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They consistently save the world from fascism.

My neighbor is 60 and retired from U.S. military he says when he turns 65 he has to join Medicare Part B in order to keep his Tricare for Life medical plan(80% coverage). He says Part B will probably be close to $300 a month in 2030.

I can picture any other nations Air Force on the flight line with instructions to attack Iraq. Over the radio the lead fighter would yell "turn back! turn back!" before they even took to the air.

I know you say therapy has helped with your mental health but it's very possible you still have a significant amount of mental anxiety, which can, in turn, manifest itself into physical ailments. Anxiety can be very tricky and disabling. Don't feel alone, a lot of us have anxiety. In my case it's hard to get me to exercise but when I do it seems to help out a lot. I've also read about a guy who had severe anxiety, so much so he had a panic attack while doing his job as a TV announcer. He quit whatever drugs he was taking and delved deep into meditation, he's much better now.

Yes, any bad insulation needs to go as it will further deteriorate and cause more problems down the road.

I also walk a lot and I started getting knee pain about 2 years ago. After a lot of trial and error I found out the cause was gout. I have high uric acid and now I take Colchicine and Allopurinol to keep the gout at bay. No more knee problem.

Other countries sit around and do nothing. Trump promised he would help the Iranian people out. He kept his promise. Other countries? complain, complain, complain.

My biggest concern is social isolation. I just turned 60 I'm lucky I have 3 or 4 friends but they're usually occupied by their wifes or girlfriends. Making new friends is now much harder than ever before, and I move around a lot. I've been here in Pattaya area for over 3 years I see a lot of guys around my age or in their 70's who are desperate just for someone to talk to..a few have tried to say "hey, let's meet up at so & so restaurant...well, they talk my ear off ENDLESSLY. They're so bad; 0.0 listening skills. So, I take my hits and a few hours later I ghost the hell out of them. They thought they caught themselves a marlin! What I'm saying is I don't want to become desperate to make "friends" like what these guys have resorted to - My list of friends can easily dwindle down from 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 to ZERO. It hasn't happened to me yet but it will if I don't make some changes.

The Ayatollah is DEADAROLLAH!

Wait, was this guy Andrew once married to Sarah Ferguson? This guy has been through enough!

Yes, I just met up with him and he told me he went back to Honda and they showed him how to connect to his phone. So far he's really happy to upgrade from his old 2016 Accord to his new Honda CR-V RS Hybrid. He almost bought a used CR-V up in Bangkok but thankfully talked him out of it.

3 months later - Last week the power went out for just about a second, my TV and PC shut off and I just shrugged as I knew my DSL(copper wire) Internet connection was finished for at least that day. Remember that usually when my Internet goes out it usually takes about 12 hours before it starts working again. Not this time, I've been hotspotting a whole week. So, I called AIS expecting the run around again(remember last time I called AIS I had to call them seven straight days). But this time they said they'd have a technician come out in a few hours. I didn't believe it but sure enough around 1400 today a technician called me and asked if my router was lit up and working properly. I checked and told him no then he said he'd call me back in 10 minutes. 20 minutes later he called and sure enough it was working again. I don't know why a millisecond power outage knocks my internet out for the count. But I guess it requires a visit my a technician to go to the level floor server room and "do something". Thankfully I have a hotspot backup but it's not nearly as fast. This building has way too many problems(not just Internet) so I'll be moving out in August. Maybe Bangkok lol.

I've noticed imported items are up 50%-75% since late 2022. Local items haven't increased nearly as much. I just allot myself 8 Euros(10 USD) a day for food and I usually cook at home. I could go down to 4 Euros a day but I'm not skint like most of the other expats here.

Yeah I'm in S. Jomtien and all through Saturday and now it's early Sunday morning there have been dozens and dozens of loud motorbikes going up and down the road next to my Condo building. It's a narrow road from the beach to 2nd road. I've been here 6 months it's never been like this before, and the road has been recently converted from a one way to a two-way. Maybe the loud motorbikers found a new circuit/route to menace on the weekend? I have a feeling that now it's started it's never going to end. I won't be surprised if there's a notice about this in my elevator next week saying they're looking into it and are trying to take action to stop the loud invaders. We shall see.

I renewed my retirement Visa with Maneerat in November. It took about 2 weeks before I got my Passport back.