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June Earnings of a Small Fish Hi all, for all of you that are sick of the big whales going "oh I made another couple grand this month on staking interest" I thought I would share what small fishes like you and I can achieve in just a month time! So last month was pretty good for me, in May I made just under $40 in free crypto even though the market has been slumping a bit. I'm currently holding around $420 of crypto in wallets so I guess I am a really tiny fish in the ocean…
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Anansi Boys- Weird but Wonderful Book by Neil Gaiman Gaiman manages like no other to combine the modern world with that of the (ancient) Gods and leave you wanting more and more. You might know Gaiman from his book American Gods (also a series now), which was already an amazing book I could not put down. But Anansi Boys is just as good and contains more mythical background then American Gods does. The Story: No Spoilers So we start our story with Fat Charlie, living in…
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Economic Homelessness: How Enough Is Not Enough Economic Homelessness is also referred to as "the working poor", but I find this description not to be very accurate. How I know? I am about to become economically homeless. The people who have enough, but yet at the end of the day don't have a house. What is economic homelessness? To state it really short and simple it entails that you have the means to rent or buy property, but you are not able to get a house nonetheless.…
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Weekend of BBQ's and Recovery Hope you have all had a good weekend! I had not one but TWO BBQ's last weekend, but in even more exciting news I got my first Covid vaccine last friday! To top the weekend off I also had a fun visit to some pigs this sunday. Pretty good weekend I say. I know everyone has their own opinion on the vaccine, which is fine and I'm not here to tell you what to do. But I am pretty chuffed I got mine. I am a teacher in high school and have seen many…
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Erin Brockovich: A Golden Oldie [EN: Review] I noticed last night that Netflix had added the movie Erin Brockovich and I had distant memories of watching this years ago and remembering it was great. So I decided to pop it on and man has that movie survived its ageing well! The Story- Spoiler Free So Julia Roberts plays Erin Brockovich, a smart woman who has lacked work training and education opportunities due to having children young and who is now stuck between a rock and a…
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Deep Time Study: Put 40 People in a Cave and See What Happens In my spare time I love to go caving: from an often small and insignificant hole in the ground you discover a new world and realize that all this time you have been walking on an invisible land. Some caves are cramped, some beautiful with structures and colors, some are muddy and some are giant cathedrals underground. I once spend a night in a cave as well with a group of cavers (don't worry it was voluntary,…
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A Weekend of Celebration Hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was not too shabby as it was my birthday! I am one of those people who look forward to my birthday 364 days of the year. It doesn't seem to get any less exciting with age either haha. I love my birthday: perfect day to get everyone together, have some drinks, some laughs and some presents: what is not to love?! The Best Present So some of you may know that we've been having a really hard time finding a house. In…
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Cultured Meat and Vertical Farming: Science Fiction or the Future? As it becomes clear that we are asking too much of our planet to produce the food we need for our ever growing populations, we have to start coming up with smart solutions. It is estimated that by the year 2050 we will need to feed 9 billion people on the planet. Each eating about 1.4kgs of food a day... Yeap that is a lot of food! The growing size of our population means that lately governments have upped…
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Goodbyes and New Beginnings This past week and the one to come has been one of endings and new beginnings. I decided around May to look for a new job (I'm a teacher in high school) as my current school had a lot of insecurities and my job was increasingly in danger. Last Friday the time was there: I was saying goodbye to my school at the end of the schoolyear! I am happy with the new school that I have found, which will also include a move to a different province. So for me…
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Movie The Glass Castle- 2017 [EN} Review As the summer weather has turned into Dutch summer (rain) again I now have more time to sit down and watch some movies. While I was flipping through the large pile of movies I came across The Glass Castle and man was I happy I did because it is great! A story that can be both sad, empowering and uplifting! The Story: No Spoilers The Glass Castle is a film made after the autobiographic book written by Jeannette Walls who tells the…
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The Awesome Beauty of Zion National Park [USA] For those of you that like me love vacationing in a spot of jaw-dropping beauty and like to be active I would like to share one of my all-time favorites with you: Zion National Park in Utah USA. I am a mountain fanatic born in a completely flat country (Netherlands). Therefore I try to go into the mountains as often as possible and would like to share some of my trips with you! All pictures are made by myself. Zion Zion is a…