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It gets worse. If you live abroad and need to renew it, it costs $600. In Japan, the locals can get a passport for about $100, and they’re planning to lower it to counteract a rise in the departure tax (I think).

The flag is not mounted to the lamp, but directly behind it. You cannot see the pole for the lamp.

In the covered bicycle parking that my apartment building provides.

The membrane buttons on my also Panasonic bread machine are dying after ten years. No more up, but at least it will cycle around through menus, so down button will suffice. I feel your pain and fear that soon too I will be in the same situation.

If you are able to fix the membrane switches please share!

Looks great! I love my bread machine, too!

If I had to guess, I would say that it was probably made in a bread machine due to the shape. Nothing wrong with that, though.

One thing I try to do is to avoid procrastinating. If there is a task to do and I think to myself “I’ll do it later” I then ask myself “will it take more than five minutes”? If the answer is no, then I make myself do it.

I also use an app on my phone to keep a list of chores on a schedule. Having things lingering on the list is annoying, too. But the app allows me to skip or reschedule them. If you are on iOS and need some app like this I recommend PikaPika.

Amazing how a six paragraph long article managed to bury the lead.

Lede not lead. I mean this in the nicest of ways.

Luckily I’m not one of those guys haha

Financial institutions in Japan ask the same thing. It is because Americans have to pay tax to American even when they don’t live in America. It just means there is more paperwork apparently.

How many floors high was it?

This forum and Macintosh Garden would be worth taking a look.

Back in the day, an easy programming tool for Mac was called Real Basic. Like VB but on a Mac.

I don’t have any PPC hardware anymore, but now I kind of wish I did lol.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Iris Ohyama is a pretty big company. Usually shortened to just Iris in conversation here lol

Japan Credit Bureau

How about JCB?

I guess it is to hold the compressor for a split system air conditioner.

Sadly it is not free on Amazon Japan. Good luck with this though!

This song may help.

Looks great! I saved the recipes and will give them a try when possible!