Sometimes late and some not

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I've been inactive around here for a few days because I've had one of those periods where my mind goes blank, not knowing what to write about, and that's because last week I was cooped up at home because my son had Covid. Fortunately, the symptoms were mild, and he is fine, and my husband and I had no symptoms at all. So after a few days of lots of Netflix and reading a couple of books, I'm ready to get back to my routine around here. I have some sponsorships to renew and a lot of reading to do, but I'm trying to get caught up as soon as possible.

This week we are free to go out again after last week's confinement, which I am very thankful for because I had been having some discomfort due to a cracked tooth, and yesterday I was finally able to go to the dentist. One of the things that can cause me anxiety is visiting the dentist, and it looks like it will be several visits because the crack was vertical. I tend to clench my teeth a lot involuntarily, leading to these consequences.

This morning, for example, I clenched my teeth when I realized I hadn't listened to the alarm I had left set to make my BNB subscription on Binance for the latest Launchpad project. I have participated in all the last projects, and I wanted to do it in this one too, but the subscription period for my time zone always starts at 2 am, this time it was for 3 hours, and when I woke up at 5:30, I had already missed it. I guess I didn't hear the 3 am alarm, or I heard it and was so deeply asleep that I turned it off and kept sleeping. And I ended up gritting my teeth for a few microseconds.

But then I remembered that last night I had arrived in time to mint some Reapers, the latest NFTs project on SmartBCH that sold out in just over 3 hours. And I thought, sometimes we're late, and sometimes we're not. And it's better to be happy for those of us who got there and not regret what could have been. Did you mint any reapers?

Yesterday, while I was waiting to be seen at my dentist's office, I had to wait outside because of all this Covid and Omicron stuff. So I put myself out in the early morning sun for a while and leaned against a planter with the idea of taking a picture of this sunflower.

And when I looked over the edge of the planter, I found a little gecko, and I took a picture of it for a shadow hunters contest on Hive.

Here in Venezuela, we call common geckos "tuqueques" or "limpia casa" (clean house). And there are many of them as it is natural in warm areas.

There are usually quite a few in my house, although these days I haven't seen many, I guess because Cora's effect has not yet passed since she loves to hunt them. They love sweet fruits like bananas and don't let them pass if you leave some very ripe ones on the kitchen counter. They also feed on small insects, so they are helpful to eliminate some pests in the home; hence they are called house cleaners.

And in some areas of the country, there seems to be a kind of invasion of tuqueques. For example, my husband tells an anecdote explaining why in Maracaibo, the second most important city in the country where he was born, there are so many. Many years ago, the University of Zulia, the most important of that locality, reproduced tuqueques in a laboratory to eliminate some plaguing that invaded the city. I don't know if it is an urban legend, but the truth is that in Maracaibo, there are a lot of tuqueques, and it is also quite hot. At my in-laws' house, it is common to hear the clicking of the house geckos on the porch at almost all hours. I read that this clicking is to mark territory and court the females.

These geckos are totally harmless, although some people don't like them. And where do you live, are there any tuqueques?

That's all for today. To you, my dear readers, thank you so much!

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January 20, 2022