The Monday Read
The Olympics edition Well, I’m not a fan of holding the Olympics this year. I read somewhere that the IOC was okay with postponing the games for two years, but Abe wanted to have it this year. Then he ran away from the mess he made (again). I don’t think there is a major problem […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Best Rainy Season Ever I am loving the weather this week. Warm, dry, sunny, fun playful kind of wind. Spent the whole week trying to find excuses to get out in the sun and get my vitamin D in. Long may it continue! Encouragingly, vaccinations in Japan seem to be picking up. They have […]
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Vaccination fun week Vaccination reservations for the over-65s in Sendai started last Monday, so my wife is getting very stressed trying to book appointments for her parents (in their 80s). So far no luck. Rather than the central government or local governments organising bookings, seems like it has been delegated all the way down to […]
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Die With Zero edition Seems like everyone and their dog read Die With Zero this week. I did too! So we’ll be doing a full review on the blog next week. Spoiler: I thought it wasn’t a particularly good book, but found immense value in it. I also managed to write a few blog posts […]
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Rainy season??? Well, it’s only early May, and yet here in Sendai it is getting unseasonably humid. Hopefully it’s just a temporary thing rather than an acceleration of the seasons! Seems like the Japanese government is getting a bit worried about how the general public views their vaccination efforts so far and things seem to […]