The Monday Read
Jet Lag Edition Finally got over the jet lag. I swear it is getting worse as I get older. In my 20s I barely noticed jet lag. In my 30s it took me a couple of days to get over it and I was pretty much functional. Now at 45 it took at least a […]
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Don’t Miss Two in a Row Edition My apologies for missing last week’s Monday Read. The international date line was to blame, not me 😉 We made it back into Japan and it was surprisingly easy to enter with the MySOS app and the new procedures. They kept us on the plane for 30 minutes […]
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Oh Canada Edition Well, it seems like I’m in Canada, eh? First time here, we started with a couple of days in Vancouver. Lovely city, and we had incredible weather while we were there. Next up is Calgary, then Toronto. YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. We published a video […]
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Heading Overseas Edition Heading to Canada this week at short notice, so I had to look into entry restrictions in Canada (none as of October 1st) and Japan. Spent a couple of hours today trying to find, download, and fill in the MySOS app. Is it just me, or is the whole thing a prime […]
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AI Edition I’ve been playing with Dall-E (they opened it up to anyone last week) and it is kind of fun. It seems some of the writing AIs are pretty good too. Interesting to see where this ends up. Microblog Sent the first microblog entries (a bumper edition for most of September) to people with […]
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Praying to the Gods for Money yet again Edition This weekend my wife and I are back at Kinkasan off the coast of Miyagi, at the Koganeyama Shrine. Legend (or, more likely, the priests at the shrine) say that if you attend the annual ceremony three times in a row you will never want for […]
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Typhoon Edition I hope everyone is safe out there. The typhoon looks pretty gnarly! YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. New content coming soon. Maybe. The Forum The Forum is doing well (23,490 posts so far). Here are the latest active threads: This week’s books Finished Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. […]
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Course Launch Edition This week was the first session of the RetireJapan online course, Your First Ten Million Yen. The course sold out in just a couple of days this time, which was amazing. We’ll be doing another one in January (just in time for all those new year resolutions) so if you are interested […]
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Intermittent Fasting and Cold Showers Edition Regular readers will be amused that I am still trying to find some gimmick to make myself healthier. My wife’s been taking cold showers for a couple of years now, but I thought that was a bit extreme for me and not something I had the willpower for. I’ve […]
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Getting Things Done Edition Now that I am no longer working full-time (or unemployed, as my wife puts it) I am finding I have so much more energy and motivation to do things. Just finished writing the 2022 edition of The RetireJapan Guide to NISA. It is 50% longer than the previous version, and well […]