I feel like an old man walking the dog in this weather. Snow I can deal with, but everything’s turned into glass smooth black ice. One wrong move and i’ve lost a hip.

Hmm… water softener went wonky, tap water extremely salty for a minute. 😂

Merry christmas! 🎆🎇

Another year lamenting not winning the lottery so one can opt-out of the existential nightmare of working under our capitalist overlords. 🍷🍾

Impressed that the winter spinach is still growing harvestable leaves when it’s nearly May.

Starting to bolt now though.

Song of the year! (so far)

Pinponpanpon keep getting better with every song. 😅

心 is so simple, yet handwriting it seems far harder than complex kanji. 😭

None of these look right -_-

Manoeri’s first few songs are such healing songs. ☺️ …the piano, the innocence of voice.

My first nagashi mangan! ☺️☺️🀄️

“How to see the first full moon of 2025?”

…BBC really declining in quality with these clickbait articles.

tl;dr obviously: look up while outside

Gezan Meshi (下山メシ ) is an amusing drama.

On paper it’s a chill show about hiking and food. In reality it’s 20 minutes of watching Shida Mirai eat. 😅

m.imdb.com/title/tt3462...

Hopes for 2025:

- we all retire to an off-grid self-sufficient life where we own our own land and provide our own food/water/electricity, and our only communication method is cb radio

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Happy new year etc! 🎉

2025 resolutions:

1) posting here mostly, twitter will be read-only (hopefully most will migrate to one place, but looks like mixi2 is picking up in Japan currently)

2) reducing subscriptions. Netflix, prime, virgin tv, and all the youtube/twitch/patreon subs cancelled

I think what’s missing from bluesky mostly are the official accounts… bands, events etc. particularly on the Japanese side of things.

I guess they’ll come when there’s a critical mass.

First post here. Hedging bets between this/mastodon/threads for when Twitter dies.

Mastodon is clearly the preferred option, but kinda useless if nobody goes there though.