It has happened! I am at 70 reputation! Thank you very much, fellow Hivers!

_{Hivians? Hivies? Busy bees?}

I blame my years of absence for being this late to the 70's party, but I'm very happy and grateful that you have welcomed me back with open arms.

_{One of us, one of us!}

Okay, so this 'reaching a milestone' thing means a little celebration post and a look back on the past, right? It's what they/we do?

My looking back all took place on the Steemit platform, where I started out when Steemit was pretty new aswell... I think.. I started blogging in the middle of my first burnout. How fitting it is that I came back here, to Hive, during my second one.

Back in the day, I blogged a lot about gaming, food and photography. I build up a nice group of followers and repliers, for which I was very grateful. Eventually, I became part of the... I think it was called Archdruid gaming community, where I became a curator, together with @jodipamungkas. We supported the gaming community as best we could with some nice upvotes and it felt good to give something back.

I also was a @curie curator for a while back then, which was pretty fun aswell. Especially when finding a nice gem from a not so well known writer. Sadly, I eventually stopped doing that once I found a job. This is when I also started losing touch with the platform altogether. My energy pool was (and still is) too limited to focus on many things.

I remember I used to host a writing contest aswell! Many awesome tales were spun for this contest and I loved reading all of them. It did take quite a bit of energy and as with the regular blogging, I eventually stopped hosting the contest. I'm playing with the idea of re-starting it again though. Just gotta work out a better way to reward the winner(s), for which the Beneficiaries option might be a nice and easy idea...

Anyway! So then I got a job and I quit blogging. Then a few years later, I got another burnout and found my way back to blogging. Surprise, surprise, then there was Hive! Lots of confusion on my end, but hey, I'll just follow the herd!

Now, next to our regular Hive and HBD tokens, there are all of these second layer tokens and I have no idea what to do with them. I sometimes hop onto hive-engine.com to claim rewards of which I have no idea how or why I got them and to stake tokens of which I have no idea of the benefits, but I feel like I'm supposed to do so. I guess it'll benefit me in the long run? Or not? Oh well, they are there.

Now, there are also many different front-ends build on top of the Hive blockchain. I browsed a few, didn't really know what to do with them, but eventually landed on Ecency. It feels pretty nice and clean.

So, I am now nicely settled onto the Hive platform, blissfully ignorant about a couple of things, but knowledgeable enough to get some blog posts out, reward some writers and repliers, and browse the blockchain.

I'm happy to reach this milestone of 70 reputation. Although this, too, was a confusing thing! See, the hiveblocks site told me I was 70, but all of the front-ends showed me as 69 still! So I kept quiet, because that's just a confusing way to celebrate.

So close!

But now, I am 70 everywhere! I think... Close enough anyway!

I'll conclude this little rambling of celebration, looking back and confusement with this: Thank you very much to my followers, new and old. To all of my supporters who read, upvote, and/or reply to my posts. I appreciate you all and I'm happy to be interacting with you here on this blockchain. I am sorry for not always replying quickly (or at all), I really do try. My energy is still low, so sometimes you'll have to do with an upvote alone, but know that I always appreciate you! As a manual upvoter, I might not hit all of your posts, but I try to spread the joy as much as I can when I'm around. Hopefully, it's enough.

Thank you everyone! Now, on to 75!

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