Bonjour! 👋
Comment ça va? I am writing you from the capital of la belle province: Quebec City.
We have been vacationing in Quebec for the last week. (I have had wayyy too much poutine… and miss rice 🍚). Today we walked all over the city and I took a quick 360 vid from the St Lawrence for you, catching the Châlet Frontenac as the sun went down. I am so beat, so have no profound insights for you this month. This is going to be a short newsletter.
This month marked 1 year of returning to Canada after about 5 fractured years in Japan. The kids started at new schools for the long term. We bought a house. I have been integrating into various communities in Vancouver (but not enough in Surrey… more on that in September I hope!) But it has been a good year of nesting. Very happy to be back.
As for the summer, we have been taking it pretty easy so far: did archery with my daughter, and been tinkering with meshtastic devices with friends. I took a trip to the Okanagan to play some TTRPGs as is our annual tradition. And I have been posting a lot about some upcoming events including DWeb Camp Cascadia happening on Salt Spring Island in a week and Protocols for Publishers which is in New York in a few weeks. I will miss the first one as I will just be getting back from Quebec, but I will be in NYC. Check those out to see if you are interested in good people gathering to talk about how to use tech for good.
Je suis fatigué. Tomorrow morning I am picking up my older daughter from her 5 weeks of studying French here, so it’s a big day!
Bon nuit! 🌜
Le Chad
🖋 From the Blog
TTRPG hole
Follow up from last month’s Fantasy hole
🧭 Elsewhere
“copyright your faults” 🗣 Link →
Live-blogging a witch cafe in Montréal ✨ Link →
Catching up on this year’s Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. Looks so hot! 🥵 Video →
We brought the “noodle spa” back from Japan. Happy Tanabata! 🎋 Video →
EVIL escape room idea 🤣 Link →
Motherfuckin' wind farms 🌬 Video →
📖 What I’m Reading
Awakening from the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha's Wheel of Life by David Nichtern
(37% Complete)
Takes a modern twist to teach the Six Realms of the classic Wheel of Life. See the images to compare here →
Special mention: Empire of AI by Karen Hao is so far a banger of a read (I am 72% in). We had a half-way check in book club session at Metagov. We will be doing a full book discussion in a couple weeks.
Connect with me on GoodReads → or on Bookwyrm →