zoomer tourist owned epic style by landchads
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It is currently eight in the morning and another bright sunny day in central Mexico on the second floor of my aunt’s apartment overlooking the town while I wait for my jet-lagged family to wake up. I am scribbling this on a quaint grade school notebook that cost eleven pesos at the corner bodega, as well as with a mechanical pencil I bought for 400 yen in Osaka the year before (peak globalism). All that said, here are a few takeaways from my trip so far.
[...]innawoods plan pt 2 - concerns
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How do I know that moving into the woods is the right move for me? Would I be doing it for the right reasons? Let’s think about it.
As of today, my vision is to stay in my hometown until June of next year. That way, I stay true to my promise to help my friend with his musical endeavors for the remainder of his time in the U.S., and additionally, I carry my efforts to study music to their logical conclusion by obtaining my bachelor’s degree and honing my lifelong craft as musician. After that, I will use the money I have saved up so far, in addition to everything I manage to save between now and then, to:
[...]innawoods plan ver 1
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What is my life narrative for the next ten years?
- Get as many fulfilling musical experiences as possible between now and when I graduate. To the same effect, set aside time to help my friend with his band.
- Take my state-sponsored private voice lessons more seriously in order to teach more effectively when I move out as a part-time gig.
- Do as little in the classroom as possible to pass my classes and obtain my degree by next summer.
- Feverently save money to amass capital by refusing to pay for food and abstaining from needless shopping.
- Make gigantic spreadsheet of possible places to move to in the US.
- Contact realtors and make travel itinerary out of top 10 or so places.
- Look for remote work/freelance online work I can take with me anywhere. I might be able to translate Japanese or Spanish.
- Look for paid, or even unpaid, apprenticeships for carpentry, eletricity, welding, etc. to get hands-on experience I can use to fix my house.
- Take the grand tour of the US whenever confident, perferably by the end of the year. Make up your mind soon after.
- Buy easily repairable (that is, as old and low tech as legally possible/practical) used car.
- Move to the area and settle into a cheap mobile home.
- Go to church every Sunday and get involved with the community.
- Save up with remote and part-time gigs (teaching, trades) in order to slowly begin building a proper home.
backup
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I need to get my backup situation in order to avoid wasting time.
I ended up nuking my installation of pacman about halfway through the month trying to free up space on my paltry 64 GB drive, and I spent about a week on and off trying to fix it only to give up and nuke my otherwise perfect Arch Linux installation. Luckily, I had my home partition separate from the root partition, so I didn’t have to pointlessly migrate my files to a scratch disk (that I didn’t even have) and back. Thankfully, the problem was fixed, and getting back to a workable environment took only an afternoon.
new website
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I finally got around to setting up my own website and email service, in hopes of achieving a fraction of the aloofness and sovereignity of bill wurtz or Luke Smith. Jumping through the hoops was fun in its own right, and prospects were bright, until I got to thinking about what exactly would furnish the site. My original plan included transcriptions of my favorite underrepresented pieces of music, but a few search engine searches revealed how rigid and inescapable copyright laws were in the US and Japan. I could certainly get away with a Laxity piece or two, but there’s no sustainable source of content to be had there.
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