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.  It's awful quiet on the blockchain. Apparently there were some issues with today's hard fork.  To be fair, if this post succeeds, it would have been 100 x more successful than the last fork.

.  There are new rules.  There's a new Steem I hear.  Hopefully these new changes will benefit the small accounts as much as the larger accounts.  After all we need, really *need* the smaller accounts in their hundreds of thousands to make this place the success it should be.

.  I for one have been very grateful to have the opportunity to share my photography on here.  The engagement isn't there, truth be told, but it feels like a quiet room where you can practice your performance before unleashing it to a larger audience.

.  Being a blockchain, it also is a persistent archive of sorts.  The hope is that if the chain persists, then photographs and thoughts shared along with them will be preserved for generations to come.

.  Wishing all Steemians a happy time with HF21