A few weeks back I stepped down as grandaddy of Famichiki.jp, handing over the reins to the more than capable admin and moderator team.
I explained my reasoning here, but what I forgot to mention is that I’m also moving away from the instance itself.
I’m a big fan of self-hosting software, and so self-hosting my own Mastodon instance was the next logical step.
After all, the Fediverse and specifically Mastodon allows everyone to easily move instances.
I love the Famichiki community, but for me w…
A new quarter has already started, and this post is a little bit late, but here we go!
Personal Goals
✅ Move Back to Japan
Visa has been gotten! I moved. I settled. I’m paying taxes. I’m paying insurance premiums. I’ve done my garbage duty.
I consider my move to Japan complete!
🛠️ Read More
My one book a month is going well, although I’m slightly behind schedule. I’ve read 9 books this year,
the latest being the Red Rising trilogy which I enjoyed more than I thought I would.
For the rest of the y…
In October 2022, everyone’s favorite Nazi, Elon Musk, bought Twitter.
As a reaction to this, hundreds of Mastodon servers sprung up from the ground, run by volunteers all over the world.
This included one particular instance, Famichiki, which was initially run by Kevin, Pippa, and myself.
Lukas joined a few weeks, or maybe days, later as a systems administrator.
The server has been online most of the time, and while other instances came and went, Famichiki still stands strong.
Not without contro…
Today I made pizza for the first time in my life. It was a good experience.
These are brief notes, may the help you on your pizza baking journeys, as I am sure they will
help me in the future.
The oven
Oven Used: Enro Gas Oven 2
It’s a little bit pricey at 54,000 JPY, can probably find cheaper used ones on Mercari.
Used 250g LPG cartridges. Make sure to buy a regulator and hose.
One cartridge more than sufficient for 20 minute preheat + cooking 3 pizzas over the next 30~ minutes.
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It’s the start of a new quarter.
As always, let’s see how well we’re doing achieving the goals we set out to achieve at the beginning of 2025.
Personal Goals
✅ Move Back to Japan
The original goal was September, it’s now July and we moved back.
With which our life in Abu Dhabi has officially come to an end.
I can’t strike this one off just yet, since my visa is still pending.
🛠️ Read More
I wanted to read one book a month, and I’m still on track. I completed 6 books this year.
This quarter I read…
It’s morning.
I need to take my morning dump.
I also want tea.
It takes about 60 seconds for the water to boil.
The tea needs to steep for around 4 minutes.
The plan is simple: boil the water.
While it’s boiling, prepare the cups.
Add the teabags.
The water finishes boiling.
I pour it into the cups.
Now the next timer starts.
Four minutes to take a dump.
Obviously, I end up doomscrolling Instagram for more than four minutes, but that’s beside the point.
My legs are asleep.
My butthole is ready t…
It’s very easy to shit on modern pop music.
It’s too vulgar.
It’s too predictable.
It’s quantized to perfection.
And you’re not wrong.
It’s all those things.
Figuring that out does not make you the next Chomsky.
And I ask you; so fucking what?
The tension that builds in the verse and the relief that’s provided to you in the chorus is very real.
Go ahead, fire up “…baby one more time” and try to listen with your heart.
Let Britney’s voice riding the rhythm of the song take you away for a moment.
…
I love a good pint.
The cheekier the better.
What makes a pint cheeky?
I’m not one to tell you what makes a pint cheeky or not.
Follow your heart.
But let me tell you about my cheekiest one.
A cataclysmic one.
In 2022 my marriage was coming to an end.
You know those books that start off really good?
And then as you get halfway the writing gets stale and boring.
You realize you’re not really enjoying the book anymore.
But it was so good in the beginning, so maybe the next chapter is going to be b…
Another gloomy post. I’m not really sorry. I need to write about this to clear my mind.
If you’ve read my blog, you know I recently lost my thyroid.
Rather, it was surgically removed. But the end result is the same: no thyroid.
No thyroid means no thyroid hormones. No thyroid hormones means hormone therapy is needed.
Your body is generally amazing at regulating itself.
The brain has a gland that secretes hormones (TSH) to tell the thyroid to make more hormones.
That same gland has sensors for th…
Chasing a nostalgia high, I recently installed Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA VC or VC) on my computer.
It’s a game set in 80s Miami, heavily influenced by movies such as Scarface.
You could say it’s “Scarface: The Game” and it would be hard to disagree with you.
GTA:VC was made in the early 2000s when compute power wasn’t anywhere near what it is right now.
The PC requirements start at 128MiB RAM, which in this day and age is unthinkable.
But back then it was used to create a rich game world …