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Sent 250,000 baht to KBank this morning. Arrived in four seconds. We're building a house so.... P.S. No reason entered on the transfer.

I, too, used to enjoy target shooting in England before I came here, so I spoke to the village head man about this very topic of getting the other half licenced for something I could borrow from her. It's apparently straightforward but we just haven't got round to it yet.

Get a blank piece of paper and a pen. Create a list of things that could motivate you or give you some enjoyment. Keep going until you have ten things in the list. I do appreciate that this may take some time. I wonder if you should seek another relationship. Too much time spent pondering your own woes is not healthy but more time focused on enjoying someone else's company and developing something meaningful is very healthy. When you have the list, come back here with it if you still need some inspiration.

The livetv.sx website works for me. I did notice in the top left of the home page that it has some instructions for accessing a blocked Live TV (see red box in the image below): - Method 1 is to use livetv856.me (this site is in Russian but there is an English language option box in the top right corner). - Method 2 is to use a VPN. - Method 3 is to access Live TV on its Telegram channel.

My interpretation of the story is that AI was used to visually identify the part, thus providing the part number. Google Lens does this type of function, and uses AI visual matching logic.

If we started a GoFundMe to pay you to desist, would you be tempted?

Yes, remove the plastic cutting guides to reveal the blades and just wipe and brush them. Mine came with a little brush to do this but a cheap toothbrush would be equally suitable. When they are clean finish by wiping a small film of oil on the blades to help them run smoothly and quietly. I know haircuts are not expensive here but I bought mine to have the convenience of being able to cut my hair whenever it suited me, without having to visit a shop and perhaps wait to be served. My other half quickly became adept at cutting my hair and swiftly moved on to doing our children's, too. The convenience is definitely worth it, and the quality of the Wahl cutter suggests we're going to get a long service life from it. Enjoy!

Did you train to make rash assumptions, generalisations and ill thought-out remarks or does it come naturally? 🤔

My Wahl clipper charger plug states the input voltage as 100-240v. Works fine here in Thailand.

I've read every post in this thread and I'm bewildered by the amount of apparently incorrect assumptions being made, given that nobody yet has actually read the book. I was heartened to read a couple of entries by someone who knows the author personally, and describes why this is genuine. I also observe recurring questions weekly here about visa extensions, 90-day reporting, TM30's, TM47s, border crossings, pink books, yellow books, bank accounts and relationships with Thais. All these things are probably either new or very different to our own cultures so any attempt to assist the steep learning curve that we all had - or are about to have - seems welcome to me.

The above post introduces the best answer. Knifes don't need sharpening very often if a honing tool is used to restore the edge. Microscopically, the very sharp edge of a knife can bend or fold over in use, reducing its apparent sharpness. A few light strokes on a honing tool can restore this edge without taking any metal off. I sharpen our kitchen knives about once a year. I hone them every few weeks. Once honed, they will slice paper cleanly again. I expect this is the result we all want.

I used a new pack of test strips for the test (see below). The hardness was at the highest level on the scale, to nobody's surprise. As described above, the tests showed the water is already drinkable (and tastes very pleasant) but I will be building a large gravel, sand and activated charcoal filter, just in case. As for the size of the water softener, a large family model (such as the Mex 1044) will be fine. The automatic regeneration cycles are triggered by water usage, e.g. every 2,000 litres, so a smaller one would also work but might regenerate more frequently, e.g. every 1,000 litres, due to the reduced resin capacity and surface area.

Apologies, I didn't note that you were using surface water. My boreholes are about 35 and 60 metres away from my house. The boreholes are both fed by the underground streams. I don't have any other sources of water on the land. I tested the borehole water for 16 different properties (total alkalinity, carbonate, hardness, cyanuric acid, copper, mercury, total chlorine, free chlorine, bromine, nitrate, nitrite, iron, chromium, lead and fluoride) and it was low or normal for all except hardness.

Hi Muhendis, Thanks for your responses. As @Yellowtail mentioned, we are talking about the same thing. Something you said did make me take note - you say that you regenerate your resin every 18 months. I've had several different resin (ion-exchange) water softeners in the UK, as have other members of my family, and all of us live (or lived, in my case) in hard water areas. They need regenerating every few days when used in a typical domestic setting where everyone's bathing or showering every day. They typically output 100-150 litres of brine, as you say. I used to use about 25kg of salt every 4-6 weeks. Mine were automatic and would initiate a regeneration cycle after a certain amount of water consumption (I never knew how much - it was hard-coded, according to the size of the resin canister). I'm wondering if this might be behind your observation that there would only be a 10% improvement. Since writing, I visited my local Home Pro and saw a Mex 1044 model resin automatic water softener, which looks just the ticket. Compared with all the water softeners I have become familiar with over the years in the UK, the resin canister is huge. UK water softeners typically have a resin canister about 30cm high and 20 cm in circumference. The Mex canistor was like a big welding oxy-acetylene tank - 25.4 cm in diameter and 151cm tall, according to the specs. This can only be a good thing. I'm coming round to the idea of feeding the brine discharge into the soakaway downstream of one of my septic tanks. My builder has suggested two underground concrete ring stacks for the soakaway but I might double them to four, to be on the safe side. I was also concerned about the possibility of the salt dissolving into the local water table and affecting the two wells on my land but then I remembered that my wells are on underground streams so any salt that might reach them will be washed away anyway.

I had this problem for the first time yesterday. I bank with Kbank and use their app all the time. I was trying to pay a contractor 54,000 baht (I'm building a house so there are large payments being made regularly). The payment was declined and a message told me that I had to visit the bank and get my face scanned. I then tried paying 24,000 baht, which worked. The remaining 30,000 payment immediately afterwards also worked. I'll visit the bank sometime but it's not urgent now.