Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
Happy new year, gentle readers! Would you believe this blog has been up for 20 years?! I’ve been thinking long and hard about whether to keep the blog and domain, as I have to pay for it every year and my posts are few and far between. So, alas, the time has come to say goodbye to the Long Countdown. That’s not to say I won’t be blogging again. In […]
It’s time to look back on the year and think about what to do in 2025. Let’s get to it! YouTube Well, well, well. I started off 2024 really gung-ho about teaching English on YouTube. In February, I started a new channel which blew up! The very first video brought in 12,000 subscribers right away and I was monetized two weeks later! It continued to grow to 25,000 subscribers, almost […]
Wow, wow, wow. When I started my new YouTube channel just one week ago, I never in my wildest dreams imagined it would be seen 100,000 times, get over 7,000 subscribers and 300 comments, from just two videos. But here we are. “Wait. You started a new channel?“ Yes. Even though I had 9,000 subscribers on my main channel, I was only getting 100~200 views on my regular videos, probably […]
What better time to update my blog than the last day of the year? Allow me to reflect on the last 12 months to see if I accomplished anything of worth.
It might surprise you that I didn’t write my previous blog post myself. Instead, I thought it would be interesting to get ChatGPT to write it for me. I thought one of my three readers would catch on and call me out on it, but instead, my “net buddy” Mike responded to my post about cholesterol with, “Yeah, I know exactly where you’re coming from.” Or something along those lines. […]
So, I had my annual health checkup the other day, and the doctor told me something that I wasn’t expecting. Apparently, my cholesterol levels are higher than they should be. Now, I’m no health nut, but I wasn’t exactly expecting this news. I mean, I eat cheese on toast every day for breakfast and I snack on chocolates between my English classes. But I guess those little indulgences have caught […]
I’ve been doing yoga on and off for five years or so. It’s my go-to remedy for the chronic back pain I suffer through, and I really enjoy doing it. That said, I don’t really follow any plans or have any goals, and feel that the lack of structure is what keeps me from making it a habit. That picture of me is after a serious effort at getting flexible, […]
I started making a list of things I’d like to try that are out of my comfort zone. First I wrote down, “use a soldering iron”, followed by “strip wallpaper and paint wall”, then, “learn how to cut, sand and stain wood”. And then I remembered the sink we have upstairs that has a ring of dirt around the plughole, and so I added “clean sink like a pro” to […]