Dl Tolleson

Okay, I'll admit up front that I might have missed it. But anyway, what is the "myth" accepted as "fact?"
And while I'm at it, my girlfriend has just stumbled across the whole "linen is great for you" thing--all of which is new to me. And then she saw a great deal about 100% linen sheets at a Habitat for Humanity store. But that turned out to be bogus because the "made in China" product was composed of other materials.
All of which leads me to ask, is linen all that great for you?
I mean, I thought cotton and wool were pretty darned awesome.

They make battery powered cameras you could use—and they download images, too. I knew someone who used them. But if your trespasser knows or sees that the camera is there, he or she can cover his or her face. That, and cameras only "document"—they don't "prevent."  If people are prone to take an entire fence, then they'll probably just take the camera or cameras, too.
As for fencing... Well, of course the heavier, higher and stronger the barrier, the more expensive. So, if you want to go with an alternative, hedges that are bushes with big thorns will slow people down. Hedges of  the type I'm referencing will grow very high—to house-height or more—and can be VERY thick and robust with sharp foliage and/or thorns. But they won't necessarily stop a very determined trespasser—nothing will do that but walls and you being there with a penalty for trespassing.
But be it a fence or a hedge, it has to go full-circuit, without a break (which means YOU too cannot easily get in or out). Now, if you are on site then you can have a "one-way-in and out" break that can serve as your "kill zone." In other words, a fence or hedge that forces a trespasser into only one narrowly defined entry/exit is a trap that exposes him or her to whatever method of justice you mete out.
Short of these suggestions, you can't do much unless you are there and are willing to stand your ground.

—Tᴏʟʟᴇsᴏɴ
http://www.DLTolleson.com

This is probably well-beyond the expense and labor you would expend, but if I had the funds and time, I'd do exactly what Thomas Massie has done...

Tᴇsʟᴀ Bᴀᴛᴛᴇʀʏ-Pᴏᴡᴇʀᴇᴅ Hᴏᴜsᴇ
DIY  Wɪᴛʜ Tʜᴏᴍᴀs Mᴀssɪᴇ, Pᴀʀᴛ 1 | YᴏᴜTᴜʙᴇ
Running Time: 23:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms

Tᴇsʟᴀ Bᴀᴛᴛᴇʀʏ-Pᴏᴡᴇʀᴇᴅ Hᴏᴜsᴇ
DIY  Wɪᴛʜ Tʜᴏᴍᴀs Mᴀssɪᴇ, Pᴀʀᴛ 2 | YᴏᴜTᴜʙᴇ
Running Time 13:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PM2Ndu0zg

And while not specific to your inquiry, nonetheless inspirational (if only for the fact this guy is the kind of self-made congressman who isn't systemic slime)...

Oꜰꜰ ᴛʜᴇ Gʀɪᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ Tʜᴏᴍᴀs Mᴀssɪᴇ
Running time 35:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_yXt1s2yc

A few thoughts...

Layout is as important as content. When there is text and pictures all over the place it is too distracting.

The easiest to use websites, in my opinion, are those with the simplest and "cleanest" layouts. The more open (or white) space you have, the more attention is drawn to the content. Naturally, when there is a lot of content (my own site, for example has somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 pages or so, as well as outgoing links to social media postings) the best solution is to make use of drop-down menus or menus that collapse. That way you can "stack" a lot of pages/info that can be expanded by the website visitor. It remains clean looking and orderly.

Again, using my own site as an example (although there are better ones to which to point, I am sure) I use drop-down menus on my Photography portal and (more importantly for me) on my Compendium page (which offers all my online written work). And then, to ensure that the content can be accessed, I also use an in-page listing for the photography and a site map that offers ALL of it without a drop-down (using a simple list of text links) for those devices that, for whatever reason, can't get the drop-down menus to activate on some devices.

I also have found that using CSS works pretty good.

Links to what I am saying:

The Compendium
(Hover over the "Compendium" link and see all the written work: click the title you want)
http://www.DLTolleson.com/compendium.php

The Camera One Portal
(Hover over the "Camera One" link and see all the photo pages OR simply scroll down the page for image links)
http://www.DLTolleson.com/cameraone.php

Map
(The Site map with all of the above as text links on one page--in case the website viewer can't get menus to work on his/her device)
http://www.DLTolleson.com/sitemap.php

The Lighthouse Press
(I did basically the same for my publisher, whose website was a lot smaller than my own (and on which I was able to work a sub domain deal for myself)
https://www.thelighthousepress.com/

Of course, you want every page of a site to have the same layout--or at least as similar as is possible.

