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    Anyone Know a Good Psychologist

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    6 hours ago, DaLa said:

    I can understand your frustration AAArdvark, although it's quite sensible your girlfriend acquires new skills as she is presently furloughed from her position as a Thai Airways Airline Captain.

     

    Don't concern yourself too greatly about the left and right issue, it rarely has much relevance in day to day issues.

    She gave up on piloting and is taking up brain surgery. 

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    Anyone Know a Good Psychologist

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

    Posted

    4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    Fair enough, but why send a present that involved technical issues which seem to have been of concern to you, else you would not have written the OP?

    Surely you could have sent something requiring zero technical expertise as a present?

     

    I'm sorry but English is probably not your native language.  More than once I explained that the issues were NOT, got it NOT, technical.  They had to do with what up and down and left and right was. 

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    Anyone Know a Good Psychologist

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

    The question for me is why he would send anything? Just send money and tell her to go to shop where they will explain everything after she buys whatever she needs.

    Surely the OP should have known what was to come?

    Because it was a present and I did not want to send money.

    Again, I was not complaining and the issues were not technical.  They were up, down, right, left, big and little.

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    Panasonic Tankless Water Heater Issues

    in DIY Forum

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    The unit was replaced.  The filter was not dirty.  The earlier picture shows a white inlet contraption on lower right side.  The filter is under the part on top which is removable, after the water is stopped, by hand.  The other horizontal part of that is part with a screw head.  That is for a pressure release.

    Anyone Know a Good Psychologist

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

    Posted

    9 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

    It takes the patience of a saint.

    My Wife is very tech savvy, so I have no issue there. She still gets left and right mixed up though !

     

    I'm forever assisting my Father (82 yrs old) with his MacBook and my Mum with her iPad and iPhone.

     

    From frequently forgotten passwords, changed passwords, apps which wont log in, computer wont connect to the printer (over Wifi), TeamViewer deleted (so I can't login remotely and help)... the list is endless, I've spend hours and hours sorting out the Tech issues my parents encounter.

    Every time I go home I have to pretty much start them off from scratch on their 'devices'... it takes time, patience and they generally forget everything I tell them and I just repeat it next time. But, I don't mind, it keeps them happy and allows them to contact me whenever they want, surf the internet, watch Netflix etc etc... they're happy = I'm happy.

     

    Except she is 34 and left/right and big/little end is hardly high tech.

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    Anyone Know a Good Psychologist

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

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    I just had a real mind destroying conversation with my long distance girl friend.  I gave her a pair of nice Bluetooth earbuds.  I knew it would be difficult for me to make her understand how to set it up.  However, it was far far worse that I could have imagined.  

    First there was the charging cable which had two ends, one big and the other small.  Twenty minutes to explain that the small end goes into the small socket.  Telling here which side goes up and the other down also too time.

    With that solved we moved onto the inserting into the ear part.  Like most people, she has just two ears.  They were marked with an R and an L.  Since video chat often reverses the right and left make it even more challenging.  So 15 or 20 minutes later we figures out which was her right and which was her left hand.  So then we moved on to right and left ears.  She naturally insisted the the L earbud goes into the right ear and the R goes into the left ear.  I took a beer brake.  So now we get all that sorted out.

    Then I have her take out the right one to turn it off.  She actually gets it correct.  Now I have to see the light on the right one to see if the Bluetooth light is flashing.  Of course, she now shows me the left one.  Eventually we even get that sorted our.  The next stumbling block was that she kept pushing the button on the right earbud which would terminate the call The pairing which I had to translate into Thai for her to understand was actually not too bad. Lastly I was getting feedback because the volume was way to loud.  In a mere 10 minutes I managed to get her to lower it. 

    More than one hour to do a 5 minute job.  Good thing she is cute!

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    Moving to USA and applying for Medicare Supplement and RX Plans

    in Home Country Forum

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    Were you paying the Medicare monthly payments which are usually done by deduction from your social security payments?

    They want you to prove that you either had been paying for social security or had a qualified insurance plan which would have exempted you.  If your insurance was with a non-US company, I doubt they would accept that.

     

    Otherwise, millions of people start off with plain Medicare and then switch to either an Advantage plan or a Supplemental plan.  You should be able to access either Medicare or Social Security to verify that you were paying for Medicare.

    Did I Pay Too Much for a Gold Bracelet?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Don't forget the karat of the gold.  Like 10K, 14K, 18K, 20K, 22K and 24K.  Many Thai (and Asians in general) want only 24K.  However, 24K is very soft and not suitable for jewelry.  My GF just bought a very nice 1 baht chain with pendent for 27500.  I don't know and she didn't even know to ask what K it was.  From looking at it, it does not appear to my untrained eye, to be 24K.  Usually when I see 24K it looks like a darker gold than the others.  At 27500, it is definitely a 24K price.  But to an Isaan partially educated girl, you can't expect them to always make an good choice.

    Panasonic Tankless Water Heater Issues

    in DIY Forum

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    1 hour ago, VocalNeal said:

    I put a new water tank in a house that I rented. No complaints from the landlord. 

     

    My method is still valid. Get a quote ask the landlord what they wish to do.

     

    Whinging to most landlords gets nowhere regardless of your law.

     

    OP is trying to fix the problem not find reasons not to.

    As I have said, where I live there is no place to get a quote under the current conditions.  I can live with it for at least another month or I can try to fix it.  If I can get the manual it will cost me nothing and there will be no problems.

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