jcgodber

Hay! Call me crazy but what about moving to India.

I am quite sure there are some wonderful places to live there.

Jim

I am sure that Vista is very good BUT I was shopping for a new laptop. I found the one that I wanted, an Acer 6231. I asked to first see a demo of the computer working, AH! Really slooow. I was told by the “clerk” that the computer was slow because the Vista software should have more RAM. As it was the Acer only came with 512.

Bottom line I bought the computer and installed (genuine) Microsoft XP Home sp/2 and am now a very happy camper. I also installed 2.00 GB RAM

Maybe some day I will install the Vista sp/2 or whatever improvement they come up with.

Jim

U.S. dolar T/c can also be bought in $1000.00 denominations also. As have already noted, there is a per check charge so it would be better to use the larger.

Jim

Go and have a look at this web page at Zebra they have many receipes for cooking with a pressure cooker you can also call them at the listed Phone number I think that the is a Zebra shop in Supanburi.

http://www.zebra-head.com/en/faqs/frmRecip...Seq=3&All=5

Jim

This thread has been hi jacked---

The poster whanted to know-----

Fox News On Small Dish, Last Effort to find a provider

He was not asking everyones opinion of Fox

Jim

I have friends, (American husband and wife) that have retired here and have contributed to the Thai economy each month to the tune of around 80,000 to 100,000 baht each and every month for several years. Now the Thai government wants to drive these people out??

This looks like a giant step backwards for Thailand. Thousands of vendors here depend on foreigners spending their retirement income here in Thailand for goods and services. I strongly suspect that The Thailand government has made an extremely unwise decision. These foreign retirees that are here take nothing and spend, spend, spend and now the government is telling them to go spend somewhere else???

It is my understanding that Thailand NEEDS dollars brought into the country and now they forcing people to take their dollars and go away????

My function here is to bring dollars into the country and hurry and spend them so I can bring more in.

Me too I first weigh me and then Me with luggage and then subtract my weight.

You can get scales at Big C or Lotus

Jim

tutsiwarrior---

You could also buy a very good pressure cooker right here in Thailand made by the Zebra stainless company. I am quite sure that they could even EMS it to your home.

http://www.zebra-head.com/catalog/P19.pdf

Jim

During the rainy season I don’t water at all. Once into the dry season I water twice a day, once in the very early a.m. and again at sundown. I have installed pop up sprinklers and have the systems all on timers. I live in a very small village and use the community water system, but the pressure is very low so I had to first add a ground level stainless water tank (850 liter) and use a pump to give me the needed water pressure for the sprinkler system.

Jim

Just say-

NO!

It is aganst the law for you to loan money here in Thailand, that is for banks and gold shops

Please Please !

Jim from Sa Kaeo

I have come to expect very little with the word soon here in Thaland.

10 years ago TOT told me that they would be running a landline phone service to my home in a small village. I am still waiting. I am sure they will be here soon !

As for Villa market in Patteya I hope it comes more sooner than later.

Their web site does give a english information phone number that you could check.

Jim

I just bought a new Acer 6231 (XP SP2) Laptop computer.

Problem- I can’t get the microphone to work, either the internal one OR a plug in headset. I tried a second headset with no success. The earphones work but not the Microphone.

I have tried all the usual fixes, control panel, sound and audio devices etc. I have made sure that microphone is NOT muted but still any joy.

I took it back to where I bought the laptop at DATA IT at Zeer Rangsit. The people there had no fix.

Would anyone here have an idea of hoe to get it to work ???

Jim

Hay ! Call me crazy but my very first thought was "BED BUGS"

About water and filters----

Either you buy and use a water filter OR you are the filter.

I would chose to buy a water filter PLUS you should pass the water through a UV Filter to be completly safe and virus free.

Jim

Esso or any good gas station]

As you speak my wife is outside power washing my house and soon will have new paint. We haven't painted for 3 0r 4 years now and are now due

It’s starting…….

Yesterday a Bangkok factory closed its doors and laid off more than 5000 workers with no warning.

A day or two ago the furniture company near me, BOFA , has announced that it too will be closing all factories and moving to Burma. The baht is now too high and is forcing companies to go where they can find cheaper workers.

Jim

From Bangkok Post……..

One WAy or R/T ???

I have stayed in 3 or the 13 coin hotels and can VERY highly recommend them. First the hotel is a good deal ( about 700 baht) and the restaurant is one of my very favorites. This place is well known by Thais but I have not seen too many farangs there.

The owner had gone to America to work. He got his first job washing dishes. He was living in Seattle Washington. He saved his money and came back to Thailand and opened his first restaurant using all the skills that he had learned in the U.S.A. he is now very wealthy and has a whole chain of both hotels and restaurants.

There is a new one in Minburi also that is very good.

http://www.dininginthailand.com/13coins-hotels.htm

Jim

I have lived here in Thailand for many years now. I stopped drinking alcohol 27 years ago because I had to. I now drink large bottles of Singha (Nom Soda) and find that this is very refreshing on a hot day. 

24 bottle case price 4.17 baht per bottle +deposit ( I return the bottle to get the 5 baht deposit back)

Jim

I dunno but if you are near my house you can stop in and watch. We watch that on the Pan Am Sat 7/10 channels SS3 thru SS7

cheers

My Isuzu 3.0 liter common rail D-Max auto is NOT slow and I can blow the doors off a 1.6 engine car.

Jim

Chatuchak Weekend Market Bangkok

http://www.verasu.com/Eng_version/search.asp

JIM

I bought a brand new top ofthe line Honda 3 speed selfpropeled lawn mower at Home Depot in California for $500 and tossed it into the container I shipped everything else with.

I now have Somchai run the mower