The Monday Read
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: […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
The Monday Read
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 […]
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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. […]
The Monday Read
Not much to report this week. A few things on the horizon, but nothing I can announce just yet. We’re still looking for guest posts or reader profiles. If you would like to contribute either of these please get in touch! This week’s links I need to do more of this: When in doubt, try […]
The Monday Read
Guest posts and events (just to remind everyone: the Monday Read is written on Monday, and you can find it on the site and on Facebook then, but if you are reading this from the newsletter it’s a week behind. Shouldn’t make much difference to most of the content) Just got back from an exhausting […]
The Monday Read
Everything seems… fine? No natural disasters today. Phew. Although it seems like we might still have a couple of typhoons to get through before winter settles in. Speaking of typhoons, I hope they don’t disrupt our RetireJapan seminar in Tsukuba this week. Really looking forward to that one. This week’s links Make things interesting: Terrible […]