Makes sense when your country turn communist / totalitarian. Canada is next. Actually, it's probably already happening / happened in Canada.

I would say fare pretty well in terms of taking care of myself when left at home. I'm competent in cooking and doing chores (although my wife takes care of all of those when she's home), because my mom trained me well when I was little. If I feel lazy after work and don't want to cook, I just go to the nearby supermarket to buy their hot food cooked in house. Tradeoff is I probably eat a bunch of seed oils from the supermarket cooked food.

The house gets quiet though, because the boys are gone, and that I'm not very used to. But I'll be joining them near the end of the month, so it's just a few weeks of quiet and loneliness that I have to endure.

I'm going to be without my wife and kids for almost a month, as they went to visit my in-laws on the other side of the Pacific. I went for a 12km run yesterday morning because it was Canada day and I had a day off. Went for another run today just now, because I didn't have many steps today but wanted to maintain the 8k+ steps per day streak (at 31 days now). July off to a good start, already ran 20km.

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I learned a new word from your story. Never knew the word "aficionado" existed. And your daughter is awesome!

It went quite well. I let go of my previous apprentice in the beginning of the year, but was able to find a new one, a better one within a month. New guy had been very helpful and I'm going to be giving him a raise soon. Work had been quite busy the first half of the year, making me unable to go on a long road trip during Spring Break, but a short 3 days 2 night trip to Vancouver Island was nice too.

The bitcoin price went up a bit faster than I like, as I want to stack more sats. But I'm not complaining, because I understand it's a blessing to still be able to purchase sats with fiat.

I should also mention Nuggets are bringing in Valanciunas so Joker can rest a bit and Hardaway Jr. to add more shooting. I would say Nuggets are absolutely cooking this offseason and are looking more dangerous the upcoming season.

I'm tempted to change my WCF winner and Champ in your NBA prediction contest to the Nuggets after these moves. Still thinking on it.

True, and I would definitely categorize the Mavs as an insane team, because no sane team would trade away Luka.

They don't have a legit starting center now for sure. I guess that's what they get for trying to lowball Turner when working out the deal with him. Pretty sure if they gave him a fair deal, he would have stayed. Now Pacers need to go out a look for a center.

Yep. You don't let a generational talent like Giannis walk without trying everything to keep him there first.

LeBron will be playing in LA. If he wanted to move, he could have not taken the money and renegotiate the contract or go test the market. The fact that he took he money shows he wants the money more than an extra ring.

Lakers could try to trade him, but no sane team is going to take a $52.6M 1 year contract with a 40 year old guy that could announce his retirement any moment. Think of the amount of assets the team needs to give up in order to take this 1 year contract. Also, LeBron has a no trade clause, which means he also gets to dictate which players the destination team he wants remaining for him to play with. I think a trade like that would be just too difficult to conduct.

LeBron will play out his contract, and maybe he will sign a short term deal with the Cavs as a free agent so he can retire as a Cav. The salary that got freed from his departure will be used to build an awesome team around Luka, with whom Luka will finally win his first championship and bring yet another chip to the Lakers.

Probably making moves to try to keep Giannis happy and stay. From what they've been doing, it seems Giannis is still their number 1 priority.

Bucks lost Lopez, so they need a centre anyways. First thing that came to mind seeing the Turner signing was Turner finally switched teams after being in trade rumors forever. Haha.

Cutting Dame also makes sense, because he's old and tore an ACL. It will be a very long time before he comes back and there no telling how good he will still be when or if he ever comes back.

I think the Nuggets will give them a good challenge next season though. They just upgraded MPJ with Cam Johnson, and Bruce Brown is back in town. Joker finally seem to be getting some help.

Cool. The not is working as intended.

I try to put in 3 runs a week. A 10km while I wait for my kids' art class, a 5km Friday night (which don't take too long), and a long run (15km+) Sunday morning, which is my day off work. I think keeping a schedule / routine helps.

Thank you for the compliment. Just running my mouth (my keyboard in this case), repeating a bunch of things other people said. An imposter sage at most.

I don't know how old you are, but if you were born in the 80s like me, you might remember the internet in the early to mid 90s. I'm seeing a lot of similarities with the bitcoin network in terms of adoption. A lot of question, doubt, and thinking it's all hype, all scam, especially after the dot com bubble. But then, look at the internet now.

In the end, if it's a good idea, if it's a superior idea, people will adopt it, because they want what's best for themselves. If you've experienced the slowness, control, censorship, and just the pain of using the fiat banking system, you will appreciate bitcoin so much more. Or if you're unbanked like nearly 30% of the population on this earth, you will probably also find bitcoin very useful.

Like Saylor says, "bitcoin is on a need to know basis". Many people in the States have access to a usable banking system and access to investments to maintain their wealth, so they don't need to know about bitcoin. But eventually, everyone turns to bitcoin. Like the sayings go, "We are still early." "Gradually then suddenly." "You get bitcoin at the price you deserve."

"An idea whose time has come is unstoppable." Your friends will turn to bitcoin when they feel the need for it. Just make it known that they can come talk to you and ask for advice / seek education when that need arises. Meanwhile, "stay humble and stack sats" my friend.

I slept in this morning and then went for a run after waking up. I also took a short nap in the afternoon. It was pretty hot today, but I was able to shortly escape the hot weather for about an hour and a half because I was at the rink watching my son's ringette practice.

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Thanks!

It's a nice little island. Nothing much to do there though. We like to drive to the beaches and just chill there. Because they have rocky beaches, the kids would flip over larger rocks and catch tiny crabs that dwell underneath to play with them.