This blog is finished as of today. Here is the new one I started a while ago about returning to what I hope will be a more simpler form of life:
Returning to Simplicity
Follow me there if you'd like, but if not, thanks for reading!
2012年2月11日土曜日
2012年1月28日土曜日
Neither Here Nor There
I'm up early trying to get a head start on the long list of things to do today. I thought I would try to write down some of the things that have been whirling through my mind lately.
I've entered a very bizarre phase of living in a foreign country. Now that the day is coming to leave, I realized, I have no future here. Sure, I can come back at some point, but in the immediate future, this isn't my home anymore. It's a weird feeling when you've called a certain place home for the past five years and come to the realization that it is no longer home - yet you must stay for a while longer. I feel more like an extended-stay tourist who earns a bit of side money than a resident.
On the flip side of it, my HOME home, where I was born and raised, isn't quite my home again yet. Being 8,000+ miles away kind of has a way of doing that.
So what does one do when the home you've known for the past 5 years is no longer home, and the home you grew up in is still too far a memory/reality?
I suppose there's only one thing to do: give it all you've got and try your best not to doubt yourself.
With that mentality, I'm I have a plethora of choices to make within the next few months. The job hunting isn't going as well as I hoped it would. However, it is going about as well as I thought it would. Being half the world away seems to make it just a wee bit difficult to connect with people and convince them that I am a good investment. So what do I do if I can't get a job? Where would my time be best spent? Would it be studying like crazy to pass the CPA examination as soon as I can? Would it be spending my time split between studying and looking for a viable starting place for my career switch?
Time (and the continuation of sleepless nights) will tell, I suppose.
I've entered a very bizarre phase of living in a foreign country. Now that the day is coming to leave, I realized, I have no future here. Sure, I can come back at some point, but in the immediate future, this isn't my home anymore. It's a weird feeling when you've called a certain place home for the past five years and come to the realization that it is no longer home - yet you must stay for a while longer. I feel more like an extended-stay tourist who earns a bit of side money than a resident.
On the flip side of it, my HOME home, where I was born and raised, isn't quite my home again yet. Being 8,000+ miles away kind of has a way of doing that.
So what does one do when the home you've known for the past 5 years is no longer home, and the home you grew up in is still too far a memory/reality?
I suppose there's only one thing to do: give it all you've got and try your best not to doubt yourself.
With that mentality, I'm I have a plethora of choices to make within the next few months. The job hunting isn't going as well as I hoped it would. However, it is going about as well as I thought it would. Being half the world away seems to make it just a wee bit difficult to connect with people and convince them that I am a good investment. So what do I do if I can't get a job? Where would my time be best spent? Would it be studying like crazy to pass the CPA examination as soon as I can? Would it be spending my time split between studying and looking for a viable starting place for my career switch?
Time (and the continuation of sleepless nights) will tell, I suppose.
2012年1月18日水曜日
Spread the Word
Congress, in their infinite wisdom, is about to pass a law that would ruin the internet as we know it. Many top websites are protesting against it. Here's what it's about:
Wiki Blackout
To help, you can sign this petition:
Petition
Please sign it, get the message through to those boneheads.
Also, spread the word to everyone.
Wiki Blackout
To help, you can sign this petition:
Petition
Please sign it, get the message through to those boneheads.
Also, spread the word to everyone.
2012年1月15日日曜日
More on Sourdoughs
About the many benefits of sourdough bread vs. bread using commercial yeast:
And here be one that I made:
Bread baking is turning out to be a hobby that is just as rewarding as brewing (maybe even more rewarding since I can eat the bread anytime of the day without being labeled socially maladjusted!)
This bread came from this book: Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads. This particular bread is a French Miche and each loaf weighs about 3 pounds. I decided to skip the commercial yeast, take a little more time and let the natural culture do all the work. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get into baking, or even better, jump right into whole grain breads. I haven't read Peter's other books, but I'm sure they are excellent. A quick check shows this book (as well as others) is available on Amazon throughout most (all?) of its sites worldwide.
And here be one that I made:
Bread baking is turning out to be a hobby that is just as rewarding as brewing (maybe even more rewarding since I can eat the bread anytime of the day without being labeled socially maladjusted!)
This bread came from this book: Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads. This particular bread is a French Miche and each loaf weighs about 3 pounds. I decided to skip the commercial yeast, take a little more time and let the natural culture do all the work. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get into baking, or even better, jump right into whole grain breads. I haven't read Peter's other books, but I'm sure they are excellent. A quick check shows this book (as well as others) is available on Amazon throughout most (all?) of its sites worldwide.
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