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I don't do buffets, or eat breakfast before near noon, unless no option, and it comes with the room. Even then if staying more than one night, I may not even bother, depending what is offered. Now for my 'break fast', it depends what I'm eating, and could easily cost near 500 baht or more. Although I usually have a hard time ordering 500 baht worth of food at a restaurant, as simply can't eat that much. Along with I normally won't order beef or Salmon in a restaurant, as only 2 things I eat that would cost that much. Last time, recently, that I had a meal for 500 baht was a nice Roast Beef sandwich (499, I think) and well worth it.

Like not being raped, injured or killed by a criminal. Yea, horrible consequences

Emphasis on private firearms sales, but still age restricted. As it's a lot easier and cheaper to buy one illegally on the street. Few people that I know, that owned firearms, would sell them, let alone to a stranger. From experienced knowledge, much easier & cheaper to buy illegally. Then there are these little tidbits of info below of course ... which are irrelevant, since criminals don't follow the law. Banning firearms, leaves law abiding citizens unprotected. Doesn't stop criminals from owning & using, obviously. That doesn't see to be sinking in with a few people. Go figure

I pulled that snap off their webpage. When ordering, I always ask 'how's the pork belly today', and ask for a meatier pork belly. Usually works fine. If too much, then I'll eat around it, but rarely need to. Use to make at home all the time, but local Makro stopped selling with skin on ... 😭

One of the only vendors (KataMama) open during the worst of covid early shutdown, as caters to locals, so had no problem surviving when tourist disappeared, as the other 99% of surfside venders were shuttered.

Teak vs termite food ... choose wisely. There is NO wood in the construction of our house, as made that mistake with 1st house, that had minimal wood, but they did get into all it. None of it structural, thankfully.

Gulf ... NO thanks Phuket, and next to one of my favorite munch spots, KataMama Seafood ... https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/Kata+Surf/@7.813402,98.2981745,98m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x3050258d67056ddb:0x213a4b3934e13ddc!2sKatamama+seafood!8m2!3d7.8134016!4d98.2984546!16s%2Fg%2F11bw51bbx3!3m5!1s0x305025b0203dc413:0x3f756ff7768a7f15!8m2!3d7.813702!4d98.2986154!16s%2Fg%2F11kp284_m4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I don't talk to strange married women or men, when in a cruising mood Would ever you enjoy, no judgement from me

They actually have a surfing competition on Phuket ... ... Ignorance is Bliss World Class ... NO ... as are most things in TH ... BUT ... does exist. https://www.facebook.com/Phuketsurf/posts/สนามแรก-มาแล้ววว-kamala-beach-surfing-contest-2025-coming/1242465384550472/ Ms Google as always is your friend, not the guy on the barstool next to you

Kata Beach on Phuket, you might get a 15 second ride ...

Only difference between usage while O&A, wife left a couple lights on. Beginning of month, used just over 4kWh a day, while late month, just under 4kWh a day. The latter, just 2 fridges, and a night light on. Neither fridge extremely large, and 2 people could easily live out of either, as we did the smaller one, before moving to PKK from Udon. Smaller one was actually a freebie, for spending a couple 100 thousand baht at a vendor while building 2nd house. Going on 14 yrs old with only 1 repair recently. You can tell what days it was sunny out, as charging the car back up after returning, the first week of month. Using the scooter till sun shines after returning last week. Or could just use the grid if raining and needed to.

Ms Google seems to agree with many of my 'opinions' 😎 St Louis ... Baltimore ... New Orleans ... Detroit ... hmm ... Detroit has non affiliation elections, and the state is split, Dems / Reps Cleveland ...

Cherry picking again ... as I looked at the first one, Mississippi, and until this century, 2000 onward, Mississippi was pretty much a Dem state, with few exceptions. Guess they finally woke up and realized the Dems have failed them repeatedly. Take a peek for yourself ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_Mississippi

That's looking better ... 👍👍

You think something changed since you left ??? Location location location ... same worldwide.

Hell no ... let them kill each other.

Reading some of the Chicago news blips of the shootings ... ... 19 year old kills 15 yr old, and 12 yr old in ICU. You have to be 21 to buy a handgun legally. No law would have stopped that one. ... 2 separate drive-bys, death & injuries from car load of people shooting into crowd. Hmm, reading the gang banging turf war. Sure they bought their guns legally I stopped reading ... more on google if interested how the laws DON'T WORK

How is that possible ? Chicago and Illinois having some of the strictest gun laws & penalties. They don't seem to be working very well. Go figure. You mean ... the criminals aren't obeying the laws. Say it's not so ...

That's it, only 55% Restricting legal gun owners in USA, wouldn't even come close to 55% less. Guessing less that 10% drop. Almost half the murders aren't even solved ... Gang bangers ??? Leaves a lot of people defenseless, with no real benefit IMHO

Disagree, as the ham looks decent quality and probably mostly pork, and bologna is one of the best ways to get your healthy organ meat, if like me, won't eat it any other way. Again, most of ingredients will be pork and or chicken. Far from ultra processed, and mostly protein & fat, and damn healthy as breakfast & lunch. Me, after the overnight 2000 hr till sunrise fast, I simply have large cup of black coffee, while on the internet. Till the dog gives me the time for breakfast stare, between 1100 - 1200 noon. So an easy 15 or 16 hr fast. Brekkie is usually 2 eggs, maybe some protein & fat, like today, chorizo & swiss cheese on a croissant. Bread is rare at brekkie time, but needed to be eaten. With all the protein & fat, minimal sugar / insulin spike. Which is always followed up with a walk at the park or surfside. Made whole wheat bread today, so that turned into a carb & butter snack. Made up for it at dinner, nothing be beef, and I'm still stuffed. So might be an 17 hr fast over night, till noon-ish tomorrow.

