When we run out of dried pasta it is either drive 4 hours to get some, shop online and collect it from a shipping agent, or make gnocchi from scratch.

🚫 I Used Up My Free Monthly Allowance On ChatSonic 🤷‍♂️

     I've been hearing so much about ChatGPT in the news and on several podcasts, and I am intrigued by how it will change the future of the world in many ways. There was recently some whale hate on the current 👨‍💻 ASEAN Hive Community Challenge #52 ⌨️ AI Chatbot Play 🤖, and apparently because most ASEAN Hivers are non-native English speakers, we can't be trusted with this technology.

     While I don't encourage a post on Hive to be made solely with AI means, I think there are ways to incorporate and improve the quality of Hive content with the assistance of AI. And I should also say that just because I won't permit a post within ASEAN Hive to be made from solely from AI means, as long as 250+ original text/words belong to the author, I am okay with exploring how AI can be part of a blog post.

     We blockchain/crypto folk are supposed to be on the cutting edge of technology, so I don't appreciate bully attempts from Hive whales to outright discourage and downvote any mention of AI chatbots or ChatGPT within our community. I think this attitude will only serve to turn Hive into a defunct internet relic unable to keep up with the times, with perhaps a fate like MySpace.

     This chatbot tech is so new to me that I haven't even overcome the sheer novelty and joy of experimenting and playing with it. On a podcast I heard one author mention how it is really helpful with creative writing prompts, especially writing the very first line to help get a human writer flowing. That is just one of may ways I've heard of incorporating AI without it being plagiarism or lazy content creation. I truly think it can supplement human writers, but I am not the right person to discover how that will all work. I would rather wait a few months for the experts to make come up with more useful ideas than my lame attempts at amusing myself with this world-changing technology.

     Unfortunately I've run out of my monthly free allowance on WriteSonic, and although I love the site I am not willing to pay a monthly fee. Because of this I don't have enough gems to make an official challenge entry as I ran out after making the above hilarious dialogue between Adam and John about an illegal magical banana. I tried to make a Bill Cosby ad for sleeping pills, but apparently ChatSonic has some kind of AI Woke Police that closed the door on that experiment before it started.

👨‍🍳 On With The Gnocchi 👩‍🍳

     Monkey-B, aka @sakana, has recently declared herself my "sous chef," guess I've used this term too many times in her presence and she's now adopted it. Well, we ran out of pasta and the kids have been begging for a meal with my legendary arrabbiata sauce, which means "angry" in Italian. It's angry because it's spicy, basically a marinara sauce with lots of black pepper, garlic, and crushed red pepper, but I like to add some capers and chopped fried vegan ham. While I prepared the sauce, my sous chef sifted the flour to remove any plastic bits or surprise lurking within.

Gnocchi Interrupted With Ice From The Sky 🧊

     Across the border in Thailand it is 50°C+ in many parts of the country, and over here in Cambodia it's been pretty hot too. Well, our high altitude home in the mountains decided to rain down thumbnail-sized pieces of hail while I was mixing the dough. With my clean hand I snapped a few pictures of the wife holding some Cambodian sky ice in her hands.

     I always enjoy a behind-the-scenes shot, so I backed up and snapped my wife snapping herself. It was at this moment I realized the "angry sauce" was angrily spluttering all over the wall and stovetop. I hustled back in the kitchen and cleaned up everything before Pov even noticed something was awry, then I patted myself on the back for the quick dadwork.

     One last shot before re-entering the gnocchi world. I saw @srey-yuu walking around outside and marveling at the weather. It may not be the rainy season in the rest of Cambodia, but things are a little off-schedule in the Cardamom Mountains.

Back To The Gnocchi At Hand 🤌

     Once the sauce is done and the dough is prepared, it is my turn to step away and let the ladies enjoy rolling and shaping the gnocchi with forks. With anywhere from 3 to 5 sous chefs forming gnocchis, I quickly got some salty water boiling. Sorry this ain't a recipe post by the way, but I don't even have the time to post daily lately, so no time to make a proper gnocchi recipe post. You can google it though, it's basically mashed potatoes and flour, with non-vegan methods usually using an egg or two to help hold things together.

     We made so much of these tiny Italian dumplings that I had to boil them in three separate batches, but I still knew it might not be enough a hungry family + 1 Mey-Yii who stuck around after smelling and seeing what was going on in our house. I realize the things that consume my day are the things I should be posting about, but I always find myself so overwhelmed that I don't even get to sit down and do some focused computer work until the family is asleep at around 8pm.

     From 8pm until whenever I fall asleep is the time to do ASEAN Hive work, and if I manage to finish these duties and still be awake at what is usually 2am-ish, that is when I work on drafts for my personal blog. I would really like to find time for more engagement, time to read posts, and time to post once a day from my own blog, but I am simply too-needed during the day to keep things flowing in the household. If I had a workspace away or dedicated workspace here at home where I could disappear 8 hours a day, I'm sure I could be more productive and sleep at a reasonable hour while earning more income for the family, but gnocchis don't make themselves.

     I do enjoy househusbanding by the way, but I gotta learn how not to spread myself so thin. I have been tinkering with the idea of hiring a personal assistant, but I've calculated I the increased productivity and income I could earn would only cover the assistant's monthly income, and perhaps not even that much. So I may break even or lose money with an assistant, and nobody in the village is capable of learning a mix of vegan Indian cooking and blockchain duties. Perhaps when I visit the USA in less than a month I can convince someone from my hometown in Indiana to come and live in the cabin and be my assistant for a small monthly stipend and plenty of free time 🤔.

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