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Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

In your time I will have been in Japan for three weeks. But as I write this, stocking up all the future posts so as not to to break faith with clerkmanifesto and any of its readers while I may or may not be adding anything as I travel, I am now a mere five days from leaving the country.

My darling wife and I have been very busy. We knew this would be a demanding and complicated process, dismantling our lives and moving to another country, but I think it has been even a bit harder than that. It has been a life of paperwork, planning, cleaning, selling, studying, banking, and bureaucracy. And during this I have tried to weatherproof clerkmanifesto against needing to post anything until we are at least through our 40 days in Japan and slightly settled in our first (2 months, 6 days) French home. But so far I have, despite my best intentions, completed a lot of very finished, fairly articulate posts, rather than many many of the more sketchy kind I have suggested I would be doing in my standard green text above. In short, I have spent what clerkmanifesto time I have had on what perhaps have been fewer posts than I hoped.

I have finally finished my long project of a music video of my muppet co-workers. I have posted my backlog (or most of it) of old rediscovered artwork, and I have perhaps indulged my predilection for explaining what day it is for me writing compared to what day it is for you reading more times than is ideal. So what next?

At this point I am thinking of leaning quite a bit more on old clerkmanifesto posts from the past, and, though I've said it before enough times that it is a little hard for me to fully believe it, I really am hoping to leave off the explanations and move on to the next day. Twenty-five posts in four busy days seems unlikely, but I'll get as far as I can. But either way, there will always be something every day here.

As ever, see you tomorrow.

 Here are today’s pictures of our adventures in Kyoto, in the kind of dual timelines clerkmanifesto I am currently running . We are just past the middle point of our time in Kyoto, bogging down just a bit in the heat and pace of it all. We have been hiding out some in massive train stations, malls, supermarkets, and an occasional sky tower, but they’re as fascinating as the zen temples, and air conditioned!