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Farewell to Frost

We are into season 2 of WoW's Midnight expansion and I'm finally benching my Frost Mage. What can I say, I'm stubborn and my mage has been Frost spec long before Frost was cool. Frost Mage has been controversial in the most recent expansion. Sometimes the damage is...

Blaugust 2026 Wrap Up: Meeting My Goals

My participation in this year's festival was never about doing a daily blog post. There are several participants who did hit that milestone and I will edit this post later to share the stats that are being gathered from the participants. My plan this time around was...

Blaugust 2026: Lessons Learned Group Project

I had it in mind that the final group project was August 31st rather than August 30th. A day late is about par for the course for me this month. August went by FREAKY-fast this year. I will post separately about my overall goals for this year's festival. For this...

Blaugust Staying Motivated Week

Motivation, goals, achievements... all things that gurus tell us we should have, track and celebrate. For today's group project, rather than a non-blogging achievement that I'm especially proud of, I'm going to write about an achievement tied to having a goal, and...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects – Blind Choice

This topic idea from Lucky Instar's blog can be done at any time during Blaugust. "Announcing a group project called Blind Choice - to introduce a bit of randomness to your blogging adventure. Also writing about my own entry for it, which ended up being about weird...

Blaugust 2026 Group Projects: Dungeon Crawler Carl Achievements

(Note, there are some spoilers in this post if you haven't read past book 4 in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books)Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl books have become very popular in the past few months. I've seen ttrpg games based on them and talk of making a TV...

Life Comes At You Fast

Aug 1, 2026

The best laid plans... Leaving on a jet plane... This isn't how I wanted to kick off the first day of Blaugust, but life has a way of tipping over the table. Start your engines, meet you at the finish line and best of luck to everyone who is starting this journey...

Catching Up: The Games Version

Jul 29, 2026

The past several months have been strange as far as my gaming habits are concerned. I've always been a bit of a completionist. I rarely stop reading a book I've started. I usually try to play through at least the main story quests of my games. But something has...

Blaugust Continues – Sign Up Info and Background for 2026

Jul 15, 2026

I'm sure most of you who see my blog posts are already aware of the continuation of the August blogging festival fondly known as Blaugust, despite the loss of the original founder. I don't want this to be a cause for sadness, so I will only say this much. I'm sure...

Digital Neighbors – Saying Farewell to Belghast

Jul 5, 2026

Grief is a strange thing. Sometimes it is a gentle ache while others is hits hard and unexpectedly and tears flow. Sometimes it passes quickly, only to hit again over little remembrances even years later. I learned of the passing of Belghast (Mark Temple) a couple of...

Just a Little Nod to Blaugust 2025

Aug 4, 2025

It is Blaugust time, the August festival of blogging. This initiative was started many years ago by Belghast. For 2025, it is up and running again thanks to a wonderful community of bloggers who stepped up to help out. You can read a bit about the change in organizers...

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

Apr 18, 2025

Time Keeps on Slipping...It is a bit shocking to realize that I didn't blog at all in 2024. How did I let an entire year go by without writing anything at all?! Life Goes OnHave a cute dog pic as an apology No, I didn't spend my year curled up on a blanket, although...

Gaming Into the End of 2023

Dec 31, 2023

My pace of blog posts has certainly slowed toward the end of this year. I've been playing games, just nothing that inspires tips and tricks posts, or exciting experiences to talk about. As we end the year, I thought I'd at least wrap up with a few thoughts about what...

Starfield is Just a Good Not Great Game

Oct 9, 2023

Starfield is a pretty good game and one I can enjoy, but it is ONLY a pretty good game. It has missed the mark of being a great game. I came to the realization that they structured the game expecting us to play it again on a New Game plus mode, but I don't think I'll...

Starfield Tip Assigning Crew to Outposts

Sep 10, 2023

I'm writing a quick post to provide a tip on how to assign a crew member to an outpost in Starfield. Let's say you recruit a crew member who has the Outpost Management skill, so you build an outpost so she has something to manage. Here is what I had to do in order to...