Would make sense, as US isn't defending anything in the USA, not even it's borders. Just profiting from conflicts, that don't even involve the USA, like all the other arms dealers. You know, like those 5 permanent members of the Useless Nation's security council. Nobody has actually wanted to win a war, since WW2, except those being killed, as simply isn't profitable to end any conflicts. Sort of like curing cancer ... counter productive to profits. Humans ... killing for sport and or profit. Shameful species. Earth would be a better place without such a species.

Another day, another loaf, with technique vid ... @FlorC Had a few people ask about bread making, so short vid may help. Things that are a must, scale or convert to cups, and be as close as possible. Instant read thermometer, for water temp & done temp. The right yeast, I use 'red' for no or less than 10% sugar added, by weight of dry ingredients. 350 ml water (IF all bread flour) @ 110°F +/-, add yeast (10 gr) & add sugar is using (10 gr). While that is doing it's thing, to make sure yeast is alive. I weigh 300gr of flour into stand mixer bowl, then 10gr salt, then 200 gr of more flour. Give that a quick mix. Add the water/yeast/sugar, and turn on to #1, to mix, for 6 mins, then #2 speed for kneading, about 6 mins also. If no food processor or stand mixer, you'll need to mix in a bowl, then knead for about 10 minutes. Till you can give the dough a tug, stretch a bit, without it tearing easily. Rest of my fancy, professional technique, in vid. Obviously, any idiot can make bread. So much for pro technique 🙄 Ingredients, flour total 500gr, this loaf is whole wheat, so the 200 gr is 200 gr or whole wheat flour. Water for basic all 500gr bread flour will be 350ml. I've been experimenting with water & whole wheat, as 350ml is too much, as is 300ml (this loaf) for whole wheat, as I seem to be adding a bit of flour between mixing & kneading cycles, as dough a bit shaggy. Still turns out good. I don't put steaming water in the oven while cooking. If you want a harder crust, give a spray / misting of water, at start, and when adjusting temp down to 175°C (~350°F) after the first 11 or 12 mins of highest temp of oven w/fans on, if having. Total bake time is about 30 mins or internal done temp @ 190°F Ingredients Whole wheat & Bread flour Yeast blooming, so alive Cut parchment paper a bit larger than pan, then slits down to size of pan, so when put in, kind of stays put. Actually don't need parchment paper, could spray with oil, or nothing at all, as shouldn't really stick to pan, but if does, just easier to have parchment paper. I never need to clean pan, and use parchment over & over till it falls apart 🙄 Don't cut till almost completely cool, or you'll lose moisture.

Just over 3 years having solar, and almost reached full ROI, if not having the extra, unnecessary ESS (10Wh) as we only need 10kWh ESS to remain 'off grid'. The one ESS crapped out, and expect a replacement some time soon, under warranty. Realize without that, we didn't need it, which I knew anyway, but wanted it for redundancy (thankfully) and longevity. Highly recommend redundancy of components ... ... two 5 kW inverters instead of one 10kW ... two 10kWh ESS instead of one 20kWh Expect to hit ROI, by year's end or early next. A lot of that due to owning 3 BEV, and abusing the AC. IF DIY, you can knock quite a bit off cost, and depending on age, buy cheaper components, and unless having black outs, really don't need ESS, so you could really cut or eliminate as much as your electric bills that you want with solar. ROI comes rather fast IMHO, and worth every baht spent. Saves us about 8-10k THB a month vs PEA & petrol cost. HAPPY ENERGIZING

Took the MG ZS EV (2022), in for the 50k kms check up, and no surprises. Nov 1st would be 3 years owning, as purchased 30 Oct 2022, but don't know how much longer I can tolerate the forum, so 3 yr report is now, couple months early. Will probably be due for a new set of tires, maybe by year's end, or early next. Consider 50-60k kms on any tires, damn good, and will buy the same from the dealer when ready. Rarely touch the brakes due to regen slowing to almost a stop. So that expense will be sometime away in the future. Degradation of battery is less than 4%, and supposedly fastest 1st year, so really don't expect more than 8% at end of the 8 year battery warranty. Most of the wife's driving will be local anyway. We will keep the ZS till it or we die, probably the latter, so depreciation, reselling isn't an issue. Though any 10+ yr old vehicle bought for < 1M THB, ain't worth much after 10 years, BEV or ICEV. Our current vehicle insurance is actually cheaper than many years of same insurance on our ICEV. Along with having a higher insured value if totaled or stolen. Go figure, and we use Roojai. Have a couple more O&A planned before Nov, so will probably hit 54k kms for 3 years owning, so average 18k kms a year. Charging with excess solar at home, that saves 40-50k THB, depending on price of petrol, if all local kms. Savings between MG ZS BEV & ICE, which we owned both. Cost of petrol, 18k kms @ 14 kpL @ 32.5 THB = 41.7k+ THB If have to use PEA @ 5 THB a kWh, then yearly cost would be about 11,575 THB vs 41,785 for petrol. About 30k THB a year (18k kms) savings, for local driving. HAPPY MOTORING