Personal blog posts and poetry, the unfiltered notes in the margins of everything else.
Confession first: I hate needles. Not a mild dislike. The kind where I get a little tense just thinking about a vaccine schedule. Being pricked, being injected, any of it, I’d rather not. So of all the side quests I’ve picked up, this one was never on my list. Then a friend of mine, someone…
Continue quest →Between 2004 and 2010, I wrote a lot of poems and posted them on PoemHunter under James Callos Jordan. Then life moved on, and so did I. Somewhere along the way, I lost the login. That page is still out there at poemhunter.com/james-callos-jordan/, and it’s going to stay there. Without the credentials, I can’t edit…
Continue quest →Every save file ends eventually. This week I’m retiring wotakunai.com. Before pulling the plug, I took one last walk around the place. This is how it looked on its final day: a quiet grey layout, a penguin in the sidebar, and a tagline I never got around to changing: “I love the new Dragon Quest…
Continue quest →I’ve spent a lot of time lately building this site; the theme, the categories, the little icon system, the whole quest-log framing. And somewhere in the middle of picking colors and naming sections, I realized the actual point was never the site itself. The point was that I had all of this; Japanese, gaming, fandom…
Continue quest →New year. New goals. New plans. But what I want to do most is to finish up my backlogs while I work out new things this year. One thing that I really want to do is to consistently write stuff. So I will try to be consistent and put out a blog once a day…
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