posted 4 years ago
Greetings and salutations, one and all!
I'm Micah, a cis Caucasian male aged 34 currently, I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I'm presently living in Minnesota with my disabled parents. We're currently renting an apartment where there is little to no maintenance ever done, constant door propping and breaking, people dragging leaking trash bags through the halls, and all manner of other issues, in addition to being far more costly than if we had a mortgage on a house.
I presently am a sales associate for Electronics at my local Wal-Mart, and I have been with the store for 14 years, 15 at the end of August. We are researching and saving up for a potential move in February of next year... out to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where we would be renting an apartment or two until we find the lot where we will be building our homestead. Ideally my father would prefer something with a structure already on it, so that he and my mom can move onto it while we're building the rest, but I'm personally less concerned with that as much as at least having a decent price, and a location not too far from another Wal-Mart, as I can always transfer within the company until we've managed to reach self-sufficiency, and profitability from what is done on the homestead itself. I have some experience with plumbing, electrical wiring, electronic repair and diagnosis, design, architecture, gardening, and other skills, though many are a tad rusty from more than a decade of not putting them to practical use. However, I am more than willing to put in the hard work and research to do things properly, to build up to code with redundancies and room for expansion to our homestead design.
I am also an author (presently working on a dark fantasy action LGBTQAI+ romance series), a music producer (primarily using samples, but I also have a modicum of assorted instrument training), vocalist, an RPG system designer, a board and card game designer, a dabbling programmer, and I own or co-own a few geeky small companies.
My eventual goal is for a self-sufficient grid-tied (selling excess primarily) homestead where I can work on it and for myself on my creative passions and experimentation, though I know it will take many years, determination, and some lucky breaks for that to happen. Ideally, if I get enough land, I may also be trying to build a community of like-minded creatives who wish to build and work with me.