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40 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Sorry just asking, do you ever suggest to your daughter about doing something maybe active together, where you can't look at a phone. 

Yes, I've booked & asked about activities, set up family times/games..... Supplied musical instruments she wanted to pursue that lasted for a short time.... She's the most accomplished freehand artist I've seen and I supplied everything she could possibly need....

We have Dad/Daughter days + slurpy days every Thursday....

I've managed to get us all out camping a few times.... I've taken them out for archery, mini golf trips....Have had her out bumping/digging/setting a volleyball, badminton, Frisbee toss & catch, also had her out hitting softballs off a tee & playing catch.....

Any ambition she's embraced she's had support....

2 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

Letting toddlers play on a busy road.

Toddlers standing up on motorcys between parents legs, gripping the handlebars to hang on.....Makes cringe every time....

7 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

You have more than 10,000 posts on this one forum. Leading by example. ???? 

It's the only forum I'm involved in & it's taken 14 years.... Yeah, some time wasted as initially I got involved with some of the word games that account for half the total and certainly = wasted time....

I dropped participating in that when I noticed how the "posts" count accumulated....

I tend to ebb & flow posting....

But = point taken....

Unfortunately free range kids are very common here.....

Our 16 y/o is basically glued to her phone.....I wanted to set reasonable limits & my wife basically takes the "up to her" stance....

To my daughters credit, she is holding a 3.6 at school....She is very talented/gifted in many ways, however,  I have watched the creativity spiral downward close to zero with all her extra time going to playing on the phone.... Electronically free range....

I don't look forward to the wake up call....

I  carry when there....

I no longer hunt or have horses  but we do RV / dry camp boondocking style at times in primitive areas....

58 minutes ago, bignok said:

Honest posting. Not there for golf or culture.

Going for the elusive hole in one....

Fore....

5 minutes ago, RayWright said:

Friday is Martini time. 60ml Gin, 20ml vodka & 15ml Lillet Blanc. Prepped in the shaker and stored in the freezer for a "shaken, not stirred", topped with 2 pitted olives on a stick and a twist of lemming.

On the way back from Lotus, so 10 minutes and counting.

Them lemmings don't take kindly to being twisted....

The latest notice I saw on the subject was one person an hour was dying from Covid in TH....

It doesn't sound like many when spread through 80,000,000 people= unless you closely happen to cross paths with an unmasked stranger that happens to be infected ......

I went to our close by Hang Dong 2 big C a few days ago, paused and looked around - not a mask in sight......15 minutes later I again stopped & looked around - everyone within sight DID have a mask on..... Two time windows with completely different results.....

If I'm going to be in close proximity to strangers, I mask up....

We're flying out to the US via Taipei next month & we will mask up....

Frankly, I feel safer around those that are careful enough to exercise caution....

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Every morning when I get up at dawn, the weather is perfect, the view is amazing and the woman in my bed is young and warm.

Then by about 6:30am I'm sitting on the patio with a drink and my pets running around the garden.

 

Then I think about my peers back in the UK waking up (alone?) to the cold, the wind, and the rain nearly every day, and how lucky I am to be living out my 'golden years' in Thailand.

Amen brother.....

I'm going to find out next month as we're going back to the US for 4 months....We haven't been there since pre Covid.....

I keep looking at my dog & thinking how much I'm going to miss him ......

1 hour ago, LaosLover said:

 

Hip replacement here is $18K, In America, $40K, Mexico, in the middle. Medicares says they''ll pay 80% (more like 70% after nickel and dimeing), so no huge savings to enjoy their largesse. And you have to wait until someone decides it's medically necessary.

 

You can get insurance at any age, but the older you lock in your rate, the steeper it will be. Also, the longer you wait, the more likely a pre-existing condition is to pop up.

 

I'm thinking of cutting loose medicare entirely. It's mainly a get out of jail free card in case I need chemo not available in Thailand. But going back to the dysfunctional USA and fighting with billing while I'm sick?

 

No, I'll depart to Euro-land and still pay less. Or maybe some Marriot-like condo attached to a hospital in India. It already exists.

 

 

Hip here with the latest titanium US appliance = $8000......

Before I became aware of TH I needed my gall bladder removed....The anesthesiologist in SF area quoted $34,000.....I flew to India, had the surgery + a full body physical & one week in a 4 star hotel with a car & driver that acted as a tour guide/guard/driver/go-fer.....

Cost about $12,000 including airfare for 2.....The US pricing is off the charts theft.....

These fkn pop ups blocking the screen are 100% annoying.... About 20 times just trying to make this comment.....

Here's the best in CM = Outstanding

Rajavej Hospital is near his office & was a good experience....He did a hip replacement for me....