Grinders Island: Turntables / Bitcoins / a new artist in the family

In no particular order.

BITCOIN - I " invested" a little into BitCoin after learning what it was and the theory behind it. What I learned there were only 2 million bitcoins left and how many large companies are buying them up with VISA, Square, PayPal all purchasing $50+ million in Bitcoin and how a couple of NFL players demanded they be paid in Bitcoin AND how Bitcoin is actually a small part of a larger technological breakthrough called BlockChain . . . . . .

Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance** of a digital asset.

**the place of origin or earliest known history of something

So I purchased a part of a BitCoin. It's about 18 times more volatile then the stock market so it's a ride for sure. yes - and yes - there is a very limited amount of Bitcoins to be had. Only 22 million actually and no way to create more. there is no guiding force behind Bitcoin. No one is in charge.

The first purchase using a bitcoin was March 10th 2010. $25 pizza from a Papa Johns. It cost 10,000 BitCoins. A Bit coin was 0.0025 cents. That pizza today would cost about $136 million as the current price is $32,000.

Remember I had to cash out $400 from a sports book using Bitcoin? at that time a Bitcoin was worth $17,000. If I would have left that $400 in it would be $752 now. So I put that $400 back in with a little extra at $28,000 last Thursday. It's dropped to $31,000 today.

OK - that is my week of obsessing over BitCoin.

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OH - we purchased Curiosity Stream. What an amazing group of documentaries. GEEK GEEK - there is one I watched about the secret life of algorithms (how Google works). Another one about the history of dogs from the very beginning and how humans could not thrive without dogs and vice versa.

For instance - the first wolf/dogs protected "cavemen" from bears and how dogs allowed humans to do other things besides protecting fields from other animals. It's really a symbiotic relationship.

and of course the one about BlockChain.

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VOTE FOR Mary Arnold for Mayor. I am 100% behind her campaign.

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A year ago today I would be home with a massive amount of pain pills in me with a brand new knee. BUT after deciding to get another opinion here in Columbus I was told to wait.

Now I have absolutely zero pain and RIGHT NOW I feel I could walk 9 holes of golf although I might change my mind after 4 holes.

I'm also down to less then 1 mg of prednisone and by the end of the month ZERO. PMR seems to have gone away.

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scary or delicious - your call

We watched an episode of America's Test Kitchen. The comfort Mexican food episode. After watching how they made Ground Beef and Cheese Enchiladas from scratch OMG - I had to try it.

Only Woodmans had dried ancho chillies and chipotle chillies in adobo juice. It was a bunch of work making the sauce with blending the chillies and so forth and DJ and I were both . . . . excited? to try it.

WOW - it was OUTSTANDING. It was the first time I had tried an America's Test kitchen recipe and they nailed it.

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Got a turntable for Christmas along with a remastered Dark Side of the Moon. WOW - sounds amazing - truly.

So I went to Mad City Music and got a few older albums. One was Chicago !! One thing I forgot about albums. There is only 15-20 minutes per side LOL YEA - try laying down to listen to music only to have to get up 15 minutes later

One thing I have learned in a few week. yes - NEW albums sound awesome. MUCH better than digital - but albums that are 50 years old just don't have the fidelity as they do now WHO KNEW!! LOL I need to find a Peter Gabriel album - watched a concert news years eve.

Here is the difference - digital music is great for multi tasking but when you put on an album you actually listen to it - not just hear it. People just don't SIT and listen to music anymore. They hear it but don't listen.

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The BIGGEST news is that my sister in law, Stacey Melotte, at the start of quarenteeningfor Covid decided to take up art. We saw her first creations and they were . . . fine . . . nothing more. But that was 7 months ago.

Now. acrylic art