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Giving up

"Hamburg" steak meal. This is about as American as restaurants get here.
Hamburg steak is about as American as restaurants get here. But, eating fries with chopsticks does feel classy.

At least for the time being, I am giving up having a custom design for my blog/site. It’s simply too time consuming, especially when I have to consider backward compatibility with all of the content I’ve created since not only its creation, but my creation as well. So, I am opting for a basic, out of the box theme that I won’t have to worry about updating or tweaking as the underlying publishing software evolves.

But that’s where my giving up ends. I have been living in Japan for the past 6 months, and amid all the craziness and difficulty of settling in, have already amassed a gigantic pile of things worth sharing; a lot of which has already been shared between my presences on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Since much of that is piecemeal and posted one at a time as they happen, there is very little context or organization to it.

I’ll be uploading things to this blog as I have time, including a refined, simplified portfolio, which is as yet unpublished. Not that I’m actively seeking design work, but if some should come along, I do plan to share what little talent I have publicly.

Otherwise, beyond the banalities of my daily life, it feels like there should be a greater opportunity to share things with those who can’t be here in Japan to experience them firsthand. I’m open to suggestion as to what that could be, and until I find a decent groove, my posts will likely be random in nature.

That’s it for now, time for a private English lesson!