Books of the Year 2021
A new annual post Someone suggested I do a book roundup, and I thought that was a great idea. I had a quick look through my bookshelf and Kindle reading library, and chose the books that I remember most from this year. Two of them are rereads, four are novels (I initially wrote three here, […]
2021 Roundup
All in one place Once again there will only be one roundup post this year. Here is the 2020 post if you want to see what that year looked like. 2021 was… kind of like 2020 This year was also stressful, but in a different way from last year. More low-key, less uncertainty. More like […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
Progress Report 2021
The Progress Continues This year once again we will combine all the progress report posts into one huge long report. I think they work better as one post. You can see last year’s post here (spoiler alert: this year’s is very similar). We’re going to cover the following areas in order: Lots to cover, so […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
Mortgage Tax Benefits
In Japan there’s a mortgage tax refund for property owners. It’s been reduced from 1% to 0.7% but is still a worthwhile benefit.
Guest Post: Book Review
Investment as a Liberal Education: How to Join the Business Elite I’m very pleased to have a guest post today from a new contributor, Richard Brash. He’s a seminary professor in Nagoya, and has written the book Smart Serendipity: The Essential Mindset Shift for Time-Rich Living. Take it away, Richard! It’s not often that I […]
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 […]