The Monday Read
Going snowboarding edition Well, it’s snow season but there isn’t any snow. Hoping to go to Appi next week with my granddaughter, so hopefully we’ll get a bit more by then. I’m sure it’s completely fine that it isn’t cold in January in Sendai. This week’s links This seems a bit harsh, although it seems […]
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Kind of mild this year edition What happened to January? There is no snow here in Miyagi and I am recklessly strolling around with no hat, gloves, or even coat at times. This would not be possible under normal circumstances. Oh, well. I’m sure everything is completely fine. Here are this week’s links Of course […]
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Happier New Year edition How was your New Year’s break? Hopefully you had one, and it was restful and enjoyable. We went to the in-laws’, watched kohaku, and ate and drank a bit too much. All good. I was also awarded my blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu last week -quite a big deal. Took me […]
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Happy New Year edition Well, that’s the end of 2019 (and the decade, depending on how you measure it). Hope it was a good one for you 🙂 Our next blog post will be planning 2020: hope you’ll join us for the ride. This week’s links New blog post by Tim Ferriss (he mostly does […]
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Christmas dinner edition Was putting this post together while cooking Christmas dinner this week. Not sure the multi-tasking helped either of those, but the dinner was one of the best I have ever done, and I’ll let you be the judge of how this post comes out 🙂 This week’s links Very interesting salary information: […]
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Welcome to the Jungle edition Sorry, I’ve been listening to lots of Guns N’ Roses this week 🙂 This week we’ll do the last blog post of the year: our annual roundup post. Otanoshimi! This week’s links I am really enjoying the photography on this blog: outdooradventure.jp Hmmm: Japan’s banks charging more fees to cover […]
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Advent Calendar Edition We’ll be doing the annual progress reports again this year, and instead of breaking them into multiple posts we’ll just do one long one including all the information. Let me know what you think of the new format! In other news it seems like the government is going to extend ordinary NISA […]
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Bonenkai season edition Too soon? Had to book a bonenkai the other day, so that is it, the year is officially over. I did our end of year financial spreadsheet the other day. To my surprise, our family net worth seems to have gone up by more than twice my annual salary over the last […]
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Unseasonably warm edition It was so warm this morning I had to strip down to my t-shirt walking my granddaughter to school. Eeek. The future is… disturbing. In more cheerful news Kitakyushu JALT will be hosting a RetireJapan lecture on March 21st (more details when we have them). I’m also hoping to organise a longer […]
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Six weeks left of the year edition This one kind of crept up on me. 2019 is almost over! Not really sure what kind of year it has been. Not a spectacular one, for sure. No crowning achievements or anything like that. If anything a year of steady progress towards goals, with a couple of […]