tutsiwarrior

the dude that comes to clean our units uses a mild detergent sort of like for dish washing...after he flushes thru we both look at the effluent...in the beginning I got up and looked at the evaporator coils with a flashlight and they looked to be in a 'new and clean' condition...no correction curves required and the assembly materials didn't appear to require any special handling for cleaning...

hard to say what the efficiency difference would be comparing the cleanliness of outdoor condenser coils and indoor evaporator coils...in my house they both get very dirty after about 4 months between cleaning...another question would be dirty fan efficiencies compared with the insulating effects of the dirty coils...dive right in all you HVAC/ASHRAE experts...the secrets shall be revealed on the thaivisa forum...

don't usually eat no blood but if some pops up in me bowl of kweiteo there's usually someone at the table that'll take it offa me... they mash it up real good with some rice and bean sprouts...

'youse gwine eat that blood white man?' 'hadn't thought of it, they run outta muu daeng today?'

most asian cooking sauces are full of sodium...try stir frying meat and veg and noodles without a sauce (soy, oyster, fish sauce, etc) and you'll find the result is very bland...bring in the kikkoman in the pleasingly designed little boddle and dose that mother...or get big mama (the large woman of the popular oyster sauce label) to do a number on it...on the label she's singin' 'yew ain't nothin' but a houn' dog' as she adds a generous amount of sauce to her wok fulla leafy greens and dismembered puppy dog...

4 hours ago, Pib said:

Me think your mailing was "not" the norm based on the results being reported by others and myself above.

 

Based on my three test mailing results done done over the past two months, an envelope sent via registered airmail in comparison to being sent regular airmail takes a lot longer to arrive. 

 

Below is an update on those three test mailings I did....3rd test mailing still in progres   Each test mailing was one envelope via air mail and then another registered air mail envelope.  Mailed at the same time at my local Bangkok post office to a Texas address.  Just simple envelopes with one page inserted inside.

 

1st mailing 3 May

- Air Mail: Delivered 14 May.  Total 11 days

- Registered Air Mail: Delivered 24 May.  Total 21 days

Note: Delay in New York City Customs/USPS Center caused the extra 10 days for the registered air mail.  Apparently to the US they mail westward thru the Middle East/Europe....or maybe fly a North Pole route.

 

2nd mailing 15 May

- Air Mail: Delivered 29 May.  Total 14 days

- Registered Air Mail: Delivered 17 Jun.  Total 33 days.

Note: Only a 2 day delay in NYC Custom/USPS Center but it took another 26 days to get from the Bangkok airport to NYC....kinda went MIA off the US and Thai postal tracking systems for 26 days.

 

Summary of 1st and 2nd test mailings: plain old air mail took 11 to 14 days to arrive.  Registered air mail took 21 to 33 days to arrive....roughly twice as long as plain old air mail.   

 

3rd mailing 14 Jun (not completed yet as the registered airmail is MIA)

- Airmail: Delivered 25 Jun.  Total 11 days

- Registered airmail:  Still MIA....last known location leaving Bangkok Swampy airport....has not arrived US yet....USPS tracking just shows they have received notice the originating post is preparing to dispatch the piece.  

Note: this 3rd mailing is following the pattern of the 2nd test mailing.

 

regular Thailand Post airmail has a tracking facility? good to know as I woulda thought that an item would havta be registered to have tracking available...

sent mine 29 June registered airmail and have been tracking using thai post and USPS...it musta fell into a black hole at the airport as there hasn't been any movement since then...

but that's not unusual...hopefully the SSA will receive it before I get turfed out of my home of 17 years per the new immigration regs and no longer have an address...

always liked Cinnamon girl but original not available on youtube...from the same album we also have Round and round and tutsi was found with the song resonating while wandering somewhere in the Sierra in CA in winter...he was found and then led back to his sleeping bag by a helpful young woman...

round and round, very conducive to aimless wandering...'were you looking for something, tutsi?' 'dunno, not sure...there doesn't seem to be any focus...' and I am quite sure that I wasn't the only western 20 y.o. back then that was similarly confused...stimulation overload and etc...

the Bloom Cafe has a nice quiet terrace attached to the Dynasty Grande hotel on soi 6...also a good menu (but stay away from the burgers or anything with ground beef)...closes about 11pm then ye can head 1/2 block up to Nana or the opposite direction thru the passageway to Lolitas to finish off the night...

2 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Also use Chaindrite spray, I have used this stuff for the last 8 years, it almost kills on contact, we had a massive roach problem when we moved into this place, hardly ever see one these days.

 

I came across a Millipede or Centipede on the front drive a week or 2 ago, sprayed it with this and it literally curled up and died.

Chaindrite is effective  but YE GOTS TO CLEAN UP THE RESIDUE ON THE FLOOR!!! we had a plague of baby centipedes in our kitchen and I dosed them with the Chaindrite which did the trick...swept up the little carcasses but neglected to wipe up the oily residue on the polished tile floor and then here comes tutsi and whammo! after ortho surgery and some titanium screws and a plate and there is a distinct hobble, tutsi is a shadow of his former vigourous self...

and the wimmin folk gather around 'gotcher ass where we want ye now...ye wanna get him now, girls?' 'nah, let him squirm a bit...'

always liked the Edwin Hawkins Singers, never thought they'd be fronted by a 20 something white girl ...she does an admirable job on this tune...

8 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Corrina, Corrina.  She must have been a hellavua fine gal for so many guys to sing about her.

 

Bob Dylan off his '63 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan LP.

