–Yet another quiet day. Took some photos, played with crypto. Pretty much done with Kraken: several attempts to link bank accounts failed. Putting all my eggs in Robinhood for now.
Month: November 2024 (Page 3 of 3)
–Quiet day. Spent most of it reconciling/organizing/optimizing my crypto holdings in (eventually) Phantom Wallet. It’s way ahead of all the others in usability.
–Tried to buy BTC on Trust Wallet via Ramp–every account, every card–all refused. Tried to set up Kraken Wallet on the iPhone. As with Coinbase Wallet, it found BTC and ETH, but not SOL. Gettin’ tired of this.
–Abutilon is going bonkers. Even my cuttings seem to be sprouting roots.
–Picked up lemon drops and Cremina Min/Max decals at UPS, and learned that Sonya, who has run the place for 30 years, retired 11/5.
–Slowly getting crypto sites working; making some money on Bitcoin.
–Took the BMW to Home Depot for a Ridgid shop vac, Smart & Final for stuff.
–Got an appointment and instructions for colonoscopy. What a nightmare that’s going to be: almost two days without eating.
–Tried to close crypto.com account on phone. They never sent the final auth code. I just deleted the app. Good riddance–the site was a nightmare of flashing offers.
–Did a little “yard” work.
–Red Baron for dinner.
–Did crypto all day. Having issues with Ally: turns out their savings account allows 10 transfers/statement period (many banks only allow 6). My statement period ends 11/23, so of course everything I’ve done in crypto has added a transfer. Turns out checking accounts have no such restrictions; had I known, I could have moved a ton of money from savings to checking and been done with it. As it is, I’m allowed two more transactions in 20 days—maybe only one, as they are delaying a wire transfer I did today for no obvious reason. Further, I get error messages (Could Not Process Payment) at Gemini when I try to buy with Ally savings OR checking. What a buncha crap. I did manage to buy some Bitcoin with Heritage. ALSO getting issues at Kraken trying to move stuff to my Trust Wallet–some gobbledygook about timing restrictions or such. Super annoying.
–Took a shower and shave.
–Daylight Savings Time ended today. One of the least-publicized transitions I’ve experienced.
–Took the BMW to El Dorado Hills: Bakerie Latte for dessert, Nugget market for apples and cheese. Then McDonald’s Gold River for lunch, Bel Air for milk, cream, mild Italian sausage.
–Decided to move to Gemini: interface is just much cleaner/clearer than Kraken’s. Successfully moved SOL and ETH to Trust Wallet for the switch, but failed several times to move BTC. Put in a support request at Kraken.
–Slow day, drizzly and cool. Played with cameras a bit, revived the SL.
–Tried to watch Raines S01E01 on the TV using VLC, but the subtitles (two different files) kept falling behind the video. After much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I found that the native Quicktime player (a) sees and plays the built-in subtitles that VLC saw but wouldn’t play, and (b) keeps them in sync. So much for VLC. Maybe I have an old version, maybe it doesn’t like Apple silicon, whatever.
–Tried yet again to get Affinity Photo and/or Capture One going. Affinity is quick but not customizable enough; Capture One is plenty customizable but slow. Running C1 without Chrome going (reddit suggestion) seemed to help, but with all sliders the photo goes fuzzy while sliding, then sharpens up when I stop. Very frustrating, as it might be a viable alternative to Lightroom.
–Red Baron pizza for dinner.
–Slow day, feeling kind of down and a little peaked. Wanted to take a bike ride, but it was too chilly. Did some crypto: bought Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana at Kraken. There’s a huge swamp out there of Defi sites that offer outlandish yields for staking and loaning crypto; I’ll stick to Kraken for a bit and see what’s up.
–Downloaded and watched the first Jesse Stone TV movie from 2005. Not perfect, but pretty good.
–Grace is in a rotten mood for no obvious reason.
–Wired $10,000 from Ally to Kraken; it went through in a few hours. Wired another $10,000 to RobinHood, but it was after Ally closed, so won’t be there until tomorrow. Crypto.com accepted my registration, but looks like a circus app on my phone. Will drop. Hardware wallet came in. Finally dawned on me (after reading instructions) that you need two of these, in case one gets lost/broken. Probably won’t use it.
–Picked up colon cleanser at Rite-Aid. Still no word on when the colonoscopy might be.