Longest Voyage

A fun gap that shows up when you’re in a relationship with someone with a different cultural background from yourself is how you relate information.

I think we’re far enough into September that I won’t jinx myself by saying: summer here wasn’t bad.

I came across a video from Jared Henderson on an online sentiment that new books are not as good as the old ones.

There’s something about knowledge and understanding that is fascinating.

I got an email this week from my online Japanese school that I’ve been learning from for the last 4 or so years.

I recently started an oil painting class.

Heads up: rambling related to LLMs On some weekends, some of my siblings are hanging out on discord so I am able to see them on and message them.

It’s starting to get back into warmer temperatures here already.

We bought this little book of cafes in our region.

At some point I made this mental connection that tummy rumbling sounds kinda like a frog.

I woke up unmoving for a while.

I flew back home for Thanksgiving.

The weather cooling down has been fantastic, but we are in the next season.

Some of my family came to visit.

“They just say that because they want it all to themselves.”

I wrote at the end of last year about doing some cleanup on my feeds.

Lots of discussions about social media going on lately.

Taking the new year holiday to try and prepare for the upcoming year.

Phew, made it to the end of the year!

The end of Summer is so close.

Been having a lot of moments lately where I sit down to do something creative and I can’t manage to get anything down.

Wrote this and realized it fits well in this months IndieWeb Carnival.

Going to talk about the Lord of the Rings books and Moonbound by Robin Sloan.

When you’re learning a foreign language.

Golden week finished up a few weeks ago.

I am a pretty big fan of working from home.

Trying to keep on the reading, writing, and painting focus for the year.

This is my IndieWeb Carnival post.

During the holidays my uncle slipped while ice skating and Christmas eve a hospital trip.

Arrived back in Japan after a quick holiday trip to the US.

Train line near Kichijoji Winnie and her partner have been making their way through Japan.

The western corner of Tokyo feels nothing like the concrete sprawl of its city.

We finally had a day that wasn’t miserably hot.

Few years ago1, I would be really quick to join any community that seemed even remotely interesting.

At some point I became a morning person.

I came across a blog post highlighting a Japanese watercolor painter, Yoko Tada, who is getting a collection of works published.

This will probably be scattered and uninteresting, but I wanted to write about a few things since it’s been a portion of my time this last year or so.

At the beginning of May, Japan has a string of holidays that cluster together.

There’s something about the cold air at night in Tokyo.

Winter felt like it came late this year.

In November, I visited back home for the first time in nearly three years.

Writing’s great.