Kumamoto, One Year Gone

As I sat near the pool at Hampton Inn in Grand Junction, Colorado today, I thought back one year. If I remember correctly, I had just arrived in Bangkok, Thailand after three years in Kumamoto, Japan.

These days I am very absorbed in working, travelling around the country teaching people how to use some software that will probably make their jobs easier. But to think back on the year that's gone by since Japan is seriously a mental excercise. Not so much the whole year, but parts. Here's how it broke down:

15% - Travelling in amazing Southeast Asian countries.
35% - Poking around the internet under the guise of looking for a job.
50% - Working in an office space environment with a little bit of travel intermixed.

Wouldn't that be nice to have a few of those percentages reversed? Seems to make sense to me. At this point, I still haven't figured out what I am working towards. I enjoy my job and I like travelling and the teaching aspect of my job. I think I am using my talents to an extent. It is very possible I could be doing more either here or in a different part of the world, but how would I know? I am trying to find the motivation to get my shit together to buy a house, because that's what people do, right?

I cannot pass up to opportunity to live in St. Louis at this point. I have all of my sibblings living within a mile of me, parents not too far away, and extended family. I have a close group of friends that I can chill with any time. Some of the videos and photos I have been posting have been ordinary and silly no doubt, but it is home.

I hit up a local Japanese restaurant for dinner tonight and enjoyed some delicious sushi and a nice 22oz Asahi. Got a few messages that St. Louis has been shredded by a storm. Trees down everywhere. I get back tomorrow night and surely there will still be some destruction to witness. Fast years going by.