 

 

my eldest niece is named Corinna (one r, 2 ns please) after the Dylan song...

when I named my boy Louie my sister asked what'd you name him that for? and I said that I wanted to name him after a song...

my response made her annoyed...older brothers always do a good job of tormenting younger sisters...

10 hours ago, Digitalbanana said:

John Renbourn - Seven Up [1968]

 

I had this album late 60s...always thought that the dude was brilliant...kicked ass on his acoustic contemporaries Fahey and Kottke...

where are the police???!!!! cover up them stoned naked children and place in protective custody until their parents can collect them...otherwise they may start with the sex and violate the literary heritage and memory of Thomas Hardy...

tutsi unbuttons a girl's clothing with the pulsating rock and roll in 1971 'what did ye say yer name was?' 'Bathsheba...heeyah, let me help ye with that...' to reveal a long limbed english rose with translucent white skin...'there's an actress that looks just like you that's not due to be born for another 15 years' and she smiles at me crookedly and sez 'well, don't let that stop you...'

6 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Here's tutsi in his signature storytelling telling form.  He really only posts music as an excuse to post so many memorable tales.  Don't be fooled!!!

 

You've really got me hooked on this guy, tutsi.  Aside from his wonderful guitar work he's melodically mesmerizing.  I've since downloaded quite a bit of his music.

 

 

well, you know how folks use music to help illustrate a story...sometime ye can use a story to illustrate the music...

I was dismayed when I returned to the US in the late 60s and played some of the folk music I discovered in latin america to choruses of 'ick!, what's that?' when anglo folk music was pretty much accepted and these were middle class kids that did well in school and had liberal/cosmopolitan parents and etc...their reaction is something that one would expect from uneducated yobs...maybe I just didn't play it very well, Jorge Cafrune I ain't...

I'm new to breadmaking and I usually proof the yeast in a side bowl with a bit of water and the sugar before I add to the flour/oil/salt mixture in the big mixing bowl then mix and knead adding flour and water to get the big sticky dough ball...the instructions I use say to then let rise until double the size (about an hour) then knead slightly again and divide the dough depending on how big ye want yer loaves...let rise again until doubled then in the oven...I spray the loaves with water while baking to get a chewy crust...always turns out the same, a loaf in the fridge and one in the freezer for later on in the week...

my goal is a french or VN baguette and I'm still far away with my efforts..anyone got any suggestions? maybe knead less to get bigger air pockets? them bakeries in VN got the right idea, dump all the ingredients in one end and a perfect loaf emerges from the other end...always got a scrum of people waiting in the supermarket, reach over their heids and grab 6 loaves and then run...keep in the freezer and ye got enough fer pate sarnies until the end of the week...dip into yer nescafe with milk fer brekkie...

'comin' to lunch with us tutsi?' and tutsi has his feet up on his desk with crusty bread crumbs everywhere 'does it look like it?'

2 hours ago, Brunolem said:

Dikes, not bikes... 

Dykes on Bikes? there useta be an outfit in San Francisco with the same name...buncha big girls with lotsa tattoos...and big bikes...they got a lotta likes...

slurring one's speech on thaivisa can damage one's Nobel prize expectations...megalomania is a serious psychopathology and should be investigated...

and, who uses ice trays in Thailand fer christsakes?

the Nobel for Physics, Chemistry and Literature have eluded me for a number of years as well...you are not alone in yer frustration...

'Professor tutsi, yer methods are unsound...'

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Agree. HCMC is hot and dirty. Hanoi is far better. Other potential sites are Danang and Dalat, although AFAIK there are no direct international flights to there.

I also lived in Ha Noi for awhile and it can get hot and sticky there as well as well as uncomfortably cold...my son has some pals there who said that the weather is not very nice now...I was there in Feb once during TET and it was freeze ass, didn't have the right clothes and stayed under the covers at the hotel...

big downpour here in south Suphanburi from 5pm to about 7pm...been drizzling since then...didn't show up on the TMD weather radar web page graphic...no thunder or lightening, the sky to the SW got black and it came straight across and dropped it's load...

I use a lot of ice for the vodka and make do with a couple of 1kg bags per day from the corner shop, 5 min walk and there are others in the house with motorbikes that regularly pick me up some...@thb8 per bag such a deal...got a big storage drawer in the freezer on my small downstairs Panasonic to keep it in...can always use the family's big upstairs Samsung freezer compartment as a back up...usually plenty of room...

always like lots of flexibility when selecting a fridge to buy...extra mechanical features like auto ice makers and their required maintenance (filters, etc) make me nervous...

29 minutes ago, NancyL said:

You don't have to set up a MySSA account in order to apply to start benefits with the SS website.  I've done it and have helped others to do it, too.  It's a good way to jump-start the process with Manila.  Gets all you info on file and then they'll send you an email to set up a time for a phone conference to verify the data and maybe ask a few more questions.

 

As for Manila not answering emails, just resend the email in a week or so, with the subject heading, "2nd request" and eventually they respond.

yeah, a MySSA account is not required to register or receive SSA pension benefits, just follow the instructions on the SSA letter that they send you advising of pension benefits availability...the one big thing is setting up the monthly transfer of the SSA benefits to a bank in Thailand or to an account in the US that you can access in Thailand...Bangkok bank offers a helpful facility in this regard, check out their website...

Manila is a big PITA that should be avoided if at all possible...

yeah and a long season it is too... the kernels get plumper and sweeter as the season progresses...I always keep a couple of steamed ears in the fridge to munch on during the day...can always get them steamed and BBQed down the market...sure would be nice if they had the elote sauce that the street vendors have in Mexico...