I only write cover letters if:

- they are required

- I'm applying directly on the company's website

I only apply on the company's website directly if I'm very excited or interested in the company or opportunity.

Selective cover letters.

It's shocking to me how many people just want the easy way out of something.

You cannot build something meaningful without calculated and consistent effort in which you are also applying the things you learn as you go.

There is no shortcut to this.

Seems like a perfect storm of happenings today. Strong coffee incoming.

I've been saving all my content in Obsidian for at least the last three years. I've got more on an old hard drive somewhere.

The government or their authorized agencies cannot continue to print money and still avoid hyperinflation.

People are starting to catch on to how it all really works and what the behavior is doing to the American people collectively.

I spend a lot of time following my instincts and even though I still don't understand a lot about Bitcoin, my instincts are telling me getting more Bitcoin is one part of the financial ark that I need to start building.

That issue wasted an entire hour I needed for something else.

It's probably not even fixed.

I'm sick of garbage products and services, convoluted processes pushed through to make deadlines, and inaccurate documentation just because a company didn't want to prioritize it.

You're losing customers.

#blink

If the world's governments, medical establishments, budgeting departments, and taxing regulators were transparent with the people they say they govern or have authority over, there would be very little conspiracy theories.

There's a difference of opinions among Muslim scholars right now surrounding Bitcoin.

They haven't taken a deeper look at it to see the benefits:

* Neutral

* Permissionless

* Borderless

* More can't be printed

Some of the scholars (at least what I understand) only looked at the changing price (goes up or down like a stock) and then immediately labeled it as a stock, and since most stocks are not allowed, it got lumped in there with all of that.

To be safe, they said "not allowed."

And a lot of people accept whatever scholars say without looking at something deeply because they believe they should, they believe that scholars are always right, or they grew up with both of those viewpoints. Challenging it seems illogical to them.

Until recently, I wasn't willing to take a deeper a look at it.

I haven't had time to learn or investigate deeply.

This morning, my Quran teacher moved me from practice worksheets to the actual Quran in Arabic.

Alhamdulillah

Now I need to find a paper copy of one in Arabic with letters large enough I can read.

The bone was too large to be that of a cat and too small to be from a cow.

Something had chewed both ends except for part of a round ball joint—a leg bone.

The bone was oddly colored, a putrid yellow-gray and a hint of purple in the middle.

Maverick wouldn't touch it.

The bone looked soft, fresh, and quizzical.

It wasn't stark white, like the kind you get from the butcher shop or the kind you see wrapped in plastic in the grocery store. It hadn't just come from the oven, and the ants hadn't made their way to the mountain of treasure.

I wasn't sure what to do. Maybe it came from a goat or baby deer. My neighbors don't own either.

Whatever it belonged to, something dragged it there. The dog (coyote?) chewing it left after a time and did not return.

Maybe I'll investigate, but the shrubbery in that area has grown dense and thick with garbage and scrap metal. With the heat, I'm not sure I want to disturb whatever is bedded down, whether a homeless person, animal, or a larger version of an eight-legged critter.

Best-case scenario, it was hauled off from a baby deer carcass, or a neighbor brought home a freshly butchered animal and gave the bone away to something that took it there.

Worst-case scenario, there will be a squad car, somebody with a camera, a small yellow tent cone, and some yellow tape.

I wanted to work on projects today, not investigate unknown remains.

👀 Yes.

I've added it as number 477 in my Watch Later list.

My understanding, and I could be wrong, but if a person chooses that option, it's asking the other relays to also mute all the users that that user has already muted.

I could be wrong. I'm still trying to figure this stuff out.

Update: The channel was closed automatically due to an issue (not described) but has been fixed. A new channel was automatically opened and Alby support reached out.

While my questions are not yet fully answered so I can better understand, it appears the biggest part of the issue has been resolved.

My channel was just closed on my node on Alby Hub. (force close)

I'm having difficulty understanding all of this.

It said my funds on my receiving channel was too low (so the closure was done automatically after a time), but I don't understand why I have to spend another $70 or so to open another one to "receive". An open channel, especially one you buy, I would think goes both ways and has whatever the minimum requirement in it to work.

The documentation says to open another channel, but in order to clear whatever the limits are for the node (for liquidity - which I still do not fully understand) to consider it "enough", I'm looking at spending another $150 set it up, maybe more.

My funds are locked up in the current one that takes 15 days to shut down fully. So if I want to open another one, I'm looking at shelling that out.

I've read through the Alby documentation. It's not 100% clear and there are gaps in it and parts of it are not up-to-date.

Also - support says they'll be back on Monday according to the notification in Alby Hub.

I wanted this to be easy.

I didn't want to have to set up a node to send and receive zaps.

Is it possible to send and and receive zaps without having a node?

I just sent some zaps, so I can at least do that.

Two men just knocked my door to give me a brand new dog bed for Maverick.

I haven't spoken to these men before. They live here in the complex somewhere. I asked why they were giving to me. "Just to be friendly," they said.

It was very odd. My son urged me to leave it into the plastic bag it came in. We don't know them or where it came from. I put the bed in the corner on top of the bikes.

I'll decide what to do with it tomorrow.

Oh my goodness. That had to be hair raising.

We're all laughing about it now. There probably would have been a longer note and cry for help had we gotten sprayed. It's too funny. It was odd. I'd never been chased by a skunk before.

I think it was heading to the other side of the property at that time, but I didn't realize it when it was running. It was the oddest thing.

We're all getting a good chuckle about it now.

This was a first.

We saw a skunk across the way and instead of running away, it started running toward us full speed.

I picked up Maverick and started running.

The neighbors with doorbell cameras are gonna have a field day when they see the footage. 😂

I can see them replay it in slow motion, "Whhhhyyyy iss itttt ruuuunnnnninnnng toowwaaard uuuus?!" Fabric from my baggy clothes flailing everywhere.

We got far enough away and I took this zoomed shot.

Next time Maverick finds a "kitty" under a car, it may not be a kitty.