Well how about that? My normal Hive Goals Post day lines up with HPUD this month. I powered-up. Did you or will you?

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To jump to the chase, I powered-up 200 Hive a few minutes ago. That's lower than the past four power-ups of this year, but some reason for that was because I've been powering up around 10 or so Hive everyday for HPUM. All in all, I'm up 1026.490 Hive Power last month, so I'm not unhappy with how things turned out.

Still—I'll try to keep a little more back next month to make a bigger power-up for June 1.

Getting closer to my goal of 25k! Ideally by the end of the year. The end of the year... it'll be here before we know it. Let's see... 25k - 14,342.96 gives us 10,657.04. There are 244 days left in the year. That gives us roughly 43.68 Hive per day to hit that goal.

Hmm... with my current Hive earnings, that's just not possible. But we will keep hoping I start getting more daily votes. Any of you whales or orcas reading want to help me meet my goal? I am very accepting of being added to any autovote lists that are looking for new members.

My ability to invest outside money in Hive has mostly dried up (See this post for details) so I'm just going to try to keep writing great posts and hope the votes come and increase. If you build it, it will come, eh? I kind of feel like I've already been doing that for over five years now, but I'll keep trying!

Anyway, I'm posting this near the start of the UTC day, so if you are reading this as I post it you still have over 23 hours left to power up and join in. If you have at least 10 liquid Hive, come join us!

But if you miss out don't worry, there will be another next month. But that next month will be here before you know it. I suggest following @hivebuzz and/or @traciyork so you will be reminded a few days before the next one.

Anyway, with that out of the way, let's dive into a few more of my Hive goals.

~ PIMP ~

My goal with PIMP is all the PIMP. But just to pick a number for achievement motivation purposes, my current goal is 50k PIMP.

Actually this is a fairly passive goal since I'm not trading any of my HBD for pimp. All my HBD is going towards getting my Hive Power up. The pimp I do make everyday comes from post rewards, post curation, and a few LPs I'm in.

I made 279.552 PIMP last week, putting me at 50,011.1454. Just over the goal! GOAL!!!!

I'm not sure what I'll do with Pimp I make after this week. Keep staking it or sell it for Hive? Probably the former. I love the project and can't see myself selling any. But then again, it might be time to take some profits and use them to benefit my HP. Hmm... thinking...

~ Selling SPT ~

I removed SPT from my goals a few months ago but I quietly continued to stake what I made from curation (not from posts, as I've stopped posting there). But now I have started selling what I make daily from SPT and using that for my Hive Power. We can't be in everything, eh? At least I can't—I'm not rich enough to be in everything. I haven't unstaked my SPT yet and will keep using that to curate there, but I'm not going to stake anything new, at least not until I see them putting more effort into that place.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm still in Splinterlands and enjoying the game. I think it will continue to be a good investment at least until the next bull run. But Splintertalk.io and SPT... it's like the team has just forgotten about it. They've been ignoring it for a long long time now.

But then again, with my time and money constraints (again, see this post it might be better to just unstake my SPT and sell it. I might be leaning in this direction... we'll see.

Anyway, that's all for now. Leave any and all thoughts in the comments and if you have at least 10 Hive and haven't already, power up for HPUD!

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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku.