Celebrating today's #LPUD by powering up 300 $LEO, I decided to make a review of what happened since the day I joined the Zealy campaign. In fact, I was 20 days late in the said campaign before I finally understood the mechanics of the campaign and what was going on. The landmark was the day I started a series of articles on financial freedom. It was also on that day that I noticed that @leo.voter started to upvote my posts. The day was the 20th of May this year. Five days from now, it will be the second month of that important milestone in my journey here on Hive though this will be my second year on Hive a month from now.

A few examples of the most important experiences I had for the last two months include the following:

• The publication of a series of articles on financial freedom

• The creation of Mr. Orange video account on 3Speak. So far, I already created 12 videos and I enjoy the experiment. I never expect that video creation would be easier with an avatar. What I did is that I revisited my "ancient" blogs and updated them to fit in the crypto space. What actually prompted me to experiment on 3Speak is the uploading of my wife's videos on her account. While editing her story, I got this idea of creating my own videos, which I consider in the past is not a space for me due to my limitation in conversational English.

• The use of Open Art AI. I also didn't anticipate that learning the proper use of prompts would be this enjoyable and fun.

• The fourth one is not as enjoyable as the others. This one is more of part of my duty as a Ph. D. candidate. After four months of rest, finally last July 3rd I was able to start my writing project exploring the relationship between mission and freedom. In this project, I have been using my son's account to establish my academic portfolio on Hive.

• And then finally, just last night I was trying to figure out how this 3Speak Proof of Access protocol works. I installed the desktop app in my laptop. I didn't know that this is how a node works. Still curious about this new protocol and still have to learn many things.

So I think that's it. The above are the new experiences I had that made my Hive journey exciting for the last two months.

$HIVE, $HBD, & Hive Engine Tokens

As you can see, there are only 18 hours remaining before the end of today's #LPUD.

As part of my preparation for today's #LPUD, yesterday, I bought 5,000.00 PHP worth of $HIVE from MEXC and immediately I transferred them to Hive. The total quantity of $HIVE I bought was 252.648.

I then divided that amount of $HIVE into several tokens:

• I powered up 61 HIVE so that my HP will reach 2,600.

• I swapped 36.232 $HIVE for 13.451 $HBD for my $HBD savings to reach 130.

• I transferred 100.416 $HIVE to LeoDex for my Hive Engine tokens activity.

• The first token I bought was 100 $LEO for 22.70 $HIVE. I now have 300 $LEO for today's power up.

• Next, I bought 11,000 $WOO for 8.58 $HIVE to complete my 100,000 $WOO Power goal.

• And then there is this new kid in my list. I bought this token through the recommendation of my friend, @greywarden100. After seeing that many reputable Hivers are also into $SPORTS token, I bought 829,663 for just 18.25 $HIVE. I now have 1.2M staked $SPORTS that I can use in curating sports-related content. In fact, I observe that after adding and staking 829k $SPORTS, my vote value jumped from 20 $SPORTS to 118.1159 $SPORTS. 2M $SPORTS will be my goal for the next pay day.

• The most expensive token is a governance token. I paid 26 $HIVE for 2 $CENTG. I also don't understand how a governance token works, but I love the tribe. It is the tribe that supported me during my early days on Hive. Moreover, @greywarden100 is the number one owner of #CENTG now. It's a shame for me not to buy the token since I am the one who introduced the Cent tribe to him. Thanks my friend for the motivation!

• Finally, I bought 2,398 $CTP for 16.54 $HIVE to complete my 30,000 $CTP Power goal on listnerds.com.

Turning to #LPUD & Update of My $LEO Power

$LEO's market price is almost the same as last month's #LPUD. It is good that the Leo team made some adjustment for the token now is not as cheap as before the Zealy campaign. Regardless of this situation, I am still trying my best to power up twice the size of the minimum required number.

And so just a minute ago, I powered up 300 $LEO.

I now have 3,506 staked LEO. I was not able to power up more than this number for the anticipated increase in my $LEO rewards has been stunted by my academic writing for Ph. D. I think due to this task, I was not able to publish an article for more than a week. With this kind of schedule, I think my march to 5,000 $LEO will be delayed. Anyhow, I will do my best to find a way to achieve that goal as early as possible.

Here is now the new status of my LEO power:

Conclusion

And so that's the story of my pleasurable and not so pleasurable experiences for the last two months.

Happy #LPUD everyone and more #LEO Power to all lions and cubs in the LeoFinance community!

Grace and peace!

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