GreasyFingers

Don't listen to the weather report, just go outside and look for yourself.

Wait till we get to the rhyming slang, china plate.

The Americans have bastardized the English language. A Z is a zed, not a zee. Not to mention the unmentionables of what pride and gay means in the English language, or how to spell colour. The u must have been too difficult to understand, just like a Bush said that the French do not have a word for entrepreneur.

Except that they have trouble understanding Australian.

Just read your post after replying to the PM. I have never been asked to have Thai documents translated as it has always been a Thai person that processed the application. Let me know if things have changed as this would be serious.

When they did our road the Thais did not even wait an hour, drove on it while still hot.

No problem getting a 3 year visa (600) for my wife a couple of months ago via a ImmiAccount. However this was her fourth visa and second 3 year multiple entry. A lot of paperwork (pdf's) but most of it was already prepared from previous applications. It was just the same information so why we need to go through the whole process each time is anyone's guess. The same with the biometrics that they have on file. Her new Thai passport has her biometrics in it but this is not good enough for our esteemed Home Affairs department.

ilmenite is what you need, but do not know if available here.

There may be a way to keep using Quicken. I used the Australian version called Reckon, but still made by Intuit, and when I bought the new computer searched the internet on how to transfer the program to it. It was possible to download the 2015 version that I had been using from their help site. I had kept the installation key so was able to set it up on the new computer. Maybe Quicken has the same setup.

I was a Quicken user for nearly as long as the OP, but also will not pay for a subscription. When i bought a new computer I switched to Ubuntu, was really sick of Microsoft wanting to know what I had for breakfast. The problem with Ubuntu is that most of the programmes are double entry bookkeeping, unlike a Quicken Cashbook. There are Windows programs that are single entry cashbook style but finding one that has the detailed reports in Quicken is the problem. Unless you are an Excel expert you would have the same problem. For Ubuntu I now use MMEX Money Manager but as stated it does not have the reporting capabilities,

My favourite massage lady always wanted to crack my neck and saw her do it with other friends. No way was she going to do it to me.

Will stay with Aldi until there is a problem.

Interesting that plan has global roaming for free, thought they charged for short time like the other carriers. I overcame the problem by changing my Telstra number to Aldi on a similar plan to yours. Do not know how long the roaming will continue though, will check Vodaphone if it stops.

Better the Bible than you. So where did they come from?

If you read the bible the Israelis came from east of the Euphrates River. That would be Iraq or Iran in the modern world.

It certainly looks like water has done it.

Have had a Sharp 2000W bagless for 5 years, still going strong. The OP needs to look at the wattage, 2000W would be my minimum, the higher the better.

Interesting. Never had that with CBA.

I have never been able to call to 1800 numbers from a Thai SIM. Have things changed?

Does this mean that you can now have alcohol on a long distance train.

You have to be careful that there are not slight size differences in the batteries even though they are advertised as being a Makita substitute. The difference can be very small but they do not fit Makita tools.

A couple of years ago there was a promotion for butter that came with a plastic container to fit 250gm. Allowrie then reduced the butter to 240gm, them 220gm and now 200gm so the plastic containers are the wrong size. We do not need to talk about the price increase as well.

You have creayed a problem for yourself buying 2 houses already, would be better to sell one now. There is nothing wrong with being married, as I am, but the wife immediately made a will at the Amphur that everything goes to me and not her children. That is the minimum you should require from her (knowing she can change it at any time without you knowing). As has been mentioned above, you will have 12 months to sell after probate is granted but there will be problems with the family. I would not be staying long term in the house either. On the other side of the coin if you have 2 houses to sell you should not have any trouble finding W4.

But you are not Thai. They all go on the slightest pretence (family included) to get more of the magic tablets that cure everything as long as you take them for the rest of your Thai life. It is a joke what they take.

Actually mine went down a couple of baht +satang last month. Have no idea why as you said it has been the same for years.