Your headline, “What is wrong with me,” in conjunction with “spending more time than I would like in hospital waiting rooms” and having “got into a ‘whatever happened to’ mood” and the years you’ve referenced, clarifies your situation.
In my youth I couldn’t understand how my dad could simply see someone or hear them say something and make what I thought were “snap judgments” that in the end were always correct. Now, years later, I understand.
You’re mature. That’s what wrong with you—if you want to describe it that way. There is a point reached in life when you really don’t need to hear or see everything someone does or says in order to know the outcome. Technology will always advance, but people will always be people. There are only about seven basic stories in the world, and everything is essentially a version of those seven plots—this applies as much to reality as fiction.
So you see, you’ve probably seen and heard it all before.
And of course, we can’t deny everything exists in a state of order to disorder. A drinking glass never starts out shattered and then repairs itself. We don’t start out aged and become youthful. Everything, in spite of efforts to delay it, eventually deteriorates. In short, on this side of temporal existence, everything eventually turns to fertilizer—so to speak.

DL Tolleson
http://www.dltolleson.com

Interestingly worded inquiry. Your job and benefits “helped to get you where you are now,” which includes $140,000 debt in the form of a house, student loans and miscellaneous things that contributed to the debt. In other words, you have become comfortable enough with your income to incur this debt. And thus, without that income, for you to perhaps break even you must make more than the sum of your monthly payments.
The main concern is whether you can meet those payments and maintain the level of lifestyle you want and/or need. This also must take into account the anticipated cost of future expense (children) and the ancillary expenditures that come with that future (unplanned broken bones and illness can be rather expensive and the mental stress to afford them is its own expense).
Your wife is the best indication of what you should do.
You report she has given you the “blessing to quit whenever,” but in the next breath you cite her financial concerns.
She is saying what you want to hear and hoping you will hear what you need to do.
Her “blessing to quit” is her way of saying she supports you in making the best choice for you both: Her expressed concern is her way of letting you know that she hopes you realize what is the best for you both—especially if you want to support a future family that isn’t struggling.
Do your passion of a lesser interest on the side—that is what makes it your passion of lesser interest. But support your family in the best way you can because THAT is the greater passion of your life. At the end what you have done will not be as important as for whom you have done it and that you have done for them the best that they deserve.
If you desire to make your passion of lesser interest (whatever that might be) into the source of income supporting the greater passion of your life, then endeavor to turn your passion of lesser interest into a source of income that is concurrent with the income supporting the greater passion of your life. When those two incomes are equal, only then can you feel some assurance that the lesser passion of your life can, on its own, support the greater passion of your life.
For what it is worth, that is what I would do if I were in your circumstances.

Thank you Janet Reed.
Originally I was just going to post some links on Facebook. But when I went to post the article I got a Facebook warning to expect a “fact verification” indicating the information was false. That ticked me off because I know those clowns don't do anything more than repeat talking points and cite doctors who literally ignore all the high-dosing medical documentation. I had already gone through THAT over a post about a Texas Doctor and his Coronavirus Cure—I documented this in introductory commentary here...

Texas Doctor Announces Better Covid-19 Protocol and Cure: Commentary About Facebook Censorship
http://www.dltolleson.com/commentary/bartlett.php

So anyway, that's what prompted me to create the online resource. The Web page editing is a job, but making all this information easily and freely available is worth it. There are upwards to over a thousand scientific references on the power of high dosing vitamin C to prevent and cure all sorts of infectious diseases and toxins. Frankly it is stunning and borders on sounding miraculous. In fact, that's why I decide to include the videos from New Zealand's 60 Minutes episodes on vitamin C saving the life of a farmer. It's an eye-opening and easy introduction to the topic. The episodes show how the medical establishment refused to accept the facts even when their own X-rays show "impossible" results from just one day to the next (and they show all this in the episode). People NEED to know this stuff.
If vitamin C hadn't been discovered until now, it would never be allowed as a cheap, over-the-counter vitamin. It has no negative impact and is a cure for a ton of stuff. And insofar as my Index C, I don't have to make any of these claims—I just quote excerpts and make the sources easily accessible.
At any rate, again thanks. And please feel free to share the link with people who need the info and do not right now need the info.

Tolleson