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On the face of it I’m ending this year in pretty much the same circumstances as last year. However, I do have to acknowledge the good fortune of having been able to book a booster vaccination shot and receive it yesterday in the pharmacy of the downtown clinic where I got my first two doses in the spring and summer. It did mean aching around for the last day of this year, but I’ve done what I can.

So far as something more profound than the first sentence of the first post of each month might say, this was the year I became an uncle. I suppose it’s not as big a change for me as for the rest of my family, but I have had the chance to deliver two different presents already.

January: As it turned out, I marked this new year in somewhat grander fashion than quite a few before it.

February: With one thing and another, I lost track of just-released translated light novels for a while.

March: In juggling a few idle pastimes, I’ve found my interest in “fooling around with old computers” waxes and wanes.

April: At the start of the year I didn’t lack for anime to watch, and yet I had been asking myself how much of it I’d see in the three months ahead.

May: “Encouraging vaccination by positive example so that life can become a bit less worried and risky for everyone” would seem to be a good thing.

June: When “I could make a whirlwind tour through a century’s worth of animation from Japan in three months of my time” turned into “I will stop by a different decade by the calendar every weekend,” I knew I’d have to start with decades’ worth of animation screened in theatres.

July: After three months of backing my anime viewing down to “sometimes just one episode a day,” (which could still be a lot depending on who’s looking at it), I was looking forward to picking up my pace again.

August: A post on my reading list passing along the attention of an online critic for who manga is just one part of a speculative whole and seeking to pick up that title too turned my own attention towards a series that had been running for a while, the distinctively titled Dead Dead Demon’s DeDeDeDe Destruction by Inio Asano.

September: When I subscribed to Otaku USA magazine after years of buying it off bookstore magazine racks, I wound up being sent emails linking to news items on the magazine’s web site.

October: I kept pushing along at my own pace watching anime through the months of summer, not lacking in the slightest for things now available to see.

November: On the weekend I installed a security update in advance of a full system upgrade. It took some time and several restarts, but once my computer was running again I got back to work on revising a lengthy post.

December: Writing a post about the first volume of the new release of Rumiko Takahashi’s Maison Ikkoku might have been a chance to say a bit about Takahashi’s manga in general.
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