Personal website and blog of Andrea Roceal James. Maybe one day I will think of a less bland description.https://jngm.net/en-auhttps://jngm.net/posts/2025-wrap-up/https://jngm.net/posts/2025-wrap-up/My first baby steps at listing the significant high-and-low-lights of two thousand and twenty-five.Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/burnout/https://jngm.net/posts/burnout/Making some more connections about my current headspace.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/clearing-the-decks/https://jngm.net/posts/clearing-the-decks/Doing some meta-thinking about my approach to problem solving and why I feel so stuck at the moment.Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/explorations-sane-courageous-cheerful-kindly/https://jngm.net/posts/explorations-sane-courageous-cheerful-kindly/Undertaking a bit of a deep-dive literary detour into the past, based on a childhood favourite re-read.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/general-anxiety/https://jngm.net/posts/general-anxiety/Something to do with my general dissatisfaction with the state of the world and myself all in one unfocused ball of bleahSat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/hibernation-mode/https://jngm.net/posts/hibernation-mode/My annual battle with the wintertime commences, depsite having many irons in the fire.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/holding-pattern/https://jngm.net/posts/holding-pattern/A post in which I meander a bit about where I'm at and where I'm going, just so I can keep up the practice of blogging.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/late-night-fridays/https://jngm.net/posts/late-night-fridays/In an attempt to introduce some level of regularity of posts, I waste everyone's time explaining why I'm always tired on the weekend.Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/memories-in-the-middle/https://jngm.net/posts/memories-in-the-middle/A travelogue! Come with me as I tick off some travel bucket list items and reflect on my experiences in Perth and cross through the middle of the country by train.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/mental-health-day/https://jngm.net/posts/mental-health-day/The battle against the mid-winter blues continues. A sauna and some ruminations on work and life.Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/on-vinyl/https://jngm.net/posts/on-vinyl/Just an odd reminiscence about something I don't really collect.Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/post-minimum-viable-blog/https://jngm.net/posts/post-minimum-viable-blog/A post in which I embark on an old project once again.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/spilling-out-of-the-jar/https://jngm.net/posts/spilling-out-of-the-jar/Thinking a bit more about overwhelm and how to make more quiet for myself.Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/swimming-laps/https://jngm.net/posts/swimming-laps/Some more thoughts on progress and incremental change.Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/the-state-of-2025/https://jngm.net/posts/the-state-of-2025/Setting the stage, blathering about where I am, and maybe figuring out next steps.Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/the-voice-at-the-other-end/https://jngm.net/posts/the-voice-at-the-other-end/On blogging, writing, and how as humans we still keep our voices calling out on a kind of a telephone line through time.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/mixed-midwinter/https://jngm.net/posts/mixed-midwinter/Just a rambling life update with the lense of my usual winter mental health strugglesSat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/the-year-of-everything-being-too-hard/https://jngm.net/posts/the-year-of-everything-being-too-hard/Reflecting on struggle and the year that was.Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/travelogue-hawaii-april-2025/https://jngm.net/posts/travelogue-hawaii-april-2025/Some thoughts and highlights from the two weeks I spent on holiday in Hawaii last month.Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/travelogue-nz-2026/https://jngm.net/posts/travelogue-nz-2026/More tales of adventures, including the end of my Indian Pacific jaunt and a couple of weeks in Auckland, NZMon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jngm.net/posts/winter-blues-2025/https://jngm.net/posts/winter-blues-2025/Mental health care when the days are short and the nights are long. Ponderations about how I would love to spend my time, at least in pipe dreams.Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT