I heard once you vote, you stop getting all the election text messages. That was enough motivation for me, dropped off my ballot today. Let’s go team America 🇺🇸

I haven’t posted in almost a year and haven’t taken X seriously in about 18-22 months. I still look at X daily, but just lurking. Why? Well it’s a long story. In the time that I’ve been gone, a lot has happened. The Good: My beautiful wife has given birth to two healthy young boys and they get all of my attention while they’re awake. Outside of home life, I’ve been absolutely grinding work and side projects, which has resulted in a promotion (hopefully another soon). The company I work for has had a huge bump in share price and my shares have seen a sizable gain. I reduced the amount of time spent on my phone by 50%-60% or so. The Bad: I bought a house a few years ago and while it’s been amazing for my family, it’s been very expensive in monthly costs, maintenance, and random one off expenses, which has taken a toll on my FIRE goals substantially. A financial mistake, unfortunately. This really killed my desire to continue posting here on X because I was beginning to feel like a hypocrite despite being far ahead of others my age financially speaking. A lot of my posts in 2025 were mocking people about Bitcoin, which was fun for me at the time and resulted in my account getting tons of views at first, but over time destroyed my ranking in the algorithm, which further demotivated me from putting in effort here. The Ugly: My wife and I had a really tough time with our first child because he had some initial health struggles (thankfully all permanently resolved!) and we lost multiple really close family members a month after he was born. Combine that with the challenges of a newborn/postpartum depression and my job looking really bleak at the time, I was struggling. Hard. But things have changed. I paid off most of my debt (mostly taken on due to house expenses (at 0% interest, of course), excluding mortgage here), rebuilt my emergency fund, I’ve lost ~25lbs of fat (targeting 30 more), and have frankly never been happier in my life. I have always missed being active on here because I had a lot of fun and I met many people I became friends with and talked to daily. The amount of time I’ve been gone is jarring to be honest. All this to say, I highly respect and thank the creators who are able to push through the tough times in their lives to continue creating for people like me. Many of you probably didn’t notice I was gone because of how high paced this app can be… but I’m proud to say I will be returning! I’m not going to be posting every single day, scheduling posts, spam replying, or just rage baiting crypto bros (tho it was fun, so there will be some...), but I will be here and posting when I think I have something valuable to say. If you read this far, you’re a real one. Thank you 😃

What is the earliest acceptable time I can mow my lawn on a Sunday morning?