The Week #270

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  • 🕹️ We beat Mario Odyssey – or at least Bowser. Next up is getting the rest of the moons and stars. Low-40's remaining.
  • ☀️ The heat continues  and is slated to continue through September. Tokyo broke it's record for number of  "fierce heat" days this summer at 26 and it's not done yet. On the plus side it's become socially acceptable for men to carry sun umbrellas to protect them from the UV.

    Watching the morning news while writing this and it's going to be 37. Those days in London are looking dreamy. 
  • 💰 It took a couple of weeks for the NTA to approve all the things, but I finally got a NISA and bought my first stocks. I'm excited because rather than sending money back to the US each month to invest, I can keep it local. This saves me the Wise fees, removes a bunch of tracking that I probably should be doing more/better, and lets it grow tax-free (in Japan).

    Next step is to setup automation so I'm automatically saving and investing each month. Automating saving is one of those things that is a game changer for personal finance. Let computers remember to do it for me.
  • 📺 I stumbled upon this video about the foreign community in Yokohama from 1982. Fascinating watch.