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Somehow Somchai raising his legal little crop & then hopping on his motorcy is a disquieting thought for me.... It'll take a few years to reap & measure that harvest.....

Soon to be regulated, licensed, & harvested by the powers (soon to be corporations) that freed it's use and availability....

Follow the money.....

9 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

It is so much easier without cash .

Just hold you plastic card against a reader, wait a few seconds for a beep and that's it , transaction carried out .

   No need to carry cash around these days 

Until somebody in a vast banking conglomerate or a government flips the wrong switch & it goes poof....

8 hours ago, JettieG said:

A Benz EV parked on a street in my area just self-combusted. Just need one to do that in a jam-packed parking lot and you got an inferno. 

Or a multilevel parking garage.....

Horror stories in the making....

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I see you're not keeping up with current world events and petrol pricing.

 

No plan is a plan for failure.

That depends on what side of the planet you are ... Oil is reliable with enough reserves for the next half century....

There isn't enough lithium to strip mine & produce the amount of vehicles needed to populate the world + the electricity needed to keep these vehicles on the road will come from coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear....

Lose lose.....

Time for other options to be explored....

Your phone should work on wifi wherever you are.....

If you need to use your DTAC for actual phone calls from your Thai number then you need the DTAC roaming....

When in the US I just get a pay as you go phone for US calls & use my Thai phone with wifi....

The go phone can work as a hot spot when needed.....

RIP 

I'm surprised at the young age to be a member of the queen's guard....I would have thought it would be more a experienced/veteran staffed unit.....

We have a Samsung inverter A/C.....When hitting the mode button one of the modes that shows in the display is "heat".....

I've never checked to see if did anything.....

We have a small ceramic heater with a fan.....It does work very well, but I don't think we've used it 20 times in 10+ years....

We're in the CM area....So far the only concession I've made is to wear a nylon baseball shell while riding the bicycle on some evenings....

You know you're semi acclimated when you feel chilly riding and it's 85f/30c out...

Update = I tried the heat function, it doesn't do much of anything....It shows 28' on display....It will not set higher than that & the ambient temperature is 26'.....

Has anybody tried to make 2 transfers with a small time gap to complete the 1st one first?

On 9/23/2022 at 11:29 PM, StreetCowboy said:

Who can be bothered counting to 140?  I reckon I have two feet of shirts hanging in the wardrobe.
I can understand why blokes like that don't have time for cycling, but I reckon their fitness would improve if they spent less time counting their shirts and more time sweating in them.

 

I cycle every day/evening + workout on our home gym in the morning....

The shirts aren't from size changes as I've worn the same sizes for decades & never allowed myself to be over weight......

The count came when we bought new wardrobes & I was surprised I filled it with some left out....

Contrast that to my wife who has her full wardrobe plus, dresser drawers, and plastic containers in our storage room with full ranges of clothes styles + clothes for a travel wardrobe stashed away until needed.....

Keep the same size...It could throw your module/electronics off....They are calibrated for the correct tire size application.....It could also trigger the check engine/mil light as (for one) the speed-distance sensor would now be out of spec.....

It's possible the wrong tire size was a typo.....

Hope everyone does ok...Our MuBaan is raised + the houses are raised about 2 feet above that.... Below us are thousands of rai lowlands with drain off culverts throughout the region.... I'd hate to think of what it would take to inundate the entire area....One of the reasons we picked here....

According to the locals, it's never happened.... ???? ⛵....

Well, you screwed it up now that we've replied, if you're at all curious....

Now you're back to restarting your count....

I can't say I've ever seen that many notifications - I always reset them....

They must have them somewhere because our neighbors have us some her sister grew....So they are somewhere....

My neighbor said Thais don't like them - can't be used for Thai cooking....

We made lemonade....

There's a huge garden, landscaping market behind the Tesco off the super highway just as the highway downsizes into a section with traffic lights.....North of the Central Mall about 3-5 kilos..

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

I guess one reason why such shoddy building construction is allowed in Thailand is for the simple fact that the country doesn't lie on any large tectonic plate fault-line.  The chance of a large earthquake is very small.

 

Here's a link to the USGS live earthquake map:

 

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-13.93907,63.10153&extent=43.0571,169.88864

True, with seemingly hot water springs & geysers just about everywhere....

After having been within 4 miles of the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake....Seeing streets roll 3-4 feet, houses jump off their foundations, & an entire mountain shift about 40 feet ripping the highway and concrete rebar reinforced medians like paper....

I shudder to think of what can happen here with all the water towers, brick houses & high rises without steel framework, cement power poles, and marginally constructed roads.....

A big quake will be catastrophic....The one thing that is good is no underground natural gas pipelines feeding residential and commercial areas....

Passport for what country?

For my US I mailed in the form, pics, payment, self addressed prepaid envelope, & old passport = received the new one in 11 days...

My youngest American daughter that I'd raised solo was killed in a car crash 4 months before my move here...We were close & it's her I think of the most.... She's next to my Mom & Dad, who were the best one could hope for....I cared for them both through their final chapter & time took it's normal toll.....

I have older daughters in Texas I message + visit when we are there.... There's some cousins in Florida that are 80+....I don't contact them much, but at this age I need to get there for a visit the next time over.....

My son in Washington might as well be on a different planet.... We haven't spoken in years.....

My family here helps me stay stimulated, active & vibrant....

I got caught without my front license plate mounted - new bumper configuration & I hadn't mounted the plate yet....I showed the plate & new mounting holes not lined up....

The fine was 400Baht....