Ending a 250 Day Streak on Night Cafe

My daily streak on Night Cafe came to an inglorious end a few days ago. I had wracked up 250 days.

I didn't notice the end of the streak. As you see, the start and end of my day doesn't line up with the Night Cafe day. I suspect they are one UTC while I am on MST. So, I probably created two images on one UTC day and none the next.

I guess the lesson is that people living in a connected world need to plan their day according to UTC and not the local sun.

Anyway, I went several days thinking that I was still on track before discovering the broken streak.

Oh well.

Oddly, my feeling after breaking the streak was a sense of relief. I was happy that I didn't have to waste time logging into the site everyday.

My Streak Started with InkTober

My Night Cafe Streak started with #inktober. My idea was to draw a picture a day on HIVE and to generate an AI drawing a day on SteemIt. SteemIt won. I published a picture a day for the event. I only managed to draw about ten images on HIVE. The SteemIt images were all crisp and clean images. You can see them here.

After InkTober I thought about publishing an #ai-image a day on SteemIT. But the images felt too artificial to me.

It takes some mental effort to write a prompt to create an image. I think AI is a great tool for creating images to complement a post. But I don't like using them as the primary focus.

I Ran Out of Prompt Ideas

Since I was not using the AI images on SteemIt, I quickly ran out of ideas for prompts.

Fortunately, AI came to the rescue. Night Cafe added an AI that suggests prompt. As an example of this, an AI on Night Cafe created the image image of a steampunk robot juggler at the top of this page.

All i had to do was press a button. There was no thought involved in the creation of the prompt nor of the image.

I Felt Good When I Detached from Twitter

I was logging into Twitter daily for a long period. I felt good when I stopped my daily log in.

My SteemIT Streak

My streak for logging into SteemIt is much longer than my streak for logging into Night Cafe. I wonder how I would feel if I stopped logging into SteemIT every day. I am logging into Steemit multiple time to perform my curation duties. I am scared that the relief I feel would be worth the loss of the two STEEM I earn each day.

SteemIt is frustrating as the value of my upvote seems to drop with time. The value has dropped to just $0.004 per upvote.

I admit that it is tempting to just hook my account to a curation of trail of another account and to get back to enjoying life. Maybe I could write a python script that just randomly upvote posts at the five minute mark.

Conclusion

It is interesting that the end of a streak results in relief and not sorrow.

I now need to upvote a post on SteemIt to earn my precious $0.004 in STEEM POWER