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 the WoW development Diaries, re-read 1984, and finished “Arthras”, which is a book set in the Warcraft universe.

🛠️ Continue my Japanese Studies

I’m still writing a lot of Japanese, but still no real structured approach. Of course, being back in Japan, learning by being immersed will help tons. Still, I’d love a more structured approach.

✅ Get Back to Working Out

Haha! Cancer really fucked this one up for me. It’s 2 months post-surgery, and my energy levels are much better than before. I’m able to do long walks, so at least the cardio part is moving on. I want to start running in Q3 and see if I can do that 3 times a week.

Professional Goals

🛠️ Get one new customer in Japan

This one is going well. I rekindled some contacts when I moved back, with more planned for next week.

🛠️ The Famichiki Mastodon Meetup of 2025

This will still happen, sometime in November. Most likely the end of November. More information soon! I promise.

🛠️ Attend more events

I want to attend more events in Japan. Since I just got here, I haven’t had the time yet to actually go. Surely in due time, I will.

I am abandoning this one! This is not the right year for me. I am however blogging more though, so who knows maybe I’ll write more about technical topics.

Conclusion

I’m not unhappy with where I am right now, especially the massive setback I had in April. All in all, things are looking good! I do wish I could find the time to finish Fedletic though…