Following a 2-week sojourn with friends across Japan, I am happily back in my safe space: at home on my desktop, blogging. The trip was fun and we spent a lot of the time just being dumb or silly and there were even some physical challenges along the way. I had a great time, but am happy to be back home. Hopefully I can figure out soon how I want to present the blog post about this trip!
I arrived back home last night and honestly most of the time since then has been spent catching up on logging trip details, errands and other backlogs that have accumulated during my time away. It was kind of nice to come back to a room that had been untouched for 2 weeks!
Second week's step total was slightly less than the first week, clocking in at a mere 87.5k steps compared to the prior week's 90k+ steps. Lots of walking, very exhausting. I will probably take it easy on the steps the first few days back. I am still in a good position to beat last year's step count!
Playing: Since we were on the go, I was only playing mobile/tablet games. Most often that was Marvel Snap (Deadpool's Diner is a bitch this time around; I am not yet done!), sometimes Magic Arena on the iPad (drains the battery far too quickly and also makes the tablet hot), and even some Eternal Card Game here and there!
Reading: I packed an IRL book as is my habit during these trips (a friend called it an "emotional support book"). Unfortunately I ended up mostly just reading comics during any downtime.
Watching: Netflix Japan had a lot of anime (unsurprising). Some of the AirBNBs we stayed at had nice TVs which we were able to use watch movies like Deadpool and Wolverine and Bullet Train, both of which I'd already seen before. There was also a lot of watching silly Japanese TV shows and ads.
Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of other things or links to share to post about this week. We will return to our regularly scheduled format next week!
It's December! There are so many things to do and things I want to catch up on before the year ends!
When this post is published, I should have been traveling with friends in Japan for just under a week. Hanging out with friends is always awesome, but the whole traveling and waiting around at airports and packing all your things and lugging bags around and managing inventory is not.
It is also exhausting. I don't have my weekly step total yet (as I am writing this before my week ends), but it's going to be a 90,000+ step week, with Saturday possibly being my record for day with the most step counts this year, with at least 21k steps!
We were in Japan around the same time 9 years ago as well, but this trip feels much colder than that time.
Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of other things or links to share to post about this week. I will write about the trip in a future post.
I should be back home right before next Sunday, so next week's post should be a full one again!
Today's entry will be a bit short. I'm writing this ahead of time so hopefully my scheduled publishing works fine.
I am trying not to pay too much attention to US-centric news following their elections, but one can't help but hear about how ridiculous the cabinet picks coming out of the incoming administration are.
BlueSky is experiencing a surge of sign-ups following the US elections. I have enabled the bridge from Mastodon, so if you are on BlueSky, you can follow my Masto profile here.
I am traveling for 2 weeks starting today. As such, I spent most of this week doing a bunch of errands in advance to make sure everything is taken care of while I am away and that the patient has all her meds already until I get back. There will be an immunotherapy session while I am away, so I have arranged for someone else to cover for me this once. Also spent a bunch of time making sure I don't fall too far behind on my TV shows while I am away!
On the blog: I wrote a new comics post about X-Factor v1, a Zelda review, and a set recap for Duskmourn.
Gaming:
Reading: Still a lot of comics! (At least I finished X-Factor v1 already!)
Watching: Still just a lot of TV to keep up with: Abbott Elementary, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Dandadan, Dragonball Daima, Ranma 1/2, Superman & Lois, lots of Boston Legal.
From Nov 10 (Sunday) to Nov 16 (Saturday), Google Fit says I walked 70,487 steps. Nice, managed to hit the target right before my trip! I am hoping I can get a whole bunch of steps in and even exceed the target during the trip!
I don't have any new links to share today.
Check out the linkblog for past links!
Probably not much blogging while I'm traveling, but we'll see what I can manage.