I’ve been away from Tamale for about 3-4 months now as my current job is in another town far away from where I live.

About 2 weeks ago, we went on vacation and I came back to Tamale. I’m not sure what changed when I left, but both the network and electricity supply has been TERRIBLE since I got back. Which is pretty ironic considering that I just moved from a village (rural area) to a city(urban area). You would expect the city to have the best of both network service and electricity.

I can’t even say which is relatively better between the poor network conditions and electricity, because just when I was about to choose the network being better, something happened yesterday that had me rethinking it.

Somewhere around 9:15 yesterday(Wednesday), the two major telecommunication services in Ghana - MTN and Telecel (formerly Vodafone) - went down, reasons being that there’s been a disruption in their international undersea cable. I under normal circumstances would not have a problem with this, except for two things

a) the fact that not one, but two of the major internet service providers in the country simultaneously went down with the same problem/excuse sounded kind of sus to me. It was also a sign of incompetence to me because how do you both just go haywire out of the blue at the same time.

b) I was anticipating a power outage instead of a network issue, because who would be expecting that this would happen? It’s not really a common occurrence, as opposed to the current power on and off crisis we’re experiencing…So because I was already expecting it, I wrote two posts in advance just incase an expected power out does happen. I was speechless when it turned out we’d have undisrupted power for an entire 24 hours but no access to internet to upload shit. That pissed me off fr.

Now, I have about two days worth of #marchinleo topic’s post that can’t be posted anymore for the marchinleo challenge sitting in my drafts, and my entry for the splinterlands social media challenge. At least it not’s too late for the latter though, right?

Late but not over…

Now Let’s Talk Leo

I like how my account has been growing recently in terms of Leo Power, especially considering that I fell of my Leo Goals somewhere in the middle of last year. But ever since I got gifted that INLEO Premium account, everything cane back on track. It’s like that was the little extra jilt I needed to get back on track. I have been writing as consistently as I can for the past few weeks (battling against an unstable electricity supply and shitty network, but more of that in another post probably), gathering rewards and collecting some liquid Leo for today.

I have gathered an amount of 150 LEO to stake today, taking my LP from 2050LP to 2200LP!

I’m hoping that LEO doesn’t become too expensive to buy for LPUD as the year progresses, so if all goes as planned, I should be sitting at above 3.5k LP at the least by the end of this year. And if it does become too expensive to buy, well….I’ll see you in the bahamas🥂

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I woke up in the middle of the night to drink some water and thought check for updates on the network, and to my surprise, it was up. So I’m putting this post out first to sort of explain what’s happened in case you’ve noticed the activity of Africans has dropped in the past 4 days or so. Also because #LPUD is already overdue for 2 days and I’m not sure whether the network might still be stable enough to make this post by the time I’m up in the day. So, yeah. Arigato, and back to sleep I go🙃

I want to make a quick apology to my guild for joining a fray and not being able to play. It was because of this network anomaly. That was the first fray I joined, and I apologize if my inability to play hurt the guild.

Ps: I wrote this post two days ago, 2 days after all this bs started and it was #LPUD. I didn’t have time time to update the entire post because of the obvious rush, so some details in this post might refer to “2 days ago” or “Yesterday” or a wrong timeline, generally.

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