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Busier than ever Edition Coming up to being unemployed, my wife’s school is (for the third year in a row) getting a lot fewer trial bookings/enquiries than usual, and yet I find myself busier than ever. Methinks this might be an internal problem. You will mainly notice it in the lack of blog posts and […]
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Boosted Edition I received my voucher for the third (booster) vaccination at the start of this month. I kind of assumed I would need to wait for my employer to organise the vaccinations, but last Wednesday a friend mentioned they had gotten their shot a few days before so I went back and actually read […]
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Snowboarding Edition I went snowboarding last weekend with my wife and granddaughter, for the first time in two years (the last time was in Feb 2020, just as Covid was getting started). We stayed at Appi again (the main hotel there was just bought by IHG, so I was able to use some of my […]
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Health Reboot Take 7 Edition I am once again planning to make some lifestyle changes to work on my health. Long term readers will remember this movie from the last six times it showed 😉 Basically the last couple of years have not been good for my physical health, and the last couple of months […]
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Extremely Busy Edition Really busy this month for some reason. It’s like the stars aligned in order to line up tasks I need to complete. Not complaining, mind you, most of it is interesting or necessary, and much of it is self-inflicted! Email newsletter I subscribe to a lot of email newsletters, but James Clear’s […]
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Tsunami Warning Edition Well, that was exciting. Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning we got the tsunami alerts on our phones, and the sirens outside started up. The 3-11 tsunami actually reached our manshon building, but it was only a few centimeters high at that point (we are several kilometers from the coast). Fortunately there doesn’t […]
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Carefully Optimistic Edition Well, omicron is exploding in Japan, but I am cautiously optimistic this time. My guess is that we will see huge numbers of cases (and many times that number of undetected cases) but fewer hospitalizations and deaths. I am not expecting it to affect my wife’s business this time round. Fingers crossed […]
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Year of the Tiger Edition Happy New Year! Can’t believe it’s 2021 already… 😉 What will year 3 of the pandemic have in store for us? Hopefully more tapering and fewer seismic shocks. I’ll be doing a planning post soon, but just quickly my primary goal for 2022 is better time management, and my secondary […]
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Happy Holidays Edition Merry Christmas and all that 🙂 I cooked Christmas dinner again this year, and for the first time everything went so smoothly I had the chance to live-tweet it. If you’re really bored you may care to check it out (lots of photos). About as interesting as my hospital food post… Speaking […]
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Back to Mac Edition I’m leaving my job at the end of March (is that how you say getting fired without saying getting fired?) and all my computers are from work so I have to give them back. Looking at options the new Mac machines seemed like a good fit/value so I picked up a […]