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Wow. Don't sugar coat it. Tell us how you really feel...

6. Apply Protective Finish: If you prefer a clear finish, choose a polyurethane or varnish suitable for wood. Apply thin coats of the protective finish using a clean brush, roller, or sprayer. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for drying time and sanding between coats if necessary. If you prefer a clear finish, priming and painting isn't in the cards. So you can't do steps 4 or 5.

If you were in the USA, I'd suggest a polyurethane varnish or a marine spar varnish. But I just don't know with rubberwood. We don't get much of that... I'm afraid the natural sap of rubberwood may react badly with varnishes that work great on oak or maple. Hopefully, an old Thai hand will chime in soon. BTW, for polyurethane or spar varnish, I'd start out thinning the first coat with about 10-15% mineral spirits to make it thinner, so it gets absorbed deeper. Then a second coat with full strength varnish. Doesn't sound like you need more than 2 coats.

Agreed! Still can't make up my mind who was actually pulling the strings on it all. Certainly had nothing to do with people's health or well-being. Red voters tend to vote in person, on the day. Blue voters tend to vote by mail. I'm forecasting a "rinse and repeat" scenario, regardless of how much it hurts the economy. But that requires a new threat.

I'd point out that if you perform steps 4 and/or 5, you can't do step 6.

The issue is, that with a "recommendation" from the WH, that gives the wingnuts running a lot of companies and institutions permission to mandate vaccines. Like, for example, Rutgers. Among many others.

Foster's solved that problem nicely. With their 10w40 cans.

Don't just look at their % fee. Also pay attention to the exchange rate. Plus any fees your bank back home is going to add. Then compare that to your cost of getting the amount in cash (unless you have THB laying around).

If I'm in the USA, I'll just get some fentanyl. Not kidding... The problem is, will I have the presence of mind to know where I hid it? Plus, that requires breaking the law while I still have the facilities to act. Can't wait until it's too late to get out and buy some, and I'd never ask anyone around me to risk jail to help me.

I don't recall the last time I was at a beach (or a pool) that allowed glass containers, for that very reason. I do recall the 6th grade when I stepped on some broken glass in the water and badly slit my foot.

Just out of curiosity, does Thailand have any affordable options for foreigners who need some elder care, but perhaps not the intense care from a full service facility? Like a retirement community as opposed to a nursing home... My vision would be (perhaps) serving meals in a dining room, shuttles for shopping and health care visits, maid service as an option, etc. Edit: Like some other posters, I've seen elder foreigners who rarely make it out of their doorways, and that seems like a lonely life.

No. I'm suggesting that maybe people who come from different parts of the world think differently, and holding them to his standards smacks of the bwana. If you don't like Asian customs, why live in Asia?

There's a lot of people in Asia who hope that doesn't catch on. Because if it does, they're out of a job and their families will go hungry. It's their rice bowl.

Just before Covid, I had a full body (visual) screening, she froze a bunch of spots and cut out one dime sized carcinoma on my forehead for about 11,000 baht, all in including the biopsy. That was at Samitivej. Probably 2019. (Edit: She gave me the option of getting in a plastic surgeon, but I declined for my ugly mug, and there's virtually no scar anyway) A few months ago, I had a screening and a bunch of spots frozen at Bumrungrad (no cutting and no biopsy) and it was around 5,000 baht. Base price was less than 2,000 baht, but she had to spend a LOT of time on my bald, very sunburnt head. Both cases, made the appointment and got treated the same day. Contrast that to waiting 4 months to even get an dermatologist appointment in the USA and I'd suggest anyone coming to Thailand get that done while you're here.

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/15m-12v-dc-misting-pump-with-power-supply-low-pressure-fog-machine-booster-diaphragm-water-pump-sprayer-for-misting-system-i3713558094.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlist.list.12.42e256459wYUKv I added a 12V fan to mine because I was misting mushroom huts. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/12-10-12v24v-s-i3415410883-s12633501889.html Add a pre-filter for the water if you don't want to change out the nozzles regularly. They plug up with normal tap water, but they're cheap and easy to swap out. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/fast-pure-1-1-4-12-i262739853-s10057407417.html I focused on staying with 12V system because I didn't want to find any dead, electrocuted bodies after a rain or a humid night. All in, less than $100. You can do it for a lot less if you skip the fan and the filter and go with a smaller misting system. They also make very high pressure systems, but those are kind of spendy.

Seeing the absolute throngs of traffic and the amusing video of the Paiute Rangers taking care of business when some whacko protestors created a miles-long logjam on the road to get into Burning Man... I'd like to humbly propose for Thailand... Sweating Man.

Probably more than anyone wanted to know about color codes, though I'm sure the photo in the OP is a stock photo: https://geekymedics.com/blood-bottles-guide/

What's the big deal? They're glass tubes with caps. I used to go down to a packaging store in Chinatown and buy similar (but not exact) vials to make into novelty oil samples for when our home office people would come to visit. They'd come by my office and take back with them a nicely labeled sample of the oil we produced offshore. So popular, I had to make several batches. I suspect the novelty and "bad boy" appeal of these vials is one reason they'd be real popular to hold sweets. But they didn't serve my purpose because I needed something to stand upright on a shelf. If they do investigate, I hope it's just to make sure they're not filched from the medical waste bin of a hospital. (Or, God forbid, and STD clinic)

Broke and hungry people do dumb things.

I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but there's a school of thought that says if you didn't need the immune globulin, you didn't really need the vaccine, either. The vast majority of dog bites don't result in rabies. But once again, I just brought up that "expensive" rabies treatment will include rabies immune globulin. Someone else will have to chime in to educate us in why anyone should or shouldn't pay that extra money. Good info for anyone who may get bitten in the future. I had my rabies treatment around 2010 when I got tagged by a Tibetan Mastiff. Thank God it was a puppy and I was wearing winter clothes. Tibetan mastiffs kill bears. Edit: The cynical side of me tells me that if thieving insurance companies in the USA will approve the $2,000-4,000 cost of the rabies immune globulin, there must be something to it. (It's cheaper in Thailand...)

You probably didn't get the rabies immune globulin, recommended by places that don't worry about cost. The rabies vaccine itself is pretty cheap. I'll let someone else chime in with details and why you would or wouldn't want to pay the extra.

Assuming the SF Standard is correct, this will save me $45 and an hour in the clinic each trip for the ATK test required to get on a flight to China. https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/28/china-ditches-covid-test-requirement-incoming-travelers/

Except that's not what he said. He said that's the narrative that was being spun. So -- yes. I was -- the narrative that was spun to me, quite frankly, just to be -- and I remember this because, obviously, it's -- the narrative that was spun to me was that Shokin was under control and that whoever the next person that was brought in was -- you know, the fact that he was -- this is the total, this is the narrative spun to me, that Shokin being fired was a -- was not good, because he was like under control as relates to Mykola. I have no way to verify that. And that was spun to me from various folks in D.C., not Hunter specifically, but that was what I was led to believe. Whether it's true or not, I cannot speculate.". https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/20/greenwald_the_only_rational_conclusion_you_can_reach_is_that_news_outlets_lie_on_purpose.html

On that, we'd agree.

Hence the need for an impeachment INQUIRY. No stalling when Congress hands you a subpoena for documents or testimony.