First night.

lightning_node_management.md

@@ -158,3 +158,32 @@ A few links to interesting stuff that I got from Lopp's post:
 - [Lightning conductor](https://lightningconductor.net/receipt), which offers
   liquidity services including a pretty convenient services to open an incoming
   channel with an on-chain transaction.
+
+## First night...
+
+I'm writing this as I wait for some channels to open successfully. Finally,
+today was the day I started my routing node!
+
+As planned, I moved 0.2 BTC from cold storage to the umbrel wallet. I looked
+for a pretty looking node and opened a channel with them and, voila, it worked!
+I opened another, smaller one with another smaller node, but Thunderhub didn't
+let me. I learned that Thunderhub only allows you to have one pending channel
+opening at a time. So I had to wait a bit to create a second one.
+
+Once I successfully opened those two channels, I headed to
+lightningnetwork.plus and joined a triangle. It was almost by accident. I was
+checking the triangle swap page when I hit the application button and, boom, it
+was closed. The page was giving me some instructions on how to proceed and I
+kind of just followed through without much thinking. It felt like heaven when I
+saw my incoming partner channel opening towards me. This swaps thingy is great!
+The only issue I see is that my partners quality is pretty low. One of them is
+pretty old, but has almost no capacity. The other one is super new, but is
+growing pretty fast. Oh well, I guess it's better than nothing!
+
+I have realised that the fancier swaps are restricted by channel number and
+total capacity, so it seems that I should try to step up my game slowly, always
+trying to get the best possible partners and then letting my fresh open
+channels mature a bit so that I earn some street creed that allows me to get
+into more exclusive swaps.
+
+I can already tell it's gonna be quite a few nights of little sleep...