I admit it, I’m overjoyed.

I just checked the cowboys ranking and found that I’m in 20th place. This means that I jumped 3 places overnight.

On 15 August last year, I lost my cowboy hat. After 232 days. I could have held on to it, but complacency blunted my urgency and hence, snatched it away from my tenuous grip.

5 months later, I’m back where I was at. I didn’t even expect to make it into the top 21 positions for a couple of years, so I’m humbled by how this rebuilding process took me less time than expected.

Times have changed since then. Cowboy credits are part and parcel of our time on SN. Honestly, I feel a glorious sense of liberation. I don’t mean to sound rude, but because I don’t value these credits at all, I find myself posting more liberally these days. In the past, I would have considered how much an article would be likely to garner me.

Nowadays, because even a 20 sat zap is enough to make me feel happy, I just post. Blog entries written from an era when I wasn’t around on SN yet. Who cares if no one zaps me? Those CCs need to be utilised anyway. It is very satisfying to give my previous work a second wind. Writing compounds because right now I have a body of work to choose from when I post on SN.

I hope that I will break my 232-day record!