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My First Home Baked Bread I recently decided to bake my own bread. It was a decision I made for two reasons, first is I am pretty sick of store bought bread that is often dry after just a day or just not that yummy. Secondly, I want to make more products myself to live a more healthy and sustainable lifestyle and avoid eating bread with preservatives from the supermarket. So I decided to get a book and start with the easiest recipe in it! A white loaf and it came out…
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May Earnings of a Small Fish Do you ever wonder what common people without huge piles of money make in passive income? Well this is the place to be!! I, teacher, currently not investing any of my own money in crypto will show you what I manage to make each month to enlarge my pile of crypto currencies. Well, May was not my best month. Of course for all of us the markets were down, but I also suffered from a loss of motivation to write for a couple of weeks. But the good news…
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WE 104: See The USA In A Chevrolet When it was still on TV I always used to watch the Oprah Show. I would come home from school and switch on Oprah and chill out after a long day. At some point Oprah and her best friend Gayle decided to do a roadtrip together through the USA in a Chevrolet. They must have been sponsored by the car brand, but anyway they always played this song by Dinah Shore: see the USA in your chevrolet. Watch the video here…
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Maus: A Comic Book About The Holocaust This year I have set myself the challenge to read 52 books in 2022 or one book a week. This is a decent challenge but I am very excited about it! Book number 17 was my first comic book in this challenge: Maus by Art Spiegelman, who turned his fathers' story of the holocaust into a comic book. Source https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/maus/39481316/ The Story The story is not that of the writer, Art Spiegelman, but of his father Vladek…
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The New Focus System On Splinterlands: Mission Impossible So as you all know we switched on Splinterlands from quests to focus system. Before you could get rewards based on completing your quest and the higher your rank the better your rewards. When the focus point system was first announced I was intruiged, but now I am worried. When you receive a new focus you have 24 hours to unlock as many chests as you can. To get one chest you must get at least 300 FP or Focus Points.…
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Operation Focus Points: Fire Deck So I posted last week that I thought the new focus point system was pretty impossible for low profile players such as myself. I got quite a bit of response and tips and despite feeling disheartened at first I decided to go for it! I got a fire focus and to be honest, fire is not my strongest suit, but who doesn't like a challenge? So I went on the rental market and rented the following cards: I quite like this card actually! The stand alone…
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A Bit Late But Lesson Learned I was one of those people who though oh damn yesterday when I realized Celsius had blocked all outgoing transactions. Now before you think I have put my life savings on there and now realized I can never retire: I didn't put any of my own money into Celsius, just profits I made and it was only €500 so not the end of the world, but still pretty annoying. Source…
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The Anatomy of Dreams: A Fascinating Read This year I have set myself the challenge to read 52 books in 2022 or one book a week. This is a decent challenge but I am very excited about it! The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Benjamin was book 12 of the challenge and one I really enjoyed! Source https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/the-anatomy-of-dreams/9200000033325622/ A few years ago I read another book by Chloe Benjamin: The Immortalists and I loved it so I was waiting for a new book by…
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My Medieval Knowledge So maybe many of you don't know this but I am actually what they call a medievalist, or medieval historian. Or you could say I did the least popular history study available. I did my masters degree with 6 other people. But I love the Middle Ages, especially that the mindset is so different from our current one so you really have to make an effort to understand that things that are not logical to us at all, where in fact very logical to medieval people.…
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Transferring Funds to Ledger So since the Celsius debacle I decided to finally get a Ledger. It took me over a year in crypto to finally do the right thing. Here is why I made that choice and how I transfered my funds. Why Cold Storage So a Ledger is like a usb stick, but then a protected one. You put a pin on it to unlock it every time you use it and you get a 24 word key. Source https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/1372468/ledger-nano-x.html You know the saying not your keys…
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Do The Work You Love In this weekend's engagement topic the question was if you would rather work a job you hate but pays well or work in a job you love and that inspires you but you would get a low pay. Case in point: I am a teacher. So my advice will always be to go for something you love doing, don't go for the money. Source https://www.askideas.com/62-all-time-best-money-quotes-and-sayings-for-inspiration/money-cant-buy-happiness-but-neither-can-poverty-leo-rosten-2/…
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The Next Person You Meet In Heaven: Book Review This year I have set myself the challenge to read 52 books in 2022 or one book a week. This is a decent challenge but I am very excited about it! Number 19 was The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, one of my favorite writers. Source https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-next-person-you-meet-in-heaven/9200000089020710/ I love Mitch Albom as a writer, he writes in a quirky and personal style and though lots of his books…