What have I been up to this weekend?

What else? Unless you been living under a rock, HiveFest was the talk of the town this weekend. Last year it was a bit of a disaster for me as VR has never been my thing. I had technical problems registering, hence I never got my HF5 badge, and I couldn't teleport myself anywhere. This year I fared a bit better.

My HF6 journey still started with hiccups. First, I couldn't find the computer to register. Luckily @macchiata came to rescue and took me there. Now I got my HF6 badge to add to my SFHF4 badge collection. Thanks Mac. Then my mic wouldn't work so sadly I never got to chat to Mac. It took me a couple of times to log in and out before I could hear or speak to anyone. Apologies if you said hello and I didn't respond. I wasn't ignoring you. Once I got myself set up, I lingered around the camp for a while and spoke to some random strangers. It was so weird.

I decided to explore the other venues and popped in the presentation area to listen to some talks. But the annoying thing was (due to me being so hopeless) once I left the presentation area and moved to the NFT room I could still hear the presenters talking. Don't get me wrong, the presenters weren't annoying, it's just having the speech in the background after I left. I didn't know how to turn it off. That was the annoying part because I saw @tarazkp and @thekittygirl in the NFT room and really wanted to say hello to them.

After quitting for the nth time I went back into HF again. I was really happy that I caught up with @sjarvie5, it was lovely to 'see' her again. Last year we didn't get to speak properly due to my mic issues, so we had a good chat this year. With Sara being an art lover, we went over to the NFT room. It was so cool there, and I love the range of NFT works from the community.

Suddenly I could hear music through my headset, I thought it came from the NFT room for a bit of ambience. However, Sara said she couldn't hear anything. Weird. The annoying thing here, was that the music was really funky cool. I wish I knew what it was as I'd love to listen to it again. With music bellowing out of my headset, I had to bid farewell to Sara and quite HF once again. Sadly that was the end of my HF6 experience. I wish I'd got the chance to meet and chat with more people, but VR really isn't my thing.

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The other hype over the weekend was the Hive Punks. They were released on Friday afternoon when HF started. I found out about it through @travelgirl very early on, in fact she was the first one to mint straight after @themarkymark. I minted my first two and it took less than 10 minutes to come through. Half an hour later I minted a third one, and that took about half an hour to come through. After that, it really took off, and I hear it took 24 hours to come through. Eventually all ten thousand of them were sold out within 36 hours. If you didn't manage to get one..... too bad, but there's always the secondary market. In fact, in my December PUD Guessing Çontest, I will be giving one of my Hive Punks away as a special Christmas bumper contest as @martibis gifted me one of his. I believe what goes around comes around so I'm passing the kindness around Hive. Don't forget to drop by my PUD Guessing Contest on 1st December.

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Hive Punk wasn't the only NFT that was launched during HF. The other one was the "bz" NFT set via dlux.io. This is a free drop, initially to all those who registered to HF and eventually to all active users. This is my bee. This one doesn't have a rarity score, not sure if this will be added in future. It will be interesting to see how all the develops over time.

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Last and not the least, families are an important part of weekends. This weekend my niece invited us over for lunch. Her sister was there as well and between them they have three kids. I got to see three out of my five adorable and cheeky grand nephews. We sat outside the garden in front of the fireplace after lunch, roasting marshmallows, something I hadn't done for a long time.

Happy weekend everyone!!