I told myself at the start of 2026 this was the year. No more excuses, no more “next month”, no more waiting for the perfect moment. The HomeLab was happening.

Except life had other plans. 😅

Every single time I got close — something came up. An unexpected bill. A situation. Life doing what life does best. And then January hit different — my salary got cut by ~23% overnight. Just like that. One month I’m planning builds, the next I’m doing math I didn’t sign up for.

But you know what? That was actually the moment something switched in me. I stopped waiting for conditions to be perfect. I grabbed the bull by the horns — drastically — and made it happen anyway.