Hand up, I got absolutely drilled by Week 3 of the NFL. We will rebuild.
Phil
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Ts & Ps for Ravens fans - Lamar has to play superhuman football for them to compete with the upper crust of the league. It’s simply not sustainable and has to be frustrating beyond belief to root for them.
5 minutes off my PR. We’ll go again.
Go for those who can’t.
America has lost its way
This Cowboys doc on Netflix is a masterpiece
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
The Bank of Phil is humming, let’s have a Monday
What a productive week in Coin Land:
It all started because I kept seeing @TFTC posting about solo mining and how people were hitting the lotto for the entire block reward.
Ordered a Bitaxe and starting hashing - based on the current network strength, the expected time to add a block by yourself with ~1TH/s is 11,416 years.
Messaged my OG coin friend about my lottery ticket and he sent me some more robust options he was looking at. I ordered a Canaan Q and joined my first mining pool @OCEAN.
So far rev is 10,677 of the sweetest KYC-free sats these eyes have ever seen. Expected time until first payment, however, is 35 weeks and I simply can't stand for that. So what's to be done?
Ocean does LN payouts, but my little Umbrel node has been out of commission for years. I tried plugging it in yesterday and connecting but was getting a System Error and was unable to login. Dug through tons of forums and figured out how to flash it. And now she's back in business and running like a champ - 82% synchronized as we speak.
3 more Canaan Qs on the way for good measure. Oh, and now my nostr relay is up and running again via my RasPi4 Umbrel. I'll never forget the feeling of receiving my first zap direct to my locally hosted LN wallet / nostr setup. I couldn't stop laughing at the genius of it all. Somewhere along the way I lost that exuberance, but thankfully, it has found its way back.
In short, having fun playing with my Bitcoin.
Steady lads, more hash inbound
It's Tuesday and I have $5.75 worth of KYC free sats. I think I'm addicted to home mining.
Mining with my homies @OCEAN
Stand-up comedians are the biggest contrarian indicator on the planet
We have increased our hashing abilities by a factor of 93
6 years ago my old man passed away. 15 good ones for him today carrying his old locker tag.
47 minutes faster than my last 15 miler on 7/24. There’s nothing better than find your gearbox again.
57 days out from the Marine Corps Marathon, this is where the fun starts.
Barenaked Fridays. Have a great weekend fam!
Here’s my new song, “Tonk.”
A nostr exclusive just for you guys.