Ahoy!
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:50 am
Hello everyone. I'm a semi-longtime lurker who's been inspired by so many of you over the years, and decided it's time to stop being a creep, and participate a bit myself.
Here's a few unorganized tidbits about me:
Here's a few unorganized tidbits about me:
- I'm in my late 30s, married, working as a software engineer (real original, right?)
- I came to learn about ERE via Mr. Money Mustache several years ago. ERE resonates with me much more today than it did when I first stumbled upon it. But I'm still roughly wherever MMMers tend to be on the Wheaton level. Hoping to progress up a bit more.
- I'm into most things two-wheeled. I grew up racing motorcycles, and maintain an interest. But I've substituted riding motorcycles for bicycles these days.
- My wife and I FOMO-bought a comically unnecessary house in the suburbs last year, which we've realized we do not enjoy (we both have spent most of our adult lives living in large cities). Suburb-living has wrought havoc on our abilities to safely use bicycles as transportation. Looking to correct this mistake, and move back to civilization sooner rather than later, though cringing while thinking about how much this little life lesson is going to cost us.
- With our current spending rate, depending on how the market does, we'll likely hit 4%-level FI this year.
- I like making and tinkering on things from goofy electronics projects, to knitting, to fancy espresso drinks (shout out to @C40, whose espresso setup I have unapologetically copied), to Neapolitan pizzas, etc.