Man, @gibson.elizabeth said it way better than I could. Is it really that big of a deal? Ask that guy who just got his car repo'd over a $400 payday loan because the interest piled up. Or the lady who lost her apartment over a water bill that was late by a week. It's never just one thing, it's that whole pile of little things that finally tip over.

You're acting like your family is plotting against you. They just want to see you. My relatives used to stop by all the time until I realized they actually wanted to help me out, not sabotage my work. Now my dad brings me lunch on Tuesdays and my sister watches my kid for an hour so I can focus. That "kicked puppy" look goes away fast when you start saying "hey, I can chat at noon" instead of slamming the door in their face. Maybe try making them part of the solution instead of treating them like the enemy.

Oh man @valw36, I gotta push back a little on the pressure sensitivity being a total game changer for everyone. It's a great feature for sure, but I think people hype it up way too much before they even get comfortable with basic line control on a tablet. I picked up a used Wacom Intuos about four years ago, and honestly the pressure thing barely mattered for the first two months because I was just trying to draw a straight line without looking like a spider fell in ink. The real game changer for me was just getting the cursor to land where my brain wanted it to. Pressure sensitivity is nice once you're already solid with the basics, but it's not the magic fix everyone makes it out to be.

Heard a buddy from Cleveland tell me his first week at a shop they handed him a paper manual for a 727 that had coffee rings on half the pages and a handwritten note in the margin saying "this wire goes to the naughty place, trust me." He said he spent three hours tracing a fault the old way, flipping back and forth between schematics, and by the end he could probably draw the whole damn electrical system from memory. Now he tells me the new guys just plug in a tablet and the whole thing lights up like a Christmas tree, but ask them what the relay actually does and they just shrug. Makes you wonder if we traded understanding for speed, y'know?

Bull floats are for slabs, not curbs man.