I almost totally forgot, but my blog has survived a third year as of January 21st. The JLR is now 3 years old!
No one is more surprised than me. 
I have come close to deleting the blog this year a few times out of fatigue and frustration. It’s the same problem every time: I push myself too hard, I don’t balance my life well and get burned out. I take a break, get good advice from my wife, get inspired and start the cycle over and the blog survives another day. ;-p
This, the third year was a busy one. Besides the usual material I changed the blog format somewhat this year. So compared to the 2nd blog-irthday, there is more to celebrate this year.
As for this year, I hope to further refine things and balance other projects with blogging more. So you might notice a slight decline in blogging frequency starting this week. I haven’t decided how much of a decline but it’s an ongoing experiment.
As always, thank you everyone for your support and readership!
–Doug (a.k.a. “the management”)
Hello, this blog is about my life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile / Koreaphile. Any useful information I can pass along will hopefully make the 
Happy birthday JLR!!! It’s nice to have a good read every now and then from somebody who walks the same path!
おめでとう！
Congrats on making it a third year.
Hi guys, and thank you.