more with Travel, and some more Opal.

And if you were following along, a bid bot that I helped run, @cryptoempire, is now shut down. You can read about my view of it here. Make sure you take delegations away. I've been actively reaching out to delegators. And people are still sending bids to the bot which I can refund by turning the bot on periodically on disabled mode. Would have expected no more usage of the bot after its removal from steembottracker, but I suppose maybe it became a habit.

Development-wise, I was poking around the codebase and made the following (not yet accepted) changes:

• Adding Beneficiaries to a post - I was doing this while thinking it could be nice to automatically distribute a post's value to someone else, but the beneficiary mechanic only distributes SP, which means that not only is it no liquid, one would lose out on the current higher than 1 USD SBD prices. But it was a fun exercise for me to learn more about the React framework.
• Changes to show STEEM liquid rewards - Just to keep up to date with what's been happening with STEEM portion of rewards. I also thought it might make sense at this time to remove the breakdown on things already paid out because it's just not accurate.

My goal will be to explore helping out @steemgigs with what they need, though I haven't committed yet. But also I will look into why whenever you log in with your active key it seems never to let you do the first operation successfully, making you hit the button again to go through. I'm also toying with the idea of starting a very small witness node to recover some expense for running my side projects, but that's also some other exploration process I'm not yet committed too.

Goals

I just realized I had told myself to do a few other things that did not happen. One was to look into creating an abuse dashboard. I think there's plenty that already exist, so I did not act on it. My favorites now are @transparencybot and @abusereports. I also did not create a contest yet, and I don't think I plan to just yet. We'll see how I feel about it.

I'm still reading a little, finishing the "Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". Next I saw @cryptosharon promoting a free fantasy ebook so I'll maybe pick that up and see.

Let's set up a few goals though, summarizing some from above and throwing in some I am thinking about now:

1. Make a Code Walkthrough of another aspect of Steem.
2. Make improvement to condenser to get rid of that annoying failure bug.
3. Look into contributing to other projects. (Maybe @steemgigs ?).
4. Investigate whether I should run a small witness node.
5. Reading two more books.
6. Recording another video.
7. Summarize all the random referral links that are in my footer one of these days.
8. Try a curation style post.
9. Promote the Crypto Empire discord.

These are for a month from now. Sounds good to me. Welcome to suggestions as well. Until next time!

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Edit: Excited to find out why I keep getting an error whenever I do something like power up or transfer with "Account not found". I don't know how many others do this, but I save user/password pairs where one is "eonwarped" and the other is "eonwarped/active", since Steemit allows you to do that to login. Turns out that when you use "eonwarped/active" as the login name you'll get the blasted "Account not found error" when trying to do certain operations. Go figure... I'll probably make a post about that at some point. The fix also should be pretty easy too!

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