dddave

I built several darkrooms during my analog days. I found smaller was always better, like a good single chef kitchen. Just good separation between wet & dry side. With direct AC, dust control, especially when drying film could be an issue. Some AC units have pretty good dust filters. Worth looking into. I used to dry my film in hanging clothes storage bags with zipper opening. Worked great. It would always amaze me. No matter how much attention I paid to making it light-tight, sit in there with lights off for 15 minutes and it's like "Starry-Starry Night", little pinpoints everywhere.

On Lazada and other 3rd party shopping sites, it's really easy for shady operators selling shoddy/ersatz products to basically "Pump & Dump" They put up something like the OP mentions, hi specs/lo price, sell maybe 1000 or so in a couple of days, make maybe $100 on each, then close it out and set-up the next scam. Lazada or whatever doesn't have time to catch it before it's already done and gone.

This past April I spent two weeks in Maharaj Hospital (Govt.) in Nahkon Rachisima. I probably had interactions with 20 Doctors in that time and all spoke understandable English. Not so much with nursing staff and aids but enough so that what was needed was usually understood. I was impressed with the excellent care I received there.

Kluay Nam Thai is not a hospital I would recommend to anybody. Very low standards. It is primarily a geriatric care facility.

Seller's address was Chonburi. I am in Chonburi. Hardly a distance justifying a 50% delivery increase. Single item, no variations. Very simple. Price displayed not the price charged.

If you are running an add-blocker it can cause sign-in problems. Also, if in Chrome, try clicking the "re-load" button, top left. That usually makes my sign in work. Also, when browsing Lazada and a page won't come-up, do the same.

Unless you are somehow getting all that excess baggage for free, forget about it. Good utensils available at better stores (Central, Robinsons) Plastic cutting boards everywhere from B20 stores to department stores. Doritos, cheese popcorn, Cape Cod potato chips, Cheeze-Its, Reeses Cups: now that's a different matter. Customs guy will really appreciate that '79 Yammie. "So Sorry, can not import used vehicles, leave it over in the corner. Don't forget the keys"

Has anybody else experienced the following lately? On the Lazada website, you'll click on an item and it shows price and shipping cost. You put it into your cart and either the price is higher or the shipping is higher or sometimes, both. Tonight I was buying a sauce I like. Quoted B75 for the sauce, B25 shipping. Put it into the cart and suddenly the sauce was B82 and the shipping B38. That's a B20 jump. I've noticed it on other items as well. What sucks more, if you return to the item in the listings, the higher price shows, not the initial price. That's quite a nasty algorithm they've come up with. Obviously figuring people will buy it anyway...after all, just a few more Baht.

"Fatty's" Great music and food. Off Rama9 but check the map, a bit out of the way. I think "Det-5" on Suk. 8 still has live bands but not sure.

If coming from the USA, make sure your power supply is international and can handle 220. Mine wasn't. A pop and a puff of smoke told me so. Replacement only cost B400 at the old Pantip Plaza.

I was having a HDMI issue with my NUC. Changed cables and "taa-daa" all good.

#37.5mg Tramadol (Ultracet) seems to be the most effective OTC painkiller for my arthritic knees. For about a month, I've been taking 1 tablet per day, around noon, before I go out. It is far more effective than any of the NSAIDs (paracetamol, enteric aspirin, ibuprofin) I've used. Is that low a dose still potentially addictive or capable of causing undesirable side-effects? Will the effectiveness of that dose likely diminish over time, requiring a larger dose for the same effect?