Hanging out at Cabrillo Beach on a Saturday

A Very Windy Afternoon

Even though the wind was blowing quite aggressively today I decided to take the little one down to the beach to play in the sand for a bit. We haven't gone down for a while mostly because of work, but also because the weather has been a bit crazy. We had a few rainy days and quite a lot of wind which can difficult at our local beach as it blows everything around including your towels and anything that isn't tied down.

As soon as we arrived, @little-ricky found a large round hole that someone had dug up and immediately jumped in to start playing. He found a stick and began waving his hands around with his hair blowing in the wind like he was some kind of a wizard.

It's pretty funny at this age because now every time I laugh even a little bit at what he's doing he starts to ham it up big time. We are also at the age where he is copying every single thing that we say, so we have to be careful with cursing and such.

I was trying so hard not to laugh yesterday but had to turn around and cover my face because of what he did. He was running across the livingroom and rammed his leg into a chair. He immediately grabbed his leg, fell to the ground and started yelling "AHH! Fucking hell.. Shit! fucking damnit"

I turned to @afturner and said, "See, you have to stop screaming and cursing every time you hurt yourself!"

Amanda has a really bad habit of not paying attention while she bulldozes around the house doing things. I have quite literally never met a person who hurts themself as much as she does. In fact, she hurts herself so often, that I've been instructed to not even go over and see if she's ok. She always screams out obscenities for a good 5 minutes and then goes quiet. Usually at that point I'll call her and ask if she's ok. But never before.

Things have been pretty busy around here which it often is this time of year. That's really the explanation as to why I haven't been on Hive much over the past couple of months. On the upside, I was able to sell a little bit of Hive to help pay the bills when we had our little mini-pump.

I have to admit, every bull run I get a bit depressed when I see that Hive never really breaks out. It is also a little sad to see that Steem is not really that far behind us, even after everything we've been through. I suppose that's just the way things go! You don't necessarily have to be 'good' to succeed. That being said, success is a relative term. I was almost certain that Steem would no longer exist by now.

It was nice to get a break from everything and hang out in the sand for a bit. Sometimes you just have to let your eyes relax and look off into the distance for a bit. I hear there is an epidemic of myopia these days from people spending too much time inside and looking at the walls or screens just a short distance away. Apparently this makes your eyeballs elongate over time and makes you nearsighted. It is certainly happening to me. I went my whole like with perfect sight and have only started having trouble over the past couple of years.

After a couple of hours soaking in some rays it was time to get out of here. I can only take so much of the wind feeling like an industrial fan blowing sand in my face and Ricky was getting really irritable. I can't seem to get him to stop getting his hands covered in salt water drenched sand and then rubbing his eyes. At some point he'll learn his lesson I suppose!

Time to get home and back to the grind! I haven't made a witness update post for March as there really wasn't anything new to report. Not move movement in either direction in rankings. I did have an issue with my local backup node which is currently offline as I troubleshoot some problems. I've switched over to the Privex node for now and should have the backup up and running soon. Thanks to all for your continued support!