The Monday Read
No Snow Edition This is the first time I have written the Monday Read on Monday for at least a couple of years 🙂 We were supposed to go to Appi this weekend and stay a couple of nights. My wife had booked us a ski pack and a couple of nights at the big […]
The Monday Read
Winter Edition I got the oil heater out today so winter has officially started. How are things where you live? The Forum The Forum is doing well (17,832 posts to date). Here are the latest active threads: This week’s books I’m really enjoying The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s near-future SF/ecological […]
The Monday Read
Not Bad Edition Well, we had the conference last week. Did you go? Apparently it was pretty good! It was a long day for me, but when I got home this was waiting so all was good with the world ^-^ If you completely missed the conference you can see the content here, and there […]
The Monday Read
It’s the First Conference Edition The conference is on Tuesday and if you haven’t signed up yet (why would you not have signed up yet?) you have until Monday afternoon or until we hit 500 people (we’re on 425 now) to do so. Organising this conference has been a great experience so far (fingers crossed […]
The Monday Read
COP26 Edition More like COPOUT26, amirite? Very disappointing. Film I saw The Laundromat this week. It was trying very much to be The Big Short (which is excellent), but kind of failed to hit the same notes of interest/humour. The main problem is that the story is a bit too big and abstract to work […]
The Monday Read
Gratitude Edition Allegedly the Buddha said: “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. Well, I am not a student but I feel like something similar happened last month when a RetireJapan reader got in touch and offered to help with the conference (more details below). He had noticed that I was doing it […]
The Monday Read
Halloween Edition Woooh! Happy Halloween. My wife’s school finished Halloween classes on Thursday, so I am enjoying not having to dress up any more. Tonight I shall be staying home and maybe doing some rowing. Wild times. Very pleased to see one of my favourite Twitter trends is back: ＃地味ハロウイン (understated Halloween). Some of the […]
The Monday Read
It’s All Good Edition The weather is weird (freezing yesterday, lovely and warm today). I am busy, yet work still keeps piling up. I only have five paychecks left. Body is still messed up. But life is good. It’s important to remind yourself of the good things. I enjoy my work. I have no money […]
The Monday Read
Where did Autumn Go Edition Well, it’s actually cold today. Felt like I wanted my woolen hat. And a couple of days ago it was 29 degrees in Sendai. It’s getting hard to keep up with the temperature swings. Saw Dune on Friday. It was good! I’m a bit of a fan, so I was […]
The Monday Read
The Mountains Look Nice Edition Last week I went to Mount Kurikoma with my wife. Unfortunately, half of Japan had the same idea… apparently it’s one of the best places to see the autumn foliage, and we went bang slap in the middle of the ten days or so when the leaves are perfect. We […]