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My Honda was flooded at home during last floods in Chiang Mai. I contacted my insurance company who took it away for 3 weeks to be cleaned, dried and repaired where necessary. When it was returned everything seemed ok. After a short time both electric windows on passenger side stopped working and the drivers window auto function worked intermittently. The other day I went into a Honda dealer to the service department. There were 2 guys sitting at desks playing with their phones and didn't bother looking up, the cashier and a "greeter". Greeter asked me what I wanted and I asked if a service agent could speak english. She pointed to one and he just indicated to the cashier. She mumbled something and the greeter said to the guy you speak english. He reluctantly looked at me. I had a photo of car in the flood in hope it may make it easier . I showed him photo and without asking anything he just said "next year" I tried to explain had been repaired by insurance company garage and it was only 2 windows not working. "Next year". Btw this was on the 6th. I asked what no service until next year and again he said "next year". I just turned around and walked off with another "next year". So with 25 days left in the year no more service. Possible but hard to believe. There were no other customers in service department at the time. Normally this Honda dealer is very helpful but one lazy agent can ruin their reputation

Not sure if there is any way of checking ledger for tampering. Yes. Most of my crypto were bought via an Australian Exchange. All on Ledger. Some I transfer back to Oz exchange and sell and some here.

Reasonably happy. I have completely run out of assets other than crypto and been selling some lately to stay afloat. I had 80,000 XLM and now down to 30,000 and they came up better than XRP. I still have a reasonable amount of XRP so here's hoping. I use Ledger cold hardware wallets. I have a Nano X and also a S+. I have an as new Nano X for sale in Australia. Long story on that one. I have found them to be reasonably easy to use but admittedly I have not used other hardware wallets. Some people are under the impression that your crypto is stored on the device, they are not, it's only your crypto keys that are stored on it. The seed phrase is a multi word (24 in my case) set of words that is provided by the device when you set it up. Those words need to be recorded and kept in a safe place. If you lose or destroy your device you can buy a new one and enter the seed phrase and bingo its as it was before. If you lose the seed phrase and something happens to the device you are up the proverbial creek without a paddle. People say this is bad. It's the same thing if you have an exchange account and your crypto (keys) are stored there. If the exchange goes away so are you keys thus your crypto. I prefer to have mine on my device rather than an exchange. I transfer to an exchange when I want to sell. Even though I have one for sale, it is recommended to buy direct from Ledger in France. People have resold devices after being modified to steal your keys after you load it up. I have found Ledger to be very helpful and the one I have for sale was a replacement and posted to my original address. Message me direct if you need to know any more as I will help where I can.

On a visit to Australia I went to Centrelink office to enquire about pension on my return. I was told I need to call their international services. If any help it is:- The phone number for Centrelink International Services is +61 3 6222 3455. You can call this number Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM AEDT

I once took 2 "ladies" home from a bar. We all got undressed and I thought I had won the lottery - 6 matching balls.

I call it the "Christmas Hold" - a hand full of nuts.

I live in Chiang Mai and its amazing the number of Myanmar girls who work in bars which is also illegal. I have not encountered any in massage, but then again, I don't ask them.

Unless its a reverse cycle AC the it is an evaporator in cooling mode and a condenser in heating mode.

The later ones I saw in Oz were. This causes a problem with heat dissipation.

Inverter units are very susceptible to electrical spikes. When they first started being sold in Australia they were also found to be very susceptible to geckos and mice running and peeing on the unprotected circuit boards.

I rent a house with 2 ACs. The main bedroom one is used a lot. On checking one day I found the unit was not earthed so I ran an earth from the junction box through the indoor unit to the outdoor unit. Nice and safe. A year or so later the AC compressor died so needed a new AC. Owner of house had an AC group to come replace it. The installers were not just a one man affairg but a largish group. After they left I noticed a length of earth wire I had used on the ground. Took connection cover of AC and earth connected. Took cover off ducting that house the piping and wiring. For some reason they had cut the earth wire off in the ducting but left a useless piece of wire connected to the AC. So much for your "Only have units installed by authorized vendors."

Heard this before, wait till us oldies die out. News flash, oldies never die out. And they don't want to train us too much as we might understand their ultimate plan. Not really aheadlong rush. Been planned for years. Bitcoin was the physical start of things.

You think Thailand is the only country doing this? And you are in Thailand but hate the queue when other people paying with cards. Supposed to chill out. People now so impatient now and in a hurry to get home to watch TV.

I am 69 and use "scan" most of the time now, very easy. I also use Line to chat to most people, again for easy for me at least.

Coming from the person that started the thread.

I am not a big coffee drinker but someone gave me a pack of We Coffee which is 23 in 1 and I quite like it so it is now my morning beverage.

I applied at Bangkok Bank. Had to do a fixed deposit for the amount of "credit" I wanted. Not so bad as it earned higher interest. The bank gave me 2 cards , one of which was an AirAsia card which earned points with AA, and a few other benefits. But that has stopped since covid. So I still keep it as a "just in case".

Hoping for longer but from sibling trends 83 seems it.

I was going to send my dog back to Australia a few years back. A very long complicated and extremely expensive process. Rabbies is the issue as has been completely eliminated from Australia and they take no chances of it returning. She is still here with me.

Mum - cancer. Not sure where as I was only 12 when she was diagnosed. Given 6 months but lived another 4 years. I was 16 and I think she was around 60 when she died. Dad - Heart attack at 67. Retired 65. I was 21 when he died. I was getting married on a Saturday. My sister and he drove 1000km for my wedding on prior Monday. He died on the Wednesday so honeymoon was organising his funeral and travelling back to my home town for it. I have had 1 sister and 2 brothers die at around all around 83. 2 brothers left, one 78 and the other 81. I am the youngest at 68. Is I figure I have about 15 years left.

Guess a good way to try it but seems a waste of money for small transactions considering exchange and blockchain fees. I assume you are short vendors cost by the blockchain fee? Why cant you just send this amount to complete transaction? Obviously fees on that too. Some transfers via blockchain deduct total amount including fee but others do what happened to you where they transfer the amount you say and fee is taken from that. I have done a few transfers from exchanges to cold storage to exchanges, etc. Bitcoin fees a little high and from the limited amounts I have done with Etherium they charge ridiculous "gas" fees. I mostly have the triple X rated coins, i.e. XRP, XLM and XDC. Their fees are very very low and extremely fast. Transferred some from my cold wallet to Australian exchange other day and there in less than a minute. I don't think I have actually bought anything with crypto.

I been here 11 years and still need AC most nights. I cant acclimatize. But everyone is different. If we were all the same life would be boring.

I think he is referring to the older style through wall/window mount all in one units. Everything is in one box and no piping needed. Just needs a very large hole through the wall. I had a couple back in Oz before splits became cheap enough .They usually have a damper that can be set to open or closed. Closed the air recycles in the room as per a normal split unit, and open it lets some fresh cold air in from outside. Pretty rare now but I did a quick search online and can still be purchased.

Welcome. Any thing to help out.

Well I must have imagined that my AC was not working well and had to drop temp setting lower and lower. Thought maybe low on refrigerant. Got someone to come check, a husband and wife team, checked refrigerant levels and ok. So cleaned indoor and outdoor fins. Lady called me out and showed me how dirty outdoor fins were. Amazing how well it worked after that. But, according to you, I must have been imagining it because it doesn't really affect it..