Khyron

On 2/13/2023 at 2:35 AM, terryofcrete said:

As i said the ONLY reason for the mess was not enough staff on duty... Im sure there are more than enough staff , but where are they ? 

I flew out the 23rd, and I guess I was lucky, it was only 45 minutes to leave passport control. There needs to be something done if they are to get more people in and out. It will only take time for the word to spread about the passport control taking hours to get through for others to mark Thailand off the list for being too difficult in immigration.

On 2/9/2023 at 7:51 PM, Bangkok Barry said:

Well, they've already spent 2 billion upgrading Khon Kaen airport in anticipation of hoards of foreign tourists coming to see what, exactly?

I think it is a huge improvement, in the 90's It was a very Podunk airport, I always thought there was danger of getting trampled by a cow wandering through the terminal.

Although the big sign that says "international airport" is wishful thinking, nothing international about it. I wish they would get the jetways finished though.

I am also amazed at all the Farangs in there too, except for Udon Thani, there isn't anything close to fly out of.

Thanks for the explanation.

I am not sure I would have gone for the CTA, a bit too invasive with the chemicals and whatnot. 

If my arteries had shown plaque or thickness of the walls, then that would be something to think about.

For the price, I am happy with the procedure.

5 hours ago, mania said:

That was interesting to read. I had never heard of those tests before

I am curious though for that price why they didn't suggest a CTA or if not that maybe a calcium score?

I didn't see calcium on there, they did check 14 different items in the cbc. Not sure what a CTA is.

It is interesting that all of a sudden, it seems that the Chinese are under the microscope.

Is it the CCP wanting its citizens back in China under its control, and asking The Thai gov't for help?

Or is Big Joke really doing something worthwhile?

I looked at this flight back in September for a February trip. The price was $906 from Sacramento. That is an unbelievable price from our medium size airport with only one stop.

Unfortunately work scheduling made it impractical. I am flying with EVA, been with them since 1994, and they have only gotten better.  I have a friend from work who booked it in January for $980 from Sacramento, if he likes it, then I will do this next time.

If you have an address in the states, I found Schwab bank is really easy to do trading with.

There are no foreign ATM fees, and all forex transactions are comped back to you.

It is mostly an online only bank, I applied without being near a branch.

Others here have worked with them as well.

We just shelled out to raise land about 6ft, it is approx. 7/10 of a rai. Land was very low, not rice paddy, just family vegetable farm that had not been used for 15 years. 

10 wheel trucks, 4 days, 644 loads. Trucks were full, we made sure of that.

The dirt was from a former tree farm, so it was decent stuff, no rocks.

SIL made the deal at 210B per truck, it was a guy she knew for a while who told her to say we paid 200B, just to get the deal from someone else.

The final bill was just over 135k, including the tractor guy. We are happy with it.

This is a great discussion. 

What I will probably end up doing when we move is to keep my existing cell phone number which is already used as the primary for everything. Figure out a way to keep it as a wifi number (I have Mint now; they have an international roaming and/or wifi phone plan) and keep doing what I do now. The other phone plans that are being thrown out there are something to look into. I really remember only calling the bank in the last 20 years for something I can't recall. Everything I can do online via data, not voice. I have two banks/brokerages and will consolidate them to one. That way it will be easier to access everything. This is how I hope it should work, YMMV.

Seems like Xi and his cohorts are twisting Cha Cha's arm to try to get one so they can "inspect " it.

F-16 would be a much better plane for sure.

One way I have thought about an off-grid system, is to have the A/C connected to the solar, and everything else using PEA. This allows the most energy consuming device to be off the grid. When you have a brownout or blackout, have the whole house set up to be switched over to solar until such time the PEA is running again. When the mains drop out, you would have sensitive devices on a small individual UPS's, they would protect them from brownouts as well, which are much more damaging. Switching everything over to solar, would of course, allow life to go on. Switching could be automatic, or manually, using a large amperage industrial disconnect, relatively inexpensive and would last decades. I believe the above described system would allow solar to be used without interfering with the PEA, as it is totally independent. Getting deep into it, possibly programming a good PLC to detect a phase loss and energize a large contact, doing the switching automatically. I am open to suggestions, as I am a lowly Industrial mechanic and not an engineer. ????

We would also hope that this is one of many changes coming up, doing away with the physical paper and using computer records for multiple things. There is going to be a day (maybe already here) that the old "sticks in the mud" at the government agencies that are against modernization are getting retired and the younger, more worldly people are being put in charge.

Also, the person who's relative had the monopoly on printing the TM6 may have moved on or something...????

Hello,

Long time lurker, (5+ years) but will retire sometime in the future, hopefully to LOS.

Been with my wife for almost 30 years, she is from the Phu Wiang area.

Currently in California, we go back for a month every couple of years.

Hopefully it doesn't get Farang unfriendly in the future.