jeff noel – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Doubtful, home

social security application confirmation — This is such a remarkable milestone, here’s a second “completed” photo.

Doubtful there will ever be a desire to lower our standards.

What standards?

The ones we have for the community we live in.

Between the Orange County Code Enforcement guidelines and our Property Owners Association’s specific, uncomplicated, and modest requirements, the standards (when enforced) are all anyone needs to live peacefully. Respectfully.

Doubtful any community will ever see 100% respect and compliance.

Note: We have long been planning for a creative middle-ground. Life is good, even when it’s not excellent. Thank you Universe.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

i knew them all

head in the sand mural on wall — Sometimes life overwhelms our home life…our job is to mitigate this each time it happens.

i knew them all…

Every one of our Property Owners Association residents…

Ever.

i’ve known them all.

Starting with the original ‘settlers’ (pre-1990)…

Abney, Vercammen, Rennells, Powell, Spore, Donkel, Renaldo, Nguyen (?, the ‘farmers’ with the pond).

And everyone since 1990.

We have always been a lowkey, pleasant community.

State Road 535 widened from two to four lanes between 2008-2011.

Either side of 2015 the future caught up with our community and we never collectively rallied around proactive, modern-day thinking.

The pressures of an attractive location near Walt Disney World, plenty of new housing and new infrastructure, year-round palm trees and sunshine, plus a never-ending exposure to global tourists….

Tension.

Ambition.

Fear.

It’s tested and grown my creativity, resolve, and optimism.

We will flourish again. Sooner rather than later.

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Balance is not a myth

space mountain and lots of orange traffic cones — World Drive is the main street in our hometown, which hosts big time running events. Couple days ago…the 2026 Walt Disney World Marathon.

Tomorrow i have a podiatrist appointment and later a massage.

Feet, joints, ligaments, tendons, legs.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Haven’t ‘jogged’ since last Wednesday, a week ago.

Started to jog five days ago last Friday but developed a left-calf ‘cramp’. so i immediately stopped. Been on daily ice, rest, ibuprofen.

Podiatrist appointment is unrelated to running, this time anyway.

The massage is me trying to use up accumulated, unused monthly auto-paid credits.

Gonna ask Charlene what she feels in that left calf.

Hoping it’s nothing and then i’m back to the slow and steady return to running.

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Fire and Ash, home

fire and ash credits screenshot — Movie credits screen shot.

We both enjoyed this Avatar franchise movie.

Not gonna lie, had no idea it was decently-over three hours long.

Note: Didn’t do any advance research. Went in thinking it would be a typical movie, 90-120 minutes. So, 180-200 minutes (197 minutes) (specifically three-hours, 17-minutes long) was unexpected. Totally recommend it.

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Blogging world record, home

wordpress archived posts screenshot — JeffNoel.com “archived blogs” widget showing earliest posts began March 2009. Securing this .com URL was a miracle i prayed for and didn’t expect.

Currently sitting on over 31,000 blog posts.

Well past the official world record.

How do i feel about it?

Great.

A few things about world records:

No one cares.
No one knows.
Why would i care? i don’t.
“Bragging rights” are literally worthless, by the way.

There’s a time and a place for certain world records. Totally see that.

What is the most fun is that i write simply because i enjoy it and cannot help myself.

The growth from many aspects of five-blogs-a-day daily blogging is indescribable.

Probably could describe it but feel no need at this point.

.hpm

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