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HOLIDAY UPDATE 2024 -- reflecting on the year gone by, and preflecting on the year to come...
ooo, i have not seen that UCC blended coffee before... i have a sangaria can that sounds similar to the one you described, amusingly the brand name is "Quality Coffee", the kind of name that would be guaranteed cheap junk if it was an american product
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2-%E7%82%AD%E7%84%BC%E7%8F%88%E7%90%B2%E5%BE%AE%E7%B3%96-190g%C3%9730%E6%9C%AC/dp/B008985OR4 This is the Sangaria can. Seems to be separate from their main "Quality Coffee" series, and I never saw it in Japan. According to this page it has a coconut sub-flavour, which I definitely never noticed.
Hard to tell based on my destroyed post-COVID tastebuds, but I think the UCC Blend is quite a bit better than the Sangaria. Although I can't ignore the possibility that the can's colour/design is playing a major role in this judgment.
Also I'd like to take this opportunity to admit that it took me about four months of living in Japan before I realized that カフェオレ meant "Café au lait" and not the phrase I kept saying in my head: "Café, olé!"
I'm pretty swamped but I just want to say I'm excited you're looking for penpals! it's nice to find other correspondents online :) When things get less hectic I'll see if you're still looking for any and maybe we can connect!
I may be going back to dark mode, a few people have said they don't like it thus far.
You could use JS to implement a switch on the page and store it locally for the user, then they can decide which they use.
non-js alternative is the css @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {} which checks the user's system setting
New (short) post. Probably the last one for the year: https://mikegrindle.com/posts/2024
new year holidays are the time of the thinking... now, we think: if colored lights are hanging in my room, not me, than this year was not very bad...
The only substantial update is to my /now page. All the others are just fixes for small errors that I have spotted over the past few weeks.
ugh love solstice thoughts! Would love to trade for/buy your zine of prayers...how lovely
good luck and congratulations where they are each due! I hope the creative energy keeps up - would love to see the zines you make eventually. Thanks for sharing the electric zine maker, I've been wanting to try out zines myself and it looks fun!
Thanks so much! Once I get this zine finished (and that depends on when this covid gets finished...) I plan on putting it up. I'm also interested in starting a physical collection of other people's zines for trade as well.
love this! I was going to comment something similiar — part of my attraction to the slow web is that I don't have to focus on what would get maximum views if I don't want to. Good writing should always keep audience and context top-of-mind, but at the heart of great writing is authentic self-expression. That's the sort of stuff that sticks with people, as opposed to something they "like", scroll past and forget.
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I'm sorry for your loss. I know you said you did not know her well, but death, especially at that age, has a way of messing with us and making us think more about what we want out of life, who to spend it with, how we wish to be remembered. I wish you well on the dating front!
thank you -- even though i didn't know her personally, in a way, i felt like i did. we were both active on the forum and read/replied to each others posts often. i'm sad it won't happen ever again. and you're right, it has me reflecting.