Amos in Utsunomia

I live on the outskirts of a city but it is very quiet here. Rice fields behind the house just one small road going past the front. At night there is hardly any traffic on there, so it is really peaceful. Love it.

Top one looks pretty cheap I think. I also would go with the middle one out of that lot.

Is there much connection between the remaining Prince hotels now? They seem to off-loaded quite a lot of them the last few years.

Thurs and Fri of the 2nd week so I get that full week off.

I think it's awful, would never use it

Talking of which, with Niseko being a bit of a 'hotspot' so to speak does it attract much govt infrastructure investment?

Anyone been of late to this place? Still open I presume?

Zao, man

Not many at all. I broke my ankle.

Crazy shit!

Prep for me is looking out the window, reading the weather reports and eating brekkie.

Wow. There's still a week to catch up!

Is that close to the gala place that muikabochi went to last week? The scenery looks familiar...

That was a good buy. I regretted holding off getting one.

This one's cool too

Something about this shot I like

Brilliant

Just on NHK now about 76 flights being cancelled and pretty snowy conditions up at Chitose. Must be very frustrating for all involved.

This is only a temporary closing for a month or so right? So are they going to be making changes when they re-open? Seems strange that they would close just for a few weeks and then reopen unchanged.

I had problems with one once. A colleague at work asked me if it was plugged in directly to the plug at the wall or on an multi extension lead. It was on the latter. I changed it to be plugged in at the wall and it worked then. Don't know why that would make much of a difference but might be worth a go.

Just writing quickly from near Appi - about 30cm overnight and still snowing. Lets hope it continues.

I can tell the difference as well, as neversummer said. They are expensive though and not worth the 3x/4x cost.

You pay for the lovely seat covers and driver gloves.

Add a bit of stupidity.....

Hi there. Hopefully snow on its way Monday!