Life Update and thoughts.

FuDDx

United States5013 Posts

January 08 2026 22:36 GMT

Hello fellow Teamliquidians!!

Wow its been a minute .... or 2 years.

I hope life has been treating you well in these crazy and scary times.

Last couple years have been filled with ups and downs and all around here. I do feel thankful my family and I are doing well despite the madness that is our world.

Notable things.

- Started and have finished building a Casita in the back yard for our daughter and her boyfriend to live in now that she has graduated as an OT. This was a huge task that took a year with the wife and I taking the General Contractor role and doing as much work as we could on our own.

-Daughter Grad from OT school with a Doctorate ! Son has Grad from HS and just finished his first semester of college at the UofA

- Gaming events I have done since last blog..
Bangkok dota2 in Dec 2024
Birmingham dota2 event 2024
Shopify Rebellion event Jan 2025
Raleigh Dota2 event in early 2025

- Went to more shows
Atmosphere in Tucson and Red Rocks
Blackflag
Ween
Prof
Sage Francis
Hieroglyphics
Living Legends
Murs
and a few local shows mostly Hip-hop

Still being a slave at the bakery

James beard award winning bakery doing sourdough bread using 9 different locally grown wheat varietals. Random aside... I have never made more than 36k in a year ... ever and the last 10 years or so its been less than that by more than I care to say. For a hard worker that has excelled in all of my many jobs over the years its kind of embarrassing to admit... Though somehow Ive managed to raise two amazing kids and trap an amazing woman!!

What else.. Dreams..... This blog has allowed me to realize one of my biggest dreams getting to bring balloon art to the gaming world and community. And Ive been neglectful of keeping it up to date I am sorry.

I still have the dream of doing this full time. Honestly been feeling stuck on how to make that happen. Live events are so important building community ties and bonding in person is such a healthy and happy thing. It fills me and everyone I get the pleasure of talking to with such joy and hope its beyond words. Maybe TL needs a fulltime event guy who will help set up and manage booths at events and make balloons and tell everyone about what started the greatest Esports team in history... Community !!

This month is 2 years of no longer smoking pot.. Im pretty proud of that. Nothing wrong with it in my mind other than my abuse of it for over 30 years.

Had a scare the other day wife took me to the ER (she thought I might be having Cardiac issues) EKG, Chest xrays, Cat Scan blood work and all seems to be fine. With that scare I have decided to start going to the gym with my wife as well as making some healthier lifestyle changes. So that's exciting

How have you all been?
I hope to see you all sometime down this road...
2026 events so far are just 2 one confirmed the other not

March Birmingham Dota2 event - In works not confirmed
June Cologne for Cathedral of Counterstrike event - confirmed !

Much love to you all!!

FuDDx

Empyrean

17040 Posts

January 09 2026 00:05 GMT

Wow, it's been a while! Images aren't loading for me, but sounds like things have been good overall.

Next time you're in Raleigh, come say hi!

FuDDx

United States5013 Posts

January 09 2026 00:17 GMT

Hey there Empyeran!!
I will for sure!

Not sure why they are not showing... I have such a problem with getting images on to blogs.... I am so much better in person than online lol.. at least I believe that is so.

https://imgur.com/gallery/some-images-tl-blog-flabv4N

Urth

United States1252 Posts

January 09 2026 05:19 GMT

I remember all your balloon stuff, very cool!!

Jealous

10261 Posts

January 09 2026 17:19 GMT

Hey FuDD, thanks for coming back to check in

And congratulations on your sobriety, as well as your kids' accomplishments!

Your comment about pay is really eye-opening. When I was making that kind of money, I was barely surviving as a single person. I can't imagine raising two kids. It's a testament to your ability to make every penny count. I'm sure you are very proud of making it work, and you fully deserve to be. Kudos 👏

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17206 Posts

January 10 2026 00:09 GMT

On January 09 2026 07:36 FuDDx wrote:
I still have the dream of doing this full time. Honestly been feeling stuck on how to make that happen. Live events are so important building community ties and bonding in person is such a healthy and happy thing. It fills me and everyone I get the pleasure of talking to with such joy and hope its beyond words. Maybe TL needs a fulltime event guy who will help set up and manage booths at events and make balloons and tell everyone about what started the greatest Esports team in history... Community !!

gaming outside IRL is 10000X more fun.

On January 09 2026 07:36 FuDDx wrote:
I hope life has been treating you well in these crazy and scary times.

meh, they want everyone scared. scared people are easier to control.

FuDDx

United States5013 Posts

January 18 2026 19:52 GMT

On January 10 2026 02:19 Jealous wrote:
Hey FuDD, thanks for coming back to check in

Thanks man!

And to be clear if not for my wife I would be in a world of hurt. She is the more educated and way better pay(plus insurance) than I have. She is a professor at the University of Arizona.