As another week moves along and the days pile up, I'm feeling like I never went on that two year plus hiatus from HIVE. I have some regrets because I was on this platform for five years straight without missing a day. I felt at home here.
Why did I quit? Yes, let's face it; I did.
It wasn't because of the value of HIVE not increasing to the levels that we are always hoping for, but the vibe was shifting. Being on LEO kind of changed things. It was my fault. I never wanted to go all in on LEO because I always felt like a fish out of water there.
Then things changed because they added threads and I was all in at that point then all the DEX stuff came into play and all that stuff just went over my head. With all that said, 
I come back and Taskmaster is no longer on HIVE, but thankfully Jongo is although he is no longer over at LEO so I guess that I don't feel so bad I gave up lol.
I powered down left and right.
BUT I did leave a little powered up HIVE. It was almost like real deep in my gut I knew I would be back.
Some of the reasons I love it here is the freedoms we have and I won't like I'm still on X and other social media platforms but none of them really don't feel like home.
I came back with less expectations on the monetary side and more about rebuilding my place in some of the communities on the platform but I have intentions of going all in on so many like I did during those five years.
I spend most of my time on 
I love watching sports so being able to have these apps to post about it and do snap-casts is making me so happy I came back. Not to mention Jongo is back more than towards the end before I left. Jongo made some moves he had to make for his family and himself so he wasn't around when I stepped away.
I was gutted when I found out Task wasn't here any longer.
For those who don't know, Jon Olson is the reason I joined HIVE and way back in the day I was a member of his programs in the online marketing world so I already had a trust factor with him and I continued to follow him on X and Facebook regardless if I was no longer active where ever he was at.
As far as HIVE power and all that good stuff, I am basically starting from scratch but hey I do have over 2000 HP. Back when I joined HIVE initially I started with zero at least I came back with some and I've added the last few weeks.
Goals? Just taking it a day at a time. Reaching 5000 would be my first target.
When I was debating on what I'm going to do to set myself up for some future moves as my wife and I prepare to relocate to Tennessee in a few years and the fact that I've reach age 60 I want to be viable in the workforce but also make some extra scratch on the side, I had the following back and forth and here is part of that:
"Now Hive — I'm not going to pretend I know that world like you do. Five years there, people you care about, and you went back after two years away — that's home, not just a platform. I respect that. But here's the honest question, and I think you already feel it: is Hive the income plan for Tennessee, or is it home — with the income plan still to be written? With the token price where it is, those are two very different things, and it's okay if the answer is "it's home."
Because the Tennessee goal still needs an engine, and Data Annotation is still sitting there — the most direct "judged on output, not age" money of everything we've looked at. It doesn't have to compete with Hive. Home and income are allowed to be two different places.
So — what do you want Hive to be?
I answered "HOME"
"Good. That's a clear answer, and it settles a lot.
Hive is home — you go there for your people, no pressure for it to pay the bills."
In a nutshell my friends, in a nutshell.
Glad I'm back home.