KhunLA

Think she has about 10, at least planted. Takes up most of the greenhouse, as fairly wide plant. She actually sells cuttings now instead of planting them, as having too many. Gets a few 100 baht for them 👍 We get more lemons than we can use now. Wish that was the same with cherry tomatoes, as still have to buy. Same with R/G peppers, unless minis are an in thing Root veggies, potato, onion, carrots are a big fail, though cheap at the market. Spinach & winter melon grow wild, and the latter, melons are huge, and half go back to the compost, as simply can't eat that much. Kind of boring anyway. She can't grow enough mulberries. Think she's addicted, and fights with the critter to get to them first, as outside the green house, since growing too large.

Before solar, our PEA bill was 3-5k a month, just 2 ACs (24k & 13k BTU). That's before we had BEVs. That's another 3-5k saved a month vs petrol. Making ROI rather quick, along with being quite comfy, year round.

He can ask, but if SV says no, as they did with the one guy, I'd leave it at that. Who are we to tell other govt how to treat their prisoners

Wife perfecting her fig growing, with more and larger yield ...

Plenty of free time while doing certification dives, as long as too much hand holding isn't required. Most stuff you should know and have done in the pool. Think cert dives are just to build you confidence, when variables are added. A little current, less vis, clearing pressure as you go deeper. Make sure you don't get panicky. Conserve air, as now your actually exerting yourself. Throw in the distractions of fish and the view, remember to pay attention to your gauges. Comes easy for some, and not easy for others. Remember I got distracted during the advance dives, along an awesome wall @ Puerto Rico. Instructor started banging on his tank, gave me the 👍, get you butt back up here. Broke the depth threshold by a bit more than I realized. And yea, you suck up some air at depth. There's so much to look at down there, and never enough time. Everyone likes seeing the big stuff, I was interested in the smaller, more intricate life on the coral.

Why would he, nobody wants them back. If they return, maybe they can live with the lawyer, and family, their children, who is fighting their case. Under house arrest or course, to finish their time. If they leave the house, then the lawyer finishes their time. Along with any time added for future crimes they commit

Agree, and not sure I think the fed should finance states at all. Though I'm sure I'm missing the big picture. But if 'you' choose to live in said state, then 'you pay' state tax to maintain the level of comfort 'you' are willing to pay, that you deserve. I don't live there, why should I subsidize your comfort. Same with the fed, especially if it means going into debt. I expect the fed to provide protection, of the USA, not the whole planet, that is all. The rest should be a free market, supply & demand. You want it, 'you' pay for it.

Yep ... if he never makes it out of prison alive, don't think many with children will shed a tear. One less nutter walking among us .. and our children. I'm actually surprised he make this long

There is treatments for such conditions, and who is feeding this kid?

Return orders are irrelevant if SV won't release them, and why would they? They ignored due process when entering the country, so they don't deserve due process when being deported ... IMHO "It added that ICE agents held the families "incommunicado" and failed to facilitate communication between the women and lawyers."

Xiaomi fan, though have no experience with others. Go to Mi store, and you can test the noise level if you think that will bother you. On high they are a bit loud, but doesn't bother me. At night having a lower setting (high, auto, sleep). Auto & high will cycle higher fan when needed.

How about switching to good ol' Aspirin 81. All of 50 baht for 60 tab, in TH.

to the title ... I'm kind of partial to 26C, and once at temp, good inverters don't use much electric at all.

I'm sure he purposely scares the sh!t out of students. Goes into details about embolism, paralysis if sh!t goes wrong, and you can't get to chamber. Might not happen or even notice it right away, and manifest later. It worked on me, made me calculate charts & down time, along with computer as a extra warning. And then you jump in the water with 100 sharks

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Child rapist and murders get abused in prison, as it should be. Prisoners have families also, and sharing space with someone who enjoys hurting children ... what better way to pass the time. Warden should give them time off their sentence, or at least an extra cookie at meal time ...

Don't have to use it, just be signed up for it. I don't use it either, just happened to sign up for it. I signed up for Grok, did a search, and didn't care for the results, as it seems to rely heavily on X postings. So I deleted the account.

I posted before reading your whole OP ... didn't notice you don't want to use X

😎

I know if I was in the USA, with kids, I'd be home schooling them. Or out of public, with voucher and put in private school. I even did that back around 1990, when I was living with a gal with 2 kids. Took them out of crap public school, and put in a Catholic school, of all things, as only option. Then I moved from PA, to TN, and the one public school was excellent. Really does depend where you live.

What are you nuts Think you got that wrong, I'm pretty sure the Mods lean a wee bit left. Irrelevant, what ever you post, if reported, better have an acceptable link, from a credible source.

I was replying to OP's Thai part of the post ... ... "HSBC Expat are no longer accepting new clients in Thailand" Think the UK part is irrelevant to the 'heads up', just letting us know how he found out ... and thanks for that, as many might be interested. Along with being in TH forum ...

Reading comprehension, 6th dive, certified at #5. If he didn't trust us, he probably wouldn't have let us go back in. If you can't see each other, vis near 0, then yes, you surface, before getting too far apart. It wasn't where is he, let me do quick search, can't be that far. I couldn't see 2 meter in front of me. My buddy popped up about a minute after I did. The leg, he was right there, and just wanted to see how I'd react, not panic, reach down, and cut it away. Not like he tied me up in a fishing net. Pretty cool actually, apparently planned, as had it rigged with 2 d-rings. Looped my ankle, then hooked to a piece of steel. Too funny. I don't care if you 2 don't believe me. If that's not believable, you definitely wouldn't believe half the stupid sh!t I've done, and not killed myself. That's calm and wasn't even dangerous. Good stuff, as made you pay attention to your surrounding. Thankfully never had any issues diving, Does make you realize how crazy wreck & cave divers are. Not a whole lot of margin for errors. I only dove through a small, very short tunnel, one side of coral to the other, and didn't like that at all. And I'm not claustrophobic. I'll swim with sharks, but not small places. No thanks. OW was with NAUI, excellent Advanced was with PADI, hard to judge, as didn't really teach us anything. But obviously much better dives.

1990 ... even better, the guy that taught the book & pool part, was amazing. Heart surgeon, and I think half the class were his students. Went into amazing details of what can go wrong. That will spook you and make you pay attention, when doing multiple dives. Also clued us into the med to take if you got a trip planned and paid for, if you get head cold, congestion. As you won't want to cancel, but good luck clearing on descending. Sudafed (old script, not Thai BS), though I already knew that. Just didn't know it's the only thing that 'might' work enough, to save a trip.

I got you beat ... I downloaded Havoc 2005 Pretty bad, and FF though most of it. Anne Hathaway was looking pretty darn good topless 😎 Did watch the 2025 one ... I never had guns that you never had to reload. Time killer for the brain dead, but it's all I had. If into violence and silly shoot up, then maybe a 5/10. Waste of a couple good actors.