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My wife and daughter are currently in Japan.  I miss them horribly, so I’m not sure how rational these thoughts are, but it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have them.

I’m fantasizing about quitting my job, moving to Japan, and trying to make a living as a niche blogger.  Sure, I’d have to find my niche (using being an American in Japan as a start) and work on my writing skills, but I don’t think the idea is completely “crazy.”  My wife and I would reverse roles as the main “breadwinner,” but she has a law degree and could easily eclipse my current salary in a few years, leaving me to spend quality time with our daughter and honing my “craft.”

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I’ve become quite addicted to FriendFeed lately, making it the first and the last thing I do each day, and at several opportune times in between.  While I initially used it to find new and interesting things, ala Digg, Mixx or Google Reader, I’ve recently seen the potential for networking.  Sure, there are other “social networks” that you can say give you the same opportunity to meet with people and interact, but FriendFeed (henceforth in this post to be called “FF”) does something different.  You begin to see your interests aligning with someone else, whether it’s their comments on the posts of others, or simply what they post.  Since they’re not only posting directly to FF, but their OTHER social network environments as well, you begin to see the whole picture of who someone may be.

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