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This time of year we have lots. At any one time, there are 6 or 7 on my gravel driveway. They are a bit skittish. Look at them wrong, and they are off. Unlike my favorite, the Zebra Doves which I almost step on every day.

This is what happens when everyone thinks everyone is packing

I shot my first gun when I was 6. My father was in the Shore Patrol. He would of course hold my hands, as his Navy issue was a bit heavy. We would shoot at man targets in the basement. He showed me how to disassemble, blue, and reassemble. Had my first rifle when I was 10. At that time I could walk downtown and buy bullets for it myself (needed a note from my mother to buy cigarettes for her). I find guns as a tool. Too many people now seem to think it is some sign of manhood. I don't hunt anymore, and I don't have a fox trying to get in the hen house anymore so I no longer need one. I have a friend who sleeps with one under his pillow. I just can't go there with that kind of paranoia. Once while hitchhiking, this guy picks us up. There were three of us so I sat in the back. The handgun that he had hidden under his seat had slid back onto the floor in front of me. I never said anything and left it there. I always wonder what went through his head when he found it.

I am on consideration also. When I went in to get my extension, they saw my 90 day was up before my return for the extension and put a 90 day receipt in that is dated to end on the day I go in.

To be clear. I keep the money on the Wise card in US dollars so I can get the 4.XX% interest. If I change some of the money to Baht, I lose the interest and I assume Wise at that point holds the Baht. Since I have never done it I don't know if the bank holding the dollars charges a fee when converting dollars on the card to Baht. Correct me if I am wrong here, but I have been told that when using a CC or debt from another country, if asked " do you want to pay in dollars or baht", always say dollars. You will get Visa/MC transfer rate. If you say baht, you will get the bank they are using's transfer rate which is usually a lot less.

Well, not really. Wise is not a bank. The money is held in another US bank.

Maybe because I have money on the Wise card, but Wise has transferred money in seconds and my bank didn't show the transfer to Wise happening to Wise until the next day.

I have encountered maybe a half dozen in the act. One time I rounded a log on a beach, I could have stepped on them. I excused myself, told them I was just passing through, and to continue on. Ah, youth, I remember it well. I used to say it wasn't Spring until you had sex in the open air:)

Oh, you saw them too!

Agree! But I think they were from some other planet. They looked like amoebas

I don't think I understand what that means. She didn't say what the police told her to say?

I know of a big box hardware outlet where the bathrooms are in a separate building. They have no paper or air machine to dry your hands, only a single cloth towel hanging on a hook for everyone to use. Been that way for 10 years.

Is someone thinking of writing a novel?

Locally, the guys get together every week for 4 or 5 bottles of beer each. Talk for hours about nothing and run a running joke. Meet them somewhere for a coffee, they have nothing at all to say.

In Korat immigration, they would not give me a re-entry permit while under consideration.

Just something to consider. I have a pump connected to an above-ground tank. I started getting pulsing. I thought maybe I had a leak. What it turned out to be was an air leak between the tank and the pump. The pump was pulling harder than the tank could supply water and was sucking in air. I taped the joints on the pipe with electrical tape and the problem went away.

Two things I have seen talked about in the past. One already mentioned. EV service station where the battery is removed, remaining power measured, and a charged battery inserted, you are charged the difference, plus a small replacement fee. You never own the battery. All done in less than 5 min. The second is all the advancements being made with capacitors. They could be put in the car roof, door panels, etc, instant charge, lighter than batteries

I would have loved to read a forum like this back when we were moving from horse and buggy to the motorcar.

Had a similar problem years ago. 3bb sent someone out. At first, they thought that maybe a rat had taken a bite off the insulation somewhere in the attic. Turned out to be something with the line from the pole to the house. They couldn't find anything visible on the outside of the line. They only guessed that maybe a branch had fallen and stretched it somehow.

Both Mint and Lyca have e-sims. Nanlaew activated his sim from Thailand I assume. I have a physical sim and activated it in the States

Google Voice is good. I keep that one also. The one thing I like is that I have it linked to my Lyca phone and they send voice messages received on GV as text to the Lyca. I have never used it for OTP since I don't use it much they are always threatening to take the number back. I am afraid I will forget to use it after I get the warning.

I use Lycamoblie, I have the $29 plan, but charges me $26 since on auto-renewal. Incoming calls and messages are free. I rarely use it to call back to the US. there is supposed to be a fee (I think around $ .49 a min.) but have never seen a charge. They have a special this year $10 for 12gb. with the free incoming but I don't think you can use that data here. https://www.lycamobile.us/en/plan/35-high-data-plan/

My wife had her's removed last year. She is on Thyrosit. She used to get low BP fairly often but seems taking calcium and vitamin D fixes the problem. Even before leaving the hospital, they had to give her D shots, her fingers would get numb. Now she just remembers to take the calcium and vitamin D and seems to be doing well. She has had some weight gain but not much. She is at that age (56) whereas my grandmother would say "Her potatoes are shifting"

Yes, but we don't live there. Ask the Brits or the Aussies about their benefits away from their home country. Think about it, why should they give us a COLA when we don't live in the country where the COLA set?

As an expat, my only concern is that my SS would be ended, halved, or frozen. I see it more likely under the Republicans than under the Democrats. The Republicans are always looking to kill entitlements, and it would be one that could easily done without much resistance and would put a feather in their cap.