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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I grew up in a very small Ohio town. I moved to Houston, Texas and met one person from the same town and later one from a town over at a bar.

    I quit Facebook/etc. not long after moving to Tokyo. I ran into a guy from Columbus, Ohio that I knew from when I lived there.

    I’ve also run into friends of friends randomly in Tokyo.

    Now, I love away from Tokyo in the countryside, so I’ll be super surprised if I meet anyone again, but who knows.

    Edit: for context, on a business day, there are more than 30 million people plus tourists in the Tokyo metro






  • I resolved to stop paying full price for anything Pitchford and his touch based on a number of factors. I did buy the latest BL game when it was on a big sale and thoroughly hated the main story and various plotholes (seemingly from cuts made by the company/directors rather than the writers). I bought Tiny Tina (again, on sale for over half off) and it was a game with all kinds of bugs that just never got fixed – it’s the first game I didn’t immediately roll a new character to replay after beating it. At this point, I’m not sure I would buy anything else they put out.









  • Tons of structures in Tokyo are wooden. I lived in a steel-and-block place (which is apparently quite rare with most being steel-reinforced concrete), but all the apartments and single-family homes around me were wooden. Moreso when I moved further out of the city center.

    I now live further north in Japan in a classically-designed wooden home and it’s still terrible in these temperatures (and we’re not nearly as hot as Tokyo up here).

    I actually talked to an architect about this a couple of years ago and, though structures here are meant to breathe (mostly for airflow to avoid mold and later because of big problems with off-gassing and “sick house syndrome” when they tried to build more sealed structures with mechanical ventilation), they were not meant for the sustained hot conditions we face here today.


  • I do better with light-based over-stimulation than I did in my early 20s, but I have a lot more trouble with sounds. There’s a retailer here in Japan that has its store music (loud), various TVs and other devices playing separate ads at the same time at high volume, and just people noise that leads to a cacophony that triggers my fight-or-flight. I can’t go in there for long without noise-cancelling headphones. My brain I think tries to listen to everything at once and can’t separate things out leading to issues; I hear them all so I can’t listen to or discern any one of them (which is a more general issue I have that gets worse as I get older trying to hear people over any background noise).