I know it's been a moment or two since my last post, time and tide waits for no man and the continued workload of @whiterosecoffee is just keeping me super busy.The lack of posts does not mean I am not keeping up with the Hive Blockchain - far from it in fact because in the background I still maintain my Witness servers for c0ff33a and whiterosecoffee.

So here it is, Merry Christmas. And yes the vlog is long overdue, sorry about that but everything just got too crazy at work and home to fit it in. Finally after a crippling last push to Christmas - with two staff down and record sales we are now at the end of a killer year.

And as per the norm at the moment I skipped another week, too much to do and too little time life is just far too hectic at the moment to handle.With Christmas looming fast, everything has ramped up orders are more frequent and bigger - so roasting is just getting upto max capacity - in fact it’s getting hard to keep up with the packing and labeling of all that roasted coffee. I already know it is going to be Christmas before I even realise it has arrived, because every day now to the 25th December is just going to be a blur of desperately trying to ship orders.

Happy 5th of November, it is of course Guy Fawkes night in the UK - bonfires and fireworks. With the day occurring on a Sunday this year it seems many people seemed to decide to have parties last night instead, although that proved a bad move as it was very wet and miserable last night. Tonight however it is dry and crisp with clear skies, perfect for fireworks.

It never rains but it pours - which works for both the extreme rain we have had in the UK from storm Babet causing widespread flooding - and my workload which keeps going up while holidays and sickness keep reducing the staff I have to help out.

And here it is, proof as if it was needed that the Hive UK Northern meet up did in fact take place. Oh no - wait that’s just me on my own fiddling with computers setting up a rolling display of one of my Hive Witnesses Hived nodes processing transactions and producing blocks when called. And my full API node Hived processing blocks and broadcasting transaction information when requested. Finally of course one of my Hive-Engine Witnesses processing transactions and confirming blocks. The back end of the blockchain is not something everyone get’s to see, and it’s easy to forget that every post, comment, upvote, transfer etc are processed in blocks by servers around the world including mine.