American Gaijin
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Interstitial
I find myself in the unusual position of not knowing what to write about. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I can find plenty of things to write about, on one level. I have several topics that I could write on. In fact, I just discarded a post that I thought might be a bit too… …
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Underneath
There is a specific genre of Sci-Fi I’ve always liked. I’ve never really liked the fantasy type where fair knights wander around on knightly errantry. I’ve never really liked the type where someone is trying to make a social point or extrapolate the future – though those types are really impactful in their own way.…
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The Breast Post Ever
So WordPress tells me I’m on a 28 day streak of posting to this blog. Yay me. I don’t think I’m going to break that streak today. But there’s nothing that’s really pressing on my mind. So I thought this time I’d make a mindless post. I’m going to post about breasts. Why not? Oh,…
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To Fix the World
This is going to be one of those posts that I’m going to look back on, and think “that was a pretty good post”. And then I’m going to regret it utterly. Today, I had a bad experience at work. My team has just been merged with another team, and both of our different teams…
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Otaku Introspection
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, lately. Big news, right? I mean, I never do that! Usually I just careen… ah well. Sarcasm is lost in this medium. Anyway, I’ve been thinking. I sure do care far too much about how I’m perceived in some ways, don’t I? And mostly, even how I’m perceived…
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The Terrorists Won, in 2001
Today, Sept 11, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of the 2001 terrorists attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and killed about 3,000 or so people. I’m not going to recount my experience of the event, because frankly, I didn’t really have one. I was about 600 miles away at the time…
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Biden’s Vaccine Mandates
I have two posts in line for today, and this one might be the less polarizing one. Or not. We will see. Yesterday the president of my country decided that he was going to implement a rule that would require mandates for people who work in companies with over 100 people, among other things. His tone…