8 years on Hive Anniversary & introduce myself again

Good day dear mates! Another year has passed for me, and I am celebrating my eighth anniversary on Hive. Honestly my account was created on a 19th of October but just today I'm ready to publish my Anniversary post. Also I think this is excellent opportunity to tell you more about myself and my journey here.

Let's start with the fact that I am over 30 and under 40 years old. I am an engineer by education and have worked in rail transport for over 10 years. However, last year I changed my field of activity. This has given me more responsibility, but also more opportunities. Now I can spend more time with my family, which I am very happy about. I also try to find opportunities to devote time not only to my family, but also to my hobbies. My hobbies include not only sports, but also gardening and radio amateuring. By the way, I started my radio amateuring hobby since my school days, and I even have awards for participating in international contests. Also radio amateuring gives me opportunity to speak with people from all over the world.
In addition to work and hobbies, I really enjoy spending time outdoors and traveling. I have already visited not only countries in Europe and Asia, but also Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Earlier, at the very beginning of my journey here Hive (steemit at that years), I even published photos which were taken there. Also since my children have become a little older, I was able to take my first long trip with my family to another country in this September. But I'll tell you about this trip later in a separate post 😉
If to talk about sport at my student years I practiced martial arts and running. Unfortunately, I had to stop practicing martial arts in 2012, but I still continue my running trainings when it is possible. I also regularly ride my bike and try to go to the pool. But I must admit that this year I have been doing this very rarely. At winter time I prefer skiing.
Also as one more achievement I can consider nearly 6 years alcohol free of course it's not so much as @aggroed achievement but also good milestone.
Honestly I think it's enough to talk about me but worth to move to my Hive journey!
My trip on blockchain started accidentally when I hadn't my own family and price of BTC was even less than 7000$ if I knew at that time how it'll increase I surely bought at least 3.
During this 8 years I wrote more than 1550 posts and more than 6500 comments. Honestly it could be bigger numbers but 2024, 2023 was almost without new posts, and I hope in 2026 I'll be more active. Most of my posts were published in HiveGarden and Actifit communitites but nowadays I almost stopped to use actifit app.

By the way as so as today also HPUD I powered up a little bit. So I'm ready to finish this year with powering up every month but December ahead. I'll try not to miss it;) Honestly to say I'm very close to achieve my early HP goal. Crossed fingers.

Now step by step moving to HPUD I should mention that in last months in my Hive Engine balance changed leader, now instead of WAIV LEO token leading in my wallet. And on screenshot you can see how leader board looks like in my case.

Also due to the last power ups and staking HDB I can reach more than 18 HP as a curation rewards and More than 34HBD interests rewards.

Another one important thing that in October I stopped delegation of my HP to @tipu service because they turned off their service. And now I'm ready to increase my delegation of HP or better to say Start new one to modern and great projects which deserves it!
So I don't want to bother you with numbers and stats it's anniversary post anyway.
As a final words I can say that even considering current market price in HIVE we trust! And anyway I think all of us should do all what possible to support Hive because Hive it's not only about blockchain it's people and community! But my one of the biggest goal for upcoming years to visit one of Hive fests and Hive meetup.

That's all for now! Stay tuned! Yours @travoved

p.s. title image generated with AI.