April 2026

April was my first full month of being unemployed after I was laid off in March. With all this free time, I wasn't sure if I maybe wouldn't know what to do with myself. But the days seem to pass by much quicker than I expected. What am I doing with all this extra time, you might ask? Basically it feels like I'm doing the same hobbies as when I had a job - hiking, writing on this blog and working on Hardcover - but everything just feels more stretched out and peaceful. I quite like this feeling. Enjoying some Fuji view hikes This month I put up three hikes on the blog. The common theme in all of them was Mt Fuji. I'll admit hiking the low-lying mountains around Tokyo isn't always the most interesting if you just focus on the trail itself, but the Fuji views are what make them so worth it to climb. Mt Iwadono, Mt Ono and Mt Ryugatake are all mountains I've climbed before, but I hadn't written about any of them on my blog, so I thought they were worth the revisit. One perk of being…