Japan Trip 2026: The Highlights
In 1992 I first visited Japan. I actually lived in Japan in the early 2000s. Then in 2016 I was invited to Japan again. So my trip in March of 2026 marks the fourth decade I have travelled to Japan...
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Japan Trip 2026: Whisky & Shochu
Two years after touring whisky distilleries in Scotland, and almost ten years after touring Yoichi Distillery in Hokkaido Japan, I returned to Japan to tour twelve more distilleries to learn more about how whisky, shochu and even gin is made...
Japan Trip 2026: Toyohashi
This is either the most anticipated portion of my trip to Japan or the least. I lived and worked in Toyohashi over twenty years ago as an English teacher. Now after I finally return the only person who still lives in Toyohashi, remembers me, and kept in touch is a bartender...
Japan Trip 2026: Nara
Having landed in Tokyo, taken a brief sojourn to Chichibu and then travelled all over Kyushu with Rascal + Thorn, I said my "goodbyes" and travelled alone by train to Nara, Japan's oldest capital...
Japan Trip 2026: Kyushu
In March of 2026 I returned to Japan for the first time in decade. Although I landed in Tokyo and did visit other places, some famous, some not so famous, the bulk of my time this trip was spent in Kyushu...
Japan Trip 2026: Tokyo Coming & Going
I've been back from Japan for little over a week. It is a testament to jet lag and how busy we are at work that I'm just getting around to typing the first of a series of blog posts on my triumphant return to Japan after a decade...
Japan Trip 2026: Planning
Thankful to be going on vacation in less than 48 hours, it is a testament to how busy I've been that I've barely blogged about it and did considerably less planning than I did for my trip to Scotland two years ago...
Exit 2025, Enter 2026
Twenty twenty-five was another long year and January 2026 also looks to be a long demanding month...
20 Years of Blogging with WordPress
They say the first 20 years of blogging are the hardest. I've had a lot of hard years in the Blogosphere...
Certificate in Python for Finance
In September of 2025, I officially start my next online certification program, the Certificate in Python for Finance. The course consists of 350+ hours of video, 2750+ pages of text, 85,000+ lines of code, in 500+ Jupyter notebooks...
Data Science for Investment Professionals Certificate
On June 15th, I completed the CFA® Institute's Data Science for Investment Professional Certificate. I know this because I was encouraged to post about it on LinkedIn...
Murder by Death in Toronto
This could have been a bittersweet blog post, but I'm both optimistic Murder by Death will play again, they are literally still on their farewell tour...