The Monday Read
Damn it’s rainy edition More climate change, no doubt. Tell me about the rains on your homeworld, Usul. I’m writing some books at the moment (non-finance related) so this Monday Read is a bit… bare bones. My apologies! The forum Forum is looking good again this week! This week’s links Interesting little story about prisoners […]
The Monday Read
Climate Madness Edition I’ve always been somewhat concerned about climate change and environmental issues, but it seems to be accelerating recently even faster than I imagined. One of my daughters lives in Vancouver, which made the whole ‘heat dome’ thing much more real, and then we have the rain/landslides in Japan this week. I wonder […]
Planning 3
Plan Harder Four years ago I wrote a couple of posts about planning (Planning, Planning 2). It was really interesting to go back and reread them. Let’s take another look at the questions and see what kind of progress we’ve made in that time. Two big changes: I started doing jiu-jitsu just over three years […]
The Monday Read
Back in white edition I saw my doctor on Friday and got permission to go back to jiu-jitsu class. Nature is healing 😀 In other fitness news, I’m loving my rowing machine. Got up to 5 x 1500m every other day so far, hoping to get to 5 x 2000m every day eventually. The key […]
Share your portfolio
Lots of ideas There was a really interesting thread on the Forum this week with the title share your portfolio. I was going to reply there but then I figured if I was going to do the work of writing up my portfolio I might as well get a blog post of out it 😉 […]
Income in Retirement
Wake up, Neo I was talking to a coaching client recently and going over their current projected income in retirement from nenkin and other sources. There was a brief pause, then the client said “That’s not very much, is it?”. I was forced to agree. It really wasn’t very much, especially compared to their current […]
The Monday Read
Rainy Season Edition Seems like the rainy season hit Sendai over the weekend. Recently we’ve had really long, cool rainy seasons up here. We’ll see how long it lasts this year! I got up to 5*1000m on the rowing machine this week. Remarkeably easy to do while watching a film. This was a good purchase. […]
Covid-19 Vaccination in Japan
Well, I was not expecting this, but I had my first shot of the Moderna vaccine through my employer on Wednesday. This post is going to describe that experience in the hope that it will be useful/interesting for people in Japan who are hoping to get vaccinated soon. Routes to vaccination As far as I […]
The Monday Read
This and that A busy week, but a good one. I’ve been busy with work but I’m enjoying the weather, being active, keeping up with my physio exercises, and got a new toy. Basically running outside hurts my knees if I overdo it, and exercising in a mask in summer is miserable. As a visible […]
The Monday Read
So far so good Well, it’s kind of sort of might be rainy season now. The air is definitely getting more humid, and the other day I had my first unpleasant reminder of how not fun masks + heat + humidity are. Really wasn’t expecting a second summer all masked up! Hopefully there won’t be […]