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Anyone know of anywhere to have beginner carving classes? Not woodworking like building furniture or houses, but casual little things like whittling.

My partner recently got into this and is following some online videos, but I thought some live classes might be nice too. Japanese or English fine

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Live in Tokyo Japan. I have about 170 friends, but I’m gonna dump about half of them because they are inactive it seems.

If you liked all of the above and finished them, may I suggest Sniper Elite?

It’s got more of a story than hitman, but of course less than first light. Less linear than first light, and has a lot of options on how to achieve the objectives similar to hitman without the disguises.

Sniper elite resistance (#6) is on game pass (I have ultimate, so I don’t know if it’s on the lower levels of GP), and sniper elite 5 is 80% off in the store at $11.99

I’ve been cheering for Japan ever since I watched the heartbreak of Doha in 1994. Fortunately since 1998, they qualify regularly, but every time they get to the knockout stage it’s just heartbreak.

It would be one thing if they lost 3-0 or something, but I’ve seen them lose twice on penalties (to Paraguay and Croatia), and twice at the last moment even after leading the game (to Belgium and now Brazil)

It really does hurt more this way, rather than being blown out.

Well here’s to 2030, cohosted by Morocco/Portugal/Spain (and special Centenary games played in Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay)

Found this guy on another subreddit who made free World Cup charts in various time zones. Beautiful.

You can print them out large, but I just opened the PDF on my iPad and will fill in the scores with my Apple Pencil

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/5ZykNS9n9c

Really helpful since I usually find English WC charts for US, UK, Aus time zones

After a five hour delay in San Francisco, arrived back in Japan at 8 PM tonight, only to find absolutely massive lines at immigration. I think all of the airlines delayed their arrivals until now.

Luckily, having a re-entry I only had to wait in a 3 person line, but I estimate the visitor line to be about 500-600 on EACH side of immigration (reentry is in the middle). They are probably looking at 2-3 hours just to get through immigration

(for any new residents coming back to Japan for the first time, make sure to push past all of the visitors to work your way towards the center where the reentry immigration desks are. No need to get stuck behind all of them)

All limousine buses are canceled except to Shinjuku and TCAT in Hakozaki. When I went to the desk to get tickets to Shinjuku Station at 8:45, I was told the next available bus was at 9:45 PM.

It’s 9:25 PM now and the 9:45 and the next bus are already sold out. There are only two more buses left tonight, so I imagine they will be sold out before 10 PM. Last Narita express is 9:45, so I guess it sucks to be a visitor tonight. There won’t be any buses or trains when they get through immigration. Well at least they’ll have a story to tell I guess

From my Chase Sapphire Reserve I had 2x $250 edit credits, 1x $250 IHG credit, in addition to 1 free night certificate from my Bonvoy brilliant (up to 85,000pts) that all needed to be used by the end of this year. Just booked this trip for July.

Decided to take a short trip over to China/Hong Kong/Macau from my home in Japan with my Chinese spouse. I’ve been to China and HK many times, so it’s not a sightseeing trip. Pretty much just going to hang out, eat some food. First time to Macau though.

2 nights @ Grand Hyatt Shanghai 34,000 Hyatt pts transferred from Chase UR 1:1 for a King with Club Access, since I have no status with Hyatt (saved $564)

2 nights @ The Regent Hong Kong using The Edit and IHG credit + boosted 58,000 UR (saved $1457, but I’m also getting breakfast for two, and $300 resort credit, instead of the usual $100 which is a special offer they have)

2 nights @ The Four Seasons Macau using The Edit credit and boosted 41,600 UR (saved $1082, but I’m also getting breakfast for two and $100 resort credit)

2 nights @ JW Marriott Hong Kong using my Brilliant 1 free night certificate and 90,400 Bonvoy points (saved $910 on the booking, and can take advantage of my platinum status for lounge access and late checkout since my flight is at 11:50 PM)

Not a massive return on the Hyatt and Bonvoy booking, but quite satisfied with how it all worked out, especially being able to use both Edit credits, the IHG credit and my Bonvoy free night certificate all on this trip, with $0 out of pocket.

It burned up most of my Bonvoy points as well, which is satisfying, though I still have about 500,000 UR (though I much prefer to keep them over Bonvoy points of course)

From my Chase Sapphire Reserve I had 2x $250 edit credits, 1x $250 IHG credit, in addition to 1 free night certificate from my Bonvoy brilliant (up to 85,000pts) that all needed to be used by the end of this year. Just booked this trip for July.

Decided to take a short trip over to China/Hong Kong/Macau from my home in Japan with my Chinese spouse. I’ve been to China and HK many times, so it’s not a sightseeing trip. Pretty much just going to hang out, eat some food. First time to Macau though.

2 nights @ Grand Hyatt Shanghai 34,000 Hyatt pts transferred from Chase UR 1:1 for a King with Club Access, since I have no status with Hyatt (saved $564)

2 nights @ The Regent Hong Kong using The Edit and IHG credit + boosted 58,000 UR (saved $1457, but I’m also getting breakfast for two, and $300 resort credit, instead of the usual $100 which is a special offer they have)

2 nights @ The Four Seasons Macau using The Edit credit and boosted 41,600 UR (saved $1082, but I’m also getting breakfast for two and $100 resort credit)

2 nights @ JW Marriott Hong Kong using my Brilliant 1 free night certificate and 90,400 Bonvoy points (saved $910 on the booking, and can take advantage of my platinum status for lounge access and late checkout since my flight is at 11:50 PM)

Not a massive return on the Hyatt and Bonvoy booking, but quite satisfied with how it all worked out, especially being able to use both Edit credits, the IHG credit and my Bonvoy free night certificate all on this trip, with $0 out of pocket.

It burned up most of my Bonvoy points as well, which is satisfying, though I still have about 500,000 UR (though I much prefer to keep them over Bonvoy points of course)