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ask me again next year
Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout
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cheap eats
Describe your 2025 in food. This blog rebooted with a theme on January 1, 2021: food. Also adventure, cast iron, the outdoors and simple living. It was the middle of freaking covid and I was basically trapped in my house because of travel restrictions and winter and work from home and I latched onto the
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on online
What is your perspective on the culture of 2025? Can I write what I really want to write here without getting put on a list somewhere that prevents me from crossing borders? Hmm… I mean, you’re online. You’re almost certainly reading this on a screen, in a web browser, through a magic wire that connects
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puppy love
Without asking how would people describe you in 2025? We all want to viewed favourably, don’t we? I mean I’m sure there are exceptions out there, oddball folks who thrive on division and get off on people hating them. Just look at the internet after all: it’s like a zoo for people like that, all
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the japan files
What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile …or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one