2023

Did/doing

Travel

  • Charleston, SC
  • Honduras
    • San Pedro Sula
    • Tela
  • Japan (again)
    • Akita - Lake Tazawa
    • Chiba - Funabashi, Urayasu (Disneysea)
    • Hyogo - Kinosaki Onsen
    • Iwate - Morioka
    • Kanagawa - Kamakura, Yokohama
    • Kyoto - Arashiyama, Kyoto City, Kurama, Lake Biwa
    • Okayama - Kurashiki, Okayama
    • Osaka - Osaka City, Kawachigano
    • Tochigi - Nikko, Utsunomiya
    • Tokyo (Asakusa, Ginza, Koto)
    • Wakayama - Koyasan
  • Marquette, MI (again)
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Minneapolis, MN (again)
  • New York, NY (again) x2
  • San Diego, CA (again)

courses

comics

  • Blood on the Tracks, vols 12-14 by Shizo Oshimi
  • The Drifting Classroom, omnibus 1-3 by Kazuo Umezz
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, vols 1-2 by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
  • ブッダ (Buddha), vols. 1-8 by Tezuka Osamu
  • よつばと！ volumes 1-4 (again, 日本語で)
  • Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (Black Label), books 1-3, by Kelly Sue DeConnick

novels

  • Expanse, The: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  • Killing Star, The by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski
  • Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
  • Paying Guests, The by Sarah Waters
  • Phoenix Project, The: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford (stopped)

non-fiction

  • Book of Five Rings, The by Miyamoto Musashi
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory
  • DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right by Lily Zheng
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (in progress)
  • Domain-Driven Design Distilled by Vernon Vaughn
  • Functional Programming in Scala, 2nd edition by Michael Pliquist, Paul Chusiano, Runar Bjarnasson
  • Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland
  • Spare by Prince Harry

video games

  • Assassin's Creed: Odyssey DLCs
    • The Fate of Atlantis
      • Episode 1: Elysium
      • Episode 2: Underworld
      • Episode 3: Atlantis
    • Legacy of the First Blade
      • Episode 1: Hunted
      • Epsisode 2: Shadow Heritage
      • Episode 3: Bloodline
  • Chef Life
  • Control
    • The Foundation (DLC)
    • AWE (DLC)
      • Altered World Events, or Alan Wake Experience?
  • Doraemon: Story of Seasons
  • Expanse, The: A Telltale Series
    • Archangel standalone
  • Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm Final Bar Line
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake: INTERmission
  • Ghost of Tsushima - Iki Island
  • Kingdom Two Crowns
  • Life is Strange: True Colors
  • Outer Worlds, The
    • Peril on Gorgon (DLC)
    • Murder on Eridanos (DLC)
  • Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
  • Super Mario 64 -- in Japanese!
  • Yuppie Psycho
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  • Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

tv series

  • Afterparty, seasons 1-2
  • Alice in Borderland, season 2
  • Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, season 2 (again), season 3
  • Black Lady Sketch Show, A, season 4
  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  • Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa, season 1 (partial)
  • Full Circle
  • Rick and Morty, season 3
  • Severance, season 1
  • Silo, season 1
  • SpyxFamily, season 1 part 2
  • Succession, seasons 1-4
  • White Lotus, The, season 2
  • アッグ烈子 (AggRetsuko), seasons 1-2 (partial)
  • アナザー (Another), season 1
  • 異世界おじさん (Uncle from Another World), season 1
  • 頭文字D (Initial D), season 1 (up to episode 11)
  • 踏切時間 (Crossing Time), season 1
  • ちはやふる (Chihayafuru), seasons 1- 2 (again), 3
  • 舞妓さんちの賄いさん (Makanai, The: Cooking for the Maiko House), season 1
  • ミイラの飼え方 (How to Keep a Mummy), season 1
  • 未来日記 (Future Diary), season 1
  • モブサイコ100 (Mob Psycho 100), seasons 1-3
  • 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury), season 1
  • 日常（Nichijou), stopped after episode 1
  • 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ (Full-Time Wife Escapist), seasons 1-2
  • 彼女が公爵邸に行った理由 (Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion), season 1
  • がんばれ同期ちゃん (Ganbare, Douki-chan), season 1
  • 恋は世界征服のあとで (Love After World Domination), season 1
  • リラックマと遊園地 (Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure), season 1

movies and documentaries

  • Boy and the Heron, The (君たちはどう生きるか)
  • Children Act, The
  • Coming to America
  • First Reformed
  • Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster
  • Menu, The
  • Neh (short film)
  • Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Porco Rosso
  • Robot Carnival (ロボット・カーニバル)
  • Shortcomings
  • Storybook Ending (short film)
  • Talk to Me
  • Tanpopo (タンポポ)
  • Tokyo Ghoul Police