A little early breakfast. Bacon and egg bowl.

#carnivorr #coffeechain

Gm.

Switched to always-on VPN on my mobile device, in solidarity with Brazil. Or really, just to see what it would break. Going surprisingly well so far.

Gn nostr.

About time for a new pfp, ffs.

Time to try out some new Android clients and PWAs that will run in Kiwi with nos2x, use Amber, or nsecbunker. Bonus if it can easily support more than one npub.

All income from my fiat job goes to Strike, who converts it to sats on receipt. From there, I quickly send it via lightning to hot storage. I do not keep a balance of sats on Strike. Can't be too careful. Also I don't need Strike to have a record of how old sats are or where they came from.

As I need to pay fiat expenses throughout the month, I send sats to Strike from hot storage through lightning, then immediately sell them for USD and have the USD sent to my fiat bank. Again, no balance held on Strike, and they have no knowledge of how old those sats are, what USD price I may have paid for them, or how they should be valued.

I keep a small hot balance in my fiat bank in a linked saving account, in case I can't get dollars out of Strike fast enough. I keep a contingency margin in my checking accounts for similar reasons, or if I absolutely need paper money for something. Everything else is paid for on credit cards with decent rewards programs that are either cash back (applied to CC balance) or Amazon/Costco credits-back, since I buy enough from there to make it worthwhile.

I would welcome a Strike card to try out, but it hasn't happened for me yet, probably because of how bullish my bitcoin adoption has been and its effect on fiat balances.

Any fiat income outside of my fiat job is just cycled into the fiat banking system, and I'll occasionally cycle it back to Strike for an additional buy of a dip. The hot balances in the fiat bank also give me some ability to buy a dip, but it has to be REALLY attractive to do that. There's enough flux in the Strike outflows to essentially DCA the bitcoin sales around dips, and enough contingency everywhere to absorb dramatic price actions.

It took several years to get to this point, several failed attempts at doing it before, and it still isn't perfect - but it is working. My margins are tight by design, but they work as long as I am focused on accumulation and not gratification.

This is entirely a hot system, and does not impact my cold storage at all - never touches it, does not involve it, nor should it. If I want to decrease a hot contingency account into my cold storage, I can - but that is not what this system is about. This is all about accumulating slowly while living day to day, and forcing me to choose every time I want to spend a sat whether or not it is truly worth it to me to do so, since everything in my system starts in Bitcoin.

Today's nod to Jack was related to a customer service matter that I felt was handled tremendously well by the Strike team. I can't say I've had the same treatment elsewhere, and wanted to thank him for the company ethos that he has built. I will not get into details of what the matter was here, but it was felt, and that is what matters.

Thanks, nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle

Today is the reason I'm so bullish on Strike. You are making it easy for people such as myself to truly live on a Bitcoin standard.

The Case Against Reality - Hoffman.

#bookstr

GN nostr.

Got my wife to sign off on my 1400 mile ride to Pueblo CO to see my sister in October. 8 days: 3 to get there, 2 to spend there, 3 to get back. I'll have two extra days available to me if I need them.

This is why learned to #motorcycle.

(everything else went ok today. Not great, but ok.)

Yes, otter dog!

Fuck yeah! Had mine without ground meat this morning, just 1/2 dozen eggs and some cheese. was odd not having the meat there. Having a steak now, though!

Here's something triggering. Sold a couple million sats earlier, once we were back above 60k. Might sell some more later. This is cover fiat bills, since I am paid in Bitcoin and live on a bitcoin standard, selling sats only to pay my fiat expenses. I try to dca out a bit, although I have semi-monthly "pay dates" that I try to meet. Didn't have to sell any below 60k this dip.

#theothersideofdca #paidinbitcoin #bitcoinstandard

Today has been great. Woke up at 1:30 am. Slept on and off until 5ish, started

sneezing. Wife insists on running a fan on low constantly, was convinced this was making it far worse. Finally gave up on trying to sleep at 5:45 (normally get up between 6 and 7, so not too bad, just not the best way to get there).

Took an antihistamine that would turn my now clogged nose to runny, and hopefully stop the sneezing. It worked. Now I'm draining out of my nose holes. Good thing I've got a rag. I can see evidence of rashiness that also indicates a general histamine reaction of some kind, but no idea where it came from. Well, fuck it. Drinking coffee, already downed most of a stick of butter, waiting for some steaks to thaw. May have some eggs while I wait. Had some hot dogs, because I was fucking hungry. Feeding the dog now, gonna put him outside in a moment and get some sun rays on my head. Vitamin D. Fuck yeah. Shit, red light therapy from a local weight loss clinic as a commercial during network news morning show. I fucking hate network news, was ignoring. Interesting that red light is going mainstream.

Yes, I use nostr to stream diary/thought streams. Gfy if this bothers you.

GM.

#diarystr

Fuvkit!

Gn nostr.

Caffeine saga check-in. Had a pod at about 10:15a, but mostly because I knew I wanted to use them up. Took a couple hours to drink it. Decided to fuck off both my 1 pod/day, and no pods after noon rules, and brewed off another after 1p. Same deal, no real desire to drink it. I just want to use them up. I think there are 15 left. Tomorrow might be the same plan, but may start earlier. Up at 6, waiting 4 hours to start is a little silly. Maybe 8:30ish. FFS.

Yep, twice!

I'm gonna get nuthin twice!

Fuck yeah!

I disagree with pretty much all of this, but still find it fucking hilarious.

No-one should do anything for me out of obligation. I cook for myself, to my own liking.

I should not take a de-escalation attempt as an affront, even if it might have been hurtful to me in the moment, and then lash out from that hurt in harsh criticism of my wife's efforts to provide me with sustenance.

This is my wrong, not hers. If she still thinks industrial lubricants and plant poisons are to be eaten, then obviously I have failed in her instruction as well, but this outburst was no way to teach.

Pissed off my wife after I tried to tell her I preferred un-marinaded meat, she told me to get over it (or something like that), and I told her eating marinaded meat was like eating meat dipped in motor oil and crack cocaine.

Oh well. I'm an insensitive ass. There's a bunch of carne asada in the fridge. I'm not touching it.

#hownottocarnivore

GN nostr.

I didn't have any caffeine today. No coffee, no tea. It wasn't planned, I was just going ti have my one coffee later, between 10a and noon. 12:30 rolled around, hadn't had it, decided not to.

Same plan for tomorrow and rest of this week. 2-hour coffee window, if I miss it, oh well. I should just quit, but I've got a little over a dozen pods left. Never been good at tossing things out like that.

Still need to get better control of dairy.