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When the Ground Shifts: Learning to Stay Flexible Life has a funny way of testing how tightly we cling to our plans. I’ve always believed in having a direction, a loose map at least, but lately it feels like the universe has been reminding me that…

Some significant life events in the Lloyd household lately, a blog update: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/w...

I’m sorry man. That definitely sucks.

I mean, maybe not there. Seems to be happening a lot here.

I used to love watching that with my kids. That's a pretty solid cosplay!

Wait did they seriously schedule the rapture on Rosh Hashanah

Redefining Retirement For most of my life, the word “retirement” carried a simple image. You worked until a certain age, collected a gold watch and a farewell dinner, and then stepped into a quieter life of golf courses…

Decided to bang out the personal blog post a day earlier this time: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/r...

You can actually find Cunk on Earth on Netflix!

The Geography of Change We like to think of change as a matter of time, stages of life, seasons, milestones marked on a calendar. But I’ve come to realize that change is just as much about geography. Where we are, and whe…

I'm continuing the trend of doing a personal blog post update each week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/t...

I think it’s actually from Cunk on Earth. But yes - the actual scene. Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk is hysterical. There are several different mocumentary type series that she’s done. It started out as a character on the UK show Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe on BBC Two.

in 2019 i wrote a piece that was like "uhhh world of warcraft has a world-ending threat every year in its timeline? pretty improbable lol!!!" and I would just like to say: I'm sorry for that particular take. History has humbled me there

We’re all peons, my friend.

Did not have this on my bingo card for today. Wow.

DON’T BE UPSET DAT SOMEONE HAS CHOSEN YOUS FOR DEY ENEMY.

BE HONORED DAT YOUS STAND FOR SOMETHING DEY FEAR.

WHEN BAD PEEPLES ANGRY AT US, WE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

The death of the corporate job. Last week, I had coffee with someone who works at a big consulting firm.

Yeah, this Substack post may be the perfect reflection of my feelings about my career at this point: thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I’m not the biggest fan of water polo as a thing for my youngest to be doing, but it does make for some cool action shots.

When Is It Time to Leave the Table There’s a moment in every long card game when you realize you’re no longer playing to win — you’re playing not to lose. The chips in front of you may look fine, but the energy, the excitement, and …

I decided to dust off my very old and seldom-used personal blog and start writing some stuff there. musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/w...

So just show up to CVS, lit cigarette in hand?

It's too late for me Kylie! Save yourself!

Not sure there is anyway to avoid those. It just seems to automatically dump them on you.

Maybe it's just me, but whenever I get one of these fundraising spam e-mails from Blue Vision, my first reaction is always that it's something about our insurance for glasses and contact lenses.

I didn’t know that wasn’t a thing anymore. My kids used to love that parade.

The latest update on Warcraft leveling: wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2025/05/slow...

I wonder if we could get more done if we started with the idea that a budget is a spreadsheet, with revenues and expenses, ideally comparing the plan for the coming year to actuals from the last couple of years. Not a 1,116 page word document.

RIP, Norm.

Missed a Month: Updates on WoW and ESO I missed posting on my blog for an entire month.  The sad thing is, it wasn't a particularly busy month for me personally; I just didn't fee...

I somehow missed posting anything to my blog for the entire month of April. Shame on me! wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2025/05/miss...

Working fine for me.

Now for the hard part of leveling my alt army: wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2025/03/movi...

Just hid from a neighbor who was trying to talk to me because defense wins championships

Why is it back to being below freezing?

We live in Dublin, Ohio, and I’m not sure why St. Patrick’s Day has turned in to a four day event, but here we are. If you were looking for an excuse to go on a four day bender, Ohio might be for you.