Pinned: INDEPENDENCE!!

7/6/26 Starting Stats

LLC Checking: $5,105.61

Personal Checking: $2,181.41

Personal Debt: $9,246.23

This is day 1. Kind of a wild feeling. I've sold everything I own except for my art supplies and my bare-bones music rig. I kept a few kitchen supplies and some clothes, and moved everything into my vehicle. We are going full nomad, dudes. Just gonna drive around, and paint. There's something about it that feels so right, so exciting. It's like, this whole game we play? Idk, it's just not the vibe anymore. It's kind of boring. I'm 35, I'm in a punk band, I'm a painter, I might as well be homeless, too. It's like, zooming out, it kind of fits the story so well. It totally makes sense. This is my lore, and it feels so right. This 35 year old dude has an opportunity for adventure, and he is so fricken CHOOSING it. I feel like Bilbo Baggins, and I'm saying hellllllll yeah dude let's do this. So yeah, this is day 1.

I first and foremost plan on doing some pretty fun social stuff, which I will be blog posting about AFTER the fact. So be sure to come follow my socials and keep up, because I may be in your area, doing a projector movie on a building near you, or like, or doing a local scavenger hunt where the winner finds an original oil painting floating around in public, or who knows what. I just wanna have fun, man. Hit me with ideas if you gottem lol. ALL THAT BEING SAID I think it's going to be quite a trip to like, post my weekly stats. How much did I spend? Where have I slept? Hows my checking account looking? My art business account? How much debt am I in? How many showers have I taken this week? So... that will be updated per blog post I think. Let's play a different kind of game, where you see how this wild off-the-grid punk-rock untethered painter man fares in a world that is playing hard capitalism lol.

AND WE'RE OFF!

-Austen