I did a bunch of pre-work for my school program today

In about a month, I start a six month coding bootcamp thing, but there's a bunch of work to do before the class actually starts. I was waiting until my new computer came to even bother getting anything set up, because it didn't make a lot of sense to me to get it set up on the old computer just to have to do it all over again.

There were some specific programs they wanted me to have and some other things to go through.

No dog walk today

Sorry, Stella! I'd blame it on storms, but those mostly happened yesterday and last night. We just never made it out there today. We played around in a backyard for a while, though. She likes to do that almost just as much. She runs around until she's tired, and then she's happy.

I'm already playing Splinterlands again a little

But it's not on my main account, @sharkmonsters. I'm playing on another one that had no cards other than the starter pack. It's got some rewards cards now, but everything else, I'm renting for a day at a time to see how far I can get with the account while spending the least on rental. At the end of the season, I'll see what the value of the rewards cards are and how much DEC I have left over after renting cards. I'll let it all accumulate all season, as sort of an experiment.

It's kind of fun and less pressure to play in lower leagues. If you lose, you can say "well, I'm trying to do it with as few cards are possible" and not worry about it. When you lose with your maxed out deck and keep failing to make it to Champion League, that's more pressure and it's not as fun, I guess.

I honestly want to try to figure out how to make some bots that play Splinterlands for me. I have mixed feelings about those, but truthfully, that's part of why there's always someone to play. It's easy to complain about the bots, but if we didn't have a bunch of people running them, it might be harder to find opponents. Or at least that would've been the case before. The number of players is starting to snowball. So are the card prices.

This is the value of my collection according to PeakMonsters right now. It was several thousand dollars lower just a few days ago.

It'll be interesting to see where these prices continue to go. If more and more people keep signing up to play, I could see them rising quite a bit further. Especially now that people can earn passive income by renting them out. People will be buying them up just to rent them out, I'm sure.

I finally rescued some CUB that was stuck

For whatever reason, I was having trouble sending BEP 20 BNB from TrustWallet to my BSC address for CubDefi and all of that. It would just fail every time. That was the only way I really knew to get new BNB in. I'd get regular BNB on Binance.us (because I have to use that because Binance sucks), send it to TrustWallet, use that to convert it to the SmartChain variety, and send that to my BSC address.

Well, I'm here to tell you that if you ever have a similar issue, the way I fixed it was to remove the app from my phone and reinstall it. I first tried closing and reopening the app and that didn't work. Then I tried restarting my phone. Still no dice. Finally, removing and reinstalling the app did the trick. Now I could get my CUB out and put it in the Kingdom.

Anyway, that's it for today, but I'm alive and kicking! I hope everyone else is too!