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5 years & if you are over a certain age you can be renewed without an office visit if your record is clean....You pay the fees & it's posted to you....

Naah - they are targeting the flakey expat areas..... I wonder if a significant number of TDL holders are getting rung up on vehicular charges after traveling back to their home country using the TDL for their license....

If staying home, cotton walking shorts & a colored T-shirt.... Good for comfort, dog walking, bicycling, etc.... If going out for errands or lunch - 3/4 length cargo pants (cotton), & a polo type shirt..... I don't like synthetic fabric clothing that doesn't breathe in hot, high humidity weather.... I have waaaay too many shirts = they'll never wear out....

50,000 baht damages each & not even a table over turned.....

How about football, American style..... I don't know about unhappy, but he does seem less boisterous & outgoing.....

Same crowds that go to fortune tellers/seer's, consult chrystals, & play with their silly singing bowls....

You can obtain a Certificate of residence from your local immigration office.... It's good for 30 days.... I've made, and used copies for other uses.... It takes 3 weeks from the CM office.... I'm unsure if the timeframe is different in other areas....

Thanks.....

Is Ikea an option?

I'm surprised they have lasted this long.....

27' in the bedroom with a ceiling fan..... Just ceiling fans in the living & dining areas.....

You've met my Ex.....

Sometimes it feels like it....There are days when I think how nice it would be to be working a trout stream in the Sierras or driving the Pacific Coast Highway - both of which was a short drive from home.... Now, surrounded by flat rice fields it's a world away..... Fortunately we have an RV & car in storage for our extended trips back.... Family has a closer, more intimate relationship here, which is a plus..... Having had all the toys in the west brings back some wistful memories..... Growing up & living in California (before the current insanity) gives mixed thoughts..... But, I am not unhappy here....So, I don't feel "stuck"....I have a happy family life & purpose here..... My family in the US follows the "independent" mode & is much more fragmented than my Thai family here..... Basically, I miss some areas & recreation opportunities from the US; but, I'm happy here.... At 77 there's not much out there left to conquer - and, I've accomplished most of that....

Make my own....Crispy crust with Italian pepper salami, ham, mushrooms, & onions....I make 2 or 3 at a time..... I can make 3 very large for the price of one large dining out..... There's 4 of us so the 10-12" local pizzas don't cut it.....

77 now.....When I was in my 30's I worked for about a year in downtown L.A.....It was a zoo then....Crowded, predators doing their hustle everywhere, people loitering everywhere you looked, people defecating in parking lots was pretty common.....Mostly Hispanic.....My office was at a corner "storefront" location....I could watch the parade every day.... EXCEPT When Immigration was making sweeps.....Then, the streets were empty, businesses shuttered, & parking was available.... There was a huge illegal problem then.... IMO, if anything, the numbers are understated now....

Hard question if TSHTF.....We have an RV & SUV stored in the states.... Assuming airlines are flying, one possibility is to crank them up and head on out to the wide open spaces..... But, in reality, we'd probably have to just hunker down here....

Part of the PI versus TH debate....

Because many use outside cooking techniques ..... Dishwashers are few also....I doubt there's any trash compactors around either.....

After looking around I got this from Lazada.... It far exceeds the one I replaced & excels in bread & pizza.....I have fresh homemade toast every morning..... It will accept 3 racks....It has separate temperature controls for upper and lower....It has a convection option that we hardly use....The 80 liter is a good size as it fits baking pans/cookie sheets..... I wish I'd have found this one sooner....They also have 60 & 100 liter sizes..... We are a family of 4 and it handles our demands easily.....Good to 250 on both elements.....I use at 200 unless browning something like trays of chicken wings..... It has an interior light, which is handy.....

Nope

In the rare instances she gets upset, she just goes quiet....Never an outburst or an "I'm not speaking to you" or a curse out..... Me, and our daughters are pretty much the same... There's never a yell fest.... It could be a lot worse since it's 3 against one & my best buddy & soundingboard (dog) just died.....

The Khlong next to our MuBaan has breached into a expanse of rice fields.... There's a banana plantation at the end of our Soi....Their reservoir is about 8ft deep & a 1/4 - 1/3 acre in area....It was bone dry with no in flowing water source..... It's now full..... We're on the SPT-HD border.....

A LOT of water coming down... Parts of San PaTong are flooding.....

In parenting I have found it frustrating when my wife used it "up to she" with our daughters..... I like to talk out the scenario with them first rather than have something catastrophic take place..... In this instance I find it scapegoating..... The phrase design seems to escape responsibility & confrontation.....