4/4 :D

Door

This was fun

Forgot how annoying looking for jobs is :/

Random 29 pass. Done in multi with someone else's healer but I would've passed regardless. Think I jammed my thumb though, that was painful

Getting ridiculously close now, 435 Expert FCs out of ~460-470 for my goal. Hard to keep track of the exact number since they release new songs weekly.

Been making some big progress on the Specials as well, I think I've finally got the hang of the directional swipes

Another new 28 FC and another EX Live Goals completion.

Didn't even realize this one was possible today until I gave it a try, took maybe an hour of attempts? Pretty much all the difficulty is in one transition pattern but the nerves after finally hitting it made the rest of the run pretty wild

I'll stop here since I'm getting off-topic and rambley, didn't really think out what I wanted to say in advance.

I'll probably post an update next Monday when I find out the exact details of what's going on but until then I will just be moderately annoyed and very sleepy

The where question is also kinda weighing on me. My current location is nice and familiar, relatively cheap, and close to family, but part of me thinks if I keep staying in this area too long, I'll just end up living here permanently and I don't know if I want that.

-- mostly as an opportunity to keep improving my Japanese, although it'd probably be hard to know exactly how much I'd be able to do without actually working there.

My main considerations at this point are what I actually want to do, and where I want to do it.

I'm not particularly attached to the electric industry, although it'd probably be easier to land something with the experience I have. Also been considering trying to work for a Japanese company

There are some positives here, I've been at this job around 3.5 years which is a decent time to start looking at other companies, I *should* have pretty good odds at making a decent bit more money wherever I end up next.

I'll get a better picture next Monday, as far as knowing if the retention period is the 3 months I was originally told a couple months ago, or if they've changed their mind. Apparently that has happened to some people, but honestly I'd prefer to keep it short.

I'd like to jump right in and find something but I can't imagine asking to start in June is the best interview strategy.

To be clear, I'm not in any financial danger from all of this, I just really dislike this period of waiting and uncertainty.

The other annoying part is that while I know my job is going to most likely be gone in 3 months, searching for a job too soon is fairly unproductive, since there's a pretty big retention payout at the end of that period.

Been a rough couple weeks. Been really low energy for a little while (mostly sleep related I think), and the company sale finally got approved, so I'm now on a 3 month timer to find a new job. (Probably, because this whole sale thing has been a complete disaster and the info keeps changing).

Guess today is the day of RNG maps, that's another huge one

Finally making progress on the awful slider maps, forgot to screenshot the results screen but that's a big one off the list

Forgot to post the picture lol

Up to 400/483 Expert FCs! Current goal is to FC everything below a 28 which is a total of 459.

Also have 4x 28FCs and a couple more doable ones so realistically I could get maybe 465?

I think the skillcap with index is definitely higher than thumbs too, I know it's physically possible but I don't see myself getting a 29 FC with thumbs any time soon whereas with index I feel like I've barely even started.

Learning to play with index on Bandori has been paying off pretty well. There's definitely a few patterns that I can play better than thumbs already. I've passed a couple 28s and 1xmissed a couple 27s already, so the gap is closing pretty fast too.

Also the tapping sound is super satisfying

Being able to pick up where you left off previously would be huge. Not a fan of trying to scroll down and remember where I had been.

Posting videos isn't huge for me, but I think it's a mark against the platform that's keeping people I'd want to follow away, so I guess indirectly that'd be big

Really I think this has just let me know that I need to be adding a listening section to my daily routine, and that the Genki Listening Questions and like an hour and a half of class per week aren't enough.

Not sure how I want to do that yet, gonna have to see what people recommend

I was honestly feeling kinda disappointed that my comprehension was this bad but now that I've thought about it a bit it really shouldn't be surprising. I only started learning less than 2 years ago and like 80%+ has been guided self-study with textbooks.

On the chatting side I feel like I do ok, I don't usually say much since I don't normally know what's going on, but when I do have something to say it usually seems to be understood.

Recently I've been going to a bunch of random small JP streamers just for some extra language practice. It's been fun, but it was a bit of a tough reminder of just how much farther I have to go. I can pick up bits and pieces but for the most part I'm completely lost.

Fun time at zipcon today, was pleasantly surprised at how good at was for such a cheap admission cost!