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How far in advance of your expiration date can you renew your license? 

Wai La Dee was great long ago, then something went wrong. The dishes were clearly prepared by staff without the chef's supervision. Then they got their A game back. 
But I went last month and not only was the food pedestrian (again) the mainland Chinese have put this place on their radar and 70 percent of diners are loudly shouting at each other and otherwise showing no respect for other diners. There is solo piano music in the background on the PA system but you can't hear it anymore over the Mandarin din. A real pity on both fronts. 

When I see this (Le Crystal) -- 15g of gelato? -- I have to sneer. Unless, of course it's free....

Are there any restaurants with ethnic food (not French) you would recommend? African/Indian/Middle Eastern?
 

It's time to roll this one out again.... 

BEST PLACES TO EAT IN CHIANG MAI

I'm looking for something really noteworthy. Price is not a consideration unless it's fabulously overpriced for what you get. 

Some of the well-known names have their ups and downs quality-wise over time. What's the state of play these days? 

Thanks

I have a couple of old classical ones from Japan that were student loaner models. Yamaha G-60A and an old Hashimoto.

I also have a very nice half guitar (label indecipherable) you might like if you are traveling. Full-sized fretboard. Very well built (even has a truss rod).

All could use new strings, but quite playable. You can borrow one for your duration. 

PM me. Be patient as I am not here often at all. 

Thanks Neal. No need to be snarky. Not everyone has an internet presence, but now I know who does. 

So far, only one name here: Doug Hood, but no idea where this person could be contacted. 

I am an intermediate golfer. 

Everything is relative TGW. 
Let's say, weekend golfer level. 

Thanks but I am not looking for online swing correction advice. I'm asking if anyone knows of a legitimately qualified and successful golf coach. 

Is there such a person? 

I'm looking for someone to fine tune something with my swing, but looking at the "coaches" around the various driving ranges, I am not impressed in the slightest. 

Anyone have first-hand experience with a real winning coach? 

That's what I suspected. Thanks. 

Q: I have a new passport with transferred stamps from my previous one. Renewing my one-year extension, is all I need contained in the new passport, or do I need any copies from the old one? 

So this was never a public health issue; rather, a cuteness statement. 

Thursday amulet market at Kamtieng, across from the post office and next to the big Tesco. 
There are booths that do nothing but make these. They are REALLY good. I had some special sized made and was absolutely amazed at the quality of workmanship. 

RAM has a lot of expensive machines that can do many things you don't need. I have come to the conclusion over a period of time that the management must be pushing the doctors to do as many tests on the expensive machines as possible, regardless of whether you might need it or not. 

Please look at the number of states in the United States with mask mandates. 

Covid 19 mask mandates by state

Oh, look, the number is ZERO. 

And now in the US the public transport masking mandate (airlines in particular) has been lifted. 

But the virus in Thailand is totally different, right? Let's see if we can re-invent the wheel in Thai characteristics....

Buy benzyl alcohol and add to sterile water at 0.9 percent. Presto-changeo, you got it. 

The road is deep sand, which was not compressed with a steam roller, covered with this tiny "rebar" and concrete poured over this. 
Does this seem correct to anyone familiar with construction? 

Remember, the legal concept of cannabis in Thailand states that the THC content must be less than 0.2 percent. 

The average THC content in recreational marijuana is 20 percent or more.

What Thailand is advocating is a bit like the current fashion to put the word "truffle" in snack foods with the fungus making up a similar percentage. Some would call this false advertising, but technically speaking it is true. 

"LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - People in England with COVID-19 will from late February no longer be legally required to self-isolate to stem the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, proposing to speed up existing plans to live with the virus.

Johnson ended almost all COVID-19 restrictions in England last July, and last month lifted "Plan B" measures that had been temporarily imposed to slow the spread of the more recent Omicron variant of the coronavirus."

Hey Thailand...isn't this the same virus? Or is the one in Thailand different and needs special heightened madness mandates? 

Only 11 states and D.C. have mask mandates and ONLY Oregon has an outdoor mask mandate. 
Perhaps a reporter might to some research and ask him about this and how it relates to Thailand.