Greetings, anyone viewing this,
My name is Omar, and I've been a blogger since back in my Live Journal days... which came before my MySpace days. And all of those came before my Facebook, and eventual Steemit days. Now, here I am on Hive.
It's been a long life, friends. It's been full of ups, and downs. It's been wild in both directions, but for the past two years it's been much more the downward trajectory, if ya get my drift.
Today, however, was special. I woke up feeling like finally things are really on an upturn, even after a brutal setback that occurred last night. See, it turns out, that the email account I've used FOR-FRICKING-EVER, is finally going to be shutting me down and out. This means I've got to change EVERYTHING, that I've ever connected to that email, and it's been a real reflection for me, friends.
I spent until 4am in the morning ravenously changing email accounts from many services I used, and then many more hours come morning/after/evening. It's been an awakening for me in many ways.
You learn about the FRAGILITY of access to your digital media. I will be losing many movies I'd purchased on Google, because they simply cannot be digitally transferred! BUY DVDS VHSs AND BLURAYS MY FRIENDS!!
Still, at least I've got my Steam account...and it is loaded. The day I lose access to that, will be a real down drift indeed.
Anywho, I hope you haven't actually read this, so that way I can feel like it's a semi-private blog. I haven't blogged in a long time, actually. I haven't even regular logged... diaried? Diarreahd? Journaled??
...But still there was something special that happened today, in going through all of my old emails, dating back almost two decades....
...I found old pieces of myself I'd forgetted. Pieces that heated the forge that drove me here.
It was a forge that grew cold.
But I can feel the embers warming again.
I'm wondering what happened to you .... seems like you were in a good spot with all this crypto thing ... mining ETH back in the days, getting early on BTC ....
Money comes and goes, I suppose. I'm in a happy place right now with my crypto, but no longer can afford to live off of it.
Thanks for the thoughts and comments, dalz.
Keep up the sprit high....
Nice to see you active on HIVE, Omar.
Out of interest have you ever done anything professional with your musical talents?
Ah man that sounds like a real headache, I'd hate having to do that and hope it won't come to it.
Feels like what you're saying about access to stuff might change with nfts hopefully, where if u own a token that u have paid to have access to a movie/tv show/game you'll have access to that forever, with hopefully decentralized storage by then as well.
Anyway saw u in my feed today and went back to this post. I'd love to chat one of these days and support your endeavors in blogging more actively. Hive could definitely use more prominent members being a bit loud in the space about what we have here, it's weird times for decentralized tech out there these days with all the gambling and memecoin pump and dumps getting most of the attention. Maybe you'd be interested in spreading the word and getting back to building that hive community you created here! :)
You're certainly an interesting fellow, Omar...
If you are keen on blogging your personal journey via your Hive account, I'd encourage you to come and do it via the inleo.io front-end.
They could sure do with someone with an actual external audience such as yourself, using their web3 social platform.
Get around it!
Seems like spam, tho, forex brah ....
Hmm... well that didn't go as planned haha 😂.
Have a look when you get a chance and I'd ask you to consider taking the downvote away if you see the positives for the social side of Hive.
All the best mate.