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I actually remembered this time aaaa Last Bandcamp Friday, I forgot about the day entirely because I didn't even log onto my computer, doing so the next day and disparaging about missing it, especially with how many months it was between them! I tend to try and only buy albums on Bandcamp Friday. I'm on a (very) limited budget so I had to be a bit more selective this time around. I mostly picked…
I'm going to try and get in the habit of a once-a-month blog post to just share some stuff - photos, what I'm up to, etc! Though I've done much in terms of Canadian travel (and very little elsewhere), I still haven't visited much of BC. One of my goals this year was to see a bit more of the province, so this summer, we planned a few local trips. First trip was to Kelowna. It is a small city…
I went to Japan for the first time in October 2025, for my honeymoon. I have a lot of takeaways from the trip - mostly positive, a few downsides (especially on the side of knowing very little Japanese.) There is a lot I have yearned for since: highly accessible and easy to understand cross-country transit systems, how enticing it is to just walk and explore with ease without renting a car,…
With knowing any social media is going to get plagued with AI, or become an investor's dream and a user's nightmare, or just continue to scatter or fall apart, I wanted to make sure one of my goals this year was to get a proper space I could control again. Social media feeds off negativity, and it exhausts me. I want my own little controlled space. I'm not a great long-post poster, but I think…