It's hard to believe that we are already starting June. It feels like just the other day the clock was turning midnight and we were ushering in 2023. This time of year is usually pretty busy for @mrsbozz and I. We have the school year coming to a close and we also have all the preparations that need to take place for us to go camping this summer.
I brought our travel trailer home from storage at my parents a couple of weeks ago. It has sat in the driveway since then waiting for me to get some spare time to do my annual repack of the bearings.
It's a messy job, but once you get the hang of it, you can usually do all four wheels in the span of a morning. A lot of the newer trailers have the quick lube zerg fittings on the end of the axle. They happily pump excessive loads of grease into the fitting and drive down the road blissfully unaware that their bearing is about to fail.
Have you ever been driving down the expressway and you see a trailer sitting all alone on the side of the road? Clearly, it has a blown tire, but you never know if the issue was actually the tire, or the bearing seizing up and that caused the tire to blow.
That's why my dad taught me to pull the inner and outer bearings every year, clean them off, inspect them for defects or "pits", and then re-grease them and put them back together.
Even if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, it is something most RV places will happily do for you at a cost of a couple hundred dollars per axle.
Personally, I prefer doing it myself. Which of course requires the proper tools to get the job done. At the very least, having the right tools makes the job much easier!
Which brings me to the real topic of this post. In case you haven't noticed, it is June 1st. That means it is Hive Power Up Day, and if you are going to talk about a Do It Yourself project, Hive is the perfect example of that.
It's crazy to think back five plus years to when I first created my account here on Hive. I have already talked about that initial push to hit 500 HP so I could finally get the vote slider in the native front end.
Then just last month, I was able to push myself to a personal milestone of 50,000 HP powered up. Sure, a 100x gain is pretty small (relatively) in the world of crypto, but it is still something that I am very proud of.
Now I am on a mission to hit that vesting point where my account will officially be considered an Orca. I know many of those titles have kind of fallen by the wayside, but it is still something I am shooting for.
The picture above is an example of a couple of the parts that I need to replace every so often when I do my trailer bearings. I wanted to share this as an example of how you sometimes need to switch things up with your Hive account.
Some of the most successful writers I know on Hive didn't start out blogging about the content that is earning them the big upvotes or huge following that they have today.
They had to put in a lot of time and effort and sometimes replace the pieces that weren't getting the job done or had been worn out to the point of being useless.
As you can see, there are often many parallels between a do it yourself project and your Hive account.
"and so, without further gilding the lily,
and with no more ado,
I give you my power up for this June HPUD. That's 1010 Hive locked up and ready to make some dreams come true via tasty upvotes on posts and comments!
My hope is to keep the same pace up that I have had through April/May, and by the end of the year I will be fully trenched in the Orca range.
I look forward to seeing what everyone powers up today for HPUD. When we grow, we grow together, and that is an amazing thing!
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