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If you are going to schedule a 5am flight, it feels like you should open baggage check and security before 4am.

What I’d Tell Someone Starting in Accounting Today The technical skills matter. Learn them well. But they’re table stakes. Here’s what actually determines whether a career in accounting works for you — and what nobody tells you when you…

And my personal blog post for the week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/w...

Let’s focus on the important stuff, like should we bomb Italy since they didn’t use Kid Rock for the Opening Ceremonies?

Being Useful Without A Title There’s a quiet strangeness to being useful without anyone officially noticing. No one sends a Slack message thanking you for keeping the household running smoothly while also managing a move…

A new blog post for the week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/b...

The Myth of Stability We talk about career paths like they’re hiking trails: well-marked, maintained, leading somewhere predictable. Choose accounting, law, medicine, or engineering. Work hard, build expertise, cl…

A blog post for this week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/t...

What The Resume Never Captured I’ve been thinking lately about all the things a resume doesn’t say. Not the hobbies-and-interests section that nobody reads, but the real substance of what thirty-five years in account…

My persona blog post for the week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/w...

My 2025 in Books I’m finishing 2025 fairly pleased with how much I was able to read this year. I finished a grand total of 24 books, although I have two in progress that I should finish relatively early in 20…

A blog update: my year in books: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/m...

I think that spot where the Bexley Art Theater was is a Chipotle now!

Measuring Success When The Metrics Disappear For twenty-plus years, I knew exactly how I was doing. There were performance reviews, quarterly targets, annual raises that told me in precise terms whether I was succeeding or falling short. The …

A personal blog update: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/m...

Looking Back at a Profession that Changed This week, I’m going to shift the discussion from general considerations of my new personal situation to a bit of reflection on the profession I grew up in and loved. When I first chose accou…

A look back on my chosen profession (maybe this should have been a LinkedIn post...LOL) musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/l...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

- Grizzly bear
- Coyote
- Moose
- Dolphin
- Manatee

I’d help, but she generally refuses to let me do anything other than review texts and e-mails that she’s sending. She refused to even include me in text groups of the various volunteers. So that’s my personal insanity this Thanksgiving!

My wife is going to work herself into the hospital because no one is stepping up to help organize a very large meet that we host in about 10 days - 1,000 athletes and probably 1,800 spectators. Not a great situation to be in for someone with an autoimmune condition.

Our high school swim team is a parent-led, parent-run and parent-funded organization. The school literally doesn’t even pay the coaches - we have to. The problem with volunteer situations like this is it often falls on just a couple of people to step up and lead if no one else is willing to.

The Quiet Work of Moving On There is nothing quiet about decluttering, at least not at first. It starts with the obvious things: the closets that have not been opened in a year, the drawer full of takeout menus you never use,…

Adventures in decluttering! musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/t...

What It Means To Support Someone Else’s Dream There is a moment in parenting when you realize that your job is starting to change. It sneaks up on you slowly. One day, you are shuttling your kids to practices and reminding them about homework,…

A new weekly blog post about supporting your kids: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/w...

When Volunteering Becomes a Second Job There’s a certain irony in volunteering. You start out wanting to help. You sign up for something small, maybe to lend a hand at a fundraiser or organize a team dinner. Before long, you’re buried i…

A new personal weekly blog post, where I get a bit whiny about volunteering: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...

I've seen it used it in the context of basically walking around the pool during warm ups to make sure the swimmers warming up before the meet don't do anything stupid. So kind of like an exam proctor, I suppose.

Now that’s a word you don’t see often. Believe it or not, I’ve personally seen it used most in the context of officiating a swim meet.

Sadly, yes. Thought because it is effectively a NY suburb that he should be able to vote.

Rich Friend: my polling place wouldn’t even let me vote for Cuomo. Total election fraud.
Me: you live in Connecticut, dipshit

Zooming Out: What This Year Has Taught Me About Priorities If you had told me a year ago how much would change, I’m not sure I would have believed you. Jobs, plans, routines, even assumptions about what the next few years would look like have all shifted i…

A personal blog update: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/z...

I feel like “don’t be a dick” could be a perfectly fine foreign policy doctrine.

I mean, the IQ test was super easy and AOC would never pass it. Except, that’s not an elephant, it’s a rhinoceros, and that’s not a giraffe, it’s a camel, but I’m sure question #25 probably went fine.

My heart goes out to the people of Jamaica. Please stay safe.

Note that very little of it actually works in the real world, but as long as we can get AI to generate content pumping how awesome AI is, maybe no one will notice.

I love all the AI-generated "insight" about how to use "Gen-AI" to make everything fully autonomous and streamlined and buzzword this, buzzword that.

It would loosely translate to something like "Leftover avoidance guilty-feeling eating duty"

I think this is what you are looking for: Restevermeidungsschuldgefühlessenpflicht

Unmooring from Work: Identity After a Job Loss When your job ends, it’s strange how quiet everything gets. For years, your days are built around the rhythm of meetings, deadlines, and the steady flow of people and tasks that fill the calendar. …

FIguring things out without work, my blog update for the week: musingsoverpintsandcoffee.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/u...