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Nov. 23rd, 2024 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsyBetween compressed workweeks and a few loose days of vacation time leftover, I have about 15 more working days left in 2024, give or take a day. And only one of them is a Friday.
Doujin music: There's a group called Fuling Cat Mark. I kinda stumbled across them at M3 last year, walking by their table and thinking "this looks interesting", followed by buying one of their CDs. And I enjoyed it. Then I come to find out their discography is in the dozens. Rather than make things difficult, they made a package deal called "King of Akishibu" which has about 30 of their CDs (which isn't all of them) and it sells for about $200. Closer to $300 if I account for international shipping, because the set weighs about 3KG. Which for that much music, is still a deal. Some of it is hard to find, even online.
There's another release coming out from MOSAIC.WAV next month but that one is a pre-order. From what I read, it's going to be a "we're only making enough for the preorders" kind of thing. It was a little tricky. No international shipping, and they didn't take PayPal or foreign Visa/MC for payment. Fortunately it accepted the Tenso address, and even though the site didn't say it took Discover, the charge went through. (Discover and JCB use the same processing networks in Japan and the US. Sometimes that works, sometimes that doesn't.) In about a month, I'll know for sure if this worked. If it doesn't, all I can hope for is it either shows up on Surugaya or Mandarake or someone uploads it somewhere, and none of those are guaranteed.
The age of fifty has come for me. I've already accepted it months ago. The milestone that gets to me is more work-related: I'm starting to meet coworkers who weren't yet born when I started working there. I'm not surprised; when I started, there were people who had been working there longer than I've been alive, and I knew that given enough time, that pendulum was going to make that one-way swing the other way eventually. And the longer I stay there, the more of those I'm going to meet.
One of my coworkers who is literally half my age recently returned from her first trip to Japan. She was there for 3 weeks and enjoyed it.
Doujin music: There's a group called Fuling Cat Mark. I kinda stumbled across them at M3 last year, walking by their table and thinking "this looks interesting", followed by buying one of their CDs. And I enjoyed it. Then I come to find out their discography is in the dozens. Rather than make things difficult, they made a package deal called "King of Akishibu" which has about 30 of their CDs (which isn't all of them) and it sells for about $200. Closer to $300 if I account for international shipping, because the set weighs about 3KG. Which for that much music, is still a deal. Some of it is hard to find, even online.
There's another release coming out from MOSAIC.WAV next month but that one is a pre-order. From what I read, it's going to be a "we're only making enough for the preorders" kind of thing. It was a little tricky. No international shipping, and they didn't take PayPal or foreign Visa/MC for payment. Fortunately it accepted the Tenso address, and even though the site didn't say it took Discover, the charge went through. (Discover and JCB use the same processing networks in Japan and the US. Sometimes that works, sometimes that doesn't.) In about a month, I'll know for sure if this worked. If it doesn't, all I can hope for is it either shows up on Surugaya or Mandarake or someone uploads it somewhere, and none of those are guaranteed.
The age of fifty has come for me. I've already accepted it months ago. The milestone that gets to me is more work-related: I'm starting to meet coworkers who weren't yet born when I started working there. I'm not surprised; when I started, there were people who had been working there longer than I've been alive, and I knew that given enough time, that pendulum was going to make that one-way swing the other way eventually. And the longer I stay there, the more of those I'm going to meet.
One of my coworkers who is literally half my age recently returned from her first trip to Japan. She was there for 3 weeks and enjoyed it.
