Spirited Away. In my opinion the most Miyazaki movie. It’s also just amazing. I’ve probably seen it a dozen times now.

The baby scene was a little weird but otherwise great movie

I was born at an unfortunate time. By the time I could afford a house the housing market was already very bad. I’m just glad I’m able to buy a house but it is very expensive (we bought at the end of 2021)

I live in Canada so we can’t lock in our mortgage for more than 5 years. I just went with the variable rate because in the long term it’s generally better. However the interest rates skyrocketed. I was able to pay my mortgage still but I was pretty much house poor.

Now the rates are finally dropping so I feel a lot less pressure. With our current budget we should be able to afford one kid comfortably. I’m not sure about a second.

I’m very fortunate and grateful though. Most people my generation cannot even afford a house. It’s just insane that despite my great job it’s still so hard for us I can’t imagine what others are going through.

We aren’t broke. I have some retirement saved but I had to stop putting money in due to our mortgage. I also have an emergency funds account with enough money to sustain us ~6 months if I were to lose my job.

Having a high paying job is unsurprisingly the main reason for my financial success. Otherwise I’d say joining some personal finance clubs helped a bunch. I have my savings diversified and invested so I’m at least not losing money to inflation. But my investments will never make me rich either.

One critique I have for myself is maybe we overspent on the house but at the same time I love our neighborhood and I love our house and we have no plans on ever moving so I’m not too upset by it.

Yeah being able to afford 5 kids is insane to me.

I believe there is a a keyboard case called Clicks however it appears to only be aimed at iPhones. If it’s a huge deal to you this is one possible solution.

I also think it’s really hard to engineer a good slide phone. Modern smartphones are already really compact. So you either (1) make an affordable slide phone with terrible specs and ok engineering or (2) make a slide phone with excellent specs and engineering but costs a huge amount of money. And I am going to guess most small companies cannot engineer anything like (2) so you just end up with slide phones with bad specs and it’s only selling point is that it has a sliding keyboard. This phone will not sell well.

Is this the power of anime?

How do I fix my learning model

Maybe you’ll find an answer if you keep scrolling down…

Cooking. A lot of really delicious foods have extremely simple recipes and as an amateur you have time on your side. You don’t have to rush anything for most recipes. A lot of times I measure and cut everything before I even turn on the stove and this makes cooking super easy. Sure it takes a while to cook when you are just starting out but you can just go at your own pace. I really feel like anyone can cook almost anything. You don’t even need fancy tools. I got started with a $12 wok and a wooden spatula. These days there’s a huge amount of resources to teach you how to make just about everything. It’s also really rewarding since you get to eat what you make and you get to make things you want to eat. Needless to say it’s also a very important skill.

That’s because it’s not a gif. It’s a MP4. It even has sound.

The picture quality is insane. The cat just pops out of the screen.

But it’s distance to you is not monotonic so it’s alllll goooood.

Love you guys 💜

Wow TIL they clip the ear of cats to easily tell which ones have been spayed or neutered.

Oh I think I know which discovery you’re talking about. I’m out at the moment but I’ll post it once I’m home.

I used to do this but I have noticed one slight downside to this. My food goes cold by my last bite so the last bite does not have the optimal flavor.

My new thing is I try to eat my favorite part when I feel like the food is starting to go cold so I can still hit that peak.

The show is also unique for me in the sense that IMO the later seasons were the best, this making it a series that actually gets better and better over time.

Well that could also burn the image into ur brain forever.