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Updated 2025-03-03, from NE Tokyo.

Personal Development & Learning

  • 📖 Studying for the JLPT N4 test (target: Dec 2025)
  • 🎋 Taking private Japanese lessons
  • ✍️ Daily 200-word writing exercise  

Fitness & Health  

  • 🏃 Jogging in place with weights
  • 🧘‍♂️ Yoga

Music & Band

  • 🥁 Playing drums in 1000s of Cats (Tokyo indie/punk band)  
  • 🎙️ Recording a new album
  • 🎧 Making a 1000s of cats podcast

Fun

  • 🎮 Currently playing the game High Rise and Tiny Tower
  • 🍳 Eating Japanese food

Work & Productivity

  • 💻 Front-End Developer & Web Experience Specialist: Design, develop, and maintain modern, responsive web experiences. Work extensively with Drupal and static HTML sites, ensuring accessibility, performance, and seamless user interactions. The main focus is on front-end architecture, optimize UI/UX, and stay up to date with evolving web standards and best practices.
  • ✅ I enjoy using the GTD method to stay organized.
  • 📂 Two apps I lean on for that is Drafts for capture and Things for task management.  
  • 🧠 Freewriting takes place in iA Writer, TextEdit, or Drafts.   
  • 🔄 I love building automations with Shortcuts, Drafts, and Hazel.