I just spent a couple of hours looking back at my Hive posts for 2021 and I think it was a pretty productive year over all...

I decided to pick one to three posts which themed each month of the year and here's what I selected...


![Screenshot 2021-12-31 at 16.14.55.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/revisesociology/23w3GnJQMWY72JxagtQcWhuRC96TeNjy9BmdF536JYTVtzczFGxM8zTaxqoqgip5sfDkd.png)


### January - Covid criticisms, Financial research and Car Matriculation 

I didn't leave the cabin I was living in at the time much in January, I seemed to spend most of my time writing posts criticising the chosen social response to Covid-19 and a few financial research type posts, and my life was also dominated by sorting out paperwork for getting my car [matriculated to Portugal](https://peakd.com/life/@revisesociology/life-update-prepping-the-car-for-the-matriculation-test-and-a-walk-around-a-ghost-town).

### February - I got into DEFI 

I started using [Binance Smart Chain](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/binance-smart-chain-a-more-affordable-route-into-defi-than-eth) for the first time which really set the scene for A LOT MORE DEFI in coming months.  

And more crypto research - GOOD THEMES! GOOD WRITING

### March - Cub Defi and Onto the land 

i did well out of [getting into Cub early](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/cub-benefitting-from-the-early-adopter-advantage) and I finally [got onto my land for the first time]( https://peakd.com/land/@revisesociology/onto-the-land) and spent a lot of time [clearing brash](https://peakd.com/permaculture/@revisesociology/clearing-brush) - March was a good month! 

And I bought my Strimmer.

### April - Real Land and SPlinterlands 

I thought these made a cute contrast.... [Overwhelmed with my real land](https://peakd.com/life/@revisesociology/overwhelmed-but-needs-must) and [buying a Splinterlands Tract](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/finally-bought-a-splinterlands-tract). 


Would have thought that the later would be worth three times as much as the former already?!

Oh, BTW, I was still [buying Hive](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/just-bought-1000-hive-and-powered-up-to-70k-yay) at this point, folks! 

### May - Crypto Crash and chip dilemma

Not an easy month, the [Crypto markets decided to take a tumble](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/crypto-s-crashing-but-i-m-staying-clam-and-still-stacking-and-staking) and IRL didn't help much as I had a [dilemma over whether or not to chip my wooed](https://peakd.com/woodland/@revisesociology/to-chip-or-not-to-chip).

I made two correct strategic choices in the end - I just hodld the crypto and I didn't chip my wood, that could have been painful! 

In retrospect May and June were 'grind months' - gettting the land cleared! 

### June - spiritual stuff, pause, polygon

I had a bit of a reflective month in June - I wrote a lot of [self-reflection type posts](https://peakd.com/hive-181465/@revisesociology/who-am-i-becoming-abundance-tribe-bi-weekly-question) connected to the @abundance.tribe and @ecotrain challenges, I had a bit of a reset and [plan for the land](https://peakd.com/land/@revisesociology/land-to-do-list) and I [got into Polygon](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/how-to-get-started-with-staking-on-polygon-matic-tutorial).

### July - DEFI diversification, connectivity woes and the SPS launch 

I'd was feeling too exposed to BSC in July and decided to diversfiy into [Polygon and ThorSwap and Osmosis](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/diversifying-out-of-binance-smart-chain-and-into-polygon-thorswap-and-cosmos), while IRL it was with horror I realised I had [no mobile connection on my land anymore](https://peakd.com/life/@revisesociology/connectivity-woes-jiggling-sims) - I've since sorted that with another SIM! 

And being always on was about to become crucial because July was the [start of the SPS airdrop](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/just-blown-away-by-the-splinterlands-sps-launch)!

### August - Ironic Chill

I had a real chill month in August, well not so chill because it was damned hot, I didn't go to the land at all, but I did get into researching about [crypto and development](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/crypto-use-in-venezuela-how-significant-is-it-really), and I stopped playing Splinterlands and started [renting my cards out instead](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@revisesociology/qwoqcycq), it was just way more lucrative! 


### September - Firewood and CryptoRaiders 

I got back to the land in September and started [chopping firewood](https://peakd.com/fire/@revisesociology/first-fire-of-the-autumn-and-sorting-fire-wood) which was ongoing! 

This was also the month I really got into [CryptoRaiders](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/crypto-raiders-a-great-nft-game-on-polygon), at least playing, an investment which I've got into more heavily since and has turned out very nicely! 


### October - ONE UP and Roof

[ONE-UP launched](https://peakd.com/hive-102223/@revisesociology/there-s-never-been-a-better-time-to-write-about-gaming-on-hive), which I'm well into, one of the most dynamic initiatives on Hive ATM, and I finally got the [ROOF on my house done!](https://peakd.com/portugal/@revisesociology/roofed) - October was a good month! That ROOF was was a real highlight of the year. 

### November - Avalanch, Thor IDO and Olives 

I had more fun on DEFI - with trying out [Avalanche for the first time](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/trying-out-avalanche-for-the-first-time) and I had some unfun with the [THOR IDO](https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@revisesociology/reflections-on-the-usdthor-ido-a-black-forest-gateau-sprinkled-with-shit-flakes), which reminded me of just how SHIT ETH is. 

But the real highlight of the month was the [Olive Harvest](https://peakd.com/olives/@revisesociology/end-of-the-olive-harvest-missed-two-days-of-pooling-dec) - Eight days of fun times and 50 litres of olive oil to boot. These are also the people I'm not spending New Years Eve with, I got an invite but I don't do New Years Eve parties, I'd much rather wake up fresh on New Years Day! 

### December - Ill, Chaos Legion  and Fruit Trees 

A bit of a dip in early December as I got ill - [blurggh](https://peakd.com/ill/@revisesociology/ill-blurghh) for two whole weeks, but I least I had some [Chaos Legion packs to open](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@revisesociology/clearing-the-calendar-for-chaos-legion)!

The up side is that both during and after being ill I managed to get my [fruit trees planted](https://peakd.com/trees/@revisesociology/fruit-tree-audit-december-2021) and before the rains started too, which was nice. 

### 2021 Final Thoughts 

You know it's been an OK year - I'm gonna give myself 7/10 - a REASONABLE balance of on-land stuff and blogging/ crypto shenanigans. 

I think I spent a bit too long lost in the Crypto Wonderland, but in retrospect I've learned a lot and I've done OK out of it all, so I'm not gonna chastise myself for it. 

And I have got some stuff done on the land too, even if it was nowhere near as much as I intended. 

It's also nice to see that 'regular work' hardly plays a role at all, that's been on auto-pilot, something I've been able to manage easily on just a few hours a week, and same can be said for Portuguese Bureaucracy - by the time I'd got the car imported, that was all done! 

It's also easy to see that for next year I need two main things to focus on - 

1. The land 
2. The language! 

But I won't give up on the crypto wonderland, I will still spend several hours a week within! 

And oh Yeah, for me Covid has seemed like a very distant thing this year, which I guess is something I should be VERY thankful for!