Post-viral fatigue edition
Man, shingles is a nasty disease. I had no idea how nasty. Visibly I have recovered but I have no energy and life seems really difficult now. Hopefully this too will pass 🙂
In better news we will be heading to Fukuoka and Kitakyushu in March! More details when we have them.
Also looking for more opportunities to do workshops/lectures/seminars. Please get in touch if you have a group that could sponsor or help facilitate one.
This week’s links
- Most of these seem like really bad ideas: Japan’s online brokerages target individual investors with new services in bid for survival
- More on disaster management in Japan. “I do not think that word means what you think it does”: Questions raised over disaster preparedness in wake of Typhoon Hagibis
- 30 years to a million dollars? The Simple Things I Did To Build Wealth And Happiness
- Interesting to think like this: Should You Focus on Strengths or Weaknesses?
- Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel
- I like this guy’s attitude: Experience: my face became a meme
- Impressive: ‘I give away half to three-quarters of my income every year’
- Important information: What to do if you think you’ve been wrongfully dismissed in Japan
- Hadn’t considered this angle of living in manshons: The higher they are…
- The comments on this are better than the article: Nearly 2 years into early retirement, here’s all that I’ve gotten wrong
This week’s books
- London Falling, by Paul Cornell. Finished this and enjoyed it. It wasn’t perfect, and there were times that the writing broke down for me and dumped me out of the story, but there were some truly original chilling ideas in here. Just started the second one.
Ben, take it easy! Rest as much as you can. Sleep all you want. Your body is trying to tell you something … are you listening?
Ben – hoping you get better soon. How about a jump down to Okinawa from Fukuoka, dude?
I’ll definitely make it down at some point -my wife is a big fan and I’ve never been yet!
Cont. The beauty of running a guesthouse is your friends get mates’ rates:)
https://airbnb.com/h/cozy-house-okinawa
Looks amazing 😀
Ben,
It would be great to meet you both.
https://airbnb.com/h/rainbow-house-okinawa
Is also available –
I also really liked #6. I hadn’t seen or heard of the meme before, but it is amazing how he made the most of what must have been a crappy situation.
Part 2 of #9 is also a great read (I hope I’m not spoiling next week’s list).
I signed up for a manshon (a medium-rise, not a tower) last year but soon got cold feet over it. Luckily for me, an opportunity to break the contract without penalty arose, so I jumped at it.
Residents started moving in almost 2 months ago, but judging by the number of lights on in the evening, the building is still half empty. I’m glad to be on the outside looking in, not the other way around.
The best thing Japan has on offer is a 50-50 shot at shingles prevention. I’ve asked.
The intl standard is 90% effective and can be had in Korea, Philippines and other places too. Called Shingrex
Get the jab asap everyone !