First off, how’s that category title when it comes to originality?
Blog stuff…
Only a genius could come up with that.
Ps. That last sentence made me laugh when i immediately thought of writing it in this post. Then, nearly as immediate, i thought it was dumb. Finally, it was an easy decision: Keep it and see if it makes you laugh again on the day this post publishes (March 17, 2026, btw).
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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.
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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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.
Secured this domain name in March 2009. Just weeks before April Fools’ Day. Can you imagine that? Previously, a State Farm Agent owned JeffNoel.com. He let it expire and 60 days later, March 2009, i secured it.
Finland, Summer 2009 (Senior Olympics). At the top of the tallest Lahti ski jump, pictured next…
Lahti, Finland’s world famous ski jump ramps (Summer 2009).
Early days screen shot for Mid Life Celebration, LLC. So amateur.
1. Mind 2. Body 3. Spirit 4. Money (work) 5. HQ (home)
Mind, Body. Spirit. Money (work). HQ (home). HQ is the large square outlining the other four squares. Ps. Used our son’s crayons to create the squares.
The website header photo is of airport merchandise shop cash register display of small stones.
Slow and steady evolution. Been evolving since 2008.
Three-week countdown, home…
At home, it’s literally impossible to comprehend the daily blogging effort.
Daily blogging began as a 100-day, self-imposed writer’s bootcamp.
Challenged myself to write five daily, differently-themed blogs on five different websites.
The goal was simply to gain writing practice before attempting to write my first book.
You wouldn’t commit to running a half marathon and just showing up on race day. No, you would run many miles, for many days and months before race day.
Same concept for the 100-day blogging challenge. Critical to know that prior to April Fools’ Day 2009, my consecutive-day total for publishing five daily blogs was two.
Two consecutive days. Not four. Not even three. Two.
Definitely impossible.
That’s why i intentionally chose April Fools’ Day.
i’d have to be a fool to think i could write 500 blog posts in 100 days.
To say our home life was ‘busy’ is freakishly understated.
Like many of our Disney colleagues, we all were simply trying to live the American dream.
Also like many of our Disney colleagues, we were insanely ambitious and ‘wanted it all’.
So i asked myself, “Why not pile on top of every ‘busy thing’ in your life a 100-day, write-and-publish five daily, differently-themed blog posts?”
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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.
My “Managed WordPress” Hosting account came with 100 GB of data storage. Overnight, I went from less than 100 GB (the limit), to 139 GB. How? Why?
As of yesterday, December 9, 2025, the “optimized” database size has not been reduced.
Meanwhile, from December 5, the second annual Disney (mostly) Resorts executive leadership reunion. Mostly retired folks, but not all. Also, some outliers like me (the lowest ranking Disney Leader) and Cheryl (36 years in HR). Everyone worked with Cheryl at some point, and for generous durations.
Low ranker becomes the photographer. Honored.
Great photographers take multiples of the same thing.
Just keep shooting. And if you can, throw in an “Us-E”.
Faith, Hope, and Love.
People.
Disney.
WordPress.
GoDaddy.
Reunions.
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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.
Lots of reading on how to solve WordPress challenges.
But the trying is the tricky part.
One simple error can crash your site.
This happened to me six days ago.
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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.
