Joar
Joar@gamepad.club
<p>I'm a father of three boys (only one of whom is still at home) and an avid gamer, playing mostly FFXIV, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls online. I love craft beer, red wine, good books and coffee. I do the finance thing in real life.</p>
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A personal blog post update for this week, talking a bit about stuff I've been reading and more than I plan to. https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/a-twelve-year-reading-plan-with-room-for-dragons/
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My gaming blog post this week: https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/09/loremaster-two-tier-pieces-and-then.html
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Today’s blog post is dedicated to @kevinbrill@gamepad.club #blaugust2026 http://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-i-started-tracking-my-hours-every.html
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Today's personal blog post is a little bit more personal and less retirement transition angst than normal. #blaugust2026 https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/a-grandfather-again/
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Seventeen years of blogging. Blaugust Day 3. #blaugust2026 http://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/08/seventeen-years-of-blogging.html
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For the morning’s post, I talk a little bit about the expansion during which I started playing WoW: The Burning Crusade. #blaugust2026 http://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-burning-crusade.html
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At least getting in a personal blog post this week: https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/whats-worth-building-now/
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And a gaming blog post for the week: https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/07/back-to-playing-little.html
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My personal blog post for this week - can we think about the children? My children I mean. https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/the-questions-your-kids-dont-ask/
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And a personal blog post for this week: https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/what-im-not-optimizing-for-anymore/
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My June month in review is both sad and late: https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/07/june-month-in-review-way-late.html
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Hard to write: https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/07/for-belghast.html
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We closed on the sale of our house yesterday. We still have occupancy until the 31st, but it is nice to have that behind us. The next big milestone is the youngest Joarling’s graduation this Friday the 22nd, followed by his party on the 24th and our move into temporary housing on the 26th.
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I&#39;ve decided to simplify things a bit: https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/05/simplifying-warlock.html
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The official milestones, versus the ones not on the calendar: https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/the-milestones-nobody-mentions/
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Got the youngest Joarling graduated from high school tonight. Not sure what the weird guy in back is doing with our heads.
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Next up, graduation party on Sunday and moving out of our house on Tuesday.
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I have been a bit absent lately because of our move. The movers ended up taking a day longer than expected and aren’t finishing until today, and we still have not fully emptied our house, although getting close. We technically have until Sunday, but I was really hoping to be done by now. Graduation party went fine, although it rained the entire time. We fortunately had enough cover for all 200 people there, but still wasn’t ideal. Ugh. Have literally had zero gaming time for a week.
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Once we get out of the house, we get a short break before we pick up a UHaul on the 7th to load to take the middle Joarling to Boston. I think there’s not going to be much of a break until mid-July at this point.
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Well, we are successfully moved out of our house and into our short-term housing / apartment. The series of moves of the Joarling’s and eventually us begin in a week. In the meantime, there is a ton of crap that we basically just transported to the apartment that needs to be gone through.
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Squeezing out a gaming blog post for the week, even though I haven&#39;t been doing any gaming, and that&#39;s the basic gist of my May month in review! https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/06/may-month-in-review.html
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How do you know when enough is enough? A blog post about money, and how I&#39;m thinking differently about it, approaching retirement. https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-about-money/
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I’ve finally realized that the weekly dungeon quest is not worth the amount of renown it gives relative to other activities. #WorldOfWarcraft
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The middle Joarling graduated from Carnegie Mellon this past weekend, and also got an award for having the top undergraduate research project with two of us swimming teammates. Jensen Huang was the commencement speaker, and I thought he was pretty good. The Joarling seemed less convinced.
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Still getting almost no gaming time, so no gaming blog post this week, but still in with the personal blog! https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/learning-to-be-invisible/
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Let’s be honest, humanity has always been a bit shit.
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And my personal blog for the week. A little bit more of a work reflection post this week. https://musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/what-credentials-actually-signal/
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Hey look! I'm actually posting stuff on my gaming blog again! https://wowaltaddiction.blogspot.com/2026/05/april-month-in-review.html
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I have been using Claude Cowork to help with project management stuff on my move. Figured out this morning that Opus is noticeably better at it than Sonnet.
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Also, they seem happy, so one point for me as a parent.