Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 11/20/17> the story of a selfish old man…@sultnpapper

Some amazing transformations have been taking place in the skull of this old man who pretends to be a writer as he chronicles his thoughts and experiences under the title of “Daily Dose of Sultnpapper” on the steem block chain.

He came to this platform named steemit.com for what he himself has previously admitted were selfish reasons. I trust what he has previously said because I am “he”, so on my recommendation you can trust him too.

The selfish reasons have been documented on the chain a few times previously, but the chances are unless you are @syd30 , @bifilarcoil, @rizzrose or @thekittygirl you have never seen those reasons. There may be a few others and if I failed to mention you, I apologize in advance if your feelings may be hurt for missing you. I don’t have the luxury at the moment of looking at my list of followers since Fair Weather Internet is on the blink as write today’s dose. Forty eight is still the number.

The Cliff notes version of the story goes like this; he married later in life, his wife is much younger, they are raising four children, children never got to know three of the four grand parents because they had passed away before the children were born. Which led him to think if his children were to do like him, marry later in life, he might not be around when his grand children are growing up.

He wanted a way to leave a record of who he was and how he thought about things, but he knew that a diary wasn’t the way to go. Paper and ink are subject to all sorts of issues, he had seen what flood water and fire can do to those type items. He had read about block chain being a permanent record, and when he discovered Steemit.com he knew he found the right tool for the task he was looking to accomplish.

He wasn’t going to rely on his kid’s to tell his story to his future grand children because they might be bias in one way or another, which has been known to happen. So, on Sept 15, 2017 he started chronicling his thoughts on the block chain. He didn’t come for the potential money, he didn’t care if he had anyone following or reading what he wrote. The readers that he is writing for haven’t even been born yet let alone being able to read.

The thing about this old man is he isn’t as selfish as he would lead you to believe, he might even have a little streak of kindness and compassion. So in spite of himself he decided to start greeting new comers to the steemit.com community, explaining to them the little knowledge he had about how things work on the site.

He’s always been a people person and practical joker so depending on what a person wrote in their introduceyourself post determined the greeting you got from him. Some people ignored him and some people engaged him, it really didn’t matter to him. Some people use salt and pepper to season their food some don’t, no big deal, to each their own tastes.

Then one day a young man showed up, who goes by @ethandsmith, and read his daily dose column. Then a while later he was back again reading another, before long Mr. Smith extended an invitation to him to join a group of writers known as the #unmentionables . The old man knew he didn’t belong, he knew he wasn’t a writer, but, in what he might describe as a moment of weakness, he filled out the application to join. After realizing what he had done, he looked for every reason he could to back out of joining. The best he could come up with was that he didn’t want to embarrass the group, he didn’t mind embarrassing himself, and he does that all the time. So he explained the situation to Mr. Smith, and Mr. Smith, who has great command of his fingers and faculties typed out a message that said, “The decision is up to you, I think you would fit in with the group.”

Having given the group fair warning he embarked on entering the ranks of the membership. When he joined steemit.com he never envisioned joining a group, let alone a group of writers, never had such a thought even crossed his mind. He went on to join another group that was centered on something that he was familiar with, the game of poker. Joining that group was a “no brainer” as he has played online poker in several different venues and groups.
The #unmentionable folks have been a pleasure for him to meet and enjoy, the information that the group produces in the form of the members blogs is truly mind numbing for him. He has learned a great deal just in the short time he’s been there. He never dreamed of putting pictures in his daily dose blog, but now you will find them in there. Most of the blame for this can be attributed to @arbitrarykitten and her article on how to move pictures around your post instead of just being in the center of the page. This new found knowledge also has led to him taking more pictures and creating his own stock pile of photos. He came here to post his stuff not others, and that goes for his pictures as well. What would his future grand kids think of him if he used pictures that belonged to someone else? “Was the old man too lazy to snap a photo or two? “, he didn’t want those questions being asked in the future.

He was also pretty closed minded when it came to re-steeming other peoples work. He figured it was an attempt by the “re-steeming party” as way to get some easy money. He finally came to the realization that some people aren’t thinking like him and use the resteem as a tool to help others get more exposure. So he has even resteemed a couple posts to help the author possibly gain some ground. He doesn’t do it often but even one or two is better than zero.

People come and go, only one of the four I mentioned early in this dose is still active on steemit.com, he sometimes wonders what happened to other three. Could a simple resteem have helped them enough to keep them active? He’ll never know, he will just have to continue to wonder.

Chat rooms have never been his thing either, but there is a thing on the block chain called “discord” and it makes it easy to communicate information back and forth with people, but his understanding is it a closed community and it takes being invited to get to a chat room or “channel” as it is known in block chain speak. He has been known to make a comment or two in the channel, but mainly asks questions in order to grow his knowledge on all this new stuff he’s getting involved with.

I don’t believe you will ever find him doing a vlog, since he has a face that is made more for radio then video, but you never with this old man; he just may surprise us all one day with something over on DTube. His transformations have been many, his accomplishments have been few, but his selfishness he came with is fast disappearing. He will continue to write with his future grand kids in mind but if he doesn’t have any, then all this would end up being a waste of his time.

So, with that in mind he will try to balance what he produces for the enjoyment of the” here and now” folks and the “future sultnpapper offspring “and see how that works for him. If it doesn’t work then he will probably end up reverting back to the grumpy old selfish man he came here as in the beginning.

For all of our sakes I hope that doesn’t happen, I kind of like the way he has transformed, how about you?
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
#unmentionables
Photo credits: (if there were any) would be property of @sultnpapper