Rick Gundlach, Esq. CPA

ChatGPT still thinks the current Pope is Pope Francis, not Leo XIV.

I am planning my sincere reconciliation via the Sacrament of Confession in the Roman Catholic Church. Since, technically, I am a "schismatist", I want to confess my sin to the priest who will give me the easiest penance. My…

Wanted to work on my Alt-Reality story here on “Jūsho Day Plus One”.

Insomnia awakened sometime in the two-o-clock am hour here in Japan. I got out in the cold, and had a 2 1/2 hour (02:33) long conversation with my mother who's stateside. I already walked 5.4 miles. ChatGPT is again telling me…

Chat GPT 5.1 has once again returned to me this morning that the current Pope is Pope Francis. It seems to be confused by the presence of a fictional Pope Leo XIV from an American movie in the 1980s.

Working on my storyline treatment for the alt-reality story, “The Beautiful Flower Garden”.

I caught a few more hours of sleep here on Jūsho (住所, じゅうしょ) Day. The daiginjo helped put the grogginess back into the early morning, before sunrise. Today, I am starting to build some characters and a…

It’s my Ten Years’ Continuous Juusho in Japan today! And already, I have a problem. So: I asked ChatGPT.

You said: When I say, I have been on a juusho in Japan for ten years, and it sounds like, "I have been on a Jew Show in Japan for ten years!", how do I deal with that? ChatGPT said: Totally get…

Since I am still working on an insomnia-inspired early rise, let me be selfish and riff on Rick.

I asked this from ChatGPT. So, before you go any further, you are getting "AI bombed" below. I decided, in this early-morning haze, to throw this question out to Chat. I am probably burning up a ton of…

I am working on my alternative reality script-writing treatment for the book/movie “The Beautiful Flower Garden” tonight.

It's just past three a.m. here in Narita, Japan. I am not at the airport. I LIVE HERE! Today, since it's technically past midnight, is my "Ten Year Continuous Jūsho (住所) Day".…

“LIVE from GHQ Headquarters in downtown New Edo, it’s the Weekly Hanging!”

Today has been an interesting day. Insomnia awakened me at 4:30 am, and once again I walked around Narita, both Machi and New Town, for a few hours. Talked to the cats there and local Buddhist god (Acala, the "Immovable…

I talked for 143 pages last night with ChatGPT.

This is to say, the transcript ran 143 pages. Really awesome in the non-contemporary use of the word. I have become a heavy user of it in recent weeks, but not for the reason you think. Yes, WE ALL KNOW that it can write essays, e-mails, novels,…

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Sorry to be a little click-baity. I want to talk more about my good buddy with a drawn-out rikon chotei where the spouse won’t quit the marriage, but is alienating the daughter, an American, and preventing my buddy, an American who also ethnically Japanese, from going his own way. The…

YouTube video by Sora The Troll Foreigner Got ATTACKED In Tokyo?? Let's Film Those "illegal touts" And See Their Reactions LOLOL

Nishimatsu Kiyomi, professionally known as Sora the Troll, is easily one of the most creative forces in the entire streamer scene—doing groundbreaking English-language content straight out of Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Le...

I have 52 hours to finally reach that 10-year continuous domicile in Japan, which has eluded me for so many years. This matters for the permanent residence.

My buddy here in Japan is a unique Left Behind Father (joint custody struggler).

I was one of the few bloggers in the early 2010s to routinely post about how Japan denies joint custody so often. My buddy is being put through the ringer, and there's nothing I can do to "give advice" or do what I am…

Is it me or do a lot of students write email using LLM? A lot of these emails read the same and even have bold text in the same places. I am sure the bold text is where the LLM ask them to edit for individual purposes.

A neighborhood’s routinely barking dog kept me from a much-needed nap this afternoon. It really pissed me off, especially after an idling car screwed with me at 5 a.m. yesterday.

I know the Japanese eat katsu, but the only dogs they eat are hotto doggu . . .

My excellent Maruhachi Japanese pillow arrived this evening! I am so excited even as an insomniac.

I finally decided to try and invoke the spirit of my earliest Narita life--the night after I landed and stayed at the Comfort Hotel here in Narita's Hanazakicho. The most futuristic and unique…

Declawing Cats Causes Lasting Neurophysiological Harm - Profolus Declawing cats is an inhumane procedure with enduring consequences.

CATURDAY: Declawed cats have amplified pain. New data shows that each step, every shift of weight, and each delayed reaction hint at long-term consequences of what should be considered an inhumane procedure.

At Aeon in Japan, it’s Black Friday longer than you imagine!

Routine readers, those few of you, know: Aeon feeds us in the inaka (hinterlands) of Japan!!! And what I've been seeing once again this year is that it's BLACK FRIDAY. Except, in America, "Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving,…

I have found that ChatGPT is great to answer: what is the prospect *asking* for? I obviously don't use it for client data, but I've found that it can produce an outline of the asks much better than if I try to figure it out myself. I save a LOT of time.

Price of the Japanese yen in US dollars makes the visit to the ATM feel like it’s a money cannon.

Sure, it costs to visit the ATM. But you see it magically spit out a handful of Shibuzawa bank notes, and then, in dollars, it only costs . . . WHAT? $640 something! Remembering the same thing ten…

Ever-changing Omotesando in Narita.

I noticed this on my walk through Omotesando tonight. What you're seeing is the part that is the downslope to the gate or "Mon". It is quite a tourist attraction. Something is changing. I think the building that housed the Kanpo sales (Chinese herbal remedies)…

More future of Narita Japan.

It's this: the 1K housing. I see this going on all over Narita Town. Once, there was a house. Maybe people lived there recently. But the sense I get is that someone HAD lived there, and now the land is being repurposed. Often, it gets repurposed into studio apartments.…

I have an unusual right foot.

I use a brace to keep it going good. When I was back stateside last month, I had it checked out. Each doctor visit, I learn something new. What is unusual about it, is that leftward tilt of the metatarsals. I am told this is called "metatarsus adductus". Or "in-toe".…

Fuji from Narita

I like to visit the parking rooftop of the Aeon Soyora in Narita New Town. If it's a clear night---and that's rare---I can see Mount Fuji from the top of the parking garage. There it is some months ago. It's amazing, because it's about 100 miles away. That's how BIG Fuji is. From…

Dying Narita

Narita slowly changes. I have noticed this over the last ten, and really twenty, years that I have been associated with this town. On my walk up the Nishiguchi Avenue this week, I noticed that the Cram School "Grows" (or "Glows"---not sure which one!) closed its doors at the Eguchi #2…

I am 22,222 days old today.

It gets me recognition only. It's the "Million Miler Program", but you really need to do a full 1,000,000 miles with ANA to get a nice bennie besides the luggage tag.

My 500,000 miles with ANA.

A couple hundred miles shy of the Kujikuri coast of Chiba, I reached half-a-million miles with All Nippon Airways. The staff was kind enough to celebrate it with me. (It might be, because I mentioned it! It was also my 102nd flight on ANA, by my count.) When I used to…

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Hawaii assault

I saw this while walking by Jefferson Elementary School, north of where the canal starts. A man on a bicycle was approaching the two gentlemen walking. At some point of the biker's going past, the man on the left decided to shove him. He fell off his bike and on to the grass. I…