Hello all! Another week closer to the end of the year and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoals post, a series idea started by started by @jongolson. This also doubles as my weekly progress report for #saturdaysavers, which is a fun little group that tries to motivate everyone to save and reach their goals. I’m going to look at the progress I’ve made on my Hive goals, as well as give a few tokens I’m looking at right now. If you are here for the comment SBI giveaway, well, we’ll get to that too.

Let’s start with my Hive goals.

Hive & HBD

My goal for 2024 was 35k Hive. I made it! So on to my stretch goal of 40k. Can I make it?

Last week I made 542.45, bringing me to 39,627.300 total Hive Power. That’s 99.1% of my goal!

Math time. 40k - 39,627.300 gives us 372.7. Divided out by the days till the first of next year, we get 10.1 Hive needed per day to reach 40k by that point.

Oh man, we are close! At my current pace, I may even make it this week, before December even starts! On one hand, I am tempted to push and see how far past 40k I can get. But on the other hand, I think I will focus more on the 2nd layer for the month of December.

Speaking of which…

Second Layer Tokens

Token	Last week total	Goal	Needed	Note
LGN	—	2000	0	Goal Met
BRO	0.183	1000	382.6421	61.7% of the way there!
PIMP	430.32	100k	5201.41	94.8% of the way there!
CINE	277.091	—	—

Well, even if I focus here, I’m probably not going to make much headway on BRO. They are going for around 8 HIVE each, meaning it would cost me roughly 3k HIVE to make it to 1000 BRO. At .278, that would be around $834. Yicks. A bit outside my price range at present.

Capping off my PIMP might be the easiest thing to do. 100k PIMP was my second goal for this year right after 35k Hive Power. I’m already a little chagrined that @trumpman already beat me to 100k. What a devastating turn of events! I need to catch up!

Silver

The silver chart for last week:

Up a little from the previous week, so that was good. I’d like to see us get back to that near $35 high of a few weeks ago, though.

Hey, guess what? Black Friday is coming! I’m sure most of you are familiar with this now. It’s come to Japan and I’m sure to many other places too. Business just can’t resist a good event to get people shopping. Many of the silver sites I’ve been checking out are offering Black Friday sales. But that’s not what I’m looking at today.

On the APMEX website I came across two DC superhero coins that I just love. First is Superman. I’m a big Superman fan. Tho as a traditionalist I prefer his circus inspired costume with the trunks outside the tights over the more recent costume that just gives him a belt on the tights but no trunks. Even so, this is a nice looking coin.

Get it here

The other I love is this Batman coin.

Bonus that they use the logo design from the 1989 Michael Keaton film.

Get it here

Giveaway

That stuff out of the way, let’s do our SBI drawing! If you are new here, I give away 5 shares of SBI every week to commenters on this post. If you also reblog and comment you get a second entry and double the award (if you win).

So how about this week? Let’s see… last post we had comments from @bozz @dewabrata @kerrislravenhill @mypathtofire @oadissin [x2] @silversaver888 @thebighigg [x2] @trumpman.

And the winners are…

@silversaver888 @mypathtofire @thebighigg [x2] @dewabrata @oadissin [x2]!

Congratulations, everyone!

And forward we go! It was a strong week. Let’s see how this coming one goes!

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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Twitter or Mastodon.