its late to upvote this nice story, !trdo
I better just leave here a little brick of commenting: I read all of your story and I like the reading, will check the comments too, sometimes its the folks reaction that makes the deal even more intresting.
ps. as for me, I never started a powerdown on Steemit.. but delegated almost all of my SP to Qurator. now, as the Qurator is rounding up its activity here... sooner or later (probably, sooner) I will have to decide something to myself. but I totally agree with you -- it is nice to curate and to see yourself in top 10 section of upvotes )) very cool and rewarding feeling... unfortunately sometimes you dont have time for creating a cool longread posts, not saying about reading others posts, and commention, and curating them on everyday basis -- not speaking about doing it on Two Blockchains. so, delegating SP is an imminent thing...