Then

Early 2025

Another winter in Kyoto.

We celebrated my son’s 8th birthday, that was a ton of fun. We finished Astro Bot over the break and now we sometimes go back to it to chase after the last unlockables. It’s really that good. Next up on the list will be Monster Hunter Wilds with online friends.

I still work as a product designer at a Japanese company. AI has creeped up enough to become a weekly conversation internally. I write this as DeepSeek just came out and Nvidia stocks plummeted for reasons.

I’ve had this personal website on my computer for about a month (really not sure), I’m quite satisfied with it. Lies again. I’m embarassed by it but I’m embarassed by everything so I haven’t really published it yet. Maybe later. I’d love to maintain an “open garage” philosophy with it, keep tweaking it over time, that sort of thing. I’ve seen & heard people talk about digital gardens. I’ve always liked the idea but it’s not really that yet, I think that’s ok?

Discussing summer vacation plans with the family. Am I really going to Hiroshima in August? It can’t be possibly worse than Kyoto?