Wishing you all the best, friend.

I’m taking my family to Japan next month. Barring any major issues between now and then.

Watching someone play qwop for the first time is one of the finer joys in life. I’ve had so many belly laughs thanks to this game.

I think I got to 40m, but it took ages.

I worked a 4-10 in 2014, but also worked 20 hours on the weekend driving for uber. Combined I only made about 40k, so definitely not worth it.

Now I work a “normal” week, but from home with no weekend work, and make $150k. I also only do like 10 hours of actual work per week, so I prefer this situation…

But I’m voluntarily giving this job up next month and moving to a country where I’ll probably work 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, making 30k… because I don’t want to support America with my taxes any more, and because I want my family to be safe.

But yeah, if we’re talking same job but shorter week, I would choose the shorter week every time.

Off the Wagon

“Critics have expressed concerns about possible conflicts of interest“

This is the kind of pussyfooting from mainstream media that allows these blatantly corrupt, immoral, and illegal actions to continue and to escalate.

Just call it what it is: corruption. Plain and simple.

Serves them right for putting that Nazi’s name on the building!

Serves them right for putting that Nazi’s name on the building!

This is awful. I can’t believe there are people who are capable of this kind of evil.

What is the source here?

What is a bush baby?

Yeah, I’ve certainly experienced my fair share of racism in Japan. Mostly micro-aggression / implicit bias type of stuff, but a few intentional instances as well.

Not looking forward to that.

I’ve been studying / speaking / reading / writing Japanese for 25 years. Lived there for 6 years, and used Japanese exclusively at work for 3 years after coming back to the states. So no big issues language-wise.

I was never a huge anime person until my wife and I started watching some during covid. We’re definitely anime people now.

My thing was always Japanese arcade games.

US citizen here, have been actively preparing for a permanent move to Japan with my Japanese citizen spouse, dual citizenship toddler, and our dog for the past 6 months. We are fortunate enough to have the money and legal pathway to do it, and it has still been one of the most stressful experiences (if not the most) of my life.

We’ve had to:

Sell our house, Sell our two cars, Get rid of all our belongings (gave most of them away because it’s just too time consuming to try and sell everything), Apply for a certificate of eligibility for my visa Apply for my visa, Get all the vaccinations and paperwork for our dog and wait 6 months after getting them done, Make arrangements for the dog’s overseas travel, Buy our airline tickets, Find an apartment in Japan without being able to see it in person, Find work in Japan, Find a preschool for our kid in Japan, Have to enter Japan within 3 months of my visa being issued (but NOT sooner than 180 days after the dog gets his 2nd rabies shot and bloodwork results), Etc.

And if we make a mistake on any one of those steps or get delayed and miss our 3-month window, we have to do half of the steps again.

All while continuing to work full time and with a move from our house to the apartment in the middle.

We are close to the finish line, but it has pushed us all to the absolute edges of our mental and physical limits. And again, we are extremely fortunate to have enough savings and equity in our home to even be able to try this…

For the average US citizen, I’d say it’s nearly impossible.

That’s amazing.

Did you get the idea from a bufo alvarius experience?