It's that time again, time to look at the progress on my hive goals last week. Let's dive in!

~ Hive & HBD ~

This past week I made 117.17, but I also injected a little outside money from other investments. I just can't resist this low Hive price. Yeah, many of us look at it and say it's still higher than the 10 cents back in the day or the 25 cents recently so we want to wait until it's lower to buy in, but I think the 37 cents it's at now is still far lower than the potential. If we go back up to a buck by the next bull run, that right there is a nice increase! I remember back when @exile used to do his daily vlog posts, it seemed like just about every one was titled "Well, I bought more Steemit". Well, I bought more Hive.

Anyway, all together that gives me an increase of 527.370, bringing me to 15,096.46 total Hive Power. While part of me wanted to save the Hive till HPUD, I have been taking @galankp's advice recently and powering up pretty much everyday instead of saving it for the first. I'll still have at least 100 to use on HPUD, so don't worry @traciyork, I'll still be participating there.

So where does that put me on my goal of 25k? Well... 25k - 15,096.46 gives us 9,903.54. Getting closer... Using my arbitrary goal end date of the 1st of next year, that gives me 223 more days to get there. Dividing that into 9903.54 gives us 44.410493 Hive needed per day to reach that goal. Dang.... the 500 increase last week barely made a dent in that number. Oh well, I'll keep stacking everyday and see how close I can get!

I passed 3 Hive one day in curation last week. That's exciting! As that number goes up, it will help me reach my goal a little faster.

Another exciting part of that is watching my vote value grow. According to Hivestats I can now give a little over half a hive with my full vote.

The exciting part about that is it means I can vote on more people with a lower voting percentage while still giving a decent vote. I see so many good posts I want to support, so this is great news.

~ LGN ~

Looks like the LGN airdrop is ending early. (See this post). On one hand this is disappointing because I wants my free token. But on the other hand, it's very understandable and probably a good decision long term. Guess I'm going to have to start buying it if I want to continue gaining. So I already bought some. I'm up to 591.88601807, which isn't bad.

If you missed the news, Bro swapped a lot of LGN for PIMP, making both groups one of the top holders of each other. I'd say this was a great move for both of them and for both tokens.

~ PIMP ~

Speaking of PIMP, I'm up to 51,734.390! I just keep stacking what I earn there.

And forward we go! It was a strong week. Let's see how this coming one goes!

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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.