Greetings, people of the P0x! May the force be strong with you this month. It certainly doesn't seem to have been with me last month (or the ones before, for a few years, to be honest). Anywho, it's time again for one of my rants, which I do a lot ...
TIL: The Solana (SOL) project is now using ChatGPT. Urgh, that's really disappointing considering I thought it was a project that had legs and could give Ethereum (ETH) a run for its crypto! It looks like it's time to convert my SOL to something else (XNO, XMR or ZEC) and abandon that project. So much for learning blockchain development with Solana. It looks like it's time to skip that and move straight to ZCash (ZEC) after C, C++ and Rust. It's probably just as well that I ended up having technical issues with SolSea and couldn't get my content onto it.
In other news, I dropped an album on Band Camp and OPENSEA last night (about nine hours ago, at time of writing, which you'll know if you saw that post). It's yet more electronica/techno stuff, but with some dubstep thrown in for good measure. Hopefully, it's better than my previous albums and will catch a few people's ears (since it has a higher asking price than my previous releases).
I'm still waiting for someone from Weasyl to verify my account so I can start promoting my artwork and music NFTs. I know it's only been three days (two of them over a weekend), but the typical nature of centralised Web2 sites is annoying me.
It's only been about five days, but I'm already getting tired of looking after my parents' aging pooches and house, being a dog butler, even though they're sweet and well-meaning little beasts I love dearly: I'm getting up an hour earlier than usual at 06:00 and working hard until midnight trying to get my own work done around catering to their needs and wants (which seems to include wanting to go in or out every five minutes). It's leaving me knackered and there's still much to do, a lot of it having nothing to do with professional/paid work. I've maybe spent about an hour or two in total actually learning about AI, which is having a serious negative impact on my prospects of finding paying work for this month. Having to content with load shedding also isn't helping. So much for enjoying/best using a long weekend to my benefit! It's enough to put me off getting dogs of my own (even small ones) if I ever reach that point in my life. Then again, I don't intend to live on and take care of a half-acre property that can easily sleep and feed nine people for the twenty-five years it takes to pay off the bond on it.
Give me a single bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and storage space and I'll be set. Being single definitely has its downsides, such as not having anyone to help shoulder the burden of work. I guess that's one of the prices to pay for not taking crap or drama from other people or only wanting to spend time with someone for a few hours every couple of weeks ... (I've only found a few people who take seriously "solo mono" as a relationship style and they're in far-flung parts of the world to which I'll probably never go, so so much for that ...)
Since my Internet connection goes to shit during load shedding (not that it's great most of the time), I can't even do a Noonday Tune thing, so I'll quote the songs I have in mind instead.
"I can't help the feeling that love is always dealing me a losing hand."
?— Deep Dish; Sacramento
"Good or bad, it's all going to add up in the end, but you can never win."
?— Fischerspooner; Never Win
Thumbnail image: Photo of Natasha Marley in a latex tuxedo, copyright Imagelatex/Latexotica
