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  1. On 9/24/2017 at 11:59 AM, Sheryl said:

    Could you share name of the doctor at Mission?

    Certainly, my dear! (PS: I took the bandages off today, and it looks perfect and no sign that the nail will ever grow back, which apparently would have been very evident at this point otherwise)

     

    Mission Hospital: Dr Harpreet S. Grover 0-2282-1100

     

    Here's a link to my original post (at least I *hope* it's a link)

     

     

  2. I have to add my 2 humble cents that I didn't get *anywhere* with this guy. He was recommended as someone who could permanently remove a lifetime fungal toenail. I went to him at his new address and he now says he doesn't do that anymore, that the simple removal procedure (he used to do) is dangerous (though people have it done all the time in the US and it's known for its safety--see youtube), and that instead I should buy his 6mo-1 year fungal treatment plan, which requires appointments every few weeks and in the end is subject to a return of the fungus, as he admits.

     

    Well...to me it sounded like a guy who found a way to make more money on the same problem, and his advice was wrong for my particular medical needs. To me he had the mannerisms of a con-artist. Don't get too bent out of shape about this. People have different experiences. This only mine. :)

     

    I've since gotten the operation at Mission (last week, as I wrote here today), and apparently successfully.

     

     

  3. On 5/16/2016 at 10:32 AM, Bench499d said:

    Probably because Steve Ballmer once said that Linux was like a cancer.

    More like a cure for cancer, and a free cure no less. Certainly a cure for Steve Ballmer.

  4. 4 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

    Sure, she is probably having a great time of her own when you are gone.

    Also as it should be. The expectation that one person can provide you with everything you need out of life (and forever) has naturally led to our divorce crazy societies.

     

    "Love is the ideal. Marriage is the real. Confusion between the ideal and the real never goes unpunished." (Goethe)

  5. On 7/20/2017 at 8:28 PM, Gary A said:

    I too have tried many different distros. I was pretty happy with Mint but got bored with it. I now have Zorin on my laptop and netbook. Zorin works pretty well on my low powered netbook and even better on my laptop. I am using SSD's on both machines.

    Thanks. Never heard of Zorin, but then new distros are coming out all the time. The linux world is a democracy, alive, inventive, chaotic and sometimes unstable, but I much prefer it to the dull greedy totalitarianism of Windows or Apple. I like Android too, on my phone and for the same reasons (and they use Linux as a foundation...about to change), though Google has turned evil. I'm hoping for a good Linux distro for my android someday. "Software wants to be free".

  6. Actually "Ubuntu Mate", not listed. It has the support and stability of Ubuntu (and wide user base to resolve questions easily) but using Mate as a desktop rather than the usual (and to me ugly and inefficient) standard Ubuntu desktop ("Unity", which Ubuntu has decided to ditch).

     

    I've used many other versions, starting with Slackware in 1994, at a time when you had to compile your kernel if you wanted to add a new device driver. (I was a software engineer by trade so it was a natural, having used Unix a lot at work.)

     

    I'm 70 now, so the stability and user base of Ubuntu is a good fit.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Mattd said:

    Sorry, now I'm confused :smile:

     

    Lopburi3 gave nice clear instructions regarding postal reporting.

     

    I am just saying that IF you do go outside of Thailand at any point, then the dates for the reporting change, the report is ONLY if you are actually in Thailand for 90 consecutive days.

    Right, and thanks. And what you say clarifies when I have to do these things. And I do saunter around to other countries sometimes, which will lighten the admin load here. :) cheers!

  8. 2 minutes ago, Mattd said:

    How do you mean after your first reentry? 

    As I stated before, if you depart from Thailand at any point, then the 90 days begin from (and include) the day you come back in to Thailand.

    So if you leave Thailand before 30th August 2017, you will NOT need to report the 90 days on that date, the next report would be 90 days from the day you come back.

    For example, If you happen to travel a lot and are not in Thailand for 90 consecutive days in any one period between now and your extension renewal date, you would not need to report for the 90 days.

    I just meant such things as this, illuminated by lopburi3 above:

     

    . Copy of any travel/return stamps (update copy as required)

    . Copy of arrival card (update after each travel)

  9. 4 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

    You send them:

    Stamped (10 baht) return env with your delivery address

    Copy of passport data page

    Copy of entry visa/stamps

    Copy of latest extension of stay

    Copy of any travel/return stamps (update copy as required)

    Copy of arrival card (update after each travel)

    Your last receipt for reporting (for next report include that page they attached to your passport)

    Right on the money. Thanks. "I guess the patient will live another year".

  10. 5 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

    You will be doing a 90 day report that is not a renewal of your extension of stay.

    Just read the part titled "Notification by registered mail". 

    Right.

    5 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

    You do not have number 3 on that list but that is not a problem since it is your first report.

    But presumably it will be a problem after my first re-entry, so I'm supposed to submit this pile of past "notifications" (number 3 on that list) for every 90 day reporting? (which means I've got to send them in, which hopefully they'll return, so I can resend them in for subsequent 90 day reports?) Tell me I'm hopelessly confused :)

  11. Ubon---

     

    Yeah, sorry about that (trouble getting both photos to show up, so I had to commit to see how it would look before continuing to write the post).

     

    So I use TM47 for the 3 month "renewal" of my 1 year "permission to stay", and follow the "word salad" on http://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/base.php?page=90da. (no criticism of you, mind)

     

    Thanks again. Fortunately I've got friends who do this all the time so I'll have "real world examples" to go on, since Thailand bureaucrats seems to belong to another planet at times.

     

    cheers,

    Doug

     

     

     

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